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Pieces of a green bottle

WCW = William Carlos Williams, World Championship Wrestling, William Cody Watson. Whilst the opening pair have their respective merits, it is the latter who co-runs Bathetic Records - responsible for recent Jeans Wilder, A Gal and the Dawns tapes. Here are the latest Cough Cool and Nude Beach tracks, both from upcoming Bathetic releases, plus a missive fired from the debut album of WCW’s own Pink Priest project, due soon on the increasingly interesting La Station Radar label. I’m not quite sure who’s in what band - I think they all share members - but I’d like to think the whole thing can be traced back to a hulking collective-conscious lurking somewhere West Coast, drawn shy and speaking only in C20.



MP3: Nude Beach - Nude Beach



MP3: Cough Cool - Roxette



MP3: Pink Priest - Vultures Circling Weird Carcasses

Tags: bathetic, cough cool, nude beach, pink priest

Tight

Here lies West Coaster Jeans Wilder. Sad and glad, ‘Tough Guys’ is plucked from his forthcoming self-released LP; ‘Mosquito’ from the soon to be dropped split with London’s A Gal on the Bathetic label.

Weird that, as the last thing it is is bathetic. Sounds more to me like all the worries in the world just washed right up somewhere down at Big Sur, spat around and sung out in true Technicolor lo-fi. Surf’s down, dudes.



MP3: Jeans Wilder - Tough Guys



MP3: Jeans Wilder - Mosquito

Tags: a gal, bathetic, jeans wilder, lo-fi