and the music of Pleasant Mob is as defiant as it is endearing
” The album comes to a close with the expansive and explosive “Crisis
warts and all
playful percussion - a vibrant record that’s grounded in club-focused practicality
but a real deal noise pollutor
Eleven Pond - Bas Relief LP 7” and the music of PleasantDark Entries celebrates its 15th anniversary by returning to where it all started, our initial darkest entry: Eleven Ponds masterpiece Bas Relief, an ultra obscure album from 1986 that would become a definitive dark pop holy grail. Eleven Pond was James Tabbi (vocals, acoustic guitar), Jeff Gallea (drum machine, synthesizer, vocals), Jack Schaeffer (guitar) and Dan Brumley (synthesizer, samples, vocoder, melodica). They met in Rochester, NY, while