The American underground D.I.Y. music world has many lifers scattered across this great land, keeping their heads down and churning out new releases with little regard to adhering to what’s “bloggable” or what song or album might blow their social media metrics off the charts. Ohio-based Students of Decay is one such label. Alex Cobb has been curating a wide range of ambient, drone, noise, and experimental CD-Rs, cassettes, and vinyl releases for a decade plus, and shows no sign of stopping any time soon.
The label’s latest — and first, since the brilliant, occasionally heavy Anne Guthrie LP, Brass Orchids — is a gentler, hypnotic long player from Australia’s Blue Chemise (Mark Gomes). Daughters of Time is “an elegiac set of vignettes recorded straight to dictaphone,” as the label writes. These brief tunes latch on and make a deep impression right away, requiring repeat listening to the sample set below.
With each new release, it’s easy to wonder when they’ll just start coasting on their long since established reputation and reissue a sought after and lucrative new age reissue, but SoD continues to pull the best work from top notch artists in contemporary experimental composition, and Blue Chemise is no exception. Daughters of Time is available September 7, with three tracks streaming below, and pre-orders up and running.
Daughters of Time tracklisting:
01. Bonnie
02. Violet
03. Polly
04. Celeste
05. Melody
06. Alice
07. June
08. Odette
09. Vivian
10. Marcy
11. Jude
12. Sabine
13. Isla
14. Claudia
15. Jane
16. Christine
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