Mall

The avant-electronic duo Mall -- known in some references as MV77 thanks to the unusual typography of their logo -- are in some ways protégés of Flowchart mastermind Sean O'Neal: their first release was a split single with Flowchart in early 1997, and O'Neal produced their first full-length album, 1998's Special Education. However, where O'Neal's work with Flowchart blends an obvious fondness for Stereolab with a similar taste for slightly twee shoegazer pop, Mall is a noisier and more experimental proposition, with roots not only in Krautrock and the early electronic music of...