TWiS Listening Post (0002)

A reissue, a transporter, and a preview

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INTRO

This issue is for paid subscribers. Supplementing the free Tuesday and Friday issues, it’s a thank you to people who financially support This Week in Sound.

Welcome (back) to my newsletter about the role sound plays in culture, technology, politics, science, ecology, storytelling, warfare, art, society, and anywhere else it might bark.

Today, we’ve got: (1) a reissue, (2) a transporter, and (3) a preview.

My name is Marc Weidenbaum and I live in San Francisco and at Disquiet.com.

And yeah, this issue says it’s episode 0002, like last week’s did (until I fixed it), which was a mistake. I started with episode 0000, then messed up last week. So be it. I hope you enjoy the following music.

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1. A REISSUE

TAPE HEADS: Late last month the Portland, Oregon, loop master Randall Roberts, who records as Amulets, uploaded a reissue of a 2019 split release. Those four tracks — half by Roberts, the other half by Kyle Bates, who goes by Drowse, that word an apt description of the recuperative state these pieces encourage — constitute a wonderfully sleepy, lofi psychedelia. The best place to start may be at the end, with “Dismantled,” the set’s shortest and final track. “Dismantled” opens in reverse before unspooling a combination of drones and endlessly echoed guitar.