The Gories - The Shaw Tapes: Live In Detroit 5/27/88"The best garage band in America since the '60s. Very primitivethey made people with Les Pauls and Marshall amps look like idiots." Jack White The Gories began in the cultural vacuum of Detroit in 1986. With humble beginnings at a community concert series through a tumultuous end on their 1992 European tour, this is a band whose influence has far outstretched the ground they covered. Rooted in the primal, primitive underpinnings of 50's rhythm and

Now voices from the garden cry of desire and disaster

and was previously explored on 2017’s apocalyptic concept album Murder Of The Universe

remains ahead of and bracingly outside of its time

B3 Monk’s Dream (8min 7sec)

mostly from the singular larynx of mainstay Tim Kinsella

very limited 400 pressing

released in September 1979

it's the kind of music one might hear in heaven

as well as a fabulous version of Puerto Rican singer/songwriter Chivirico Davila's 'Montuno Pa' Caridad' from Joe Cotto's classic early 1960s album "El magnÌ_fico"

The key to 'Still''s emotional resonance is a set of gripping new Thompson compositions rich with his signature mix of trenchant insight

Leading up to the studio sessions

Downtown Boys harness powerful sloganeering