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Eddy Current Suppression Ring/ Fresh & Onlys/ Woods/ The Soft Moon/ Minks/ Hanoi Janes
Singles roundup

Article written by Ged M - May 5, 2010

Eddy Current Suppression Ring are a brilliant Australian garage band whose Primary Colours album was a revelation of dirty garage beats in the style of the Standells and the MC5. Their third album is heralded by ‘Wet Cement’ (Mexican Summer 7”), the bearer of a monstrous, filthy guitar riff that runs through the song like Jason Voorhees let loose in a holiday camp full of nubile teenagers. The doomily intoned set of weird metaphors that form the lyrics just makes this more strange and irresistible. Not sure about ‘Hey Mum’ on the flipside though: “I can’t put a price on what you’re worth”. Australian new men? I’ve seen everything now. Myspace

There’s only 400 of this one-sided single from the Fresh & Onlys on a San Diego label but ‘Witchy Woman’ (Hell Yes! 7”) is too good not to remark on its dark, brooding psychedelic wail, summoning up the ghosts of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators and Chocolate Watch Band. San Francisco is producing great garage and psych music at the moment from the likes of The Oh Sees and Ty Segall, and the Fresh & Onlys are further proof – especially the breathtaking guitar riffs supplied by Edmund Xavier of Teenage Panzerkorps. Myspace

It sounds as if there are two false starts to Woods'I Was Gone' (Woodsist Records 7") before it settles into its acid-psych stride, full of lysergic raga-rhythms, like one of those pop-goes-to-India singles from the 60s. The b-sides are further takes on the sound, from the lo-fidelity psych-pop ‘Days Gone By’ to the more folky acid blast of ‘Hang On’. It's pretty good but has a slight tendency to "noodle". However, as the house band of Woodsist Records, there's no danger they'll be dropped. Myspace

'Breathe The Fire' by The Soft Moon (Captured Tracks 7") is a sinister, menacing gothic rumble, sounding a lot like Joy Division and early New Order, but a hell of a lot better than other bands who try to reproduce that sound. The whispery vocals, pulsing bass and racing guitar/ drums send an adrenaline shiver round your body - the sound is cold but the effect is burning. This is the work of San Francisco's Luis Vasquez, whose 'Phantoms' on the B-side is another atmospheric gem, complete with space-rock rhythms and bursts of guitar static, both mechanical and supremely organic. It wears its 80s influences lightly, and makes something novel out of them - Editors take note. Myspace

Minks are from Brooklyn but might as well be from Crawley, the amount of love they show to Robert Smith on ‘Funeral Song’ (Captured Tracks 7”). The swirly keyboards are very Cure-esque but the vocals are much warmer and less disinterested than Smith normally is/was. If the hairspray-abusing Goth on the cover didn’t convince you, the dark blizzard of electronic sound and rippling bass lines of ‘Drunk Punks’ would tell you that someone’s in thrall to Bauhaus. It never really comes alive for me – as it’s Goth, maybe that’s the point. Myspace

Largely the work of German Oliver Scharf, Hanoi Janes make an excitable surf-pop sound on ‘Across the Sea’ (Captured Tracks 7”), with a lot of Spectorish noise and a dose of “wooh ooh oohs”. ‘Skeleton Girl’ follows the same template with its rock’n’roll guitars, tamborines and buzzy organ, and more of those “wooh ooh oohs”. A genuinely fun song of a sort last heard with the Magic Kids’ ‘Hey Boy’. Myspace

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