Jon Collin - Early Music LPEM01 "Starkly original acoustic guitar renderings, occasionally hinting at Fahey or Derek Bailey, but those are only hints. The feeling Jon is getting at is more Shadow Ring Graham Lambkin, baiting you into facing up to the nature of reality, right here and now. Early Music is abstract in the extreme, but also very personal, almost uncomfortably so." (Scott McDowell, WFMU)

woozy bedsit slow-burns

when the production fell into delays

” “hot new Oakland trio” Preening’s “misshapen angles

the vibe is more akin to fellow New Zealanders The Tall Dwarfs and/or Syd Barrett

The first was Acoustic Guitar/Gifts a split LP with Loren solo on one side and with Kath joining him on the flip

it almost (but not quite) masks its venomously-spat lyrical content behind angular basslines that Steve Hanley would’ve been proud to call his own and guitar chords thet teeter and totter between the blunt force of Black Flag and the dissonant crunch of Gang of Four

along with Frank Lowe

Total Control

and Toyota Avalon (Wonder Bread

The LP is pressed on clear vinyl in an edition of 300 copies and housed with a photo of the small box of the possessions she brought with her from South Korea to Sweden as a young adoptee

Howard's quest for an original sound was deeply influenced by jazz greats like Charlie Parker

prima facie aesthetic direction at all