Tom Thayer by Tom Thayer
s/t LP originally released in 2007 as vinyl 12" in signed and numbered edition of 550 on artist run label, Cardboard Mirror.
*This record contains a broken, mildewed darkride of songs and beats held together by adhesive tape and string.
"Even stranger is the eponymous solo album by Tom Thayer (Cardboard Mirror). Recorded over several years, when he was still teaching in Tennessee, this album is a sonic journey that rewards repeated listenings. At first, it sounds like a fairly random pile of semi-songs, found-sounds and gloops, but as you play it more, it starts to create its own dastardly dream narrative, and makes a woggily passage into and out of yr head, like a Van Dyke Parks thimble-robot with evil intentions."
-Byron Coley & Thurston Moore "Bull Tongue" 2008
"The bio says that "Tom Thayer is a visual artist who creates paintings, drawings, sculpture, music, puppetry, film and theatrical experiments," and that this is his first record of music. It also says "these works are often loosely strung, frail objects depicting dilapidated, fantastical scenes of abstract human and animal figures." When I first glanced over that statement, I thought it was some bizarre way to describe his music and not his actual visual art, and as such it almost works -- of course, music can't exactly depict human and animal figures, but it can sure make you think of them, and these works are indeed like little abstract sculptures that kind of dangle in the air as much they are like music. The whole thing is a head scratcher, one for the curiosity file, and if side one seems to err a bit too often on the side of post-Ralph Records theatrical technoid quirk, side two finds a more rarefied alien-loop atmosphere and digs into it comfortably."
-Larry "Fuzz-O" Dolman "Blastitude" 2008
Tracklist
| 1. | Candy Mouth | 2:30 |
| 2. | Tunnel Jerk | 2:43 |
| 3. | Old Smelly Haircut | 3:01 |
| 4. | Seven Animals | 3:42 |
| 5. | Move the Dark | 4:05 |
| 6. | Musty Colas | 1:53 |
| 7. | Faster Empty Seats | 2:27 |
| 8. | Burnt Smoke | 8:41 |
| 9. | Cardboard Mirror | 3:16 |
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License
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"Working in animation, installation, and music, Tom Thayer employs a“naive” look to provide access to a variety of experiences often marginalized by art: adolescent obsessions, visionary mythologies, and private fantasies that delve deep into the unsettled recesses of gesture and mimetic storytelling."
-Michael Sanchez, NYC 2010