This
is the first of four cassingles I’m listening to from OSR Tapes and I’ve got to
say that it’s nice for someone to bring back the cassingles, packaging and
all. I know that bands/labels have made
the cassingle feel before by putting only a song or two on each side. There have also been those cassettes
packaged in sleeves such as this. But I
have yet to see someone make such an effort to create specifically cassingles
in this manner and more than once at that.
(I still fully support the idea of a label dedicated to only cassingles)
As
with the past, I have always felt that cassingles were a great way to sort of
sample a band. When I was in my youth
and I’d go to the record store in the local mall, cassingles would be anywhere
from $3.49 to the bargain of $0.99. Of
course, in those days, a full length cassette could run you $15 if it wasn’t
really on sale. But, I digress as I
could probably type about cassingles and my youth with them all day long.
This
is the perfect example of a cassingle as it does exactly what it sets out to do—that
is to say, what the intended purpose of it is.
Specifically, “Would Not Try” was released in conjunction with the “Downtown
Runnin” LP available from Wharf Cat Records on vinyl. I am by no means a huge collector of vinyl,
but this cassingle did have me checking out the Wharf Cat site and has me
interested in buying that record now, as well as the other Big French record
available for sale there.
These
songs (of which there are four, two per side) begin with that sort of indie
pop/twee quality, but quickly find their way kicking into punk rock n
roll. They get fuzzy on the second song
and almost take up a garage sound before channeling Rolling Stones on the flip
side. To put it bluntly, this is just
some good old fashioned rock n roll with a modern twist and everyone should be
able to get behind that.
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