Earlier today i hit a bunch of record stores in the rainy city of Gothenburg and picked up a lot of cool stuff.
Guds Barn = underrated Swedish post punk on the great Heartwork label.
Stranglers just get better and better the older I get. This is the version of Sweden (It's All Quiet on The Eastern Front) where Hugh Cromwell sings in Swedish.
The bonus single accompanying A Trip To Marinville, so now I finally have the complete run of Swell Maps singles.
I've seen Rival Eaters' sole single accused of being an "under the radar killer 4-track Swedish punk EP". Which is rubbish, it's decent at best, kind of sounds like Ebba Grön on their second LP. I only bought it because they were from Uddevalla, the shithole I spent the first 20 years of my life
For some reason Soft Boys records are easy to find here. However, this is the first time I have come across Only The Stones Remains.
Very cool single by The Mekons. I've only recently started to explore them beyond their first LP and the Never Been in a Riot and Were Were You singles, which I've had since forever.
I also purchased two dirt-cheap The Sweet singles, the first album by Martha & The Muffins, Roxy Music - Flesh + Blood, Stranglers - Black & White and this fab reissue of an early 00s CD-r by X-Cetra that I'm sure a lot of folks here would be into. Legit contemporary outsider music (the early 00s are contemporary!). I mean, this was a bunch of schoolgirls between the ages of 9 and 11 who had never heard of Jandek, 80s cassette culture, private press psych/folk and so on. Their influences were the mainstream pop music of the time, like the Spice Girls and Fiona Apple. Or as my friend Benoit said, "Think Destiny's Child produced by Alan Vega with a Shaggs-esque out of control talent".
