Quickly developing into my favorite label, Ambivalent Soap may have come out of the gate with my favorite cassette of 2014 (NOTE: thus far). M. Mucci’s guitar meditations on Midnights touch the familiar, airy strands of his influences and contemporaries. Why bore you with that list when it comes to the docile spaces of Connors & Haino to best place Mucci’s work? If that weren’t enough of a clue, the tape’s title should settle your internal debate. This is late-night, long-road listening for those that need a real world set-up. Its 3 A.M. and I must be lonely without the bullshit pomp. This is what it’s really like when you’re left alone with your thoughts. No internet trolling, no bed for miles, and stretches of pitch black dotted by flickering bulbs and neon. Mucci’s guitar is but that flicker, the spaces between the time you spend getting to know the real you. It’s easy to face yourself in the mirror every morning and pretend to be the person you want to be, but Midnights delivers the person you are. Don’t be so fearful, you aren’t as inherently evil or misguided as the media or your family would have you believe. We’re all searching for that mythical something, so take notice when someone like Mucci creates and shares it.
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