Nu West

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Jonothan Edmonds: vocals
Tim Spelman: keyboards, drum machine and vocals
Angela Clark: keyboards, bass and vocals
Jim McDonald: synth guitar and vocals
Ben Bourke: keyboards

Recorded by Marcus Barczak, North Fitzroy, February 2003. Mixed and produced by Marcus Barczak and Lacto-Ovo, Cyberspace, July 2020.

Having rediscovered a CD of lost recordings in a garden shed, Melbourne wonky art-rock combo Lacto-Ovo recently released their first music in close to two decades.

Although still technically disbanded as of 2003, Lacto-Ovo’s wild flame has been somewhat rekindled of late with the digital relaunch of their two albums Shoes & You (2000) and Tsunami Pop (2001).

But back to that garden shed CD…

Two songs from the abandoned third album of 2003 were dusted off in the now to be released to fans old and new.

The first one ‘City Lights’, released in October 2020, was an epic synth-wave amalgam of New Order, Simple Minds and OMD featuring Peter Hook-styled bass, Oberheim keyboards and, most notably, drummer Jonothan Edmonds vacating the kit and making way for a drum machine, in the process switching his focus to lead-croon.

This unexpected Lacto-Ovo transformation from country-shoegaze-Americana-Arabian-surf-lounge-noisepop band to synth-party powerhouse has carried over to lost recording number-two ‘Nu West’, a Devo-flavoured tribute to the cocaine-fuelled excesses of 1980s Perth, Western Australia, positively framed as some kind of Miami Vice-cum-Revenge of the Nerds paradise. 

Having since found various members playing in an impressive array of bands including City City City, Mid-State Orange, Edible Pet, Capgras Family, Fire to the Stars and Tiny Fighter, Lacto-Ovo’s final chapter may yet to be written.

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released December 11, 2020

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Lacto-Ovo Melbourne, Australia

1999-2002. Ange Clark, Jim McDonald, Gina Pilven, Tim Spelman, Jono Edmonds, Ben Bourke

Lacto-Ovo family tree: Burnside, Poncherelli, Murdoch, Spacemaker, Mid-State Orange, City City City, Edible Pets, Capgras Family, Pets with Pets, Fire to the Stars, Tiny Fighter and WhipperSnipper
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