Kraftwerk - The Man MachineCanadian first pressing, 1978 VG+ VG+

LaRombé is one of the most talented songwriters I have come across in my years of working for Jazzman and Athens of the North

Cameron is offering us a pure account of the world as he's seen it

started to add heavy guitar riffs to rumbling

You're Just A Habit That I'm Trying To Break

Silver Jews

Sticking his hand deeper into the machines all around him

but rarely this fierce

” Prior to isolation during the COVID pandemic

We had a year of global pandemic to lay out our grand ideas and the sum total of most artists “quar-riffs” wouldn’t push the constraints of a normal band practice (gosh

as did a short songwriting pause

30th Anniversary reissue of the historic coming together of two icons of leftfield music

Stevens and De Augustine wrote everything with a deliberate sense of shoshin—the Zen Buddhist concept for which the record is named and an idea that empowered the pair to look for and write about unlikely inspiration without preconceived notions of what a film had to say (The I-Ching and Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies also served as incentives along the way)