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E-Or - untitled 7"
I remember buying this record. It was in Virgin on Tottenham Court Road in the late 90s. No idea why I bought it. I knew nothing about the band. Still don't. Maybe I'd decided to take a random punt on something.
There is an off-ish key strum whilst the brass section of an orchestra tunes up. Voices from a tv in another room drift in. On the other side more guitar strum. A clarinet joins in and reminds me of Flying Saucer Attack minus their distortion wash.
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Supreme Dicks/One Small Good Thing - split 7"
Supreme Dicks offer reflective, rubber band guitar strum. It develops into an indie dirge, but that is not a bad thing. Deep in the mix a guitar solos, spiralling pyrotechnics into the maelstrom - a lone moment of expression.
One Small Good Thing produce something warm and wonky, guitar over brushed drums. In places it sounds like I'm Being Good in one of their mellower moments.
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The Shadow Ring - Some of us 7"
Shambling, out of tune strum, synth overload. Someone clatters old boxes and some pots and pans.
Wallet of Wasps has more of a tune, but in the Shadow Ring universe this is a distinct and relative thing. Here it equals acoustic guitar motif, muffled kettle drum and muted gong.
The music is intentionally awkward. None of this would work were it not for the deadpan vocals. They have a sombre gravitas and there is some ancient about them. You feel as if the band are privy to some lost medieval truth which they seem reticent to share.
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The Silver Apples - Fractual Flow 7"
Electronic music pioneers. Briefly got hip again in 1996. The trouble with comebacks is that what was once revolutionary now sounds passe. Analogue hum and retro synth bleeps. Problem is Pram, Plone and others all harness that old school sound now better than Silver Apples.
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Steward - The last wasps of summer 7"
The intro sounds like a glitchy version of the A-team theme. a gentle melody drifts out of the bleeps and processed, cut-up, backward drums. Sounds a bit like latter day Hood. I think this guy is in Hood. I could check but that would be too professional.
The b-side is a Downpour remix. Now they are a bloke out of Hood. Starts off as a tranquil drum & bass re-edit, befor going all digital meltdown. Like waking up at 3 in the morning to find the tv on after the channels have all closed down.
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Headbutt - Stomach swab 7"
Ambient industrial noise scape. You wait for a song to begin but it never does. On the flip is 'Song for Europe'. Bass drone, slow thudding drum machine, atonal guitar scrapings, and Terry Wogan mumbles about the next song.
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The Denison/Kimball Trio - Landshark 7"
Jesus Lizard alumni augmented on this release by Jim O'Rourke and somebody called Ken Augenthaler. Skronking, off-key, lounge-jazz. The b-side, Whirlpool, is a spiral of tension and RSI inducing guitar string wibbling. I think they scored some Jim Jarmusch film. I could look that up, but somehow that would be cheating.
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