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Primus – Primus & The Chocolate Factory With the Fungi Ensemble (ATO Records/ [PIAS] Australia)

A few weeks back, a plastic jar of gobstoppers arrived at the record store with all the usual promo parcels. Came with some rich, velvety-colored storybook banners which even the resident graphic designed doffed his (non-existent) hat to. Spot color inks, he said. Now, we’ve gone over this a hundred times – I’m still a […]

Added on December 8, 2013 Scott Creney Arthur Russell , Captain Beefheart , Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! , Dot Wiggin Band , Jackson Pollack , Jens Lekman , Perfect Pussy , Richard Marx , Scott Creney , The Shaggs

Dot Wiggin Band – Ready! Get! Go! (Alternative Tentacles)

I’m pleased to say that Ready! Get! Go! is nothing less than brilliant, a wonderful album from start to finish. A record that can stand beside The Shaggs, and in places even goes beyond it.

Added on December 2, 2013 Scott Creney Adderall , Beck , Blanche Blanche Blanche , Bob Dylan , Captain Beefheart , Flying Lizards , Ghostface Killah , Micachu , Scott Creney , The Bastards of Fate , Thomas Pynchon

Blanche Blanche Blanche – Breaking Mirrors (Wharf Cat)

Blanche Blanche Blanche may be the most creative, original-thinking, band out there right now.

Added on November 15, 2013 Scott Creney Captain Beefheart , Happy Jawbone Family Band , mexican summer best coast , nick lowe , Scott Creney , the lumineers

Happy Jawbone Family Band – Happy Jawbone Family Band (Mexican Summer)

This is the most disappointing record I’ve heard all year. It hurts. Ken Kesey was right. Never trust a prankster.

Added on October 22, 2013 Scott Creney Athens Georgia , Captain Beefheart , Elephant 6 , Raincoats , Scott Creney , The New Sound Of Numbers , The Velvet Underground

The New Sound of Numbers – Invisible Magnetic (Cloud)

TNSofN are first and foremost an art band

Added on January 21, 2013 Scott Creney Captain Beefheart , David Thomas , Greil Marcus , Mumford & Sons , Pere Ubu , Scott Creney

Pere Ubu – Lady From Shanghai (Fire)

I kneel and genuflect before the first two Pere Ubu albums and the handful of singles surrounding it, but I think this may be the greatest Pere Ubu album ever made.

Added on April 19, 2012 Scott Creney borges , Brian Eno , Burt Bacharach , cafe tacuba , Captain Beefheart , dismemberment plan , Flipper , Frank Zappa , genesis p-orridge , nabokov , roanoke virginia , Scott Creney , skullflower , The Bastards of Fate , Throbbing Gristle , Tom Waits , Who's A Fuzzy Buddy

The Bastards Of Fate – Who’s A Fuzzy Buddy (This Will Be Our Summer)

Keep your ears tuned to the small towns. The future of music is living in South Dakota.

Added on April 16, 2012 Scott Creney Captain Beefheart , Harry Pussy , John Coltrane , Melt Banana , Scott Creney , Sissy Spacek , Sonic Youth , The Boredoms

Sissy Spacek – Wastrel Projection (Handmade Birds)

Eventually someone was bound to out-scorch Melt Banana, bound to shave Harry Pussy into irrelevance, and bound to just come along and fucking liquefy your face.