Dunno how Nyali Recordings do it but as anyone who picked up their phenomenal Masami Kawaguchi New Rock Syndicate CD-R will tell you, they consistently succeed in scoring the best material from whoever it is they’re working with. This time round it’s Stefan Neville aka Pumice, with a collection of unreleased radio sessions from around the world that is so perfectly balanced between classic NZ/Flying Nun singer-songwriter-isms and blasted Dead C/Fushitsusha style black hole rock that it’ll have you lining up your King Loser wax before you’re even halfway done. Neville is one of only a handful of performers on the planet – Wooden Wand, Jeremy Earl, Alastair Galbraith – that is capable of combing classic songwriting moves and a feel for higher-minded melody with the aesthetics of scorch, invigorating the singer/songwriter blueprint with a ton of outside junk, with warped fidelity, Dictaphone hymns and mangled feedback instants co-habiting with great, great songs just like they used to ‘back in the day’. Worldwide Gullet draws on tracks from Neville’s last bunch of recordings – Pebbles and Quo - and also includes a buncha covers, two Gfrenzy tracks and one by CJA, both unreleased in Pumice form. Also included are a string of tracks labeled “etc” which Neville describes as “traditional extended live Pumice variations for endless cassette and intercom. Super fans might notice loops from albums being reused and buried in amongst those.” Some of the songs are so blasted that the only real comparison is early This Kind Of Punishment or even Galbraith’s Morse LP. Cross that with instrument destruction that’s as nod-out beautiful as any Dead C fade-out and you’ve got the go-to Pumice album of choice. Hand-numbered edition of 107 copies. Highly recommended.  

Love Cry Want play the works of Albert Ayler as transcribed by Tori Kudo or the Daily Dance LP rescored for idiot avant keyboards and drums, Bold Mould marks the debut of the Olympus duo, aka Stefan Neville of Pumice and Kraus (Futurians/Aesthetics). The sound is scarred with that hazy/out-of-focus NZ edge and runs from melancholy piano/fuzz instrumentals through an inspired reading of Pumice’s “Heavy Punter” from Quo and the aforementioned scrunchy keys/drums breakdowns that have a quality of fall-apart confusion that is extremely joyful. Indeed the album walks the line between exuberant punk-offs, NZ pop and dramatic, moody instrumentals that are even more sci-fi than Joe Meek in inspirational style. Edition of 500 copies with free download.