The new Destruction Unit album, Negative Feedback Resistor, exists on a twisted middle ground between whiplash-inducing hardcore and mind-melting psych. Each track feels like a micro-journey to a rarely visited, occasionally bleak expanse of your mind. The Arizona crew's new FADER Mix, made by guitarist Jes Aurelius using old cassette tapes, takes a different kind of trip through space and time. Over 68 minutes, it brings us back to the late aughts, when Aurelius was living in DIY venues, booking freaky house shows, and getting way into the "junk electronics and fucked-up rock" that helped define that era's weird underground. The resulting mix is a more explicitly ambient artifact than anything on Negative Feedback Resistor, but its hissing melodies and soulful drones are a nice compliment to some of the record's less obvious metaphysical qualities. Listen below, and then read a conversation with Aurelius about the mix, the LP, and Destruction Unit's "new american heavy underground."
