Blast Cools 90-92

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2018-11-14

Label: Half A Cow Records

The third retrospective album in a trilogy of early four-track recordings from Nic Dalton, released every decade, in years ending in 8. These thirteen songs from early 1990 to March 1992 are all previously unreleased, except for home mixes of “Lost Four Days” and “King of My Feelings,” which appeared on the Various - The Booth Tape (A Half A Cow Compilation) cassette). At the time Dalton was in the Plunderers, who were experimenting with psychedelic pop, which can be heard on a lot of these songs, especially “Red Electric Noodle”, “Flat Lemonade” and “Blast Cools”.

Apart from Smudge/Godstar drummer Alison Galloway on three songs (including a faster version of “Way Out Jim”), Dalton plays all the instruments himself. In May 1992, Nic left Australia to join Boston band Lemonheads and his regular routine of four-track recording his latest batch of songs came to an end, with only sporadic sessions taking place from then to now. The painting on the front cover commemorates this, being done the night before he left Australia in May 1992.

Five of the songs were mixed by David Coulthard-Clark at Charing Cross in 1998. Tim Kevin mixed the remaining songs at Tempe River Studio in 2018.