The Cramps
Big Beat From Badsville

From On-Ly on Yurodivy:The provenant concept of Yurodivy is: through madness, one paints the madness of the world. Russia became the looking-glass for lessons not for the historical content but for how that content was preserved - against all odds - by citizens; vanguards of history immersed in-madness creating art both as reprieve and as dissenting corroboration of a repressed citizen. Shostakovich's stories - his music - resonate with folks in a certain way; folks of this time and folks of that time. Anna Ahkmatova, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Nikolai Gogol - their words create a shroud for which to protect oneself. Our ancestors of Earth have things they can teach us about that time - our time.The intellectualism and cryptology of Russian musical and artistic expression is an endless journey into some of our planet's greatest minds and Yurodivy is about honouring them, their memories and their struggles but most of all their unbelievable zeal in preserving their expression in parallel with their experience at a time when heresy toward their conditions of fascism - to tell the truth - meant death.

Following two excellent singles, Jake Robertson finally gets serious with the ALIEN NOSEJOB solo series with this, his debut LP. While those two stuck relatively close to the rock’n’jerk’n’pop that we’ve come to enjoy over the various bands Jake has been a part of, this LP is a whole new beast (alien?). Taking a notable step to the side, off the path, and into the brush, this album sees Robertson flirting with calypso and goofy pop. It rules. We finally have our punk Paraiso, and who better to bring it to us than the man who brought us other Fox Network Specials such as “The Five Fabulous Weeks of the Chevy Chase Show”.Alien Nosejob is Jake Robertson (of Ausmuteants, Hieropants and Frowning Clouds) and the four songs are bedroom recordings, augmented by a full-blown horns section in one instance. Sounds like early Devo on a meth trip with its stuttering guitar and jerky rhythms fitting perfectly.

Lunatic moon! What did you give birth to? A blip, slipshod and shooting has rebooted. Just who are these Hierophants and where on earth have they been - If even on earth at all?They stopped by once before traversing verses and entered obscurity shortly after their 2015 release Parallax Error. As the stars would have it, again they have merged, conceiving their latest LP Spitting Out Moonlight on a hill in Rye and left with Mikey Young to make sense of it all.They are here to put lamps in your lobes where no other light goes. A synapse perhaps, nosing through nodes of those who know it is in their best interest - it is in your best interest - to surrender. Their release is nigh, so seek them now and decide for yourself, does it make you feel neurotic, neuronic, or even moronic?Quick! It is only a short stopover, a glitch visiting and phasing in, out. Anti Fade! Thy saviour of light! Oh, yes, it is very moonee, very moonee indeed.