If we are talking lost bands and an undeniable ahead of their time link to the sound of now we would probably not be a lone voice to scream The Lost Sounds who’s blatantly chaotic prog synth punk Screamers with fun style can be heard in the records of the ‘club hits’* we play out today. In short – they made us better people.

And so we have followed Jay Reatard down his chaotic hero path to the ‘hit in xxjfg’s head’ Hammer I Miss You, and this fine blog culture we live in almost making Blood Visions a breakthrough album. Jay’s vision walks a yellow brick road along side Blood Brothers, pre-scremo hardcore and Devo with XBXRX’s sensibilities.

We are certain his next album will turn up on Pitchfork, he can raise controversy by getting his beautiful girlfriend to pose naked on an album cover, and every hipster in town will be claiming to have loved em since ‘Feel Good About Your Body’, but until ascendance to that throne of Spencer, Jay can be our own pin-up boy.

Jay Reatard – Night of Broken Glass

In The Red Records – home to The Country Teasers, Human Eye the formerly mentioned Mr Spencer and The Horrors (excellent choice!) – have Jay’s new EP Night of Broken Glass out (soonish?) which again sees Jay Reatard with his innate sense of punk-pop sensibilities battling an almost self destructive love for disorder and anarchic musical fun. We don’t know who will win, but in the mean time xxjfg are along for and enjoying the ride.

In the twilight of this anarchy xxjfg wears two faces, both creator and destroyer. Thus destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators can then build a better world. Link Wray was one such destroyer, taking the soul of a gospel singer and feeding it to the devil itself that is rock and roll.

David Walker born again as Bunker Hill, baptised by the mighty thunder of Link’s guitar, gave birth to the most potent black rock’n'roll ever made. The preacher with a knockout punch was unchained to release into the pretty boy pop charts some of the most sexually charged, sweat drenched, animal beats which cleave your feet from under you and seem to pound to the very same pulse as your own heart.

There is something unconventional to Hide and go Seek’s none click track hypnotic pulse that resonates strongly of Neu! in xxjfg’s krautrock obsession riddled brain, while the fragile none linear arrangement of hard hitting story telling verse and gospel preacher chorus rapture fires neuron connections to our freeform jam masters and The Last Poets.

Bunker Hill – Hide and Go Seek (parts 1 & 2)

Microphones in the 60s seem incapable of capturing the full throttle of Bunker’s vocal rip. From the very first listen it captivates and intoxicates, is this a human being? just like me? What those microphones lacked for in technology they made up for in the magical ability to capture the material essence of charisma, its electric, and unbounded in this man’s songs.

As it is Hide and Go Seek (Parts 1 & 2) runs out at 4:30ish but with a party like that we would have liked it to go Für immer .

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