Blog: Asleep on the compost heap

Look at that for a gorgeous album cover, all aching orange memory and double exposed sadness. Unsurprisingly it comes from the Deerhunter stable. They'd be the band who are building quite the career from their strange and sickly childhood memories. This time it is guitarist Lockett Pundt's turn to knock out a solo release under his Lotus Plaza moniker. Keen Deerhunterphiles will know that Lockett has a knack for swirly weirdness and is behind a few of the memorable tunes on the gang's full-length records including the musical goose-bump generator that is strange lights, my 3rd favourite song of last [...]