It was only a matter of time before Josh Tabbia dropped a b-side Cop
Funeral collection, right? I mean, dude’s all over the place, releasing tape
after tape, also curating Already Dead. Constantly in motion, a perpetual
whirlwind. And so here we have it, the Tinder-group-from-hell-titled Hot Lonely Singles, a molten metallic
lava trail drooled from the lip of a bubbling volcano. Released on Valentine’s
Day 2020, it plays like the lead-up to our current coronavirus-dominated lives:
a psychic venereal affliction that also serves to score unlucky façades till they’re devoid of
features. Those metaphorical façades
are our metaphorical faces.
And so we also grind our ears to dust with Tabbia’s textured noise
treatments, pulled from the vaults of time stretching all the way back to 2012,
yet some appearing fresh-faced as of the dawn of the new decade. Some are
demos, some are cast-offs, some are b-sides. Some were intended for life in
iterations other than the one they appear in. Some were never intended for life
at all. But what they all have in common is that they were yanked from Tabbia’s
hard drive and organized and released into the world, meaning that they were
loved, just enough, to warrant public attention. They were even given a
physical manifestation and a catalog number (AD327). They were real, they were
alive, and they were glorious.
They can also be yours.
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