I could write an extremely long-winded treatise on the dangers of nostalgia – revisiting particular times of life can either halt you from enjoying new things or, worse, ruin the thing that you thought you loved.Â
But instead, I’ll say that it was a damn delight to see Daphne’s Operation pop up on Bandcamp. The Murfreesboro shoegaze outfit was part of the mid-to-late 90′s scene around MTSU and created a bombastic amount of music influenced by the likes of early Modest Mouse, Sonic Youth and Pavement goofery (new music at the time). It’s often spastic and all over the place but that’s part of its charm.
It’s also worth noting that there’s a door to a deep history of the current Nashville music scene here. Daphne’s Operation featured, among others, Bingham Barnes; who would go on to keep the low end for Glossary, Wooden Wand and Jasmin Kaset to name just a few. Some of the catalog was also recorded by Brian Carter, another consistent presence in the Nashville music scene.