A cod-heavy voice asks “tell does he love you/like the way I love you?” over an extremely Gothic backdrop. It is brilliant, funny and a teeny-weeny bit disturbing.
The Eternals – Heavy International
A lady with a Received Pronunciation accent tells us that “you are listening to Heavy International”. That’s how this LP starts. Things are never as self-explanatory again.
The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse
Soon we leave the sunlit uplands for some doleful Canadian pessimism, which, to be honest, we’ve been expecting.
Aaron Stout – Queens Live in Caskets
If you like acid troubadours, you’ll like this. Mercifully the styles are mixed up track by track, bringing a sense of freshness and inventiveness to the work.
The Low Lows – Fire on the Bright Sky
Why couldn’t they have done this earlier when my attention was flagging?
The Julie Mittens, Stiff River, Uw Hypotheekadvies – “Blue” EP
Three small cut and paste low-resolution photocopied sheets of paper give minimal information on the bands. We learn only that Uw Hypotheekadvies have "great legs".
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Black Cab – Jesus East
The gravelly Australian voice intoning the words of wisdom puts one in mind of bluff art critic Robert Hughes, (a scary thought indeed, as I for one don’t need Robert Hughes going all New Age on me thank you very much…)
Thighpaulsandra – The Lepore Extrusion.
The remarkable sense of claustrophobic pressure in the piece lends a feeling that this is in some ways a soundtrack for a slaying myth
Incendiary interview Tapes & Tapes
The first record was made with the thought that no-one was listening, and that it was just something to put out in Minneapolis, with absolutely no sense of anticipation.
Incendiary interview The Siege
Lincolnshire, it’s big and shit and I hate it.