ESCAPE-ISM - Rated Z LP uk diy Joe Louis Johnson - Dance

Joe Louis Johnson - Dance The Boomerang

Though maybe my lapse was reasonable: I had just quit my job

1979 was a great year

And the band that made last year’s engrossing Putrifiers II seems like a distant cousin to the one delivering Floating Coffin - arguably the most varied and textured Oh Sees record to date

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