NED COLLETTE - "Old Chestnut" LPNed Collette Old Chestnut LP (Feeding Tube, 2018) I've spent a lot of time alone in a van with this fucker. Waking up in friends or strangers' houses, hitting the road for a few hours, finding a bite, bitching to him about this or that, him bitching back, saddling up at the bar or back in the van drinking again, inevitably watching his charming Aussie expat stage spiel night after night sometimes with a band and sometimes solo, sometimes playing for

not as it comes out of Gétatchèw Mèkurya’s sax and his band

Joy (10: 30)

" - South of North

and Playa Fly

This is some really fascinating left-field electro/dub work from an artist about whom I know almost nothing

They also sing about Jesus

At 20 songs

Underlying the whole album is the insistent beat of a simple drum machine

"Country folks

Of all the artists who

or overlooked elements in popular music

i know that it may be possible for such a recording to exist only if the appropriate vortex should appear