Rocket The nouveau mediaevalism of the first track on Easy To Build, Hard To Destroy, “Elka” is a choice gem plucked for those early hippy daze where I first mentally hitched a ride on the Gnod train from the back of a dusty Trowbridge barn. A trickle of curling consciousness, leaking naturally into the latch key languid incessants of “Inner Z”, full of sweeping Moog and dazzling silver, […]
Daily archives: 18/07/2021
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Broken Folk The duo of Clair le Couteur and Carli Jefferson brings a much-needed sense of drama and intrigue to the world of folk and their love of the history of song and its function as a staple for our way of life is perfectly presented in Lunatraktors‘ second full-length album, The Missing Star. Taking , they weave sad and strident tales of humanity’s undoing and also its […]
Play Loud! What a pleasure this LP is, a refreshing skew of anarchic jazz / freestyle surgery and falling downstairs momentums. There’s a manic urgency that makes AIDS Delikat one of my favourites of the Tapetopia series so far. Recorded at the end of 1984, Christmas market sounds intersperse the action. The ping(ed) recoil of air-gun darts mingling with festive barrel organs, weaving between the goods, the fruit […]