4/3/2023 0 Comments Vexx art radio![]() ![]() Score are the frickin’ quintessence of what I speak: four London-based sorts, one of who moved from Argentina not so long ago (Marta Zabala, also of the delightful Los Cripis) and two who also play in Woolf. Hmm… on some level, then, this is what nu-cassette culture is preparing for, rather than because they were ‘hipsters’ like you were thinking. Makes y’think: in the 1980s, nascent punk bands employed the cassette format because it was the simplest method of distribution and wouldn’t it suck if the world ended without anyone else hearing our bonzer racket? Now, you can host anything online for nothing, and I’m as itchy about the potential pitfalls of cloud storage as anybody but it’s virtually impossible for a digitised recording to be lost for good, save maybe for some sort of far-fetched apocalypse scenario. You know how nearly every column I do emphasises how the UK, and primarily London, is hatching new DIY bands at a prodigious rate, most of them as incestuous as a royal family tree? Well, if anything that rate is speeding up, and a bumper clutch of them whipped up tapes in the last two months or so – meaning there’s going to be EVEN MORE hot new ephemera than usual this time round. It is, however, the first Straight Hedge of the year, so there’s some catching up to do. Welcome to 2017! Not a greeting you expected or wanted partway into February, nor a phrase said with any relish after about January 2, I’d wager.
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