Furrow
and I will be forever be linked because I was first introduced to their music
on the very first Cassette Store Day which was in 2013. Their cassette release was made free by the
lovely Bleeding Gold Records and the exclusives for the day which I was
fortunate enough to get were white and the later releases were in various
colors. It was hands down one of the-
if not the- highlight of the first CSD for me.
Throughout
this record my primary thought, despite my love of cassettes and the fact that
I first found and fell in love with Furrow on them, was that this is the
perfect type of music that should be experienced on vinyl. It’s rock n roll with that punk edge. The words are often between the lines of
being spoken and screamed. It’s fuzzy
and can channel any number of bands from the bass lines of Franz Ferdinand to
Cage the Elephant, the (International) Noise Conspiracy, Superdrag, A Trunk
Full of Dead Bodies, Sex Pistols and perhaps most of all Cloud Nothings.
There
are quieter songs that have the FNL feel with possibly piano and a flute (?)
but a lot of it is just raw, hectic and borderline thrash. While you hear the mayhem coming through
you can still hear the melody. For all
of the high energy involved in here there is still some beauty. Oh, and the lyrics. Yeah, the lyrics will have you singing
along.
So
nearly a year after my first experience with Furrow it’s time to do it all over
again. I’m under the impression that
this is being released by Bleeding Gold on cassette as well, and I’m not certain
I’ll ever say this again but this is a shining example as to what kind of music
should be blared through speakers via vinyl and I don’t know if a cassette can
do it justice.
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