Land of Thirst
(Starlight Furniture Company) LP $20.00
During their three-year existence in the 1980s, Barbara Manning, Brandan Kearney, and Jay Paget manifested all kinds of reverent beauty-moves interwoven with darker mutterings. While never abrasive, this 2017 reissue, originally released by Nuf Sed in 1989, is at times shrewdly edgy with a strong grip on instrumental spacing and texture, nicely ragged, dual-voiced guitar-pop constructions, and nervy, choppy moodiness.
Tight and Loose
(Bulbous Monacle) LP $20.00
Tracks from singles and compilations plus assorted ephemera, including a Half Japanese cover. “Their jagged and discombobulated take on underground pop music was exceptionally fertile, feral and fetching.” With four-page insert. Edition of 500