December 4, 1999
Southall Riot : Quality goods EP
.[b]Jim O'Rourke[/b] and [b]BJ Cole[/b] are apparently involved here somewhere, but bugger me if anyone but their close friends and relatives can tell.
These people eat a lot of instant mushroom noodles. We know this because they have Xeroxed their grocery receipt onto the front of their punk-as-fuck seven-inch sleeve, which was - frankly - a major enticement to review them.
Inside we find trashed two-chord garage punk, frazzled lo-fi drum loopery and garbled sequencer squiggles. Rudimentary stuff, sure, but bursting with attitude and hard to dislike.Jim O'Rourke and BJ Cole are apparently involved here somewhere, but bugger me if
anyone but their close friends and relatives can tell.
Stephen Dalton
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