Bruce Anderson, Brutality (CD)

I'm a sucker for almost anything MX-80 Sound related. Bruce Anderson's solo CD Brutality came out in 1995, but I'm not sure how new or old the recordings were at that time? It's fairly lo-fi, with a proud announcement in the liner notes that most of it was recorded on a Tascam cassette 4-track (Myles Boisen did a nice job with mastering to bring out fidelity without losing the charm). Anderson's a great guitarist, and the CD does a nice job of blending his more delicate playing with parts that have some of the aggression of early MX-80. He uses the layering opportunities of the recording tastefully, which is not entirely an easy task when nearly all sounds are recognizably guitars . My only complaint is that 80 minutes of a fairly narrow palette is not conducive to a start-to-finish listen—I'd have preferred it shortened or split in some way.