#16
Artist: Codeine
Album: Frigid Stars LP
Year of Release: 1990
Label: Sub Pop
I did not listen to this album when it first came out (I was a small child) and I'm reasonably sure I've never heard anything from it on the radio. As such I have no inherent sense of the temporality of its very peculiar sound. Because of it's precision and because of how it appears to react to the conceits of the early nineties by stripping them to their core, I have this assumption lodged in my head that it hails from the post-Nirvana wasteland of 1996 or so. And then every so often I remember that it pre-dates almost everything that sounds vaguely like it. The simple beauty of "Cave-In" isn't a paean for the death of grunge; it's the primordial ooze from which it came. In this light the record shines even brighter even as it remains essentially timeless.
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