Spraycan / Italiano / Golden Lion Sounds

Friends for 30 years and former bandmates in The Sabres Of Paradise and The Aloof, drummer Rich Thair and bassist Nick Abnett have now teamed up as Spraycan. Getting together for unplanned, improvised jams, in Thair’s Buntys studio, ably assisted by only rudimentary 80s analogue machines and effects units. Two of the raw, first-take results of these sessions have been cut to a 12 for Todmorden’s Golden Lion Sounds. “RahRahRah” is a slow, ponderous piece of post-punk dub. Shaken by bursts of shuffling percussion and coloured by strange, shadowy tremolo twang. Rocked by gunshots, ricochets, and drums like distant, echoed explosions. Abnett’s lead backed by trippy, gated vocals. “Italiano”, possibly taking its name from Thair’s antiquated Orla organ, is faster, funkier. Its blunt, brute force recalling joints by acts such as Gramme, or Thair’s other outfit, Number.* Abnett’s terrific, untutored bark biting like Sleaford Mods’ Jason Williamson, or, perhaps, a non-privately schooled…