[Curiosities is dedicated to everything that can't be smooooooooshed into a different category. TV, music videos, rock-star gossip, posts about dreams about broken guitars; you get the drill! Strangely -- or appropriately? -- this is one of the most interesting columns Gumshoe has managed so far. Click on the photos below for a closer look; to read the article click on the link.]
Oren Ambarchi - "In the Pendulum's Embrace" 2XLP - Southern Lord
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1. Drunks With Guns (Got a 7” on blue vinyl called “Headgiver” ... not great, but interesting, like “Helter Skelter” in slow-motion)
2. Dolphins Into The Future (Not Not Fun debut is simply amazing)
3. Meat Puppets (“II” has vinylly been reissued [get it? vinylly/finally?)
4. Secret 7 Records (“* In a Cloud” compilation owns)
5. Liars (“Sisterworld” is, well, pretty fucking ripe)
6. Kyle Bobby Dunn (This kid sent me an album ... a looooong one ... and it’s fairly ear-catching)
7. R. Stevie Moore (Ariel Pink once told me Moore is his biggest influence)
8. Adventure Time (Remember these guys, Daedelus fans?)
9. Mind Bomb (It’s 1995 again ... I’m back in high school, listening to these guys and Cathedral/Life Of Agony/Green Day again)
10. Dull Knife Records (Seek them out, lest you miss the boat)
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The Beatles - "The Ballad of John & Yoko / Old Brown Shoe" seven-inch [Apple Records] (Found this -incher at an old antique shop deep in the woods of upstate New York; kind of an odd song coupling)
Various artists - "Dengue Fever Presents: Electric Cambodia" cream-colored LP [Minky Records] ("Electric Cambodia" is a game-changer, turning heads like "3 EPs")
Cadaver In Drag - "Church Burner” spraypainted cassette [Husk Records] (Heavy, brain-draining mulch-noise to strip a carcass clean to; out of control)
Modest Mouse - "This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About" CD [Up Records] (This is easily their best record, almost perfect and ready to be whipped out at any time; click the link to find out why)
Various Artists - "Tunes from Films and Shows" seven-inch [Lyntone Recordings] (wavers from ironically cool to just-not-good to decent)
White Shit - "Sculpted Beef" LP [Post Present Medium Records] (Almost-almost-almost bought that 10-inch of theirs; will)
Thee Oh Sees - "Quadrospazzed" 12-inch LP [Castle Face Records] (The etching on Side B is one of the best I've seen, even better than the Robert Delaney Radio Show seven-inch)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - "Smoking Acid" neon-green/-pink 2XLP [a Records] (Steep price, stunning art, one LP doesn't even have MUSIC on it for fuck's sake)
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