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Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 1 July 2017 CE
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 1 July 2017 CE
Jul 02, 2017, 23:12
Circle – Terminal. This is great fun, gonzoid prog metal riffage, like a space rock NWOBHM. Vocals a little krazeee in places, but it’s all carried off with much aplomb: https://soundcloud.com/southern-lord-records/sets/circle-terminal

EMA – Exile In The Outer Ring. This, on the other hand, is definitely not fun, like mainstream American 80s rock put through the electro/industrial grinder and turned into a nightmare. On first listen, it seems a bit lacking in stand-out tunes, but she’s certainly committed to her vision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTeqvdiLwmI

BardSpec – Hydrogen

The Focus Group – Stop-Motion Happening

Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology

Clear Blue Sky – s/t. Debut album from early Vertigo never-weres inevitably eclipsed by Sabbath. It’s rough and ready blues rock of a progressive bent, its raw enthusiasm just about cancelling out its lack of finesse, though in fairness, the band were all just 18 when they recorded it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i_8wZjDEbA

Lynn Castle – Rose Colored Corner. Apparently this is the lady who used to cut everybody’s hair in 60s LA or something. Mainly demoes of an unrecorded album, but she did put out one single, which is a great slice of gritty psych pop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U6_1dfpItU

Listen With Father:

John Barry – Themeology. The oldest wanted something a bit more ‘orchestral’, and this was my response. This is a fantastic comp from 20 years ago, the downside of which being that it came out slap bang in the middle of the New Lad revival, and has some excruciating sleeve notes from Jonathan ‘Wossy’ Ross. Still, crawling through Archway to The Persuaders and The Ipcress File themes made the school run an infinitely cooler experience.

L is for…

Labradford – Prazision. Another charity shop cheapie from years ago, their first album I think, from a time when guitar-based drone music still felt pretty radical. Some great sounds, very Eno-esque in places, but let down by extraneous vocals (which I think they eventually ditched?) which give it a mopey vibe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhkgRw2p7bA

Leaf Hound – Growers Of Mushroom. One of the albums that kick-started the archival fascination with obscure 70s rock, certainly in this household, and I’m guessing in plenty of others too. ‘Freelance Fiend’ remains the stand-out with that awesome riff, but there’s a lot of other good stuff on here, even if it does often sound like a direct splice of early Zep and Free, the singer in particular being the lovechild of Plant and Rodgers. It is surprising they weren’t bigger on the evidence herein, but maybe naming the album after the one rather dated psych track on the album didn’t help, ditto the dreadful sleeve where the band are depicted as the world’s most belligerent pixies in a field of toadstools… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8bGgtU1bwA
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