When
I listen to Levity, I can hear a number of different bands from the cassette
era (right before grunge, but almost on that cusp of it) come through and I do
like them all, which is why I think I immediately fell in love with this
tape. It brings out some newer elements
as well, but the pre-CD vibe of it just makes me feel like this was released in
something like 1991 or 1992, though it has modern touches.
Right
away I want to say that this is somewhere between Nine Inch Nails and Peter Frampton. There are synth parts mixed over the static
drone and it just feels like something I can’t place. If only musically, elements of Bush are
coming through, and that might only be because this is how I remember sounding
when trying to play the songs of Bush on guitar as a teen.
It
can get pretty instrumental and it can also become fairly somber. The overall vibe of this cassette, though it
can pick up its pace, seems to be one of a day of reckoning. By the
end I hear hints of early Local H come out (their first album) and it can
become somewhat psychedelic, but it is still just so, so good.
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