Borderline Collie - S/T

Band request from Poland.

Dawid and Lucasz from the mighty fine noise makers "Objects"

have stripped things down and produced a collection of songs 

that are an instrumental, improvised, alt country blues, lo fi project.

Using just acoustic guitar and snare/tom, this collection of ambient
sounding alt country songs do not reflect their European background
but rather bring in a shimmering heat haze from Arizona deserts and
dusty, abandoned landscapes where the only thing that disturbs the
emptiness is the twang of a guitar.

If you need a break from angry shouty men who play
down-tuned guitars and take themselves too seriously,
check this out!

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Stand Alone Complex - Broken Sleep In A Minor Key

Band request from Portsmouth.

Stand Alone Complex is one guy and his acoustic guitar. While

these words are normally enough to get my teeth gritting and 

strapping razor blades to my fists ready for a face-to-face meeting,

this album came as a pleasant surprise.

Recorded in a front room, it has a low-fi, ramshackle feel that

has a natural warmth to it. Vocals have a Lou Barlow feel to

things and the guitar tone rings out with a slight fuzziness

which really suits the songs.

Plaintive without being whiny, this is something you play

on a Sunday morning when you want to give your ears a rest

from down-tuned guitars and cookie-monster grunting.

Bio: Stand Alone Complex is the solo project of Damon Marcus that began in 2010. Based in Portsmouth in the UK, the whole thing started as a side project whilst Damon was playing in other bands but SAC ended up with a full time band within itself which although remaining a solo affair does frequently feature friends and other local musicians.

SAC is a lo-fi, noise, folkpunk experiment with non-linear, stream of conscious lyrics as bi-polar as Damon himself. Influences are drawn from surreal Japanese films, computer games, drugs, astronomy and an irrational fear of drowning.

Broken sleep in a minor key is a collection of re-recorded older SAC tracks with some re-mixed newer stuff (a kind of bastardized best of) that has been released whilst a new EP and split EP/album are being recorded

All tracks were recorded in a living room in Southsea, Portsmouth UK

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Keith Cook - Broken Grate

I stumbled across this on Bandcamp and had to post it.

How can you resist this description:

If you’re expecting street rock stuff from me then here it is.

It was recorded on a free recording program, a $2 PC mic

(luckily the last record paid for the mic), and a $0 budget.

All the songs were written on bass, all but 3(written earlier in 2011)

were written and tracked 1st on bass between 1 and 4pm November

17th 2011, the drums were tracked between 4 and 5pm the same day,

besides one that was originally recorded mid-afternoon May 1st 2011

(except for the drums that were tracked November 16th while I was

tracking drums for the other new recording) not too bad for someone

who has probably still spent less than 24 hours behind a drum kit in

their life. Guitar was tracked and the lyrics were written over the next

few days the last thing recorded was around 11:30am November 22nd.

I had a notebook I’d written titles for songs in during 2009 but no words

or music so I wrote them around those titles and saved about 4 for later use.

This is noisy, lo-fi punk - drums and bass barely audible, slurred

vocals and huge white noise slabs of guitars over which fuzzed

atonal solos are played.

Basically if you love the Velvet Underground at their most chaotic

and think the solo from "I Heard her Call My Name" cannot be beaten

then I urge you to give this a Listen

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