Re my tangent toward the end of this morning's post: feels like a cheat to talk about some lost album of sixteen years yore and not give a taste. So here's a track from the album.
- Morsel: Featherbits
Tangent: earlier this week Shiny Grey Monotone posted an album from 94, Morsel’s Noise Floor, which I fucking loved at the time but have not heard in probably ten or twelve years. During my year-long bout of 90s re-immersion I went looking for Noise Floor on the web but couldn’t find it—neither the album nor the band were terribly well-known back then—so I was pretty stoked to find it this week. I listened to it twice yesterday and had all kinds of reactions to it, including but not limited to: a) this is not as good as I remember it being; b) this is rad; c) oh yeah, Avey Tare didn’t invent weird vocal effects; d) this sounds a little dated but I feel like in one or two years there will be a lot of bands who happen to sound a lot like this.
In other words my enjoyment of Noise Floor is basically Nitsuh’s point made real. I think there’s some value in Noise Floor but I also wouldn’t expect people coming to it cold in 2010 to regard it as a lost classic. I'll always find pleasure in it, though.
Here's another taste, just to bring out a little more of their weirdness:
- Morsel: Motorcaid
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