Static Cleaner Lost Reward

Previously released on Low Company in 2023, now back... a weirdo lo fi gem.

purely physical teeny tapes perform an invaluable public service in exhuming static cleaner lost rewards breathing under honey from the heady year o 2023, a slack-jawed riddle within the all-consuming enigma that is thee world of tarquin manek.

few records command a reissue so soon after their release, the soil heaped atop the (sainted) low company corpse still remaining more than a little damp, but this ones discreet-to-the-point-of-fury initial release justifies the flogging of the proverbial carked horse, boiled back down into glue for a fresh round of rollicking mucky. arriving as the last release on that fine imprint, breathing under honey represents (obliquely, natch) something of a convenient summary of that aforementioned elegantly sloshed world, condensing as it does the artists proclivities exercised among the sweetest of contemporary depth-dwellers, articulated alongside/within y.l. hooi, bum creek, carla dal forno, f ingers, kallista kult, under endless solo monikers…the fun never ends.

let loose here in a suitably gonzo/spellunked mood, the second full-length under the static cleaner moniker (see debut $mile$ from 2013 thru altered states) is compiled of delirious half-thoughts & riddimic gestures accumulated between 2013 & 2020, everything wet & awash with a fine sprouting of lysergic mush between its digits. the implication thereof might suggest something schlonky or amateurish, but fear not, prospective listener, for your ears are in the sticky hands of one of the finest shit-savant prodigies these times have known, crud-caked technoid shapes & blissed pop-glob nous submerged in sublime dubbed-out grog, the resulting sonar-pong shards positively chemical in their ability to simultaneously slant + seduce.

think: martin denny face-deep in a paper bag at the black ark, graciously fucked tropicalia, liquid dub techno housed in vat of spiked quaff, the skaters infiltrating urban tribe, lopsided + caked to the nines in glitter for the gutter.

utterly tranced, sumptuous/sweet & patently ill. a classique of this modern horror epoch if there ever was one.

Tracklisting:

A1 Stones On The Beach
A2 Submerging Emergency
A3 Sea Slug Bender
A4 Fair Game
B1 Brigade Spinnet
B2 Tiger Shark
B3 Age Old Squall
B4 Basic Trouble
B5 Mirage Game

• 1 stones on the beach
• 2 submerging emergency
• 3 sea slug bender
• 4 fair game
• 5 brigade spinnet
• 6 tiger shark
• 7 age old squall