Mylab Album Review

Guitar Player Magazine February 2004 Jude Gold You can read it at Guitar Player's site or simply below. Talk about a sonic experiment gone horribly right, check out this supernatural melding of genres from Mylab. Just what Mylab is—a band, a collective, a troupe of musical performance artists, a secret society—I’m not exactly sure. All I know is that their debut album is the most imaginative collage of groove, melody, harmony, and texture I’ve heard in a long time. Fingersnaps, banjos, drum loops, horn sections, Dobros, vocal samples, and acoustic and electric guitars (courtesy of Bill Frisell and Timothy Young) bounce off each other in a vivid, phantasmagorical dance throughout this musical dream diary. My favorite texture is the recurring mono synth of keyboardist Wayne Horvitz (who, along with percussionist and soundsmith Tucker Martine, leads Mylab), a rad sound that suggests modern electronica as much as it does vintage video games such as Asteroids and Defender. It’s heavenly, hyper-stereophonic mixes like Mylab that keep high-end headphone manufacturers in business.