Found out one of my local libraries has several of these Soul Jazz comps. I checked out this one and the Akron one. Good stuff.
Checked out the first 3 volumes of this series this week. Volume 3, which is basically proto-punk of all types, is pretty great. Runs the gamut from garage to experimental noise to pub rock (Keys To Your Heart), to glam, etc.
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It really is cool to appreciate more deeply that there was this whole other thing going on in the 70s apart from the official punk scenes. Unspoken conversations going on all over the world expressed through this outsider music. This fantastic set of weirdos who kept to the idea of music as meant for rebellion.
I knew I was walking into that.
Yeahs, that whole era of underground music fascinates me. So many genuine weirdos that could’ve possibly become as well known as a Sex Pistols, Talking Heads or Devo if only a scene existed for them in the middle of nowhere at a time not quite ready for what they were trying to do.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
Kory, you pick this up yet? It took awhile for me to warm to it, but I've come to like it a great deal. Sounds a lot like regular Polica record, but with added dark strings. I gather that the theme is about Trump and it certainly does have a sense of confusion and despair to it.
Yeah, I just grabbed it last week and really dig it as well especially the track "Cursed." I was late in picking it up because I wasn't following Poliça on FB and I guess I just forgot to check in on them because I didn't think they'd have anything out so soon after United Crushers.
The track "How Is This Happening?" is such a perfect summary of the record and theme, plus her delivery—as I said before, confusion and despair—sells it.
Yeah that one's great too. The backing track is so spare.
