First-ever legitimate anthology of British toytown pop, a much-loved sub-genre among collectors. Four-hour compilation with 87 tracks including hits, misses, rarities and previously unreleased
ahahahahaha no no no no no thank you Grapefruit Records, I will lick your toes, I will give you my blood and flesh and walk, I will sacrifice to pick up anything you put out but i will NOT climb aboard your roundabout.
(toytown pop is this moment that's a bit of late psychedelia, a bit of early prog, and a bit of slipstream acid folk, and it's godawful; I think I hate it so much not only because it is Extremely annoying, and because it's psychedelic and sunny in a way that this miserable country could never be - you would have to be so fucking high for IT’S THE BEST SEASIDE IN THE WORLD – Frabjoy and Runcible Spoon and (HE’S OUR DEAR OLD) WEATHERMAN – Mark Wirtz to gloop into your lavender daydreams and feel like here and now (unlike, say, the Smiths which even if you don't like, you hear and think 'ah yeah, that's about right, punctured bicycle on a hillside desolate'
(below the cut: flippancy about CSA and state violence)
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