Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 15:02:05 -0700 From: einexile the meek (einexile@NETCOM.COM) Subject: Lotsa new stuff!! This is heavily edited. Please don't write to me about these as I know nothing more than what you see here. > Long Fin Killie-Hands and Lips CDS PURECD58 $9.25 > New single from Too Pure's Long Fin Killie, who manage to combine a > Mozzy UK Brit- Pop vocal with Shellac style introverted rhythm-crazy > boynoise. To their credit, the production treads not into bambastic > rock territory, but weaves an intricate braid of chittering breakbeat > percussion, razor sharp stickwork behind the drumkit, needle- nose > Albini-esque guitar and elastic basslines, topped by the singer's > menacing croon. 4 tracks include a radical deconstruction of Madonna's > "Angel" slipped in for chuckles. Album due end of May. (Too Pure) > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 09:27:22 +0100 From: Andrew Norman (nja@LEICESTER.AC.UK) Subject: Re: new scala cd! Quick rundown on recent Too Pure releases: 49 - Jack, "Kid Stardust" 7" (long since out of stock, but both tracks are available on other releases). 50 - nothing 51 - Mouse on Mars, "Saturday Night..." 12" (only new tracks are two so-so remixes of the A-side) 52, 53 - Jack, "Wintercomessummer" and "White Jazz" (both 7" or CD with extra tracks) 54 - Long Fin Killie, "Valentino" album 55 - Jack, "Pioneer Soundtracks" album 56, 57 - Scala, two 7" singles and "Lips and Passion" combination CD 58 - Long Fin Killie, "Hands and Lips" EP (three new songs, including Madonna's "Angel") 59 - Jack, "Biography of a First Son" 7" or CD I'm not all that keen on the new LFK album, there seems to be less light and shade than the first one - apparently the band are happier with it for the same reason. And the lyrics are still about transvestite boxers and giving cops blow-jobs in shop doorways, which is fine if that's what you are into, but says nothing to me about my life. The Scala EP is absolutely bloody wonderful, and if the feeble Disjecta album is any indication of Mark Clifford's current direction then I think the rest of Seefeel are better off without him. My initial rejection of Jack has turned to love - the B-sides are patchy (there's a spectacularly stupid "let's take all these pills and commit suicide, it'll be so romantic" song on the "White Jazz" EP), but the album is first-rate.