Description
Meadow Argus is back with his third tape of the year, (and ninth overall) following spring’s “Spool’s Gold” (Hooker Vision). “For The Birds” exists in the usual Meadow Argus universe of hazy loopy droney warmth, built around organ drones, field recordings/collected sounds, and tape loops/tape manipulation.
Side A: Riverbend Lot//Transmigration of Souls//Passing Through the Waystation
Side B: Smiles and Smiles//The Merry Faces of Birds
Recorded in Ohio, 2022-23
Meadow Argus is Tynan Krakoff
Cover art and insert by Pearl Morgan
Mastered by Michael Southard
August 4, 2023
Tynan Tapes Temporal
Reviews:
“The newest Meadow Argus tape melds his usual field recordings and tape loops with a particularly soothing set of organ drones, possibly made by a harmonium. The fuzzy organ rolls throughout, and cheerful conversations, birds chirping, and thickets full of insects enter the sound-picture. It’s all a pleasant stroll that gradually gets trippier, as you realize when a crowing bird echoes deep into the ether, and other sounds feel out of balance. The second side gets particularly haunting, with incoherent shrieks and sobs calling for attention, but something about it winds up being inviting. Blasted CB radio transmissions and more glimmering drones make up the final stretch of the tape, taking us far away from the family memories of the first side and into some sort of cross-country road trip, trucking on acid. This tape really builds its own distinctive world, and it’s easily one of the most impressive Meadow Argus releases yet.” – The Answer is in the Beat, https://theanswerisinthebeat.net/2023/09/08/meadow-argus-for-the-birds-tape-tynan-tapes-2023/
“Meadow Argus’ For the Birds is a cacophonous and immersive collection of sounds that cling to one another, sketches of chaotic musical associations and memories that have long since collapsed in the wake of our own chronology” – The Southern Sounding
