William Henry Meung - 'the silhouettes of trees and explosions' review

You have artists and then you have artists . William Henry Meung is an artist. A prolific recording artist with a backcatalogue of works on a raft of thee coolest cassette LP and cd labels nationally and internationally. In this instance it's ' chemical imbalance' r ecords..Whats going on here? What am I doing? Rationating opinion yet again? Why yes, lets put this cassette on. First track - 'Jasper Bookends ' - the spirit of early Otago peninsula tape culture, lilting guitar lines, ponderous, not in the least onerous. Next track ' macrocarpas ' , darker now, the ruffle and squelch of wah-wah, finger pickings, culminating in a type of descending form. ' Gusten' is where the fun really begins as the feedback wails all sick and flammable, bleeds over dark brooding lo-fi line. My sense of balance is eroded here. You are called upon to throw your self away and this next track 'mxcdm +the fair weather friends ' bawks forward with synthetic d...