Edition of only 320 copies LP from this American duo who have shared vinyl and bandstands with Wooden Wand and Hush Arbors. Indeed, Wooden Wand is perhaps the closest comparison in the way that they hi-jack classic American outlaw balladeering and dark country environments and explode them with post-Velvets jams, touching on the back catalogue of Peters Laughner and Perrett across a bunch of fuzz damaged stompers featuring Mo Tucker drums, Lou Reed-styled chord solos and good time harmonies. A more country inflected Spacemen 3? On split duo-tone colour wax. Forthcoming full length from these guys on De Stijl.

First real full-length from this great Columbia, Missouri group that channel 70s basement rock that combines nods to classic form – Lou Reed, Sweetheart-era Byrds, Royal Trux – with a crude, loose feel and some great, great songs. Wooden Wand is a long-term fan and it’s easy to see why: Jerusalem have a similar way of illuminating and re-birthing singer-songwriter styles with liberal injections of beneath-the-radar form and lessons learned and imported from the fringes of the fucked. Indeed, the arc of their trails also kind of parallels the whole Columbus scene – Gibson Brothers/Bassholes/Mike Rep/Tommy Jay et al – with an ‘insider’ take on rock mores, an intuitive grasp of classic hunch and the ability to marry unforgettable melodies with enough balls and brut to make even the most committed of free-form freaks see the goddamn light. I dunno, this is great, a more countrified Royal Trux, the record Peter Laughner never made... whatever, this sits right *there* and is almost enough to restore your faith in the power of rock-as-rock/song-as-song. Recommended!