3 out of 5

Label: Skin Graft Records

Producer: Rosa Perkins-Meyers

Man, I am having trouble finding info on Zeek Sheck.  They totally fit in with the Skin Graft roster – a mix of cut-and-paste instrumental and noise stuff, somewhere between Brise-Glace and Strangulated Beatoffs – but beyond some names being shared with other SG acts, I’m not really seeing too much info on them.  Their website – http://www.swezlex.com/aaazemagdaeh/zd1.html – gives them a definite Japonize Elefants mystique, so who knows who Zeek Sheck really is.  Someone.  Not me.

Anyhow, I Love You definitely leans more toward noise, and this is sort of what keeps it from rising above.  It cuts right into a sample of someone answering a phone and chatting (without us hearing the other side) for a little bit, and then jumps to some abstracted drums and off-tune guitar.  This stuff is great, a more wandering You Fantastic, and the floating vocals remind me of early Jackie-O (this review is all about the references, apparently).  But it loses the thread for a few tracks before getting into just random sound samples with snippets of music.  It finds the awesome again about halfway through, with a fuckin’ wacky-ass fifteen minute track called “Hotel California,” but on my first listen through I had tuned out by this point.  So it’s definitely something to warm up to to better get the pacing of things.