Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Sloppy Tender --- Big Dream Time (finish)
'Sloppy Tender' is a one dude package named Kyle who makes songs holed up in his cloudy new york apartment day and night while he should probably be doing other things. But it's a good thing he's not cause what he's churned out on 'Big Dream Time' is plumb fresh and boundless - completely high on the lo-fi and letting things flow. Boy AKA 'Sloppy Tender' used to make hazy, smart pop songs that he sang in a funny voice and still does sometimes - but here he's on a completely different trip, channeling some extremely groovy, messed up sensations that are really worth feeling out. So what if standard procedure were all together chucked to the bin where it could ferment and grow? Whats that thing living in there?! It's probably something like 'Big Dream time,' and it's Alive. A sprawling, fuzzy and totally out there slab of hot wax where the psychedelic dream is boss. Both blissed out and hissed out - warm & friendly, cold & harsh. Like a really big awkward hug you can't help but love. But hug back cause opposites are attracting here people. And you'll know it when your rump is busy shaking all while your peeking into that bottomless void we're all absorbed in. 'Sloppy Tender' kills it, brings it back to life, then dances around with it. This isn't just taxidermy though, it's putting life into the lifeless; pure magic. A deep and throaty groove thats totally worth digesting. So give the goggles a try. And listen, he's a really, really good dancer.
*pretty limited stuff - made in the future for today - filled with love
--- Meurig Evander
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Predator Vision --- II
Predator Vision rock so hard. I am obsessed with this band.
Influenced by watching the movie Predator while listening to soft rock records of Fleetwood Mac, Paul Simon, and Todd Rundgren. This documents an acid- drenched jam recorded in the basement of Skylight Horizon Studio in Northampton, MA. Featuring Matt Mondanile and Ben Daly on guitars and Etienne Duguay on drums. Mixture of Neil Young amped guitar lines with krauty Guru Guru progressive feel. Definite on the beach zoner Yahowa 13 style
psychedelic rock recorded on a tape
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Monday, June 8, 2009
U.S. Girls --- Me + Yoko 7''
There’s no disputing the truth that certain formats befit certain artists. Think about it: where’s the logic in Tangerine Dream rocking a 3-way split 3” CDR? Those fools need room to roam. Conversely, why would Orthrelm drop a 4xLP? Who needs 160 minutes of 8-second spazz songs? The medium is a message, man. And for Megan Remy’s brief, brave re-imaginings of guitar/voice pop rapture done under the U.S. Girls flag, the 45 RPM 7 inch single is the absolute dream medium for transporting said sounds to the interested earhole. Short and sweet (and chemical) like a sugar rush, Me + Yoko is her latest reverb-gaze drug nugget in a string of strong singles (following releases on Hardscrabble Amateurs and Cherry Burger), and it’s another keeper. Whistling to life with a scrap of found sound/dialogue, the song then wings into a vague, hazed-out stone-toss between 2 tired notes (a dead ringer for that famous Les Rallizes Denudes bass riff), ebbing and flowing beneath smeary streaks of white-washed vocal blur. A Top 40 single for a universe of ghosts. The B, “Rise + Go,” might actually be the more aching of the two, a broke-down bedroom ballad, awash in sad seas of reverb, lapping at the shores of isolated islands, gently sailing into heartbreak. Sounds lo-fi but lush, like it was recorded high on a cloud on a cheap 80s boombox. Imagine that. Black vinyl 45 RPM singles, mastered by Pete Swanson, in photocopied sleeves with art by Remy. Edition of 380."
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
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