Bitchin Bajas - Inland See

The successor to 2022’s ‘Bajascillators’ glides easily into frame, but once there, ‘Inland See’ is deceptively immediate. It’s so dialled in, you hardly even feel how present the music (and you the listener) is. Time warping has always been a resident magic for Bitchin Bajas, as is flow, which is translucent like water here. That’s the ‘Inland See’ vibe, unique unto itself. In turn, each of the four songs here are entirely within themselves, all together forming an essential whole.

With every successive Bitchin Bajas release, we see that the real key for them is a sense of discovery, that tingle that comes when you feel something breaking through. The sky opening up. The stuff that fills this ‘Inland See’ holds you up powerfully, as if you’re floating, saltwater or helium-wise - effervescent, effortless, elemental.

An increasing sense of the Bajas’ physicality - what’s ephemeral, what’s mercurial and what sits inside us after it’s all over. This music was mostly written on the road. It’s an unusual happening for Bitchin Bajas. They were open for it, though - the landmarked ‘Bajascillators’ kept them out there for a while, and when inspiration struck, there they rolling. When it was time to render it to tape and find the record there, they did the whole thing at Electrical Audio. Recording all together in the room there lent a sense of space, which they dug and captured as natural as possible. No reverb at all added after the fact. Everything that’s there was in system, directed through the interconnects with cool hands. And once ‘Inland See’ is flowing toward you, through the hi-fi, you feel it all in the air.