Pascal Comelade and Les Limiñanas “The Nothing Twist” 2014. Trouble In Mind Records, yellow vinyl. We’re big fans of Les Limiñanas, the très chic garage-psych French duo of Lionel and Marie Limiñana (reminiscent of the Velvet Underground) but I was unaware of Pascal Comelade, with whom they collaborated on this instrumental LP. Comelade is also French, specializing in experimental music. From Discogs: “Comelade began making strange cover songs of rock and easy listening standards with such instruments as singing saw, toy piano etc. He later developed an unconfoundable style…”The Nothing Twist has Les Limiñanas’ signature laid-back organ-forward style with a heavy garage beat and mixes in Comelade’s “unconfoundable” element with weird sliding sounds from organs, plastic guitars and other instruments that aren’t readily identifiable but kazoo is definitely one of them, also possibly theremin. Most of the tracks are written by Comelade, Les Limiñanas or both and really groovy – I especially like “Carnival of Souls” (very creepy-carnival yet still a cooler-than-cool 60′s vibe), the title track “The Nothing – Twist,” the wicked-beat and organ insanity of “T.B. Jerk,” “Wunderbar” which is super-dark and hypnotic, and “One of Us, One of Us, One of Us” which is awesomely similar to The Stooges’ “I Wanna Be Your Dog.”  There are also a couple of covers like “Why Are We Sleeping?” which was originally released in 1968 by the British psych band Soft Machine – it’s really great, in my opinion way better than the original. They also cover British pop singer Chris Andrews 1965 hit “Yesterday Man” mixing in a whisper of psych and a lot of weirdness to an oom-pah beat but otherwise bland 60′s pop song (not surprisingly, Andrews’ song was HUGE in Germany). I’m not that crazy about their cover of “Green Fuz” originally by Texas garage rockers Green Fuz in 1969 (The Cramps have also covered that track).