Mar 31, 2014
61 Days Young by Yellow Cuss Sounds older than 61 Days, much older. You’d think this might be some somewhat lost recording where ‘sad bastard music’ wasn’t quite coined as a descriptive term yet, but you’d be wrong. There’s distorted sounding guitar on ‘Grand Dad’s Golden Golf Clubs’ and the ‘Sad Bastard Medley’ (see?) splices Modest Mouse and ‘Communist Daughter’ together, so the cover’s blown. Like most ‘sad bastard music’ cocaine, drunkeness and the women that leave the men covort above loping minor chords. The story telling and subtle touches of banjo and midi are nice but if you’re not a sad bastard this might get sloggy. At least it’s not gypsy folk-punk, amirite? - Aleix K.