The Archives
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02.02.12Simon Piler – groundDownload 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 ...
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07.26.11Impaled Peach – Impaled PeachDownload: 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 ...
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04.01.10The Songs of Syd LaneLong overdue, but finally here are three of Syd's records recorded as The Loaded Whispers from pre-'Artists Use Lies To Tell The Truth'. As always, they are free to download, but if you do then please take the time out to drop in at Syd Lane Music and let her know that you liked it. Because if it's not about the money, then it's got to be about the love, otherwise it just won't work... If you're new to what Syd does then if you read on, we've got a brilliant guide to all of the records she's made, written by ...
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03.20.09Review: SIMON PILER & THE ATOM BAND – Songs From HomeIn an imaginary back bedroom somewhere on your street, Simon Piler and The Atom Band are hunched around a whirring tape recorder that accidentally captures some process of song. The completed record - "Songs From Home" - is a collision of ideas coagulating to form a wonderfully lo-fi compound of sound. Dylanesque bluesy guitar-led folk runs effortlessly into experimental synthetics, random instruments pipe up long-lost melodies and samples of sound texture sputter on in the background. And all the while Simon Piler sings, intelligent heart-felt poetry, the underbelly of America, politically astute, emotionally aware, and unconsciously different. As compounds go, ...