Critical Heights, the independent UK label responsible for Foxy-reviewed releases by Savaging Spires, Incredible Weapons and Barbados! in 2011, have started 2012 with two Record Store Day joints (from Talibam! and Diva) and now this, a pay-what-you-like compilation of instrumentals from their disparate catalogue. Delphic Vapours, Diva, Barbados!, Crater and Savaging Spires all feature...
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Critical Heights made a good job of promoting this one – released on Halloween last year and accompanied by a genuinely eerie video for the track “Prelude (Titoli),” the label made clear from the start what kind of affair this was going to be.
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Savaging Spires’ début album has picked up a good chunk of press since its release and almost all of it has alluded to it’s supposed ‘wyrdness’.
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Diva Dompé is quite the chameleon: when I first saw this album’s artwork, I was expecting a glam, Gaga-esque pop odyssey, and further research turned up links that reveal she’s previously manifested herself as a kooky post-punk darling (Blackblack, with her sister Lola) and a suitably ‘indie’ Urban Outfitters model.
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