"we'll make it still"
As you may or may not know, John Vanderslice (musician, songwriter, record producer, and recording engineer) is the owner and founder of Tiny Telephone, an analog recording studio birthed in the San Francisco Mission District and North Oakland. He has worked on many legendary records including those by Death Cab For Cutie, Sleater-Kinney, The Magnetic Fields and many more. The San Francisco location, there since the mid 90's, with changing times and skyrocketing costs in San Fran has become cost prohibitive to maintain so Vanderslice moved the operation to Los Angeles, a new studio called Grandma's Couch (the Oakland studio that opened in 2016 thrives).
Unable to access the studio during the early part of the quarantine, Vanderslice (noted analog-head) created his first record entirely on a computer. NOOOOOooooooooooo! Just kidding.
Track 4- Song For Leopold feels at once like an implosion as it does an ever expanding experiment. The dominant beat that feels like a pounding warehouse door has assaulting eruptions coming down in little tornadoes of sound. The repetitive sampling here creates an anxious tension of Thom York-ian proportions with sliced vox poured on to make the whole affair feel even more discordant. In the end it feels a bit like someone who is bi-polar finding out they have multiple personalities.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
For the uninitiated, Vanderslice rose to prominence in the early 2000's as a magnetic troubadour and founder of SF recording studio Tiny Telephone, where he worked on legendary records by Death Cab, Sleater-Kinney, The Magnetic Fields, and so many more.
Now, he's going through changes - he's closing up shop at the studio's SF location, and has moved his life to LA. During the early weeks of quarantine, with no access to his studio, the longtime analog obsessive was pushed to make his very first record entirely on a computer.
The resulting EP is his most deconstructive work to date, stretching his freak folk out to include elements of electronica, and even a brief moment that can only be described as minimal house.
Eeeeeeeep is expected on August 21st.
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