Locust Avenue
Three O'Clock Target (ahoy015)

The third full-length from Locust Avenue. Leaner, meaner. Sounds like they've returned to the grittier production values of the first record, but kept all the rock of the second. What does that even mean? It's good. That's all that matters.

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Anvil Salute
New Crusaders of the Eleventh Commandment (ahoy013)

The second proper full-length from Anvil Salute, but the first here on Maritime Fist Glee Club. Sort of down home folksy. Sort of retarded ethno-drone. There's even a track with singing on it. Heaven help us all. Banjo, bulbul tarang, esraj, acoustic guitars & bongos.

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Locust Avenue
Songs For The Shortwave (ahoy003-2)

Richardson, once a guitarist of the helicopter, bangs out well-crafted pop songs on this 4-track dream. Half acoustic, half electric, equal parts Rod Stewart & Ray Davies. All good.
(It's the re-issue.)

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Locust Avenue
The New Originals (ahoy010)

I might be lazy, but I think Eric Harmon said it best. "Somewhere between Johnny Cash and the Replacements." How's that for a tag line? Git ya some.  

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Stephen J.
Midwest In Mono (ahoy009)

This is a pop record. A down tempo, film noir soundtrack to fevered dreams and lost loves. Who's I'm not really sure, but it plays as though it comes from the mind of the bastard son of Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits sans bone machine or backing choir. The vocals are slurred as a gunslinger sashays. That is to say, with a cool demeanor and a hint of violence underneath. Well-crafted, creepy and beautiful, and if anyone tells you otherwise, well then, they're damn dirty liars.
 

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Gavagai
Guardian Of The Cattle (ahoy008)

Organic drones and pseudo-free folk from two guys typically operating in a digital context. That is to say, this is atypical from the rest of their catalog only insofar as the instruments used are all acoustic. The results are quite beautiful, sometimes sublime, and, well, like the instruments used... it resonates.
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Spagirus
Ever Now Those Before (ahoy007)

Following the lead of his heroes, Günter, Lopez & Chartier, Spagirus explores a world of lowercase sound and new minimalism. While it doesn't necessarily sound anything like any of those artists, it does mine a similar vein by paying strict attention to the minutiae of sound as well as the voluble silences between. Play it soft. Play it loud. Two completely different experiences; each equally valid.
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Dreamt Of By Armadillos
Dreamt Of By Armadillos (ahoy006)

Honing their sound during marathon jam sessions, these Norman, OK-based rockers dole out a largely improvised melange of funk, dub, jazz, cosmische, freakbeat, electronic space rock. Well, it's pretty darn psychedlic, and it gets the booty shaking. Not a bad mix all in all.
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