Well, this record is immense. Immense, stupid, funny, baffling, annoying; the lot. I can’t begin to describe it, outside of the fact it’s a TRIP.
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan – Uzu
White Hex – Gold Nights
But most noticably, the music has this overwhelmingly soporific quality; listening in can get you in the state of some lounger in the Korova Milk Bar; on your back, in a stupor and unable to react to this insistent smothering.
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Dub Thompson – 9 Songs
It’s abstract like some teen not being able to tell you what time they’re home, or what it is they are listening to; abstraction and avoidance taken to the level of an artform.
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Mick Ness – The Joy of Pop
The Joy of Pop reveals itself to be an absolute gem; immediately putting your weirdometer at ease; mixing Pop Group against chamber folk, (or chamber punk) with a dash of Kid Strange and early Cure for good measure.
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Lia Ices – Ices
I’ve really enjoyed tapping my toe to Ices whilst ironing, or holding the door to the Jakes open, to hear it better when it’s playing in the living room.
Robyn Hitchcock – The Man Upstairs
The Man Upstairs, is a good record mind; and a sort of refocus, even a realignment, where the Hitch gently polishes his psychicke crystal ball, often using other Sonic Mages’ cloths.
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Ought – More Than Any Other Day
This is a razor-sharp collection of passionate, informed, funny and often ebullient rock songs.
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Black Walls – Communion
So; if you dig that sub-Victorian ‘Gothicke’ J W Waterhouse scene, you will dig this record’s opening numbers; there is no doubt of that.
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Incendiary Interview Adrian Younge – “I WANT to be pigeonholed.”
The bullet just missed Domino, but he had gunpowder burning his eyes, so he thought he was a dead man. The Souls thought so too: this dude was trying to kill off all the Souls Of Mischief!
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Grumbling Fur – Preternaturals
Rather, Preternaturals carries on in a grand tradition of subversive English camp, and very refreshing it is too.
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