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Visit product page →Tompkins Square's recent double-LP, Imaginational Anthem vol 8 : The Private Press shed light on forgotten, impossibly rare guitar recordings spanning several decades.
In his own words, today : I was born in Elmhurst IL, lived there 29 years. Had a brief career playing open mikes and bars for tips, drinks and nominal cash payments, even gave some guitar lessons. In 1984 I was offered a half partnership in an engineering firm in Dallas, so I moved to Texas. Made a big pile of money.
Tom Armstrong's The Sky Is An Empty Eye is the first of several reissues planned by Tompkins Square of full albums by artists featured on IA8.
Armstrong's self-released LP from 1987 sports blissed out acoustic numbers like the one featured on IA8, along with some electric workouts and even a deep pysch vocal tune. Tom's main mode of distribution for the album was handing the LP to drunken patrons at a bar in Pinos Altos, NM. Now Tompkins Square makes it a bit easier to acquire.
My wife bought me a Tascam 4 track recorder for my birthday, I went crazy with it. Recorded a bunch of melodies that had been rattling around my brain since I was 8 years old. Liked what I heard, decided to make an LP. It wasn't too hard to track down a studio to master my 4 tracks. By this time I was an old hand at graphic design for promotional material, so I designed the cover myself.
Handed the albums out to business associates, as promotional material for other business interests, at a drunken open mike at a bar in Pinos Altos, NM. I continued to record for about another 10 years, blues rock, pop. Really refined my recording skills. Still play once in while, but I'm an old fart now, with all the baggage that entails. -
Visit product page →We are immensely proud to offer the debut release from Blabbermouth, for RSD 2018.
The record is limited to just 500 copies, with a full length release on Dirter to follow later in 2018.
Blabbermouth are the brainchild of Lu Edmonds - (Pil, Mekons, The Damned) & Mark Roberts (The Godfathers, Massive Attack etc) and a host of others in a star-studded line up. -
Rowland Stuart Howard was best known for his work with the post-punk group The Birthday Party and his subsequent solo career.Visit product page →
Howard also collaborated with Lydia Lunch, Nikki Sudden, ex-Barracudas singer Jeremy Gluck, guitarist Gavin Poolman, French electro group KaS Product, Barry Adamson, Einstürzende Neubauten, guitarist Chris Haskett, The Gun Club singer and songwriter Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Fad Gadget, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Henry Rollins, and A.C. Marias. -
Future Echoes'is the latest album from Pictish Trail, AKA Scottish singer-songwriter Johnny Lynch.Visit product page →
These spectral songs are filtered through a sun-warped pop lens, where heart-pumping guitar shriek-outs collide with sampled gurgles and fractured lyrics figure-skate over sine-waves of glacial synth.
Future Echoes'represents the most confident, cohesive and pop-savvy collection of music Pictish Trail has written to date.
Limited edition cosmic'coloured double 12' LP with disc of extras.
1000 copies.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Far Gone (Don't Leave)
2. Lionhead
3. Dead Connection
4. Rhombus
5. Half-Life
Side B:
6. Easy With Either
7. Who's Comin' In?
8. Until Now
9. Strange Sun
10. After-Life
Side C:
1. After Life (Winter Rewind Acid Reflux)
2. Lionhead (Winter Rewind Acid Reflux)
3. Dead Connection (Winter Rewind Acid Reflux)
4. Until Now (White Poppy remix)
Side D:
5. Half Life (live)
6. Far Gone (Don't Leave) (live)
7. Strange Sun (live)
8. Browbeaten (Live at BBC Radio Scotland) -
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Limited edition pressing of 500 copies on transparent Blue vinyl taken from the hugely successful Sonic's Rendezvous Band Box set
- ¢ Re mastered audio for vinyl release - ¢ Almost exactly 40 years on from the date of the concert by a band that only ever released one 7' single with the same track on both sides in their existence- ¢ Band made up of members of legendary Detroit bands such as MC5, Rationals, Stooges, The Up
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Dangerous (S.Morgan)
2. Getting There (S.Morgan)
3. Do It Again (F.Smith)
4. Hearts (F.Smith)
5. Love And Learn (S.Morgan)
6. Heart Of Stone (Jagger / Richards)
Side B:
1. Sweet Nothin'(F.Smith)
2. Asteroid B-612 (S.Morgan)
3. Song L (F.Smith)
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Originally issued in 1991 this was the bands 3rd album and has been out of print for over 20 years.Visit product page →
It features covers of some of the most influential rare & psych tracks from the 60's including tracks from LOVE and THE DOORS alongside self-penned tracks such as the live favourites Romilar D', Rise'and Skeleton Farm'.
Features 3 bonus tracks on the LP - ¢ Re mastered and features a bonus 7' single.
LP is issued on Coloured vinyl.
Tracklisting:
1. Third Time's The Charm
2. Skeleton Farm
3. Romilar D
4. Fear
5. Rise
6. Ghost Clinic Side Two
8. Look For The Question Mark
9. I Looked At You
10. The People In Me (The Music Machine Cover) * features Sean Bonniwell
11. All The Kings Horses * features Sean Bonniwell
12. Blackout
13. Try It
Bonus Track:
14. My Little Red Book - Bonus track
15. Be A Caveman -
Bonus Track 7':
1. 7 and 7 Is (Arthur Lee/Love Cover)
2. Rari
3. Shape of Things To Come -
Akuphone in collaboration with Annihaya is very proud to present 'Rats Don't Eat Synthesizers' the long-awaited second album by the Dwarfs of East Agouza.Visit product page →
Hailing from the Agouza district of Cairo, Egypt, this brilliant trio consists of Alan Bishop (Acoustic Bass & Alto Sax), Maurice Louca (Keyboards & Drum Machine) and Sam Shalabi (Electric Guitar).
Following their acclaimed first album 'Bes ', this new long play is composed of two hypnotic journeys: 'Rats Don't Eat Synthesizers' and 'Ringa Mask Koshary' which was recorded in Cairo in September of 2015.
Mesmerizing electric guitar parts, frenetic beats, both supported by the deep sound of Alan's acoustic bass create a new magical Egyptian soundscape. Vinyl version is coming with a beautiful hot-foil stamped sleeve that magnifies the red metallic rats and a wonderful printed inner sleeve. Includes redeem code. Ltd Edition.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Rats Don't Eat Synthesizers
2. Ringa Mask Koshari pt. 1
Side B:
3. Ringa Mask Koshari pt. 2
Release Date: 04/05/2018 -
In 2015 London-based Bromide got their electric shoes back on with new bass player Hugo Wilkinson joining long-term collaborators, singer-guitarist Simon Berridge and drummer Ed Lush.Visit product page →
The resulting album I Remember'was described by Vive Le Rock as mixing 'the best bits of The Lemonheads and Dinosaur Jr replete with melancholic melodies and J Mascis-ish guitar lines" and won news fans including Gideon Coe on BBC6 who dubbed their single Mr. Ciccone's Daughter''Fantastic !' and played it for several months at the end of 2016.
Another vital piece of the puzzle had also fallen into place as they'd found producer Brian O'Shaughnessy at Bark Studios who seamlessly welded their pop onto their rock and last year the band returned to Bark to record their sixth album I Woke Up'.
Again stuffed full of pop delights struggling to reach the 3 minute mark such as Two Song Slot', the story of a disastrous open-mic encounter turning into a last minute victory and Tale To Tell'a conscience-pricked near perfect example of the Bromide sound written in the studio while recording, the album also sees the band begin to stretch their wings a bit.
Magic Coins'has an unexpected almost drum and bass inspired rhythm track while album closer and title track I Woke Up'is a 6 minute Doorsian odyssey. The song began life as a response to the biopic Mr. Turner'and in particular the scene in the film where the painter is tied to a mast in order to experience the full force of a nocturnal storm.
Starting with Berridge's Glenn Branca inspired intro Lush and Wilkinson then latch on a full-on krautrock groove to build the track through to an epic conclusion complete with thunder, rain and anything else lying round the studio.
Elsewhere Patti Smith's Dancing Barefoot'is given a thorough work out plus there are contributions from the rhythm section with Lush writing the music for both I'll Never Learn'and Always Now'while Wilkinson provides a breath of fresh air in proceedings with the instrumental Futurist Shore Leave'.
With I Woke Up'Bromide have firmly fixed the songwriter onto the band and vice-a-versa. As one recent twitter live review summed up 'They rock hard but the tunes come first: like Elvis Costello fronting Dinosaur Jr' Ain't gonna argue with that.
Tracklisting:
1. Tale to Tell
2. 'll Never Learn
3. Two Song Slot
4. The Guide
5. Magic Coins
6. Ancient Rome
7. Futurist Shore Leave
8. Postcard From Leipzig
9. Dancing Barefoot
10. Always Now
11. Woke Up
Release Date: 25/05/2018 -
1989: It's nine years since John Lennon died, and five years since The Television Personalities have had an album released.Visit product page →
Fire Records sign the latest incarnation of the TVPs and let them loose in a proper studio.
Dan Treacy's muse is overcome by the versatility of Swatch watches and Back To The Future II, he doesn't allow the songs on Privilege'to bend to temptation.
The world is still wrong; it's still unreal; as evidenced by the guest list at Salvador Dali's Garden Party'. Elsewhere there's a hint of 60s soap operas, from Cathy Come Home to The Wicker Man.
Remastered on limited edition black and white marbled vinyl. 1500 copies.
Tracklisting:
1. Paradise Is For The Blessed
2. A Good And Faithful Servant
3. Conscience Tells Me No
4. My Hedonistic Tendencies
5. All My Dreams Are Dead
6. Salvador Dali's Garden Party
7. The Man Who Paints The Rainbows
8. What If It's Raining?
9. Sad Mona Lisa
10. The Engine Driver Song
11. Sometimes I Think You Know Me Better Than I Know Myself
12. Privilege -
Closer To God', as with all TVP albums, is mightily personal. Dan Treacy provides the antidote to the opening of the ill-fated Disneyland Paris and the first McDonald's in China - it's a white knuckle ride through his innermost hopes and fears with off stage giggling, half heard dialogue and feedback that sounds like an opera is expiring in an adjoining L-shaped room.Visit product page →
Closer To God'is a spiritual rollercoaster that sounds as poignant and pressing as ever.
Remastered double LP on limited edition on marbled black and white vinyl.
1500 copies.
Tracklisting:
LP 1:
1. You Don't Know How Lucky You Are
2. Hard Luck Story Number 39
3. Little Works Of Art
4. Razorblades & Lemonade
5. Coming Home Soon
6. Me And My Big Ideas
7. Honey For The Bears
8. I See Myself In You
9. Goodnight Mr. Spaceman
LP 2:
1. My Very First Nervous Breakdown
2. We Will Be Your Gurus
3. You Are Special And You Always Will Be
4. Not For The Likes Of Us
5. You're Younger Than You Know
6. Very Dark Today
7. I Hope You Have A Nice Day
8. This Heart's Not Made Of Stone
9. Baby, You're Only As Good As You Should Be
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White Hills / GNOD 'Aquarian Downer' Vinyl LP - Deep Space Swirl Coloured
£20.49
Aquarian Downer'is a five track collaboration with New York's purveyor of pummelling Post-Motorik Fuzz White Hills'and Manchester's Psychedelic-Punk human anatomy assault GNOD'. Initially released as a limited tour CDR in 2008, Rocket Recordings are delighted to announce that for Record Store Day 2018, it will be available for the first time on deep space'blue swirl vinyl.Visit product page →
In 2007, GNOD booked WHITE HILLS to play at one of their Attention All Shipping'nights in Manchester. After the gig they spoke about doing a collaboration together. As their inevitably synchronous desire to create music around the outer limits prevailed, the bands were drawn onto the same trajectory, their first meeting of minds.
Over the years the two bands have gone on to build a formidable reputation for releasing many outstanding records, including their second collaboration after Aquarian Downer; the stunning GNOD Drop-out with White Hills II'released on Rocket Recordings back in 2010. Both bands'music have consistently pushed at the boundaries of what psychedelic music is. Aquarian Downer is no exception, feasibly this is the point that they both crossed into the Event Horizon of their prismatic paths.
An album submerged in minimally restrained serene chilling drones, tailed by the pulses of GNOD's heads-down astral power, Dave W (White Hills) has masterfully conjured an album who's boundary passes events that cannot ever be observed. You think you've found perception's doors.... they open to a lie, but these two bands'output go some way to help guide you through the narrow chinks of refuge.
Tracklisting:
1. Belonging
2. Hard Butter Reality
3. Resolve
4. Aquarian Downer
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Visit product page →Abstraktion 12 is a double album and only 300 will ever be made and it won't enter the digital domain. Get it while you can.
Recorded live at Rockfield Studios over two days by an accomplished and unique band consisting of two drummers and two guitars and vocal, it has a sound heavily steeped in rock, minimalism and psychedelia, but even with these references, we can't think of a record out there that sounds anything like this one.
In this day and age, that's a pretty hard thing to do. "I'm a punk, always have been, but only in the same sense that La Monte Young was or Jason Pierce is. You don't have to thrash out bar chords on a Les Paul to be a punk. Abstraktion 12 is the most punk record I've ever made since KluBmiX!33, but it sounds nothing like it.
This record was abstract and unique in it's conception, it was a coming together of not just a band but also of the people who have followed the band and who joined us in the studio for the recording of the album. Having two drummers created the perfect foundation for the songs as they both play the same beats but the slight inflections and movement between them creates a constant pulsing rhythmical shift. For me it was important to be doing this album with Chris Davis, the original drummer from six by seven and someone I had grown up with in music.
Without explanation he understood what was needed to make this record work. Added to this we had the technical skills of second drummer Charlie and Chris Moore on the Fender VI. Chris added a unique sound to the music and plays like no other bass / guitar player, offering only minimal tight bass lines with an occasional extra note played into the perfect pocket, just to remind you that he is there." CHRIS OLLEY
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Mind (Head-Fuck) (13:29)
Side B:
1. Alone (17:40)
Side C:
1. Fade Away (4:51)
2. Well (9:30)
Side D:
1. Mother Of Life (14:32)
2. Would You Die For Me? (4:52)
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Sold outDouble LP on heavyweight 180 gram audiophile black vinyl in a wide spined sleeve with new artwork layout. Re-mastered by John Rivers at Woodbine Studios especially for vinyl release. Includes a bonus track not on the CD version and new artwork design.Visit product page →
Never has a record been so aptly titled, or so perfectly descriptive of a band's particular vision of the universe. For all that, the original appearance of Taking Drugs was in fact a bootleg on the semi-legendary/semi-notorious Father Yod imprint in 1990, later supplemented with contemporary outtakes and cuts for the Bomp reissue in 1994 and one further song for the Space Age version in 2000.
The original seven tracks, dated January 1986 and the first recordings to feature Pete Bain on bass, are collectively known as the Northampton Demos, understandably named for the recording location in a studio outside said English city.
Both Sonic and Pierce have been on record as long preferring these takes to the eventual versions that surfaced for the most part on Sound of Confusion. Certainly it's a fine set of performances, showing a definite step toward the more familiar sound of the group and away from the rougher takes on For All the Fucked Up Children of the World.
"The Sound of Confusion," aka "Walkin' With Jesus," rips along with fierce energy, Pierce's singing and the rampaging, primitive wail and rumble of the band just wonderful. "Losing Touch With My Mind" takes things to an even higher level, a huge wallop of feedback and beat (Natty Brooker's drumming in particular delivers just what the doctor ordered), Pierce delivering the lines with a flat, cutting drawl.
On the slightly lighter tip, "Come Down Easy" is more or less fully in place (aside from singing about it being 1986!), possessing a more upfront but less vocally distinct feel than the Perfect Prescription take. The tracks that surfaced on the later reissues come from a variety of different sessions, including the original take on "Feel So Good" and a good live version of "Things'll Never Be the Same," one of several cuts featuring Brooker's drumming replacement Rosco.
Tracklisting:
1. The Sound Of Confusion
2. 2.35 (Version 1)
3. Losing Touch With My Mind
4. Amen
5. That's Just Fine (Vocal Version)
6. Come Down Easy
7. Mary Anne
8. Feel So Good
9. 2.35 (Feedback Version)
10. Hey Man
11. It's Allright
12. 2.35 (Version 2)
13. Things'll Never Be The Same
14. Transparent Radiation (Organ Version) -
Holm is the solo project of Danish multi-instrumentalist Mikkel Holm-Silkjær, and the latest iteration of an impressive musical trajectory that has seen him record and play with Yung, Brooch, Tears, Urban Achievers, and Happy Hookers for Jesus.Visit product page →
At just 23 and with a discography already in double figures, Holm-Silkjær is nothing if not prolific. Yet his work as Holm might prove to be his most complete. While previous projects were often collaborative, all four songs on Dappled, his debut EP for Tough Love, were written, recorded, performed, and mixed by Holm-Silkjær himself in a shared rehearsal space.
This resourcefulness has long been characteristic of the music he makes, defined by an overarching DIY ethos that has also seen him champion the music of others through the two record labels he runs (100 and Shordwood, the latter of which also released the first Holm recordings as a 7") and the organisation of numerous live events in both Aarhus and Copenhagen.
Those familiar with Holm-Silkjær's other music will certainly recognise Dappled as his - that unmistakable metallic vocal, brash chiming guitars, and a preternatural melodic sensibility. Where Dappled differs from previous work, however, is in song structure, most obviously on 'Hope' and 'Grow', the opening and closing tracks respectively.
Though anchored by recurring motifs (not quite choruses!), these are sprawling and explorative songs, matched by lyrics unusually insightful and clear-sighted for someone so young. Take the neat double-meaning in the repeated coda of 'Grow' for example: "I'm growing, growing, growing, this arrangement, it's not in tune".
In that line there's a convenient way of understanding what Holm-Silkjær has arrived at with Dappled - a relatable reflection on finding personal identity through his own ever-evolving music. Holm is, after-all, his own name.
Tracklisting:
1. Hope
2. Dappled
3. Erase and Repeat
4. Grow
Release Date: 04/05/2018 -
Visit product page →Limited to 1000 copies. 500 in 2 colour Blue/White vinyl. 500 in Black. Gatefold sleeve. Included is a free CD of the album and free download with both vinyl options.
Main CD package is a 4 panel digipack with lyric booklet.
Take a look outside your window. We're living through a particularly bleak paradigm, with ominous political shifts occurring around the globe. It's time for a rallying war-cry, to tap into the power of our ancestors, to learn the wisdoms taught by history and its recurring patterns. It's time to acknowledge the power of women, to burn with the fire of a banshee wail, to taste the energy of revolution and feel the inspiration of generations of resistance.
And that's where ASCEND, the second album by insurrectionary heavy rock trio Vodun, comes in.
Ten slabs of ground-flattening, groove-inflected rock power, driven by the afro-inspired dervish drums of Zel Kaute (interpreting the spirits of Ogoun), the roaring, fierce chromium guitars of Linz Hamilton (The Marassa), and fronted by the fire-breathing howl of frontwoman Chantal Brown (Oya), delivering you the truth of generations with a drive and focus that can't be matched.
The music of ASCEND is more sophisticated than on Possession, the band's 2016 debut. The canvas is broader, the details more vivid and varied. Their palette now embraces a healthy dose of extra percussion, saxophone, and vocal arrangements that pair Chantal's behemoth holler with harmonies, chants and howls, a full-spectrum of sound that suits their polymorphous attack.
Ascend is, unabashedly, revolution music, its ten tracks a hurricane of mystic heaviness, spiritual soul and furious positivity, its colossal riffage & rhythms allied to inspirational lyrics and powerful melodies to deliver food for the soul and fire to inflame uprisings. At heart, it's an album of musical celebration, and heavy playfulness - lyrically of resistance, and of solidarity. 'We can rise above this,' nods Chantal, referencing the dire state of 2018.
'And we will rise above this.'
Tracklisting:
Vinyl
SIDE A:
1. Spirits Past
2. Started From
3. Providence Of Ancestors
4. Ogun's Fight
5. Time Honoured
Side B:
1. New Doom
2. Elusive Freedom
3. Ascend
4. Rituals
5. For Your Kin
Tracklisting:
CD
1. Spirits Past
2. Started From
3. Providence Of Ancestors
4. Ogun's Fight
5. Time Honoured
6. New Doom
7. Elusive Freedom
8. Ascend
9. Rituals
10. For Your Kin
Release Date: 7th of September 2018 -
It stands to reason that many vital albums come critically close to never being made. The eight-track upshot of doubt, upheaval and financial strain, Stains on Silence by Girls Names is one such release.Visit product page →
Following 2015's blitzing Arms Around a Vision, and the parting of drummer Gib Cassidy just over a year later, the Belfast band suddenly found themselves facing down a looming void.
'There was a finished - and then aborted - mix of the album, which was shelved for six months,' reveals Girls Names frontman Cathal Cully. 'We then took a break from all music and went back to full-time work. We chilled out from the stress of rushing the record and not being happy with it, as well as being skint with no impending touring on the cards and constantly having to worry about rent.'
The stumbling blocks that proved a strain became the album's defining breakthrough.
Recorded in various locations including Belfast's Start Together Studio with Ben McAuley, Cully's home and the band's practice space, spontaneous creation, cut-up techniques and self-editing took centre-stage for the first time.
"We started tearing the material apart and rebuilding, re-editing and re-recording different parts in my home in early Autumn last year,' says Cully. 'When we got them to a place we were happier with we went back into Start Together Studio with Ben McAuley to finalise the mixes to what they are now."
Where AAAV proved a brazen statement of intent, Stains on Silence bounds forth as its feature-length comedown. What could have seen the band buckle became an opportunity for approaching things tabula rasa. During its two-year transmutation, Cully, bassist Claire Miskimmin and guitarist Philip Quinn had a single aim for their fourth album: to make an old-fashioned record clocking in around 30 to 35 minutes in length that made the listener reach straight for repeat.
From the Bang Bang bar-summoning swoon of opener '25'and the submerged disco doom of Haus Proud'to the rapt, dub-leaning Fragments of a Portrait', Girls Names have excelled in their goal by forging an LP of synchronous nuance and defiance.
Marked by the presence of drum machines and programming throughout, these eight masterfully-woven tales are once again commandeered by founder Cully, whose words, understated yet defiant, mine purpose and meaning from the mire ("I want to bathe again, I want to swim again / In a pool of twisting bodies, blackened gold." ' 25').
But while Stains on Silence came critically close to never being made, having lived with it, reconfigured it, and guided its metamorphosis from flickers of inspiration and half-formed schemes, it's both a statement of pure perseverance, and a head-on confrontation with ambivalence that couldn't be more assured. (Brian Coney March 2018).
Tracklisting
1. 25
2. Haus Proud
3. The Process
4. The Impaled Mystique
5. Fragments of a Portrait
6. A Moment and a Year
7. Stains on Silence
8. Karoline
Release Date: 15/06/2018 -
Now available on very limited 180g vinyl.Visit product page →
This is first full length offering from the Brian Jonestown Massacre for 2018, a second, self titled, album will be coming out in September.
This is the 17th full length release from the band & the style is less experimental & more of a retracing back to the traditional sound of the band.
Recorded between 2017 & 2018, this 9 track album will please old & new fans alike.
The band have announced tours of the USA, Canada, Australasia & will be announcing tours through Europe later this year.
Tracklisting:
1. Hold That Thought
2. Animal Wisdom
3. Psychic Lips
4. Skin and Bones
5. My Poor Heart
6. My Love
7. Who dreams of cats?
8. Fragmentation
9. Silent Stream
Release Date: 01/06/2018 -
Recorded in Melbourne and Berlin 2015-17 by Samuel Karmel, Carla dal Forno and Tarquin Manek, its title is instructive - ¦the spiky eldritch song-spells of previous album Hide Before Dinner have become more dubwise, immersive and potently psychedelic. Euphoric even, but paranoid and laden with self-doubt. Projecting onto strangers, watching not participating, turning ever inwards. The cosmos explored from behind closed doors, under the bedclothes, alone.Visit product page →
Whereas Hide evoked the thrill, and casual cruelty, of unsupervised childhood summers - a suburban gothic of grazed knees, hide-and-seek, nettle-stings - this is an album of more adult anxieties and metamorphoses. The ghouls in your neighbour's garden are still there, but have come to represent something else. Something more mundane and empirically real but no less terrifying. Struggles with time, distance, isolation, communication, commitment. Your memories have a heaviness now.You can hear aspects of ferric post-punk and hauntological/DIY electronics in Awkwardlys musical make-up - ¦
Flying Lizards'Secret Dub Life or Brigitte Fontaine's Comme a la Radio - ¦not to mention two generations of Oz/NZ underground experimentation /introspection/ dereliction..but now, more than ever, F ingers'highly evolved but naturalistic sound-world is difficult to precisely place or unpick: a mildewy drug-dazed dub-scape, teeming but minimalist, framed by lonesome guitar strum, Manek's supple percussive reverberating basslines and Karmel's painterly synth washes, over which dal Forno exploits her voice for its pure tonal character - whether diffracting light across the loping, uncanny techno rhythms of All Rolled Up'and the waterlogged psych-folk of Off Silently', or sliced and looped into disorienting patterns of abstract glossolalia on Time Passes'and the time-dilating 9-minute title track.Awkwardly Blissing Out is a landmark recording from one of the Southern hemisphere's most extraordinary, visionary freak units; a deep and sensuous trip that nonetheless prompts some uncomfortable - or at any rate bittersweet - reflection on what we are, what we were, and what we might have been.
Tracklisting:
1. My Body Next To Yours
2. All Rolled Up
3. Awkwardly Blissing Out
4. Time Passes
5. You're Confused
6. Off Silently
7. My Body Next To Yours
8. All Rolled Up
9. Awkwardly Blissing Out
10. Time Passes
11. You're Confused
12. Off Silently
