***Jawdropping new collection of crop circles etched in sonic candy-floss by New Zealand's beardsmith/noise-farmer CAMPBELL KNEALE (BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL). Rated by the horses mouth as the best thing he ever made, EVER, 'Blue Eyes Are My Reward' shimmers like an icicle-clad forest resplendent in its own crystalline magnificence. Snakecharming groove, dublike boomph, and bleary eyed strum blast the path out of a decidedly greying world of so-so metalized-myspace-drone, into a miniaturized drone-prairie of superpowered starshine and dazzling stellar- commotion. Beyond the tyrannous clutches of omnipresent zeroes and ones, the macro and micro merge into an all encompassing nowhere of sound, each expansion checked by equal contraction like Messaens 'modes of limited transportation' scrambled by the Large Hadron Collider and replayed by one of those little twinkly watch reflections that occasionally dance around on the roof. Beautiful. 180-gram vinyl, everything by Campbell Kneale.
LP $21.45
09/07/2010
***OLWDTW's CAMPBELL KNEALE (BIRCHVILLE CAT HOTEL, et al.) closes in on the glistening, levitation altar, with backwards bliss-shimmer, spooked chant, and analogue squawk'n'squeal. BARK HAZE (THURSTON MOORE and ANDREW MACGREGOR) hit back with focused power-drone guitar dueling from the heart of the bong.
7" $9.45
06/15/2010
***VCO drops straight into a heads-down, fully tranced narco-dust trail, with guitar-born fireflies leading the way through a never-changing backdrop heat haze of low-lying smoke-mist and earth-veined throb. Tweets and rattlesnake percussion join mystic keyboard spirits blowing in a weightless drift. The first cut from INFINITE LIGHT is a section lifted from a show featuring BARRY DEAN on guitar, MICK FLOWER on guitar and organ and PETE NOLAN jamming the traps, and its a full, free-rock, psych-out captured through a heavy veil of no-fi smog. Part two wraps solo harmonic guitar vignettes around a falsetto vocal cadence fluctuating at the point of saturation.
7" $9.45
06/15/2010
***Beautifully self-recorded heavy psych by the three-man cosmic research team formally known as the NACKT INSECTEN TRIO. Drum-clouds, synthesizer atmospheres, anti-gravity percussion accents, and saturating feedback zones. Featuring members of LANTERNS and EYE SHAKING KINGDOM. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl.
LP $19.75
06/15/2010