| Smallertide / Crickets |
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| Album: | Crickets | Collection: | General 7" | |
| Artist: | Smallertide | Added: | 05/2016 | |
| Label: | Poor L'amour Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2016-08-15 | Pull Date: | 2016-10-17 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | 16 Oct | 11 Sep | 4 Sep |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 12, 2016: | Life Aquatic Side A | 4. | Sep 05, 2016: | Everything A to Z week 57 Knife In The Drawer, I Can't Ever Love You, For New York | |
| 2. | Nov 08, 2016: | Magnetized Toner Everyone's Gone To The Moon, Greatest Day (Crawling Across The Floor In Brightly Colored Clothes), Leaves Left Alone | 5. | Sep 01, 2016: | In The Year One Thousand, Eight Thousand: Jueves Me Va Bien I Can't Ever Love You, For New York | |
| 3. | Oct 10, 2016: | Everything A to Z week 62 Special - part two of two I Can't Ever Love You | 6. | Jun 03, 2016: | In The Year One Thousand, Eight Thousand [S166-Overtime] Everyone's Gone To The Moon, Greatest Day (Crawling Across The Floor In Brightly Colored Clothes), Leaves Left Alone |
| Album Review |
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| Telepathic Juan Reviewed 2016-08-10 | ||
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Crickets is the debut 7” single by Minneapolis’ Smallertide. The experimental duo uses guitars, pedals, cheap microphones, as well as field and found recordings to create their lo-fi semi-acoustic works. The compositions are brief, delicate, instrumental, and guitar-driven, with field recordings or recorded fragments from old and new TV and radio shows toward the end of each track. Similar to the S N I C K E R S 7” single, there’s no break between the track so each side could be played continuously. RIYL: S N I C K E R S, Andrew Weathers, Dirty Three, S Benjamin Sharp and Papa M. FCC CLEAN! Recommended Tracks: 1, 3, 4 and 5 33 1/3 RPM SIDE A 1. (2:05) **Leaves Left Alone – Instrumental guitar-driven slowcore. Gentle and contemplative. Vintage found recording of foreign station ID – “Saludos Mexico”. 2. (2:13) Greatest Day (Crawling Across The Floor In Brightly Colored Clothes) – Another slowcore exercise here. Sample of JFK speech. 3. (2:15) *Everyone’s Gone To The Moon – Space out music. SIDE B 4. (2:17) *For New York – Sounds like you are in New York looking out the window. Sample of commercial about NY. New? Old? 5. (2:29) **I Can’t Ever Love You – The track that most resembles a song in the entire single. More strange apartment sounds in the background while guitar gently weeps by the microphone. Sample of Jazz song at end the track. 6. (2:19) Knife In The Drawer – Some slowcore guitar sounds complemented with quiet running water sounds. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Leaves Left Alone | 4. | For New York | |||
| 2. | Greatest Day (Crawling Across The Floor In Brightly Colored Clothes) | 5. | I Can't Ever Love You | |||
| 3. | Everyone's Gone To The Moon | 6. | Knife In The Drawer |