It’s a marvelous occurrence of modern music when the brilliance of a record is directly proportional to how fascinating the list of instruments is. It’s as if the exhaustive sleeve notes of each sound heard doubles up as the lyrics sheet for this largely instrumental music, like each sound is chosen for poetic resonance as well as its sonic beauty. Here we’ve got broken Hammond organs, bedsprings, penny whistles, silver foil, Theremins, elastic bands wrapped around Top Trump cards, saws, banjos, projector reels, flugelhorns and something called a Mooger Fooger. I don’t think I reall… read more
It’s a marvelous occurrence of modern music when the brilliance of a record is directly proportional to how fascinating the list of instruments is. I… read more
It’s a marvelous occurrence of modern music when the brilliance of a record is directly proportional to how fascinating the list of instruments is. It’s as if the exhaustive sleeve notes… read more
'beyond the realm of natural vision' Formed in 1987 by Stephen Lawrie, The Telescopes have been mining a unique anti-myopian seam of drone/dream noise & psych for over 20 years. Their first release was a split flexi disc with Loop on the Cheree label in 1988, followed by the snarling 7 inch "Kick the Wall", and the pounding "7th# Disaster" EP. They moved to What Goes On Records in 1989 and stormed the independent charts with stream of output, including a livid debut LP "Taste" and "The Perfect Needle" EP, which captured the hea… read more
'beyond the realm of natural vision' Formed in 1987 by Stephen Lawrie, The Telescopes have been mining a unique anti-myopian seam of drone/dream noise & psych for over 20 yea… read more
'beyond the realm of natural vision' Formed in 1987 by Stephen Lawrie, The Telescopes have been mining a unique anti-myopian seam of drone/dream noise & psych for over 20 years. Their first release was a split flexi disc… read more