Vinyl edition of this necessary compilation that mops up alla the Wooden Shjips’ early, out of print self-released singles and EPs. This one bundles all the tracks from the 10”, the “Dance, California” 7” and the Sol 7.

New full-length album from this group that have morphed from an avant rock unit into a uniquely ferocious free metal/thug/biker/prog project featuring Adam Kriney (Owl Xounds) on drums, keyboard and flute, Evan Sobel on electric bass, guitar and harmonium and Ninni Morgia. This is their most self-consciously ‘epic’ outing thus far, with King Crimson (Red-era) styled breakdowns, bass riffs and tempo shreds, almost Slayer-esque bombast and doubled electric guitar leads that come straight out of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. If you like yr prog with a black Vertigo label, a ton of wail and nods to the daffiest metal then get on board. Comes with free MP3 download.

Wild free amphetamine punk freak out from three heads behind the legendary Monoshock. Here they’re channeling a looser, wilder style than the gasoline-huffing caveman approach of Walk To The Fire et al. Pulsing, minimal bass ala The Red Krayola’s “Hurricane Fighter Plane” nails wailing psych guitar to the sky while Runyan’s vocals channel the ‘dosed goat’ style of peak Sunburned Hand Of The Man. Comes with a download coupon. “[Monoshock were] three of the most clued-in musical minds I’ve ever met or observed, and they breathed in and coughed out a whole host of killer influences. Starting with the most obvious: Hawkwind, The Stooges, Can, Black Flag, Pere Ubu, Pink Fairies, Von Lmo, the MC5 and Chrome. Later in their flickeringly brief career they trended more toward heavy Japanese-style PSF psychedelia and outré space rock experimentation a la F/i, Vertical Slit and any number of barefoot Germans from the 1970s. I’m not sure where they’d have ended up had the band not petered out in 1995—it appears from the direction they were trending on... that it was into a heads-down, dark and deep spastic noise murk rather than back to the bull-rushing primitive fuzz-punk squeal of these earlier recordings.”- Jay Hinman, Agony Shorthand.