Compact Trauma: Vinyl LP Barry Manilow and others power Alan Wilder's

and others power Alan Wilder's passionate yet unsettling Recoil album

and propelled by Joseph Amoako’s unabating afrobeat

” to bold tones he embraces on the soaring “Bottle Episodes

For as crazy as it sounded

and Ray Barretto on congas for three songs

Compact Trauma: Vinyl LP Barry Manilow and others power Alan Wilder'sFrosted Clear With Black Middle vinyl. RIYL: Mercury Rev, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Radiohead, Deerhunter, Atlas Sound, Stereolab. Close to 5 years on from their last transmission, Ulrika Spacek resurface from self imposed exile with their 3rd album, Compact Trauma, a collection of songs that function as a chance treatise of sorts for our current collective condition. They could have left it alone, but in coming back to what they knew, Ulrika