For
all of the Static/Voice/Static cassettes (And I’ve managed to get them all
except for two), this is their first release which is actually not on the
Captain Crook Records brand. I never
really had any mixed emotions about whether or not that would be a good thing
or a bad thing in terms of “who needs who” because in some ways I feel like
maybe they haven’t broken up and this will just be better for everyone all
around because it could ultimately just lead to more music and that’s really
all that matters.
As
it stands right now, I have another Static/Voice/Static cassette on its way to
me, but also there are three cassettes from Captain Crook Records I just bought
as well. So in some ways it can be
beneficial to Captain Crook Records in the sense that some of their artists can
get recognition and it’s not at all like, “Oh no, SVS isn’t on Captain Crook
anymore, so now I won’t be reviewing anything from them” because, well, two
Cyberpeanuts and a Turbo Snail/Safewerd split cassette are on their way to me
as I type this (When this is posted and you’re reading it, they should already
have arrived and been listened to at that)
The
idea behind the title of this cassette reminds me of someone saying “Oh, bitch,
you wary!” in the way that they would also tell someone “you crazy” or the
such. On some level though, this
reminds me musically of a straight up obituary in the sense that this music is reminiscent
of the dead or at least dying.
We
begin with glitch loops of audio that cannot be translated with synthetic,
blissful waves. Those same waves can become somewhat celestial
in nature, which makes me think perhaps of angels coming to carry you away into
the afterlife, yet they also can have this Ghost in the Machine quality that
would rather suggest robots.
Into
Side B and beyond we have suggestions of a haunting kind, which certainly make
me think of death, but then there is also something beyond that within the
Milky Way and a sort of space wars sounds.
That brings me to the conclusion
that while this might be a combination of elements it does form its own sort of
scene.
In
the Lord of the Rings, there is a part where Aragorn must summon up the spirits
of dead pirates to help him fight. I
know it’s a bit more complex than “ghost pirates”, but for the sake of not
having to explain it all here and working under the assumption that you know
what I’m talking about, let me leave it at that. So, what this release by
Static/Voice/Static reminds me of is that same idea only in space and with some
sort of astronauts or space rangers, you know, not quite Star Wars and not quite
Buck Rogers, but close and instead of being living they’re ghosts.
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