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EASY No. 306!
this is a split LP with XPOEMSX on one side and The PHOTON BAND on the other.

the xpoemxs side flows out blazed and improvisational Spacemen loops in the middle a field in the middle of a pastoral summer on a lost island in the middle of the sea
and the photons side is just incredible.

this record is for all the young trippers and stoners and lovers and everyone aged 13 to 333, may they all reincarnate successfully over and over until everything is golden.
and the WEIRD PANTHER FAMILY AND THEIR FAMILIES.and RIP Lars Gerhard...

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"Eric de Jesus and his Easy Subculture freedom squad, an extremely DIY imprint he’s run from various Northeastern dwellings over the course of like, four decades now? And yet if you saw him, you’d swear he’s a newly-turned thirty year-old himself… such is the youthful effect of staying punk. XpoemsX is deJesus himself looping a couple acoustic/electric guitars alongside some spoken word in his trademark “red-wine emo” style. It’s soft, hypnotic and heartfelt, as if the guitars of Ash Ra Tempel, Spiritualized and Nagisa Nite were finely ground into a smokeable powder distributed in certain copies of the Breathing Walker demo. I was expecting Photon Band to immediately bring the hammer down with their long-running downtown garage-psych, but was pleasantly surprised by the looser, stranger moves they’re sharing here. They’re incredibly breezy and lugubrious here, with some fuzz-mangled guitar, interstitial vocals and tender psych-folk songwriting, all bouncing off each other like little bacterium in a petri dish. Very “home recorded” sounding in the best of ways, the sort of thing Blackbean & Plancenta would’ve begged to release back in 1997. (I’d say it sounds like something Darla Records would’ve released back then too, but that’s actually the case, seeing as Photon Band released four albums with the label.) I love Photon Band in this messy presentation, what sounds like various tapes being popped in and out of a dusty deck to reveal a band in constant conversation with itself. So nice that after all these years, these life-long friends and collaborators can get together for such a fresh and vibrant split." -Matt Korvette / YELLOWGREENRED.com

" Also featuring The Photon Band as well as XPOEMSX is “The Birth and Death of the Historical Buddha” a split LP on Easysubcult. ( xpoemsx (bandcamp.com) ). Here we find the band in a more experimental mode, seemingly given room the experiment, spoken word and guitar noise mixed in with the tunes, an early highlight being “Things That Are Important” a distorted Mudhoney sounding guitar hosting lyrics that resonate within, the following “Acceptance” the counterpoint with its sweet and gentle nature. Elsewhere, “Windy, not Windy” is a weirdly picked instrumental that leads nicely into heavy instrumental groove of “Painting of the Impure Aspect of the Human Realm” which sounds like the way Grunge should have gone rather than the corporate shit it became. The whole thing rounded off by “Be a Lamp”, bringing the wah-wah pedal back into fashion and making me turn the volume up yet again.
As if all this wasn't treasure enough flipping the LP over reveals the wonders of XPOEMSX, Strange, engaging beat poetry and rambling looped guitar blended together in simple yet rewarding ways with “Bolshevik Cigs On A Roof On An Island” hooking you in straight away, painting pictures and letting you dream. Continuing down the same path “Swim In The Sea” loops guitar to the edge of feedback whilst remaining calm and soothing with both “Vodka and Percoset Breakfasts (For Lars Gerhard RIP)” and “Racing Toward Death (We Are All)” repeating the trick creating a trio of instrumental that leave space for your imagination to drift where it will. Given the name xpoemsx and the excellent use of words on the first track I was hoping for some more poetry as the music continued but, in fact, the delicate nature of the music allows you to form your own words and visions, poetry without speaking. I like it."
Simon Lewis / TERRASCOPE ( terracsope.co.uk )