"Magnet Blues" presents Zhu Wenbo and Zhu Songjie’s unique and utterly bizarre take on American blues, as if filtered through layered variations of darkness. Throughout the recording, we hear barely audible vocals, minimalist, smart, and subtle guitar work, and the folkish atmosphere of what sounds like distant train activity and dying radios.

Instrumentation is notable here: Songjie uses the peculiar Casio EG-5 electric guitar, with a built-in cassette deck, while also playing harmonica. Wenbo plays a Fisher-Price toy cassette player, sings, and also plays harmonica. Throughout bursts of noise and rustling midrange timbres, Zhu and Zhu navigate an understated, focused, and dreamlike realm of song and texture.

Available as 320k MP3 or 24bit FLAC

Tracklisting:

1. Fragments Song - 07:29
2. Vibration Song - 08:34
3. See That My Grave is Kept Clean - 05:20
4. Train Song - 02:58
5. Middle Song - 02:23
6. Blank Song - 06:09
7. Long Train Song - 12:18
8. Last Song - 07:48