I just got the ?Handmade? reference in the label?s name. Pretty funny, as this bears little resemblance to the highfalutin reissues of Rhino?s subdivision. Rather, the music on this homey CD wouldn?t have sounded at all out of place on a Shrimper compilation back in the day. There?s no purposeful obscurantism or tape hiss fetish, but clearly the Green Chair had priorities that prevailed over pristine recording quality. Their styles are suited to the decreased ?fi: clipped cardboard-box-drums punk (?Frontier Cage?), ruminative guitar instrumentals (?2000% Soul?), and one acoustic plaint so 1986 I got Scrawl?s "He?s Drunk" standing right here tapping its foot and waiting for it back (?Aluminum Trees?). Like a lot of probably home-recorded indie rock, it gets a bit indulgent (the dorky effects and spoken-word sample on ?Song for Byron?), but it never crosses over into twee-dom or anything insufferable like that. Instead, the band aptly assures its presence in a surlier realm, even adopting harsh Brainiac-style sonics at times (?Continuum Manipulator?). This music spits back at you, and good for it. 6/10 -- Sal Addays (3 April, 2007)