Last year Glasgow’s own Volcanic Tongue, specialists in the most underground
music going, run by The Wire contributor David Keenan and experimental
musician Heather Leigh Murray. This year, it’s gone global, albeit without consultation with the original
proponents. Original or not, as Blasted readers will no doubt agree,
anything that gets people into real record shops and buying music that you can
– kinda, sorta – actually touch is definitely a good thing.
So, the first worldwide Cassette Store Day is happening tomorrow in shops across the UK, Europe, the USA and even at one phonographic emporium
in Argentina. There are releases by such Blasted favourites as The Proper
Ornaments, Molly Nilsson, Efterklang, and many others. A particular highlight
is bound to be The Pastels’ Summer Rain retrospective
of “Some of [their] favourite music [they’ve] made for Domino, starting around
1995 with Mobile Safari and ending with songs from the Slow Summits sessions”,
the title track can be heard below.