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Latest Customer Reviews

Son Skull - Birth Scene / Rewind (hw)
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I have other releases by this band and have enjoyed them, but Be Invisible Now is totally enthralling...

Satan Is My Brother - Satan Is My Brother (Don Poe, EAR/Rational Staff Reviewer)
In the melange of odd sounds and strange effects, I hear a tiny bit of Tortoise's "Millons now living" in the very background of this start of the soundscape on track 1...

H.P. Lovecraft - H.P. Lovecraft II (Todd Homer)
This LP F*ckin SMOKES! one of the best Psych albums ever! There was a third album, but with members missing, it's a disappointment but you wont find it anyway...

Hollywood Squaretet - Nice Tets (Todd Homer)
NEED TO POINT OUT 2 TYP O'S -HOLLYWOOD- (1 H only) -Bougalieu- (not Baug..)..

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Moody music with samples, drones, hidden voices and intricate melodies buried in the electronically rainy day...

eRikm & Akosh S. - Zufall (Don Poe, EAR/Rational Staff Reviewer)
I am going crazy! Aie! (That is a scream...) This starts as musique concrete and throws itself in the free jazz sax freakout with record scratching, odd things making sounds, and damn, a free for all of get weird sounds on this recording...

Mushi Mushi - Sequins Save Lives (Don Poe, EAR/Rational Staff Reviewer)
I dig their listing of recording locations: inside an arch of a bridge at sub-zero temperatures, in an office, in a loft, in a basement, in a bedroom, in f front room in between trains going past, sometimes live / sometimes not and occasionally in a studio...

Majutsu No Niwa - Frontera (Don Poe, EAR/Rational Staff Reviewer)
Rocking out guitar songs from Japan...

eRikm - Variations Opportunistes (Don Poe, EAR/Rational Staff Reviewer)
Glitched out skipping CD sound starts the recording with an infectiously happy chord repeating over and over...