THE HERCO PILOTS-JUMPING AT?, 2x7

Spare, clattery and very endearing D.I.Y. post punk action from this overlooked band of Kiwi marginals who were more apt to play under a freeway overpass than in a nightclub, with the best bits here bringing to mind a specific sub-set of left field UK early 80′s activity by the likes of The Door And [...]

ACOLYTES ACTION SQUAD-INCREDULOUS SHRINKING WORLD, LP, 1998, UK

Recessive and profound mystery school electronic probings from one of the great overlooked bands of the last 20 years. I shared AAS’s delirious second outing “Bust Of” way back in ’07 and this debut outing is every bit as startling. Operating in a strange and melodically downcast furrow dug out somewhere between the desolate subterranean [...]

DOGGEREL BANK-SILVER FACES, LP, 1973, UK

The first of two albums by this fantastic, forgotten and determinedly wacky UK outfit, Silver Faces is probably best understood as a quintessentially British spin on the sorta absurdist polit-rock of Germany’s Floh De Cologne (particularly circa Fliessbandbaby’s Beat Show), though the particular (sub)cultural lens it’s being viewed through here renders the results somewhere between [...]

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