Various - Seafaring Strangers: Private YachtThe Numero Groups dive into the deep end of Americas private press continues. Having battled the witches and wizards of Darkscorch, the outlaws of Cosmic Americana, and traveled alongside Ladies From the Canyon and their Lonesome Heroes, its time to take it easy. With pop musics volume knob adjusted for deflation in the early 70s, softness begat smoothness. Crewmen arrived from the worlds of jazz, folk, rock, and soul, all peddling a product that was

pulsates with a bounding energy that‰۪s quite a step apart from anything else in their catalogue

It also makes Rose's misogyny

Alexandra Eastburn's analog synth blurps melodies and nonsense

loss with longing

catchy and loud

while The Hat is a soft and sweet Calypso sung by Mr Allen

Paralyzed HMV POP 378 (45 & 78)

soulful country ballads

and Chad walk on

Frusciante's influence altered the band's sound by placing more emphasis on melody than rhythm

and live instruments that create rolling basslines and whiny synths

creating a textured