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From The Sunday Times
February 24, 2008

Various Artists: Messthetics #104: DIY 77-81 South Wales

Stewart Lee

The hugely worthwhile Messthetics series compiles obscure singles and cassette-only releases from the artier fringes of the punk era, and its fourth volume centres on the South Wales scene. The Tax Exiles manage to sound simultaneously weedy and threatening; the Janet & Johns’ I Was a Young Man crosses psilocybic acid-folk with Formica-surfaced, new-wave cleanliness; Scritti Politti’s Green Gartside plays wonky bass on the Immortal Invisible’s harmonica-splattered No Zip – but after 23 thoroughly annotated tracks of skinny reggae, snarled rants and cheese-wire guitars, one almost longs for blander but more nourishing fare.

Hyped to Death MESSTHETICS 104

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