UK-born, American-based Dan Melchoir is a longtime Holly Golightly and Billy Childish collaborator and his old band, The Broke Revue, had a string of albums out on Sympathy for The Record Industry and In The Red. “City Lights” is a cover of a song by obscure electronica band Shadow Ring and it’s killer. A molten wall of Moog ’n’ fuzz, a lurching feel and Melchoir’s disaffected vocal are rolled up into an A side that sounds great with the stereo turned up to 11. Nicely loose and brutal.
Flip it to “The Drunken Galah” and you’ll hear a meandering directionless squawl. It’s “LA Blues” without the sax and the grunts, an extended guitar intro looking for a song to join. That’s almost certainly the exact intent. Good for a spin but I can't hear it getting too many repeat listens The A side is enough, however, to have me wondering if there was an album put to tape.
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