CD reissue of this amazing side: Jakob Olausson is best known, if at all, for his sub-radar activities with Sweden's Joshua Jugband 5 (check yr Slippytown back catalogue for more of that brand of boo) but this, his first solo LP, is a whole other bucket of flesh. Moonlight Farm is one of the most beautifully nocturnal and disconcertingly intimate broadcasts to make it out of the heart of the wood since Joshua's Gold Cosmos. The overall atmosphere has the same kind of early electric feel as Matthew Valentine's Maximum Arousal recordings, while Olausson's evocatively double-tracked vocals move from a weighted down Skip Spence/Ben Chasny hybrid to a pro-denim and leather Leonard Cohen (or does that make him Jim Morrison?). His songs cross endless tranced dirges with drones that are so lunar they illuminate the entire horizon and huge distorto-smears of backing vox that sound like tiny fists crushing the light from stars. Some of the instrumentals here are so evocatively conceived - beautifully reconciling handmade DIY traditions and higher-minded bliss - that they sound positively Japanese, with a track like "The Wind Combs Her Hair" almost passing for early Che-SHIZU. But it's the songs you'll keep coming back too, elegiac teleports to the fringes of a whole other evocatively conceived universe, where every breath births reverberant shadows and the map of yr desires reads like a mirror of the constellations. From one loner to another, this is everything that the phrase "private press" conjures up and more. A modern classic. Highest recommendation

Debut album by Jakob Olausson's new project, Renegade Scanners. Olausson is best known for his amazing solo LP on De Stijl as well as collaborations with Sus & Jakob and work with Joshua Jugband 5 but this new project orbits a whole other universe, with 4 track jams launched on beds of burbling analog synth and cranked fuzz guitar riffs that combine the kind of monolithic drone chords of Trad Gras Och Stenar and Parson Sound with the sci-fi electronics of CCCC, Simply Saucer and Hawkwind and a more melodically effusive take on early Skullflower's earth-scorching form. Either way, it's another beauty from this guy, in an edition of 330 copies with silkscreened sleeves.

Jakob Olausson’s previous album, 2005’s Moonlight Farm remains one of the most exquisite formulations of loner folk ever beamed from a basement in Northern Europe. Morning & Sunrise is its long-time coming follow-up and comes complete with a perfect weirdo Christian/private press style sleeve. The sonics have been slightly upgraded here, with less muzz and a bit more clarity to the arrangements but Olausson still comes over like a post-Silence Bob Desper, singing in a dark, echoing style w/oblivion breathing straight down his neck. Hard to think of anyone who can generate such a blasted atmosphere with nothing but an acoustic guitar and vocals - Joshua Burkett maybe? – while the more ‘rocking’ band based jams come over like the COM side never recorded by Virgin Insanity and with an odd dislocated teen garage feel that could almost be Virgil Caine. If his first record meant anything to you – and I can barely think of anyone who wasn’t sold on it – then this is the stone you’ve been hoping for, doomy, dark, basement-primitive loner folk with enough atmosphere to spook even the most committed solitary.