New Music: Tapes 'n Tapes "Loon"

We've been listening to tunes from "Loon," the new CD from the band Tapes 'n Tapes. We've been listening to it on recommendation from a friend. We've been listening to the song "Omaha" in particular, over and over again. We've been listening and enjoying it a lot. We've been bathing in its quiet, fragile indie pop urgency. Tapes 'n Tapes is a Minneapolis quartet and even before we knew that fact, we had been thinking that their sound is that of an artfully crafted but casually executed music made by young men stuck indoors for long periods due to bitter cold, snowy and wet weather conditions, nourished on coffee, Canadian beer, cigarette smoke, bad flourescent light, and thrift store clothing. Tapes 'n Tapes reminds us of the band Pavement, a comparison that the group probably have heard often and will continue to hear. Tapes 'n Tapes' low-fi sound is like a finely worked-out molecular-level mash-up of instrumental flourishes from the 1990's indie canon, potent in their beauty and aged, but unidentifiable in their reconfiguration and appropriation in 2006.

Posted by Supercore at April 4, 2006 02:37 AM