Showing posts with label The See See. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The See See. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Great pop Supplement - NEW


2 new ones from The Great Pop Supplement...I haven't been able to bring myself to order from them lately..I keep waiting to have one massive order and combine all the shipping into one big shipment I feel ok about...not that everything isn't worth hearing, but with the amount of 7" vinyl being pressed lately from stuff I have to hear...I'm cutting back on those chance things.
These two are a perfect example of the curve balls being thrown by GPS.
Beach Fuzz is really massive feedbacking sine waves ...echo, what sounds like free jazz, psyche..some of these noises might be made with vocals, it's really being manipulated...played if you will. At times sounding like a heavily manipulated voice, or a bent/slide guitar, through a theremin? If you don't get it, it's just going to be insane noise on both sides, noise that you won't be able to identify...it will sound like nothing y0u have ever heard for better or worse.
They are playing all over upstate NY this month and not stepping foot in NYC...what! Are you kidding? Get a show down here already. Oh Wait.... Silentbarn on the 27th...well when you call it ridgewood, I tend to overlook it I don't know where the hell that it. Queens, on the otherhand I can figure out.
I thought I was going a little crazy.

Next single is from the see see, with Pete Greenwood...ok he had a single out a while back on GPS, so I think I know what this is going to be about...sounds about right. Kind of sing songy, like very english pop...classically influenced. Classically like 40 years ago...filtered through some kind of nineties thing...a little indie/country. Like the posies or something. I saw that 'Dig' documentary....it sounds a little like that...kind of non descript historic pop. The other single a few months back i guess sold out in a week or so...this one might be gone as I write this....The exact opposite of Beach Fuzz...but that's why this label is so great...it's not one note, one punchline. I don't know where it's going and I like it.


2 x new GPS 7s to start the year with, both poles apart in must be said- a real case of light and dark / chalk and cheese call it what you will....

first up GPS39 beach fuzz with 2 untitled drone / improv noise pieces. to borrow from elsewhere on the net, this kinda sums up the band better than i could given my lack of preparation in mailout here (dull day spent sleeving so i'll be a magpie on this one:) - "bowed, scraped and intuitively picked lap steel, wailing, echo drenched fuzz synth, percussion and spontaneously composed vocals" numbered pressing of 300 in fliptop style, yearling lined card.

next up is GPS41 the see see "keep your head". following last year's debut on the gps (300 that came and went in 4 days), the band follow that with a 2 trk passing nod to big star, the byrds and the buffalo springifeld. big things expected from this band featuring ex-members of the eighteenth day of may, the soledad brothers and pete greenwood of recent "sirens" heavenly lp and debut on gps fame. the band supported the raconteurs and jack white's rumoured to be a fan, although that and reported nme interest....mmm (that a good thing or not nowadays!?!)

anyway, both singles are £4.49 each (plus post) or:-

£10 for both with post included in the uk.
£11.50 for both elsewhere in the world.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

The Great Pop Supplement - 2 More new ones!


A couple more from the excellent Great pop supplement, as long as Dom keeps making these, I will keep trying to come up with the money to buy them. Since I haven't ordered the last two I might be able to put these all together and over the ocean. He is also putting older releases together from the last year or so, the ones without sleeves and putting them in minibox sets for super cheap. I think 20 or 25 pounds for the past 4 or 5 releases.
Definitely email him if you are interested:
thegreatpopsupplementathotmail.com
Here they are....
Dom also says the first full length is in the works as well...

GPS26 WHSYP “Sun Without End” (Family EP) 7”
6 minutes of beautiful, sprawling acoustic psych from eternally evolving, sunny, californian folk collective whsyp.

Hazy high end vocal harmonies backed with subtle sitars (courtesy of skygreen leopards, part time wooden wand backing guy glenn donaldson) which aim for the stars yet quickly turn into a darker beast as the piece closes out. A beautiful 45 in fliptop match wallet style sleeves made from linen card and in a run of 300 only….

GPS27 THE SEE SEE “Up The Hill”/”Citadel Shuffle” 7”
Debut 45 from what has become something of a multi-national supergroup of sorts. Ex- eighteenth day of may mainguy, richard olson, soledad brothers drummer ben swank, former gps 45 guy pete greenwood on guitars and lap steel and kevin peyok.
2 fabulous slices of southern u.s folk rock, recalling gene clark, the byrds and burritos with a passing nod to big star perhaps. Beautiful, soaring vocals and a gem of a 45 to open up with. Early gigs included bill doss from the olivia tremor control- unsurprising given the uplifting nature of the sunny psych tunes within… 300 only 45 given the usual GPS packaging treatment.

cost breakdown as follows:-

for both: £7.98 rounded up to £9.50 incl post in the uk, or up to £10.50 into europe or £11 to the states/japan/aus/nz/elsewhere.
let me know if it's just a copy of one and i'll sort a price for you from there.