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[Natnar]

STRANGERS IN 7A - Better Than We Deserve

The debut album from Strangers In 7A is one of those albums that will stay in your mind for days after you first hear it. From the opening bars of the first track "My Horseshoe, My Midget" to the sound effect of sneezing Giraffes in the last seconds of the end track you get the sense that the band are literally on another planet. Even the voice samples of Julie Walters during "Mrs Overall's Lament" don't shatter the mood of desperation & emptiness that soaks through the whole album.
TRACKLISTING

1.My Horseshoe, My Midget
2.That Camp Bloke On Channel 4
3.Leather & Lace & Bubblewrap
4.Fluffynazi
5.Wheelchairs In Motion
6.Mrs Overall's Lament
7.I Lost My Virginity At A Record Fair
8.Laughable New Deal
9.Love Shack
10.You, Me, And A Pint Of Tippex
11.Giraffewank

[Crabwalk]

What it Doth Know by Kodiac College

This little known melancholic gem was released in 2002 by Belgian twin brothers Thomas and Tom Martens. Their first English language album after 9 years of acclaim on the acoustic-mope scene in Antwerp, 'What it Doth Know' features 10 finger-picked laments of unrequited love. The subject of this unrequited love, a Belgian bra model simply named 'Lotte', is depicted on the sleeve (though uncredited). On this quietly romantic record, Lotte is pined over by both brothers with moving results.

Side a:
1) Another Empty Pillow Dream
2) Silence on The Telephone
3) Why not me? (Or Me?)
4) Sharing is Caring
5) Song For Lotte

Side b:
1) 29 and Counting
2) I Got Hairs There First
3) In Antwerp (Superior to Bruges)
4) 'Dopple Spod'
5) Song For Lotte's Husband

[daimoniac]

french dark folk act Villerouge collaborates with belgian ambient music producer Termenès for this intriguing project. "As including our own" is a minimal piece consisting of 8 unnamed movements featuring a barrage of sounds, some conventional, and some less so from a wide array of instruments and voice boxes. sometimes challenging and some times soothing but always captivating this work truely re-invents the dark folk style. email guillame@strippeddisks.de

[Pepotamo1985]

Best CAB thread I've seen in ages!



Tarachodes present their (or perhaps more appropriately, her) sophomore effort, Dawling & Puttering. An inexorably and effortlessly engaging burst of wide-eyed psychedelic Americana eclecticism. Originally composed of husband/wife duo Clemency Nitrate and Hostelry Nitrate (nee. Malaprop), tragedy struck part way through the recording of Dawdling, as Clemency was brutally murdered by a gang of irate Shoreditch militants who perceived his persisent insistence on continuing to use Microsoft products and the presence of gears on his racing bike as the mark of a habitual and unashamed scene traitor - ironically, the killer blow was struck with an iPad (which recently sold on eBay for a modest £5,000). But Hostelery was not characteristically unphased by the episode. "Clemency's death really is the best thing that could've happened to me...I mean the 'group'. Previously we'd only gotten reasonably favourable reviews on pitchfork.com - but now we've gained recognition in the mainstream media. Our, I mean my, record company was really nice about it all and offered me time off before finishing - I decided to continue at all costs and rush release the bitch, because it was obvious no one would remember or care about us or my husband within less than a fortnight".

In a world refulgent with transient fads, both musical and social, Tarachodes are/is a breath of fresh air. They don't alter their views to fit the facts - they alter the facts to fit their views. And long may it continue.

[Pepotamo1985]

Oh - it's from ages ago. That explains it.

[sick as a pike]

"from time to time," the fairly long-awaited collaboration between Eimert van Middelkoop (lo-fi conceptual artist and guerrilla musician) and Wiltshire Council (Wiltshire Council) twists van Middelkoop's "found tunes" and gives them an unmistakeable Trowbridge sensibility.  The opening tracks set the tone- melodic and warm, nostalgic and comforting, yet at the same time terrifying, stark, sickening, pointless and stupid.
Working together as "The Classified Forest, the Madarounfa Lake and the Tombs of the 99 saints," (TCFTMLATTOT99S) each member of the partnership lives up to their reputation- van Middelkoop as a kind of ersatz wunderkind of unfamiliar tropes, and Wiltshire Council as a provider of a wide range of services for children and families and for adults and their carers, including family support, home care, residential care, fostering and adoption. 
For anyone who doubted TCFTMLATTOT99S's dedication to their fans, the entire album also appears as a bonus track on the album, although the album on the bonus track omits the bonus track- a disappointment to completists perhaps.  In the end though, who could doubt this is the fabled sound of "the tiny iron fists of destiny pounding on the locked chipshop door of hope."  Most people, probably.

[daimoniac]

Isis Hayden goes back to her roots with her newest project Egyptian Art. In an extremely introspective sound, layers and layers of Isis' life become untangled and wrap themselves around the listener. "To Learn From This" is a challenging, yet heartfelt journey through streams of consciousness and unearthed emotions set to a mix of trip hop, acoustic folk and traditional egyptian music.

[Subtle Mocking]

The spell-binding début album from the Berlin indie-psyche-prog-kraut-punk act WhitneyNumeric Light features the 189-minute epic track 'Gräßlich überlanger', which takes up 5 of the 7 discs included on this album. The other tracks comprise of old Fats Domino songs played on the Moog (and especially for Napster customers, a special extended Musique Concréte cover of 'Up on the Roof,' featuring vocals from dIETER X). Amazingly, only 3 copies of the vinyl edition of this album were ever purchased, but popularity has since sky-rocketed after it's inclusion in Stolling Rones' 'The 500,000 Greatest Albums of All Time,' where it placed at number 78,192 (just behind Moby's 'Hotel').

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

^fucking i-hin-credible

1. Louise Christine of Savoy
2. The General's Son
3. My Love
4. Sweet Prince
5. My Heart Cries
6. I Didn't Know You Hunted
7. When I Reflect On Your Face
8. Those Guttered Dreams
9. When We Were Young
10. Against My Breasts
11. O! Torment!

80's nouveau-art-rock-psych-prog-punk group Ferdinand Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Baden Baden took a surprise turn with this 90's release, drafting in a US female vocalist which they said would lend the band 'mass market appeal'. Hattie Jacobsen also took on songwriting and lyrical duties, imagining herself as the abandoned Rapunzel to the erstwhile Prince. The album sold 6 million records worldwide, leading to numerous TV appearances and opening up a whole new commercial enterprise for the band, who would later ditch their monikor and become Gomez.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Obey M Hendricks Jr - To Seek It Elsewhere

A surprising departure for Obey M Hendricks Jr, spiritual leader of the St. Louis gangster rap scene of the 1990's, but perhaps not so given the context. After falling in love with his second-in-command, Dewey Crawford, Obey abandoned the city for the countryside, where a spiritual and sexual awakening led him to record this album of delicate folk tunes sprinkled with field recordings and ambient collages. The evolution of his previous aggressive provocative lyrics into this more intimate, gentle affair has earned him worldwide critical acclaim, though he has since been castigated by members of his own movement who see this album as a betrayal.

1. Dewey Was Here
2. Sing
3. The Breeze Is Upon Us
4. Consume Me, Fields
5. Early
6. Mountjack In Situ
7. Front Bitch City Niggaz Seems A Long Time Ago
8. A Fresh Dawn
9. Never Again
10. And There We Stayed, Forever

[El Unicornio, mang]

Pitchfork described the 12th album from Cuban baroque-jazz-psychedelia quartet Penium as "possibly the best Cuban baroque-jazz-psychedelia album of the month". Opening track "Waltz With Mr. Kittenface" has already received major airplay on some college radio stations in the Portland, Oregon area and "Disturbing Ice Cream Situation" is an overnight sensation in many Berlin gay clubs, with it's high energy bongo-infused salsa rock leanings. Lead singer Jose Pez casts a mysterious figure with his dark glasses and big hat, while stick-thin, afro-wearing guitarist "Teeto" is almost perverse in his on-stage animal poses, and obese drummer Julio sweats a lot.

[Absorb the anus burn]

National Reconciliation Week: Days Later I Sneezed (2010 Joe Maplin inc)

This is the 4th album from celebrated Rhyl based quintet - a fresh image with a new line up after founder member and bass man Jed was tragically killed falling off a viaduct. The time spent in the studio has paid off with producer Stephen Street going for a tartan texture and coaxing an edgy 'Elaine Stritch' vocal from tabloid love rat Felix. The production is dynamic with a stunning use of an electric washboard in an unorthodox cover version of Ashford & Simpson's Solid As A Rock. The cover recalls a best of LP by The Cure, but the feeling of this album is of a deadly malady, a bird like mutated disease from which there will be no salvation....

1. Occult Biscuits
2. Kelly where's my rats?
3. Nut Butter Jive      
4. Solid As A Rock (Judith Chalmers deephouse remix)   
5. Trident Nuclear Mishap EPIC FAIL
6. Frozen Finger daydream soup girl.
7. Citrus lovin'.   
8. God's salty seed.      
9. Gina McKee's magical Ipod.
10. Issues concerning cravats.      
11. Untie me please, Uncle... In about two hours.
12. Aunt Aggie's hot pie.
13. The Perambulator (recorded live in Argos, Staines)
14. Let's mug the milkman

[greencalx]

Is it too late to join in?




It's a wonder how exactly Gigantatypus ended up on maverick label Decolletage Recordings. It's not that the band doesn't wander into uncompromising territory from time to time, but they're nowhere near the sheer bloody-mindedness of labelmates Raspberry Lube, GottaLotta or Spelunker's Gazette.  At their most effective, Gigantatypus is basically doing a Gyorgi Szamsynski, but without the light and shade. The combination of Gloria Wooddes effect-drenched nose-flute and Timon Saylor's ultra-sequenced float-core has become so ubiquitous, it's hard to fault bands for trying to recapture that lightning.  The problem is about half of "and accept her suggestions" is near-immediately forgettable, and most of these moments come in the gaps between songs.

1. Cellular phone (2'13")
2. Pornopractor (3'55")
3. Why does my Etch-a-Sketch hate me? Part I (16'40")
4. Schadenfreude in F minor (0'21")
5. Whipped cream mass (3'16")
6. Why does my Etch-a-Sketch hate me? Part II (2'22")
7. Kate's wardrobe (8'01")
8. Ring-a-ring-a-ringworm (4'50")
9. Cafeteria (14'06")

Bonus track: Etch-a-sketch Rondo

[Jumble Cashback]

Rum Boogie Café finally step their multi-ethnic feet into the 21st Century with this, a giant, unstoppable-sized gazelle of an album.  Song follows song follows song for a record-breaking 45 minutes of uninterrupted playing time, making this easily the most loud of RBC's offering to date.  Traist Banes is mercifully back on cimbalom, hammering all of his most recent of noises into our welcome, quivering ears and Cuban vocalist, Helen Fudd, takes us to new levels of fantastic worry by laying down an entire song, not in English but in German.  Arik Mengele doubles both on drums and also on cymbals, and songwriter/bandmember, Filth, truly runs the shiny gamut of melody by giving each and every track a different set of notes.  "No, Please!" is the stand-out track on an otherwise out-standing album and the a capella rendition of "The Theme From Record Breakers" leaves us with nothing but wet hands (from crying on them).  Easily the best thing you'll hear in the shower.

1/80     

[massive bereavement]

Who needs retirement when a spiritual mission calls. The legendary Dicrodon Guttulatum are set to release "Peace! God is Awake" on October 14. This marks the first spiritual recording by the band, collaborating with members of the worldwide Unification Church and Catholic vocalist Dana. The album, to be released on EMI, has been personally endorsed by the Tom O'Conner: "Bringing together corresponding pieces from Catholic and Moonie traditions, as has been done here, will allow listeners to share in these prayers, stirring thoughts of deeper respect and peace in their lives. The goal of the project is to show how religions can converge harmoniously through music and chant."
Proceeds from the CD sales will benefit the Spiritual Education Programs for sufferers of Virchow-Seckel syndrome and the deaf.