SHIPPING NEWS - Flies The Fields LP Field Recordings as an entirety this album

as an entirety this album builds on previous releases on marienbad and sub rosa and demonstrates that rarest of things

which usually ends up serving each song's drive rather than being a showcase for wanking around

This is how Del Rabenja and Sylvin Marc came to record this "Madagascar Now / Maintenant 'Zao"

dedicated to England's most famous porn star suicide was a slightly more post-punk effort and also features here next to aborted single tracks made before they finally gave up the ghost and resigned themselvs to the could-have-been punk pile

SHIPPING NEWS - Flies The Fields LP Field Recordings as an entirety this albumShipping News are a Louisville band composed of members who contibuted heavily to that scene (therefore contributing to the evolution of all independent rock) throughout the '90s. This album, their fourth full length (but third proper "album"), represents the natural progression of musicians who don't rock for the establishment and never did. These guys are real artists.