While
some may remember the first cassette that I ever reviewed was by Squanto and
now here I am, quickly approaching a whopping two hundred different cassette
reviews and I am back to Squanto, only this time for a split. Needless to say, which I have said before about
other artists, anyone who continues to release their music on cassette is all
right in my book.
The
second side of this cassette is that ambient synth drone of Squanto. It’s not quite the same sound as I remember
from “A Gift & A Favor”, but it is a sound I have grown accustomed to and
still enjoy none the less. In many
ways, it reminds me of church organs and how I used to sit through Catholic
mass as a child even though I wasn’t Catholic.
I
particularly remember Squanto as having this acoustic guitar sound, as if being
played around a camp fire and for whatever reason I looked up my previous
review and confirmed my notions (which how I remember that is beyond me when I
sometimes can’t remember what I wrote about the same band from month to month),
and this side of the Squanto tape is quite different from that, sure, but I
like it just the same.
On the
first side (I started with Squanto because I’ve already heard Squanto before,
thus am reviewing the sides backwards) we have Ligaments who I am hearing for
the first time. What begins as only
faint noises and possible field recordings quickly turn into funky beats. When I couldn’t hear anything really
happening at first, I was reminded of the Squanto tape I first heard back when,
but then as it kicked in through the songs my focus shifted to something different.
The
songs of Ligaments become quite tranquil and have a certain flow to them. What could have began as a quiet venture into
the woods or sitting around a camp fire seemingly erupts into a dance party of
sorts and I now envision those once dormant people dancing in a circle around
the fire. These beats are quite complex,
have loops and overall just pleasing to the ears. They begin in the way that I once would have
related to Squanto, but end up sounding how Squanto does on this very cassette.
If that
isn’t reason enough for you why Ligaments and Squanto are perfect to share this
split together then I don’t know how else to convince you other than to point
that Squanto is good, and that has been established here before, and Ligaments
is also good.
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