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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

Sunday, January 29, 2012

While we work on crunk: Robert Scott's 'Ends Run Together' (Flying Nun, NZ - 2010)

We here at LOLOTD are working on some major crunk. In the mean time, we'd like to remind you that back in 2010, we said this about Robert Scott, he of The Clean, The Bats and The Magick Heads: "He has a voice and style that taps deeply. Very deeply.  It’s no wonder that his newest record – Ends Run Together – is another breathless doozy that occasionally makes the hair on our necks stand on end. It quietly slipped out in October and is 1.7th best present to our ears in 2010."

And so, one year later and with perhaps the best Bats record yet obscuring its beauty, let's not forget what came before. One song, "Born In A Tent", actually brought tears to our eyes a few times, and when combustible sonic art has that kind of power, all you can do is be thankful.



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