Miscellaneous heading crests, source obscure
Lotus Plaza – “Monoliths”
Spooky Action at a Distance
It’s hard to pin down the sound exactly – Jesus & Mary Chain crossed with Women? However you define it, this Deerhunter side project makes solid, fuzzy psych-rock and “Monoliths” is an ebullient nugget of just that. (insound)
Pages from DMT 42 and Duke City Realty, by Galina Golikova, illustrated by Gerald Laing
I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys, and beef-faced boys.”
“And which is Oliver?”
“Mealy. I know a friend who has a beef-faced boy; a fine boy, they call him; with a round head, and red cheeks, and glaring eyes; a horrid boy; with a body and limbs that appear to be swelling out of the seams of his blue clothes; with the voice of a pilot, and the appetite of a wolf. I know him! The wretch!
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Yu Chengyao – A song in the clear river
Brambles – “Salt Photographs”
Charcoal
Another subdued album of what might be called ‘enhanced chamber music’ from the label that owns that space, Serein. This song, the longest on Charcoal, combines atmospheric noise and percussion with delicate and precisely-placed strings and keyboards. I love the transition and slow build, like a cross between early A Silver Mt Zion and label-mates Nest — a nearly flawless ambient work. (serein)
Never did men wear greater breeches or carry less in them of any mettle whatsoever.
Women’s Petition Against Coffee (Anonymous 1674 pamphlet)
Some of the more awkward illustrations from an old Chinese book of animals