I could be wrong, of course; maybe Megalon is huge. I don’t get out of the house much. I know I haven’t read about them any place, and I know they put out really nicely designed records whose unifying characteristic (all great labels see to it that all their releases share a unifying characteristic) is that they’re really low-key. Since everybody in the whole world is, each day, getting a little sicker of things that flash and primp and preen whorishly in order to command your attention just long enough to let you know that there’s yet another worthless consumer item you’ve just gotta buy, it’s a great and welcome relief to find people like Family Vineyard and Megalon letting these pretty little records drop into the ocean of nescience without even once raising their voices to complain about it. The records show up in my mailbox; I’ve had to condition myself to get excited about them. They do not stick out. Like dormant viruses, they just sit around, waiting for you to notice them. |
