Hot Dish Of The Sun On The Table Of The Heavens: Demos 2016-
Reviews
Wallace Brontoon
Reviewed 2025-08-18
Reviewed 2025-08-18
Lo-fi, local, dreamy and shaggy; Sad Eyed Beatniks is the project of San Francisco's Kevin Linn, who runs Paisley Shirt Records... the songs here are all over the place, but all reflect a '60s DIY vibe, a love of fuzz and hiss and analog distortion; very cool and very mod and very catchy and lovely stuff
FCC CLEAN
1. ****** (5:10) Strummy, almost krauty, joined with pipey/glib/chirpy vox, bordering atonal but charming and insinuating and repetitive; recorder/flute playing off broken floppy guitar sounds, lovely stew
2. **** (1:47) Crunchy, snarly, fuzzy vox; cryptic and short, can FLOW INTO next track...
3. *** (1:51) Echoey and lo-fi sad, oh no i'm at the bottom of a well; slow and simple and repetitive, but heartrending
4. **** (2:31) Nice warm-fuzzy nice-hug-feeling guitar sounds, lazy and snarly vox in soft bg... ENDS SUDDENLY
5. ****** (2:50) instrumental; antic tambourine super-precise freakout; feels like inspiration; simple but special
6. ***** (1:30) simple lo-fi song with organ and maracas in a stew of soft noise
7. ***** (3:16) instrumental; richier, plummier, happier fuzz sounds; simple and repetitive but soft-swaying cool groove and happy
8. *** (2:26) instrumental; plunky and plucky and oblique; simple riffing
9. **** (4:42) Hangover echo-y, tinkly little bellringing, sad and rippling vox from bottom of a well; almost a weird woozy nightmare; noodly and very spare
10. *** (4:25) Chaotic atonal strumming, distant woozy vox enter; becomes a different, yelping jam halfway through with more of a hook
11. *** (1:53) Twice as lo-fi as everything else is; analog noise nightmare/dream
12. * (5:14) Much more modern shellack on this one, not feeling it, but some cool warp-o hiss nearer the end
FCC CLEAN
1. ****** (5:10) Strummy, almost krauty, joined with pipey/glib/chirpy vox, bordering atonal but charming and insinuating and repetitive; recorder/flute playing off broken floppy guitar sounds, lovely stew
2. **** (1:47) Crunchy, snarly, fuzzy vox; cryptic and short, can FLOW INTO next track...
3. *** (1:51) Echoey and lo-fi sad, oh no i'm at the bottom of a well; slow and simple and repetitive, but heartrending
4. **** (2:31) Nice warm-fuzzy nice-hug-feeling guitar sounds, lazy and snarly vox in soft bg... ENDS SUDDENLY
5. ****** (2:50) instrumental; antic tambourine super-precise freakout; feels like inspiration; simple but special
6. ***** (1:30) simple lo-fi song with organ and maracas in a stew of soft noise
7. ***** (3:16) instrumental; richier, plummier, happier fuzz sounds; simple and repetitive but soft-swaying cool groove and happy
8. *** (2:26) instrumental; plunky and plucky and oblique; simple riffing
9. **** (4:42) Hangover echo-y, tinkly little bellringing, sad and rippling vox from bottom of a well; almost a weird woozy nightmare; noodly and very spare
10. *** (4:25) Chaotic atonal strumming, distant woozy vox enter; becomes a different, yelping jam halfway through with more of a hook
11. *** (1:53) Twice as lo-fi as everything else is; analog noise nightmare/dream
12. * (5:14) Much more modern shellack on this one, not feeling it, but some cool warp-o hiss nearer the end
Recent airplay
Untitled May 2016 Demo
Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles — Dec 06, 2025
Finch Running on Ground
Music Casserole — Dec 06, 2025
Loop Bells Pvox
Music Casserole — Nov 22, 2025
Phaser Vox in C
tba: alone — Nov 21, 2025
Being Twirled Aka Positively O'Farrell Street
Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles — Oct 04, 2025
Loop Bells Pvox
Music Casserole — Sep 27, 2025
Charting
2025-08-18 — 2025-11-20
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Oct 5 | 1 |
| Sep 28 | 1 |
| Sep 14 | 2 |
| Aug 31 | 2 |
Track listing
| 1. | Being Twirled Aka Positively O'Farrell Street | 5:10 | |
| 2. | Blank Black Tape 3 | 1:47 | |
| 3. | Phaser Vox in C | 1:51 | |
| 4. | Free Composition 7 | 2:31 | |
| 5. | SEB DEMO4 | 2:50 | |
| 6. | Same Old Thing | 1:30 | |
| 7. | Untitled May 2016 Demo | 3:16 | |
| 8. | SEB - 1.30.21 | 2:26 | |
| 9. | Loop Bells Pvox | 4:42 | |
| 10. | Loop Song From 2022 4 and 3 | 4:25 | |
| 11. | Pre-Who's That | 1:53 | |
| 12. | Finch Running on Ground | 5:14 |
