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Baker's Dozen

Multiple Furgasms: Daniel O'Sullivan's Favourite Albums
Luke Turner , August 14th, 2014 12:19

With Grumbling Fur's new album Preternaturals out this week as the Quietus Phonographic Corporation's second release, Daniel O'Sullivan, one half of the magickal duo and prolific multi-instrumentalist, sits down to pen us his Baker's Dozen

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Judee Sill - Heart Food
Judee is a new fixation. My friend Knut tried to turn me onto her a while back but all I could hear was a weak and sapless voice in my head saying, "You don't like this". I think Alice Coltrane smited that voice with a burning spear of Hare Ram Jah and thus illuminated the path to this goldmine of gorgeosity. If Karen Carpenter swallowed the red letter edition Bible, a few volumes of William Blake, J.S. Bach's powdered wig and an obscene amount of microdots you might arrive at something close to a dream of this dreamy record. The way she orchestrates music has made a deep impression on me over a relatively short period of time. One particular evening it was playing I checked in on my daughter, I'd never seen her sleep so peacefully, curls abundant and smiling softly. So thanks for that Judee. Every cloud has a Sillver lining.