Hello, legions of admirers. This week on When Big Joan Sets Up, the aforementioned hippie avatar, gets a brainectomy (that’s probably not what it’s called but, it’ll do) , alongside various other stimulating records…

Thee Oh Sees – “Blood in Your Ear” (7″) (Rock is Hell)
Gnod – “Off Somewhere in a Dinghy” (CD-R – “Wuste Zeremonie”) (Reverb Worship)
Kris Drever – “Mark the Hard Earth- (LP – ” Mark the Hard Earth”) (Navigator)
Sammy Dread and Lee Van Cliff – “My Princess/Get Up and Skank” – (v/a LP “Joe Gibbs Reggae Discomix Showcase Volume 3”) (VP)
Four Tet – “Love Cry” (12″) (Domino)
Loose Lips Sink Ships – “Coach Kukok’s Croatian Cous Cous” (7″) (Science is Fantastic)
Mike Rep and the Quotas – “Donovan’s Brain” (7″) (Columbus Discount)
Schlomo – “Socks” (download EP – “Schlo- Fi”) (from error-broadcast.com)
Blood I Bleed – “The Moral Slide” (LP – “Gods Out of Monsters”) (Selfmadegod)
Mr. Gasparov “1975” (12″) (Steak House)
Shirley and Co.- “Shame, Shame, Shame” (LP – “Shame, Shame, Shame”) (Phillips)
Northerner – “Can’t” (LP- “1976”) (Hibernate)
Pa Steele’s African Brothers – “Odo Mmera” (v/a “Ghana Special – Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds and Ghanian Blues 1968-81”) (Soundway)