Pre-Compass - Trails (2010, Anti-Raunchwagon Records)
J. Edgil has an unprecedented number of precedents set for the lo-fi kingdom of DIY music. One of those precendents is the amount of monikers by which he goes. That aside, since the release his mammoth of the underworld, Thunder Bunder (2007) as "Forest Porridge", he has (as far his his solo projects go) experimented with the hi-fi kingdom of the overworld ever since. This culminated in a triumph of the overworld in with the self-titled debut Maita". How many debuts does one man need?
A lot.
During his current era, which is marked by the release of Trails (2010), he truly gets the listener to "eat it". The debut from "Pre-Compass" demands one's full attention*. This <expletive> is mixing the two worlds of real-life instruments and straight electronic heeby-jeeby to create the bonds of marriage between Atlas Sound, Ween, Brian Eno and Bjork if they were cousins. It's a very illegal marriage/record either way: it's impossible to do in public. However, that doesn't keep it from being a phantasmic sci-fi joyride that phase shifts between the year 3000 AD and BC every second (which is a good thing!).
You can contact Pre-Compass at 248-429-9914 (text only), or their website: http://www.pre-compass.bandcamp.com/.
