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24.01.2022 LACTO-OVO ’SHOES & YOU’ (2000) ‘TSUNAMI POP’ (2001) Listen to Shoes & You: https://orcd.co/0vgjbob Listen to Tsunami Pop: https://orcd.co/2mmp94k... As part of our L&L Classics Series, we have not just one classic Lacto-Ovo album, but TWO for your streaming and download pleasure! Melbourne's Lacto-Ovo sprouted in the late-90s from the wonky art-rock seeds of Poncherelli and went on to release two albums before promptly dissolving and reconstituting themselves in an array of equally weird and wonderful combos. Live and on record, the band would gleefully challenge the audience, switching from epic post-rock to electro-pop kitsch to meandering Sonic Youth-dissonance to country twang to interstellar Stereolab blippery to Bollywood soundtrack to Morricone surf guitar instrumental... sometimes in the space of one song! Today we celebrate one of Melbourne's most unique and wildly adventurous bands! Available now, on digital services for the first time ever, are Lacto-Ovo's self-released 2000 debut Shoes & You and the brilliant 2001 follow-up on Lost And Lonesome, Tsunami Pop (L&L007). Lacto-Ovo coalesced in the late-90s as a reaction against months of serial side-projecting amongst its constituent players. Finding common ground in the possession of a generous back catalogue of old lounge-inspired television show compilations and Hindi pop records, Ange Clark, Jim McDonald, Tim Spelman and Gina Pilven created Lacto-Ovo as a forum in which to explore, with impunity, the gentler side of trash. The band added the talents of Jonathan Edmonds (replacing Gina Pilven on drums) and Ben Bourke, before they scattered and resurfaced in a vast amount of other projects: Mid-State Orange, Edible Pets, Capgras Family, Pets with Pets, Fire to the Stars & Tiny Fighter. An old rewired Yamaha music synthesizer is fused with reverberating guitars, oddball percussion and angular vocals. Absurdist pop and Arabian surf are lent a not unwelcome spin through the generous application of oriental ornamentation and tidal slowness. Dive in, the water's epic!
21.01.2022 Lacto-Ovo have a new/old single out this week, seventeen years in the making thanks to Deafen County for the premiere!
20.01.2022 So sweet to hear Ciggie Witch get a shout-out from Seattle band Zebra Hunt who selected CW's 'Meet Me in the Middle' as their favourite obscure pop song in the latest edition of ace podcast Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid to Know About.
20.01.2022 Bris mates pick up The Lucksmiths' fresh wax at the amazing Sonic Sherpa record bar. Thanks Belly for the lovely write-up!
19.01.2022 Lost classic alert Ace blog Austin Town Hall have premiered 'Nu West', another LACTO-OVO recording from 2003! http://austintownhall.com/2020//08/lacto-ovo-share-nu-west/ "It’s an oddball art-pop dance party, one you might associate with your favourite Devo impersonators. One thing I love, aside from the sheer infectiousness of those hook-laden beats is that the band blend this sort of class pop chorus into it; it gives the song this warmth that sort of offsets the electronic pulse of the tune leaving you with this endearing charm you’ll want to put in your pocket to take with you!"
18.01.2022 Thanks North Country Public Radio for the warm tribute to Zac
18.01.2022 Very excited to announce The Lucksmiths' 1997 album A Good Kind of Nervous is soon to be available on vinyl for the first time! Pre-order now on orange or black vinyl from https://thelucksmiths.bandcamp.com/a/a-good-kind-of-nervous with pre-orders to ship on November 13. USA customers, please visit Matinée Recordings: https://shop.matineerecordings.com//the-lucksmiths-a-good-
17.01.2022 It's the beautiful new album by our friend and explosive one-man-band great earthquake entitled Organised Religious Sounds, available now on cassette and digital streaming and download via https://orcd.co/neqmrdb Bandcamp are waiving their fees today (as of 7pm AEST) for 24 hours, so if you feel like a tape, swing by after then.
16.01.2022 L&L CLASSICS KIRSTY STEGWAZI 'JAILBIRDS' (2001) Available for the first time to stream and download: https://orcd.co/e0ypzpa A veteran of the Canberra, Adelaide and Melbourne scuzzy-folk and arty-rock scenes, Kirsty Stegwazi brought her wholly unique songwriting, idiosyncratic guitar playing and beguiling vocals to bands like The Bedridden, Cowlick, Sickbay and The Bites.... Jailbirds (L&L005) was Kirsty's second (and currently last) full-length solo effort, and playing the album now with all these years having passed in betwixt listens, these songs still manage to floor me.
15.01.2022 Happy Cassette Store Day everyone!! Pretty excited to be involved and to have our small catalogue of tapes in the mix (featuring titles from Footy, great earthquake and Ciggie Witch) amongst those from some great local labels and bands!
13.01.2022 "After twenty whole years Lacto-Ovo return with new music on the horizon, and their classic indie obscurities reissued and available on the streaming services for the first time through the seminal Aussie label Lost & Lonesome. Between eccentric indie pop, mellow synthpop, noise rock dirt and post rock expansiveness, Lacto-Ovo know no constraints, and the result of the band's inherent open-mindedness a couple of underappreciated albums which constitute much of an exciting listen, without sounding flaunting nor pretentious in any way." Thanks Destroy//Exist!
12.01.2022 Lacto-Ovo 'City Lights' new single out now! Listen at https://orcd.co/9rqd08e Lacto-Ovo are ~...Continue reading
11.01.2022 We're following Bandcamp's lead today and donating all our proceeds till 5pm (AEST) to NATSILS - National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services Jump in > https://lostandlonesome.bandcamp.com/
08.01.2022 Lacto-Ovo 'Nu West' single out now! Listen at: https://orcd.co/nuwest LACTO-OVO ~... Jonothan Edmonds: vocals / Tim Spelman: keyboards, drum machine and vocals / Angela Clark: keyboards, bass and vocals / Jim McDonald: synth guitar and vocals / Ben Bourke: keyboards Recorded by Marcus Barczak, North Fitzroy, February 2003. Mixed and produced by Marcus Barczak and Lacto-Ovo, Cyberspace, July 2020. Having rediscovered a CD of lost recordings in a garden shed, Melbourne wonky art-rock combo Lacto-Ovo recently released their first music in close to two decades. Although still technically disbanded as of 2003, Lacto-Ovo’s wild flame has been somewhat rekindled of late with the digital relaunch of their two albums Shoes & You (2000) and Tsunami Pop (2001). But back to that garden shed CD Two songs from the abandoned third album of 2003 were dusted off in the now to be released to fans old and new. The first one ‘City Lights’, released in October 2020, was an epic synth-wave amalgam of New Order, Simple Minds and OMD featuring Peter Hook-styled bass, Oberheim keyboards and, most notably, drummer Jonothan Edmonds vacating the kit and making way for a drum machine, in the process switching his focus to lead-croon. This unexpected Lacto-Ovo transformation from country-shoegaze-Americana-Arabian-surf-lounge-noisepop band to synth-party powerhouse has carried over to lost recording number-two ‘Nu West’, a Devo-flavoured tribute to the cocaine-fuelled excesses of 1980s Perth, Western Australia, positively framed as some kind of Miami Vice-cum-Revenge of the Nerds paradise. Having since found various members playing in an impressive array of bands including City City City, Mid-State Orange, Edible Pet, Capgras Family, Fire to the Stars and Tiny Fighter, Lacto-Ovo’s final chapter may yet to be written.
08.01.2022 Tune in tonight! Cayn Borthwick and Traffik Island opening for Mystery Guest’s album launch, beaming into your home from the majestic Long Play bar n theatre.
08.01.2022 "I first got turned onto great earthquake when Thinking & Making was released. I immediately fell in love with the songwriting, so when Organized Religious Sounds quietly dropped on Friday, I was rushing to listen to it. This great song is the perfect introduction to the record; it’s like this steady pop meditation on identitydo we want to be noticed or hide because its easier? The song’s unassuming, but I love that about it." Thanks Austin Town Hall! x
07.01.2022 "Lacto-Ovo were legends when the world was supposed to go all tits up when the computers were supposed to eat us with the whole Y2K thing and are likely to be legends again as we get eaten by big boy flu." Thanks to Janglepophub for the kind words on Lacto-Ovo's 'Shoes & You' 20th anniversary reissue!
07.01.2022 L&L CLASSICS: THE FOOTS 'AGAIN...' (2001) Continuing on in our L&L Classic Albums series, here's the second of The Foots' albums, available to enjoy for the first time in the murky waters (Foots reference ) of the digital world! 'Again...' (L&L004) was originally released in 2001, available on CD through Lost And Lonesome. ... Listen now: https://orcd.co/0xmyj9x Formed in Melbourne in the mid-1990s, The Foots were a new collaborative project for singer-songwriter Jane Mccracken and ex-Hurdy Gurdy and Slurper bassist/vocalist Eva Sommerfeld with drummer Stanley Paulzen (ex-Tlot Tlot) who was later subbed out for Colleen Keeffe. Between 1996 and 2001 The Foots released two cassettes ('Pegs' and 'Ponchos') and two CDs ('The Foots' and 'Again...') and built a solid following regularly touring their warm and wistful pop songs around south-eastern Australia and New Zealand.
05.01.2022 Anyone keen to brush up on your L&L history I'll be having a chat on the radio this Wednesday night from 9:30pm with all-round legend Michael Simic on 88.9FM - Braidwood, digging into our vast back-catalogue of primo Australian music! Listen in at https://braidwoodradio.com.au/
02.01.2022 MID-STATE ORANGE 'FLAG FESTIVAL' (2002) / SUMMER IN DISGUISE (2003) Listen to Flag Festival: https://orcd.co/veqk1ey Listen to Summer in Disguise: https://orcd.co/vdodeny...Continue reading
