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Bulbous Monocle

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https://bulbous-monocle.bandcamp.com/ www.bulbousmonocle.com

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The Quietus@thequietus.com · 10mo ago

'Bulbous Monocle continue their great run of TFUL282 reissues with the San Francisco-based indie/noise/psych-rock unit’s 2nd album' Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Tangle is No 46 in tQ’s Reissues Etc. of the Year 2025 buff.ly/6ZIlwd4

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Tangle album cover. Black and white photograph of some large clumps of seaweed with tubular parts on a beach beside the sea.
The Quietus@thequietus.com · 10mo ago

'This fifteen-track release offers a more succinct and compelling argument for the relatively obscure San Francisco band World Of Pooh’s scrappy charms than their only album, The Land Of Thirst.' World Of Pooh - Tight & Loose is No 58 in tQ’s Reissues Etc. of the Year 2025 buff.ly/6ZIlwd4

World Of Pooh - Tight & Loose album cover. An illustration of two robot figures, one made out of rolls of paper and the other made out of twine and spools. The title of the album is inverted and written in faux 3-D style lettering.
Bulbous Monocle@bulbous-monocle.bsky.social · last yr.

IN STOCK AND READY TO SHIP Share the news!!! The album is a sleek maelstrom of crackpot dissonance, noise-rock power balladry, schizo-telepathic improv and some of the finest underground music of the era. Tangle is a template and Proclamation of Intent that presages TFUL's classic 90s releases.

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MAGNET Magazine@magnetmagazine.bsky.social · 2y ago

Essential New Music: The ‘Fronts’ “Mamo Waves” (@bulbous-monocle.bsky.social). “The band members’ influences were legion or at least as numerous as the collective collections of a crew of college-aged people living in good used-record markets in the 1980s.” Review: magnetmagazine.com/2025/01/31/e...

Essential New Music: The 'Fronts' "Mamo Waves" - Magnet Magazine

“I am not guilty of insanity/My brain was taken in a brain robbery.” So sings one of the pseudonymous members of the ‘Fronts (pay attention to that apostrophe) on “Mowin’ The Lawn,” which is one of si...

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