Excellent compilation that restores a buncha tracks from this amazing early-80s DIY/basement psych/goofball garage band from Worcester, MA. Peace Love & Alienation bundles a bunch of tracks cut with outsider music legend Bobb Trimble behind the desk as well as live radio sessions and living room recordings. The Prefabs have an umbilical to the UK DIY sound with a riotous Swell Maps/Desperate Bicycles style filtered through an American teen garage aesthetic w/a nod to one-shot weirdos like Department Store Santas. The Trimble-produced tracks are particularly zonked, with a sound that approaches Index’s version of “Eight Miles High” overloaded with backwards bass, wacked tone generator and aggro vocals that are somewhere between The Television Personalities circa The Painted Word and The Afflicted Man. The group shared bills with Mission Of Burma and Willie Alexander back in the day, but even in that company were a real anomaly. The set comes with a 12” insert and a cool fold-out fanzine with original fliers and snaps. A revelatory reissue, highly recommended!

"Fixed Identity is proud to announce the release of Martin Newell's 1985 masterpiece "Songs For A Fallow Land". Newell, mastermind of UK d.i.y. group The Cleaners From Venus, crafted these songs in an old stable building in self-described "extreme poverty" resulting in an extremely inspired and highly personal realization of perfect underground psychedelic pop. Originally released in an edition of 100 cassettes, F.I. has remastered each song from Martin's original chrome tapes to be issued on LP in a limited pressing of 500 copies containing liner notes by the "Wild Man Of Wivenhoe" himself..." - FI.