Load Records (2005) Hey! Remember the 2005 project? Well, I put the kibosh on it because, well, I didn’t get my act together quickly enough and, let’s face it, nobody wants to know what your top 50 of one year is. I like to think it was endearingly quixotic. Anyway, there were some write-ups thatContinue reading “Lightning Bolt – Hypermagic Mountain”
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Lightning Bolt – Earthly Delights
Load Records (2009) Lighting Bolt are a tough one to review. They have always been off in a world of their own. It’s a world of sky-riding, wonderful rainbows and hyper-magic mountains. A world where cover artwork is rendered lovingly, and innocently, to brilliantly detailed effect. Seriously, their sleeve art is clearly the portfolio ofContinue reading “Lightning Bolt – Earthly Delights”
Seeland: ‘Call the Incredible (Advisory Circle mix)’
Heroes of electro-nostalgic reassurance-core, Seeland, get fiddled with by The Advisory Circle, in an unsettlingly relaxing track. It’s rather a subtle remix, TAC stripping the backing vocals and general sonic bric-a-brac from the cyber-Richard Hawley original (the B-side of ‘Library’), and replace it with the feeling that our imagined Hawley has slipped some Rohypnol inContinue reading “Seeland: ‘Call the Incredible (Advisory Circle mix)’”
Evangelista packaging fetish
Yep, I got a new camera. And, with it, the glorious return of Packaging Fetish! Yay!
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