I think his playing is great. There's not so much on the new stuff but some of his playing back on the Old English Spelling Bee/No Pain in Pop stuff.
The playing on the likes of
Miaches,
Visits ,
Rattling Cage and
The Weight of Gold is magic. It's like how I'd imagine a praying mantis would play.
That exotic twang hovering in the spaces really does it for me.
The two guys in Heroin in Tahiti are similar in some ways in that they are post surf post soundtrack sturmers and their records especially the total masterpiece of
Sun and Violence are like Morricone summoning Coil from the spirit world. The earlier album
Death surf is much more of a 'guitar' record but Sun and Violence is where the magic happens IMO.
I'm also reminded how much I like the playing of Brian Pyle of Ensemble Economique. His guitar tone is probably direct from Joe Bonamassa's night terrors, where he's just about to blooze it and discovers he's plugged into a Gorilla. It's thin, spectral and his lead tone often sounds like it's being delivered through an intercom in a Soviet nuclear bunker, you'd probably get no respect for it on TGP or down the Megachurch but it's PERFECT in situ.
Ensemble Economique - Your Lips Against Mine
Ensemble Economique - Make-Out In The GDR
Ensemble Economique - Radiate Through ME
I also love Taylor Burch of Tropic of Cancer and DVA Damas. She's deep in rockabilly on the DVA Damas stuff
especially earlier on but on the later
more techno stuff her tele still shines minimal but bright. She plays so little but always seems to play the right thing.
There's been enough Tropic of Cancer chat on here that I'd guess that if they are for you you've already found them but here's a live session.
Arguably the top table of of contemporary post punk
Tropic Of Cancer - Court of Devotion (at Room 205)
Tropic Of Cancer - The One Left (at Room 205)
Tropic Of Cancer - A Color (at Room 205) just bass on this.
Man this is GOOD;
Tropic of Cancer - More Alone (Live at MFNW)
Btw there's interest in non guitar music on OSG, it's pretty hard getting a thread going but feel free to chip in.
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