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Flipped Out Bride review from The Wire:
140 grams of blue marbled vinyl in a sleeve sporting two fine paintings by Kim Gordon, this limited edition album of solo guitar improvisations, the first in a series Moore has designed to feature Gordon's art and to reflect his literary interests, certainly looks the business. Flipped Out Bride is the title of a poem Moore wrote for an introduction to a reprint of "How I Became One Of The Invisible", a collection of drawings by American poet and academic David Rattray.
Within the grooves themselves, the sound of electricity crackling into life emanates strongly, as wildly oscillating pulses and percussive tremors create an almost tangible physical energy that eventually subsides into high end skree and burble, punctuated by shards of flagrant guitar abuse. "O Sweet Lanolin" is the more atmospheric of the two tracks, and much the stronger for it. Allowing more room for the darkness to exhale, as a series of off-key harmonics and ominous feedback drones combine, the piece generates an overriding sense of trepidation and foreboding, waiting for a salvation that never comes.
While each of its component parts - music, art and concept - all work fine separately, it is never clear how these different aspects marry up. Minor thematic quibble aside, this is just one more impressive release from the house that Sonic Youth built.
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