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Wet Hair
In Vogue Spirit
De Stijl IND-090
LP
£14.99
Massively addictive euphoric motorik pop that marries an almost Minimal Man-style electro west coast feel with Sonic Boom’s Spectrum, Neu beats and iconoclastic lead keyboards that have all of the irrepressible mania of prime Klaus Dinger and that will have you grinning and drooling like nothing else this side of the second La Dusseldorf album. The fall-out from Raccoo-oo-oon has birthed a ton of great shit – Ryan Garbes solo album on Hello Sunshine is a particular stone – but this just might be the most ‘satisfying’ satellite to date, with Shawn Reed joined by Garbes and Matt Fenner for the perfect marriage of infinite amphetamine repetition and heavenly pop hits. Almost impossible to resist. Comes with an art book insert. Cool Velvets bootleg style sleeve as well.
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Wet Hair
Radiant Lines
Not Not Fun NNF-225
7” + Art Book
£11.99
“Wet Hair heads Shawn Reed and Ryan Garbes have been jamming sideways strains of long-lensed electricity music for years now, but their trajectories as visual artists arc back even farther. So after a small infinity of J-cards and zines and LP sleeves designs, it’s a real pleasure to finally be able to present a preferential suite of some of their finest (and, till now, unseen) compositions in a glossy, full-color, pro-printed 22-panel art volume, bookended by a brand new black vinyl 33 RPM single of joyously multi-hued keys/drums merry-go-rounding. “Radiant Lines,” a longtime live favorite. spirals a fuzzy circus organ riff around a splashy-crashy kit pummeling till it dissolves into burbling kaleidoscopic come-down bliss. The B, “Decay,” is more like their songs from the Naked On The Vague split 12”, a slow-motion Suicide-style sweetheart blues trance, buried vocals crooning in a gentle sea of woozy keyboard grooves. A nice warm-up for their upcoming De Stijl full-length and U.S. summer tour with Rene Hell. One-time pressing/printing of 500 copies.” – NNF.
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