When
I first started requesting cassettes to review through Bandcamp, I never wanted
to fill out their contact form and instead I would always look for an email
address. I couldn’t find one for Twin
Spring Tapes, so I ended up contacting them through Facebook to ask for this
cassette to review and they agreed. I
never remember reviewing it though (because I didn’t) and so I’ve always sort of been under the impression
that they never sent me anything and thus I’ve never really asked them about
anything else.
Then
on one random night not that long ago, a roll of adhesive tape I was using (I’d
say “Scotch tape” but it’s actually a Walgreens brand) fell into a crack I didn’t
know existed between my computer desk and the wall. I stuck a ruler back there that I had only
gotten recently and slid out a number of items and, yes, one of them was this
cassette. So here I was, thinking Twin
Spring Tapes didn’t like me because they said they’d send me a cassette and
they never did (in my mind) and here they probably thought I was a jerk for
never reviewing a cassette that they actually did send me. Confused?
Derek
M. Poteat offers up some ambient sounds on “Guilt” though it is closer to
drone. There is the hum drone of an
extended guitar note to start followed by some silence and then faint hints of
static. It can be minimal to the point
where it almost sounds like nothing at times.
Though towards the end of Side A it can also boom with shocking
electronic sounds before eventually ending on a quieter note.
Side
B begins with static drone with knocking beats and then becomes acoustic guitar
note plucking into the abyss. It is the
sound of plugging into an amp mixed with a sort of 8bit Star Wars. There are two repeating notes that build in
a hurry, a pause and then a blast of synth doom. Notes
take on a certain pattern as static rains down and this is a fine experiment
between the minimal, ambient and drone realms of music,
“Guilt”
was originally released on cassette in May of 2013, which is closer to being
two years ago now than only a year ago, but if nothing else my misplacing of
this cassette and finding it now, this many months later, should only serve to
demonstrate just how well this can truly stand the test of time. While it is long since sold out, you can
only hope to find it second hand or at least digitally because if this can remain
relevant to me two years later then it should become eternal.
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