last one for today, AUTOreverse Issue One review – SANITY ASSASSINS 7″ (1995)

excerpt from AUTOreverse Issue One

last one for today -
SANITY ASSASSINS
Martian Beach / Hot Foot 7″
Comes on like a surf record. Uptempo rock, or is it punk? (That’s not a philosophical question, I’m really curious) Overly reverbed distorto guitar over a driving bass-n-drums beat. “Hot Foot” is fast and has all of your favorite surf elements: tremolo guitars, fast ride cymbal work. Makes me think of loud cars and old rockabilly guys trying to keep their hair from going flat in the sun. We surf a lot in Ohio, so this is like soul music to me.
Ian C Stewart

VINYL REVIEW: PALE SKETCHER – SEVENTH HEAVEN - EP - 2011

I ordered the new Broadrick EP on Wednesday, sumbitch showed up YESTERDAY. Less than 24 hours later. Mofo and son of a bitch, that is fast. So fast that I haven’t even opened it yet.
I bought the download, but sort of wanted the limited edition vinyl too. It was only like $15 or something for the vinyl and the mp3s…..
Justin Broadrick and Jack Dangers are two artists whose work I will always purchase legitimately and as often as possible. I’ve always bought their stuff, so there’s no reason to stop now. The Pale Sketcher EP is pretty damn amazing, of course. I say it every time he releases something, but he really does get better all the time.
Fake-ass Red House Painters gone techno, hell yeah. :)
I never ordered from Ghostly before but it seems cool so far.
BUY, GUY
PALE SKETCHER – SEVENTH HEAVEN EP

REVIEW: ALICJACOPO - 1998 - 10" SINGLE

AUTOreverse: Alicjacopo 10" 1998

Clear vinyl EP recorded in late 1997. Alicia Wade recorded her guitar and vocal parts at home in Virginia, USA while Jacopo Andreini did his vocals, drums & sax at home in Pistoia, Italy.

The record was pressed in New Zealand, if memory serves, and finally distributed by Dekay Age, also out of Virginia. Also distributed by Frigorifero Productions in Italy.

Handmade on every level, this is an object lesson in How We Did Things In Those Days. Good times.

"Time" is like a fractured Portishead. "Cutting Paintings" features Jacopo out front, getting his Zorn on. Or, for the kiddies, imagine the White Stripes fronted by a Tasmanian Devil.

This record is a nice jab to the frontal lobe, just the right amounts of experimentation and rocking out. Dig it!

ALICJACOPO 10" EP
1. Free Angels
2. Time
3. Night Scene
4. Cutting Paintings
5. Je M'en Vais
6. It Is Very Simple