White Fence

After leading LA psych band Darker My Love for two albums in the early 2000s and having been drafted in to join The Fall after Mark E. Smith sacked half his band mid-way through a US tour, singer and guitarist Tim Presley locked himself away with only a four-track tape recorder and his cat for company, amassing hundreds of recordings that would form the basis of his first album under the White Fence banner. The lo-fi transmissions here find Presley on a similar wavelength to future collaborators Ty Segall and Osees’ John Dwyer, while his deep love for obscure ‘60s garage rock rattles through the murk and fuzz throughout. Yet songs such as Baxter Court’s zombie rave-up and Who Feels Right?’s spectral shudder are so weird and warped that they place White Fence on an alternative timeline where his one-time boss’ prolific output clatters into the acid-fried worlds of Syd Barrett and Skip Spence.