Showing posts with label Hem & Lock Tapes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hem & Lock Tapes. Show all posts

NICKY Z “Boat Fetish” (Hem & Lock Tapes)



A change in drift is good and fair. A charge of karaoke through molecularity’s grinding gears provokes another misfire. Welcome to the splice center, a falling rock zone where grip slips from the precipice. One last little pinky finger can’t hang on for very long, it being too eager to join the other fingers and stroke loose fur off strays. Lotion doesn’t help much, either.

Looney dust cloud spotting after the drop. Falling into ice water with the microphone still plugged in generates shock. This gulch ain’t dry. Where’d that stray cat go? One second it’s a-shimmying and a-shaking on some big rock, and the next second it’s over down a-ways making wet stray sounds. It doesn’t give us much of a chance. The mindless breeze sort of tosses the stray fur around. The stray fur sort of gets lumped into little furballs every once in awhile, but not for long. If anyone actually saw you in the thick of that dust cloud splashing in the gulch chasing furballs they’d probably think you were crazy, I reckon. Especially if they knew how much lotion you had put on ahead of time.

THE STRANGE PLACES
“Happy Camp” C49
(Hem & Lock Tapes)



A lot like the “Paisley Estrange” tape I also reviewed on this label- same one dude playing every goddamn instrument (and doing it with aplomb!)- but a li’l more psyechedelic. Every tapedeck-havin’ pickup truck in the dust bowl oughta be blasting this puppy on Friday night! Give them tumbleweeds somethin’ to swagger to! They really need to clone this guy 5 times…or 500 times…so he/they can be the weekend/holiday bar band.


- - Jacob An Kittenplan

PAISLEY ESTRANGE
“Ghost Town Lounge” C40
(Hem & Lock Tapes)



This tape should have been titled “Bar Fight of One”. The Information Superhighway says that pretty much just one “Kristo” played all the honky-tonkin’ instruments on this album. Recording them at home. In just one month. Hot damn! Expertly played whiskey-drenched guitar solos, classic ivory-ticklin’, tongue-in-cheek sentiments and clever lyrics. If you’re still pissed about Silver Jews breaking up or Michael Hurley not making it to your town, this might cheer ya up.


- - Jacob An Kittenplan