Various Artists
Title: Warm Songs for Cold Weather
Label / Year: Deadplant / 2018
You know a compilation is that good when you listen
to it, turn over, listen again, and repeat several times. Warm Songs For Cold Weather is insanely
wonderful, exactly the right remedy for the winter blues. Cassette enthusiasts
rejoice! Some of the tunes here feature lo-fi tape warble to amazing effect, like
on Drug Bugz Seeing Stars, which
sounds like Sufjan Stevens recording on a Walkman with a dying battery. Side
one seems draped in a folky gauze until Nim Chimpsky rocks out with an alt-70s
pop anthem Jelly, Baby. Later
on side B, Paddlefish treats us to a psychedelic meltdown on Another Way & the tape winds out on
an ambient and poetic piece by Blithe Field. This is the tape for seasonal
affective disorder. Throw away those expensive meds & don the headphones.
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