Various Artists
This Reminds Me: Songs by Linda Smith Reimagined
Lost Sound Tapes / 2018
In the relatively calm decade of the 1990s, I was listening
to all of the indie / hometaped music I could uncover, like a lost man parched
in the desert, searching for a phone booth. Pre-internet, all I had for a road
map were the monthly mailout catalogues from Parasol Records. I bought many a
record sight unseen, solely by intuition and Parasol’s one-line descriptions. Discovering
music from Orange Cake Mix made this guessing game worthwhile, as well as buying
my first Linda Smith 7” record. Her songs were a bundle of poetic dichotomies, like
peering into a handwritten diary of someone figuring out the nuances of life. This
Reminds Me: Songs by Linda Smith Reimagined is long overdue recognition of her
brilliance as a musician & songwriter. Lost Sound Tapes has assembled a nineteen-song
tribute featuring bands as luminous as Silly Pillows & musicians like Rose
Melberg, Peter Kirsch, & Paula Strong. The one minor flaw in this
collection is a lack of mixtape choreography: the songs are arranged
alphabetically rather than by musical flow. Let’s hope there is a second compilation
in the works – you can’t have too much of a good thing.
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