Neil Campbell - Cloud Drag 1979 CS (self-released, 2019)
New music for synth, percussion, toy guitar and the ubiquitous radio, recorded late summer 2019. Seven tunes, 34 minutes. Cassette limited to 70 copies.
"Neil Campbell seems to simply exhale music. The always-brilliant and improbably prolific composer has recorded more fabulous albums than seems possible, and here’s another one. Maybe you know his techno-adjacent work as Astral Social Club, his rock-esque group improvisations with Vibracathedral Orchestra, his goofball noise with Smell & Quim, or any of his roughly ten-billion collaborations with folks like Julian Bradley, Campbell Kneale, Robert Horton, Noel Meek, Richard Youngs, Ashtray Navigations and on and on and on… but his solo music is, for me, where it’s at. His latest album (or at least, his latest this week) is a darker, more abrasive slab than I expected. These two mantras seem to be comprised of guitar-screech shards, oscillator whine and “riffs” caked over beds of solid industrial electro-chug. I’ve no idea why it’s named for the year that “Number One in Heaven” came out." - Noisy Bandcamp
Cloudy tape in cloudy box with hand-painted cloudy insert.