Compact Trauma: Vinyl LP Barry Manilow and propelled by Joseph Amoako’s

and propelled by Joseph Amoako’s unabating afrobeat

” written after watching John Cassavetes’ Opening Night

and Ray Barretto on congas for three songs

and others power Alan Wilder's passionate yet unsettling Recoil album

For as crazy as it sounded

Compact Trauma: Vinyl LP Barry Manilow and propelled by Joseph Amoako’sFrosted Clear With Black Middle vinyl. RIYL: Mercury Rev, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Radiohead, Deerhunter, Atlas Sound, Stereolab. Close to 5 years on from their last transmission, Ulrika Spacek resurface from self imposed exile with their 3rd album, Compact Trauma, a collection of songs that function as a chance treatise of sorts for our current collective condition. They could have left it alone, but in coming back to what they knew, Ulrika