Ah, it's time for another dip into the "Bands Levi Really Should Have Been Paying Attention to at the Time" file. I can't tell you how many Red Lorry Yellow Lorry records I flipped past in my teenaged record-store-digging days, and I'm sure I heard them on one of our fine local college radio stations, but for whatever reason, I never took the plunge and bought a record. It's too bad because at least on paper, they sound right up my alley. "Icy, droning post-punk, replete with sludgy, murky guitars and mumbled Ian Curtis-style vocals," says Allmusic. "Numbing guitar drone, powerfully throbbing bass, pounding drum machine," says Wikipedia. I'm sold.
It seems the KCMU lot were mostly sold as well; the most contentious debate on this cover seems to be about how low or high one should pot the record due to the volume at which it was mastered (hint: it was loud). I'm unclear on whether RLYL is still a going concern in any form, but there is a Facebook page, and a scroll down on it reveals that in 2015 they made 50 copies of a CD with some new music on it for a show. Now that's my kinda band.
"Will these guys make up their minds on a name!! Rocks as hard as you'd expect. Sounds pretty good, eh. How about a full-length LP!""'Open Up' I'll take."
"But pot low. This is really good."
"Don't you tell me how to pot things! Right, TGOTR?" [not sure what that's a reference to]
"Trust me on this, Marsh."
"What the hell you talkin' bout, Goosh ol' boy?"
"Levels a wee high . . ."
This week's installment of Review Revue -- as is often the case -- finds me learning about all sorts of things I never knew existed, most of which are listed in the title of this very post. Bill Nelson and Daryl Runswick? Never heard of either. Scala? Brond? No idea. And yet due to the technologica…
There's not a lot out there in Internet-land about Third Circle - or even about their label, Rouska - despite the fact that pretty much everybody at KCMU in 1986 seemed to agree that their debut release was some version of "good." Discogs and this one other blog post agree that Third Circle was mos…
