MRG Recordings | Alpine Decline

ALPINE DECLINE

Alpine Decline, a duo that originated in Los Angeles, consists of Jonathan Zeitlin (vocals, guitars) and Pauline Mu (drums, percussion).

Within a year the duo recorded three full-length albums, Visualizations, Disappearance as well as their self-titled debut, with modular-psych guru M. Geddes Gengras before promptly spiriting off to China. One year after landing on the distant outskirts of Beijing, the band recorded Night Of The Long Knives with Yang Haisong of the seminal Chinese underground band P.K. 14. shortly followed up by Go Big Shadow City in 2014.

On their 6th studio album release, Ink, Alpine Decline takes a radical detour. Written and recorded live to tape at B604 in Beijing, the group expands their sound into new territory; trading in their signature drums and fuzzed out guitars sonics for synthesizers, tape echoes and oscillators.

"This is music suspended between earth and sky, searching for the supernatural in the mundane…"

- Los Angeles Times

"...heralds a new American mysticism, a tradition that trails back through the Pentagon-levitating ’60s to Felix the Cat, theosophy and beyond.”

- L.A. Record

"Still waters run deep -- maybe surfacing somewhere in aesthetic kinship between The Microphones, Sonic Youth and maybe even Alien Lanes-era GBV. But yeah. Shimmering, shimmering. Real good."

- Smart Beijing

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