On the
surface of this cassette I feel like SCUO is the type of sound we hear quite
often, yet when I look for points of comparison I realize it is rather
something that we should be hearing a lot more of because it is just that
good. I don’t even know if Andrew Wagner
is still doing Losing Interest, but this is something that I could have heard
on that label back in the early ‘00’s.
“5678765”
begins with frantic guitars and drums.
Though instrumental, it has that post-punk / post-rock sound to it where
it’s just heavy but not too heavy.
Bands like Piebald come out right away for me, as well as The Casket
Lottery. There are some siren-like
sounds and this side ends with a pounding groove which is just a stellar
example of what these two instruments- a guitar and drum kit- can do.
Side B
has some false starts before going into that Nirvana sort of garage era
sound. Along with that classic feel
there is maybe something else in here like a little bit of Primus, which is odd
to say because Primus is bass guitar orientated. I suppose it is just the complexity, the
intricate details of the music that makes me go there. I also want to say that this reminds me of
The Proclaimers, but like most people I only know them for that one song.
Odds are
good that you have heard at least one band in your lifetime that you can relate
this to, only perhaps they had vocals where as SCUO does not. It is also fairly easy to assume that the
band you might equate this with is probably nowhere near as good in the
delivery as SCUO and for that this cassette needs to be heard.
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