Winter / Past Lives Owen 7-inch

Based out of the Maine hinterlands, Blaque Boose fore­grounds the dis­arm­ingly eery vocal tal­ents of a woman named Sheena Char­land and encases them in a dust storm of fin­ger­picked gui­tars, cav­ernous flutes and some fairly aggres­sive tape-mangling. The effect is more darkly hal­lu­cino­genic than psy­che­delic, like the mid­dle hours of an end­less acid trip ini­ti­ated in a trailer park and mov­ing ever closer to the busted speaker a sec­ond­hand, static-spitting wire­less radio. There are no good vibes here, just the aural his­tory of a life­time of bad lovers and men­tal health prob­lems. It’s great, like Throb­bing Gris­tle dis­man­tling the myth of Amer­ica from a fall­out bunker filled with strange, rural preserves.

For­mat: 7-inch vinyl