This is a somewhat belated follow-up to a Baby Tooth single I pitched your way in 2011. At the time I noted my intentions to obtain their ep (which actually runs closer to album length). At any rate, here it is. Six longish salvos from a noisy and much defunct New York trio. "Potentiometer" is a curiosity, alternating between dissonance and a faint pop hook with the former winning out in the end. Is that guy really tuning his guitar mid-song, or are my ears deceiving me? Rare Book Room gets all the more interesting when the boys shift into unabashed shoegazer mode, à la lo-fi contemporaries the Swirlies on "Comes and Goes," and "Slide," the latter fastening Michal Sapir's whispery vox to an oscillating wall of tremolo-laced feedback. Me like.
01. Potentiometer
02. Mantra
03. Small Dreamy
04. Slide
05. Wish Upon an Eyelash
06. Comes and Goes
3 comments:
thank you!
is it possible to re-up this record along with their earlier 7"?
thanks a lot in advance!
Oh wow, that's my old band! I was the guitar player/co-writer. Thanks for finding it and feeling something in it which resonated with you. I went on to form a recording studio and plagiarized ourselves to call it...rare book room, based in Brooklyn, NY. It operated from 1995 to 2019. Made records with some obscure bands back then like Black Dice, Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Spoon, Dirty Projectors and The War On Drugs. This year marks the 30 year anniversary of the release. Keep on keeping on.
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