Early Spring seems to be a shoegaze trio specializing in live releases.
I don’t know much more about them than that. Well, their names are on their
Bandcamp page. And the fact that they’re from Brooklyn. But that’s it. Stop
pestering me for more information! Who do you think I am? Some guy with
unlimited internet access and a vocabulary that would knock your socks off?
That’s all I got folks. Kevin Bruce, Jonathan Pogoda, and Nari Kim will have to
fill in the rest. I am a ship adrift in the sea of Early Spring’s lack of
information.
What I do know is that I’d like to see Early Spring live. OK, there, I
said it, I think they’d make a pretty swell concert experience. For three
people, Early Spring makes an awful big racket. The rhythm section isn’t
flashy, but it doesn’t have to be. They’re steady and provide the backbone for
Pogoda’s guitar pyrotechnics. Pogoda probably has an enviable effects rig. Lots
of distortion and delay and wonderful, delicious feedback. Like early Starflyer
59, who I actually saw live in 1995 or so. It’s the kind of otherworldly stuff
you dream about. The vocals are buried pretty deeply, and that’s just as well –
there’s nothing that really stands out about them, and they’re mumbled into the
microphone. They’re clearly secondary to the magnificent din. The five tracks
come in under a half hour.
Good luck getting your hands on the tape, as they are $5 and sold
strictly at shows. I have $5, but I don’t have any way of getting to Brooklyn right
now. I guess I’ll just have to settle for the promo copies to come rolling in.
Sweet, sweet promo copies. I’m like a cassette gangster.
Check that, a cassette god.
--Ryan Masteller
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