Labels: self released
Review by: Oli Saunders
Let’s end the year with some Graham Repulski. Eleven songs containing his rather unique mixture of noise versus Guided By Voices. Y’know, sometimes I think this is actually Robert Pollard in disguise he’s just fucking with us. The tape has many highlights: ‘Fidelity Walls’ is a solid start with great vocals; ‘Rubes’ is a phenomenal song which goes berserk after the intro; ‘I See You’ has the instruments playing backwards but ends superbly with the lyric ‘And I told you it would be ugly and “I love you”‘; ‘Funeral Games’ starts slowly but then erupts into a glorious finale; and ‘Cartoon Meldown’ gets into a lovely catchy chorus with fantastic jangling instruments. As usual, there’s a bunch of sounds that make me ask myself ‘why the hell would you put this on a music album?’. My Dad enquired whather something had gone wrong with the cassette player as I played out the last song. But by now you know what to expect and there’s plenty to enjoy here.
31st December 2014