An xxjfg archive for posts featuring Jay Reatard.
As you would expect, of all that Services’ new album, ‘Eat Prey Love’, has to offer, 20JFG likes the 6 minutes long proggy instrumental best. The rest is all very enjoyable Ballardian disjointed electro-punk that will undoubtedly add a few well needed ounces of serrated steel to the clockwork mechanisms regulating the operation of thee…
I can’t remember when is the last time I bought a 7” by an UK indie-rock band, I swear, I don’t remember when, but I have thought a lot about the why*. Perhaps it is that the dynamics of the music industry in this country where so-called indie (aka indie schmindie) is the scene du…
Started this post about the great In The Red Records, got lost in the middle somewhere, as you do, and ended up stuck on old favs Lost Sounds – but first off more from masters of unreality Human Eye on Disordered Records. Human Eye – Rare Little Creature Is there something already eerily familiar about…
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…