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Artist:	TERMINALS, THE
Title:	Last Days of the Sun
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 116CD

"Last Days of the Sun is the fifth album by long-running New Zealand avant-garage kings The Terminals. Bruce Russell has often described them as 'New Zealand's best rock band bar none,' and these days they often get called 'legendary' and while that may have as much to do with the fact they are in their twenty-first year they continue have a big reputation for the intensity of their live performances. Last Days of the Sun is their first release since the 1997 Terminals Live CD on Medication and the 1996 7" single 'Medusa' on Chicago label Roofbolt. It combines driving garage-rock and swirling guitar/organ interplay with dark, brooding, melodramas and quietly haunting ballads. There are twelve songs of love and anxiety, with The Terminals' characteristic ebb and flow dynamics and Cogle's unearthly tenor soaring right over the top."

Artist:	TERMINALS, THE
Title:	Touch
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 122CD

"On their 1993 album Touch, the oft-ignored Terminals infuse their pop sense with layers of chaotic noise and bring the disparate styles to a head-on collision that lasts the length of the album. Touch is no perfect amalgam of noise and pop, but rather it's a rickety, wooden roller coaster of an album -- it jostles you throughout, making it a better ride than any slick steel production. Stephen Cogle's vocals soon descend into the music, sounding like some bizarre combination of Mark E. Smith and Syd Barrett. It quickly becomes clear that, thanks to that voice and drummer Peter Stapleton's surreal lyrics in coalition with their music, The Terminals demand your full attention at all times. Touch is a record that is impossible to get to know. In fact, it spends all of its time preventing you from doing just that, while simultaneously demanding that you try. The result is an engrossing record on par with any of New Zealand's best." "This reissue has been remastered by Brian Crook and includes both the original CD-only bonus track and a Terminals cover of the Victor Dimisich Band's 'Native Waiter.'"

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