I have to go to grocery store so I have something to cook to bring for lunch at work for this week.
Content yourselves with this brief compilation until I get back.
I Hear the Devil Calling Me (1991)
With this mere seven inches of black vinyl Drag City introduced a larger swath of the American listening audience to the lo-fi goodness that was the New Zealand label Xpressway.
Twelve songs by twelve artists. All around a minute in length.
This was a big fucking deal at the time. Still is as good a time capsule of that moment, that scene, as you're going to get at this juncture and from this distance. We ate it up. We used it as a guide to what we needed to listen to next. We followed things to their logical or sometimes not logical conclusion.
You do the same. It's good for you.
This is a great one. I still have a vinyl copy of the 7". A good way to get a first exposure to what Xpressway was doing at that time.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. There are some compilations that are just tailor made to be a road map to what you're going to seek out next.
DeleteI sought out as many releases by these artists as I could find.