Kill Your Eyes by THE CHILD READERS

 

Loren chasse and Jason Honea have worked together for an on-off basis for quite a while. This is their first album since 2008 believe it or not. Now a new set of tracks has been released on a ruralfaune label.

The lo-fi, dreamy quality of the duo is preserved and hasn't aged at all. 

A set of  12 tracks recorded in an unrestrained and low fidelity fashion reminds me of why the obscure materials like this have this gem-like quality that cannot be cut through and analysed so easily. 

There is so much nuance in it, naturalist sort of approach and also an experimental side of those songs-not songs. The dark layers of drones with a freak folk psychedelia but done in a visceral fashion, without any restraints or anything that would wink back at the listener which would make it a bit more digestible for wider audience.

Each of those 12 tracks is a little ritual of celebrating daily life with dramas hidden in the back pockets, embracing the ambience that is a surplus of each of them, making it natural, not overdone, not slapped with overproduced sense of approach and ability.

What is more important is that this set sounds so natural and there is a lingering sense of fragility far away from anything that is cliché.

I owe a lot to that kind of recordings and artists as the embody something elusive that cannot be repeated and re-created. It is impossible to embrace it really. 

A very important album...

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