Known as a favourite of Thurston Moore and tipped as the missing link between Belly and Sonic Youth the furious and experimental indie of Turkish Delight is captured perfectly on albums Tommy Bell (1996) and Howcha Magowcha (1998). The noise rock of both is broken by intriguing vintage sample interludes and from the off make…
Rock music with oddly-tuned guitars, varied rhythms, clouds of dissonance, and bursts of energy wasn’t too hard to come by in the 1990s. But not everyone who practiced this DIY form got out of the decade alive: for every Sonic Youth there was a Dustdevils, and for every Polvo there was an Erectus Monotone. Boston…
Howcha Magowcha, the second album by Turkish Delight, originally released in 1998 (and which follows IHeartNoise’s cassette rerelease of their 1996 debut last year), isn’t quite as weird as all that, but it’s hardy accessible or mainstream. In the main, it’s a high-octane, helium-filled punky thrashabout, and really rather fun. And while punk-pop has very…
2 years ago we celebrated the reissue of Tommy Bell, 1996 debut from Boston's Turkish Delight, with a series of mixes entitled Tommy Bell and His Minions. The idea behind mixes was that we would take one track by TD and build a mix out of songs we think might be spiritually related to it.…
