Instant Light, by Tar Of

Instant Light

by Tar Of

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1.	Bouts 01:31	buy track
2.	Rumi 01:23	buy track
3.	Sully 01:06	buy track
4.	Halfstep 01:10	buy track
5.	Shock Of White 02:32	buy track
6.	Salt In My Shoes 02:39 video	buy track
7.	Feel Time Multiply 02:07	buy track
8.	Take It To Sea 00:17	buy track
9.	Take Me To See 00:17	buy track
10.	Nina 00:34	buy track
11.	When They Uh 02:21	buy track
12.	Wontena 03:49	buy track
13.	Blacklung 03:23	buy track
14.	Jaan 00:24	buy track
15.	Natsu Nande 01:59	buy track
16.	Iowa, Japan 00:15	buy track
17.	Temescal 02:20	buy track
18.	Nets 00:43 video	buy track
19.	Dead Pet 01:47	buy track
20.	Outside The Work 00:14	buy track
21.	Lie To 01:35	buy track
22.	Instant Light 03:44	buy track

about

Over the course of recording this album, the phrase “instant light” came to mean many things to us—an attempt to capture the present tense, a blinding disorientation, a sudden clarity—and the phrase forms a thematic through line that cuts across all of these songs.

Old demos and phone recordings appear and reappear throughout the record, mutating each time like memories made less reliable with each recall. We attempt to balance levity with gravity, and the songs squelch and buckle under this tension: dueling clarinets yell jarring intervals over each other; tight vocal harmonies deconstruct words into their constituent syllables; bowed banjos emulate a decaying string quartet as the bow's fibers tear against the metal strings.

The result is a thirty-seven minute collage of childish pop, motown excursions, flashbulb memories, and heavy builds of dense repetition, as we self consciously follow creative whims to their illogical ends.

credits

released September 22, 2020

written by Tar Of
produced by Tar Of with Rusty Santos
recording engineer Gil Turetsky
mixing engineer Geoff Saba

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Tar Of Brooklyn, New York

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discography

Confidence Freaks Me Out

Oct 2023
Were I

Nov 2021
Instant Light

Sep 2020
Instance

Oct 2020
Shock Of White (Single)

Sep 2020
Blacklung (Single)

Sep 2020
Fana

Oct 2018
Um

Aug 2017

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