Night Sides: s/t tape (Fixture Records, 2013)

October 16, 2013 at 10:24 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Night Sides: s/t tape

This one’s been sitting on my desk for a while, and I finally got around to listening to it today because yesterday I finally got around to reviewing the Fixture Records sampler I’ve also had sitting around for a while, and I was really interested in this group’s tracks and wanted to hear more. As those 2 songs suggested, this is really drifty, dreamy, floaty, and sometimes just barely tethered to this earth. “Hunny” wails sort of like Les Rallizes Denudes minus the paint-peeling distortion, and “Shadows” has a hint of a nervous, stammering beat under the punch-drunk moaning. As with the Fixture comp, “Blue Light” still remains the highlight, with spectre-like vocals floating over a faint drum machine and organ pulse. My friend described it as Nite Jewel singing over Suicide on sleeping pills. The a capella cover of The Everly Brothers’ “All I Have To Do Is Dream” still haunts, and while the next track is called “Sleepwalk”, the final track “Lullaby” almost sounds like it could pass for a very loose interpretation of Santo & Johnny’s “Sleepwalk”. If it was actually performed during sleepwalk. Tape still available on Fixture Records’ Bandcamp.

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