Daniel Johnston
SEE: Le Volume Courbe take on Daniel Johnston’s ‘Mind Contorted’ with Terry Hall and Noel G
LE VOLUME COURBE, aka Charlotte Marionneau: if you love a certain cultish, Gallic erudition in your indie songwriting, you have to say it’s more than a little great to see her back. Following a brush with mortality last year, the urge to release music again for herself “became like a vital thing”. (She’s been a …
ALBUM REVIEW: Built to Spill – ‘Play the Songs of Daniel Johnston’
DANIEL JOHNSTON’S story is, of course, one of the saddest, yet heartening, to come out of the US indie underground. Taken from us too soon last year at the age of 58, he’d actually begun his recording career at home in the 1970s; by the 1980s, resident in Austin, Texas, fashioning tapes and handing them …
Gettin’ under the covers: Death Valley Girls new 7″
LA glam-punkers Death Valley Girls are looking to drill further into that hole in yo’ soul with a brace of cover versions out on limited 7” from this Friday, June 12th. And they’ve shared the title track online to lure you in. The title track is “Breakthrough”, a cover of the heavy scented organ boogie …
Album Review: Daniel Johnston – Space Ducks
I think I might have had my mind melted. I was just checking out some of the comic book for which this album is the soundtrack and the combined experience is powerfully psychedelic. I have to admit to not having read the comic cover to cover (not enough time), or having bought and played the …