STILL SINGLE

A space for thoughts on music and culture, as written by Doug Mosurock and a select handful of individuals. This is intended as a supplement to our regular feature Still Single, published on Dusted Magazine. Updates will run here more frequently, and may feature writing on music not covered in the column. Compact discs are still not accepted for review -- we have more than enough vinyl and the occasional cassette to worry about.

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December 27, 2010

Testors – Two Sides of Death 7” (Windian)

Couple of live tracks from 1978 by Sonny Vincent and his crew of fuck-ups, who, at this juncture could be seen as an American answer to The Only Ones … sort of. The recordings here are so poor that the point comes into question…the lack of fidelity not only removes any dynamics whatsoever, it makes it nearly impossible to tell what the hell is happening. Both songs are good if not great post-punk pub-rock/street-rock, with the previously unreleased “Drac” taking the traditional ballad position. “It’s Only Death” is noted as being a version exclusive to this release, which is true, but only in the sense that each shitty live recording of a song is “exclusive” to that time it was played. Maybe no poorer version of “It’s Only Death” exists. I can’t even tell which screeching noise is the guitar. Ltd to 1000 copies on black vinyl. (http://windianrecords.blogspot.com)
(Andrew Earles)

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