Being overwhelmed by this guitar ambience right now, strums, hiss, and
crackle of “ons” leading off this remarkable tape, knowing that “loved” kind of
has a folk bent to it, even shoegaze, and the recording technique is so
lovingly applied because that the layer of grit just lends a wonderful sense of
nostalgia to it, and I guess I can’t write about each individual song (although
I really want to because really, how do you get such consistently gorgeous
tone?), so I’ll skip over a couple and hit “lifting again” because the guitar
is so clean and delayed but still hissy (it’s a heartbreaker, kids!), and the
tape closes with a song called freaking “distance,” and it actually sounds like
distance, like reminiscing and longing
and wistfulness and synonyms for that, and I’m absolutely lost in it, and oh,
the tape’s over, ha, look at this I did a whole review as a run-on sentence (sorry
everybody, see if you can follow it, but if you can’t, tough!), but the moral
is: buy this tape – oh wait, it’s sold out; I guess you have to buy the mp3s,
and when you do, thank me for turning you on to this heavenly stuff, because
ohmygodbraeydenjae’ssogood (I couldn’t even type spaces in between letters,
I’ve melted!).
--Ryan Masteller
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