RANGERS – “DEERFIELD VILLAGE” from OESB // FUTURE SOUND on Vimeo.

If The Skaters could do it with terrestrial surfing, and Ducktails could do it with a Disney cartoon, then somebody was bound to do it with a baseball team. From Texas. I do not know if San Francisco sound collagist Joe Knight actually took cues from the Dallas-Ft. Worth home team for the title of his solo project (“Rangers“), but I do know that he hails from Texas–and that his music reflects a parallel fixation with the tape reel as a cutting board for the psychic trappings of middle class American youth. Depending on how we listen through the fuzz, the chorus of “Deerfield Village,” a pop song off his forthcoming Suburban Tours l.p. on Olde English Spelling Bee / Future Sound, is either “I don’t want to go out” or “I don’t want to grow up.”
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