Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

AFCGT
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Uzu Audio No Cat

LP
£18.99


Edition of 550 copies on white vinyl that reissue the first totally obscure CD-R (only 75 made) from this form-mangling group that blends members of The A-Frames and Climax Golden Twins. Less fixated on the angular punk aggression of The A-Frames and more focussed on the kind of twilight third world rock brut that would reconcile the modal string-sting of Sun City Girls with harvesting waves of fuzz and junk, the closest parallel is still classic-era Mouthus but there’s a more overtly dazzling range of techniques on display, from ethno-fused psych instrumentals that could almost be Billy TK plays the best of the Majora catalogue through post-Noise takes on extreme DIY refusal. Whole deal is packaged with the usual Uzu Audio eye, in a tip-on style gatefold sleeve with black-on-black silkscreen detail.

Messenger Girls Trio
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Uzu Audio 003

LP
£21.99


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.