Unlikely re-stock of this edition of 300 copies 7” jointly released by Phil Todd’s Memoirs Of An Aesthete and Mel Delaney’s Smokers Gifts. Weyes Bluhd is Natalie Mering, one-time member of Jackie-O Motherfucker and collaborator with Karl Bauer’s Axolotl, now opertaing as Weyes Blood on Not Not Fun. The sound is damaged and very lo-fi, with an A-side that recalls aspects of The Dead C’s “Communication With Heaven” and even P.A.R.A. “Memoirs of An Aesthete and Smokers Gifts are very excited to be collaborating on the release of this 7" by an up-and-coming talent from Philadelphia,USA,  Weyes Bluhd, aka Natalie Mering. Whilst still in her teens she'd already feathered her cap touring with Jackie O' Motherfucker and Axolotl.  Her impromptu Leeds show on a 2007 UK tour had everyone spellbound, and we just couldn't wait to release something by her. Playing all the instruments (including some contraptions of her own design), Weyes Bluhd conjures up two classics of eldritch pop on this fine biscuit. With a superbly home-made analogue feel (the master was sent on a cassette! yes, in this day and age), Natalie's skewed ballads drenched in feedback may remind us old folks of the Xpressway "sound" from way back.” – Phil Todd. 

Rare vinyl outing for Phil Todd of Ashtray Navigations’ Memoirs Of An Aesthete imprint with a solo album from Julian Bradley. Bradley has been a mainstay of the UK underground for a while, a member of Vibracathedral Orchestra as well as the name behind diverse projects like The Negative Kite, A Companion As Glamorous As Sleeping On Wheels etc... this is Bradley’s first vinyl outing since his mid-90s Giardia LP and it’s just as enigmatic, with massive guitar compositions that move from static gravities of doom/drone through Matthew Bower-esque ecstasies and odd string tectonics that would dissolve the fact of the guitar altogether. A great side from a consistently interesting UK underground player. Edition of only 250 copies with full colour sleeves. 

New release from this solo electronic/threat outfit from Phil Todd of Ashtray Navigations on his own label. Aspects of early Whitehouse/Suicide’s minimal/’billy style, even Minimal Man himself, with drum machines ticking out time over hissing electronics and reverb/delay vocals that are straight out of the Total Sex ‘songbook’. Some of the keyboard solos have a great ’72 vintage Sun Ra appeal but this is some of Phil’s darkest/most claustrophobic electro-psych sides. Edition of 100 copies. 

Edition of 100 copies on Phil Todd’s own label for this archival recording, a trio set from 2001 featuring Phil alongside ‘Cloughie’ (of, uh, “prog legends” Rancid Poultry) and Robert Hayler (of the Fencing Flatworm label etc). Some nice drone moves here, all cut up with Phil’s endless acid guitar/raga styles, giving the set a kind of Northern England “Swastika Girls” feel, and that’s a feel I can really ‘feel’, know what I mean? 

The return of Rob Hayler of the Fencing Flatworm UK underground label to music making, Midwich is issued by Phil Todd’s Memoirs imprint in an edition of only 60 copies: the set kinda wrong-foots you at first with a snatch of mutant Astral Social Club styled techno before spilling over into the kind of dark, hovering drone work of Kluster or early Conrad Schnitzler but then it’s back to an odd spaceways-travelling repeat rhythm that sounds like the Silver Apples steel band or Dennis Duck Goes Disco before a final tonal ascension that comes out of the early Neil Campbell school of fluttering celestial drone.