Description:	2CD on Melodic
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Garage Rock
	Label:	Melodic
	Price:	£11.29
	Availability:	Dispatched within 2-5 days (on average).

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...according to our Brian on 21 August 2009.

Eddy Current Suppression Ring is a right arse of a name, it sounds both ridiculously laboured and kinda cool at the same time. They're from Australia and basically offer up an antipodean take on the kinda thing The Muslims/Soft Pack are doing except with (kinda obviously) less of a Fall/NZ tinge and more emphasis on hard riffing garage rock ala Stooges but less feral, possessed & more lunkish. This ain't no bad thing, there's some fabulous raw guitar shredding on here, the drums are well blunted & thudding and the bass is of the low, looming, grooving variety. I'm not sure if I could ever stomach an entire album by them again as i've listened to 'Primary Colours' about 8 times recently and quite frankly i'm fed up with the singer's faux Iggy-isms but there are many moments that are truly exhilarating. I don't really understand Aussie Garage Rock, it always seems a bit too stubbornly workmanlike to these ears, compared to say, some of the US Estrus style gear & Billy Childish's remarkable career, but I reckon ECSR are definitely the best of the current bunch and as a bonus to their new UK fanbase (they hope) the previous album is included on an extra disc. Funnily enough we've just got the brand new Jet single in too. I know where my money would go, eh lads? on Melodic

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What their label says...

*  "Reminiscent of Can - or, perhaps, of The Fall at their most Can-indepted." - 4 stars in Uncut.
*  Melodic is proud to release a special double CD edition of Eddy Current Suppressions Ring’s Primary Colours (their most recent album) and their eponymously titled debut.
*  Primary Colours opened to rave reviews and sold-out shows Down Under, with first week sales putting them at number six on the national album charts. It went on recently to win the Australian Music Prize (their equivalent of the
Mercury Music Prize).
*  So now it gets it’s first full UK release as a double album with the addition of ECSR’s debut, Eddy Current Suppression Ring album also.
*  TRACKLISTING: (PRIMARY COLOURS, DISC 1)  1. Memory Lane 2. Sunday’s Coming 3. Wrapped Up 4. Colour Television 5. Inside Of Me 6. I Admit My Faults 7. Which Way To Go 8. You Let Me Be Honest With You 9. We’ll Be Turned On 10. I Don’t Wanna Play No More. (EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING DISC 2) 1. Get Up Morning 2. Cool Ice Cream 3. Pitch A Tent 4. Having A Hard Time 5. Yo-yo Man 6. Do My Thing 7. Precious Rose 8. Insufficient Funds 9. Winter’s Warm 10. It’s All Square 11. Turn Your Page