No. 6-1

Library Tapes, The Quiet City

1631 Recordings, 2020 / 10 songs, 22 Minutes

The Quiet City is a place of flowering composure and poise. Prevalent city-toxicity and the poison of politician-speak is no longer on tap. The world as we currently know it is put on mute, and that can’t be a bad thing. Any selfishness, like refusing to wear a mask in the middle of a pandemic because of a perceived and nonsensical threat to an individual’s liberty, is no longer a news headline, because it doesn’t exist within the music’s ecosystem, which is bright-eyed and far removed from drama. The Quiet Cityis a refuge, a record as small as a cottage, but full of so much soul and life and colour that it becomes a real home, and one for life. Its slower-paced sanity has been embedded with intelligent phrasing, and Library Tapes bucks the decline of civility and the voice of reason with superlative music. The Quiet City is shy and yet incredibly expressive. It doesn’t need to shout from the rooftops, and therein lies its charm.

(Excerpted from www.fluid-radio.co.uk)