Love as Laughter – “Do You Experience Alien Boredom?” 7”
K Records, 1996
Acquired: Love Garden, Used, 2008
Price: $.50
Sometimes I gotta be in the right mood for this stuff to
work on me. I’m talking indie rock with pop tendencies pushed so far into the
lo-fi sphere that it sounds like it was recorded in a Laundromat with every
machine set to its spin cycle and all of the equipment intentionally pushed
over onto the floor, semi-broken, put back together again and used to record
music. It sounds like shit, but that’s the point, and the A-side of this Love
as Laughter 7” is totally working its charms on me. This is the sort of weird
thing I have come to expect from K’s International Pop Underground series,
which is about as spotty of a series as you’re like to find. Some of these are
godawful, some are absolute gems, and some are just plain pleasant, easy, if
slightly forgettable alt-pop. Honestly, some of the stuff that is self-awarely
lo-fi sounds like garbage if there isn’t a little diamond of a song buried
under all of the rubble. Fortunately, both “Do You Experience Alien Boredom?”
and the even dirtier sounding “Idol Worship! Idol Worship! We Offer Sleep to
You!” have enough going for them at the base level that they sound just fine
even though they sound like they were recorded on busted old cassette tapes
found at a thrift shop.
Enjoy this little gem here in all of its glorious sloppiness.
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