Apart from the fact that Spacemen 3 used to hang out there, there isn't really that much to say about Northampton's musical heritage (unless you count the Wishplants). Stanton seem to be going some way to redress that balance with this the first release on Victory Garden - in a deviation from their own Jonson Family label - in what seems like years.
What lies within is the murky rocking darkness you'd expect from a band who more often than not get compared to Peeps Into Fairyland and Firehose. The cover doesn't give anything away, either. Is that a bottleneck? Or a lime? Questions, questions ...

Bloody hell, this is one very dirty, very swamp-fried, greasy check shirt, mangrove snake slides into huge, fat dirty guitar chords, Neil Young guesting with Jane's Addiction kind of thing, lovely. 'Beaver 84' is the spookier little brother, oozing along with guitars bursting out every now n then, more like Neil Young guesting with Smog and 'Vitus', as you might expect, is an altogether twitchier thing. Ranting, speed-freaking guitars and lovely, lovely feedback.