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Spacemen 3 among others, as a starting point and went from there. They explored the range of emotion, sonic texture, and mind fucks that could be conveyed by playing shimmering, spacey guitar and whispering far-off vocals. Dearborn, Michigan’s Windy & Carl were at the forefront of that scene, and they’re still at it now. Songs for the Broken Hearted finds the duo (who also run a record shop in Deaborn) using their eerie soundscapes to mine an array of feelings – love, anger, bliss, melancholia… The album feels a bit dated here in


2008, but then there’s something to be said for a band sticking to what they like to do, and do well, whether it’s in fashion or not. This is one that will help you let your head go.


Brian Greene


TODD WOLFE & UNDER THE RADAR Borrowed Time Hypertension CD www.toddwolfe.com


Anyone who caught Mick Fleetwood’s recent UK tour with his Blues Band might’ve noticed the lone singer- guitarist who opened up. Over in


his native America, Todd Wolfe, who was Sheryl Crow’s guitarist for five years, plays the clubs with a dynamic band and is now on his fifth album, released in the UK on the same label as Fleetwood’s recent Blue Again set.


It’s well worth checking out.


Wolfe’s mellifluous playing and gritty vocals are steeped in the blues but he uses them more as a launch-pad as he homages the music he grew up with in the late ’60s and early ’70s, from The Band and The Stones to Peter Green and Clapton. One of the album’s strengths is how these various styles are all indelibly stamped with the man’s engaging personality and some stellar playing. Major influence Leslie West


rates him highly enough to join the slow grind wail of ‘Baby I’m Down’, there’s storming covers of his blues hero Howling Wolf’s ‘Who Been Talking’ and Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Oh Well’ while Mary Hawkins elevates ‘If This Is Love’ into a modern soul tour-de-force on another standout track.


Without gimmicks, major backing


or wave of hip whisperings, great albums like this can often slip through the set, so take this as a public service announcement! Kris Needs


THE YELLOW MOON BAND Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World Static Caravan www.staticcaravan.org


There’s a place in many a publication I’m sure for The Yellow Moon Band. But no one should feel a kinship with them more than readers of Shindig!


Psych, folk, Fairport Convention


nods toward rhythmic prog… this is yet another ethereal “hello” from the Static Caravan label and Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World a long overdue debut from The Yellow Moon Band. Featuring Green Man festival curators and knowledgeable folksters (It’s) Jo & Danny amongst their ranks, Instrumental arrangements like


‘Polaris’ and ‘Maybach’ don’t roll with the punches as much as throw them melodically, unfurling rock guitar play with little or no mention of the thirty or so years that followed ’76. And ‘Focused’, the best track here by far celebrates a sound as wonderfully idiosyncratic as the festival they give us every August. It’s not even January yet and already I’m looking forward to the summer and seeing this record at the top of writer’s End of Year lists.


Richard S Jones


remedy that then I’ll eat my feathered cap. Don talks us through his life from


DONOVAN Sunshine Superman: The Journey Of Donovan SPV


With more Jason Donovan DVDs available than Donovan ones, it’s fair to say our man’s not been well served by the visual medium up to now. Still, if this double disc Donfest featuring a brand new


three-hour documentary film and more extras than an episode of Holby City doesn’t


the comfort of his heavily cushioned Irish country pile while we’re treated to all manner of vintage TV clips, live performances, newsreel footage and talking heads. Don’s inflated self-confidence when talking about his early pioneering work can be hard to stomach but then it dawns on you that he’s usually right, ‘Wear Your Love Like Heaven’ kicks in and you instantly let him off. The story starts to wane a little


after his withdrawal from the public eye in the early ’70s and there’s too much time devoted to his adventures in the Joshua Tree, ill-judged re-launches in the ’80s and ’90s and his involvement with David Lynch’s TM foundation. The first two-thirds of what could easily have been too long a film is mostly good and often superb and the remastered ’60s TV appearances that litter disc two are most welcome. Andy Morten


THE HIGHER STATE Automatic Motion/Trip On High 13 O’clock


Britain has never had it so good when it comes to garage


psychedelia; such is the authority of The Higher State. This latest double-sided 45


testimony, penned by drummer Mike Warren, has their 12-string clang and folk- punk jangle evolving into something altogether deeper and more resonating. ‘Automatic Motion’ displays


their most commercial sound to date, and it would be great to see them succeed with this, their debut for Texas-based 13 O’clock label. So it’s fitting that ‘Trip On High’ is wide-eyed psych mashing echo and deadly fuzztone frills to great effect. Decidedly lysergic lyrics too. Well, what else with such a title!?


The keening vocals and guitars


of Marty and Mole create a bridge between Texas ’66, and the mushrooming psychedelic influences that would follow. Extra-neat touch utilising Easter Everywhere’s inner bag italic-style text for the sleeve’s lyrics. Hear this and be elevated. Lenny Helsing


WRANGLER/SCANNER Two Systems: Music By Modular Synthesisers Static Caravan Crivvens! A vinyl picture single. Retro- futurist heaven! New recordings on vintage hardware (a 1968 Moog Modular and a ’78 Formant Modular), which push the sonic


envelope in a deliciously solemn and brainy fashion. At any moment, you expect an Open University lecturer with face topiary and a brown polo neck to walk in and explain how to convert square waves into sine waves. Those old telephone exchange-sized Moogs were terrific: Every time you switched one on, someone would yell: “Oh fuck, we’ve fused the Home Counties”… Marco Rossi


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