Russian Tsarlag
Gel Stations Past (LP)
LabelGoaty Tapes / House RulesGenreExperimental
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*2024 stock* Gel Stations Past brings together tracks from three shadowy self-released cassettes by Russian Tsarlag: Decrepit Gas Station, Living in the Past, and Dipped in Gel. Dubbed in minimal quantities and cloistered for private worship, much of Russian Tsarlag’s recent output remains hard to find. Each of these albums dispersed instantly among friends and fanatics and receded into legend.
This record consolidates the great pieces of crooner dejection that typify Tsarlag’s recent music. These are his saddest and slowest-burning songs, drawn in dour guitar, sweeping keyboard, and sedated vocals that teeter well below mid-tempo. Many share a somber two-chord schema that slips in perfect doses of dissonance and distortion. The results are at once refined and totally ragged, seductive, woozy, and smeared in Tsarlag’s shapely four-track atmospherics.
Release notes
Selections from [r4696587], [r5190448] and [r6087796] originally released by Wasp Video Roadhouse
| Decrepit Gas Station | |||
| A1 | Return From The Stars | ||
| A2 | Three Colors | ||
| A3 | On The Street | ||
| Living In The Past | |||
| A4 | Formal Surgery | ||
| A5 | One Night Expo | ||
| Dipped In Gel | |||
| B1 | Spray My Face | ||
| B2 | Northern Lights | ||
| B3 | Shrinking Violet | ||
| B4 | Bed Of Nails | ||
| B5 | Over Again | ||
| B6 | Dipped In Gel | ||
- Zully Adler
- Design
- Adam Gunther
- Remastered By
