Since 1994 Seattle's Climax Golden Twins have been digging a deep fucking furrow between the kind of furiously exclusive small group models of free improvisation established in the wake of the formal revolution of the late-60s while simultaneously re-drawing the map by demolishing all of its most useless architecture and replacing it with lots of crude handmade shit. Over the space of a shadowy career that would make even Sun City Girls seem like desperate self-publicists they have dropped a ton of the most puzzling brain-massaging artefacts of the post-MX-80 age while never really enjoying much of a hoo-ha from what passes for an always-overweight underground cognoscenti except when someone got them mixed up with James Toth and Tovah Olson's old Golden Calves orchestra. So here's their new record, is what I'm trying to say. And it's long time you turned on. On 5 Cents A Piece the Twins whip through the kind of surf/modal/psych/doof three-way wild style that will remind you of why they're so tight with Alan and Rick Bishop while having you leap up to check the sleeve for lamination after you suddenly catch yourself like, wuzzat?, did I stick on The Blops box or Traffic Sound's Virgin by mistake? Their grasp is pan-temporal while their cultural reach is prodigious, capable of reconciling teenage Summer All Year Long surf licks with the kind of eschatological avant-garage birthed in the Cleveland flatlands by Rocket From The Tombs, Chocolate Monk/LAFMS-style hands-on avant and smoky middle eastern zazz. It looks good too and comes in a limited run of 500 copies on the Sun City Girls' own label on 180g vinyl.

Soundtrack recording featuring a bunch of tracks by J. Spaceman aka Jason Pierce of Spacemen 3/Spiritualised alongside a clutch of tracks from Sun City Girls, all of which were recorded to accompany Harmony Korine’s film Mister Lonely. The Spaceman tracks are in the classic wasted/come down gospel style of Pierce’s Spacemen/Spritualised mode while Sun City Girls combine evocative instrumentals and vocal chants in a zoned, devotional style.

Always loved this cracked underground side with an all-time great sleeve that echoes that great Charles Plymell shot from the cover of Douglas Blazek’s Ole. Detroit came out of the whole subterranean Phoenix, Arizona scene that birthed Sun City Girls, though he had been active for a while prior to their formation. Sun City Girl’s covered Detroit’s “Immortal Gods” on a 7” and Alan Bishop and Charles Goucher backed him up on this 1982 side, originally privately released by Detroit on his own Pan Records label.  Immortal Gods also features Dan and Mary Clark (Feederz/Victory Acres) and Jesse Srgoncik (who was in Paris 1942 alongside Moe Tucker and Alan Bishop). Detroit’s lyrics combine punked occult motifs, hippy rants on garbage culture and screwball stoner epics beat out on bongos, scrabbly guitar and free form vocals. Features two versions of the classic “Mephisto Cigars”.

Deluxe LP from this group that features Sir Richard Bishop of Sun City Girls with Robert Millis and Jeffery Taylor of Climax Golden Twins and Mr David Knott. Compiled from jams improvised and recorded between the years 2002 and 2008 with microphones set-up in living rooms and at Sun City Girls Blue West headquarters. I haven’t heard Richard sound quite so much like Derek Bailey as he does here, working hermetic acoustic scrabbles and lighting runs across the fretboard with all of the skewed tonal logic of a Company week trips festival. Some of the lonesome percussion work straddles the whole Folkways/Sounds Of The Junkyard aesthetic but with an intent that is deliberately psychoactive, ending up somewhere between NNCK circa A Tabu Two and Spiral Joy Band’s Pleasure Is The Headlight. Other parts of the disc touch on the ethno-forgery style of SCG and CGT but with a slightly more abstruse and dilated approach. The usual classy job from Uzu, with heavy vinyl and wraparound gatefold sleeve featuring an original photograph mounted on the front.