Sharkiface & Fletcher Pratt – s/t, Lost in Nebulous Time
7.4.15 by Mike Haley

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I love noise that sounds so damn gummy you think it’s leaving a residue on your cassette deck heads while it’s being played. Like the stubborn Goodwill price tag that refuses to completely come off that busted Casio keyboard you picked up for whatever reason, Sharkiface and Fletcher Pratt’s double dose of collab tapes (s/t & “Lost In Nebulous Time”) Mod Podges empty space with cycles of clinging idiosyncrasy.

Sharkiface (Angie Tarantism) and Fletcher Pratt go about their syrupy assault a few different ways. Gunked-up loops with bits of brains and buzzing whirling around in em. Squelched moans. Oscillations rising and falling. Anxiously dispatched tones that land somewhere between logging on to old school AOL and readying the photon torpedoes on The Enterprise. Those are some of the goodies these two weave and sandwich, making your head space all humid and gross (yum!). The dopest moments, and there are a bunch on these two tapes / four sides / 50 minutes, are when their grime starts to separate. One half of the gruesome twosome will loop some sore throat vocals at a meandering pace, along with a puddle of electronic mush. As the electronics get some gas (petrol, not farts) and ping into a vibrant zone, the vocal whirling keeps pace, or get even dimmer and stretched, making for a gelatinous juxtaposition.

Don’t let the brightly colored Jcards fool ya, this is sewer troll music with nails that need trimming and a nasty case of gum disease. The editions are small, so if you have to choose between buying clean socks or these tapes from Midori, make up your mind quickly! Those socks are fine by the way.