Hot Dish Of The Sun On The Table Of The Heavens: Demos 2016-

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

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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