Mud Shack

Mud Shack. What is it? Besides super-great? We don’t know. It just showed up at the PO box on cassette one day with a hand-drawn picture of guitars and drums and keys and a 4-track cassette recorder. And a recluse spider. And a murder hornet. WTF. Everything used to make this tape is depicted in the drawing. It has songs about last year’s police station takedown on Capitol Hill in Seattle, Hempfest and Steven King’s glasses. It was recorded on an ancient Tascam Portastudio 4-track cassette deck and mixed to a cheap cassette. No noise reduction. Oodles of tape hiss. No credits except drums on a couple songs. No contact info. Fuck yeah! Though I have no idea who did this, I have been told of a quote from a Mr. K. Philips: “unlistenable!”

Green Monkey Records Album of the Month, August 2021 — Mud Shack