The delay is sent out and retracted back, the fuzz is
maintained, and the natural sounds are welcomed. It’s a simple equation, track
on track, record, playback, stop, over again. The sounds are twirling around
and screaming out before they recede into the ever morphing and evolving audio
journey that Tom Kitty Oliver has created on his cassette Life On Loop.
This piece of music is similar to a lot of stuff I have been
hearing come out on cassette in the past two years. It’s part new age, part casio
keyboard, part bedroom fuzz, I like it fine but at times I am not really
surprised or moved by anything. It takes a surprisingly long time for it to
feel dynamic and while it is catchy it feels more like a set of b-sides that
were compiled together and released rather than its own animal. If you are
looking for something from the same family try Hear Hums, Stag Hare, or Ray
Lynch, they will give you a more fleshed version of this work.
What Tom Kitty Oliver does display on this tape well is his
ability to pair sounds together with out muddling the mix and that is rare.
Some of his sounds and tones are nice but it is hard to get a real opinion on the
production because there is a lot of different sounding material on Life On
Loop. It’s pretty scattered but when it hits it’s a good listen. In the end I
would suggest checking it out for yourself, you might find a few jewels you can’t
live without.
The presentation is real simple, a green tape and a j-card, you get what you see. No labels on the tape but the j card is printed on both sides which is always nice.
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