Cloakfern: Polyptychs tape (Piles Of Quiet, 2014) + Known Moons/Cloakfern tape (The Venue Child/Diagram Diagrams, 2013)
June 13, 2014 at 9:24 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Cloakfern: Polyptychs tape
Latest cassette from a local artist, but released on a Chicago label. Both sides of the tape contain around 20 minutes of decaying prismatic sketches, which fade out and resurface unexpectedly. A few moments are closer to dream-pop, with ethereal guitar and weightless, (probably) wordless vocals. At some points there’s some rolling rhythms that even suggest beats, but they feel more like rolling off a hill than anything you can dance to. The second side has a bleak, chilling moment with icy, wailing vocals, but then it drifts back to more droning guitar reveries. The tape can be downloaded and purchased on
Bandcamp.
Known Moons & Cloakfern tape
Cloakfern also recently released a tape in collaboration with Known Moons (Josh Bay of Raw Honey and Saturday Looks Good To Me). This tape is also sprawling and dreamlike, but it seems a bit more focused, with more vocals, song titles listed, and a bigger sonic palette. It’s even closer to being worthy of the tag “dream-pop” than the Cloakfern solo tape, but this is still music that’s drifted very far away from “pop”. The whole tape is gorgeous and you should buy it. It’s available to preview and purchase
here.
The Answer Is In The Beat 
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