PORTRON PORTRON LOPEZ - Ice Cream Soufi LP (colour vinyl) alt-country and Australiana-tinged storytelling (and a)

and Australiana-tinged storytelling (and a) vivid depiction of highs and lows

then are given further shape by singer Ryan Hughes

Heavily influenced by the showman funk of James Brown (whose “I Can’t Stand Myself” the band had covered on No New York) Contortions coined a downtown dance-punk sound that had immediate influence on subsequent No Wave bands—including Place’s Bush Tetras and Bronx trio ESG—as well as the burgeoning disco movement

Our Raw Heart is truly the band's finest work to date and the apex achievement of what heavy music can accomplish

PORTRON PORTRON LOPEZ - Ice Cream Soufi LP (colour vinyl) alt-country and Australiana-tinged storytelling (and a)Includes bonus CD. Feels like a silk screened sleeve. Highly recommended. Coming on like a mutation of all the wild and tempered instrumentation of the Dirty Three in full flow, the ambling and meandering yet intense desert rock of Scenic via a long and delightful trawl around the mountain tops of the Mediterranean coastlineevocative and exhilarating music that pulls you along for the ride!! Although an instrumental record, this album is as joyous as