***After piles of privately released CDRs and long gone vinyl-only releases, here’s the MV / EE (MATT VALENTINE and ERIKA ELDER) album for the masses. Don’t be fooled though, this is neither the Medicine Show zone of recent years, nor a mere echo of the TOWER RECORDINGS flame, but a new beast stirring awake in the beaming sun of now. Aided by the BUMMER ROAD and Elder, MV has pushed his cosmic sounds beyond the apex of high. No doubt there's plenty of lifted rural raga vibrations, and big woozy doses of haunted folk-blues as well, but the mix of flat-out killer ‘songs’ and extended electric psych-outs is something of a revelation. Throughout the album both MV & EE’s vocals are more present and stronger then ever, and the harmonies have a real sweet lonesome glow. Includes contributions from MO’ JIGGS, SPARROW WILDCHILD, NEMO BIDSTRUP, TIM BARNS, and SAMARA LUBELSKI. Packaged with nice inserts, and woven Japanese inner sleeves. First edition of 1000 copies.
CD $19.75
06/18/2007