Music Style experimental, ambient, noise

Group Members David Sullivan

Instruments guitar, effects, field recordings, cigarettes

Albums treatkor, lanterns

Press Reviews from sacred sound: This is some really nice dark ambient drone done mostly with effected guitar and tweaked field recordings. Each song is very much a song, nothing random here. Still not so restrained. Sounds like God Speed You Black Emporer if they made dark ambient and dark ambient only. One of the coolest things about this disc is how it bounces around from feeling to feeling, not every moment being about death or sadness or other cliches, sometimes even sounding kind of happy and triumphant. Those moments make it all the more heart breaking when the depressing stuff kicks in because you know he really means it. In the end this is a very sincere, heartfelt effort and a genuinly great album. from recycleyourears.com: Coming from nowhere, the one man act that is Magwheels signs here a debut album like few. If it doesn't look like anything special with its thin cardboard xeroxed packaging, "Treatkor" is one of the most convincing and genuinely impressive debut / demo I have heard in a long while. And Magwheels is all the more seducive that you don't really know what to expect and that it plays a kind of music that make one draw comparison with famous and more established acts. Slow drones diving in a mist of noises and bleak, scarce and melancholic guitars form the core of "Treatkor". And it is indeed difficult to describe this album by speaking of its music only. This is a very emotional disc, full of nostalgia and poetry, that induce dreams even though it is instrumental. Of course, once one has heard the guitars that fill most of the tracks, one thinks of Godspeed You Black Emperor!, a comparison which might be accurate mood-wise, but which doesn't stand as far as the music is concerned, Magwheels playing less riffs, and using longer and more electric melodies. Another possible comparison would be Lycia (or even more the Bleak side-project), but Magwheels is less gentle, and plays more with noise and electronic distortion, not putting all his efforts on the strings. The surprise is also that the album is rather varied, and has several really great tracks ("Everything at once", "Death in smoke2, and "Caste slug", my favorite). Ranging from almost epic to tear-drawing, "Treatkor" is a little jewel of introspection, that sounds like a quasi-improved play of guitar on a carefully arranged background of drones and noises, the whole thing being done on a particularely good day. I am really seduced by the slow, mesmerizing and touching charm of this album, and I can only wish the best for an artist whose debut is so sensitive and at the same time varied and musically interesting. Give him a good production and a good promotion, and this is an act that could go far. So, people, I repeat: this is really, really good.

Location Greensboro, NC - USA

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