Labels: 77 Records
Review by: Dana Scully
Goth as fuck. I think people call this kind of thing minimal synth. It’s all samples and dark industrial sounding drum machines and doesn’t really make much sense as ~music~. I’m confronted with my usual debate about whether the band doesn’t care or and I’m underestimating. Given the number of over-earnest fools in the world I think it’s safe to say that the band’s intentions weigh very slightly, if at all, on the quality of music they make. The finished record, or tape in this case, is all that matters. So, what do I think? I think it’s goth as fuck. Even if the whole thing left me scratching my head, and even if I can’t see (m)any revisits on the horizon, there were three or four times when this bordered on convincingly creepy, and as a whole I enjoyed listening. Its maybe a bad indication that my favourite track was a Christian Death cover, but I’m going to venture that it was nicely contextualised by the rest of the tape or something. And it was a good one “” total mixtape fodder. Only problem is I don’t know what kind of weirdo even listens to this kind of thing”¦
Burnt Offerings- Romeos Distress by 77records