Boy Scouts - Wayfinder (Crystal Clear Vinyl) - VINYL LP

On Wayfinder, the follow-up to the acclaimed 2019 album Free Company, Oakland-based songwriter Taylor Vick, under her songwriting moniker Boy Scouts, chases down life's queries to the very edge of the horizon. This is an album that's not afraid to track down what it all means - how life unspools around the monoliths of love and death, the heavy knots of even quotidian conflict, the task of carrying your own suffering with you day after day, the challenge of meeting other people out here in the tangled expanse of living. In a warm, expansive style that recalls the raw punctures of Lucinda Williams and Alex G, Vick once again shows herself to be a fearless seeker shedding light on the unanswerable.Vick's true superpower is her voice. Strands of slide guitar, organ, and strings ring under her affable, expressive voice, bolstering layers and layers of harmony. There is something so honest about her songs, they feel like a late-night therapy session with your best friend.

As a jazz guitarist with a background in architecture, Matthias Ockert gets ideas for his works from the art of interior design, transferring spatial structures to music. A student of Wolfgang Rihm and Hanspeter Kyburz, Ockert combines a distorted electric guitar with flute and violin, and places succinctly rhythmic passages next to synthetic sound surfaces. On this portrait from Wergo, Ockert's music combines contemporary ensemble music, jazz music and electronic composition. The majority of the works released here are new productions recorded at the Centre for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) in Karlsruhe and are world premiere recordings.

A comprehensive overview of the short-lived cult '80s synth-pop band Leisure Process (International). Collecting together all the A&B-sides of their four 7-inch and 12-inch singles for the very first time on CD. Plus the demos and sessions of all the hitherto unheard vault tracks that were in consideration for producing for the bands shelved 1983 album 'Remarkable People With Interesting Lives'.Together with stellar producer Martin Rushent (The Stranglers, The Human League, Pete Shelley, Altered Images) Leisure Process's sophistipop synth sound is enormous, their sartorial and song styling is bold, their lyrics are intelligence divine; everything beckoned one forth to their cerebral electronic dancefloor - particularly their U.S. Dance Chart hit, the double A-Side 'Love Cascade' / 'A Way You'll Never Be'. Compiled with the full approval and co-operation of the band and including a richly illustrated 32 page booklet with quirky and informative essays by band member, singer and lyricist Ross Middleton (ex- Positive Noise) and re-issue project consultant Barney Ashton-Bullock (Andy Bell is Torsten, Downes Braide Association). This album is a real deal archive '80s pop discovery a largely unheard collection of deftly crafted synth-pop direct from the genre's 1982/83 heyday. The band's saxophonist and co-songwriter Gary Barnacle has played with the likes of Kim Wilde, The Clash, Soft Cell, The Teardrop Explodes and Level 42.