You wouldn’t be out of line for thinking that this project was yet another lo-fi basement tape experiment from some young buck born in the last couple of decades, but you’d be dead wrong, as this dreamy slice of backwards looped madness is the work of none other than guitarist Asa Osbourne, long-time stalwart of the east coast underground (in the ‘80s with band Reptile House, and through the ‘90s with post-hardcore poster children, Lungfish); to be perfectly honest, when I first heard this album and was told that it was somebody from Lungfish, I would’ve bet money on it having been Daniel Higgs, but I was wrong too. The only comparisons I can really draw are perhaps mid-career GBV on downers, or maybe Olivia Tremor Control after hauling a tank of nitrous into the studio and letting it roll---in as much as it takes my mind away to the same drifty place, I’d have to include Bibio on that list as well. Nothing to write home about I suppose, but the balmy textures Osbourne wheedles from his guitar continue to keep me sated; another “wake-n-bake along with the rising sun” kind of track if there ever was one.
