Underground Experimental Experience Edition 19: Pumpkin Friend - Pumpkin Friend I
Through an uncanny array of sounds, words, effects, broken cassette tapes and feelings, Pumpkin Friend turns the strange into the familiar, transforming the creepy into a calming, home-like sensation, almost as if you’re in the same room as him when you’re listening to these recordings. The first track, "The Haunted Ice Cream Parlor” reminds me of walking into a 24 hour diner at midnight, slightly drunk and stoned, but not trying to be impolite and ordering a coffee then leaving to smoke a cigarette outside. To me it is easily the most standout track of the project yet it’s not underwhelming to listen to the rest, it’s actually a pleasant surprise. The rest of the album is a blend of dark folk, a sort of Lo-Fi psychedelic rock tone and outsider country to me. Lots of these songs make me reflect on lots of memories of myself hiking, or really camping without a tent in the middle of a hiking reservation in the dead of night with no concern for repercussions just for the simulated ...