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PURELY PHYSICAL TEENY TAPES

*TIP* Previously released on Low Company in 2023, now back... a weirdo lo fi gem

Naturestrip, Naarm, Australia write:

"purely physical teeny tapes perform an invaluable public service in exhuming Static Cleaner Lost Reward’s "Breathing Under Honey" from The heady year of 2023, a slack-jawed riddle within the all-consuming enigma that is thee world of tarquin manek."

Few records command a reissue so soon after their release, the soil heaped atop the (sainted) Low Company corpse still remaining more than a little damp, but this one’s discreet-to-the-point-of-fury initial release justifies the flogging of the proverbial carked horse, boiled back down into glue for a fresh round of rollicking mucky. Arriving as the last release on that fine imprint, "Breathing Under honey’ represents (obliquely, natch) something of a convenient summary of that aforementioned elegantly sloshed world™, condensing as it does the artist’s proclivities exercised among the sweetest of contemporary depth-dwellers, articulated alongside/within y.l. hooi, bum creek, carla dal forno, f ingers, kallista kult, under endless solo monikers…the fun never ends.

let loose here in a suitably gonzo/spellunked mood, the second full-length under the static cleaner moniker (see debut $mile$ from 2013 thru altered states) is compiled of delirious half-thoughts & riddimic gestures accumulated between 2013 & 2020, everything wet & awash with a fine sprouting of lysergic mush between its digits. the implication thereof might suggest something schlonky or amateurish, but fear not, prospective listener, for your ears are in the sticky hands of one of the finest shit-savant prodigies these times have known, crud-caked technoid shapes & blissed pop-glob nous submerged in sublime dubbed-out grog, the resulting sonar-pong shards positively chemical in their ability to simultaneously slant + seduce.

think: martin denny face-deep in a paper bag at the black ark, graciously fucked tropicalia, liquid dub techno housed in vat of spiked quaff, the skaters infiltrating urban tribe, lopsided + caked to the nines in glitter for the gutter.

utterly tranced, sumptuous/sweet & patently ill. a classique of this modern horror epoch if there ever was one."

TRACK LISTING

A1 Stones On The Beach
A2 Submerging Emergency
A3 Sea Slug Bender
A4 Fair Game
B1 Brigade Spinnet
B2 Tiger Shark
B3 Age Old Squall
B4 Basic Trouble
B5 Mirage Game

Very Limited 7” EP with printed lyric inner sleeve

Purely Physical Teeny Tapes continue to sink their teeth into the fleshy nethers of the contemporary oz underground, plucking the self-titled ep of vivisected bedroom folk by naarm/melbourne trio Who Cares? from the recesses of net anonymity for the greatest of good.

Upon appearing out of nowhere back in ‘24, the quartet’s debut registered (feverishly) somewhere between immediacy & beguilement, the intervening year & change doing little to dull its aura, the mystique only heightened by their suitably gorgeous appearance in wonderful company on a colourful storm’s recent ‘going back to sleep…’ compilation-extravaganza. The conceit of these four tracks here is disarmingly minimal - repetitious loner guitar strummage, oblique vox poetics as lullaby, intermittent sunken percussion, bass the subtle melodic lugger - all recurring/revolving in delicious pirouette freefall, un-rinseable within the mind, wayward melodies stuck like heat-warped treacle.

As with the firmest of its diy domestica ilk, there’s something ever so slightly off here, the carnivalesque nature of this thing being the ‘what?’ that keeps pulling you in. parched ennui drip, fully zonked bacchanal (anti-)energetics, listlessness rendered bedsit anthem, cooees in the hallway. depending on how your head is screwed, ‘correct’ or otherwise, one might hear a charmed take on a vein of folk song fallen well by the wayside/behind the mantle, others a seance for the spirits in the kettle, others more attuned to the myriad wraiths swirling within the outer reaches of these songs, flights of whimsy foiled by a sticky, gluey something or other. choose, or rather submit to your own adventure. Miaow miaow miaow.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Melancholy, reverb-soaked, yearning indie with cathartic folk leanings and an almost shoegaze sensibility. It's exactly what me and Liam love. It's cool to be sad don't ya know...

TRACK LISTING

pussycat
discipline
vale of tears
hard yakka


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