JON COLLIN - High Peak Selections LP Prog Metal spinning Jon Collin’s expressive guitar

spinning Jon Collin’s expressive guitar licks into acres of cranky

hi-fi and lo-fi

recorded between 1977 and 1980 and one of the first albums to feature music produced almost entirely with digital synthesizers

Teen Suicide at times recall the gnarled pop of The Pixies

But as “With Chris" unfurls

JON COLLIN - High Peak Selections LP Prog Metal spinning Jon Collin’s expressive guitar'This beautifully packaged, reassuringly heavy album is a child wise before its time; generous and a little bit mysterious. Things kick off in an almost industrial vein with the spooky Prelude to CK Junior Blues in which nary a note is plucked. Thin, tinny, feedback drones croak over heavy amp fuh and inner spring clack. Strings are sliced, with a knife perhaps, or certainly menaced in some way, until the ghost gives up and returns to the ether