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HAYDEN THORPE
Diviner
2019 UK 🇬🇧 pressing

Last week, I posted one of my favorite records of the past 15 years in Wild Beasts’ Present Tense.

Today, I found THIS beautiful gem in a “Reduced For Clearance” bin, and I could not be more siked about it.

This is the debut solo album from Beasts frontman Hayden Thorpe, which was released in 2019. These songs have the same kind of magic that the songs on Present Tense had for me.

The album’s opening title track is absolutely beautiful, and from there, it’s steady as she goes.

Excellent well-written songs, produced to perfection, all anchored by what I feel is one of the most unique, incredible, and UNDER APPRECIATED voices of the past few decades.

Awesome find.

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VARIOUS ARTISTS
Love, Peace & Poetry (Japanese Psychedelic Music)
2001 Germany compilation
Translucent vinyl

Last week, I posted the Chilean volume of this cool series, and now I’m giving the Japanese one a spin.

This one may be my favorite, as it’s got the legendary MOPS on it, as well as a great track from the very underrated Food Brain, who’s amazing album Social Gathering was just reissued by the Cosmic Rock label.

Apryl Fool has two songs here too, one of which being “Tomorrow’s Child”, a gnarly, trippy morsel of #psych trippitude.

Just a killer collection of 17 great late-#60s psych tunes from west of the Pacific.

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SVATSOX
Bred In The Bone, Out In The Flesh
1984 Netherlands pressing

NOW we’re getting into the cool shit!

This is dark, blistering Dutch punk from our favorite distant land: the #1980s .

Thick, punchy bass and drums, and that special #80s brand of #postpunk guitar sound.

This band were highly influenced by the British anarcho-punk scene; bands like The Ex, who they’d later do a split cassette with in ‘84 as well.

Although it may sound like the vocals are sung in a foreign language, they’re 100% in English. You can thank the unfathomable thickness of the Dutch accent for that.

Svatsox would eventually evolve into De Kift; a VERY different musical endeavour that would lean heavy into folk, brass band, chanson, and Eastern European vibes.
THAT band’s vocals would go on to be sung in Dutch.

If you like dark, weird, post-punk records, you’ll very much dig THIS though.

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