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Various Artists - sound surrounds us 5

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CD from musicyourmindwillloveyou (mymwly0046)

Buy Now $13.00 from Joel Stern and Friends

number 5 is alive!! a: little head big body (stumble bum feedback sloppy heart drums) b: ray off (sweet psychedlic dream folk) c: no guru (jaggered circles of sound in search of a mantra) d: biffplex (reverse glacial decay) review from Boa Melody Bar (scotland): Volume 5 of the Musicyourmindwillloveyou comp series and some names that are new to me. Little Head Big Body with distant storm-threatening parched fuzz guitar, a stunning track made up of pastoral guitar picking and ancient creaky electronics from Ray Off (normally found on United Fairy Moons), another stunning track from No Guru (featuring Joel Stern), in similar style to the hyper-real vibrancy of those over-saturated Ashtray Navigation drone-ragas. The comp is finished off in lovely meditative style by Biffplex: gorgeous Indian sounding drone with hyper-active toy train track beats. One can always discuss the value of compilations but in the case of this micro label based in Kyogle, Australia it goes without saying that they can be crucial in terms of unleashing more goods from well-respected but unknown outsider units as well as presenting new bands. Sound Surrounds Us V is easily one of the finest compilations I've heard this year and it actually manages to focus on bands that are new to me. The icing of the cake through is Broken Face faves Ray Off out of New Zealand, which delivers one of their finest slices of fucked-up folk yet. ”Middlemarch Hop” is homebrewed folk covered by a thick blanket of tasty sound collisions in miniature and droning lo-tech minimalism. It sounds a bit like a more electronically bent and experimental Hush Arbors, and if that's not praise I am not sure what is. Add to all this stumbling feedback and whirrs of drone buzz from Australian Little Head Big Body, modal guitar-drone bliss flavored with all sorts of aquatic noisescapes from No Guru and soothing walls of beat-infused drones hypnotism from Biffplex and you got yourself a stellar comp. by Mats in Broken Face

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