Divorce – Divorce – Singles and LP
So, the squid was beaming some essential info to me after all. We both transmitted and received; yowsa, yowsa, yowsa. Consider this writer a fan of Divorce.
Las Kellies – Total Exposure
…the onus is on you the listener to put the spadework in to better reveal its charms. It’s akin to being at a party with the lights down low, stumbling around and trying to find groovy people to latch onto.
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Guido Möbius – Through The Darkness Gathers
Them Germans eh?, with their Grünewald and Dix; all this confessional expressionism… it can make you quite dizzy.
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Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus
Pinkunoizu – The Drop
It’s a great mix of demented and whacked out; albeit a sort of demented that catches you unawares – like the Devil in The Master & Margarita, it’s too suave to show all its tricks at once.
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AC Berkheimer – Beyond The Equation of State
It’s certainly their best balanced record too, so smooth that it engages your subconscious a LONG time before the rest of your brain catches up. I bet you that you only notice it’s actually on when Kissing The Surface starts.
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Plus Instruments – Trancesonics
This is a marvellous LP; one which employs a mix of mad sounds and considerable know how. Not to mention bags of charm. At times it’s a weird pop master class.
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Hunter Complex – Heat
Maybe Hunter Complex are serial sentimentalists. A lot of the tracks do have a marked sentimental edge, like Serious Glass or the brilliant Space, which nabs Seeing Out the Angel’s key pattern from the Minds’ Sons & Fascination.
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Those Foreign Kids – Zero Gravity Somersaulting Craze
It’s easy to make really, really boring records using this screaming, thrashy style. Or, ones that quickly lose their initial charm. I think this isn’t and won’t.
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