June 2011 Archives

Baylies Band - All Clowns No Lions (75orLess Records)

75OL-120 Baylies Band' All Clowns No Lions' is now released. It is one 53 minute improv piece of music in the spirit of Pink Floyd, Sonic Youth, and Can. Only $6 postpaid.

Paul McCartney - McCartney II deluxe reissue (Hear)

McCartney II, recorded at home in 1980, has been remastered with a second disc of outtakes, and includes amazing gatefold packaging. As for the music, there's the big hit song, "Coming Up" and plenty of synthy weirdness on 'Temporary Secretary'. There's also the electronic instrumental 'Front Parlour' and goofy synth and handclaps on 'Frozen Jap'. This also offers it's fair share of ballads. 'Waterfalls' is a sterile ode to heartbreak, and 'One of These Days' is a sterile ode to all previous sterile odes. This is quirky and experimental, a combination of dramatic depths and light breezy electronic pop, peculiar even by post-Beatle standards. An interesting time capsule into what McCartney was up to at his farm house in 1979.

Drive Like Jehu, Pavement, Ozzy Osbourne, Kurt Vile, The Monkees

Bradley's Almanac has Pavement 9-18-10.
Trashy 69 has Ozzy Osbourne 8-14-81.
Southern Shelter has Kurt Vile 4-8-11.
Captains Dead has Drive Like Jehu demos.
Big Plans For Everybody has The Monkees 10-4-68.

David Tessier - Taurus EP (75orLess Records)

For Rhode Island followers of David Tessier's former collaborations and output, Taurus presents the joyously familiar: this EP breathes new life into Pipeline Drive's riff-fest. Catapult reminds us that there was a time in the 80's when it was perfectly acceptable to marry heavy guitars, synths and crooning vocals. It is Release Me that stars, however, and suggests that Radiohead can retire now - Tessier has it covered with a strong dose of 70's pomp and grace to spare. Taurus is a prime medley of Tessier's talents, whetting the appetite for more.