Library Tape’s debut album on Resonant is entitled “Alone in the Bright Light of a Shattered Life” the opening track “Broken Piano pt.2” features a lonely piano and overdose of melancholy. It sets the mood for the rest of the 7-track mini-album and this is in both a good and a bad way. The piano’s solitude is used as a theme throughout all of the songs in combination with layers of processed guitars, at times very harsh sounding and bordering to noise. It works, but the feeling of repetition and a possible lack of ideas linger over “Alone in the Bright Light of a Shattered Life”. Nevertheless there’s an unmistakeably beauty over Library Tapes’ music. On a not completely unrelated subject: the same day that I was leaving for this year’s Norbergfestival I got a Resonant release that I did not have time to listen to. I was surprised to see the very same artists’ name appear on the line-up later that day and now I’m a bit regretful about having missed their live performance. Resonant walks their own musical path, may be that it’s not the same as mine at all times, but in combination with the quality of their releases and artwork I find that really admirable.
electronic desert ≡ revisited + extended