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NEW JUNK FOR YOUR TRUNK 4/11/08

Various Artists / Phantom Guitars [Psychic Circle]
I love it when the subtitle of the record reviews it for you. 'A cool collection of twangin' guitar instrumentals from the U.K. 1961-1964.' You like The Ventures and The Shadows right? Of course you do. Well you can't go wrong with this batch of groovy guitars. Rockin'. JT

Coil / The Ape of Naples 4LP Box Set [Important]
Coil alas are no more. They were thee masters of dark visionary psychedelia. Whichever phase they were in... industrial, techno, or experimental, they were out to mess with your perceptions and take you somewhere you'd never been. And this is their most gorgeous and mature work, presented most gorgeously. The boxed set contains Ape of Naples on three one sided 180 gram lps, which all are etched on the b-side. The fourth disk is a double sided lp of six tracks, previously unreleased, from the same sessions. And they only made 1500 of them, so don't wait too long. MO

Various (Artists?) / Eavesdrop: A Wealth of Found Sound [Jacob Smigel]
Where to begin? A nice booklet with copious notes is included and a few random (found) photos, slides and some other junk too. The CD package itself is covered with a collage of random (found) photographs. The CD itself? It is all annotated in the liner notes for you. If you just listen and not look it is a pastiche of inscrutable audio clips made in various ways by various people about various things. It is vaguely creepy, sometimes hilarious and all the way weird. These are audio snapshots presented in the mysterious haze of the past, the unknown and the unknowable. Like going to the thrift store or a junk shop rummaging through stuff and imagining the lives of the people that it belonged to. Weird. JT (also, you can check out Analog America a four course meal of found sound....more weirdness of the same ilk.)

AFCGT/ No Title Bootleg [No Label]
We reviewed this a while back, noisy psychedelic punk foolishness all wrapped up in black and recorded by an magic elf or some such nonsense. Well we have the last copies available anywhere and forever. If you want one email us now and we'll make the proper arrangements. JT

Sun Kill Moon / April [Caldo Verde]
Quite lovely. No surprise. For those who don't know, this is the current band of the man who was behind Red House Painters. Mark Kozelek's been at this for almost 20 years now. His voice is still remarkably rich, intimate and warm. The songs alternate between acoustic and electric and are all gorgeous. But like I said, no surprises. Kozelek has always sounded a little samey to me. He covers AC/DC and they sound like melancholy singer songwriters. Still, the guy's a national treasure. MO

Yikes / Whoa Comas Or Blood Bomb [Kill Shaman]
1. Various Artists • This Is Not L.A. • (None) 2. Chthonic Force • Delirium Tremens • (Discriminate Audio) 3. Yikes • Whoa Comas Or Blood Bomb • (Kill Shaman) 4. Wright, Steven • I Still Have A Pony • (Comedy Central) 5. Swans • Body to Body Job to Job • (Young God) 6. Young Marble Giants • Colossal Youth & Collected Works • (Domino Recording Company) 7. Mammal • Lonesome Drifter • ((No Label Information)) 8. Bran(...)Pos • Coin-Op Khepri • (C.I.P and Snse) 9. Shellac • Excellent Italian Greyhound • (Touch and Go) 10. Various Artists • Mt6 Records 2007 Sampler • (Mt6)

The above is the KZSU DJ top ten list for this week. Yep, this about covers it. Gritty, dirty, noisy, garage rock. Side project of that dude from Ohsees/OCS/Coachwhips LM

Skyphone / Avellaneda [Runegrammofon]
Delicate acoustic/electronic melding. Think Japan (the band). Ummmm... that's really all I've got. It's very very nice though. LM

Dream Frequencies Volume #1 [Antenna]
Anybody else remember that most excellent Innature compilation of last year? Well, I most certainly do... lush humming electronic noisy hippie music... drones with a solid thread through. So I am going to compare this one to that one. And so we are in Tim Hecker, Loren Connors, Kallikak Family, Bird Show territory. Experimental lightly plucked guitar melding with crumbling loops. Very nice. LM

Zyklon / The Heartland [Grim]
This is really rather neat. Anybody out there into Kraftwerk or Throbbing Gristle might want to check it. Comes with informative and charming booklet. And now here's a quote from that one guy: "From 1979-1982 there was only ONE minimal synth/industrial band in Michigan and that band was ZYKLON... Killer washers of heavy electronic noise connected by buzzes of melodic synth.... totally WEIRD SHIT that sounded like nothing else. This CD is a heavy historical document of NOISE!" - Aaron Dilloway, Wolf Eyes LM

Reviewers:
LM = Lucy Morehouse
MO = Michael Ohlenroth
JT = Jeffery Taylor