Slows - A Great Big Smile From Venus

Slows - A Great Big Smile From VenusThe past two years has seen Matthew Simms (multi instrumentalist & producer; WIRE, IT HUGS BACK, BILL FAY, UUUU, CHASTITY BELT) release two LPs of looping transcendental, instrumental music on Londons great Deep Distance label, and perform shows in the UK and USA, including opening dates with Tortoise, Juliana Barwick & Michael Rother of NEU! While the first LP focused on solely on the sound of his beloved old Farfisa Organ; evoking the minimalism of

“So often artists are looking to what they’re doing next

there was a bar called Raul‰۪s that was the center of the Austin punk scene

Rarity and Boston Manor

This new to vinyl compilation collects some of the classic tracks played there at the time

questing headphone sonics to the honeyed pleasure of radio hits past: the rapture of My Bloody Valentine entwined with the romance of Fleetwood Mac

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languorous Afro jam lifted from a rare Polydor 45 and juju legend Ebenezer Obey cooks up a lilting

Richard Gowen (JonathanåÊWilson

The album features a host of collaborations with new vocal talents

Best known as a multi-instrumental member of Tortoise and a pillar of the Chicago jazz and experimental music scene

an album at once uncomfortably close and fully heavy