1. He Said — Pump
2. Wire — Blessed State
3. Khan — U Do What U Did
4. Boards Of Canada — Corsair
5. The United States of America — Cloud Song
6. These Trails — Of Broken Links
7. Whithe Noise — Firebird
8. The United States of America — Love Song for the Dead Ché
9. Moondog — Neros Expedition
10. Brigitte Fontaine — Le Goudron
11. Aktuala — Chitarra E Piffero
*Playlist compile by our online contributor Stéphane Margolis.
1/ Edward H. Dafis – Calan Gaeaf
2/ King Crimson – Cat Food
3/ Bob Dylan – Ballad Of A Thin Man
4/ Kim Sun – The Man Who Must Leave
5/ 45 King – The 900 Number
6/ LL Cool J – Goin’ Back to Cali
7/ Lester Bangs & The Delinquents – Kill Him Again
8/ Elly & Rikkert – Heksenkring
9/ Paul Parrish – Dialogue Of Wind And Lover
10/ Midsommar – Balladen Om Belfast
*Playlist compile by our online contributor Stéphane Margolis.
Shawn David McMillen is one of many under-acknowledged presences from a Texas psychedelic music scene most notable for spawning Charalambides. McMillen has crossed paths with several members of said outfit, forming Ash Castles on the Ghost Coast with Heather Leigh Murray (now of Taurpis Tula) and playing in The Friday Group with Tom Carter; he is also a member of Rubble and Iron Kite. Catfish is McMillen’s debut solo album and it shares the peculiar sense of temporal and topographical resonance that exemplifies the soporific, glazed music created by artists from Texas. Through their music references psychedelia (a notionally ‘placeless’ aesthetic), there is something very specific about the manifestations of place and space in Texas psych. Dead Friends is McMillen’s new album. (via Emporor Jones)