Cell

   
Artist: Cell

   Genre(s): 
Drum & Bass
   

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Discography:


   
 Phonic peace

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 1


   
 Counterstrike

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2

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The New York band Cell consists of singer-guitarists Ian James and Jerry DiRienzo, drummer Keith Nealy (world Health Organization was one time a guitar tech for Sonic Youth) and bassist David Motamed (ex-Das Damen). The group produces densely rough-textured guitar layers of post-punk, a la Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr., debuting with the album Slo-Blo in 1992. Living Room followed in 1994 on DGC. That sophomore effort, helmed by manufacturer John Agnello (Buffalo Tom, Jay Farrar, Steve Wynn), displayed more nuances than its predecessor did; the heavy blare of the preceding album was sculpted into more than limber arrangements this fourth dimension around, with the guitars landing somewhere in Crazy Horse district. After the dissolution of Cell in the mid-'90s, DiRienzo formed the group Ugly Beauty, which released the album Sweetness in 1997.