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Jim Ferraro
On Air
Muscleworks Inc No Cat
CD-R
£8.99
Pro-printed/pro-burned limited to only 150 copies album from James – here appearing as Jim – Ferraro. Features specially commissioned airbrush artwork. On Air feels like a luminous update of Ferraro’s early Lamborghini Crystal sides, with the atmosphere of a shortwave broadcast from a parallel universe where arpeggiated synths function as transports to a future that feels like a lonely technicolour version of the past. Deep space morse code patterns orbit bursts of triumphal garage band guitar, simple euphoric melodies that feel like the soundtrack to your adolescence are re-imagined as a series of psychedelic instants, smears of DJ voiceovers are beamed straight from Venus... On Air is the perfect trip into Ferraro’s Multitopia. Also features an insane cover version of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” which sits nicely alongside Mama Baer and Kommissar Hjuler’s version. Titles include ‘Pleiadian Channel Surfer #1’, ‘Remote Control Under The Couch’ and ‘Heaven’s Bathroom’. 14 tracks, 60 minutes.
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James Ferraro
Feed Me
Muscleworks Inc No Cat
CD-R
£8.99
Pro-printed/pro-burned limited to only 150 copies album from James Ferraro. Feed Me is set in a world where slimers feed on the dark sexual energies of the pick-up underworld and the endlessly modified bodies of transgendered strippers function as a metaphor for the immanentizing of the eschaton. Or is it just Ghostbusters with the horn? Either way, Feed Me features some of his most fully formed ‘songs’ with a euphoric teenage appeal, vocals that sound like a 1980s children’s choir, and thick beams of guitar and keyboard melodies. It’s all cut-up with the kind of musclehead/slimer commentary that runs through much of Ferraro’s back catalogue, perfectly balanced between dystopian critique and utopian celebration. Titles include ‘My Parents Think I’m Turning Into A Cockroach’, ‘TV Dinner Underneath A Full Moon’, ‘Zit T.V. Goes To Hell’ and ‘She’s A Little Hot Pinball Machine’. A major side from James. 12 tracks, 60 minutes.
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