Panola (2016)

daptone / -o-

Have You Been Good to Yourself (2016)

Have You Been Good to Yourself threatens treatment as a curio artefact or gospel-in-crisis record (Wendy Rene's brother regretful and traumatised, his soul music career ended when he was drafted to Vietnam, his son is dead, so he lays down Have You Been Good to Yourself at home), but Frierson's simple faith transcends this (he hates drugs and loves god, but it's also more than that), and so does the record's surface- e.g. his slightly overdriven guitar (!) and voice, both simple and immediate

vinyl / -o- / stream

Get Your Singles (1999)

Svenonius-core (though the ideological core is supposedly sharing/liberation) Gospel Yeh-Yeh. Get yours, you fifth member. Fire your boss. Replace your bourgeois rock n roll with Svenonius-core rock n roll. Pretend participate in this collection, ready and awaiting your consumption. The joke's on you in one way or another, but the songs are good and there are 23 of them.

get yours / you pig

Otis G. Johnson - Everything - God is Love '78 (1978)

When did this become a thing? I mean I guess it appeals in the same way that Daniel Johnston or Jandek or Lonnie Holley appeal, and that's the outsider appeal, the disregard of audience and convention for the sake of spilling one's guts, brains, and in this case, soul, out, onto the record. There's a certain kind of pleasure found in hearing such directness- can't find a chord to satisfactorily express one's woes/devotion/anything? make one up. Stuck with a spacey keyboard and even spacier drum machine that'll sound real fucked up as the foundations over which you lay your soul bare? record the shit out of it. It's a freakshow and record geeks will love it

here

Oblivians - Play 9 Songs With Mr. Quintron (1997)

1. Feel All Right 3:26

2. Live the Life 3:12

3. I May Be Gone (How Long) 3:27

4. I Don't Wanna Live Alone 1:56

5. Final Stretch 3:52

6. What's the Matter Now 2:39

7. Ride That Train 3:38

8. If Mother Knew 2:53

9. Mary Lou 2:11

I have no idea how this ended up on my computer... I was just scrolling through 'recently added' to post some stuff and saw this and thought I'd listen

It's fucking incredible. A garage punk band playing gospel, neither religious nor mocking

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