CD3 – Rules For Living [LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop Their avant bar-rock style is

Their avant bar-rock style is not unlike Cinderella's Revenge recorded in the same studio as Vintage Violence with the conscious heartbreak of something like Even Serpents Shine

September 2004

the faint murmur of a guitar etching out the suggestion of a melody only to be devoured by un-bottled pressure

The Refrain’s two side-long tracks mix sounds of the mundane with the otherworldly

The angle on which Yan Jun approaches the matter of noise is an interesting and poetic one

CD3 – Rules For Living [LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop Their avant bar-rock style is"Listening to CD3, I'm reminded of how the Vincent Over The Sink record '22 Coloured Bull Terriers' made me feel all those years ago. There's a free ranging quality to it. It feels calmly capable of doing whatever it wants. It feels mysterious and self generating, almost aloof to the humans who made it. I adored that record; it cascaded into so many epiphanies. I don't want to implicate Cooper and David's music in any fleeting desire towards currency,