Hayato Takeuchi – “EP” (2017) review
Hayato Takeuchi - EP (Bearsuit Records, 2017) Tokyo-based, multi-instrumentalist Hayato has previously released material under the name Bubbly Folks, and a self-titled album (L.S.F.) appeared in 2013 on...
Jeff Penczak
Rain – “Rain” (1972) review
Album reissue on Out-Sider (2017) / Originally released on Project 3 (1972) Guerssen The lone album from Philadelphia’s Rain is an interesting melting pot of harmonic pop (‘Let...
Asimov – ‘Truth’ (2017)
Truth is the third album from Lisbon, Portugal’s heavy psych monsters Asimov. Their heady brew of heavy psych stew is generated by just two dudes, Carlos Ferreira and...
Number Three Combo – “Resurfacing” (2017) review
Number Three Combo - Resurfacing (SlowBurn Records, 2017) Multi-instrumentalist Eric Johnson has spearheaded Tucson, Arizona-based SlowBurn Records for three decades, and the label celebrates its 30th anniversary with...
Tapiman – “Hard Drive” (2017) review
Tapiman - Hard Drive (Guerssen Records, 1971/2017) One of our favourite reissue labels unearths some primo 1971 home recordings from one of Spain’s heaviest power trios....
Swamp Sounds / Uncle Pops & The Dumbloods (2017) review
Swamp Sounds / Uncle Pops & The Dumbloods (Bearsuit Records, 2017) https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/swamp-sounds-uncle-pops-the-dumbloods The always strange and intriguing Bearsuit delivers a split release from electronic sound collagists Yuuya Kuno...
Lamagia – Lamagia (2017) review
Lamagia - Lamagia (LP on Cardinal Fuzz/Sunrise Ocean Bender, 2017) Listen: https://lamagaia-sob.bandcamp.com/album/lamagaia Sophomore full length from Sweden psychsters features 35 minutes of brain-crushing, throbbing deliciousness split across two sidelong tracks....
Jeff Liberman – Solitude Within (1975) review
(Original release on Librah/1975; reissue on Out-Sider/2016) Guerssen Records Listen The second of three Liberman albums reissued by Out-Sider (with liner notes from our editor) is a little...
Annie & The Station Orchestra – Bingo Halls (2016) review
Annie & The Station Orchestra – Bingo Halls (Bearsuit Records, 2016) Strange name for a guy, one Chas Kinnis, who apparently took his nom de group from a...
Jeff Liberman – Jeffery Liberman (1975) review
(Original release on Librah/1975; reissued by Out-Sider/2016) Our esteemed editor has written the liner notes to the reissue of Liberman’s debut album, so I turn your attention there...