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29 March 2013 - Brixton, London

Viv Albertine, VuVuVultures, Left Leg, Mickey Gloss, Big Wave, No Cars, Arthur Gunn, Simon Love (Pictures)

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R.Ring, Golden Grrrls, Slushy Guts and Equinox (Pictures)

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Antony Harding - Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear (album)

Black Angels - Indigo Meadow (album)

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (album)

Still Corners - Strange Pleasures (album)

Savages - Silence Yourself (album)

Mikal Cronin - MC II (album)

Can’s Ege Bamyasi played by Stephen Malkmus and Friends(album)

Victoria and Jacob - Festival 7"

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (album)

Sauna Youth - False Jesii Part II 7”

Lightning Bolt - Oblivion Hunter

Robyn Hitchcock - There Goes The Ice (2x 12")

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Spectre Folk
The Ancient Storm Vampire Blues Records

Article written by Ged M - Oct 1, 2012

The Ancient Storm is the first release on Steve Shelley’s new label (a re-vamp – ahem! – of his Smells Like Records project) and ‘slow-burning psych-folk’ is the best way to describe this stoner’s friend of a debut record. Shelley – wonderfully understated on drums throughout - is joined by Aaron Mullan (Tall Firs, Hallogallo), Peter Meehan (who, in addition to music, is also a food writer) and Magik Markers’ drummer and multi-instrumentalist Pete Nolan for six tracks of narcotised guitar jams and improvised songwriting.

‘Inchin’ Worm’ is a brilliant 70s-sounding droney ballad (“droney” here being the finest compliment) wafted on gorgeous swaying rhythms while the 15-minute ‘Knife’ has an eight-minute fuse of fizzing rhythms and noise-oceans that explodes just after the halfway mark into guitar fireworks worthy of the Challenger Space Shuttle’s last ride. The instrumental ‘Gypsy Grammar’ feels like it’s doffing a cap at the American guitar primitivists while ‘Please Come Home’ is the nearest thing Spectre Folk have to a pop song, slipping into a gentle tropical groove.

You shouldn’t operate heavy machinery and motor vehicles while under the influence of this music but it will transport you anyway to some of the more interesting corners of modern American alt-rock.

Links:
http://vampireblues.net/
http://arbitrarysigns.blogspot.co.uk/