Browse by Label: ALCOHOL (UK)

Artist:	DIE TRIP COMPUTER DIE
Title:	Die Like a Rock
Label:	ALCOHOL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	AL DT3CD

"The third album from Die Trip Computer Die sets out to bury the corpse of rock for all time but instead runs smack bang into a delicious wall of pithecanthropoid pop. Samplerdelia trio Die Trip present a third collection of skewed songs and numinous instrumentals. The trio of Lepke B, Xentos Fray Bentos and Ted Barrow have played in numerous combinations over the last 25 years (notably The Homosexuals and Milk From Cheltenham) and this album sees them palpably hit their stride. The critical response to the group has been positive: 'Convincing, sometimes astonishing pieces, songs, mini-dramas. One of the best ensembles using this technology I've heard; very focused and highly musical,' says Chris Cutler of ReR Megacorp."

Artist:	MEADOW HOUSE
Title:	Tongue Under a Ton of Nine Volters
Label:	ALCOHOL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	AL DW1CD

"Eighteen exquisite songs by 21 year old genius Dan Wilson, who plays all the instruments (most of which he has built), sings, writes all the material and does everything else as well. Recorded at home on old analogue machinery, this is a collection of timeless classics which draws on everything from George Formby to Syd Barrett, from pub drunks to disco. Nakedly self-exposing, outlandish and beautifully made. Lasts an hour. Digipack packaging with colourful artwork of slugs and stabbings." From The Wire: "A more original album you're unlikely to hear this year."

Artist:	ORCHESTRE MURPHY
Title:	Smut
Label:	ALCOHOL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	AL OMCD

"A collection of immaculately crafted songs combined with a bit of sly wigging-out and a few poignant instrumentals. Lyrically without equal, it's a foray into toe-tapping inventiveness -- ironic, witty and a little outlandish. Moving restlessly between miniature improvisations -- musical invocations of domestic tableaux -- and craftily mock-heroic, swooningly epic ballads, Smut recognizes that a record release should be an event, not just a document or a manifesto."

Artist:	YOSHIHIDE, OTOMO
Title:	Turntable Solo
Label:	ALCOHOL (UK)
Format:	3" CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	AL OY1

"Twenty one minutes of ecstatic and wonderful din. Recorded live at the opening of a Tokyo bookshop (don't ask why), this is Otomo's descent into a sustained feedback attack. This is (surprisingly) his first live solo recording ever, released to coincide with the epochal 'Feedback: order from noise' tour of the England, when Otomo joined Nicolas Collins, Alvin Lucier and Knut Aufermann to explore this most exhilarating area of music making. Exquisite gold and white package artwork is by the brilliant baroque-psychedelic graphic artist Keita Egami, who provided the installations on Otomo's 'Japanorama' UK tour. 'Loud and physically uncomfortable for the listener in way that few performers anywhere could make so pleasurable'-- The Wire."

Artist:	SHIMMY RIVERS AND AND CANAL
Title:	EP
Label:	ALCOHOL (UK)
Format:	3" CD
Price:	$5.00
Catalog #:	AL SR

"Three inch CD in full colour cover. Eight short songs. Out-rock, angular, lo-fi recordings of new material by the most interesting band to emerge in London in recent memory. These are rough demos of songs, selected from an extensive collection of wildly diverse material, all recorded live in less than ideal circumstances and not actually intended for release -- so don't expect high production values or striving after commercial acceptability. But the music is passionate, the performances immediately evocative, the melodies memorable, the lyrics unusual, and great rock-musical ideas abound." 'The music of Shimmy Rivers and And Canal is literally timeless: it's nearly impossible to tell whether it was recorded last week or twenty-five years ago. Not so much backward-looking as determined to give the basic post-punk framework another good sparring session, SRAAC do more with less than just about any 'rock' band in recent memory.'"

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