SOLIPSISM - Organicism Special Edition
HERB
MP3 Release // £6.99
ELECTRONIC
Released: Aug 2007
Catalogue Number: HERB0026

Shoosh is a trio of musicians, combining guitars and Americana-influenced songwriting with all manner of perplexing electronic programming and treatments. 'Snake Eyes' is a little like Sparklehorse or perhaps Benoit Pioulard - all distorted and twisted out of shape, with a squeaky, obfuscated vocal in place to remind you that you're listening to an actual song rather than the Fennesz-influenced soundscape it might otherwise resemble. The vocal will almost certainly take some getting used to in fact, but once you're accustomed to the sheer oddness of Neil Carlill's delivery (imagine a cross between Dose One and Mark E Smith) there's an awful lot to like about this record - in a world crammed with electronically treated songwriting efforts, Orpheum Circuit somehow manages to sound like it's really out there on its own.

1. X-Posure Tuesday 6th October 2009 10pm-2am
   Artists In Residence: Health
   One Night Stand: James Apollo
   X-Posure Hot One: Penguin Prison ‘Animal Animal’ (Neon Gold)
   X-Posure Big One: The XX ‘Islands’ (Young Turks)
   
   10-11pm
   Johnny Foreigner ‘Criminals’ (Best Before)
   Wolfmother ‘New Moon Rising’ (Polydor)
   A Place To Bury Strangers ‘It Is Nothing’ (Mute)
   The Hot Rats ‘Fight For Your Right’
   Local Natives ‘Camera Talk’
   X-Posure Hot One: Penguin Prison ‘Animal Animal’ (Neon Gold)
   Ash ‘True Love 1980’
   Ladyhawke ‘Magic’ (Modular)
   One Night Stand, Session Track: James Apollo ‘No East No West’
   Kill It Kid ‘Heaven Never Seemed So Close’ (One Little Indian)
   Miike Snow ‘Black And Blue’
   Julian Casablancas ‘11th Dimension’ (Rough Trade)
   
   11pm-Midnight (Deep)
   Lost Classic: Pixies ‘Debaser’ (4AD)
   The Chapman Family ‘Virgins’ (Electric Toaster)
   The Victorian English Gentlemens Club ‘Love On An Oil Rig’ (This Is Fake DIY)
   Japanese Voyeurs ‘Dumb’ (Slimeball)
   The Raveonettes ‘Bang’ (Fierce Panda)
   Life In Film ‘Get Closer’ (Ban Jam)
   Blockhead ‘It’s Raining Clouds’ (Ninja Tune)
   Artist In Residence, Session Track: Health ‘Die Slow’
   Pulled Apart By Horses ‘I’ve Got Guestlist To Rory O’Hara’s Suicide (alt)’ (Holy Roar)
   Wonderswan ‘Furrpile’ ()
   Thom Yorke ‘Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses’ (www.w.a.s.t.e.com)
   One Night Stand, Session Track: James Apollo ‘How Hard A Heart Of Gold’
   Mayer Hawthorne ‘Maybe So, Maybe No’ (Stone’s Throw)
   Breakestra ‘Show You The Way’ (Strut)
   
   Midnight-1am (Deeper!)
   Artist In Residence, Session Track: Health ‘Death+’
   Vampire Weekend ‘Horchata’ (XL)
   Florence & The Machine ‘You Got The Love (The XX Remix)’
   The Dead Weather ‘I Cut Like A Buffalo’ (Third Man/Columbia)
   The Big Pink ‘Velvet’ (4AD)
   One Night Stand, Session Track: James Apollo
   Editors ‘In This Light And On This Evening’ (Kitchenware/Columbia)
   Kelpe ‘Microscope Contents’ (DC)
   Solipsism ‘Go On Snafu’ (www.myspace.com/solipsism)
   Cate Le Bon ‘Hollow Trees House Hounds’ (Irony Bored)
   General Fiasco ‘We Are The Foolish’
   Lost Classic: The Doors ‘The Crystal Ship’ (Elektra)
   
   1-2am (Deeper Still!)
   Brakes ‘Why Tell The Truth’ (Fatcat)
   Beat The Radar ‘18, 19, 20, 21, 22’ (Akoustik Anarkhy)
   Port O’Brien ‘My Will Is Good’ (City Slang)
   The Twilight Sad ‘Reflection Of The Television’ (Fatcat)
   Daniel Johnston ‘Is And Always Was’ (Feraltone)
   Girls ‘Laura’ (Fantasy Trashcan)
   The Bloody Beetroots feat. The Cool Kids ‘Awesome’ (Dim Mak/Downtown)
   Hakan Lidbo ‘Let’s Rock’ (We Are Woodville)
   One Night Stand, Session Track: James Apollo ‘I’ve Got It Easy’
   X-Posure Long One: Fuck Buttons ‘Surf Solar’ (ATP)
   These Furrows ‘Planes’ (Robot Needs Home)
   The Young Republic ‘Balletesque’ (End Of The Road)
   The Brothers Movement ‘Standing Still’ (Rocket Girl)
   Frank Turner ‘Poetry Of The Deed’ (Xtra Mile)

EP: SOLIPSISM – Mentalism EP (Ambidextrous 2009)