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I heard about this band when the David Gonzalez half of The Long Division spammed my Last.fm wall in April 2008. I tentatively listened to the link and was very pleasantly surprised, buying the album soon after. Well, I tried at least. I'll get to that later.
The point is, now I'm spamming you about it! The song "Ability" is a little intense, but don some goggles and check out this painfully vivid music video to hear the full version:
I have a feeling you're either digging it or puking at this point. Combined with the video, the electronic chainsaw noises throughout are hardly easy on the ears, but I admit I'm a sucker for buzzy synthesized bass lines, which get stuck in my head just as easily as the vocals, in Ability's case.
The band has one album on iTunes, but this particular track isn't on iTunes or Amazon, so no dice there.
I'd recommend buying through the The Long Division site, except when I tried to do that more than a year ago, something mysterious happened and I think they payment went somewhere random, and the blog post that linked to the payment page no longer exists. Honestly, until I went to publish this post I couldn't find a single legitimate way to get a copy. But just now they replied to my e-mail with great news!
The album is available for free on their web site! Woot!
And for your convenience, Here's the Last.fm page for the song.
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