TWENTY SIX "THIS SKIN IS RUST" 2xLP PSYCH GLASS CANDY
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NM (insert, cover, 2 x LPs) copy of the mega rare "This Skin is Rust" double LP by Twenty Six, released on the Bobby J label in the mid-to-late 90s and long OOP. FYI, Twenty Six is Johnny Jewell of Glass Candy (and the Shattered Theater) fame. A must have for fans of the "new weird" underground bands like No Neck Blues Band, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Six Organs of Admittance, etc. Sorry I don't have a photo, but it's got a great, blurry Jandek (this did come from Texas,after all) style cover. Here's what Tom Lax of Siltbreeze said about this now classic underground record in Opprobrium...
"The concept of the double album is all but lost these days. W/ CDs clocking in at 70+ minutes, it's only logical that the vinyl version would have to be two discs, so naturally, there are more dull dbl-LPs now than ever. Of course, even before CDs 'ruined' the format, it was still primarily used to cash in on something - the live LP, the career retrospective - but the dbl-LP as a non-negotiable statement of "what it is", not "fill it up"those are pretty few & far between. Personally I've always been kind've 'into' that statement - not the vinyl equivalent - the idea that said bulk of work has to be released as is because of some sort've linear transformation within. You know what I mean? For instance, I would say the two best examples of this in the '90s have been Lake & Harsh Seventies Reality. Not far down the path - & especially for the latter '90s - would be this. It's probably safe to assume that Mr Twenty-Six has been w/in earshot of both those releases, but no matter, the vectors on this here still point back to his basement. What I particularly like about this are the long, exorbitant 'breaths' that are taken. The banding on the vinyl would have you believe that there are many 'different' pieces - there are - but they move inconspicuously in & out've each other, like hemp-laced tether balls floating through plumes of pigmentary smoke in some anonymous, non-gravitational netherworld. It can be downright numbing at times. And while I cannot say for sure that anything on here consciously nods in the direction of fellow Texans Jandek or Charalambides, its staying power is certainly more up to par w/ them than, say, Stars Of The Lid or any of that 'ambient punk' clone crap currently making the rounds. Go ahead & blab all you want about the Krautrock mumblings emitted, I'll still shove it in the pile closer to the This Heat records than anything else. Now there's a band who should've made a dbl-LP. There aren't too many names to add to that list. The list of those who shouldn't havewell now, that list is very long. And growing."
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