Schnipper is not behind this record

Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s Cassy Britton‘s 3-song My Auntie 12″, which you can buy here. Listen to “Night to Remember” from that 12″ down below and read about it after the jump.

Cassy Briton, “Night to Remember”

I like minimal techno because I like the same thing over and over. I’m not super interested in change. But I’m also not super interested in minimal techno. And, unfortunately, Cassy Britton (or just plain Cassy on this record) lives in the minimal techno ghetto. Here in the US it’s arguable that Ricardo Villalobos is the only member of that neighborhood to leave, and that’s a downer for his one time collaborator Cassy because this three song 12”, My Auntie, is beastly, specifically the dark and stiff “Night To Remember.” Though another song on the EP has her repeating just the word “inequality,” here she narrates vaguely, her vocabulary restrained and clipped, filtered through spooky movies and a husky pant: “It was a night to remember/A night I was changed/Things just happen for a reason/And your life’s been rearranged/You don’t wanna know.” The beat is equally ominous, the high hat’s little sizzle and sharp toms stay steady, set her up to endlessly repeat the last phrase of her song, “you don’t wanna know” a scary piddle of a line. That putter, the unsure mutter of conviction to come, is the space the song occupies, a young rookie’s pre-strength.