Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Primary Colours - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

One of the most astonishing debuts in rock gets the royal treatment as we mark it's 40th anniversary! Both editions include a new Stephen Wilson/Robert Fripp stereo mix plus the Epitaph backing track; a flute/guitar duet of I Talk to the Wind, and more. The 2-CD edition adds the 2004 remaster of the LP; a BBC Peel session of 21st Century Schizoid Man, and more. The other edition has a 5.1 DTS mix and high-resolution stereo mixes on DVD-A plus alternate takes (Moonchild; The Court of the Crimson King); 1969 Hyde Park performance footage, and more!

Willodean is the indie rock collaboration between songwriter Randy Wooten (the Bloody Lovelies), bassist/producer Eric Holden (Charlie Faye & the Fayettes & The BoDeans) and Nashville bred singer Abbie Huxley. Holden & Wooten formed Cheap Lullaby Records a decade ago & went on to DIY records by the BellRays, Joan As Police Woman, Ivan & Alyosha, David Mead, Ane Brun, Teitur and a host of others. Willodean is their debut that continues their Americana based Indie Rock. The band plans to 4 new records in 2017! For fans of Wilco, Calexico & Band of Horses.

It is impossible to deny no one sounds like Eddy Current. I was hooked from riff one and I was lucky enough to do a full tour of Australia with them years ago-good fucking boys, simple as beer and chips, and that satisfying live. But that's not to say there aren't odd complexities to their definitive sound. You can smell Mikey Young's guitar approach like Sasquatch rustling the bushes, every time you think you see the bend ahead, you go into a tunnel or backtrack for a moment, then back to a nice place you can call home. Rob [Solid]'s bass is pub-fuzz groove. It's shells-on-the-floor and leaning-against-the wall-with-one-hand-while-you-have-a-piss thinking maybe you can take that guy? Only one way to find out- oh wait, he's smiling nice bloke! Danny [Young]'s drums are a clinic in reservedness 4-on-the-floor. This guy's Charlie Watts in the looking glass, every hit a necessity-solid, not flashy, like the lead street tough in a '70s flick. He don't say much, but it counts. And then there is Brendan [Huntley], be-gloved lead mensch in this quartet. Singing with earnest street poet confidence, his message coming in on the weird-wire, hard to describe, best to just listen and see a pub-punk-priest.