Myty Konkeror – I Miss the Future LP (Twin Lakes)
Potential acid blisterers from around the tri-state area give the swirling, earnest ‘90s alt-rock thing – which really wouldn’t have been out of place on some Cell/St. Johnny/Grifters showcase at the New Music Seminar circa 1992 – the proverbial “go,” albeit through the Peter King lathe cut treatment. Songs all sound like growers, the product of some thoughts which are usually buried under the shelves in some college town somewhere where nobody knows how to throw anything away. The fidelity quotient within these long slow acid burners is victim to the handmade “quality” laid upon the record’s physical manufacture, and as such a possibly heavy record gets trapped beneath dictaphonic ice. I’m usually not a critic of King’s work, but if there were ever a band that deserved to sound like their master tapes, it’d be this one – leave the lathe cuts to Witcyst! They say these things are supposed to sound better the more you play them, but you might be busy enough to want to skip the frustration, and check this one out on CD, cassette, or digital download instead. Nevertheless, a good and painfully limited start – only 30 copies of the vinyl exist, in paste-on, hand-numbered sleeves, and it is far from pretty in the art department. You choose how you wanna take it, but you probably should take it. By my count, at least three copies made it to writers. Will you buy the last one??? (http://www.twinlakesrecords.com)
(Doug Mosurock)
