The artist behind County Conservation District and the Autumn Sounds label also brings the noise as Appalachian Cat Boy.
Where County Conservation District generally trades in vaporous melodic swells, Appalachian Cat Boy raises a clamorous junkyard yowl that befits the moniker attached to the music. ACB’s recent release, Confetti for Y2K (Cleaner Tapes), fizzles and roars like a bunch of old machinery with the wires ripped out and sparking. Even the gentler pieces come bathed in battery acid, a quality magnified to gorgeous effect on “Beaver Valley Bowl,” named for an abandoned bowling alley in Rochester, PA, that served as a filming location for the 1996 Farrelly Brothers movie Kingpin. The piece centers on a gently warbling progression that’s barely audible under a blanket of static fuzz. It conjures the nostalgic and mysterious aura of a degraded VHS children’s special being played on a boxy television set in an empty room strewn with cobwebs and streamers bleached white with age.
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