Tracklist
1 | Std Universe | |
2 | Smoke Alarm Under Foot | |
3 | Opera Coke | |
4 | Estrogen Tempo | |
5 | Carol Tape | |
6 | Ues Acne | |
7 | Dub Thomas | |
8 | Germ Maker Community Hub | |
9 | Acrimonious Splitting | |
10 | Aviation Is Eternal | |
11 | Gastronomiebetriebe | |
12 | Entertaining The Clock Mirror | |
13 | Ultra Womb | |
14 | Chocolate Depression | |
15 | Salvadorian Sniper | |
16 | Generalsekretar Peter | |
17 | Bamboo Auto | |
18 | Syrup Could Save Us | |
19 | Opression Opression | |
20 | Boa Coughing Up Blood | |
21 | Cream Deluxe (C) | |
22 | Grand Foil | |
23 | Dark M S | |
24 | The Farmer Tongues Below | |
25 | Oven Runner | |
26 | The Famous Phone Delta |
The surrealist, psychedelic brain-burps of notorious all-caps-tweeting wind-up-merchant Louis Johnstone aka Wanda Group. Twenty-six congealed morsels of spur-of-the-moment sound-art executed with genuine economy of means, namely… a phone. An impulsive, scatter-brained trip into the inner circles of regional weirdness, secreting a creeping unease which really gets under your skin. Fragments of aural rubble haphazardly cohere into galvanising spacial tones and textures, punctured by Johnstone’s garbled Essex rantings. The long-distance stare of warbled tape loops is abruptly fractured by a drunken sing-along in a care home for the elderly. As hallucinogenic takes on the utterly mundane, there’s an obvious kinship with Lambkin’s nocturnal, straight-to-dictaphone sound-pieces. Dan Johannsen’s splintered classical collages on that PIG tape and the suburban soliloquies of Regional Bears alumnus Russell Walker also feel closely aligned.’ (All Night Flight)