2026 repress on Purely Physical Teeny Tapes
How long ago was 2023? Just last week and also at least a decade ago. That's how time works now. And why, maybe (or not), Purely Physical Teeny Tapes are reissuing an LP first released by Low Company (NOTE - we also have an original in now, too - HERE) in that very same year, which itself was close to ten years after the recording of said LP first began. Time is flat, the world keeps going round and some things remain. Plus it was getting kinda hard to buy the original pressing, so... As it were, Static Cleaner Lost Reward's first and only LP was initially notable for also being the last on Low Company, its own neat duality of old beginnings/new endings and so forth. Now freed from its ties to LC, Breathing Under Honey has a second life, its off-centre fusing of weirdo pop, dubwise dynamics and playful electronics a typically atypical expression of the kind of self-determining autodidactism that's increasingly come to define large aspects of the international underground. People like this stuff and they have copied this stuff, just as it is a magpie creation of its own anyhow. That's the way these things work. Breathing Under Honey is outsider pop at it's inverted best, displaying a strong sense of having dug around in dusty crates with a heavy bend towards the outsider 80s (Windows, Vivien Goldman, Dark Day, John Bender, Flaming Tunes++) while weaving its own rabbit-hole potted path. If there were other things on Low Company it called to mind it was most probably the great Red Ribbon record by Yuta Matsumura, another alterna-pop vision unafraid to stand in its own composite light of re-assembled things and ideas. And now here it is again, in a different context but still propelled by the same ideal - pop will eat itself, and re-conceive itself, too. And so here's an old re-formation once again new, and time moves backwards and forwards as we perceive it. Don't think that for a moment that you won't one day run out of it, though... ACT NOW.
FFO: Windows, Vivien Goldman, Dark Day, John Bender
