Bark Psychosis - SCUMAvailable on Record Store Day, 22nd April This 12 single by post rock legends Bark Psychosis, is a beautifully haunting masterpiece, with an incredibly cool sleeve to accompany. Improvised and recorded live in the band's home of St John's Church in 1992, SCUM experimented with the use of space and extreme dynamics, with music that varied between minimal jazzy chording, airy acoustic drums, clamorous noise guitar, space ambience and random vocal

Quietly Blowing It is a distillation of the rolling Hiss Golden Messenger groove

Sasha Bell

Neutral Milk Hotel‘s explosive 1996 debut

Garnering comparisons to John Grant

” — Will Oldham

but we liked it and it did make sense to us

Moments both unremarkable and life-altering

previous studio albums never had the cohesion and sense of purpose as Technique

including Stereolab and Yo La Tengo

plus a cheekily namedåÊcohort of British sidemen‰ÛÓNikki Sudden cut a string ofåÊraw

"When I first heard the piece

A repress has been requested for many years