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  • Lewis and Rice borrow from everywhere, in the least obtrusive of ways: Their super-distorto sonics evoke the (otherwise very different) girl-boy duo Sleigh Bells; their warmly confessional vibe channels Best Coast; their melodies conjure up R.E.M. Even more fundamentally, most every track, in either melody or tone, brings to mind Roy Orbison, whom Rice portrayed in the Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the Line."

    Album review: Jenny and Johnny, "I'm Having Fun Now" 2010

  • The Lemon Tree: Più crediamo di avvicinarci alla perfezione, più il ricordo che ne abbiamo diventa distorto.

    No Fat Clips!!! : [BEST OF] March 2007 – pt.1 2007

  • Più crediamo di esservi vicini, più il suo ricordo diventa distorto.

    No Fat Clips!!! : The Lemon Tree 2007

  • The use of noise is as spine-tingling as the first time you heard PE drop it into their old records, and when the mix isn't quite flowing, a big, distorto voice comes on and yells DJ Technics' name to sew the divide almost to cover up the fact that the transition has to happen.

    Do the Doo Dew 2005

  • The use of noise is as spine-tingling as the first time you heard PE drop it into their old records, and when the mix isn't quite flowing, a big, distorto voice comes on and yells DJ Technics' name to sew the divide almost to cover up the fact that the transition has to happen.

    WFMU's Beware of the Blog: 2005

  • Hasil Adkins walked the walk as well as talked the talk, and hearing "We Got a Date" for the first time with it's lo-fi, distorto pounding and maniacal shrieks and cackles over the prospects of cutting his impending date's head off only *one* of the decapitation-themed songs in his repertoire quickly set the bar to which anyone else claiming to be "demented" had to rise to.

    He hunches in Heaven. Hasil Adkins dead at 67. 2005

  • Hasil Adkins walked the walk as well as talked the talk, and hearing "We Got a Date" for the first time with it's lo-fi, distorto pounding and maniacal shrieks and cackles over the prospects of cutting his impending date's head off only *one* of the decapitation-themed songs in his repertoire quickly set the bar to which anyone else claiming to be "demented" had to rise to.

    WFMU's Beware of the Blog: 2005

  • It's got big-name guest shots: Noel Gallagher smears distorto-guitar on "Temper Temper," KRS-1 does a George Jetson-like free-style rap on "Digital" ( "Representing the Internet!" he declares at one point, trying to sound millennial) and David Bowie, his own voyage into jungle a fool's errand, emotes on "Truth."

    He Is Goldie,Hear Him Bore 1998

  • Broken Boy Soldiers, sounded as though it had been recorded at 11, with that track's dueling distorto guitars producing the well-known crackle and crunch that reveals a playback device's upper limits.

    Maximum PC all RSS Feed D. R. Trujillo 2010

  • The company is currently putting the finishing touches to a pre-production model of the instrument, which they interestingly claim was inspired by Justice's distorto-dance monster Waters of Nazareth, and how "if you listen to that song, you can just tell it is heavy/death-metal guitar translated to synthesisers".

    Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk David McNamee 2010

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