ASTUTE PALATE - "S/T" LPAstute Palate Astute Palate LP (Petty Bunco, 2021) Rippin' new outfit from rippin' old friends (featuring members of Watery Love, Purling Hiss Writhing Squares, Lantern Louie Louie, David Nance Band, etc. etc.) Some of the more encouraging r'n'r transmissions of our current times "Twelve inches of evidence of a whirlwind Philadelphia weekend.. They wrote & recorded the record and played a gig and consumed a few dozen burritos & a pile of beer and

"As well as being a return to public programming

more vital

In the mid 1950s

The tracks are tied together by a lucid psychedelic thread

If you can imagine a lo-fi United States of America/Jefferson Airplane hybrid

She paints in broader strokes on the similarly peppy "Agora

812 Faculty - No Love CD/CS (Lay It Down

sinister farfisa

and ambiance working in unison to extraordinary effect

such as lowering the body of a nemesis into an unmarked grave

Softcheque

" among other accolades