SHOVELS - s/t LP Post Punk often performing at Sapporo’s Slowboat

often performing at Sapporo’s Slowboat Jazz Club (which he co-founded with his wife Yasuko Fukui) and releasing 2 live albums

and housed in a handmade jacket in the Folkways tradition

sass and Amy's sore throat howl

all held together with interstitial noise loops and shadowy haze

SHOVELS - s/t LP Post Punk often performing at Sapporo’s SlowboatShovels isnt the greatest name for a band. It conveys a utilitarian image of work, a tool associated mainly with drudgery, unless it is the rare instance when one geezer bashes another geezer in the head and its Exhibit A in a murder case. Then it may conjure some genuine appeal. So it is interesting why a band on a stellar label like Homeless would arrive at such a handle. Shovels are part post punk, experimental and white noise psych, as you listen