Here's a group that's kind of like Real Estate's younger brothers, if they had grown up listening to The Cure, while attending JAMC High, eventually graduating and going to The University of Guided By Voices... Right out of school they get a job at My Bloody Valentine & Associates ... a couple of years, two or three kids later... some days you wake up thinking, "Is this even worth
Flight is a one-man Mississippi outfit with all the right credentials: 7''s on Sweet Rot and Hozak, a 10'' on Kill Shaman, and now this, a cassette-only release on Bathetic titled Mi$$i$$ippi Lean. So let's get right to it: this cassette is weird. Flight songs have always been grimey, distorted, and lo-fi, but they've never been as fucked-with as on this release. It basically sounds like they took the old songs and slowed them down to 33 1/3, but the effect really works. Creeping, smoked-out, other-worldly jams with some truly insane vocals. Definitely check this out:
Seattle by way of Texas group Night Beats are still new to the game, having only released one 7'' on Trouble In Mind Records (a label putting out some truly outstanding singles lately), but they're already getting a lot of attention. Locked-in drums, jangly psych guitars with generous echo, and a singer with some serious pipes. They're currently touring extensively on the West Coast to support the 7'', and we Least-Coasters here at WF couldn't be more jealous.
