First remotely ‘available’ evidence of this fantastic grunting US boogie rock monolith led by legendary private/psych dealer Paul Major and featuring Chris Gray from Double Leopards on drums and Matt Sweeney on guest licks. The sound has roots deep in Southern rock, early ZZ Top, AC/DC et al with shots of Canned Heat, John Lee Hooker, Tetuzi Akiyama etc given a deliriously primitive shakedown and extended to infinity via endless repeat-riffing that is minimalist and psychedelic in intent. Major also contributes some barely decipherable wild man ughs and rasping monologues but it’s the brainless-to-the-point-of-Zen keep-on-keeping-on guitar licks that are insanely addictive, with spurts of lead steel that could almost be Kurihara plays Skynyrd. Highly recommended.

Occupying the opposite pole from BXC’s masterful Challenger LP, Papercuts Theatre is a massive collage that smears several years worth of live recordings from Spencer Yeh and co into four monolithic movements that explode time and space in favour of vertical ascensions of tone and some of the heaviest nod-out rock moves of their career. Inspired by classic sleight-of-hand live reviews like The Grateful Dead’s Grayfolded, Sonic Youth’s Sonic Death and Flying Saucer Attack’s In Search Of Spaces, Yeh assembles dense, laminal settings of drone violence, Faust-styled Industrial-brut and outer space strings with a focus on their more aggressive jams. Long passages of tussling strings and thrifty percussion are blown apart by bursts of free jazz energy and screaming violin tones. The Faust Tapes were always a major organisational touchstone for the BXC production style, but Papercuts Theatre pushes the organisational logic of their albums to new spontaneous/hallucinogenic ends. Features Trevor Tremaine, Robert Beatty, members of Lambsbread and more. Heavy duty double LP in gatefold sleeve. Comes with an MP3 download. Recommended.

Occupying the opposite pole from BXC’s masterful Challenger LP, Papercuts Theatre is a massive collage that smears several years worth of live recordings from Spencer Yeh and co into four monolithic movements that explode time and space in favour of vertical ascensions of tone and some of the heaviest nod-out rock moves of their career. Inspired by classic sleight-of-hand live reviews like The Grateful Dead’s Grayfolded, Sonic Youth’s Sonic Death and Flying Saucer Attack’s In Search Of Spaces, Yeh assembles dense, laminal settings of drone violence, Faust-styled Industrial-brut and outer space strings with a focus on their more aggressive jams. Long passages of tussling strings and thrifty percussion are blown apart by bursts of free jazz energy and screaming violin tones. The Faust Tapes were always a major organisational touchstone for the BXC production style, but Papercuts Theatre pushes the organisational logic of their albums to new spontaneous/hallucinogenic ends. Features Trevor Tremaine, Robert Beatty, members of Lambsbread and more. Recommended.

Fantastic debut album from a bunch of relocated Australians (ex-members of Bird Blobs) now resident in New York. Coconuts play epic, extended psychedelic rock with all of the decadent firepower of Les Rallizes Denudes, with slow, lumbering rhythms ala Savage Republic haunted by doomy distant vocals and explosive lead guitar. There are aspects of the obsessive minimalism of Moon Duo/Loop/Spacemen 3 et al but it’s all cut up with a dark/apocalyptic air that is so fantastically downer that it works to swallow all of the light until there’s nothing left but the sibilant afterimage of Skip Spence floating in a void of crude drums and reverb-inflamed guitar. Comes with an MP3 download. Highly recommended for fans of decadent modern psych.