To
think that this cassette is thirteen years worth of music is somewhat
astounding to me. On one hand, you have
these kids today born in 1994 and whenever and you just think, wow, how young
people are when you yourself are a product of the ‘80’s. At the same time as that though, you have to
think that around 1999 (When these songs were first discovered) cassettes began
going the way of VHS tapes and for a while after that they really didn’t have
much steam. The first decade of the 21st
century in fact doesn’t hold a lot for cassettes, and it wasn’t really until
2011 I’d say that they really started marking their comeback.
In
any case, these songs by Kid Icarus range from acoustic to electric and have
all of the rock sounds you’d find in the movie “Losers Take All”, which is just
an excellent movie I keep neglecting to review.
It’s fuzzy and like Soul Asylum,
but then at the same time a song such as “American Ghosts” channels The Velvet
Underground or Bob Dylan.
There
are elements of folk punk in here as well, as I can hear someone like Sledding
With Tigers coming out, though based on the year span this would be more likely
something that influenced Sledding With Tigers as opposed to the other way
around. And no, I am not just saying
that because of the line “I started barfing on my donuts / You didn’t seem too
impressed”, though I would buy that on a t-shirt.
Overall
this is just a great piece of rock music that is fortunate enough to be on
cassette. I wouldn’t really think of it
as a bootleg or lost and found so much as being a greatest hits release. I do
feel though that the songs were laid out in a manner which did help this to
feel more like a fluid release version any sort of compilation though and
giving the thirteen years it represents that does say a lot about it as well.
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