Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

Eat Skull/Ganglians
split

Dulc-i-Tone No Cat

7”
£6.99


Limited split 7” with two out-takes from Eat Skull’s Sick To Death sessions paired with the debut recordings from long-term Hospitals/Eat Skull touring buddies Ganglians.

Hole Class
s/t

Meds No Cat

LP
£11.99


Collaboration LP between Rob Enbom of Eat Skull and Beth Murphy of Times New Viking. Skirting a kinda similar turf to both of the motherships, Hole Class cut up their punk lo-fi attack with fuzz bass, unarmoued male/female vocals and song fragments in a way that makes you think of a slightly tougher take on the K sound, with an almost Calvin Johnson-esque delivery buried in pile-ups of acoustic/electric structural confusion. Some of the tracks are just straightforwardly beautiful, less about destructo aesthetics and more about pie-eyed emotionalism and personal resonance. Guided By Voices is a reference that always seems to orbit the Eat Skull cultus and there’s definitely a bunch of that here two, with the combination of short, classic pop/folk/rock songs and raggedy ass aesthetics proving as potent as anything from Pollard and co.

Psychedelic Horseshit
Golden Oldies

Wasted Vinyl Records Wasted-01

LP
£12.99


Limited self-released LP that mops up all of the band’s earliest CD-R releases in one place: King Tubby’s Badness Dub, The Anticoncept, Blown Speaker Standards, Dancey Pants and Summertime Suicide alongside a couple of bonus tracks. Even cruder than the recent Shitgaze Anthems set, the combination of zero fidelity, almost-hooks and non-conceptual avant smarts is pretty choice. Comes with liner notes from Rob Enbom of Eat Skull.

The Whines
Hell To Play

Meds #5

LP
£15.99


Excellent debut LP from a guitar/bass/drums trio that features floating Eat Skull member Karianne power-crying her way through some beautifully shrill high-end garage lurk that combines a crude post-Velvets sensibility with DIY chops, cranky riffs and the perfect destructo atmosphere that would reconcile punk and psych in nada fidelity.

Glands Of External Secretion
Reverse Atheism

BUFMS #32

2xLP
£23.99


Massively ambitious double-LP set from the duo of Barbara Manning and Seymour Glass (Bananafish) that sees them joined by a jaw-dropping line-up of underground figures including Bruce Russell of The Dead C, Alastair Galbraith, Scott Simmons of Eat Skull, Lucian Tielens (Brent Lewis Ensemble), Patricia Rowland (Vomit Launch), Jett Hotcomb and more. The set encompasses some stunning dark/minimal covers of primo material like The Birthday Party’s “Mutiny In Heaven”, Hank Williams’ “I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive”, The New Creation’s “Dig! The Origin Of Man” through bastardised movie snippets and manipulated monologues lifted from films like The Holy Mountain, Head, Toy Story, Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory and Help! Barbara provides the most song-orientated material while Glass works fucked-up tape magic with the slightest of sonic detritus. Throw in a buncha wild apocalyptic texts lifted from Elizabeth Clare Prophet, L. Ron Hubbard, Flannery O’Connor, Hugo Ball, Hippocrates etc,. Bruce Russell’s take on David Crosby, Galbraith’s higher-minded violin drone, voices of spectral choirs rising above texts about the nature of creation and infinity and you have the ultimate end-of-times report from the furthest margins of the underground. Much of Glands... back catalogue exists in a zone where tongues reside firmly within cheeks but this is the heaviest, darkest and most unaccountably affecting broadcast from these two to date. Packaged with a full-colour fold-out Sgt Peppers-style poster with manipulated images of the entire cast. A singular work, highly recommended.