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Children’s Hospital
Alone Together
Sacred Bones Records SBR-013
LP
£12.99
Debut LP from a new project coming out of Seattle’s A-Frames/AFCGT/Intelligence/Rodent Plague cultus. This one is more in the vein of UK art/pop groups like Wire off-shoots Dome or AC Marias, with jagged avant rock breakdowns bookended by hypnotic electro dream settings with automatic female vocals, new wave synth stylings and an austere, psychedelic atmosphere. A totally beguiling listen with a sustained, evocative atmosphere. Looks as suave as you’d expect from Sacred Bones too.
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AFCGT
s/t
Uzu Audio No Cat
LP
£18.99
Edition of 550 copies on white vinyl that reissue the first totally obscure CD-R (only 75 made) from this form-mangling group that blends members of The A-Frames and Climax Golden Twins. Less fixated on the angular punk aggression of The A-Frames and more focussed on the kind of twilight third world rock brut that would reconcile the modal string-sting of Sun City Girls with harvesting waves of fuzz and junk, the closest parallel is still classic-era Mouthus but there’s a more overtly dazzling range of techniques on display, from ethno-fused psych instrumentals that could almost be Billy TK plays the best of the Majora catalogue through post-Noise takes on extreme DIY refusal. Whole deal is packaged with the usual Uzu Audio eye, in a tip-on style gatefold sleeve with black-on-black silkscreen detail.
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