MORDECAI

Sylvia Juncosa - Lick My Pussy, Eddie Van Halen - Nature LP (SST 1988) JFA - My Movie - My Movie 7" (Placebo 1986) Meat Puppets - Seal Whales - Up On The Sun LP (SST 1985) Steve Caballero - You Will Go - Skate Rock Vol. 4 - Smash! comp CS (High Speed Productions 1986) Kaleidoscope - Simulator - Volume 3 12" (Feel It 2017) PC Worship - Perched on the Wall - Buried Wish LP (Northern Spy 2017) Mordecai - In A Hole - Abstract Recipe LP (Richie 2017) Buck Gooter - Consider the Grackles - Consider the Grackles LP (Kreephaus 2012) Brainbombs - Inferno - Inferno LP (Skrammel 2017) Allman Brothers Band - Whippin’ Post (Live At The Fillmore East/1971/Second Show) - The 1971 Fillmore East Recordings

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More from Mordecai, more quickly (this marks two singles, a full-length, and a live cassette in a 12-month span), and if you liked where they’ve gone, you’ll love this four-song EP, of a piece with their Neil’s Generator-era Midwest slant-drilling operation (they even continue to sing the word “mind” with an Anglo tilt). B-side wins over an already strong couplet due to presence of acoustic guitar, which dulls and depresses the hearts of these songs ever so slightly, akin to what goes down on that second Luxurious Bags LP. The history of dinged rock dirge is slight and disparate; here’s to uniting these guys with the continuum to keep us all on our toes. Ain’t broke, unfixable, just is (and is great). 300 copies. (http://sophomoreloungerecords.com) (Doug Mosurock)

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Mordecai’s fourth full-length finds them working off the free-range, open-chorded ring that drove their previous LP Neil’s Generator, albeit in a slightly exhausted, 3:00 A.M. sorta stumbling/slightly faded mindset. If you were looking for harmonies, flawless playing or glossy production, I have bad news for you, but if you wanted some ambitious music that takes the boilerplate central Ohio peculiarities of V-3, Tommy Jay, or the weedier Guided by Voices tunes, or the druggy, loopy gait of New Zealand groups like Garbage & the Flowers, this should be right up your alley. Maybe if you took the slickness away from a more florid Ween album like The Mollusk you’d end up here as well. There’s a lot to like here, though most of that is front-loaded; once we get to the disjointed, stop-and-start awkward paused collage of “Want to Grow Up,” we’re back in the same uncertain territory that clouded over their 7” from last summer. It’s cool if they want to show another side of their music but the way this one’s set up, it almost seems like they’ve been caught mid-stream. But come on, six, maybe seven bulletproof anglicized-via-Montana offerings that somehow connect threads we haven’t quite considered to fit together before? That’s enough. (http://testostertunes.bigcartel.com) (Doug Mosurock)