marble vanity - s/t lp

after putting their awesome garage rock band, COCOCOMA, on indefinite hiatus and focusing all their attention on their fantastic up-and-coming psych/garage label TROUBLE IN MIND, BILL AND LISA ROE still felt the urge to make music....and not just release other people's records.......

so they joined up with andrew of the HIPSHAKES and emma from the HOLLOWS to form a studio only project, THE MARBLE VANITY........

veering away from the dominant tendency of the psych/garage scene for heavy fuzz, primal cave stomping and wild guitar thrashing, they opted to seek the softer more folksy side of psych rock......with lush arrangements that include flutes, baroque vocal harmonies, harpsichords and plenty of flower power.....

Marble Vanity's self titled debut channels the lysergic melodies of LEFT BANKE, ZOMBIES, LOVE, PUBLIC NUISANCE, the HOLLIES, TYRANNOSAURUS REX and the later period warped pop era BEACH BOYS.....and all sorts of left field forgotten psych gems.......

MARBLE VANITY's soft psych might not exactly be what you'd expect after COCOCOMA but this all goes back to playing music based on records you love the most......and nobody loves bubblegum, 60s pop, avant folk and psych rock more than bill and lisa of MARBLE VANITY........

file them with the ELEPHANT 6 contingent of OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL, ELF POWER, CIRCULATORY SYSTEM and SUNSHINE FIX if you need to pin MARBLE VANITY down......

or think of them as part of a rising scene of neo psych folkers -- MMOSS, QUILT, WOODS, FRESH AND ONLYS and/or WHITE FENCE......

MARBLE VANITY is very recommended for those with adventurous ears....  especially since their debut lp is chock full of hazy blissed out psych rock that i just can't get enough of.....

listen to AUTUMN WOODS and YOU'RE OLDER NOW 
from MARBLE VANITY's S/T LP below.........
          and go grab yr copy from SLOW FIZZ records here.......

the hipshakes - shake their hips lp

the UK response to the OBLIVIANS....or the new ministers of the gospel of dirty fast garage punk...... the HIPSHAKES have been on repeat the tiny grooves' HQ for a while now......can't stop listening......i think you might feel the same....

here's what slovenly records had to say "Fourteen blistering tracks of teenage angst from the UK. These three young chaps are sure to make the likes GG ALLIN, GUITAR WOLF, THE REATARDS, and even THE STONES very proud. Eric of OBLIVANS recently showed his approval with a release on his fine GONER RECORDS label. Excruciatingly loud trash punk straight from the garage that blares so loud that we applied a warning label for your speakers. Don't miss this one!"

grab their lp "shake their hips" here..... (and plz buy it if yr local store has it, it's worth the hard earned cash......)