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Honkytonk Cheeseballs

by Basil Neptune

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Honkytonk Cheeseballs pro-dubbed to tape with risograph printed artwork and 16 page art book.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Honkytonk Cheeseballs via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Book/Magazine + Digital Album

    16 page, A5 art booklet featuring collages by Stephen.

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about

The Nag's Head was a warts-and-all vessel for the sonic meanderings of Brighton artist Stephen Maskell. Taking in richly textural techno, corrupted pop and ASMR drone sculptures, his four releases on Kit documented the ecstatic mundanity of life in broken Britain. Maskell's impressive ear for a dancefloor bothering rhythm (most likely recorded using a biscuit tin) was deployed on each record, and these brief moments of booty shaking were threaded together with glimpses of pirate radio, ear-tickling art installations, and altercations in terrible pubs.

Honkytonk Cheeseballs is perhaps Maskell's final release, and represents the culmination of his digital dream diary approach. Gone is the farty upholstery of The Nag's Head (burnt down in a possible insurance job?), and in the embers we find Basil Neptune: a kind of sentient Airbnb profile, seeking out the smelliest, strangest sonic vestiges of Albion. Expect thickly harmonic ambience, ghostly spoken word, and a few trademark knee wigglers. All shot through the lens of... Scooby Doo? Zoinks.

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'An eccentric, dreamy romp through the bargain bin of British culture, stretching quirky, tangled sounds through glassy computer processes' - Boomkat

Video for 'Mood Hoover Version': youtu.be/JyWttci94Mc

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Praise for The Nag's Head:

'Brilliant' - Mary Anne Hobbs (BBC 6 Music)

'Luxury Slime Vortex erupts like The Shard, all shiny and pointy and terrifying' - The 405

'Shivering, chewy techno. From the slowly constructed breakbeat velocity of Supermalt VIP to the rich textural scale of Crushed Memory Era' - Bleep

'Goes off like a grenade in a biscuit tin' - No Fear of Pop

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released August 4, 2023

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