Candy Anne/Three-Eyed Gemini – split 7” (Discriminate Audio)
Something called “The Unpop Sound” (looks more like “The Photoshop 4.0 Players” to me) presents two productions, both in a pop-psych sort of vein. Candy Anne coos and squeaks over bass guitar and a chiptune style melody, like a young lass singing over a GameBoy-derived Jesus & Mary Chain song. Three-Eyed Gemini deliver a hackneyed portrayal of commercial ‘60s raga-psych with some taboo subject matter (well, if you call Anne Frank slash poetry “taboo”) while a harmonium or sitar cranks endlessly in the background. Website says it’s got props from both Boyd Rice and Douglas P. from Death in June, meaning that these folks probably paid those guys a compliment somewhere down the line. Lime green vinyl, 500 copies. Look at the cover and tell me if you can tell who this record is by. Has that specific quality, right down to that inept presentation, that tells me this could’ve been on Shimmy-Disc back in the early ‘90s. For the most part, that is not a good thing. (http://www.discriminateaudio.com)
(Doug Mosurock)
