Sister Time, by Amy Cutler

Sister Time

by Amy Cutler

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Gavin Hellyer Superb stuff full of dream like atmospheres, beautifully recorded and mixed together. Be patient with it as the record will eventually envelop your brain. Favorite track: sleeper train to nowhere.

mikehoolboom A glorious lo fi bedroom pop record, a duet with her own recordings made in decades past, filled with restless invention. The cassette-driven analog haze speeds up and slows down, often finding minor key crescendos, the small moments of perfect flow that punctuate a background of emotional deflations driven by climate change. Favorite track: I’ll be that man.

Ryan A beautiful, drifting and cathartic listening experience.

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1.	it is only a dream of the grass blowing 04:05	buy track
2.	sad and unfinished (the swirl of the wind) 03:50	buy track
3.	sleeper train to nowhere 06:06	buy track
4.	broken trust loop 02:23	buy track
5.	it’s okay 00:55	buy track
6.	lost field, empty reins 05:51	buy track
7.	tears of dust (tape cassette 1997) 01:23	buy track
8.	sister time 01:03	buy track
9.	I’ll be that man 02:07	buy track
10.	dear phantom 04:14	buy track
11.	the swirl, reprise 01:55	buy track
12.	fog tape 02:58	buy track
13.	where are the lost summer days 02:08	buy track
14.	wolf tape 03:33	buy track
15.	we sang a song in the radioactive chamber of decay 05:17	buy track
16.	the inanity of distance 02:22	buy track
17.	agents of time 01:17	buy track
18.	the drift of the world 01:20	buy track
19.	I covered my love 02:43	buy track
20.	go live in the woods or something 06:31	buy track
21.	did you miss me 01:44	buy track
22.	until (anthropocene hearts) 02:00	buy track
23.	her face at first just ghostly 01:18	buy track
24.	(...) 01:31	buy track

about

"I thought you were an anchor in the drift of the world;
but no: there isn’t an anchor anywhere.
There isn’t an anchor in the drift of the world. Oh no.
I thought you were. Oh no. The drift of the world."
William Bronk – The World

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SISTER TIME is a tape-work collaboration between Cutler now and herself as a child. All cassette samples are from mixtapes originally made by the artist in the late nineties on her first Hi-Fi (bought with the prize money from winning a children’s drawing competition). Between vaporwave and a child’s hyper-focus on a looped chorus, the album draws on growing up as a girl listening to a canon of male singers, bearing their souls against the ills of time.
Cutler’s practice is not just in the tape-stretching and manipulation, but also in the original heavy listening patterns and fascinations which produced these muffled elegies. The mixtapes and their psychedelic idealism-slash-existentialism were also resonant to revisit during lockdown years of lost time and losing touch.
Instruments beside tape include synth, hourglass, and a run-down VHS of The Land Before Time. For the full intended listening experience please use a cheap pair of headphones in the backseat of a car, bus, or in your bedroom.

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released May 26, 2023

Cover artwork by Wouter Vanhaelemeesch

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