Sightings
(Load) Used LP $12.00
Eleven songs from 2002 “to the left not only of obvious touchstones like early Sonic Youth and Yoko Ono’s primal scream period, but also of the comparatively normal DNA and Mars. Basic precepts like harmony, rhythm, and tonality are only casually (possibly even accidentally) implemented here, to the point that songs like ‘Don West’ sound like a diesel locomotive slowly being fed through a wood chipper. A bracing blast of a debut. Packaged in a screen-printed fold-over cover. Black vinyl
Through the Panama
(Ecstatic Peace) Used LP $25.00
Seizures and sharp angles, dance rhythms, clearer mixing, and subtly shaded dynamics separate the old Sightings from the new. Every sound shines while preserving the earlier grimy, low-gloss vibe. Sightings may action-paint their canvases with viscous, theatrical brushstrokes, but it’s the countless, cunningly placed scrapes and flecks that make Through the Panama vibrate with meaning and real menace. From 2007