It's not often that Public Eyesore Records does vinyl editions, but when they are involved in them, the consumer can rest assured that they will be beautifully produced physical objects, and
The Solar Cell by A Magic Whistle proves this contention. This album, produced deep inside rural, mountainous northern California in the years 2021-24, contains sounds that worthily enhance its neat-o banana yellow vinyl and gorgeous cover art and photography. The timbres achieved by A Magic Whistle on
Cell are generally bright and sunny. A sampling of some of the instrumentation: home made sequencers/synthesizers, modular synthesizers, electronic manipulations. These types of instruments and their sounds can generally be quite efficient for making those short, bubbling, burbling tones which give off feels of experiments in mycology eating; indeed as I've listened it's been quite easy to imagine them as being the soundtrack for some sort of film featuring fairies, gnomes, and maybe the odd cat, all shot with wide angled lenses and perhaps some "trippy" filtering. Partch-ian ratios appear to be utilized on Andy Puls's Cascadian Sympathetic Steel, a guitar-based invention which lends many stringed Exotica touches from its repetitive (in an entirely grand way) featuring on a number of tracks. Standout tunes for this listener have been the surreal
Soft Robot and the tripped out county fair calliope of
Dancehammer. That being said, the entirety of
The Solar Cell's twenty one cuts are worthy of repeated listening. A Magic Whistle presents Rural Psych in a most refined and thoughtful sort on this split between his label and Public Eyesore. Hardcore vinyl heads: come for the package and stay for the music!
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