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Golden Grrrls - New Pop 7”

Chris Devotion & The Expectations - Amalgamation & Capital (album)

Trailer Trash Tracys - Ester (album)

Throwing Up - Mother Knows Best 7”

Howling Wolf - Complete Chess Masters 1951-60

The Ketamines - A Rotten Bond/1 Yr (from Oddbox Singles Club Pt 2)

Cardinal - Hymns (album)

Proper Ornaments - Taking the Gamble Out of Buying 12”

Darren Hayman - January Songs (album)

Various: Marshall Teller EP 12”

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Spectrum with Tim ‘Love’ Lee/ Captain Memphis
Words May Shatter/ The Lonesome Death of Johnny Ace Great Pop Supplement 7”

Article written by Ged M - Jul 12, 2010

Spectrum with Tim ‘Love’ Lee/ Captain Memphis

Singles on the Great Pop Supplement are always impressively packaged. Spectrum’s new picture disc is a case in point, its strobing design adding to the psychedelic effect of the record. On one side Pete Kember colludes with superstar-DJ Tim ‘Love’ Lee on ‘Words May Shatter’, a wail of dance-influenced noise-rock where beats and synth waves collide, sounding like Suicide or the Chemical Bros on mindwarping psychotropics. Not bad then, but better still is the other side where Spectrum and Captain Memphis (i.e. legendary and now dead musician/ producer Jim Dickinson) tell the story of the suicide of one of the original r’n’b stars on Christmas Day 1954 in ‘The Lonesome Death of Johnny Ace’. It’s partly a lament, partly a ghost story, full of oscilating synths over swamp-rock rhythms, with Kember bringing the eerie backing and Dickinson providing the amazing gruff Southern voice. It’s a breathtaking medley of styles that works perfectly.

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http://www.sonic-boom.info/spectrum.php
http://www.myspace.com/spectrumofficialpage