The new full-length from Laurie Sara-Smith and Lifeguard’s Asher Case is an experimental, feverish portrayal of physical repetition built from guitars, drum machines, and woodwinds.
…Despite the fact that the first Laurie Duo EP, Early, was bounced between “a Dora the Explorer-sticker-plastered TASCAM 414” and a “very plain desktop computer,” “lo-fi” doesn’t feel like a totally apt description: those songs, especially “Laurie’s Loop 01,” sound like they’re genuinely disintegrating. Day, their full-length debut, is a more fleshed-out forty minutes. On Bandcamp, Case and Sara-Smith refer to the music’s setting as “the little pocket of bygone jazz-age bachelor pad once called Phantom Manor and now called Common Starling” — from The Haunted Mansion…