This
cassette takes a little while to kick in, which normally wouldn’t have worried
me but the package it was shipped in says “Magnetic Tape – Do Not X-Ray” and
that was my first time ever seeing that.
So the thoughts of the music being somehow erased from this cassette
were planted in my head, but then quickly disappeared once the music did
begin.
Side
A is filled with recorded songs while Side B is an experiment in live
music. To start with Side A, there are
electronic harmonies that become sharp feedback. It’s somewhere between ambient and “In Utero”. It is poetic. It is industrial synth crunch. There are organs. And by
the end, there are even some pretty acoustic guitar parts.
Despite
the separate songs, I can still hear Side A as one cohesive piece of music,
which to me represents beauty amidst chaos.
It’s taking that fundamental idea of making something so fucked up that
you hope people won’t enjoy it much less want to listen to it through, yet
adding something so elegant that they cannot turn it off.
Side
B sounds mostly like piano loops, though there might not be any pianos
involved, but it is also live and that is always something I’ve been impressed
by: the idea that music should be one take and only played once, in that
sense. I mean, Van Gogh didn’t paint
the same painting over and over now did he?
In
many ways, these two sides are different, yet the first side is a group of
songs that sort of contradicts itself anyway, so who is to say what is
different and what is the same. This
reminds me a lot of a picture of someone looking at themselves in a mirror, and
that creates the sort of infinite number of universes with that same person and
mirror.
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