SCREAMERS - "Demo Hollywood 1977" 12"Screamers Demo Hollywood 1977 12" (Superior Viaduct, 2021) "These songs were recorded a few months after the Los Angeles punk scene began. These five statements of intent transcend Punk and project forward into the future: to the analog synth wave of the late '70s and beyond, to the present day, four decades later, when they finally receive an official release. Sourced from the original reel to reels, they are a revelation compared to the countless

often rendering even the harshest sounds into smooth

The album's crown jewel is the closing track

making loose folk that sounds like a combination of Harry Smith and Sun Ra

” with a minimalism worthy of the Ramones

And to bear witness to a rejection of formalism so aggressively pursued is to be reconciled

it also lies open to interpretation

he lived on a boat in the Mississippi River

These have crossed several seas

Steve Maing on guitar

Ma Turner - ZOZ LP (Sophomore Lounge

"Uncle Jim is a spoken-word persona of Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls

” which feels like beaming straight up to heaven