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8/27/2018

Tinyfolk – Incredible Snow (2011)




  • Drone pop 
  • Singer-songwriter 
  • Electronic music 
  • DIY 
  • Electro-indie 
  • Synth-pop

Comment: soon 10 years will be passed by from the moment when I did discover the incredible world of netlabels, platforms like Archive.org, Free Music Archive, Jamendo, CLLCT, The Daydream Generation and many outings within them. There was then the initial, true user-friendly version of Lastfm through which I did contact with Tinyfolk and discovered his releases. Indeed, all his issues were released through Bloomington, Indiana-based CLLCT which was a bottomless source for the contemporary DIY and lo-fi scene of the USA. It is redundant to speak out I truly miss those times. However, Incredible Snow is a 4-track issue and crafted after Ross Woods (now he is she under the name Sara June Woods) moved from Bloomington to the Windy City. Before that he had created a loads of issues of mixed quality but the recent one reflects on his maturity in coherent songwriting and because of it I would like to partly avoid the tag lo-fi although it is a stylistic lo-fi example. It is a great release with melodically catchy teasers although the release is more minimal than Ross/Sara's previous issues. I guess similarly to his previous issues it is created on Apple Garageband but without any guitars and ukuleles. It is fully electronic with synthesised drones and orchestrations. You can hear the female singing occasionally probably belonging to Meghan Lamb from Iron Like Nylon. This is her one of the latest issues before the project came to the end and she started a new project, Pretty Swans with Meghan, and Jim Laczkowski (Garden On A Trampoline).