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FAR 100HLP
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2026 restock. 180 gram exact repro reissue of this absolutely insular, deranged private press masterpiece. Previously reissued by Shadoks (with full color artwork, as intended). JW Farquhar recorded this on 4-track alone in his apartment in 1972 after ending a 10-year marriage. The songs are part of a "rock opera" and are "written as an outcry against the materialistic nature of the woman." "...it's a fascinating slice of ambitious, primitively lo-fi private press psych with an extreme lonesome/marginalized edge and some great fuzz and F/X. There are points where he gets into a whole schizophrenic exchange between two characters, one of whom talks in a weird fucked-up cartoon monster style, that almost makes you think of James Ferraro's 'Lamborghini Crystal' broadcasts but the rest of the album is just great basement/loner jams with a huge fucking chip on their shoulder, just the way we like 'em." --Kicktokill
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SHAD 099CD
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All tracks on The Formal Female were recorded by JW Farquhar in 1972. At the time of this recording, JW had recently extricated himself from a ten-year marriage, and the lyrics definitely fit the embittered tone. During that time, he lived by himself in a third floor apartment in Philadelphia. It was a street with a lot of traffic. Car horns, busses, police sirens, fire engines, screams, and sometimes even gunshots filled the air. For this reason, he sealed up the windows and any other openings with sound proofing foam, and it was there the album was recorded. JW was the instrumentalist; rhythm guitar, lead guitar, drums, vocals, and bass. However, he could not play them all at once, so he purchased a four-track simulsync Teac recorder, professional version. This allowed him to record on one track and then play it back and separately record on a second, third, and fourth track. The original tracks were recorded at 15 IPS. A final mix was then made in stereo with yet a fifth overdub, when needed. At that time, other effects were limited. It is an amazing electric fuzz album full of effects and it's a masterpiece in the same realm of loner-weirdness as Dr. Hooker: extra-heavy psychedelic.
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