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Review: Rare 1975 live and studio recordings by the Japanese psychedelic noise legends Les Rallizes Denudes. Five tracks' worth of sonic sacred geometry are spread across two reissued sides; lo-fi garage crunchouts, noise truncations and cathartic let-looses come in the form of 'Field Of Artificial Flowers' and 'Deeper Than The Night' on the A, while the B-side delivers two deeper, more whacked-out, increasingly insane outsider hells, 'Memory Is Distant' and 'Field Of Artificial Flowers' (a name used twice, in true Denudes fashion).

Review: Pre-eminent Japanese noise rockers Les Rallizes Denudes have a complicated back catalogue which only adds to their enigmatic legacy, and here's another tantalising window into their chaotic sound. These psychedelic, lo-fi recordings hail from sessions in 1972 and 1980, with the A-side fully given over to the sprawling 23-minute 'Guitar Jam' - a potent exercise in driving riffs building to a monstrous crescendo. There is plenty more long form exploration to be found on the B-side, with 'A Tale Of Love' stretching out over 18 minutes before a previously unheard version of the band's classic 'Field Of Artificial Flowers', reordered during the 1972 Oz Days sessions.