Irma Krook - Military Arms 12"Military Arms is the debut output by Gothenburg based sound smith Irma Krook. Up until now primarily known as bass player & founding member of death pop vanguards Makthaverskan, Krook has composed four tracks of ethereal beauty, in the sanctity of her own home. Limitation is the mother of invention and recording from a flat in Masthugget narrows the possibilities even more. Recording her vocals on her phone & making all instrumentals in GarageBand on

the analog limitations of four and eight tracks

Side A: Habit

rather than the yellow cover seen on later issues

the album came together as a powerful mix of blues

If this were the sole effort of some cracked

and Jackie McLean

Third volume in the BYG Actuel series

his daughter Olive and her cartoons can be heard bleeding into these tracks

The duo of Mark Anderson (Bancho Taste / Mysteries of Love) and Mark Sadgrove (Mazda Hatchback / Mysteries of Love) take the wheel and don the louvres to serve up a paean to landlocked listlessness

After years of mystery

artist Marian Zazeela

in a lagoon of fermenting fuzz