Apparently, I buy too many records

My wife Helen, like every other woman i've ever lived with, believes that I buy too many records.

Which, as every record-buying man knows, is a ridiculous belief.

I will concede, however, that I do indeed buy a lot of records and that I don't afford them the same amount of listens and attention that I did 20 or 30 years ago.

To this end, I have decided to blog about the records that I buy, in order to help my appreciation of them - and perhaps to show Helen that I don't buy that many records after all.

Because i'm crap with deadlines the blog posts will be sporadic and probably be about a month or 2 behind but that's just the way i am! The posts will not necessarily be actual reviews (most likely comments, at best) and will generally be pretty damn short due to the reasons outlined above. As a writer in a previous existence i have decided not to worry about writing as art in the pieces but, instead, to attempt to convey feeling over semantic (and often grammatic) perfection.

And 'OCRB'? It stands for 'Obsessive Compulsive Record Buying' - a little known mental health affliction that is potentially damaging to the bank account but ultimately life-affirming. It is sad.......but a nice form of sad.

Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Mirror Mirror: FRKWYS Vol. 5 (RVNG Intl)





Took a cheap punt on this to make up a Boomkat order as it was cheap and because it had a remix by Stuart 'Young Marble Giants' Moxham on it. I have no idea what their normal stuff sounds like (this has 4 remixes on it) but the tracks here remind me heavily of early Beta Band in that they sway from weird folk to psychedelia to glacial pop to post punk near funkyness. The self improvement tape samples work brilliantly over second track 'New Horizons' until bizarre flutes and accordion samples fall all over it and it tumbles down into a world of strange, before firing right back up again. Then it goes all dubby. The message here is: "expect the unexpected unless the unexpected is the thing that's expected", in which case you should just hang on and enjoy the fucking ride.

Geniuspop + folkystrangepsychydance = NYC loft party hipness, but that's not a reason to hate them - it's a reason to want to enter their world, grow a moustache and drift around and something that i'd be very happy to be a part of.
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