Potholder – “Unsure” 7”
Pop Bus Records, 1994
Acquired: Love Garden Shotgun Room, Used, 2007
Price: $.25
“1992? 1993? Somewhere in the early 90s, for sure.” That was
the first thought I had when I heard the noisy guitar squall and the thumping
bass of “Unsure.” 1994 was the correct answer. I was close, but three years in
the early 90s might as well have been an eternity because the grunge ship had
mostly sailed by this point leaving hundreds upon hundreds of newfound alt-rock
bands in its wake. Potholder plays a crunchy brand of noise rock with a bit of
a grunge hangover. Naturally, like many of these seven-inch records I scooped
up years ago, there is very little information about Potholder on the internet
(and, also naturally, tough shit finding a song to share). Today everything is
preserved, and I think I love these 90s alt-rock sevens so much because I know
I am the only person on the planet listening to this record at this very moment
(and maybe the only person who has listened to this record in years, who
knows). It’s not like I’m fetishizing the obscure, it’s more like breathing
life into this thing that’s been dormant for a decade and getting a vivid image
of this time period through the music.
