New seven track mini LP from London’s Pheromoans, who illuminated the great Still Going In Offices compilation. Pheromoans take The Shadow Ring as a transmission point from the first wave of UK DIY to contemporary experiments in experimentally usurped songcraft. The vocals have the same sardonic south of England social commentary and surreal humour, married to songs that wouldn’t be completely out of place on a mid-period Television Personalities album. If you dig Scrotum Poles, Beyond The Implode, Homosexuals et al...

Split release in an edition of 250 copies with double-sided insert: three tracks from London-based DIY unit The Pheromoans and some post Hangman suburban UK blues from Dan Melchior Und Das Menace.

New album from this contemporary London DIY group who expand on the atmosphere of suburban ennui and cracked English surrealism practiced by The Shadow Ring, Well Crucial, The Strolling Ones, The Homosexuals et al. The Pheromoans expand on the basic post-punk appeal of bedroom recordings with an approach to songcraft that would enliven it with all sorts of accidental, brokedown detail accompanied by odd social commentary and an obsession with the underbelly of consensus English ‘culture’. Some of the songwriting here wouldn’t be out of place on one of the early Flying Nun sides, particularly w/aspects of Axemen, but there’s a more deconstructive side to the group that infects the garage band blueprint and that makes for an excellent addition to the shelf somewhere between Walden, Lambkin, Treacy and Ball. Plays at 45.