Release Smikkelbaard #031 Operation notes from underground; surreptitious anthropological investigations into - amongst other matters - the spiritual health of Sunderland's Bright Young Things. There's an Academy in Peril sparseness and crispness about the way these sounds build up that makes this old get think of...
A very pleasing and mercurial noise conjured up by Heidensieck [see below]. In Water is an apt name for this release as the music (such as the guitar in Fussed By A Catch) eddies and swirls in the most slothful manner imaginable; providing the inspiration...
Four brooding essays from Tilburg's Drvg Cvltvre bay and howl round Casa Smikkelbaard, like the Sultan's hoard at the gates of Vienna. This ain’t no head banger, daddy-oh, but, in the way it marries a restrained soundscape with insistent ticks and rhythmic prods, monstrous, pants-round-ankles stuff....
It would be wrong to say that Jacco sings, or that his songs are songs. But Jacco's tales are effective. They document the sinister, the underbelly of this prim, pristine and provincial land. As such they aren't far away from some Teflon take on HP...
SMK#023 | Zeevonk – Ode Marîtima Sultry. Sticky. Sad...