When
the distorted guitars first kick in on this sort of self-titled cassette by Dan
Svizeny, I begin to hear the makings of what I think is going to turn out to be
something in the genre of shoegaze. This
sets my mind wandering- and it even does now still- as the term “shoegaze” has
been seemingly so bastardized I’m not really sure I even know what it means anymore.
That
initial sound draws in some drum machine beats and all I can think of for a
comparison in a vast sea of bands I might be able to draw from is Present for
Sally. Don’t ask me why I can’t pull
any other names out of my proverbial hat, but that was just the only one that
stuck.
By
the second side, this begins to sound like Iggy Pop to me for some reason, and
that definitely moves away from that other sound. I might very well end up being the only one
to hear Mr. Pop in this music though, so
take that for what it’s worth.
In
the end, I hear hints of new wave and come to think that perhaps this was, on
some level, new wave all along and I’m only coming to fully realize it
now. The thing about this cassette
though is that rather than stick to one genre, it progresses from start to
finish.
With
this, I feel like we are being taken on a journey through time and space. This is in some ways a brief history of all
things that I like about music, and for that this is not only something that is
just so essential that it should be taught to children in school (In my school
of music anyway), but it just makes me feel like learning is fun.
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