Q.R. Ghazala’s Threnody for the New Victims of Hiroshima: Another record you somehow missed.

There are record collectors and then there are record collectors. The latter are insanely obsessive about music and are typically blessed with lots of free time and deep pockets. And, of course, they possess rarefied taste. These are the kind of guys (they’re almost always guys) who orgasm by merely holding a slab of 180-gram virgin vinyl. You may think you’re quite the scavenger of obscure wax, but let me break it you, Dusty Fingers: You ain’t in the same league as the dudes holding it down at Mutant Sounds. (These collectors are Eric Lumbleau and Matt Castille of the absurdly great psychedelic group Vas Deferens Organization and a Greek gent known only as mutantsounds.)

This blog arose to catalog/document the artists who appeared on the Legendary Nurse with Wound List™, but it has grown beyond those parameters to encompass the awesome sprawl of fantastic unknown music that haunts the peripheries of the margins of culture’s darkest regions.

The amount of digging and analyzing this requires is staggering, but these stalwarts of arcane sound have been doing an incredible job scrutinizing the underground’s weirdest and rarest specimens and then cogently posting about them on the interweb for all with connections to read and absorb.

Actually, that’s not accurate. The groups under review here dwell below the underground. We’re talking about that deep and mysterious stratum inhabited by oop ltd ed LPs you’ll probably never see and from countries you’ll probably never visit. Thankfully, due to the heroic efforts of the Mutant Sounds team, you can hear (albeit in compromised digital form) works that heretofore have only penetrated a few hundred pairs of ears. Go crazy, sonic explorers, but take heed of mutantsounds’ disclaimer:

The albums are for promotional and preview purposes only. Make sure to delete them within 24 hours. If you like an album, support the artist and go buy it.