Received a bubble-lined manilla from Ecstatic Peace last week (Thanks AK!), packed with good, good stuff more than worth mentioning. Here’s my tops:

Free Kitten Inherit
Its been over a decade since Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Julie Cafritz (Pussy Galore) and Yoshimi P-We (Boredoms) released a Free Kitten disc. If you’ve been waiting since Sentimental Education, it was well worth it. Inherit is what you’d get if the combined lucid dreams of all three and their former/current band mates were pre-recorded while listening to Evol’s Shadow of a Doubt, only with a distinctively dirgey backbone. It’s like the more noisy, experimental passages of each, fine-tuned into one brash, hypnotic and totally accessible sound.

Track 01. Erected Girl (6:45)
Track 03. Seasick (3:24)
Track 04. Free Kitten On the Mountain(7:51)
Track 09. Bananas (2:49) w/ J.Mascis on drums

Awesome Color Electric Aborigines
This album would have certainly been included on the tracklist of any Thrasher Skate Rock comp, as easily as I would have coveted it by album cover alone in the forbidden racks of the Golden Triangle heavy rock aisle when I was a kid. Unabashedly heavy, distorted, power rock wrapped in a sheet of White Lightning. Critics will doubtlessly cite obvious references to Detroit in general and the MC5 in particular when bashing Electric Aborigines for all the things that make them the great continuation of the lineage that they are. If this doesn’t make you want to load up the van, drop acid and head out the weird wilderness, then enjoy your dirt nap. The soundtrack of Summer unbridled.

Track 01. Eyes of Light (5:43)
Track 02. Already Down (2:42)

via: Ecstatic Peace / Free Kitten (PK) / Awesome Color (PK)

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