УВБ-76 - Stuck at Mt. Fuji's 5th Station with a Crappy Little Radio
Released: September 28 Something of a follow up and maybe part of a seemingly ongoing series, Stuck at Mt. Fuji’s 5th Station with a Crappy Little Radio is quite the inadvertently liminal album. It’s quite similar to last year’s Stuck atEverest… album in that it encapsulates that feeling of being stuck somewhere unwillingly and with little to do in the way of entertaining oneself. Here, we find our traveler stuck once again with a noisy and static-y radio as they wait for the time they can move forward, or backward, or at all. The sonic aesthetic here is quite genuinely lo-fi in its most honest form. Basses feel rolled off or small and distorted, persistent but variable static is found throughout, and the music itself is an odd assortment of things similar to what you may find on a radio in an unfamiliar place. The musical selections here go from light classical to smooth jazz to elevator music and even some more new age ambient type of pieces. Jumping around frequently from...
