The Ancients 2 supports any occasion, be it solemn (lovemaking, funeral), or unfortunate (stranded on a desert island/dateless night). The few times I tried to write this album up I hesitated. Street Funk was such a jam I just wanted to get down to it, revel in it and not have to think about it. [...]
Archive for the ‘bovine beastliness’ Category
The Ancients 2/White Woods, Bellplay (Sensory Projects)
December 29, 2010
The Systematics What we did in the afternoons (TU-134)
January 31, 2009
I was a Systematics fan from the second release, though I would have been one from the first. Hard to imagine an Australia that was so provincial, in the sense not of being one large province but a number of them, that an independent band’s first single basically could not get out of the city [...]
Buffalo Reissues (Aztec)
October 16, 2008
Louder than what? I totally thought that ‘Volcano Rock’ was released first, ‘Only Want You For Your Body’ second and ‘Dead Forever’ third, but problems with accepting this as the actual release order arose when I looked on the sleeve of Volcano Rock and I saw the directive ‘Play This Album Even Louder!’ and I [...]
