Dan Melchior und Das Menace

I've picked up a few of Dan Melchior's records over the years and the man can lay a roughed up blues riff but none of his newer diversions under the "un Das Menace" banner have really grabbed me until now. Tearing at the strings like a psych-blues shaman, Melchior seems to have finally found the perfect balance between his In The Red garage floor beginnings and the unhinged side of the sun. Fuzz blown and string strangled, Obscured by Fuzz lives up to the promises that title brings with it, and Melchoir leads the the ransacked parade in grand shambolic fashion. The album's at its best when the fuzz bites into you like a confused dog, thrashing out without knowing what its going to do once it hooks its teeth in. But while Melchior's guitar pulls back it's gums, he remains cool and collected vocally watching the carnage go down with a crooked smirk. When he does dip into a few Syd Barrett woozy pop numbers, its still all well and good, just more twisted firewood to stoke the blaze but he does well to keep one foot in his tattered amp past and the other stretched way into the void.

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[MP3] Dan Melchior und Das Menace - Obscured by Fuzz
[MP3] Dan Melchior und Das Menace - Caffeine and Alcohol

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Sic Alps return and show us their catchy underbelly with a two shot of great garage pop and even a Donovan cover. Is there nothing they can't do?

	Sic Alps – L. Mansion 7" The A-side on this single is the flat out catchiest and strumiest the Alps have ever been… and why not, when in Slumberland make the most of it take a trip 'round the pop fountain. "L. Mansion" isn't without that true Sic Alps grit but the band seems
to have a cooked smile on their faces while they tear things up. Hitting the flip, the band tears into a Donovan classic and wrangles one of the most disaffected fuzz blown versions of "Superlungs My Supergirl" ever laid to tape. Leave it up to the Alps to show the (psych)folkies how its done. Nuff said, you need it. Download: [MP3] Sic Alps - L. Mansion Support the artist. Buy it HERE

Dunebuggy

There's always so much to digest every time I get a batch of Night People tapes that inevitably something slips through the cracks. Finally popping this Dunebuggy tape into the machine and the results are damned interesting. The Buggy is NP mainstay Ryan Garbes(1/2 of Wet Hair) and Charles "Taterbug" Free fully embracing their inner garage rock demons, rollicking up a storm. Oddly enough it comes out pretty damn catchy. Sloppy as all hell? Yeah, you betcha, but honestly that's sometimes how the best rock impulses get sussed out. Riding on huge surges of organ, fuzzy pot shot drums and a vocal that floats with a high lilt that may not be the 60's picture portrait of garage; but in '09 its the eerie spectre of the rising lo-fi paradigm. This is definitely the roots of something that with time could really be fun to watch or hell who knows they could just stay ragged shagg-ed forever. Listen to the seeds and see what grows next.

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[MP3] Dunebuggy - Money Honey

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Nudge

Brian Foote steps out from behind the boards and returns to the forefront yet again in his role as Nudge. Though he's kept busy playing in Valet and Atlas Sound and producing Lotus Plaza; its been a while since he's taken proper credit for a recording. It seems all the nob tweaking in the producer's chair has really solidified his own sound. Still skirting the lines of ambient and dub As Good As Gone is a beautiful, cohesive album that floats and gently bobs through gummy fog and disconnected soul. When Valet's Honey Owens' steps up to the microphone Nudge's gentle throb swirls into a kind of lost-in-time lounge that's swathed in the purple velour of cigarette smoke and port. Then just as easily her supple voice is supplanted by Foote's own icy vocalizations on songs like "Aurolac" swinging from languid to vaporous and right back through the digital dub filter of Foote's electronic eye. I have to admit that I'm more of a sucker for the Owens fronted tracks but when Foote hits just the right not of Brightblack Morning Light hushed ghost dance he can keep things just as entrancing.

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[MP3] Nudge - Two Hands

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Julian Lynch

As a member of Ducktails, one would no doubt expect a rather wave washed approach to pop to seep into Julian Lynch's solo work. As such Orange You Glad does trade in a certain gasoline haze that seems to coat much of the Duck's work as well but Lynch sways further from the sunny veneer of coastal jams that flow from Mondanile's guitar. Instead Lynch replaces the rays of euphoria with a calm melancholy overcast that feels as comforting as days spent watching rain on window panes from the dry comfort of a favorite chair. Softly psychedelic and bringing a subtle edge of comfort to the lo-fi landscape, Lynch's songs hit like a feathered hammer just when you need it. Though barbs and edges of gritty guitar occasionally sneak their way through the one cushioning constant is Julian's honey and heat voice that brings sweet relief every time. A welcome addition to the gauzy stable of summer records piling up on the tails of '09.

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[MP3] Julian Lynch - Andaza
[MP3] Julian Lynch - Rancher

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	Omnibus - Omnibus Though this New Jersey band was released on United Artists, details of their career seem fairly hard to come by. Nonetheless the record is certainly of merit, betraying the band's East Coast roots with a mix of California psych and heavy fuzz. Vocals tend to
stray into the Jim Morrison range of heavy handed bravado but without the level of pomposity and lyrical pretentiousness that came out of that camp. The rest of the album snakes along on huge stabs of organ and slippery psych forms, that while not mind blowing in the effects category, seem to be rooted in a powerful melodic rock that relies more on hardened song craft than disposable studio trickery. Omnibus are at their best when their ire rises and the standout track seems spent in the first few minutes with "The Man Song", a track very telling of the time it was written. The band or perhaps the label seems to have called it quits after this sole eponymous release and this is more than due a nice quality reissue given the music it contains. Download: [MP3] Omnibus - The Man Song [MP3] Omnibus - Shake It Off Support the artist. Buy it: HERE (eBay)

Final

Though seemingly lesser known than many of his other endeavors, Final is Justin Broadrick's longest running moniker, running back to his musical beginnings. Not as cinematic as his work in Jesu nor as angry as the overtones of Godflesh or the recently released Greymachine record, but still finding the emotional depth in gorges of noise and the sadness inherit in the most monolithic tones. In fact sadness seems to be the prevailing theme of Reading All the Right Signals Wrong. Broadrick's bleak machinations and guitar manipulations stumble upon a wealth of grey-eyed, open-hearted longing for understanding amongst the rubble and fleeting demise of civilized emotion. The original version of the album was released earlier this year solely on vinyl but has been presented here on CD with the addition of remixes of each of the four tracks that make up the album. Amazingly the remixed versions seem to deepen the bleakness and depth of despair that were already lodged in Broadrick's original tracks making this two equally dark roads to travel upon.

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[MP3] Final - Green
[MP3] Final - Wrong Signal (Alt. Mix/Edit)

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Another batch from the HoZac Hookup Klub has arrived and again a few gems lie within. Definitely worth the sticker price on this subscription series.

	White Mystery – HoZac Hookup Klub 7" First and best is the entry from Chicago's White Mystery. Featuring Miss Alex White, who has torn things up in bands around Chicago and on In The Red for years. Here Alex is joined by her brother and the fluffy red hair gets flying with stripped down, raw
garage pop that sounds like some of the best she's turned out yet. After hearing this 7" my hopes are high that there's a full length in the works. Download: [MP3] White Mystery - Powerglove Support the artist. Buy it HERE(sold out)
	Art Thieves – HoZac Hookup Klub 7" Art Thieves take the prize in the design department this time around but lose the battle of fidelity. Blown out< and fuzzy don't even do this justice as the band grinds and pummels its way through two brutally jagged tracks. Steamrollin' like it was
their second nature and unapologetic all the way through, some how you've got to respect them for that. Download: [MP3] Art Theives - Mona Lisa Support the artist. Buy it HERE (sold out)
	Mother of Tears – HoZac Hookup Klub 7" Mother of Tears seem to have taken a page out of the melodic grunge songbook and both songs, but especially the b-side here, seem to recall the FM radio circa 1993. Wrap it in flannel and post-mark it Seattle.
Download: [MP3] Mother of Tears - In The Morning Support the artist. Buy it HERE (sold out)

Oneohtrix Point Never

The Krautrock hinted at in Daniel Lopatin's side project Infinity Window takes full formation on his latest Oneohtrix Point Never release Zones Without People. The record is the second in a three part series that links the shifting drone of his No Fun release Betrayed in the Octagon and the more fully realized harmonic visions to follow. The bulk of Zones floats between crystalline antiseptic landscapes of Utopian unease and arpeggiated mechanic precision. The specter of Krautrock and electronic music's past hangs heavy over Lopatin's head, but he manages to pull his works deeper into the buzzing electric din than many of his predecessors seemed to have allowed themselves to reach. When headphones are employed, OPN takes the listener to strange sensory deprived places that the soul wasn't meant to reach, aching for touch with humanity but feeling only the mechanic buzz and warble of the nebulous energy that flows through Zones. You can feel the lock step breakdown of social fabric in its clean and polished drones, both sad and at the same time devoid of any tangible feelings. Definitely an intriguing and engaging release.

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[MP3] Oneohtrix Point Never - Zones Without People
[MP3] Oneohtrix Point Never - Hyperdawn

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Master Musicians of Bukkake

Master Musicians of Bukkake smolder in a brew of shamanistic ritual and esoteric worldly psychedelia. That the band's last album featured contributions from Sun City Girls members Alan Bishop and Charles Gocher and the current incarnation features members of Sunn o))), Earth, Grails and Burning Witch should seem to set the tone for what the band begins to unearth on Totem One. The first in a trilogy that will span multiple labels and doubtless summon even more spirits, the album is a loosely woven tapestry of at once harrowing and beautiful psychedelic experience. Once again featuring the talents of Bishop (though sadly not Gocher, r.i.p.), the band, which has now bloomed to a seven piece ensemble, twists and divines their way through scorched earth treatises and tender rebuttals in the way only masters of their art form can. Totem Two will be released shortly on SCG's own Abduction Records and needless to say since we're coming late to this release, that one ranks high on the '09 must hear list.

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[MP3] Master Musicians of Bukkake - People Of The Drifting Houses
[MP3] Master Musicians of Bukkake - Cascade Cathedral

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Also be sure to check the Features section where I'll be doing semi-regular updates on poster designers that fit the scope of RSTB. First up is Dutch collective Straw Dogs.

Meth Teeth

Meth Teeth deliver on the promises made with their early tapes and 7"s, wrapping huge riffs in a layer of gristle and gravel to keep things from getting to friendly. A few of the tracks that appeared on the Night People tape posted here a while back return on Everything Went Wrong but with a little bump in fidelity and a slight window of clarity, but mind you only slightly. As corrosive as their namesake, the band take hold of the lo-fi wave storming the tape circuit and fling it through a rickety four track, choosing off the rails charm over the simplest pleasantries. A flurry of static, a crash of bodies hitting instruments and instruments hitting instruments twists out a rusted chunk of of a record reeking of back room grunge hangover and loner squat boombox anthems.

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[MP3] Meth Teeth - Never Been To Church
[MP3] Meth Teeth - Unemployment Forever

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	John Phillips - Andy Warhol Presents: Man on the Moon The particulars and events that lead up to John Phillips disastrous space opera seem almost too insanely Hollywood to be true. Phillips, post Mamas and the Papas was inspired by the Apollo 11 moon
landing and set out to write an epic mythological play about a humanoid bomb, left on the moon that threatens to destroy the universe (naturally). With the part of the heroic astronaut originally intended for Elvis, the part of an off-key singing alien written for his naturally off-key singing wife Genevieve, discussion of a movie version to star Jack Nicholson, the involvement of Andy Warhol, a troupe of pop n' locking dancers from Soul-Trane and accusations that George Lucas stole the premise of Star Wars from an early version of its script, it all seems... a little much. But it would seem that Phillips remained dedicated to the project for over five years and with his efforts it did finally open to a celebrity audience but closed in only five days. The failure of the project drove John deeper into drug addiction but eventually some of the work would get parlayed into his role in the similarly themed "The Man Who Fell To Earth". Ah but what about the music you ask, well its not at all without its merits. Overlooking some of the rather obsessively space-themed lyrical content, there are some great tunes that echo Phillips' early solo work and his themes of misunderstood loneliness. There are also a few songs that seem like the heaviest dose wouldn't make you understand what's going on (i.e. "Wee Funky Little Bats") but maybe it had to be seen to be understood. Nonetheless this remains a very interesting look into a man's tireless work. The CD also includes two videos of early rehearsal footage that do little to clear things up but give a nice glimpse into the production. Download: [MP3] John Phillips - Andy's Talkin' Blues [MP3] John Phillips - Yesterday I Left the Earth Support the artist. Buy it: HERE

Ducktails

It seems that '09 is destined to be the summer of Ducktails, with Matt Mondanile cranking out an equally engaging follow-up to his S/T record in quick fashion. Landscapes puts a double layer of neon ennui on top of the musty VHS dream sequence charm that permeated the first couple of recordings. Here the colors are brighter and the edges softer but the sun doesn't shine any less brilliant over the squat lined suburban apartment roofs that dot Ducktails' landscapes. On the rare occasion that vocals break through the melted instrumental trance, they too seem to keep themselves from worry or hurry, just taking in the natural ease of their sunny surroundings. Its gonna be a toss-up at year's end which album gets more play but it feels like Landscapes may eke ahead of the NNF album's more cut and paste appeal.

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[MP3] Ducktails - Landrunner
[MP3] Ducktails - Wishes

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Nodzzz are always breezing in and leaving after far too brief a stay and this scant 7" is no different. Still the little bit of sweetness they bring to your ears is well worth the wait for more.

	Nodzzz – True to Life 7" Still janglin'? You bet your ass they are. Nodzzz would have it no other way and this 7" serves as (hopefully) a stop-gap between last year's 12" and more to come. The A-side is jumping and strumming just as they've always done, with a bittersweet slow down on
the chorus and plenty of sing-a-long charm. The B-side is a bit breezier, a bit slower but no less a scrappy bit of pop that screams, or rather slyly drawls - Nodzzz. Sure the band aren't knocking down the walls of pop but somehow being content to slump yourself against them seems just as endearing. Download: [MP3] Nodzzz - True To Life Support the artist. Buy it HERE

Greymachine

Combining members of Jesu, Godflesh and Isis doesn't exactly sound like a recipe for carefree pop but Greymachine seem to delve to depths of scraping, ragged evil that their divided parts usually touch on only briefly. The entirety of Disconnected wears so leaden on the listener that light seems only a memory by the final strangled chords. Starting off with a taste of shrapnel grit between the teeth, the group only increases the feeling of sinking in glass as the album progresses and by time you're partway through its far too late to look back. There's only but to trudge on through the hellish landscape that Brodrick and co. have laid before you. Even the insistent drizzle that clouds the skies of Disconnected can't wash away the feeling of hopeless, endless struggle and pain that Greymachine have brought to life. In other words... an absolutely wonderful record.

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[MP3] Greymachine - Wasted


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Samara Lubelski

Samara Lubelski has long lent her violin skills and enchanting voice to a host of collaborators but her solo recordings have remained some of the most beautiful work she's been involved in. Caught between sleep and dream, her solo persona taps into soft focus pop and delicate folk strains that often contrast some of her more dissonant collaborators. On Future Slip Lubelski continues to let her voice fall soft as feathers, bolstered by subtle touches of guitar and a gentle pop of percussion that pushes her along. She's joined here by a rather impressive roster of backing talent including Steve Shelley, P.G. Six and some production help from Thurston Moore. It seems that Lubelski's gorgeous pop records are often overlooked or worse yet written off for their easy charm, and soft delivery. Don't be fooled by the smooth taste though, Lubelski's talent is more than apparent on Future Slip and perhaps your Sunday mornings have been lacking a record such as this more than you could have ever known.

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[MP3] Samara Lubelski - Empire's Dream
[MP3] Samara Lubelski - Fielding The Mine

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TV Ghost

TV Ghost caught a few ears with their 7" on Die Stasi but it would appear that a few more are about to get an evil earful with their first full length, Cold Fish just hitting shelves via In The Red. Riding a nihilistic wave that stretches from Suicide to the A-Frames, the band have a heavy hand on the lid of industrialized punk. Often times rubbing like a cheese grater to the skull, Cold Fish is not a bubbly brand of garage punk, but rather hearkens back to the instinct to create discomfort through shrapnel latticed guitar assaults and seasick swells of air raid organ. The band appear to have received a box of crayons that contains only shades of gray and proceed to scribble on the walls with such a fever that there's some sort of twisted beauty in their caustic splatter; and that's just the music, lyrically the band aren't exactly spitting rainbows either. Razored assaults on alienation and society abound and though the lyrics are pretty shrouded, my hopes are high that "The Singularity" is about the frightening theory of Singularitarianism. The album is another great notch in the In The Red belt and probably the anti-summer album of the summer.

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[MP3] TV Ghost - The Singularity
[MP3] TV Ghost - The Consumption

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	Various Artists - Well Hung Andy Votel's B-Music label continues to churn out the best of non-Western rarities and here they follow up on their reissue of Sarolta Zalatnay's work a few years back with a retrospective of Hungarian hard funk rock from the same
fertile period. Proving that some of the best music comes from the repressive regimes that forbid it, the bulk of the tracks here come from a time when the region was shrouded in communism and outwardly discouraged the influence of Western music. Though they were ultimately allowed to continue their craft, many bands were eyed warily by their government for their creation of a youth culture that was thought to run contrary to nationalistic interests. The music, though slung under the funk banner runs from heavy funk rock to more prog-styled interests and aside from the breathtaking work of Zalatnay it also sheds light on some of Hungary's best and brightest and unfortunately unheralded. From the fuzz leads of Metro to the heavy perfection of Omega and the psych clouded blasts of Hungaria; the scene was thick with talent that unfortunately missed its due in the Western world. Also grabbing sonic attention are some solo runs from this rather incestuous scene with the powerful vocals of Kati Kovacs rivaling those of Zalatnay herself. Again B-Music bring convincing arguments for the absolute necessity of music you never knew existed and afterward never knew how you could have lived without. Download: [MP3] Omega - Félbeszakadt Koncert [MP3] Neoton - Nóra Support the artist. Buy it: HERE

Nisennenmondai

Nisennenmondai have just started to make an impact on U.S. audiences but they're already underground heroes in their native Tokyo. Garnering praise from members of Battles and Black Dice to Haino Keiji, they certainly have found themselves in good company. The trio specializes in hypnotic, circular rhythms that tumble and pulse with a relentlessness that threatens to tear loose at any moment. Synthesizing Krautrock influences through a gritty urban Tokyo filter, the group takes precision to an obsessive level and grinds it deep into your skull with their heels. Somehow they manage to feel jerkily danceable and rigidly discordant at the same time, Nisennenmondai's songs have found a brutal balance. It seems only a matter of time before the rest of the world takes notice of Nisennenmondai and their fevered brand of noise.

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[MP3] Nisennenmondai - Disco

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Soft Abuse are never ones to let me down and though I've been searching around for this single for a few months, the wait has paid off in sweet tones of beach-pop goodness. Maybe its fate that it hit my speakers in the heat of August.

	Sonny and the Sunsets – Love and Death 7" Riding to the beach with Jonathan Richman in the sidecar and taking more than a few detours through 50's America, Sonny puts some kind of cheery face on getting through addiction. The accompanying comic
book tells the whole sordid tale of bottoming out, but the record seems to make everything go down much easier. A-side slow bopper "Death Cream" has a strange and morbid humor that's balanced by the sweet 50's pepper pop of drums and strums on the flip side sway "Strange Love". Sure these tracks have been trodden before, but somehow that doesn't make it any less sweet. Looks like there's an LP in the works also on Soft Abuse and with Tim Cohen and Shayde Sartin involved you know its gotta be great. Download: [MP3] Sonny and the Sunsets - Death Cream Support the artist. Buy it HERE

Eddy Current Suppression Ring

After bringing their caustic, writhing sophomore album stateside, Goner does U.S. audiences the courtesy of unleashing the album that preceded it as well. Just as tightly wound as Primary Colours, the S/T debut pull hooks through muscle and bone until it wrenches you into contortions that you never thought possible. Still tagging the same proto-punk template, though maybe a few years earlier on the timeline than the sophomore album tapped, their debut album makes it easy to see why their native Australia has embraced them so savagely. Matter-of-fact, if you found Primary on your turntable for a good clip of the last year or so, then you'd only be doing yourself a disservice by not snagging the spot where it all started.

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[MP3] Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Get Up Morning
[MP3] Eddy Current Suppression Ring - It's All Square

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Ty Segall

Ty Segall grants us a bit of a look into his past with a vinyl reissue of cuts from the Horn of the Unicorn cassette, a few 7"s and some unreleased nuggets. Most of Horn should sound pretty familiar to fans of Ty’s last few records. Some well loved tracks show up here in their infancy and its nice to get a different slant on a few tracks that have been burning up my headphones for the last few months. "The Drag" shows up here, slower but with a bit more clarity and there’s a similar treatment for "So Alone". A rough and ready version of "Can’t Talk" shows up as "Can’t Talk To You" and there’s even a bit of high school garage glamour with a cut from Ty’s 16 year old self entitled "Love You" This one probably pops on the radar for those that are already fans of Segall’s work, if you’re a beginner it might be better to track down last year’s S/T record. However this one’s not without its charm and might even be worth it just for the blown out version of Floyd’s "Bike" that ekes its way from the rattled speakers.

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[MP3] Ty Segall - So Alone
[MP3] Ty Segall - I Don't Know My Name

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Tim Cohen

Seems Tim Cohen's a busy man these days, with the Fresh & Onlys last LP barely dying down to a simmer and an upcoming release impending on Woodsist; hey why not throw in a solo album as well? The Two Sides of Tim Cohen strays far from the work Cohen's been doing lately with Fresh & Onlys, mixing a strong slice of loner psych into the haunted mysticism that permeated his previous work in Black Fiction. There are bursts of pop that peek through the rain soaked windows of Cohen's songwriting, occasionally letting a little light into his bittersweet temperament, but for the most part the album burns a slow path through the minor key. As a result it doesn't clinch on the first listen, or even the second, instead Two Sides reveals itself to be a slow grower over repeated listens. Each new layer peeled back from Cohen's exterior reveals another marbled tear, another queasy calmness that echoes not only Tim's past, but your own as well. Piece by piece the album pounds, stitches and tapes back together the human psyche only to offer it up to the hounds that tore it apart in the first place.

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[MP3] Tim Cohen - Take Aim Goliath
[MP3] Tim Cohen - Burn My Martyr

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More sweet echoes of the past from the RSTB Jukebox this week. Wrapping up a whole host of garage blues, psych stompers and more. Just like you like it.

[MP3] Annabee-Nox - Always On My Mind
Starting things off a little sweet and Swedish here with a tune from Annabee-Nox. The band mixed in a nice bit of harmony and a touch of psychedelic affectation to create a rather pretty, melancholy little track.

[MP3] The Basement Wall - Never Existed
The boys in the perplexingly named Basement Wall take an ode to love in the opposite direction of sweet. Mashing up some biting lyrics with a full on attack of fuzz leads, perhaps they could have gone further, but instead all they left us was this gem.

[MP3] The Blues Project - You Go, I'll Go With You
Projections is one of the great blues rock albums of the 60's but the band's live cut from Cafe Au Go Go has a pretty good set of legs as well and gets things rolling on the American leg of the 60's blues revival. Kooper and the boys do a fine job on this blues staple.

[MP3] The Golden Cups - Got My Mojo Workng
Sure the Americans and the Brits are known for shining a light on well deserved blues acts in the 60's but even Japan had a blues revival and The Golden Cups tackle more than their fair share of classics on their '69 live album. Tearing up "Mojo" with the best of them and even giving things a bit of a jazz touch here.

[MP3] Laughing Kind - Empty Heart
Well this week's feeling a little light on the FUZZ, so this cut from Laughing Kind should clear that right up. Buzzing like a turbine and rocking with organ in the background, the band kept things restrained but still let it cut to the bone.

Matta Llama

Matta Llama recorded these sessions as one of the inaugural recordings at Black Dirt Studios. Seems they were mutually shelved at the time only to be unearthed when time and mixing experience allowed them to be fully realized as the monstrous and creeping The Witch Channel. The band has previously released works on Mad Monk and Ecstatic Peace and cites amongst their ranks illustrator Airik Roper, so it would seem a few heavy credentials are in order. The album crawls through the molten blackness stopping only briefly to add chunks of rubble and debris to its twisted and tortured form. Underneath the undulating cloud form that threatens rain at each minute, there lies a blues base that lets itself through most notably on "Ukiah Shade". Elsewhere though its pushed deeper into fuzz channeled nightmares and scorched sky lamentations. Though its old to the band its new to the world and rightly secures Matta Llama's reputation as psychedelic innovators.

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[MP3] Matta Llama - PHALLIX
[MP3] Matta Llama - Ukiah Shade

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