Tracklisting:
1. Paul Vickers & The Leg – Horse Hoof in the Soup (new single out now)
2. The Japanese War Effort – Usain Bolt (from the new album released tomorrow)
3. North Atlantic Oscillation – Hollywood Has Ended (from the new album released March 22nd)
4. King Post Kitsch – Fante’s Last Stand (from free EP out now)
5. Paul Vickers & The Leg – If I Could Turn Back Time (General Pumpkin mix) (b-side to current single)
Quite frankly, Martin Moog appears to be taking the piss. This EP begins with a rousing sample from the King’s College Choir and then Moog weighs in with the lyrics “I will be clean, wash me clean as the snow”. He lets loose juddering drum beats made from coins falling on the ground, layers of electronic whistles, bells and synths, and someone, quite possibly his mum, accompanies him with a fiddle. He pays tribute to footballing giant Ian St John aka The Saint and one of the songs is called You Like Dogs LOL. But this is too good, too inspiringly original, too unapologetically fucked-up, to be dismissed that easily, making Moog one of Edinburgh’s most intriguing new musicians.
Following my mention of The Japanese War Effort yesterday, today two blog posts about him/them popped into my RSS reader. One was telling me I could download the new snowbird album for free from Winning Sperm Party (and to think I paid £2 for it on cassette on Friday night – worth every penny of course!). The other was a Song By Toad review of that very album.
So, I visited his myspace page when I got home (my work blocks all the evil social networking sites) and found this amazing video, which has made my day, especially as this is one of the buses I often jaunt around town on!
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