Johanna Warren, Young Hunter, Eleanor Murray
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The Olympia music scene is practically built on the plastic casings of cassette tapes. The mediocre but inexpensive and surprisingly convenient medium has been making a comeback—depending on who you ask, this is either a fashionable resurgence following in the footsteps of now-trendy vinyl or a purposeless revival of a dead format that should stay have stayed dead. In Olympia, however, it's as if tapes never died. Eleanor Murray is a veteran in the Pacific Northwest; she has consistently played shows since releasing 2008's experimental-folk debut, For Cedar, and worked on a slew of side projects. Most recently Murray released a dual tape effort called Jazz Demos and Lost Songs on Portland tape label and zine distributor Antiquated Future. The second track on Lost Songs, "Me & My House," feels like stumbling on an old photo album, a subtle reminder that you'd almost forgotten some of the best days of your life. CAMERON CROWELL