Pushed Streets (Vinyl LP)

Fans of Michael Morley's work with the Dead C and Gate will know him as a master of noise, a sonic sorcerer of sorts. More dedicated fans will have noted Morley's recent penchant for vintage Spanish acoustic guitars, with new album Pushed Streets finding him slowing the world down to a minimalist halt. Spare and soft playing, double-tracked wistful vocals, and songs that tend to linger around the two-minute mark, this is rather lovely. - Flying Out 

Over the last ten years, Michael Morley has embraced the acoustic guitar as the means of channeling the darkest threads that have run through his work since the early 1980s. While he largely made a name for himself as a maverick of primitive electric guitar and electronics in The Dead C and Gate, Morley's love of song form has never been far from the surface. In recent years, chance discoveries of Spanish and classical guitar records languishing in the discount and free bins at junk shops in South Dunedin proved to be a revelation. These records, largely recorded in the 1950s and 60s, began to shift Morley's work and lead him to piece together a new musical language from elements completely removed from the rock and avant-garde underground from which he first emerged.

Tracklist

1. Push
2. Streets
3. Breath
4. Ribbons
5. Sunrise
6. Dances
7. The Road
8. Alms
9. Straits
10. Winds Blow
11. Spells
12. Eternal City