Reviews

Heckler - "These days, the only place you can find really intricate song writing in Da Underground is in the lo-fi pop scene. Indeed, the four songs on this single are very complicated, but are half-obscured by a bunch of intentionally-included recording noise and weird sound effects, kind of like listening to a really bad tape recorder play a tape of a really received AM station while playing games on your old Commodore 64. This makes for kind of a cool sound, but it means that you can't understand the incredibly beautiful lyrics, which fortunately are included with the record. It's the kind of of record where the sides are at different speeds but nothing on the packaging tells you that. Anyway, the stuff on the 33 side has a cool, mysterious sound, but the 45 side contains the really catchy pop gems, and I mean really good songs. Get it!" Ben Morss

Shredding Paper - "Other than Henry's Dress of course, this could possibly be for sure the best single that Omnibus has offered forth to the listening world. This is damn good. There's a real emphasis on songcraft, with overly dynamic melodies, reminiscent of the canon of great early 80's psychedelic songwriters (Robert Smith, Andy Partridge, that Squeeze guy, and Robyn Hitchcock), tinkering keyboards, cheapo punching fuzzed-out guitars, and a happily familiar but totally endearing Beatles-Cure-Suede affectation. Sure, there's a lot of stuff like this around, but I guarantee you this fits up there with the best of the lo-fi psych-pop stuff of recent years -GBV's work of 4 years ago, Apples in Stereo, Marmoset, and Kleenex Girl Wonder. Go buy this now; you'll listen to it over and over again." Matt

Songs:
Those Bold City Girls
Eating Styes from Elephants' Eyes
We Built a Raft and We Floated
My Seventh Rib

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