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Okay, lets get our big secret out of the way immediately. Kassie Carlson she-devil of helium-attack vocals with Guerilla Toss is both Size Queen and Jane La Onda. Thus, this split LP is nothing more (or less) than a display of two of Kassies many known musical personalities. And it is a listening experience as haunting as it is haunted, as coolly weird as it is weirdly cool. Size Queen presents a suite of synth-pocked bedroom pop that sounds to me like the dream-state of a young girl whose favorite robot dog has run away. Maybe for good. Gently blabby munchkins try to convince her that everything is gonna be okay, and she kinda swallows it. I thought it was a little weird when the dog started singing what I took at first to be a Sonny & Cher cover, but Size Queen didnt seem to notice. Yet, she yearns. Janes side, which was previously released as a Feeding Tube cassette (FTR 202CS), is cleaner and clearer in its poppic aspirations. Driving busy synth lines are woven into bright vocals that alternate between robo-talk and gal-chorale. The results are not unlike certain new wave giantesses of ages past, but their shadows are so frightening I cannot recall any of their true names. But even though these lasses shall remain anonymous, the keyboard sound here recalls some very specific antecedents in spots namely Jeff Lohns work on Theoretical Girls U.S. Millie and the anonymous spoot on Snakefingers cover of Kraftwerks The Model. Its jumpy, plumpy, and good. Just like Jane. I mean, The Queen. I mean, Kassie uh Byron Coley, 2014. LP includes download code.