Cassette
Protean British producer/songwriter Thomas Bush continues his recent hot streak with a second album in as many weeks, which on this occasion arrives in the form of a substantial collection of nocturnal nearly-pop for Berlin's ever-adventurous Kashual Plastik label. Rejoining persists with some of the aesthetic themes present on Guld, though the change in format (here on cassette) allows for an extended run time that enables Bush to stretch the limits of his songwriting, amassing a range of punctured electronics, inverted guitar reveries and solemn balladry that scans as something akin to Coil and Jandek reimagining TV Personalities' 'Diary of A Young Man' for the Radio On soundtrack. It's a curious vision of a nighttime world that Bush weaves, drawing its influences from another time yet feeling strangely reflective of this current moment, a (perhaps unintentional) reflection of the malaise of everything-all-of-the-time, alone-with-everyone conditon of 21st Century life. If you like to wallow in such things, Thomas Bush has just the score for your self-indulgences.
FFO: Coil, Dan Treacy, Jandek, Loren Connors, Flaming Tunes
