BLUES CONTROL - 'S/T'

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• HOLY50320 - CD

  655035632025

• HOLY50320LP - LP

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now getting a deluxe vinyl release !!!blues control might just be the missing link between van halen and legendary experimentalist henry flynt. they are a duo. lea cho plays swank but grounded atmospheric keyboard parts (think harold budd), through which guitar player and manipulator of assorted junk-on-table russ waterhouse cuts, whittles and lays to waste. it's a hazy, spaced world that exists between fuzzed distortion, jabbering electronics, and a lazy, stay-in-bed psychedelic glaze, with rhythmic keyboards pulsating below it all a la a guy named florian-and you can choose which one you want.

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1. BLUES CONTROL
2. BOILED PEANUTS
3. MIGRATION
4. DOUBLE CHIN
5. THE BLUE SHEEP
6. FRANKIE?S PROBLEM
7. HUMMUM
8. NO SWEAT

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REVIEWS IN PLAN B, MOJO, UNCUT, AND THE WIRE

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MOTHER SUPERIOR - 'THREE HEADED DOG'

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• RRB0713 - CD

  3481573706563

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WHAT DO MUSICAL GIANTS LIKE DANIEL LANOIS, HENRY ROLLINS, SPARKS, LEMMY, WAYNE KRAMER ETC. HAVE IN COMMON. THEY ALL HAVE WORKED WITH MOTHER SUPERIOR. ROLLING STONE HAS DESCRIBED THEM AS "LED ZEPPELIN WITH A FULL ERECTION, DECCA-PERIOD ROLLING STONES, AND EARLY ZZ TOP WITH THE FURY OF THE STOOGES". THE ALL MUSIC GUIDE MENTIONS THEM IN ONE BREATH WITH GOV'T MULE AND THE BLACK CROWES. THIS RELEASE CONTAINS 18 SONGS WITH A TOTAL TIME OF JUST OVER AN HOUR. ITS AN ECLECTIC MIX OF KINKS/WHO STYLE ROCKERS AND QUICK BURSTS OF METALLIC PUNK LIKE I'M OBSESSED, SLEEP AND BEG BORROW STEAL. PRODUCED BY MOTHER SUPERIOR AND DANIEL LANOIS.

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REVIEW IN ROCKSOUND, BIG CHEESE

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SUNROOF! - 'PANZER DIVISION LOU REED'

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• VHF105 - CD

  783881010527

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BENEATH THE USUAL LOVELY PSYCHEDELIC ARTWORK ON THE COVER OF PANZER DIVISION LOU REED LURKS SUNROOF'S MOST EXPLOSIVE AND ASSAULTIVE RECORD EVER. THE KEY TRACK HERE IN THE SUNROOF! EVOLUTION IS THE OPENER 'SLEW PLATEAUS #1,' WITH MICK FLOWER (VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA) ON GUITAR AND JOHN MOLONEY (SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN) ON DRUMS. THIS LIVE SHOT OF ELECTRICITY GRADUALLY RAMPS UP FROM FLOWER AND MATT BOWER'S DUELING GUITARS TO THE POINT WHERE MOLONEY'S DRUMS COME CRASHING IN AFTER ABOUT SIX MINUTES, LEADING TO A FURIOUS CRESCENDO THAT LASTS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE 19-MINUTE TRACK. 'SLEW PLATEAUS #2' IS A LENGTHY COLLABORATION WITH UNDERGROUND GADABOUT MATTIN, WHOSE PREVIOUS COLLABS WITH TONY CONRAD, BRUCE RUSSELL, EDDIE PREVOST, ET AL. HOPEFULLY PREPARED HIM FOR THE BOWER WRECKING BALL DELIVERED HERE. THE OTHER TWO CUTS ARE ABSOLUTELY BLISTERING DEMOLITION WORK, WHICH, IN SPITE OF THEIR VISCERAL IMPACT, REACH A STATE OF ZEN-LIKE STASIS AFTER A COUPLE OF MINUTES, ALA THE BEST OF BOWER'S WORK WITH HOTOTOGISU.

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1. SLEW PLATEAUS #1
2. ETOILE SAUVAGE
3. SLEW PLATEAUS #2
4. STAIRWAYS AND TERRACES DESCENDING

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REVIEWS IN THE WIRE, MOJO.

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XNO BBQX - 'SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE'

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• SB90 - LP

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14-TRACK LO-FI GUITAR 'N' DRUM JAM FROM AUSTRALIAN DUO. ORIGINALLY RELEASED SOME TIME BACK ON THE CASSETTE-ONLY LABEL BREAKDANCE THE DAWN, SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE PRICKS UP THE EARS IN MUCH THE SAME WAY AS A HAN BENNINK RECORDING MIGHT, AND LEFT SILTBREEZE WONDERING, WHAT'S LEFT IN THAT STUDIO THAT'S NOT BROKEN? MATT AND NICK HAD PLAYED TOGETHER A COUPLE OF TIMES AS PART OF ANTIPAN (WITH SUMU AND ANTHONY GUERRA). ON A DAY OFF, IN A SHED OUT BACK OF A SHAREHOUSE IN NEWTOWN, THE DUO DID A COUPLE SETS WITH COMPUTERS AND TURNTABLES WITH NO RECORDS, BUT THEN MATT SUGGESTED NICK GIVE THE DRUMS A GO (HE'D PLAYED A FULL KIT ONLY ONCE PRIOR). THEY PLUGGED INTO THE CASSETTE DECK?LEFT CHANNEL, GUITAR; RIGHT CHANNEL, MIC UNDER THE FLOOR TOM AND PLAYED. APART FROM MINOR ADJUSTMENT OF LEVELS, THE END RESULT WAS BASICALLY THAT. THE PHILLY BEAK DOCTORS IMMEDIATELY PROCURED RIGHTS TO REISSUE THE DISHEVELED MASTERPIECE ON VINYL SO THAT 500 (OR FEWER) NOT-YET-BUT-INEVITABLE FANS COULD BASK IN THE WARMTH OF ITS CRUD-O-PHONIC BULLION. AND HERE IT IS. YOU'RE WELCOME. CITING BOTH HARRY PUSSY AND MOUTHUS AS INFLUENCES, XNO BBQX ROCKS WITH A LOT OF JUNK IN THEIR COLLECTIVE TRUNK, SO OF COURSE SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE SOUNDS LIKE NOTHING (OR EVERYTHING) ANYONE'S HEARD BEFORE. 500 COPIES ONLY

XNO BBQX ARE HARDCORE VEGANS HAILING FROM SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. THAT?S RIGHT?VEGANS; THE ONLY SIMILARITY MATT (GUITAR) AND NICK (DRUMS) SHARE WITH CREAM IS A TITLE. ALL YOU DAIRY LOVERS OUT THERE, KEEP YOUR SLOWHANDS IN PLAIN SIGHT. THIS WILL ONLY TAKE A SECOND. TOM LAX HAD A STEAMROLLER SQUASH HIS FOOT ONCE. IT HURT A LOT. HE?S KNOWN PAIN, BUT THIS IS A SENSATION LIKE NO OTHER. XNO BBQX MIGHT NOT BE A STEAMROLLER AND YOU?RE DEFINITELY NOT TOM LAX?S FOOT, BUT THEY HAVE FISTS AND SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE WILL GLADLY POUND YOUR EARS INTO CAULIFLOWER IF YOU LET IT... XNO BBQX

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