Mercy
(Sonic Squid) Used LP $30.00
Exquisite acoustic DIY and shadowy, cracked pastoralia from 1985 by Julie Cooper, Brent S. Hayward, Patrick Waller. The group’s experimental bent, largely restrained on their earlier album Music Media, shows its hand here: pinprick ur-folk guitar themes blinking on and off, buffeted by radio interference and toy piano; woozy bedsit slow-burns; the arresting croak of Hayward’s penpal, William S. Burroughs; even a foray into dosed synth-pop. German reissue from 1997