apt j(ext)ie irrchie is the melding of two minds (MS Waldron, nee irr. app. (ext.), and At Jennie Richie) that were meant to break head together, Night Wearing Feathers / Sunshine Bus Rider emerging like demented offspring and instantly soaring into the deepest of skies. You get sharpened screwdrivers stabbing into colossal voids, spraypaint cans being shaken, beehives disturbed, doors squeaking on rusty hinges, distant drones, lonely chicken-scratch, and sobbing radiators to pass the time. Despite the preceding descriptors “Night Wearing Feathers” (recorded/released in 2006 originally as a 3-inch CD-R) is inherently subtle until an electric shock-current cuts through the static and the remaining sound fragments are left to shuttle aimlessly around the room like blind cockroaches. “Sunshine Bus Rider,” cut in 2012, has that liquid-crystal feel we all find so bewitching these days, and that’s not meant to be a slam; we like this shit for a reason. The entrance of hand drum (samples?) and the snoring of a gigantic beast further complicate the matter. As the track rolls on like a mystery tour you (I) wonder why you (I) even tried to summarize “Sunshine Bus Rider” in the first place, as you’re (I’m) too blinded by its light (not to mention revved up like a deuce). Very surprising, is Side B, until you remember that one-half of this collaboration (irr. app. (ext.)) is known to consort with Andy Ortmann. AHA!
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