Damaged Goods レコード& CD

Review: Psychedelic rock legend Graham Day has stayed active throughout 2010s and beyond, but he's not revisited his famous band The Gaolers for over 14 years. That all changes with Reflections In The Glass - which despite its convincingly retro mod sound, is actually a brand new album. Ten stomping cuts of hard psych rock all resonate at similar tempos, resolute in their twanging solos and lyrical ruminations on abandonment, guilt, atonement and lost causes.

Review: Medway's garage rock king Allan Crockford has credits flittering all the way back to the 80's including the likes of The Prisoners, Billy Childish's Thee Headcoats, The Solarflares, and even the OG line-up of the James Taylor Quartet, to name but a handful. Keeping sharp and busy, however, The Galileo 7 serves as his own passion project; melding 60s mod-beat garage rock with jangling psychedelic pop, leading to a sonic bickering between anthemic hooks and fuzzed out, twinkling guitar lines. Following two exceptional full-lengths released through Damaged Goods; 2017's Tear Your Minds Wide Open! and 2019's There Is Only Now, the collective return after a half-decade of respite to deliver another batch of lysergic, hazy power pop goodness, intended for the wannabe mod/hippie in all of us.

Review: Now getting its utmost-deserved 25th Anniversary reissue on Damaged Goods, Here I Am I Always Am is the only solo album by Kyra, one of the members of the all-female Kent punk band Headcoatees, whom in turn began as the backing band for Billy Childish's Thee Headcoats. Though it's billed as a solo record, Kyra's album is backed by the members of the Headcotes and is a surreal, lo-fi excursion in garage-punk in its 90s heyday.

Review: Cult Kent garage rock legends Thee Headcoats have been at it a long time, but you might be forgiven for thinking they'd retired what with 22 years passing since their last album, I Am The Object Of Your Desire. It turns out you just can't keep a good band down, and Billy Childish and his gang are back with a whole new album of kick-ass tunes recorded with all the grit and grime you want and expect from a Headcoats record. The DNA of 60s beat, original r&b and lo-fi rock n roll is hardwired into the band, and they capture that energy perfectly on these 12 raucous new tracks.

Review: Where do you start with 'Wild' Billy Childish? A true enigma, and a figurehead of the eccentric, anti-establishment British arts scene known for advocating amateurism, non-conformity and free emotional expression through creativity since the 1970s, co-founder of the Stuckism figurative painting movement, concerned with supposed Remodernist ideals which push back against the post-modern, it's almost easy to forget about his recording career in and among the book publishing, exhibitions, poems and Super 8 movies.

Thankfully, then, we have The Fighting Tameraire in our new releases pile to remind us that he's fundamentally a deft hand at writing, arranging, singing and performing lo-fi semi-traditional garage folk stuff that has one foot in the English pubs of bygone ages and another in contemporary alternative rock. This collection is rousing, emotive, witty, and thoroughly human in a way that feels increasingly rare today.