This is super claustrophobic and yeah way more Night People than the rest of the latest pop outpour on Captured Tracks (a ridiculously good drop of cassettes and vinyls this March) and from Melbourne, too. Looks like they've only got four songs so far but they're total grey dub/doom kraut w/ slug rhythmics. 'Lottery' is actually pretty chill compared to the other three which are real swirly and disoriented. Wish I still lived in Australia/actually lived in Melbourne as well as Brisbane and Sydney. Actually this sounds way more like it's come from underneath a dusty Queenslander really, kind of weird really cos I assumed this was from Oakland or some other place I've never been, thinking of my own imagined/misplaced context. Really great rusty lo-fi though.
REPAIRS cassette (Captured Tracks, available through Volcanic Tongue)
Outta nowhere surprise here, a release from a buncha mid-Americans who seemingly never heard that the Cassette Culture revolution went online ages ago. Good for us, because I don't remember 75% of the cassettes that used to wing their way to my door back in the confused eighties being as good as this...electronic throb of a "minimalist" variety recorded in fine basement fidelity that remind me more of some early-seventies Suicide tracks that Alan Vega has yet to add vocals to. A whole hour of this might seem pointless and futile, but at least Repairs knew enough to keep the tracks down to a few minutes each and limit 'em to four. You might think that paying approx. ten smackers for about seven or eight minutes of music is rather costly but look at it this way...would you rather pay that ten bucks for hours of music that stinks? If so, maybe I should re-orient this blog to suit all of you losers out there!
