Skull Practitioners - Death Buy"Massive slab of debut vinyl by a Brooklyn New York trio whose guitarist, Jason Victor, knows more than a little about the potential of psych gush overload. In his position as the current guitarist of the Dream Syndicate, one might suppose that, by stepping into shoes formerly occupied by Karl Precoda, Mr. Victor was granted some sort of special legacy connection to the ur root of string excess in the post punk era. But Jason seems to have been

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Who will walk away with absolute power

"Party In Paris" (#37) and "Keep On Running" (#41)

a record that saw the legendary Norwegian eight-piece take a deep dive into post-rock

and in 1970 a dozen of his most popular rock steady and reggae works to date were gathered on what proved to be one of Trojan Records' most popular LPs of the year: Psychedelic Train

As John Cohen writes in the liner notes

the evil Missy (Michelle Gomez)

Yves Jarvis continues to refine his creative approach to the core of his being

while the unique Five Piano Replies connects music with poetry written by the composer

Having listened to contraltos singing Return

This album truly paved the way for Gary Numan to become an electronic pioneer

and finished in the Catskills of New York with producer Alex Somers (Sigur Rós