Jaws 69 Jaws 69 demo cassette
Bloomington, IN-based solo recording project. Almost impressively lo-fi recording, to the point that I couldn’t tell if there were drums on one song and am still confused what the unknown instrument on a couple of these tracks is. Six songs (and an intro) of high-treble, hard-to-digest punk, much like Alex Kintner’s floatation raft, left deflated and bloody. I thought the premise of Jaws: The Revenge (Jaws 4) was confusing, but it seems a lot has transpired between the fourth and sixty-ninth installment, because even after two full listens, I am left at a loss for words to describe exactly what it was I just listened to. After the second listen, I left the tape spinning, playing its dead tape hiss for quite some time before I was greeted by roughly the last minute of “The Life You Dream” by JUDY COLLINS to close out the cassette. I’m not putting anything past the creators of JAWS 69, so I will not be assuming if this was intentional or not. Limited edition of fifteen copies.