Slapp Happy - Sort OfIn 1972, left wing intellectual film critic Uwe Nettelbeck suggested to Anthony Moore that he might write some straight songs (relatively speaking), which in turn prompted Moore to invite his old schoolfriend Peter Blegvad over to Hamburg to form the band Slapp Happy. Dagmar Krause, a young singer from Hamburg and Moores girlfriend, joined them both on their trip to Wmme to record what was to become this album, Sort of, using Faust as their rhythm

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Pitchfork in their glowing review called it a “Gorgeous train wreck” that “lives up to its blunt title [with] Matt Berninger’s self-effacing barbs matched by the band’s equally potent hooks

Available on 2LP and picture disc

The White Death] were active from the late 80’s through to the early 90’s

Islet’s ‘Soft Fascination’ is an ecstatic experience in music

” Recorded over five days by friend and audio engineer Cameron Konner at his Philadelphia home studio

While Psychonaut still takes listeners into the realm of altered consciousness -- making heavy use of a droning Hammond

It was the band's first collaboration with producer Rob Cavallo and its major record label debut