Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds Of Japan 1980-1988 CD xx1984 conceiving their latest LP Spitting

conceiving their latest LP Spitting Out Moonlight on a hill in Rye and left with Mikey Young to make sense of it all

MARK LEAVITT and guitarist GREG KUTCHER

churning out spastic

but also a crucial period in NYC musical history

the album put Ike Yard's indelible mark on the synth-driven experimental rock scene then emerging all over the planet

Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds Of Japan 1980-1988 CD xx1984 conceiving their latest LP SpittingEarly on in the liner notes for this new LitA comp, Mark Frosty McNeil situates the music collected on Somewhere Between within the economic bubble of 1980s Japan. I guess such a statement suggests that the comp will be populated by schmick pop, futuristic synth tech, New Wavey optimism, all skewed a little off kilter as these private press digging comps often are (a la Efficient Spaces classic Sky Girl). While theres plenty of that, theres also a