I
feel like everything about music and time is so relative and really it just
doesn’t matter in a lot of ways either.
Often, so-called music journalists struggle to review only the latest
releases, yet what is time if not a number?
Does something released this week really have more merit than something
released even back in 2011? At the same
time, music can be seen as being from a certain time frame, if only because
that is the period in which the music was made most popular.
The
sounds of Uaxyacac are most easily related to something new wave from the 1980’s,
but that isn’t to say that people weren’t creating that sound before then and
haven’t been since then, it’s just when it was in its prime and is thus most
easily related to now. Given that
these synth-type beats and all were most present at a time when cassettes ruled
the world, it is only natural to be hearing this on cassette though, and that
doesn’t just come with my typical preference of hearing everything on cassette
over every other medium.
While
certain modern bands such as Illegal Wiretaps and even Brazil come out during
these songs, “Double Seeker” has what I can primarily think of as an overall
sound like the mighty Oingo Boingo, who was just so influential not only during
their time but just continues to be to this day. So if
Uaxyacac can continue in this manner with their music, they could well be on
their way to Danny Elfman status.
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