New solo work from Sam Meringue, aka Explorers, Matrix Metals, half of Yoga et al. Flashback Repository is a crude Xerox-psych take on James Ferraro and Spencer Clark’s Hypnagogic memory-recovery process, positing a universal storehouse where all of the waste consciousness of humanity resides. It sounds like abandoned machinery heard through a fog of tape hiss and dreamtone, with keyboards spooling loops of wasteland texture beneath hallucinatory vocal forms and far-away melodies. The feel is closest, perhaps, to the early Skaters style, with peaking drones jump-cutting into keyboard carousels and flickering dreammachine actions, all rendered in a way that sounds as if its beaming across the decades, from the future as much as the past. A reissue of an obscure cassette from Meringue’s Outer Limits Collective, the LP comes with a stapled together booklet featuring ‘explanatory’ text. Edition of 425 copies. Highly recommended. 

Excellent step into mutant pop from Sam Meringue (Matrix Metals/Lamborghini Crystal/Flashback Repository et al) that works as the perfect fluorescent compliment to James Ferraro’s Night Dolls... LP, extending H-Pop formulas into hallucinatory MTV zones. 

New UK-only 7” from Sam Meringue’s (Lamborghini Crystal/Matrix Metals/Explorers et al) Outer Limits Recordings persona with an A-side that hymns TV hypnosis with a mutant guitar-led pop song that kinda parallels James Ferraro’s work circa Night Dolls In Hairspray and a cover of The Sweethearts’ “Burnin Through The Night” on the flip.