Mark Wynn - Singles
Mark Wynn - ‘Singles - But They're not Really Singles, I just sent them to the Screen and said they were Singles’.Harbinger Sound. Harbinger158. LP + 20pp A4 Zine. 500 copies.Its not often I see the...
View ArticleCeramic Hobs / Disco Mental
The Ceramic Hobs - 50 Shades of Snuff/Welcome to Malaysia AirlinesDisco Mental - Never Can Say GoodbyeSmith Research SRV21. 7”I’ve been digging through my singles of late, spinning a few and wondering...
View ArticleDieter Müh
Dieter Müh - Hanging the Blind Dog.Hanson Records. HN257Dieter Müh - Live at GängeviertelSoundholes. Live #005.There’s always been an air of menace to Dieter Müh releases; the unsettling atmospheres,...
View ArticleTNB Orchestra
TNB Orchestra - Eine Kleine NichtsmusikHypnagogia. GIA08. 300 copies.On discovering that Eine Kleine Nichtsmusik consisted of two almost forty minute tracks I had the review written before I’d even...
View ArticleConsumer Electronics - Dollhouse Songs
Consumer Electronics - Dollhouse SongsHarbinger Sound. HS152. LPThe last time I saw Phillip Best he was drooling spit on to his sweaty man paps. This larger than life character was winding up an...
View ArticleLenka Lente
Alfredo Costa Monteiro - AnimaLenka Lente40 pp poem + CD in de-bossed box.ISBN : 979-10-94601-03-750 copiesCharles Plymell/Bill Nace - Apocalypse RoseLenka LenteBook + CD. ISBN :...
View ArticleSimon Morris - Consumer Guide
Simon Morris - Consumer Guide 168pp Hardback book.Tegenaria Press.One of the few people who made my brief dalliance with Facebook all the more bearable was Simon Morris. The long suffering...
View ArticleKaries
Karies - Parole Grätig7” - In A Car 002 / Harbinger Sound 156Apart from being the German word for tooth decay Karies are four serious looking young German gentlemen that Underwood was raving about the...
View ArticleSPAM
Lieutenant Caramel - Überschallknall SPAM 15. Edition of 60Posset - StandardSPAM 13. Edition of 50Nils Quak – In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni SPAM 14. Edition of 40I’m quite sure Frans de Waard...
View ArticleDavid Keenan - England's Hidden Reverse
David Keenan - England’s Hidden ReverseStrange Attractor PressA long Bank Holiday weekend saw me finally to get to grips with the dead weight that is England’s Hidden Reverse. Having foolishly missed...
View ArticleConsumer Electronics - Wharf Chambers 04/04/2016
Consumer ElectronicsCircuit BreakerKnifedoutofexistenceLeeds, Wharf Chambers, Monday, 4th April, 2016.There was a time when the mere thought of driving to a gig in Leeds passed through my brain in...
View ArticleL'eclipse Nue - Negative
L’eclipse Nue - NegativeDorei Recordings. DOR 021CDIt’s not a good start is it? The cover art I mean. If you were out for a browse on a Saturday morning and you picked up ‘Negative’ by L’Eclipse Nue...
View ArticleBasic Concept
Basic Concept - Live in Salacious SussexConcrète Tapes. 20 copies.I was going to review the latest Black Leather Jesus/Smell & Quim collaboration but the damned thing refuses to play in the...
View ArticleTaming Power
Taming Power - Autumn Works 2002Early Morning Records. 014 LP220 copiesTaming Power - Three PiecesEarly Morning Records. 015 10” 111 copiesTaming Power - Six PiecesEarly Morning Records. 016 10” 110...
View ArticleStaraya Derevnya
Staraya Derevnya - Kadita SessionsSelf released cdr. 60 copies.There’s not that many genre defying releases make it through the door here these days and the days when I get them in hand felted pouches...
View ArticleNuen Recs + Bruces's Fingers
Manfried Wender - 2015³Nueni Recs #006. CDKulakantu - Oier IruretagoienaNueni Recs #005. CDHession/Stefani - ConcretesBruce’s Fingers. BF 128. CDThanks to the Bearded Wonder over at RFM I now have...
View ArticleAudio Man Dig and the Japanese Record Shop Trail.
Tower Records - ShibuyaSonny Boy - NagasakiSonny BoyThere are many reasons to visit Tokyo but the main one is for the record shops. Of which there are more in one city than any other city I know of....
View ArticleThe Nightingale Noise Bar and the Eggshells of Death.
As I said, I missed Luke Younger in Tokyo by three nights but he sent me certain vital information such as the existence of the HMV Shibuya second hand record shop and almost as crucially the...
View ArticleOutside Artists, Finnish Heavy Metal and Robert Ridley-Shackleton
Robert Ridley-Shackleton - Robert Ridley-ShackletonHissing Frames. Cassette.Robert Ridley-Shackleton - GodHissing Frames. Cassette.Lörsson - Famous Lehto’s Pasties [?]Gafoni/Gasthaus 5. 7”Lörsson -...
View ArticlePost EU Exit Blues and a Night Down the Wharf Chambers
SuckdogApostille Guttersnipe Simon MorrisLeeds, Wharf Chambers, Thursday 30th June 2016.Its not everyday Lisa Carver rolls into town and its not every day that you get to see Simon Morris read from his...
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