Where bought?: I was in Toulouse in 2017 and some guy came up to me and said 'you left this here last time you played and I looked after it'. I don't think I did leave it - I'd considered buying it but not done. But I did want it, so fate sped it into my arms.
Also - we were meant to play with this band in Lyon in 2014 on our second French tour but they split up the week of the show. This is how their name came known to me and it stayed with me (is it a reference? A joke? I don't get it) and I went away and had a listen and liked what I heard.
Their own Discogs page says 'Sonic Youth' but I don't really hear that. What I get is a little bit of Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 in their sideways guitars that sound like a spring-loaded trap with a bit of a European flavour, something indelibly Magma (without the tribal chanting or made-up language) or Dog-Faced Hermans about the whole enterprise. What it all adds up to is what you might call 'psych'. I think I would, if pressed.
There's a sense of humour (two songs start exactly the same before diverging along different routes) that I find appealing. Mostly I just think their approach songs, production, and rocking the fuck out absolutely rules: listen to the song Acid Rainbows for my example. The way that twin guitar pierces through in the choruses, the harmony vocals that aren't Byrdsy or MBV-ish - they're something else entirely. Then there's a kind of 'solo' or breakdown that sounds like two guitars having a cockfight. I dunno. I think these guys (maybe there's a girl in there too from the sounds of the vocals) are just genuinely underrated.
An over-my-dead-hands job, even if it is worth little. One of my favourite records of all kinds, any place, anywhere. Just wish we'd played with them!
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