Starfish Pool ‎– Amplified Tones

This record is the sound of my teenaged angst.

My hatred of high school is summed up entirely in the harsh, sustained feedback and noise of Observe and Non-Intervention. My malaise and boredom are represented by the slow, melancholic repetition of Instigation and Lackland. My hopes and dreams (such as they were), even manage to be summed up by the techno-ish "C" side- the most upbeat side of the record. Although these tracks are indeed quite dreary, looking back, the almost acidic "hook" in Undraped (if you can call it a hook), certainly had a great influence on my taste in techno, which was blossoming at the same time as my adolescent depression.

This recording is a historic document for me. I've currently got it in my collection AND my wantlist, because my copy is dusty and scratched. I came across the CD version of this album and was quite dissapointed to find that the tracks on the vinyl were treated as component parts of the CD release, which seems to layer the different tracks together. Terrible- in my opinion, the bleak sparseness of this recording is the whole point. I just wish I had a copy where the surface noise wasn't as loud as the music.