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Friday, June 3, 2016

Usputuspud - (2008) Liturgical Alcoholik CS

aquariusrecords.org sez, "A recording of his solo project, the bizarrely titled Usputuspud. When he's not shirtless and flailing wildly on stage with a bloodied and battered guitar, he's apparently holed up in a dark corner of some basement with some tapes, a 4 track, a different guitar and a harmonica (!). That's right, harmonica. But fear not, these aren't a bunch of back porch blues jams, this is some seriously dark and droney ambience. Deep resonant swells, drift and shimmer, melodies are pulled apart, the constituent notes allowed to float freely along the mysterious black tide, dramatic, melodic and strangely cinematic, you can almost imagine some vocalist like Nick Cave, crooning over the top, some hellish end of the world balladeering. Mysterious and mystical, a muted mumbly soundscape of rumble and shimmer, a gauzy low end smear, through which all sorts of subtle sonic colorings are visible, everything druggy and subtly psychedelic, an ominous creeping crawl into some dark pit of sound, glowing red, lit from below by some mysterious fire below. Essential for fans of all things slow and low, but wouldn't be entirely out of place in your tape case, next to your Yellow Swans, Skaters or Quetzolcoatl cassettes."
 White Lodge Tapes CS
This also happens to be one of my most favorite cassettes that I own. Top 10%.
This is considered to be electronic, drone, minimal & ambient genre stylings but I feel there is a deeply, disturbing darkness underneath it all,
LURKING. Another incredible cassette to be found no where else within interwebage.

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