{"id":5236,"date":"2011-04-18T12:18:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T16:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antigravitybunny.com\/?p=5236"},"modified":"2011-04-18T12:18:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T16:18:52","slug":"david-tagg-i-am-the-wolf-second-sun-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/?p=5236","title":{"rendered":"David Tagg – “I Am The Wolf” (Second Sun, 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDavid Tagg<\/a> – Wolf Suite I<\/a>
\nPentecost<\/i><\/a>, a soft pink album of reel to reel tape organ drones. According to Discogs<\/a>, that’s the last thing he released, but he’s got a new album on Second Sun<\/a>, which is a label that doesn’t churn out excessive amounts of records (in fact this is their first release for 2011) so it’s always a treat when one comes out and you damn well better pay attention to it.<\/p>\n

“I Am The Wolf”<\/i> retains that textured tape warble but mostly sheds the organcore from Tagg’s last, taking sides with his pal Brian Grainger<\/a> and soaring through guitar drone fields. Three tracks, one 30+ minutes, checking in at just over an hour, allowing plenty of breathing room & exploration in the depths of loneliness. This is an album of non-depressive melancholy, a warm gloom that doesn’t suck you into a spiraling suicidal nightmare. Sadness is abound but it isn’t overwhelming, it’s like a dreamlike daze, walking through life noticing the beauty while everything’s washed in grey. Soft guitars smoothed out into a hiss filled plain, weaving tones dancing under patchy clouds of unspooled tape. “I Am The Wolf”<\/i> is a gorgeously secluded island inhabited by your own hopes & anxieties.<\/p>\n

This takes an approach that I can really appreciate, not the “all or nothing” style that’s so typical. There’s a delicacy that I can’t quite catch, and I think it has to do with the elusive emotions mixed with the album title and art. So there’s that ghostly rad\/creepy dude on the cover, with a photo of a plane dropping bombs on the inside, and a dedication “in loving memory of Paul ‘Pops’ Sparber.” Maybe this is an ode to a family veteran who used to fly bomber planes and was known as “The Wolf?” Maybe it’s supposed to be a statement on the wolfiness of war? Or mmaayyyybe Tagg has dreams of becoming a pilot but instead of dropping bombs he drops stereos like Craig Colorusso’s<\/a> Sun Boxes<\/a> into wolf land, blasting “Wolf Suites I-III” with subliminal wolf messages so he can command a wolf army and turn Earth into Wolf Planet. Just a theory.<\/p>\n

Tagg’s new record is truly wonderful, an endless haze of subtlety that does to sounds what sun beams do to afternoon mist. Whether he’s wielding a guitar or an organ, this dude keeps the tape aesthetic stimulating and he’s made sure he’s on my radar for future releases. “I Am The Wolf”<\/i> is a fuckin winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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