VIBRAVOID,etc 2x7"EP Fruits De Mer#23:'2012 ANNUAL' GOLD+SILVER VINYL PSYCH MINT

	A$		33
	$		22

ARTIST:    various artists 
TITLE:          "FRUITS DE MER/ROYAL CRABOMOPHONE 2012 ANNUAL" - (FRUITS DE MER - VOL. 23)      

FORMAT:              ...vinyl double 7” EP…
LABEL:              Fruits De Mer/Royal Crabomophone
CATALOGUE #:   CRUSTACEAN-22/WINKLE-04
PRESSED IN:       UK
RELEASE DATE: DEC. 2011

Fruits de Mer TRACKS (silver vinyl 7"):   1. "DESTRUCTION" (by LANGOR)...have a listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEfTDKk4tk0

2. "I'M A MAN" (by The BORDELLOS)...have a listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbROUSa_tzw

3. "IN THE COURT OF CONSCIENCE" (by BEAU)...have a listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1aI03iCms

4. "THICK AS A BRICK" (by JAY TAUSIG)...have a listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oanZJzDZE3M

Royal Crabomophone TRACKS (gold vinyl 7"):   1. "25 GERMAN BOY SCOUTS" (by PERMANENT CLEAR LIGHT)...have a listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f973Sd_3WSE

2. "ALL STARS ARE ASLEEP" (by VIBRAVOID)...have a listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Sw1Z-y7wc

3. "VOLCANO" (by RED ELEKTRA '69)...have a listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxHcAogQwLA

CONDITION: (cover/records):  (MINT / MINT) ...BRAND NEW - NEVER PLAYED...

...ONE RECORD ON GOLD VINYL, ONE ON SILVER VINYL...ONLY 400 PRESSED (IN TOTAL)...and already out-of-print! (in fact it sold out on advance orders alone and so basically was out of print on the day of release)...comes with beautiful, sparkly, gold-paper insert...

Here's a wordy but damn good review but check out the links above for a bit of a listen while reading - it won't take long to work out how essential this is:

"First up on the draining board are Langor whose choice of melodic seasoning is a cover theme from an obscure, and in certain circles much-reviled, teen beat flick from the 60’s entitled ‘Just For The Hell Of It’, about a group of raging teen punk delinquents who - shock horror - bad mouth a police officer and - worse still - burn a newspaper. Phew kids of yesterday eh. Anyway Langor take on ‘Destruction’ - the original being something of a cult garage beat favourite though here given a panic inducing rampant Who-styled rampaging thunderous throb that you could imagine being well suited and serviced by one of those mock-up 60’s club scene videos where the camera man on casters zooms in and out of focus on the paying brethren while the graphics pop and melt with colourful bubbles and stuff - oh and there’s some well dandy freakish guitar soloing going on in the mix.

The Bordellos - so much admired around the UK that had if we had a radio show they’d be our chosen house band along with Of Arrowe Hill - these days sounding ever more grittier, weirder and better for it with each new cut we hear - of late they’ve been treating us to some stirring lo-fi garage growls which cut a dash between the Mummies and Jad Fair. Here they stump up the Yardbirds’ ‘I’m A Man’ - here spiked with oodles of fuzz 'n' reverb and sounding like a gnarled slab of open-wounded and festering 'n’ fractured blues - all raw, dirty, primal and untamed - absolutely dysfunctional and gloriously caned as though its been swamp-dragged and rescued from the buckled boot of a car and given mouth to mouth - should also mention it features some of the best harmonica this side of Brian Jones and 60’s Stones.

Jay Tausig, who according to the accompanying press release is something of a one man band enterprise, takes on the mighty Tull classic ‘Thick As A Brick’, which, for those purists among you thinking he may have bitten off slightly more than he can chew, ought to think again because he manages to relocate it to more lysergic landscapes whilst still retaining the airy Celtic breeziness, and those sweetly harvested folk madrigals of the original, though here rephrased and enhanced by stirring honey-struck string arrangements and a rousing chest-beating panoramic euphoria which if you ask me appears to tune into frequencies occasionally twiddled with by the Frond and Nick Nicely.

As to Beau - a bit of a curio is ‘In The Court Of Conscience’ because from what we can gather this is an unreleased cut from the ‘Creation’ sessions which eventually ended up being released on John Peel's Dandelion label (the album described in certain circles as the first great folk-psych album and these days held up as one of the great lost acid-folk albums - admittedly not as acid-fried as Comus though we do suggest you check out ‘Silence Returns’ from that album especially if you love your fuzz a little on the scorched side!) Instead ‘In The Court Of Conscience’ is one of the more mellower moments which through its tranquil sunny afternoon haze reveals something that ought to appeal to those of you much admiring of Rodriguez. 

- - Over on the Regal Crabomophone side of operations old friends Permanent Clear Light (of Finland) serve up the head bowed and reflectively tender ‘25 German Boy Scouts’ which though dinked and dappled in all manner of cosmic twitches and ambient swirls at the beginning soon jettisons off on a prog pop trajectory delicately demurred in trip-wiring descending chords and clipped with a Lennon-esque appeal before re-asserting itself for its departing three minutes amid a haze of mind expanding lysergic psych prog loveliness which we here are kind of fondly likening to some warped Graham Bond Organisation / Procol Harum get together.

Vibravoid crash land with what can only be described as a cosmic road trip via ‘All Stars Are Asleep’ which though unusually mellow for them is pierced with a vague Silver Apples gone all Steve Hillage feel about it before totally losing the plot as it disappears off radar to the sounds of manic Clangers armed with kazoos re-enacting works of the Residents.

Which leaves young-folk-with-the-swirly-eyeballs Red Elektra ‘69 to close proceedings with the storming fringe-frazzling Medicine meets Hawkwind bonce-banging big-bearded brute ‘Volcano’ - try saying that after funny fags and three slugs of cosmic moonshine.

This EP set is typically essential - like you had to ask."

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