This week’s WBJSU (as all the cool kids are calling it) featured three tracks from the cracking new Lightspeed Champion LP “Life is Sweet , Nice to Meet You” and also threw the unforgiving spotlight on the lost art of whistling records – we know how to rock,us.
Maffia and Fluxy – “Tribulation Dub” (LP- “Dub Anthems”) (Black Arrow)
Brother Bones and His Shadows – “Five Foot Two Eyes Of Blue” (LP- “Globetrottin’ With Bones”) (Arhoolie)
Home Blitz – “Is Anybody There?” (LP-“Out of Phase”) (Ritchie)
The Electric Pop Group – “We Never Made Up Our Minds” (LP- “Seconds”) (Matinee)
Unknown – “Minimal Elvis” (12″) (White Label)
Demon Claws – “It’s Over” (v/a LP – “Our Boy Roy”) (Telephone Explosion)
Roy Orbison – “Sweet Dreams” (LP – “Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson”) (MGM)
Autecre – “D-Sho Qub” (LP- “Oversteps”) (Warp)
Lightspeed Champion – “I Don’t Want to Wake Up Alone” (LP – “Life Is Sweet, Nice to Meet You”) (Domino)
Lightspeed Champion – “Madame Van Damme” (LP – “Life Is Sweet, Nice to Meet You”) (Domino)
Lightspeed Champion – “There’s Nothing Underwater” (LP – Life Is Sweet, Nice to Meet You) (Domino)
Mrs Alice Shaw and her Twin Daughters -“Spring Tide Revels” (from University of California Wax Cylinder Digitisation Project)
Don Carlos – “Rude Boy, Go Easy” – (LP-“Changes”) (Don Carlos)
The Afternoon Saints – “Round Trip Trinket” (LP – “Shirley Jangle”) (Kraak)
Best Coast – “Something In The Way” (EP – “Something In The Way”) (PPM)
Fred Lowry – “Sleepy Lagoon” – (LP-“Walking Along Kicking The Leaves”) (Decca)
Dillinger Escape Plan – “Farewell Mona Lisa” (download single) (Party Smasher Inc)