Picking Through The Wreckage With A Stick
(Zaius Tapes) LP $20.00
COMING SOON. Shepard’s dark, cathartic masterpiece, originally released by Siltbreeze in 1995, bears little to no resemblance to his proto metal-prog rock band, Vertical Slit. Like his debut solo LP Slit And Pre Slit, it was made in the midst of grievous personal trauma and plays out like Burroughsian cutups, with Shepard’s gallows wit interspersed against his distinctive sense of forboding. 2024 reissue. Edition of 300.
V-3 Next Album
([ no label ]) Used LP $75.00
The final, never-released album by Jim Shepard’s V-3, “thick with the live-in-a-basement feel,” say our friends at Volcanic Tongue about this album which is “divided between [classic songs and] heavy guitar / tape manipulation / electronics instrumentals that go as deep into the nocturnal American nightmare zone as anything by Simple Saucer, Chrome and White Light / White Heat-era Velvet Underground…. Shepard’s lyrics are darker than ever here…, while rocking Hawkwind / krautrock-style three-chord fuzz-burners…. [N]ice tape and found-sound cut-ups…, hard-edged avant garage…, beautifully eerie, ethereal instrumentals that sound like they’re about to dissolve…, [and] an extended atonal free jazz jam.” Photo glued to front cover.