Cassette Review // Bogie Bogie "Bogie Bogie" (Ingrown Records)

https://ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/bogie-bogie

  Bogie Bogie is such an interesting band because these songs are are instrumental and though they can follow the same path, the way that they get you there can change.  The first song, "Schnubles", for example begins with this funky groove and it can feel like math rock.  As it kicks in there is this undeniable drive, which can be found in a lot of these songs.  The tempo always seems to be moving and no matter what else, you will certainly always get there.

"Bear Canyon" has more of a dreamy, jangly sound to it.  The song is filled with bliss which then takes us into "Hit it & Shit it" which has big rock n roll starts and stops.  This song also becomes quite noisy.  "Toodles" has an almost country twang to it at times, though it also continues that drive-- that movement.   We go full twang like an old western on "Sneaky Pete" and then with very distant percussion space signal tones come in on "Theme for Rick".   This feels both desolate like post rock and loud as it kicks in fuzzy, which is where the first side of this cassette also comes to an end.

Distorted bass brings about big sludge and little guitar squeals as "Trudge Asshole" starts up the flip side.  "Fat Opossum" has a faster pace than any other song on here and it goes from sounding clean to distorted as the verse might change to the chorus.  This song feels very much punk rock.    "Broman" has a soft bass line with glass tones and a bit of a guitar crawl with strums.  This dives off into an almost grunge sound now, just showing that range of Bogie Bogie.

"Fuck Chase" has a different type of start and stop sound than the first song did.  This one feels more like the blues in ways while previously the starts and stops felt like slamming on your brakes.  This song is loud and clanky, but it still moves and guitar notes come in to take us to the fade out.   Big groovy bass and clanks take us into "Strut" as even the organ keys come out at the end for style points.

As we get to the end of the cassette, the timing of it all feels very intentional.  Big acoustics bring out this dreamy sound like an island on "Jim Jam", which is nice as it puts you in that mood to settle down.  There is a little bit of that country drive in here, but "Jim Jam" also really makes me think we're hearing a television theme song at times as well.  It ends with a cough as we go into "Arlo's Intro", acoustic strings with a feeling almost like a lullaby to take us off into the end of possibly everything.