Awaawaa CD

Awaawaa, a collection of previously unheard recordings from cult early '80s sibling combo Mark and Clive Ives, first dropped on vinyl earlier this year. Here, it appears on CD for the first time in expanded form. Famously, it was all recorded in the Ives' Wimbledon bedroom during their teenage years, and offers an impossible-to-pigeonhole romp through tracks that gleefully fuse fuzzy ambience, odd indie-rock, lo-fi jazz, atmospheric acoustic music and other decidedly out-there musical escapades. Much of the material is more thrillingly psychedelic and out-there than even their wildest early cassette releases, making it an adventurous hotchpotch of weird and wonderful interludes, doodles and straight-to-take experiments.