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CRITTER 028EP
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"Swathed in reverb, bathed in noise and drowned in dreamy vocals, Honeyslide blend the experimental with the melodic to provide thrillingly provocative sounds. Based in London, their live shows are intense and brutally loud, having shared the stage with bands such as Holograms, Dignan Porch and Yucks bassists side project Parakeet."
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CRITTER 026EP
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"Formed in early 2012, Virginia Wing's initial desire was to play and record as quickly as possible but they soon realized a more considered approach was necessary if the band was to be at all fulfilling. They made this debut 7" with their friend Misha Hering at Holy Mountain Studios. With a knack of making their songs sound like essential forgotten classics, Virginia Wing create thrillingly crafted pop tunes that exist within that time honored dialogue between the popular and the avant-garde. Their sound veers from the minimalist post punk of Young Marble Giants, to the twisted '60s psych bliss of Arthur Lee and Love and the Radiophonic Workshop."
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CRITTER 022LP
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"The debut LP, Heavy Syrup, is a pristine gummo of analog-synth dissatisfaction, drugless psychedelia and improvisation. Greg Boring has forged a drooling machine of ideas: the unholy pet that no one takes responsibility for but is always overfeeding."
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CRITTER 021EP
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"7" from Scott & Charlene's Wedding, on Critical Heights."
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CRITTER 020LP
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LP version. "Scott and Charlene's Wedding effortlessly sprawl across the generations linking the vintage swagger of the Velvets to the off kilter pop perfection of the Only Ones by way of the Stooges and Television, like no one before them."
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CRITTER 014CD
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Diva Dompe (ex Pocahaunted and Blackblack). "Moon Moods contains ten tracks filled with wonder and electro pop enchantment. Having honed her pop dynamic to a gloriously melodic precision, Diva plucks inspiration from a myriad of different styles and genres of music. With post-punk churned up with doo-wop, R&B, hip hop, exotica, italo disco, psych and new age, the results are dizzyingly captivating."
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CRITTER 014LP
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CRITTER 015LP
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CRITTER 016EP
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"Scraps has been acclaimed by the likes of Vice Magazine, who said: 'Although it is pretty apparent Laura has a tight clench on what makes a pop song shine, it's not all rainbow pillow cases in the world of Scraps. Hill's entirely electronically composed music is as caked with pregnant intrigue and dam-aged beauty as an attic-found crazy glued together figurine. Laura wears her obsession with 80s synth rock on her sleeve, citing The Human League, Kraftwerk, De-peche Mode, Flock of Seaguls, OMD, Gary Numan and Devo as influences.'"
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CRITTER 011CD
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"Originally recorded as the soundtrack to Intrepid Cinema's critically acclaimed BBC Documentary The Guga Hunters of Ness follows the journey of ten men from the community of Ness on the Isle of Lewis as they embark on a traditional hunt for gannets. Utilizing their customarily unconventional instrumentation to create precarious and powerful abstract-folk, the trio of Daniel Merrill, Robin Alderton and Nathaniel Mann have come up with a powerful score, with compositions seeded in hours of study of Hebridean folk song. Dead Rat Orchestra have become the slow burning backwater of British music; perpetually hovering on the fringes of distinct scenes, yet never fully on-board, they remain their own mutable paradigm. They perform with violins, harmoniums, logs, axes and pigeon flutes; folly snow-boxes, semi-strung guitars, home-wired glitchers and record player clunks; they use organ pipes like hunting horns, which are overblown like great whales; and with shards of metal, cast to the floor in shimmering joy."
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CRITTER 011LP
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LP version. "Originally recorded as the soundtrack to Intrepid Cinema's critically acclaimed BBC Documentary The Guga Hunters of Ness follows the journey of ten men from the community of Ness on the Isle of Lewis as they embark on a traditional hunt for gannets. Utilizing their customarily unconventional instrumentation to create precarious and powerful abstract-folk, the trio of Daniel Merrill, Robin Alderton and Nathaniel Mann have come up with a powerful score, with compositions seeded in hours of study of Hebridean folk song. Dead Rat Orchestra have become the slow burning backwater of British music; perpetually hovering on the fringes of distinct scenes, yet never fully on-board, they remain their own mutable paradigm. They perform with violins, harmoniums, logs, axes and pigeon flutes; folly snow-boxes, semi-strung guitars, home-wired glitchers and record player clunks; they use organ pipes like hunting horns, which are overblown like great whales; and with shards of metal, cast to the floor in shimmering joy."
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CRITTER 003CD
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"This eponymous debut from Savaging Spires has 'cult hit' written through it like a stick of Blackpool Rock. Broadly split between standalone songs and sound-collaging passages, the ensemble glide seamlessly through the pagan eeriness of The Wicker Man soundtrack, Espers' druggy bucolic edginess, the underrated invention of Tyrannosaurus Rex's Unicorn and the affectionate irreverence of Can's Ethnological Forgery Series pieces."
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CRITTER 001EP
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"Each artist tackles a song by the other. A familiar enough tale you may think, but these songs fall into each other in a more pleasing manner than most, creating a lyrically and musically complementary whole. Two refracted visions of the landscapes of memory and the magical characters that inhabit them. James Jackson Toth, known to the world as Wooden Wand, is a maverick, good-hearted troubadour whose blend of smoky Americana has been garnering plaudits for the last decade. Growing up in the English suburbs, Owen Tromans led John Peel favourites San Lorenzo before following a solo path that has seen him release several acclaimed albums and tour extensively, playing with the likes of Brian Jonestown Massacre, Idlewild and Plush."
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