Raccoo-oo-oon - Is Night People
Before calling it quits in 2008, Iowa natives Raccoo-oo-oon managed to squeeze out five albums of experimental noise rock in a recording career spanning 5 years. Their 2004 debut; Is Night People, represents the band at its most free-spirited, resulting in 35 minutes of cavernous, smouldering psych-freakouts driven by a lo-fi, tribal primitivism.
There's something esoteric about this album, a distance to the sounds that manifests itself in the shrieking, rattling, wheezing compositions. It evokes visions intangible yet real, always drenched in a smoky darkness. Ever listened to the Medusa Cyclone S/T? Well, if you have, you may understand what I'm trying, very poorly, to articulate.
Raccoo-oo-oon disbanded with two of the four members going on to form the more polished and disciplined yet still wilfully experimental Wet Hair, but their souls were sold to this oddity of an album long ago.