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Hello Sorry Staters! Another week, another pick! Not much has been going on here, just keeping busy by finally inputting my collection into Discogs. It’s a super tedious job, but it is driving me crazy not having it written down somewhere. I’m done accidentally buying doubles! The upside to doing this is that I come across a lot of shit I forgot I had. I also recently saw a YouTube video of someone’s collection and instead of it being in alphabetical order from left to right, it was in order from right to left, so when he pulled a stack out it would go back in order from right to left and this made total sense to me. Though after reading what I wrote back, it makes no sense at all! Oh well! I will have to try it either way.
One record I found buried in my stacks is Mirror Might Steal Your Charm by The Garden. This record was put out by Epitaph Records in 2018 and seems to have been co-released or released by the Vada Vada, which is a label by the brothers in the band, Wyatt and Fletcher Shears. This record is all over the place in the best way possible. This duo is just bass and drums, and the effects they use on the record are super intentional. They know how to build a song and make it sound huge with just two instruments. Listening to this on the way to work again and thinking about what to compare it to, the record that came to mind was the Butthole Surfers’ Electriclarryland, but slightly more chaotic, with the same type of lyrics sung over a million difference effects. This is the only Garden record I own, unfortunately. They have a rabid fanbase that sells out the records and merchandise the moment it gets posted online.
So if you are in the mood for something a little different and very effects and bass line heavy, check them out!