Tit 'n' Titter: February 2012

I've had Amen Dunes Through Donkey Jaw since last summer, but it really just connected with me in the last week or so. I've been drifting off to sleep to this record mostly, but I swear it's not dull. Reminds me of classic loner-zoner shit like The Madcap Laughs or that old Simon Finn album, but it's no retro homage deal.

I saw Total Control open for Thee Oh Sees back in November, before I got my turntable game together, so I didn't buy the LP from them then (even though they slayed). I was very glad to find it on Friday night. Some of Henge Beat has a minimal synth thing going on, but it's always cut with a punk rock spikiness. They've got a guy from the awesome Eddy Current Suppression Ring, too. Australia rulez.

Dug out this Lansing-Dreiden cd I got from a dollar bin a long time ago. I don't know how these guys slipped through the cracks, because their take on 80's-style synth foppery is pretty great IMHO...

Thalia picked up some records for me at a Goodwill in Macon yesterday. I might send her out to do this for me more often, because she found some good stuff. She got me a hip-hop compilation from 1985 called Kings of Rap which features Run-DMC, Whodini and the Fat Boys (whose 2 contributions feature the "uh-huh-huh-huh" beatboxin' sound that Adam has been slaying us with for so long):

Stevie Nicks Bella Donna:

Her best find was this cosmic disco album fron 1977 by a French band called Space. This album is pretty choice...

I also picked up some stuff myself instead of letting my personal shopper do it. I replaced my flood-damaged copy of Eno's Another Green World. I also found this reissue of a 1976 private-press album by Eddie Callahan called False Ego that looked pretty intriguing. It's kinda rockin', kinda psych, kinda folk, kinda power pop. Nice West Coast hippy vibes in general. This song's my favorite so far, though it lacks some of the wild synth action which crops up occasionally: