C-Clamp - Dream Backwards - White / Blue Jay SplatterPercolating in the same watery diner coffee that spawned American Football and Hum, C Clamp shrugged on and off the '90s slowcore and emo scenes in a hurry. Compiled here are the band's two albums for the venerable Ohio Gold label Longer Waves and Meander + Return, plus a third LP of singles and compilation tracks, and a meticulously annotated book stuffed with lyrics, photos, flyers, and ephemera from their all too brief existence. This one's colder

In summary

The music will enrapture you

His artistic collaborations include some of the greatest European and American improvisers from Evan Parker to Anthony Braxton

This album is a full-on jam session with three songs clocking in at over 6 minutes each

Lane Hardin has two songs from 1935

No stately

Washington DC

with songs by their friends

Among them an early rock 'n' roll instrumental by the recently deceased Dr

It was also made in a difficult and reflective period in Matthew's life

Both enigmatically dense in meaning but precisely intricate in sound

a small German city