- This is the first release on the label offshoot of Australian radio show-turned-podcast Noise In My Head, which has been running for nearly a decade and has featured sets by artists like Tornado Wallace and Beppe Loda. As NIMH founder and host Michael Kucyk told RA last month, the two tracks on this first 12-inch were orginally intended for a commission his partner gave LA's Suzanne Kraft, AKA Diego Herrera, to score a show at Sydney Fashion Week.
The pieces are duly moody, stylish and long. "Dead Ringer" steadies itself with several minutes of slow, tick-tock percussion and the eerie sounds of what might be a distorted flute, before finally ceding to a rubbery beat and dramatic '80s synth wheezes. On the flip, "Ruff Bathers" periodically zaps snappy beats, keys and chimes through a fog of pads and strung-out bass. It's not quite the big-ticket event that Kraft's exquisite EPs for Running Back and Young Adults were, but Tracks For Performance has an odd intrigue all its own.
TracklistA1 Dead Ringer
B1 Ruff Bathers