Tijuana Panthers – Wayne Interest (Create/Control)
Funny what slips through your fingers and out of your head, eh? Last summer I reviewed Tijuana Panthers’ Semi-Sweet for Gold Flake Paint, but must confess that I hadn’t revisited it at all this year. Let’s re-acquaint ourselves. Semi-Sweet was just one fun, knock-about romp, really. Tons of lo-fi stomp, familiar melodies and harmonies rebounding […]
Song of the day – 168: The Monster Women
There’s this big beautiful chunk of 12-inch vinyl sitting on my desk. There’s a picture of a mermaid on the front, with stars over her nipples, and a small rocket-ship in the background. The album is called Murmaids From Mars, and I guess the red planet underneath the mermaid’s tail is indeed Mars. Anyway, the […]
Spotlight – 42: Velociraptor
There’s a dinosaur exhibition down the Science Museum on the Southbank: and Isaac’s favourite part of it is the video of the dinosaurs singing, “Danger, danger/Velociraptor/Danger, danger/He’s got the hook claw”. Now I have no way of ascertaining whether this song was a formative influence upon the frenzied scenes of chaos and surf rock magic […]
