this won't be released until next week, but it arrived yesterday already :)
5CD's of wonderful Ida. It's not my favourite album of theirs, but it's got some good music on it, and many alternate takes some of which I might prefer to the album versions.

Only listened to the first 3CDs so far. Saving the best for last. Low features on one track, Don't Drop The Baby which was on their boxset as well

The Beta Band: I haven't heard that name in...well, since last week when they announced their reunion, but before that a long time ago. I remember back in the day *everyone I knew who was strung out on brown loved them.

*They're gone now which is sad n'that, however on the plus side they will never have to suffer the indignation of ever hearing Black Cuntry. Every cloud...

I never got the fuss about the beta band, they had one half decent song.

On The Wires of Our Nerves has maybe the greatest album art of all time, but I could never really get in to the music. Their next album is an all time favourite for me. The one after that was a real let down.

I like that the Numero group have turned their attention 90s underground rock although I find some of the choices they make in the process baffling.

I was never a fan either but after The Beta Band were mentioned I had a listen yesterday and just kept thinking heroin innit. Combine with going to their Glastonbury performance and the junkie's general penchant for anything Glasto/bongo/funko, you have a potent cocktail for admiration.

I've mentioned them, but if I'm honest haven't listened to them in so long, and I don't really feel like it right now. From what I remember from the records I used to have, some EPs, the music sounded like studenty, indie spliff psychedelia. Gomez, that sort of shit. Rubbish. White boys smoking joints and pretending they had a connection with the 'Mexican lifestyle'. I suppose the popularity of Beck in the UK at the time may have encouraged this sort of band. I would have never thought they could be popular with hardened junkies. Those people probably listen to trance from back in the day. Or Charlie XCX, if they are younger.

I like a lot of 'On The Wires of Our Nerves', but for me the 'Little Black Rocks in the Sun' is the best thing they have done. I like some tracks on the second album but by then I didn't care much. I'll youtube it one of these days.

They were basically a group of student party-drug bois of which some decided to start taking hard drugs but they all still remained friends and hung out together. So you had this surreal situation of these people shooting heroin and crack whilst listening to Jamiroquai.

“One of these layers refuses new users the ability to post URLs in either signatures or the body of their posts.”

I was like, WTF how come my post aren’t posting?

Earlier I was listening to SOUND - Drunk On Confusion
(guess the bandcamp link I included derailed my post)

Hair Pie For Your Third Eye / Fellatio For Your Funnybone is a great song title

A long lost Sunday tradition, does anyone remember Volcanic Tongue?

Ashtray Navigations
The Scrotum Poles
Fille Qui Mousse
Simon Finn
Christina Carter
Vox Populi!
Circuit Des Yeux

and several others on the CD compilation

I really like Ashtray Navigations.

That Fille Qui Mousse stuff is absolutely top notch.

Yes., it was good for a while but also I bought some real shite on their recommendation.

The compilation track had me searching out, Se Taire Pour Une Femme Trop Belle and I’m enjoying it.



Do you remember any of those horrible recommendations?

I used to like Ida when I pretended I was a sad melancholic boy (which I'm not)

Desloratadine is my daily bread. Without it, I'd be dead.
They don't have it in Switzerland, I always have to smuggle more batches from my homeland to get me through the allergy season.

Keith Jarrett - Buttercorn Lady

Lambsbread and Violent Students spring to mind. I think Yamashirube too, although I wouldn't call that shite it was more generic and uninspired music that VT hyped to the max for some reason. A Religous Knives CD-R that was real shite and nothing like the much better records they put out a couple of years later. I forget the other stuff, it was a long time ago.
I also got some really great stuff too, e.g. an early Zaimph CD-R that I think is still among her best work. I think I might have found out about Eddie Marcon's Shining on Graveposts throught VT and I love that record.

I did enjoy reading the mailing list every Sunday evening though.

Do you have any VT favourites/unfavourites from back in the day?

Haven’t heard anyone mention Religous Knives in forever!

My first VT influenced purchase was Hair Police - Prescribed Burning. I remember the review having far more information than was on the release.

VT also led me to my first Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind

The VT Compilation CD that came out in March has a fold out poster of past reviews.

The 2xLP comes with a book: Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist’s Guide To Late 20th-Century Underground Music

Black to Comm - At Zeenath Parallel Heavens

The album cover is strange, but the sounds are La société des rêves

Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film
Sounding super great.

yeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssss

Yeah I’m really liking it

I assumed they were done as a studio band, especially after putting out a couple of archival releases to gather up all the loose ends. Putting out a record of new stuff, and one that isn't their worst record, is astounding.

Some musicians record music inside a studio literally until they are about to die. That's what some musicians do. It's a miracle, I know.

Has any of you heard the new Preoccupations? It's really great, probably their best album since Viet Cong era.

I have not, but I kinda gave up on them a few years ago. I’ll give it a spin.

I discovered a new (to me) band on bandcamp. Like them a lot, from what I heard so far.


Hypnodrone Ensemble



It's two guitarists and three drummers playing drony instrumental post/space/kraut/psych-rock, on some albums there may be other people playing.
The guitarists you might know already, one is the guy that names himself Thisquitarmy, the other is Aidan Baker.
Many of their albums are digitally for sale on bandcamp as Name Your Price, if not on their own site then on another mirror label.

Hjirok by HJirok




HJirok is a collaboration of Iranian-born Kurdish singer and artist Hani Mojtahedy with versatile music producer Andi Toma of Mouse on Mars.


Her voice reminds me of Catherine Ringer of Les Rita Mitsouko. Quite intriguing.
I might go see them next month, they play a concert with The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

I just tried to listen to the new Caroline album, titled Caroline 2.
didn't like it very much. ugh, it's post-rock, but recorded in a very annoying way.

Lately I have been listening to a bunch of recent releases from the Another Timbre label: Eden Lonsdale - Dawnings, John Cage - Chamber Works 1943 - 1951, Jürg Frey - Longing Landscape, Nicolas Gombert & James Weeks - G O M B E R T.
Also The Cheater Slicks - Don't Like You
Wolf Eyes - 2025 Tour CD
Fug Gum vol. 6
Ashtray Navigations - More Slow Shit
The Dead C - selection of early live recordings I've downloaded from random places over the years
Choclair - My Demo

I want to pick up that HJirok album