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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March 10, 2010

Beautiful Supermachines/The Distant Seconds – split 12” EP (Chicken Ranch)

Hey! Great name on that label! Guess what? It’s yours forever! Ten years from now, when folks ask “what was the name of your label?” there will be no feeling like cringing so hard that a little trickle of urine escapes down your left leg. People! Think! Anyways … The Distant Seconds sound exactly like Wowee Zowee. Take this cold, hard, indisputable, fact and do as thou whilst. Gerard Cosloy is quoted on their one-sheet, and absolutely nothing witty can be mustered from this corner about that second cold, hard, indisputable fact. All three songs are in the big-hook arena and apparently there is danger of trampling death at their local (Austin) shows. Flipped over, and Beautiful Supermachines belie their Not Ugly Whelming Contraptions naming-prowess by … that’s right … by kicking ass like a fantasy split 7” of Unwound covering Pavement’s “Grounded” and getting the same duty done to their “All Souls Day.” By Pavement, that is, and another keeper has been on the turntable for an hour! 3 tracks a piece! (http://www.chickenranchrecords.com)
(Andrew Earles)

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