Angry Eelectric Finger Vol.1 - Nurse With Wound & Jim O'Rourke

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...Another cheap punk sampler, this time from LameAss records, and as per normal with these low price saplers, is no disappointment. With 28 tracks in all bands that appear on this compilation include Good Riddance, No Fun At All, Guttermouth, Douglas, Pulley, 88 Fingers Louie, Ten Foot Pole, Gob, Buck O Nine, Big Wig, Trigger Happy and Raised Fist. Also contains 2 unreleased tracks from Less Than Jake and Astream. The only track I was disappointed with was River Fenix’s song. Having seen the band live and really enjoyed them, this song was a bit of a let down. Not as good as I remember them. This is really good cd and well worth the dirt cheap asking price. Value for money guaranteed.... Read review

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Advantages: Exceptionally honest and adventurous music
Disadvantages: Might be a bit too adventurous for some

...’. But they couldn’t be further from the airbrushed perfection of, say, The Eagles. They owe more to the shambolic grittiness of Neil Young. While their first three albums strayed over various musical genres but kept an alternative country feel at their core, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot ventures further into uncategorisable territory. Jeff Tweedy teamed up with experimental rock maestro Jim O’Rourke for this album, and recorded it in O’Rourke’s home town of Chicago. His influence shows in the odd non-musical noises that fizz and burble in the background, and in the way the songs lurch and splutter like an elderly car, constantly threatening to succumb to their own entropy. The sense of unease and dislocation this engenders is entirely apt, for this is a prophetically post-9/11 album in spirit, if not in specifics (most of it must have been written before... Read review

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Advantages: A few damn good songs
Disadvantages: A few damn uninteresting songs

...One of Golf Records’ newest compilations (now superceded by vol.5 which happily costs £1 less at Amazon), Another Round of Golf vol.4 follows in the same vein as previous releases. It contrasts well-known bands like Less Than Jake and Snuff with more recently established acts such as the ever improving Gash and female pop-punksters Tuuli. Altogether it forms a memorable record that matches Epitaph’s 'Punk-O-Rama' collection in enjoyment and fulfilment. While its originally imaginative title' Another Round of Golf Volume 4' might perhaps call for a range of less-than-amusing Golf cracks, the album pretty much sells itself. Despite a couple of less imaginative tracks from the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Snuff, the overall quality sets the tone for what Golf will produce next: it will doubtlessly shine also. Hailing from Gainesville... Read review

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