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"Borrowed" my parents old Sanyo cassette deck. Now I can annoy the whole family with these awesome Debt of Nature cassette tapes, where as before I could only listen in my van. #debtofnature #bradlaner #jimgoodall #cassette #analog #experimental #

MEDICINE "THE PINK" at the 9:30 CLUB, Washington D.C., January 24th, 1994, PIXELVISION

#4: Medicine - To the Happy Few (Captured Tracks) Now THIS is a comeback. Swept up in re-release fever, Brad Laner resurrected his legendary LA dream-pop combo to record a quick-y single for label/advocates Captured Tracks, only to find it grow into a fully realized (and wholly unexpected) new LP. To The Happy Few doesn’t exactly pick up from where 1995's Her Highness left off; instead it channels the distinctive Medicine guitar squall and vocal drift into a pure psych-pop space, freeing itself from the darker, rock-ier undertow that gave The Buried Life and Shot Forth Self Living their epic character. Older, wiser, and perhaps happier, Medicine is now less shoegaze and more pure sugar rush, churning up shards of melody and twisted bits of noise that emerge and dissipate, lurching from one idea to another like an ADD addled iTunes shuffle playing 30 second chunks of Beach Boys tunes and Ash Ra Tempel jams at 45rpm. In that sense, To The Happy Few occasionally feels more like a Laner-helmed remix project than a genuine Medicine reunion, but much like Michael Gira with SWANS redux, Laner seems to have been reinvigorated by the opportunity to revise his most famous band’s legacy, and he transforms the energy and bonhomie of this unexpected rebirth into 42 of the most beautiful, effortless minutes of his career. Genuinely inventive and full of life, To The Happy Few allows Medicine to write a new chapter that speaks entirely for itself, rather than one that requires an army of fawning morons to do it for them.