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"The fruitful collaboration between these two unique musicians continues on an album that is dark but surprisingly melodic ... And then there's the instrumentation: with little emphasis on guitars, Names of North End Women instead uses plenty of marimba and vibraphone, samplers, a vintage two-inch Studer tape recorder as well as a decades-old modified cassette machine. Naturally, the music leans heavily toward a more experimental sound".

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"Across 40 years and through his work with Sonic Youth, Glenn Branca, William Hooker and others, Lee Ranaldo has shown that he's capable of making anything happen on guitar.On Names of North End Women, the NYC musician shows that he's also capable of doing something even more adventurous than "anything." Originally conceived as his next solo LP, Ranaldo entered the studio with Spanish producer/musician Raül Refree behind the boards (who produced Ranaldo's last two LPs). The resulting eight tracks ended up so artistically transformative for Ranaldo that Refree's contributions needed to be acknowledged".

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