BODY/HEAD - The Switch LP bossanova and the guitars jangle more

and the guitars jangle more than growl – that means they don’t quite tip over into Pebbles/Nuggets territory

there's a straggler or two that ends up being a minor gem: in this case it's "Execution" and "Eyes of Men"

Kurt Vile now builds albums the way other artists might compile demo collections

and Misra are gorgeous testaments to wholly personal pop songwriting which undoubtedly influenced the younger Conor Oberst as well as other songwriters lucky enough to stumble upon his difficult to find albums

The tempo shifts next for "Surf Combat" with it's quasi WWII beach lyrics ("The mid day sun makes you want to kill") and "Gear

BODY/HEAD - The Switch LP bossanova and the guitars jangle moreThe second studio album of Kim Gordons post Sonic Youth project. Not as smashingly brilliant as Coming Apart, but still beautiful: a living, reverberating mass of pulsating monochrome, a dark day, a sky the colour of television tuned to a dead channel. If Coming Apart was, indeed, the coming apart, the falling apart, this is the post disintegration: a boiling, chaotic beauty that only begins to form new structures.