VINYL FORMAT. Originally released in 1984 on Gordon A. Hope's short lived A-mission label (which also counted releases by Asmus Tietchens and O Yuki Conjugate), Neck to Neck is a head-scratching slab of warped primitive synth punk cut at Paul Dillon's Complex Studios. Fazzini's absurd adventures were more in line with the broader discomforts of the early '80s international tape network, Family Fodder, LAFMS, Flying Lizards and Ralph Records than anything that was happening locally at the time. Once an outs...   [ read more ]

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Presumably, there's an unwritten rule for concept albums that no specific guidelines or directions must be followed, that it's instead more important for the overall themes and emotions of the record to be conveyed. Evidently, Tom Fazzini took this at least the first part of this credo to heart for his conceptual Sulphur, Glue the Star, because the album certainly takes a free-form shape as far as indie folk/rock music is concerned. Its eerie spoken pieces ("03," "06," and "08") are ne...   [ read more ]

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