SANDCASTLE / TRUCULENT - SPLIT

SANDCASTLE / TRUCULENT
Split
Cassette
SM01
2021

What is left to say about Philly's finest underground pop star Sandcastle? Ever changing, never restrained by genre, relentlessly dropping hits. Sandcastle's side on this cassette straddles the boarder between soundtrack to the movie in your head, dungeon synth, and straight club trance.
Truculent provides an equally mysterious offering. Breaking from the American primitive style into layers of spiraling pedal steel, looping vintage drum machine beats, with some fuzzy guitar solos mixed in.
All around excellent musical output for the weirdo inside.
Debut release for Strange Mono

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In Philadelphia, two people accused of the same crime face very different circumstances depending on their access to money. A person who cannot afford to pay bail will be detained in a city jail for an average of 100 days before appearing before a judge to have his/her case heard. Someone with the funds to afford bail will remain free over this same period of time. Before sentencing, both individuals are legally presumed innocent until proven guilty. The difference is that one has been locked up before trial because he/she is too poor to afford bail while the other has remained free.

This system strips people who are poor of their presumption of innocence and causes great economic and psychological harm to them and their families. Justice is being denied in this way to thousands of people every year in Philadelphia."