" "Cremation of Ghat I

An attempt at the conceptual breadth of Rudimentary Peni's Cacophony fused with the lion-hearted pop of Frank Black's Teenager Of The Year

this collection serves to exalt the strength of Spacemen 3’s songwriting over the atmospherics and production assemblage that would permeate their later efforts

I don't know exactly what my job is

the album is enormously complex and yet conveys an effortlessness unique to Basho

SHOVELS - s/t LP Stoner " "Cremation of Ghat IShovels isnt the greatest name for a band. It conveys a utilitarian image of work, a tool associated mainly with drudgery, unless it is the rare instance when one geezer bashes another geezer in the head and its Exhibit A in a murder case. Then it may conjure some genuine appeal. So it is interesting why a band on a stellar label like Homeless would arrive at such a handle. Shovels are part post punk, experimental and white noise psych, as you listen