Label: Alien Transistor – N 56
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Germany
Released: 26 Nov 2016
Genre: Rock
Style: Lo-Fi
Cosy world-in-the-palm-of-your-hand second LP from cult Spillage Fete label main players Jam Money.
There’s really nothing better than when finding a new artist or label opens up a totally new portal to another world. It was exactly like that when we first encountered Jam Money and the Spillage Fete label. Their revolving cast of confusing tangential projects all overlapping and interlocking. But it’s grounded within their unmistakable aesthetic - homey acoustic / electronics and delicately assembled folk but also occasionally unravelling into noisy abstraction. Often cut into short busts of activity, none of their tracks outstay their welcome, acting as a hit of off-kilter rhythms and impossibly catchy endearing melody. It’s full of unexpected twists and turns but will always be our comfort music. Music like this, so comfortable in it’s own skin, is tricky to find equivalents but the woozy pair of albums from Simon Fisher Turner comes close, as does the hushed song-craft of Woo or even Tori Kudo’s endlessly loveable Maher Shalal Hash Baz. Regardless, this one ‘A Gathering Kind’ is close to ten years old now and is inexplicably still in print. One of the most charming records we’ve encountered since doing this thing.. (Mint / New).
Tracklist
A1 Away Inside
A2 Thimble Theatre
A3 Games of Go
A4 Hail's Roof
A5 A Gathering Kind
A6 Bubbled Other
A7 Konkapot
A8 Nutheran Reed
A9 Solar Broom
B1 Sounds Around
B2 Whorl & Spike
B3 Petaloid
B4 Comet Friends
B5 Milk River
B6 Magnus
B7 Hark's Gate
B8 Turnstone Walk
B9 A Make Believe
B10 The Air Is A Root
