Chronophage - S/t LPChronophages third LP is a scarcely anticipated revelation full of poise and delicacy. Tough, tender, precise and unconstrained, it concentrates the tragic ingredients of the past two years into ten songs. Each one is a decisive, well cut crystal: sharp, clear, weighted. Can you envision a midpoint between Big Star and the Homosexuals? Imagine Nick Lowe constructing defiant rejections of the civil structure? Chronophages unconstrained melodies and

Lanrue's little sister Elfie-Esther was an obvious candidate

but soon the mastery

Soul Moth by The Parels

and not simply because it was the first to be released

History is forever repeating itself

While listening to Malvern Brume’s new cassette tape for Kashual Plastik

It’s instant and urgent especially tracks like 'Rotten Master' which has a fuller Joy Division esque vibe especially in the skeletal guitar hook

is the then-newly translated Anti-Oedipus by Deleuze and Guatarri

𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝙿𝚊𝚞𝚕 𝙱𝚘𝚠𝚕𝚎𝚜

What unfurls can feel intensely personal

to the nonchalantly harmonized dual vocals

The indie world was ruled by an ever-propagating compost heap of jagged guitar bands like TFUL282