Do You Sleep At Night

Pipas “Riff Raff” – I hear this, and all I can imagine is a shy, generally reserved girl engaging in some kind of low-level late night mischief and getting a little overexcited and having her mind run this rambling interior monologue about how what she is doing barely feels like her life at all and how alive she suddenly feels and how she’s going to make a habit of this fresh new fun, but then it passes rather quickly, her pulse slows back to its normal pace, and it’s back to normal for another few months of working at the library or whatever. (Click here to buy it from Long Lost Cousin.)

Chamellows “Summerfun” – Finnish lo-fi dating back about ten years, and um, you can kinda tell. It’s so casual and tossed off that it’s hard to imagine that it was created with the public in mind. There’s a pop tune at the core of this goofy little mess, but it requires more than a little patience to get through it without wanting to hit the male vocalist with a rake every time he derails the girl’s nice little vocal hook. I wonder if they even remember making this, or if the guy just recently found the tape and had to remind her that it ever happened.

Chamellows Guy: Hey, remember all those tapes we did back in the mid-90s?

Chamellows Girl: What? Not really.

Chamellows Guy: The limited edition 7″ and those DIY cassettes. We made about 100 of them.

Chamellows Girl, examining a cassette: This one says March 1996. Wasn’t that around the time that I beat you with that rake in your father’s garage?

Chamellows Guy: I do not remember that at all.

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