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Moonshake: Eva Luna LP and Secondhand Clothes EP
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1 City Poison
2 Sweetheart
3 Spaceship Earth
4 Beautiful Pigeon
5 Mugshot Heroine
6 Wanderlust
7 Tar Baby
8 Seen and Not Heard
9 Bleach and Salt Water
10 Little Thing
11 Secondhand Clothes
12 Blister
13 Drop in the Ocean

I think this is one of the more odd things that Matador released in the early 1990's. Has some juxtaposing energy going on between two primary songwriters. Reminds me of PIL & The Fall meets My Bloody Valentine meets random bursts of free jazz. As far as I know it's long outta print. Given that it was probably one of the worst selling things on the label, it's here for EA to enjoy.

some infinite tamboura hippie at trouser press.com wrote:A textbook example of how very different musicians can work together — and sometimes can't — Moonshake (named after a Can song) was built on a tension that briefly made it one of the most exciting bands in England before causing it to splinter. Of the band's two frontpeople, American expatriate Margaret Fiedler favored tranced-out grooves, odd sampled timbres and mystical, sensual incantations, while Dave Callahan (ex-Wolfhounds) demonically enunciated tales of moral disintegration and urban squalor. Both built their songs on crashing, atonal samples; that's about all they had in common. Add a gifted dub bassist (John Frenett), a rock drummer (Mig) deft enough to get around the bizarre rhythms constructed by Fiedler and Callahan and, as an unofficial fifth member, engineer Guy Fixsen (who'd done the same for My Bloody Valentine, among others) and you have one spicy, confusing gumbo.

The three-song Secondhand Clothes also includes some front-and-center guitar (including an actual big riff in the title track), but the focus is shifted to pitting disorienting keyboard sounds against the rock-steady rhythm section and the two singers' distinctive vocal and lyrical approaches. The original lineup's only album, Eva Luna (whose American release appends Secondhand Clothes), also includes the whomping single "Beautiful Pigeon." The album kicks off with Callahan's best song, a cancerous dub-rock slither called "City Poison," and thereafter pretty much alternates between the two writers' tracks. Callahan bellows and sneers through his songs, and Fiedler nearly whispers through hers, but the music is always big, weird and unnerving.

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tipcat wrote:
mr.arrison wrote:Feelies: Crazy Rhythms LP
picked it up today from Soundgarden in Bmore (out of print in the used section)

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released in 1980


Fuck yes. Thank you, sir.


No problem- it is a great album from a band that had surprisingly energetic and superb live shows and I suppose it will never get reissued correctly.

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