In the current edition of Electronic Sound magazine, I have a good old waffle blab with Bruise Blood, the solo project name of Mike Bourne from psychedelic rockers Teeth Of The Sea.
In the interview, we chat about the sonic dirtiness of his debut solo album, having the confidence to go solo, buying old gear from Cash Converters, and his love of Autechre.
His album, called You Run Through the World Like An Open Razor, came out a few days ago on Rocket Recordings. My notes for the album contain phrases like "so very very dirty" and "the scuzz is mesmerising", and "gaaaawjeous" which may or may not be a word.
This edition also contains my 130th column, this month themed on brains. "What's inside a brain?" I ask. "What are brains made of? Do they taste of cauliflower?" I pontificate, before going on to answer precisely none of those questions. I do, incidentally, briefly talk about my stroke (see blog posts passim).
The cover star of this edition is Gary Numan and his guitar-drenched 1980 album Telekon. The album contains humdingers of track titles, such as Remember I Was Vapour and I Dream of Wires. However, none of them can hold a candle to Bruise Blood's And They Burned a Hole Through the Earth All the Way to Hell and Oh But You Can, Oh But You Will. Absolutely sublime.
