True Primes

"Appealingly

entropic pop, in which sunny melodies vie with tweaked-out masses of pure

sound."-  Time Out New

York "We Have

Won, from True Primes, is one of those special

records that mixes elements that you wanna hear together: Think the

shambolic living room mess of Shadow Ring (but dynamic and

not funny or monologue-ish) meets Majick Markers (gentler

and not as go-for-it, but definitely getting there more consistently),

occasionally backed by the communal/unison vibe from some close friend of

La Monte Young or Tony Conrad.

Slow-crashing instruments and relentless caveman drums share airspace with

united vocals and ascending noise. I couldn't keep from liking this better

than Charalambides (admittedly, I'm not the biggest

Charalambides fan to each, their own); it had that gentle, female-led vocal

thing, but offset by a focused sense of intermittent chaos. Things suddenly

and inevitably get wild --my kinda shi%. The balance of force and letting

things happen is cool True Primes is good. This is pleasingly liberating music

peppered with small doses of transcendence."    

Other Music"Absolutely

fucXing extraordinary." Foxy Digitalis"There is an argument to be made that there are two predominant ways to approach the creation of experimental/noise music. One is more cerebral; it maintains a certain precision and relies on theoretical concepts. The other turns to a more groovy-hate-fuck vibe and, while certainly indebted to avant-garde theories, tends to place the cathartic over the composed. True Primes, the Brooklyn duo of Rolyn Hu and Che Chen explore a third option. The duo’s debut EP on Locust, We Have Won, is built on skittering drum patterns and warped rhythms - burnt electronic bursts, Ono-inspired ecstatic bleats, and perhaps just a hint of folk song."    

Dusted Reviews"A swelltastic slice of impov-sounding garage noise beauty; True Primes' We Have Won provides a small amount of percussive racket, as on the opening title track, guitar mumbles and flies like a Low outtake, and then spazzes; the tone is total in-the-parking-garage fuzz. And who knows what she's singing about, but

there's dropping notes, encroaching backing vocals which receive insane

digital treatment, like Tuvan throat singing shot through a

moog, and then they disappear to allow the gorgeous sung female melody to

re-emerge. Yeah. Did I say Yeah? That's only the first track. Track 2, "In

the Surf" left us breathless, a tribal beat arriving and leaving for

feedback and key terrorism, and then weird wordless singing that includes

orgasmic sounds. There's no real good way to describe We Have Won, but this

is definitely the sound of all the parts of indie rock taken apart and put

back together again in a new way." AmpCampT