LI JIANHONG LOVERS WITH CLOISONNE BRACELET Hangzhou’s Li Jianhong has been active for several years—both as a solo player and as a member of D!O!D!O!D!—but only recently gained Western attention on the strength of last year’s monumental San Sheng Shi. Oceanic and desolate, Lovers with Cloisonné Bracelet cements Li’s status as an uncompromising and important voice in modern noi... (展开全部) LI JIANHONG LOVERS WITH CLOISONNE BRACELET Hangzhou’s Li Jianhong has been active for several years—both as a solo player and as a member of D!O!D!O!D!—but only recently gained Western attention on the strength of last year’s monumental San Sheng Shi. Oceanic and desolate, Lovers with Cloisonné Bracelet cements Li’s status as an uncompromising and important voice in modern noise. Long enough to do justice to the sheer scale of his sound—but ending before its intensity exhausts the listener—these two pieces provide an ideal primer for the Li Jianhong initiate. The A side offers a restrained and yearning swell of electricity that gathers emotional heft as it reaches a hectic climax, while the B plunges the listener into a maelstrom of guitar heroics displaying the savage patience of Hototogisu. Never sacrificing pacing and development for density, Li has crafted an album that decimates the retrograde psychedelic guitar landscape and trivializes the petty violence of much harsh noise.