Elliot Smith high in the garage type shit. Lo-fi psych rock, minimal, mostly
uninteresting. Winter Ruby is a good
name. Riffs, drones, pretty singing and
lite percussion, fresh, meandering, recorded live or sub-live. There isn’t too much to this tape. The cover is kind of cool and it’s dubbed
over an old copy of the Nutcracker, there’s two words on the front, there’s two
other words on the spine, and there’s yet two other words on the back cover,
and there’s no way to know what each pair of words refers to. No other credits
are given, and I get that vibe that I sometimes get with these things, that
someone is just churning out a doodad to stack up next to the other doodads
that look like it. Probably some cool
teens made it, good, nicely done.
-- Kevin Oliver