soundslike1981
Well-known member
I hadn't heard all of this, very good stuff indeed. There's something very un-rock about it's brand of the darker-side-of-post-punk that others (ie Joy Division) treaded but not as well. I think I would've been in heaven in New York when No Wave was dying and the weirder stuff (Liquid Liquid, ESG, Ike Yard, Y Pants, Sonic Youth, Grey, Del Byzanteens, Ze Records stuff, Ramelzee & Co., Arthur Russel's coterie) were ascendent.
I haven't much to add about Ike Yard specifically, but as one of their members is a regular here, you should pick up this Acute Records comp if you haven't done already. If you're a fan of space in the mix, minimalist funk, darker drones, etc., you'll dig it. Bonus points for geekily thorough liner notes/recollections--maybe it's a bit record-geek of me, but I always find it slightly lame when out of some desire to be cool or mysterious, reissues have sparse/no notes. Just because one admits a history/context doesn't make the music date more severely--if the sounds stand, the sounds stand. And they definitely do with this one.
I haven't much to add about Ike Yard specifically, but as one of their members is a regular here, you should pick up this Acute Records comp if you haven't done already. If you're a fan of space in the mix, minimalist funk, darker drones, etc., you'll dig it. Bonus points for geekily thorough liner notes/recollections--maybe it's a bit record-geek of me, but I always find it slightly lame when out of some desire to be cool or mysterious, reissues have sparse/no notes. Just because one admits a history/context doesn't make the music date more severely--if the sounds stand, the sounds stand. And they definitely do with this one.