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Wandering Glory Ecstatic Yod FYPL-99 LP £12.99 Edition of 500 copies from Andrew MacGregor’s solo project, with screenprinted sleeves done at VG Kids plus insert: “It has been said by a very wise man that a record is a document of a time and thus should only need to be justified as such. Wandering glory is a portrait of change of seasons, change of location and the movement of time. Recorded mostly on the 3rd floor while brothers visited, tours began, tours ended and bags were packed. Life is full of flaws and learning is as never-ending as time” - Gown |
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Monolith: Jupiter Music Fellowship MF-39 One-Sided Pic Disc LP + CD £14.99 Wild pairing of two improvised/destructo units – Bark Haze (aka Andrew MacGregor of Gown and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth) and Traum (Ben Hall of Graveyards and Zac Davis of Lambsbread). The deal is that both groups contribute a bunch of tracks without hearing what the other has done and then both recordings are cut onto the same side of an LP on top of each other. With each group hard-panned to the left and right channels you have the option of either listening to one of the performances by adjusting your stereo panning or leaving it right in the middle and hearing both groups simultaneously. The Bark Haze tracks – including a title, “Lou Reed Is A Creep”, lifted straight from The Dictators – are some of their most minimal drone-based moves, with thrumming electric guitar submerged in feedback and low-end violence. The Traum pieces are more spacious post Bailey/Oxley styled improvisations that veer into the more barbarous early Royal Trux style. Played together it makes for the kind of delirious headclash of Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz recording, with players seemingly responding to each other across time and space and the whole thing building to a beautifully confusing knot. Excellent. Bonus CD makes for a handy way of checking out the individual tracks for when you’re too wasted to pan. Edition of 500 copies, one-time only pressing. |
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Split Krayon Recordings No Cat 7” £5.99 Split 7” featuring a single electro-acoustic drone work from Campbell Kneale of Birchville Cat Motel’s new project - the kind of fluffy bell-tone/metal levitation previously the domain of Matthew Bower’s Sunroof! - while the flip features Thurston Moore and Andrew MacGregor (aka Gown) power-thinking their way through heavy feedback/rock moves. |
