Edition of 300 copies with hand-screened art on recycled LP sleeves: White’s most immediate formal model is obviously Dock Boggs, with that same kinda lonesome, hypnotic delivery, though the music is more ornate and drug-complex, combining beautiful matrices of live and overdubbed wooden 6 string banjo, violin, accordion and kalimba. The tracks combine traditional and originals, with recurring lines and mythic characters freely wandering from one to the other. White magnifies the drone that was always at the heart of the music of Dock Boggs and the early Stanley Brothers, situating it between source and spectrasound as beautifully as Matthew Valentine, Joshua, Dredd Foole or Willie Lane. His vocals have a particularly spell-binding quality to them, zoning out into smears of sound and picking their way around the words like birds on a corpse and the arrangements are gloriously detailed, webs of strange strings that vibrate in complex, primitively executed architectures. The track listing here is particularly choice, opening with a haunted reading of Blind Lemon Jefferson’s “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean” and taking in originals, traditionals and an inspired version of Pink Floyd’s “Fat Old Sun”. 

New seven track mini LP from London’s Pheromoans, who illuminated the great Still Going In Offices compilation. Pheromoans take The Shadow Ring as a transmission point from the first wave of UK DIY to contemporary experiments in experimentally usurped songcraft. The vocals have the same sardonic south of England social commentary and surreal humour, married to songs that wouldn’t be completely out of place on a mid-period Television Personalities album. If you dig Scrotum Poles, Beyond The Implode, Homosexuals et al...