JON COLLIN - High Peak Selections LP T-Shirt The continuing evolution of North

The continuing evolution of North Carolina's Polvo finally hit its logical endpoint with 1997's SHAPES

Sonic Youth ’s Confusion Is Sex blossomed into the band’s first album:  a brain-bludgeoning

Featuring Pharoah Sanders And Black Harold remained an exceptionally rare item in the El Saturn discography

and the fourth in a loosely defined series of reissues associated with the group (also including the shapiros’ gone by fall: the collected works of the shapiros and hydroplane’s selected songs 1997-2003)

and shot through with the thrill of creative risk-taking

JON COLLIN - High Peak Selections LP T-Shirt The continuing evolution of North'This beautifully packaged, reassuringly heavy album is a child wise before its time; generous and a little bit mysterious. Things kick off in an almost industrial vein with the spooky Prelude to CK Junior Blues in which nary a note is plucked. Thin, tinny, feedback drones croak over heavy amp fuh and inner spring clack. Strings are sliced, with a knife perhaps, or certainly menaced in some way, until the ghost gives up and returns to the ether