Joe Knight “Drive Through Home” / Rangers “Scraps”

12 Aug 2013 — Henning Lahmann

Not entirely sure what the exact current status is regarding Rangers, San Francisco via Dallas artist Joe Knight's famed and acclaimed project that gave us some of the most exciting music of the last years that could loosely be filed under the hypnagogic pop tag, most notably his 2010 and 2011 releases Suburban Tours and Pan Am Stories on Olde English Spelling Bee and Not Not Fun, respectively. In any case, a little while back Knight set up a new website in order to showcase new music that "doesn’t quite fit under the Rangers moniker", the latest example being the pleasantly jangling, unassuming instrumental rock piece "Drive Through Home", which you may stream below:

That aside, there's however 'new' Rangers material coming, too, namely the double cassette Scrap via St. Louis-based tape imprint Bezoar Formations. The tracks on the cassettes are old yet newly mixed Rangers jams according to Knight, and they may serve as an opportunity both to remind yourself of the lo-fi heaven that constituted our blogging world not even that long ago, and to compare the two surely related yet still somewhat opposing faces of Joe Knight's musical output.

Scrap is out September 1. Get it over here.