Over two loooong tracks, a thirty-minute jawn per
side, Two Years on Welfare, aka Glenn Nelson (who also records as Cloud
Dweller, among other things), builds heavy drones a fraction of a second at a
time, so that by the time you’re listening to a full second, one of the 3,600
total on “Talus,” it feels like the most important, most weighty second you’ve
ever experienced in your life. And again, there are thirty-six hundred of these to go, so you better get used to
sitting there and getting bulldozed by the weight of Nelson’s guitar, synths,
and other electronics and goodies.
“Recorded during the gloom of 2018 at the
Cavernlands in Allentown, Pa.” (hey, I grew up right over the mountain!),
“Talus” mimics that gloom and “Cavernland-y” feel for a postapocalyptic sojourn
deep underground, where you as a human live with the other eyeless creatures in
the unending darkness, unable or unwilling to come out and see what’s happened
to the rest of the planet. Look, if you’ve gone eyeless in a cave, something
out there ain’t good. Might as well just stay in the cave.
Well, until the earth shifts beneath your feet with
a massive blast of feedback and noise and forces you to the cave’s mouth back
out into whatever it is that happened and bombards you with religious shortwave
radio signals. I don’t need this, man! I’m putting my glasses back on.
--Ryan
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