Meadow Argus - To The Valley Below
Released: October 2 On his latest album, Tynan Krakoff brings us a wonderful half hour of new material from his Meadow Argus project full of fuzz and warble. The project is known well for an assortment of hazy, warped, and crackly soundscapes and To The Valley Below hits the mark quite nicely by really leaning into the sound artifacts of the most prominent instrument here - the microcassette recorder. Everything feels rather constrained due to the low bandwidth reproduction of these tiny tapes, yet it still manages to feel full and fleshed out. The album is divided into to roughly equal parts titled “Wheeling Overhead” and “To The Valley Below.” Both play on generally the same themes, with a few differences in tone and organization. The first half of the experience is rather energetic compared to the second. “Wheeling Overhead” is the very vocal based of the two, which makes for a lot of strange, beautiful, and hectic moments. It opens up with a bit of indiscernible vocals that re...
