Meadow Argus: Arboreal Frippery CDr (Chocolate Monk, 2024)
October 5, 2024 at 11:48 am | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Meadow Argus: Arboreal Frippery CDr
Switching to the CDr format for a moment rather than cassette, Meadow Argus continues plundering past memories with
Arboreal Frippery. The album’s pieces are based on microcassette recordings from a 2009 hitchhiking trip around the West Coast, and they fold a multitude of strange voices and sounds into endlessly rolling drones, approximating train rides across the country, with memories of some of the more unique characters and situations replaying in one’s head while traveling through pastures. Two tracks collectively take up more than half of the album’s run time, and they both seem to best encapsulate the album’s aura. “Every person contains a universe” loops what sounds like an irritated cow mooing, while “Trainwreck Tunnel” distorts voices to an almost wacky level of graininess. Elsewhere, there’s calmer, harmonium-like wheezing (“Different during the day”, “409”), a jocular backwoods conversation between lovers (“Balloon”), and almost dubby levels of noise and reverb (“Monkey Wrench”).
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