Folk-punk scoured with lo-fi, but high-impact, electronics. Singer Georgia Jones gets a tremendous amount off her chest in a mere seventeen minutes and twenty seconds, while Adam Baker (experimental sound artist Dead Wood and curator of the Dirty Demos label) hangs on her every word, and comments by flipping switches and turning dials.
Baker’s indiscreet and effective electronics give these six songs six truly eccentric personalities. His treatments range from ambient mood-making to distortion attacks on Jones’ acoustic guitar strings. All the while, her lyrics spill out at a healthy clip – absurdist, sadly nostalgic, adorably narcissistic (“we are both dangerous and necessary”), and wickedly sardonic – a get-real address to aspiring English hardcore bands and their vocalists, whose t-shirts and Autotune aren’t fooling anybody.
The whole project is admirably DIY: Xeroxed cover art, homemade CDR, hand-signed lyrics sheet and not even for sale – the release is a gift to anyone who orders anything from the label’s website. [or as a ‘pay what you like’ download from Bandcamp. – ed]
Stephen Fruitman
