Samantha Glass, “Midnight Arrival” tape

April 18, 2012

By Dave Miller

This is the third Samantha Glass tape that I’ve heard. With each one Beau Devereaux’s project just gets better and better. Midnight Arrival, I think, is his darkest musical projection yet. It’s some dark cosmic psych project. “Dakota Shadows” immediately throws you into a spin with what sounds like layers of looped reverb and fuzzy echo with synthed out rhythms. Total urban nighttime mobile illuminations. “Human Voice” has a hazy two chord guitar loop with then some washed out riffage and vocal ricochet and beaming notes that pierce through the shadowy intensity. “Carving” carries out an aurora borealis like display of sonic illuminations. On Side B “Rain In Our Eyes” kicks off with an almost drunken slur of poetic vocals that then give way to shimmering synthetics. “Delicate Living Room” is an amplified Robedoor like fried fuzz of electrification. It then gets built up with more hollowed out voice cycled into the mix. “Antique Horizon” is a repetitious structure of melodic optimism in the midst of nocturnal antics and a piloting bass line. And the tape ends with “Snow Covered Love” that sounds curiously like department store elevator muzak that somehow incorporates the sounds of a pinball machine. It’s perfect for an afternoon of boredom. Midnight Arrival is just what the doctor ordered for sleepless nights or just time spent putzing around. Another treasure caught on tape in Devereaux’s repertoire.