Eric's Trip

Love Tara

It's a record you really have to grow up with, I think, to truly appreciate. Fraught and tenuous, raw and tender, abrasive and gentle all at once—a portrait of a certain kind of young adulthood, precariously situated between dominant tones... Its ragged, panning, stereo production feels, at its best, not rudimentary, but communicative: its own mode of address, its own conduit of intimacy. I'll call it ambivalent—by which I mean not static or indifferent, but drawn powerfully in too ... read more

Good.

Hooooly I did not expect to like this as much as I did. This album uses this weird dynamic of a slow and soft track and then a fast indie rock banger and then just alternates between that for most of the album. Now I'm really interested in getting into more of Phil Elverum's works

An exquisite lo-fi album that was made before lo-fi music was even popular. I didn't expect a lot from a band that was named after a Sonic Youth song, but they surprised me on 'Love Tara'. This thing is rough in a lot of places, but they're still able to make it sound appealing, the guitar work is fuzzy but it's honestly one of the biggest highlights on the record, and the lyricism is heart-wrenchingly beautiful. It's a fairly short album (37 minutes) but they're still able to cram so much ... read more