August 2008
The Archives
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08.25.08Fig Mints (Of Your Imagination): The Passionate MisunderstandingOut Today!FIG MINTS (OF YOUR IMAGINATION)The Passionate MisunderstandingIn association with our brothers & sisters & weird cousins twice removed at www.cozyhomerecords.com we're grinning to present a seven-song slice of history available to download at your free & easy Quixodelic Record store right now so you can hear how it all began...JUST CLICK ON THE STORE LINK AT THE TOP OF THIS SITE
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08.25.08Review: FIG MINTS (OF YOUR IMAGINATION) – “The Passionate Misunderstanding”FIG MINTS (OF YOUR IMAGINATION) The Passionate Misunderstanding If record reviews were personality contests then anything from Fig Mint HQ would be greeted like a long-lost Beatles album, recorded in a sunkissed LSD-obliterated Bermuda triangle of a fortnight in the summer of 1967. And on the Quixodelic underground "The Passionate Misunderstanding" should be afforded the same treatment... roll out the red carpet, download it for free, make a little space in your life, hang onto your headphones and disappear down a tunnel of time, way back to before it even started. But we all know it doesn't work like that - the ...
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08.22.08THE WHEELIES “The Wheelie”Out TodayIt was a difficult decision whether to include this in the store, particularly as there are several VERY great records there already that are much more deserving of the attention. But for what it's worth here's my contribution to the summer of the DG EP to keep that stone a-rolling, a retrospective Wheelies collection called "The Wheelie" pulling together my own highlights from a year of recording and five albums released in full at www.cozyhomerecords.com during 2006/07. It's hiss-ridden, lo-fi mediocrity, but sometimes strange kids dig that kind of thing, plus it's been remastered by the elusive Bubbasmooth so ...
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08.22.08About “The Wheelie”Well the likelihood of anyone ever being interested enough in The Wheelies to interview us is slim to non-existent, so I figured as a vain and probably pointless alternative I'd talk to myself about the songs that make up the most recent (and most complete) of a long, long line of retrospectives...1 KEEP MOVING This was the opening song on the "Cosmonaut" album, originally intended as a solo album for the failed Cozy Home box-set "The Troof Above Your Head" - where I'd deliberately instigated a challenge to my fellow Cozy Homers to write and record a full-length album so that all of them ...