terminals touch v 3ds venus trail

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