Philadelphia’s Brown Recluse have a proper full-length, Evening Tapestry, coming out soon on the venerable Slumberland Records, which is currently home to indie pop darlings the Pains of Being Pure at Heart and the Dum Dum Girls but boasts a 20-year history of releases from the likes of Black Tambourine, the Ropers, the Aisler Set, and Kurt Heasley’s seminal, yet woefully underappreciated, Lilys. Brown Recluse have made a companion piece to Evening Tapestry available for free right now on Bandcamp. Hazy, psychedelic pop that’s mercifully free of faux dust bowl Americana affectations, Panoptic Mirror Maze splits the difference between the foggy dreamscapes of the Clientele with the ADD synth excursions of Of Montreal. Old solid state organ, reverb guitar and anachronistic stabs of cheap synthesizers color the songs on the EP, a varied and impressive jaunt through pop marginalia and spooky sentiments.
Download Panoptic Mirror Maze here.
Also check out the 6th Borough Shangri-La’s pastiche of “Orgy of the Damned (Conshohocken Curve)”, another free single available on Brown Recluses’ Bandcamp page.