Equally at home with traditional Appalachian country and gospel and delivered with wry punk attitude, The Black Twig Pickers have picked up where Bad Livers left off, providing music that is reverent to the past but full of modern grit.
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Archive for June, 2012
The Black Twig Pickers, “Whompyjawed” 12”
Eternal Summers, “The Dawn Of Eternal Summers” LP
I just got back from spending a week in Toronto, during the NXNE festival. In all honesty, I was mostly just there because they gave the radio station a bunch of free passes, and I just wanted to hang out in Toronto with some of my friends for a week, especially since one of...
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Dozens, “Curving Quest” 3” CD-r
The very first in the new Under The Spire Limited series of 3” releases, Dozens’ Curving Quest is a long guitar maelstrom in an edition of just 65.
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Help Tom Carter
It appears as though Tom Carter (Charalambides, Badgerlore, Mudsuckers, Spiderwebs, et al.) became very ill while touring Europe with Charalambides. As any reader of Foxy Digitalis probably already knows, Carter has been behind some of the most unique and gorgeous sounds ever recorded. Anyone hoping to offer support can donate funds via HelpTomCarter.org. Volcanic...
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Alberto Boccardi, s/t
The industrial hiss that cuts between the beats on the opening track of Alberto Boccardi’s first solo album betrays the fact his past lies in aeronautical engineering.
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White Dog Family Band, “Escape the Mystery II” tape
It can be hard to say what a release like “Escape the Mystery II” is really about. The “II” would seem to indicate this is something of a sequel—but a sequel to what?
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En, “Already Gone”
The second album by Root Strata co-owner Maxwell August Croy’s duo En (with James Devane) is a gorgeous work.
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Akaname / Fungal Abyss, split 7″
H-o-l-y… Where to start? Every now and then something comes along and leaves you feeling like you got struck by a MACK truck.
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V/A, “Electronic Saviors 2: Recurrence” 6CD set
Arguably, the late 80s-mid-90s were the heyday for innovative, aggressive techno, at least setting the groundwork for the variations on a theme that have followed.
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