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[imathers]

Top 20: Tavare — Too Small To Be So High

Dusted review

Aidan Baker (of Nadja, solo stuff, and far too many other groups and collaborations to keep up with) is always good for some of my favourite records of the year, but I was a bit surprised that in 2025 it was this debut by his new slowcore trio with Tristen Bakker and Ángela Muńoz instead of say, the new Nadja album (which is very good!). I liked it on first listen but did not expect it to stick with me so strongly or become one of the albums I listened to the most this year. Part of both of those is just how often I got Bakker's vocals stuck in my head, but I'm sure part of it is just that the children yearn for the mines slowcore.

[dustedmagazine]

Tavare — Too Small to Be So High (God Unknown)

Genres can be helpful ways to organize or even just think about art, but they’re not really real, so why not have fun with them? That might be part of the reason why the genre tags on Berlin trio Tavare’s debut LP include not just recognizable, expected ones like “dreampop” and “slowcore,” but also more bespoke ones like “couch rock” and “dirgepop.” A genre’s value often lies primarily in two things: first, does considering the things it groups together have any function or bring any meaning to the collected works? Second, does the genre idea itself evoke anything? That latter idea is where these more playful categorizations can shine; I don’t know of any other dirgepop bands, but the term certainly resonates with what Tavare does here.

Pop of any sort is not likely to be on listeners’ minds the first time they hit play on the glacial “Unentwine,” but over repeat listens Too Small to Be So High reveals itself as an unusually tuneful, even hummable example of the kind of stark, gradual music they traffic in. On that first track Nadja’s Aidan Baker (also on guitar here) takes vocal lead, but with the following “Lucy” Tavare is revealed to be a multiple-vocalist outfit, with bassist Tristen Bakker frequently taking the lead, and both harmonizing on a lovely, gentle cover of Dinosaur Jr.’s “Thumb.” Even drummer Ángela Muńoz gets in on it, joining in as they all turn the end of “Left Behind” into a round, and adding a bit of spoken Spanish to the patient swell of “El Océano.”

Muńoz plays with brushes here, and over the more restrained interplay of the other two she often hits with the impact of a cannonball. Partly this is due to the recording process; invited to play a concert in a church, the trio spent the afternoon recording these seven songs with the natural reverb of the space and as few overdubs as possible. The result doesn’t sound at all like a live album, but the room tone carries through and melds with the hushed intensity of the playing to form something special.

Ian Mathers

[xbsundaymatinee]

The Sunday Matinee #84

On Sunday 9th of March it’s Sunday Matinee #83! Let’s hang out together for the first matinee of 2025!

On stage from 4PM and in no particular order:

Bleedingblackwood https://bleedingblackwood.bandcamp.com/

Tavare https://tavare.bandcamp.com/

reverb & reue https://reverbundreue.bandcamp.com/

Plus:

—>>> Taqueria Vegana Los Nopales —>>> A DJ

The Sunday Matinee is smoke free, children friendly, wheelchair accessible and more.

**Check out the Matinee double cassette mix tape here. Copies are still available and can be purchased at our events: https://thesundaymatinee.bandcamp.com/

**Read more here: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/xbsundaymatinee

[inwemi]

[365cricket-blog]

Gloucestershire v Leicestershire: Will Tavare completes century as visitors toil Specsavers County Championship Division Two, Brightside Ground (day two): Gloucestershire 466-8 dec: Tavare 101, Van Buuren 79; Griffiths 4-101 Leicestershire 165-6: Pettini 54; Payne 2-38, Norwell 2-41 Gloucestershire 5 pts, Leicestershire 1 pt …

[365cricket-blog]

Tavare drops anchor, van Buuren swashbuckles Gloucestershire 236 for 4 (van Buuren 79, Tavare 73*) v LeicestershireScorecard

[ladybirdsnest]

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