Severed Heads – Ear Bitten [2LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop Abandoned being a good word

Abandoned being a good word to use again here as this collection of barley-there trace element songs and decaying acoustic snapshots will leave the listener with a sensation not so dissimilar to the feeling abandonment conjures

as there are elements of this in the ‘Island Fuse’ piece

ignorance and a profound lack of empathy laying at the root of many of these avoidable circumstances

sees West exposing the tension between his guitar and classical instruments in improvised longform composition

and Naná Vasconcelos— performed in an outdoor amphitheater and were joined onstage by a dozen adults and children

Severed Heads – Ear Bitten [2LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop Abandoned being a good word"Dark Entries picks up Severed Heads yet again for Ear Bitten, a double LP reissue of some of the bands earliest material. As originary Aussie industrial legends although founder Tom Ellard would balk at being branded as such Severed Heads shaped the continental subcultural sound with their kitchen electronics, chaotic tape loops, and quietly infectious nursery rhyme esque melodies. In 1979 Ellard, Richard Fielding, and Andrew Wright abandoned the