Docs stopped making many of their steele toes but they are releasing a new line of the retro steele toe boots & shoes in the future. We just don't know when that will happen!
REVIEWED: GARY WAR*Teeth Mountain*THE SUPER VACATIONS at the Smell, Los Angeles, CA
NORFOLK, VA new SHDWPLY imprint touches down in Los Angeles with a triple-header of delectable weirdness. Top slot goes to Gary War, a one-man phantasmagoria of swooshing spectral pop. Somewhere over the Black Moth Super Rainbow, he spins gaseous cobwebs of eldritch bubblegum. While the hauntology's ghost hunters in the U.K. look to library music and vintage soundtracks, he pinches from the "dense, ponderous soporific mass" of '70s FM sound, to borrow Howard Hampton's description. Like Ariel Pink, War drenches exaggerated melodies in a glutinous bath of effects, melting them to crumbs afloat in the balmy breeze. He also plays in the Super Vacations, whose slimmed-down, straight-cut jingle-jangle shimmies where his tunes waft. Teeth Mountain round out the bill with radiant, rumbling jams built from manifold drums clacking and cracking in communal contemplation. Cellos whine, live-wire guitars bristle and fuming smokestacks of shrapnel-flecked organ panic over the crazy rhythms palpitating from the group's three drummers. (Bernardo Rondeau) www. shdwplyrecords. com www. myspace. com/garywarfunzone www. myspace. com/meetthevacations www. myspace. com/teethmountain www. myspace. com/littletrooperlittletrooper
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