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Hole Class
s/t
Meds No Cat
LP
£11.99
Collaboration LP between Rob Enbom of Eat Skull and Beth Murphy of Times New Viking. Skirting a kinda similar turf to both of the motherships, Hole Class cut up their punk lo-fi attack with fuzz bass, unarmoued male/female vocals and song fragments in a way that makes you think of a slightly tougher take on the K sound, with an almost Calvin Johnson-esque delivery buried in pile-ups of acoustic/electric structural confusion. Some of the tracks are just straightforwardly beautiful, less about destructo aesthetics and more about pie-eyed emotionalism and personal resonance. Guided By Voices is a reference that always seems to orbit the Eat Skull cultus and there’s definitely a bunch of that here two, with the combination of short, classic pop/folk/rock songs and raggedy ass aesthetics proving as potent as anything from Pollard and co.
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Psychedelic Horseshit
Golden Oldies
Wasted Vinyl Records Wasted-01
LP
£12.99
Limited self-released LP that mops up all of the band’s earliest CD-R releases in one place: King Tubby’s Badness Dub, The Anticoncept, Blown Speaker Standards, Dancey Pants and Summertime Suicide alongside a couple of bonus tracks. Even cruder than the recent Shitgaze Anthems set, the combination of zero fidelity, almost-hooks and non-conceptual avant smarts is pretty choice. Comes with liner notes from Rob Enbom of Eat Skull.
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