Lexington, Kentucky’s Primitive Ricky released his great Cave Horse cassette about five months ago, so this post is a bit on the late side. But better late than never.
I was in LA in November for my cousin’s 40th bday and thanksgiving. And whenever I’m in the city of lost angels I like to stop into my favourite LA record store, Silverlake’s Vacation Vinyl. They have a great cassette section with rare, weird and experimental stuff, and the guys working in the store are really nice. Whenever I go there and start picking through tapes, asking them, ‘what does this sound like?’ they find a track online to play for me.
A label called River Girls had a couple cassettes there, and they all sounded pretty cool. Primitive Ricky‘s was my favourite. though. The store’s little sticker comparing it to a cross between John Fahey and Ashra was a good call. Most of the songs are acoustic fingerpicking complemented by drones and weird spacey synths.