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Recommended by us on 4th June 2010
...according to our Brett on Thu 03 Jun, 2010.
Yowsers, someone had their psych goggles on when they came up with this thing. It's a thick slab of picture disc-style vinyl covered in loads of swirliness encased in a plastic sleeve covered in even more swirliness. These wirly things then combine to create something more than the sum of its parts - ie super hyper mega swirliness championship edition IV. The sounds are pretty swirly too.. Pete Kember has gotten all social and collaborated with Tim 'Love' Lee to big, bashy drummy rockin' effect and Captain Memphis to weird lo-fi droney Beefhearty hurdy-gurdy man effect. If you weren't stoned before you encountered this single you probably will be after it's finished with you. Shame you can't listen to it while messing around with the record inside the sleeve mind..
The next release on The Great Pop Supplement label is both a musical and visual mindbender of a 45. A dazzling 7” pic disc featuring 2 collaborations between Sonic Boom / Spectrum and Tim ‘Love’ Lee and Captain Memphis aka legendary musician (Rolling Stones / Aretha Franklin / Alex Chilton) and Producer (Big Star etc…), Jim Dickinson.
Both pieces are among the very best things recorded since Sonic Boom’s days with Spacemen 3.
Hugely acclaimed DJ and Producer Tim ‘Love’ Lee and Spectrum offer up “Words May Shatter”, a stunning Silver Apples / Suicide freakout on Side A, while the reverse features an unreleased out-take of the mighty “The Lonely Death of Johnny Ace” from a collaborative project between Sonic Boom / Spectrum and Captain Memphis. Recalling the tragic, true story of master bluesman Johnny Ace who shot himself dead on Christmas Day 1954 and featuring an incredible vocal from the late Jim Dickinson.
Psychedelic op-art effect picture disc and acetate sleeving, this is a one off pressing of 1000.
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