terminals touch v 3ds venus trail

Terminals singles comp coming out on Ba Da Bing:

http://www.badabingrecords.com/store/products/the-terminals-singles-and-sundries-lp/

Looks like they left off the B-side from the Medusa 7", which is kind of odd.

So I got the Terminals singles comp over the weekend and of course it's amazing! I was already familiar with most of the songs, but it's good to have them in one place.

Somebody should put out a 3Ds singles comp actually.

Terminals sans crooks apparently new lp all ready to go - no 3ds news to speak of

And here's that new Terminals news:

http://grapefruitrecordclub.com/products?keywords=antiseptic

The Terminals are the best rock band New Zealand has ever produced.
Period. I know there’s heavy competition, but believe it. No group has
lasted over three decades and maintained intensity, structure and mood
better than the core team of Steven Cogle and Peter Stapleton. Cogle’s
voice is a quavering incantation of deep spell-casting, throwing more
dirt onto the already gritty guitar squalls. Stapleton’s rhythm
section propels songs through lightning charges of tempo and energy.
Age has only embedded The Terminals’ mastery to deeper sonic realms.
The ten years between their last album, Last Days of the Sun, and the
release of Antiseptic, whip by in a flash when you play these records
next to each other. The Terminals never disappoint, they never relent.

Antiseptic does mark some changes, however. Longtime guitarist Brian
Crook now lives in the California desert, so Nicole Moffat has
replaced him, providing violin and vocals. Mick El Borado thickens the
atmosphere with his improvisational keyboard playing. A group that has
stayed together so long knows instinctively where a song can go,
although it is often the maverick pieces – ones that at first don’t
seem to belong -- that end up on the records. Their work together has
become only more sagacious, and The Terminals don’t waste an intended
or improvised note. Antiseptic is a peerless rock album, unless you
can think of another group who’ve stayed as heavy, as broke, and
consistent for this long.

Bandcamp page up for that new Terminals album

https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/antiseptic

Listening to an advance now -- it's very great! Long may they thrive in whatever configuration.

I like Venus Trail fine, but am much more enthusiastic about the 2 on 1 disc of Fish Tales and Swarthy Songs for Swabs. It seems, to my ears at least, to have much stronger songwriting all around. And the band has more "piss and vinegar" if you will. And i generally will always go with the earlier works of nearly all the FN/NZ bands, because to paraphrase Byron Coley, "lo-fi is my fi" esp. when rendered thru Chris Knox's magic 4track. Only Terminals I know is the expressway tape "disease", which is noisy as hell and quite grebt also.

New Terminals album is very good. They're one of those bands with a sound that aging just seems to suit, really.

Most recent Renderers album's really good, too, incidentally.

somewhere out in this heat
there is a sad little lonely man
he's laughing high up off the street
rising up into the universe