I was really looking forward to giving a listen to this new Shipwreck release since after repeated listenings to their debut 3" mcd I’ve to admit it gradually grew on me, I liked it from the very first play, but I’ve to confess after many heavy rotations it brought me to think it was a great debut. This new effort by the dynamic duo featuring Xabier Iriondo on guitar, mahai metak, taisho koto, bandonion, banjolino, field-recordings, electronics and Roberto Bertacchini on a minimal quasi-skeletal drum kit plus vocals, has been nothing but misleading, while the music in someway reflects deeply the perfect combination of Iriondo’s string-style plus Bertacchini’s Starfuckers/Sinistri alike drumming, on the other hand the vocal add some new unexpected elements. Looking at the pictures and listening to the music it’s hard to stay away from the idea Bertacchini has probably seen the light and Iriondo is helping a visionary to ascend thus we can say he’s part in the process has been that of a shaman while Bertacchini is the holy spirit. Here and there you’ll have the chance o catch some blues, American-music splinters, some deviant free-rock/free-folk/free-whatever extravaganza and some experimental field-recording, documentary/home-recording sort of combinations. Bertacchini’s vocals are even freaker than his crippled epileptic drumming, how to describe the outcome?!...hhhmmm... imagine Captain Beefheart and Dave Moss (ok, shame on you if you think I’ve mentioned him just cause he’s both a drummer and a weird as fuck singer!) and maybe a little bit of Massimo Volume’s Emidio Clementi diminished of his theatrical emphasis. Don’t expect it to be a release full of songs, all you’re gonna have are tracks, mostly skeletal, crippled tracks with that characteristical beat style on which Iriondo seems to move comfortably with his post-kraut-bluesy-rock-folk rifforama. Sometimes this music sounds vintage, sometimes it just sounds crippled and out of time, post-bomb rural crippled free rock from somebody who’s seen the light?...you can bet it.