Aural Delights 386

Cable Ties	–	Lani
Adam Stone and Dead Sea Apes	–	Retreat to your Bunker (Lockdown 2020)
Lizard Brain	–	32 Years
Dave Graney ‘n’ The Coral Snakes	–	Partial To The Game
Flat Worms	–	The Aughts
On Diamond	–	The Purple Palace (Lisa Salvo Remix)
The Room In The Wood	–	Diamond Clouds
Easter	–	Doubt Rings (Eternal)
King Buzzo with Trevor Dunn	–	I’m Glad I Could Help Out
Peter Hammill	–	Driven
Dave Graney ‘n’ The Coral Snakes	–	We’re Here To Go
Cable Ties	–	Not My Story
Flat Worms	–	Plaster Casts
On Diamond	–	Crying For It (Maria Moles Remix)
The Cravats	–	Trees & Birds & Flowers & Sky
The Room In The Wood	–	Mars (Won’t Save Us)
Vanessa Skantze	–	River
Dave Graney ‘n’ The Coral Snakes	–	The Expatriate Trip
Flat Worms	–	Market Forces
Peter Hammill	–	The Sphinx In The Face
The Room In The Wood	–	Stowaway
The Cravats	–	Jam Rabbits
Tomistoma	–	History

Thoughts

• Cable Ties –  Far Enough : as featured last week, this Melbourne based trio continue to impress on each listen (Bandcamp)
• Adam Stone and Dead Sea Apes – Retreat to your Bunker (Lockdown 2020) : The regular mail out from DSA revealed this apposite little gem, a revised working of the original. You should regularly check out their Bandcamp page for lots of current offers from their back catalogue.
• Lizard Brain – 32 Years – this weeks release from German Shepherd Records includes an introduction by Richard from the band. There’s a podcast from Richard and David which accompanies this release. The rockier/punkier side of the band in full effect here.
• Dave Graney ‘n’ The Coral Snakes –  Crayfish Palace Royalty – coming to the end of this set of Graney and Moore recordings.  I’m moving on to the excellent Hashish and Liquour album next. A recent missive from Dave indicates some live albums coming in the near future featuring ex-Coral Snake Robin Casinader. Two of Dave’s great rockers are found on this bonus disc from The Mercury Years Box Set –
• Flat Worms –  Antartica : The Los Angeles band have hardened their post-punk/psych sound with this new one . Recorded at Electrical Audio with Steve Albini. Exciting stuff.
• On Diamond –  Remixes : Last years stunning debut album gets remixed by members of the band and others. Unique and rather captivating re-imaginings of great music.
• The Room In The Wood –  We’re The Martians Now : Dave Jackson and Paul Cavanaugh are back with their second album which proves to be just as good as the debut.
• Easter – Doubt Rings (Eternal) : I seem to have caused some raised eyebrows by referring to this as a return to form, comparing it with the excellent first album, and somehow dismissing “Meander Lines”. That wasn’t the intention. What I was trying to suggest is that the quality of the first album was so good that it would be difficult to replicate it (difficult second album etc etc) and that with this EP the band have achieved that. Meander Lines is great, it’s just that the new EP and the first album are better.
• King Buzzo with Trevor Dunn –  Gift of Sacrifice : I talked about this last week. It continues to deliver quality with each listen.
• Peter Hammill – Not Yet Not Now –  Getting to the end of CD7 now the two songs featured on the show were originally on Peter’s solo album Clutch (1999) and on The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome which was the eighth album by Van Der Graaf Generator. Released in 1977, it was their last studio album before their 2005 reunion. The album features a more energetic, new wave sound than its three immediate predecessors, anticipating Peter Hammill’s late 1970s solo work.
• The Cravats –  Hoorahland : continuing to feature this great album
• Vanessa Skantze – Writhing Treasure Feast : The soundtrack to the solo dance exploration of activist and luminary Butoh dancer Skantze . She explores the sounds of the fierce beauty, pain, resourcefulness, and resurrection of the land, the people, the creatures, and elements of the original Americas, dancing with the gods of Mexico, North America, and Haiti primarily. Writhing Treasure Feast draws from the artist’s travels to Mexico and Haiti, her experience and initiation into a Vodou Sosyete (community) in New Orleans, and her residency in Seattle, the traditional land of the Duwamish People.
• Tomistoma – History  – with an intro from Cai Brown in which your DJ realises he has been pronouncing Tomistoma wrong for the last few years – I should have been rendering it in the original Potteries dialect as To-mistoma rather than my hybrid Salford/Northamptonian Tomi-stoma. You learn something new every day. Anyhow this is an exclusive out take from previous sessions.