Lim is Connecticut based sound artist Darren Milos. His most recent disc on Scarcelight was described by Ron Schepper as full of “alien radio glissandi and clicking surges.”

Hab- Save the Adults

One late Saturday night back in high school I stumbled upon the fan site for Dot Recordings, since there was no official one yet. The page was these orangey-tan and sort of grunge-green colours, and basically just a discography, but with low-quality audio of whole songs-every one of them. I just fell so in love with those songs sitting there, and they sounded so fresh with all their personality. I listened early into morning to everything there-over and over. I woke up to this dreamy, colourful, cloudless autumn Sunday with “Save the Adults” as like the continuous soundtrack to playing in my yard.

Sadly, Dot closed in 2000, after Hab, Friend, and many of the other Dot roster had already gone totally MIA, but they recently opened up a webshop, and http://www.dot.se is titled “The Dot Label”…so maybe the future holds a comback.

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Pliiant- Consider Everything

Receiving Pliiant’s mini-album on Talent Hoover, Ampoule’s little CDR offshoot, was a big breath of fresh air after a ten-hour day at school. I was sort of still putting my stuff away when I put it on, so I didn’t really start listening deeply until “Consider Everything,” when the little teaser of a break comes in at the beginning, like it just landed on the kitchen table or something. I put all the songs on one CDR to take with me to school the next day, and I ended up humming this one day-long.

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Juana Molina- Sálvese Quien Pueda

I heard Juana Molina a few years ago in the spring, just after dinner on my mom’s radio station. I guess I call it “hers” because she really only listens to this one station. It caught my attention next to their usually predictable stream of stuff…a guest pick during an interview. I remember getting up and turning around to walk closer to the speakers, then stopping to listen as this big chill flew up my back at the chorus.

My mom doesn’t really buy albums anymore, but I was able to convince her to buy this one with me since she said she liked it as much…but I secretly hoped for some sort of bonding experience…and that never happened.

The year after I started Spanish I decided to sit down with the pocket-dictionary to try figuring out some of these lyrics, and I think “Sálvese quien pueda” means basically -your identity. There’s this warning: A flower, a tree, a fragrance, the little birds; are things slowly getting lost over time. And, while there’s also a hint at saving heritage, ideas like they demolished the block to the side of the market to make a big mall are pretty much happening right down the street from me… “¿Cómo es posible que el progreso sea tan violento?”…How is it possible that the progress be so violent?

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