Marble Sheep - The Gate of a Heavenly Body (2000)

"In Search of M. Wilga's Lost Bass Drum"

Marble Sheep and the Rundown Sun's Children came up in the Japanese psychedelic rock scene of the '80s, featuring guitarist Michio Kurihara. Despite showing early promise, the Sheep soon lost Kurihara to White Heaven (and later Ghost) before taking a regrettable detour into Grateful Dead territory - to the detriment of their fanbase - and developing a deeply worrying penchant for the shittiest graphic design ever, finally splitting up toward the end of the '90s. And then... they reformed with a shortened name (though with the same awesome taste in cover art) and released THIS. They call it "space punk rock." Whatever. I call it great rock 'n' roll.

Iron Monkey "We've Learned Nothing" / Church of Misery "Murder Company"

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An out-of-print, sludge-covered gem collecting two 10" records from the dying days of the Man's Ruin empire, when one too many Men of Porn releases may have prompted most to stop paying attention... Some of the best songs either band ever recorded. Church of Misery finally found a decent studio and captured their pre-slide-into-generic-stoner-rock lineup on tape, complete with weird warbly underwater vocals that totally make this. Sleep to win!