Office Romance by Low Light Situations
philip marlowe & badalament worship for the cassette set
'Misery may love company but the reverse is true as well. And few improv-y crews are as adept at coaxing delicious smoky noir heartbreak as City Terrace quartet Low Light Situations. It only takes a couple turtlenecks, two beards, three folding chairs, one clarinet, and a single sizzle-chain for these itinerant east LA session players to slow-roast a set’s worth of mesmerizing instrumental reverb chamber mystery-jazz. Whispery percussion, piano bar bass noodles, echo-twang guitar spiderwebs, and twilit ivory tickling slow-dance and romance in a tall-ceilinged hall of mirrors, occasionally spilling over into passages of dissonant drama or hushed emptiness. A great sustained mood melodrama parsed into six subtle micro-movements. Hopefully the LL Situations will grace the world with more of their covert outsider noir in the not-too-distant future. Pro-dubbed and imprinted cream cassettes in full-color cardstock j-cards designed by Manda B Brown. Edition of 100.' - NNF
Tracklist
| 1. | try the girl | 4:25 |
| 2. | bay city blues | 4:54 |
| 3. | smart aleck | 5:29 |
| 4. | the lady in the lake | 6:53 |
| 5. | finger man | 3:36 |
| 6. | killer in the rain | 5:31 |
Credits
originally released on cs as NNF 197
LLS is J. White - bs, MG. Gengras - gt, C. Mitchel - dr, S. Kasselman - cl, ky
