Capture Culture (Richmond, Virginia) trades in
droning nocturnal arrangements at times drifting and internal, at others noisy
and agitated. This self-titled cassette on Allentown, PA’s, Endangered Species
Tapes winds through a minefield of emotional triggers, ultimately simmering in
sourness and discontent. It doesn’t start out this way, not with “warm night,”
a reverie of the summer evening, but it starts to fray around the edges with
“long walk.” It’s a little more obvious on side B’s “inequity” and “in a time
of want,” with the latter roiling through distortion and noise like a heart
beating black blood. Take everything you hope and wish for, let them slowly
crumble until they don’t really represent the things they used to, and manifest
your disappointment in slowly growing anger and despair. That’s how you get
through Capture Culture! That’s your
ticket!
--Ryan
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