Stefan Christensen - Cheap Things LPCheap Things is the latest record by New Haven guitarist and C Site label owner, Stefan Christensen. It's a challenge to list exactly where Cheap Things numbers in Christensen's extensive catalogue, which at over a decade long has seen him issue countless records under his own name and across both his own imprint and a host of international labels, as well as performing in underground noise trio Center and in the heavenly psych act, Headroom.

Symphonic Songs is a formerly unreleased work that chronicles the dynamic shift and development in experimental Swedish composer RAGNAR GRIPPE's canon

or Vashti Bunyan grows up on the Flying Nun catalog

Much of Sky Wells contains this quality

The result is like an intersection of Brill Building characters such as Carole King and Neil Sedaka with the bedroom fanaticism of historical music projects like Virgin Insanity

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as I have its sonic equivalent

noise and song

The music which follows is capricious but interesting

Kostis/Kostas Bezos's "Stin Ypoga" (1930) is the template for "Bad Emotional Investments" whilst the haunting "Fine Cargo Lacquer" takes flight from the morbidly on point novel The Death Ship by B

Hennix's realization of Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Unbegrenzt" (German for "unlimited") from Aus den Sieben Tagen is an elaboration both rigorous and radically different from the canonical 1969 recording issued by Shandar

Bowdark is the name of a fictitious town somewhere in the USA

while the monochrome glare of the music makes it clear that none of this is to be fucked with