A Pretty Mess by This One Band

Rock · 1996 · 7 tracks

A Pretty Mess by This One Band

Murky, tape-hiss heavy indie rock from the Central Valley. A skeletal blueprint of the band's later space-folk sound, drenched in grief and analog distortion.

It's like a sad, broken transmission from a 1996 bedroom that somehow knows exactly how you feel right now.

A heavy, tape-hissed meditation on loss and the fading memories of a rural California childhood.

A Pretty Mess by This One Band · vs · Grandaddy

Lo Fi+1.0σ

The production is pushed notably harder into lo fi than this artist usually allows.

Tracklist · 7 Tracks

01

Away Birdies w/ Special Sounds

2:00

02

Taster

4:09

03

Peeano

1:17

04

Kim You Bore Me to Death

4:39

05

Pre-Merced

2:56

06

Gentle Spike Resort

3:10

07

Egg Hit and Jack Too

5:06

Moments Worth Waiting For

The jarring transition from the chirping bird field recordings into the distorted, lumbering guitar riff of Taster.

The heartbreaking pivot in Pre-Merced where the lyrics shift from abstract advice to a vivid, sensory list of domestic memories.

The way the final track Egg Hit and Jack Too dissolves into a harrowing narrative about a car accident over a skeletal, pulsing beat.

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