SBSM – Leave Your Body 7" EPThrilling Living Hardcore was an adjective before it was a noun. This is haunting, cacophonous, strange and beautiful music. Machines with heartbeats and minds of their own, live drums, a table full of noise, and three geniuses in complete control, laying joy and rage to tape. Oaklands most important band is available for the first time on vinyl400 copies in black on black silkscreened sleeves bound with thread and accompanied by a risographed lyric

Free jazz doesn't just require a lot of unrestrained blowing and freeform noise

the record on which the title track first appeared

1985's MERCY finds an augmented Kiwi Animal trying on what at first glance is a more refined

respectively

a lo-fi auditory soundscape sheathed in summery vibes

which I admit

and composed around 250 musical works

Europamerica

Such processes add an element of both warmth and spontaneity to the work

But where some might meander or navel-gaze

Over the years the song has grown in length and intensity

" Rather than create any sort of literal or agitprop statement