earwig | past

finally got my hands opn this cd comp of their first 3 eps, along with the second ep itself. just one more to go and i've got the set. anyway, this has all the tracks on except two i believe, for some odd reason. not listened to it yet, but i know it's going to be good!

cd released by la-di-da in 1991.

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mixtape | bleak house: a uk post rock primer (vol 1)

after a 2-week break it's time to get back into the fray. and here's a mix that i've been tinkering with for a while now. if you're a last fm user and a fan of post rock, then you're probably aware of samuel macklin's uk post rock group and therefore of the compilations he's been posting. in which case, here's my version.

post rock, by definition, is hard to define, but i think the original premise of post rock as a genre was the idea of the rock song deconstructed. think of it as an evolution of the dub/beefheart/punk melange of post punk, with added jazz and house music, plus a genuine sense of space combined with an "anything goes" approach. kind of.

i've sequenced the compilation in basic chronological order, so you get a rough idea of the evolution, though of course i'm not included any of the actual influences, just the influencers (if that makes sense). volume 1 covers the period 1981 to 1994.

anyway, like i said, this is just my take on it. i started to write about each track individually, but really you don't need my waffle.

::: dif juz - heset
::: ar kane - sperm whale trip over
::: bark psychosis - i know
::: my bloody valentine - instrumental
::: talk talk - after the flood
::: earwig - every day shines
::: moonshake - seen and not heard
::: papa sprain - bathtime
::: butterfly child - lunar eclipse
::: disco inferno - the last dance
::: insides - darling effect
::: laika - coming down glass

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insides | clear skin promo

not had a chance to listen to this properly yet, but this is a 12" promo geurnica/4ad put out to promote insides' "clear skin" record. this record was of course a single, long long track, so it's not surprising on the promo you get a couple of edited versions. plus there's "further distractions", an extrapolated version of a "euphoria" album track that was also included on the limited 7" extra.

according to this release's discogs page, the release of this promo against the band's will was what led them to leave the label. but i remember kirsty telling me in an interview that she had had to beg ivo to release "clear skin" in the first place since guernica was meant to be for one-off releases only. so who knows the truth of this.

12" released by guernica in 1994.

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image knicked from discogs as, frankly, i couldn't bother to get the camera out.

earwig | hardly

first of the three early eps from earwig, forerunner to the much-admired-in-certain-small-circles insides. sadly i haven't tracked down the other two, at least at a price i'm willing to pay right now...

much thinner than the later womb-like insides, it has that almost harsh sound of early cocteau twins instead. and it's no worse off for it.

12" released by la-di-da in 1990.

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earwig | every day shines

glorious two-track 12"from earwig, with a remix of album track "every day shines" plus "i need feel". if you don't know earwig (and i'm talking about the brighton uk model) then you don't know life.

12" released by la-di-da in 1992.

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speeder zine #1

Speeder Zine #1

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the follow up to kylie and a fairly hefty 52 pages. features interviews with beatnik filmstars (yes again), guided by voices, insides, madder rose, linus, gene, t.u.o.b. and a guy who claimed to be king arthur. plus tons of reviews of various stuff and a comics article from the much-missed andy roberts of linus. produced around 1993/4 i think. and i'm still reet proud of it.

listen while you read (not got round to ripping my linus records, but will do soon):

::: guided by voices - "wished i was a giant"
::: beatnik filmstars - apathetic english swine
::: madder rose - car song
::: gene - sleep well tonight (i still have that demo of for the dead somewhere)
::: insides - tikky (from volume 10)
::: tuob - god's servant
::: guided by voices - expecting brainchild

archived.

insides | sweet tip

second and final (so far?) album from insides, and this one is much more jazzy, features a full band and is, frankly, disappointing after the greatness that was "euphoria". but it's all relative man.

released by 3rd stone in 2000.

it says rick here.

insides | clear skin

lie back and think of brighton.

released by guernica in 1994.

i'm going to write to the lead singer of echo & the bunnymen.

earwig | under my skin i am laughing

brighton duo insides came to prominence briefly in 1993 with the release of their debut album euphoria on 4ad offshoot guernica. they followed this up with the single track , 38 min album clear skin, before more or less falling off the planet, despite releasing a third album sweet tip, which drifted away from the velvety electronica into more jazz leanings.

but before all this they were a trio called earwig, and were similarly blissful but with some delicious distortion added. that's a terrible description i know, so just download this instead, their one and only album.

released in 1992 by la di da.

close my eyes.