Mike Rep & the Quotas, A Tree Stump Named Desire. Really interesting record, a nice reminder of what a strong, classic songwriter he is. There's some weird, noisy fragments, a very nice synth/keyboard drone called "Nautilus," a bunch of covers including an unexpected (and kind of confusing) Bo Diddley tune.
That was prompted by revisiting the Nudge Squidfish LP over the weekend, which was prompted by N'Rich and Bunkerpop telling me how good it is (it didn't grab me at first). Changed my mind, it's quite nice. Almost as great as the Tommy Jay volume.
you shouldve gotten Rich to bust out that stack of Rep/Jay/Nudge cd-rs that no matter how much you beg him to make copies of, he insists they let him have them on the condition that he makes no copies. It is all choice stuff on em, though and apparently, they will be getting proper release eventually.