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Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 12 May 2018
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Edited May 15, 2018, 15:21
Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 12 May 2018
May 13, 2018, 22:44
Lay Llamas – Thuban. Italian psych guys move further into Afro-groove waters, leading to inevitable Goat collaboration. But there’s also an excellently crackers track featuring Mark Stewart reciting what sounds like the treatment for some sci-fi zombie game for Playstation. Great lead single: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRboTUI5ads

Needlepoint – The Diary Of Robert Reverie. Scandinavians doing a spookily accurate impression of the early 70s Canterbury sound with a bit of jazz fusion thrown in. Nice if a bit nebulous.

Pelagos – Revolve

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Steve Tibbetts – s/t. Why have I never heard of this guy before?? He went on to ECM, but this self-released, home-recorded debut from 1977 is an astonishing, visionary album, part virtuoso acoustic folk/blues, part synapse-blasting cosmic electronica. Honestly, you have to give this a listen: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/steve-tibbetts-hd-882k-24b

Melodic Energy Commission – Stranger in Mystery. Canadian art rock/new age oddity featuring Del Dettmar from Hawkwind. It’s a bit hippie-strange-all-over-the-place, but some might say preferable to what HW themselves were doing in 1979… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U_rAR5CsHQ

Van Der Graaf Generator – Live at Rockpalast. DVD and double CD of German concert from 2005, which is cracking, though definitely not for faint-hearts. Some might say a little VdGG goes a long way, and it’s certainly quite exhausting by the end, but fans will lap this up (even though it’s already been posted in its entirety online): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKRppguloag

Listen With Father:

Choice cuts from the compilation this week include Saxon’s ‘Wheels Of Steel’, which on re-listening nearly 40 years on is ludicrously, maniacally fixated on that riff, and Slade’s awesome ‘Look Wot You Dun’, which, along with David Essex’s ‘Rock On’, is one of the few songs most accurately described as ‘doom glam’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dWBFZpIwT0
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