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  • 02.02.12
    Simon Piler – ground QUIXODELIC RECORDS, RELEASES, REVIEWS, SIMON PILER | (2)
    Download Simon Piler's 'ground' for free at: quixodelic.com/site/ground Here you go. First Quixodelic Record of 2012 in association with the excellent New Radish, and it's my dear friend Simon Piler singing to you 6 songs of this-worldly folk-blues all the way from sunny Alaska. While the Daydream Generation continues to fade away and yours truly attempts to gather his bearings over the edge of the world, our interstellar lo-fi roster of acts are still obviously out there doing what they do. Neat little records like 'ground' are the sort of thing that makes me remember why once upon a time I loved ...
  • 11.24.11
    Syd Lane – With Your Shield Or On It RELEASES, REVIEWS, SYD LANE | (3)
    sydlane.bandcamp.com/album/with-your-shield-or-on-it Both Sides Now by Syd Lane A couple of nights ago I felt like going out and finding me some new music, but then I remembered how I skim-listened to Syd Lane's 'Solstice' from earlier this year (having still been immersed in the wonderful 'Hypatia' which fell from the clouds the month previous). And lo and behold, what should I find, but this... 'With Your Shield Or On It' - an album that (like everything she does) deserved a fanfare, but instead flew out under the radar on the wrong side of twilight. 17 new songs in the style of Syd, the ...
  • 07.26.11
    Impaled Peach – Impaled Peach IMPALED PEACH, QUIXODELIC RECORDS, RELEASES, REVIEWS | (1)
    Download: quixodelic.com/site/impaled-peach/ It's been a while so you know this must be important. Remember Impaled Peach and his 'Helicobbler' EP from early last year? 8 songs of melancholy pop goodness, oddities thrown together in the shape of a record, completely unplanned and yet brilliantly coherent. Well this time he's only gone and done it again, but full-album length this time around, a staggering 17 track masterpiece, completely unplanned and yet... if this record wasn't designed to fall together like this, then it really should have been. Design is the key to describing what Ed (the guy behind the music) does. Songs are ...
  • 04.15.11
    Syd Lane – Solstice RELEASES, REVIEWS, SYD LANE | (1)
    Free download: sydlane.bandcamp.com/album/solstice Syd Lane has done it again. While some songwriters furiously vomit up hours of garbage in the hope that something, anything redeemable might happen, and others sit chewing on their guitar strings waiting for inspiration, she has been quietly amassing an increasingly awesome body of songs, honing and refining them until, like golden apples they are ready to drop from the tree. 'Solstice' is the second apple of a whirlwind year but three months old. Already we have seen the utterly compelling 'Hypatia' make all the right ripples in the deep end of the pond. Everyone I know who has ...