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There's been buckets of ink already spilled about 1980's Stone Age cassette culture and spinner dial broadcasting to warrant a Penguin size tome, and may much more pour forth. For now, here are my digital contributions. Caveatz tho’~~~~Air check playbacks of my 18-22 year old self are characterized by a superficially outsized air personality, elitist nods to the imagined cognoscenti and strained analysis accompanied by lame one-liners. I sound like an ESPN announcer (more so on WMUA than WPRB or WMFU)~~~~But even though there’s nothing as immediate and tasteful as the meat sliced by the original Pat Benatar band, the selections were choice then and remain so now, yes?~~~ No?~~~ Love is a battlefield!~~~~~All shows at 320 kbps, chopped into proper MP3s with lovingly detailed labeling~~~~Download Qs: leftofleftofthdial@gmail.com

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

2011’s Wicked Company/23rd seating - Shoppers: Silver Year (Feeble Minds - 2011)



Who will save the world? It’s not like Tony McPhee didn’t try, but that was nearly forty year ago and much has passed since. Reflexive or passive association will suffice no longer, what with the rate of eclipse shrinking to nanocultural blips - post-core, avant prog, goth garage, improv psych, gaze gaze, beard folk, lower case noise...reincarnation bears fruit every time the stream is tapped. Ten minutes later a scene thrives, with limited print vinyl and associated accoutrement. Music has no end.  Deciding which shoots are worth a nickel, that’s the trick (would that it was our only problem).


And so it comes to pass that Shoppers exist and thankfully, One Base On An Overthrow highlighted their 10/16/11 Flywheel show. No clickthruz though, so an annoying 25 searching seconds later of my own time landed me at their bandcamp page, which clicks through to Shoppers’ roiling nth gen noisecore squall. Touchstones here sound like 1st gen scum rock whatsis, as if Thalia Zedek fronted the Unsane instead of opting for Live Skull. Shoppers reveal no secrets though. Some emo’s probably in the dna as well, but having never listened to Fugazi after the first ep I’m not the one to say. The Overthrow guy wrote, "It kinda sounds like if Drundriver made a new record that was Foreign Objects/ Libyans catchy, but still sounded like  Drunkdriver." I only get the Drunkdriver third of that reference, so more research lies ahead.

One dimensional aggro thrust this is not, mind you. Granular layers shift – relentlessly – adding vertical plunge every eight bars for a totally awesome rock blitz. I’m hopeful for what the next year brings.  For 2011, it’s the 23rd seating of a wicked company. 
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