You can say a lot about the Tuesday Night Machines
based on the packaging of their releases alone. Take Hawaiian Yurt Music, for example, which comes housed in a burlap
O-card. Or Roof Tent Rhythms, which
is enclosed in an actual piece of folded tarp under which the Tuesday Night
Machines slept one night while compiling the samples that would comprise the
release. And now there’s Lozenge,
which comes in a regular Norelco case but has a purple felt j-card, and the
cassette itself looks like a bright gold brick.
To be clear, these are not faults – they’re entry
points for adventure.
This time the Tuesday Night Machines have served up
a massive analog delight over two sides, each one a far-out excursion to the outer
reaches of whatever TNM happens to be tripping on. (And that does not suggest
actual “acid tripping,” just whatever’s floating the TNM boat.) I’m going to be
honest – I’ve popped this thing in and completely zoned out to its
ever-shifting sense of reality or unreality, lost in its vastness but grounded
in its sonic waypoints, which lead the way toward full appreciation. I don’t
know what that means, because you can hear so many frequencies, it sometimes
becomes impossible to differentiate what’s there and what’s not. I’m pretty
sure I’ve got a handle on it, but that surety isn’t complete. And that’s for
sure.
https://nightmachines.bandcamp.com/
https://strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/
--Ryan
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