This NYC trio revel in a drowsy psych that unravels with inspiration from the Velvet Underground and the Nuggets/Pebbles garage/psych/pop movement of the 1960s.
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Bryon Hayes
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Lead Stones, “Set and Setting” tape
Taming the Outback, “1986-1989″
There’s something to be said for elegant packaging. Case in point: this career-spanning retrospective of British post-punk trio Taming the Outback.
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Quicksails / Floating Gardens, split tape
Here we have a nicely packaged cassette from the relatively new Field Studies imprint, with clean lines and retro nature imagery (are those mountains or volcanic rocks?) adorning the J-card.
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Keith Berry, “The Ear That Was Sold to a Fish / Turn Right a Thousand Feet From Here”
When it was originally released in 2005, The Ear That Was Sold to a Fish came housed in a box filled with dyed flower petals – an ambitious statement for London-based artist Keith Berry’s third effort to see the light of day.
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2011 – The Year in Review
Best Album Tim Hecker, Ravedeath, 1972 LP/CD (Kranky) What an exceptional year for music! With so many amazing releases, how’s a boy to choose the album of the year? I thought long and hard, and switched it up a few times before deciding to pick the album I consistently went back to over and over...
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Cindytalk, “Hold Everything Dear”
Released in 2009, “The Crackle of My Soul” signalled a significant shift in form for Cindytalk, who began life within Britain’s post-punk/industrial/dark ambient movement in the 80s and 90s.
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Pissypaw / Weirding Module, split tape
The Albert’s Basement imprint seems dedicated to documenting the Australian sub-underground, and they’re fighting a winning battle one rare artifact at a time.
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Million Brazilians, “New Ideas in Psychic Music Volume 2: Sexual Desert” tape
A mysterious Portland-based five-piece offer up a cerebrum-stretching good time on this somewhat lengthy cassette, brought to you courtesy of Justin Wright (Expo ’70)’s always wonderful Sonic Meditations imprint.
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Sølyst, s/t
Hamburg’s Bureau B imprint is responsible for, among other things, a string of reissues from krautrock’s Cluster-Harmonia axis.
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Bass Communion, “Pacific Codex” CD / DVD
Steven Wilson, of British kosmische rockers Porcupine Tree, has been releasing solo ambient recordings as Bass Communion for over a decade.
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Former Selves, “Build” tape
California-based musician and video artist Paul Skolmsvold is a well-kept secret, even in underground music circles.
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GX Jupitter-Larsen and Muennich, “Die Arbeiter von Wien” 7″
GX Jupitter-Larsen, founding member of infamous noise terrorists/performance art group The Haters, and Michael Muennich, head honcho of the Fragment Factory imprint, have colluded to unleash seven crimson inches of sheer hatred upon this planet.
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Grasshopper, “Miles in the Sky” tape
Here we have a welcome reissue courtesy of Buffalo’s House of Alchemy imprint.
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