Ovals & Emeralds (Limited Green Vinyl): 10" Vinyl Pre-Order ” First Take is a

” First Take is a tour-de-force record that encapsulates the emotional rollercoaster of living in what a Confucian Curse might identify as “interesting times

Rochdale - November 1979

Of the album

The complexities of childhood are so often overlooked

and also featuring two new tracks for the time

Ovals & Emeralds (Limited Green Vinyl): 10" Vinyl Pre-Order ” First Take is aOvals & Emeralds explores particular themes that I found haunting as a child: outdated ornate Victorian design, dolls and clowns, automatons, wind up toys, fairgrounds and circuses. The goal was to evoke these themes through manipulation of my own instrumentation, rather than directly sampling fairground organs etc. Although there are some more playful moments on the EP, the dreamlike qualities often take the form of feverish nightmares, dizzying and