Cave Bears / Taco Mountain Time - Assburgers: Big Noah Time FLAC download

"The cassette is revived these days, and seeing that makes someone like me, who started out with cassettes in 1980, quite happy again. Well, that is, most of the times. The tape I have before me also recall all those tapes that where just very hard to understand - both in a musical context as well as what is scribbled on the cover. I have to wait until day light to actually write out the band name, title perhaps, but listening to it right now, I must say that this is probably the right medium for the music. This is what one could call free music. Voicals (?), obscure things on instruments (?), metal percussion perhaps, keyboard (?) all taped to a portable cassette machine of which the batteries are about gone. On side A that is. On the B-side suddenly a much more coherent. Still pretty lo-fi in approach, but electronic, almost song like with vocals that try to make a coherent lyric. The tape has lots of weirdness, which reminded me of say Costes, Suckdog and Psychodrama, all without the dramatic pathos of all three. Or perhaps its just not present on these recordings and perhaps they are documents of some piss, shit and hate action. I don't know. This cassette proof the liveliness of the medium, even when its not entirely my cup of tea. - -Frans deWaart for Vital Weekly