- Digital
Basil Neptune
Honkytonk Cheeseballs
Kit Records
- Cat No: KR55
- Release: 2023-08-04
Track List
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1. Basil Neptune - Mojave Disco Ball
05:11 -
2. Basil Neptune - Looking at the Things
02:27 -
3. Basil Neptune - Muppet Particles
06:40 -
4. Basil Neptune - On Magic Pavement
04:41 -
5. Basil Neptune - Asses on the Ceiling
03:05 -
6. Basil Neptune - Scarebnb
08:32 -
7. Basil Neptune - Photon Dust Mirror Portal
05:28 -
8. Basil Neptune - Mood Hoover Version
05:58 -
9. Basil Neptune - Xmas Visitors
07:08 -
10. Basil Neptune - In Memory Palace
05:40
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The Nag's Head was a warts-and-all vessel for the sonic meanderings of Brighton artist Stephen Maskell - taking in richly textural techno, corrupted pop and ASMR drone sculptures. His four releases on Kit Records documented the ecstatic mundanity of life in broken Britain, compositions welded together with snippets of pirate radio, ear-tickling art installations, altercations in terrible pubs, and other end-of-pier hallucinations.
Honky Tonk Cheeseballs is perhaps Maskell's final release, and represents the culmination of his digital dream diary approach. Gone is the Nag's Head moniker (pub burnt down in a possible insurance job?). In the embers we find Basil Neptune: a kind of sentient Airbnb profile, seeking out the smelliest, strangest sonic vestiges of Albion. Expect richly harmonic ambience, ghostly spoken word, and a few trademark booty shakers. All shot through the lens of... Scooby Doo? Zoinks.
Honky Tonk Cheeseballs is perhaps Maskell's final release, and represents the culmination of his digital dream diary approach. Gone is the Nag's Head moniker (pub burnt down in a possible insurance job?). In the embers we find Basil Neptune: a kind of sentient Airbnb profile, seeking out the smelliest, strangest sonic vestiges of Albion. Expect richly harmonic ambience, ghostly spoken word, and a few trademark booty shakers. All shot through the lens of... Scooby Doo? Zoinks.