New installment in Dull Knife’s singer songwriter series of deluxe 7” singles from Dan Melchior, with two side of post-Syd DIY garage crank and downer psychedelic ballads. Already sold out from the label. This one comes in three different sleeves, each one featuring a separate full-colour photograph affixed to the back. Hand-numbered edition of 300 copies.

Edition of 500 LP, the debut vinyl release from this Scottish label. Obscured By Fuzz is one of Dan Melchior’s most cranking Anglo-garage sides, with the kind of crude post-Oi appeal of The Afflicted Man hi-jacked by classy Medway-style ballads and snotty urban-psych assaults that are literally caked in fuzz. There’s also an amphetamine Mod/pop art feel that would join the dots from Ray Davies and The Small Faces through O Level, The Times and The Television Personalities all the way to the whole Billy Childish/Hangman cultus. Massively addictive, not a duff track on it. Recommended.