There must be a lot of photos of Dan Treacy & Jowe Head hanging in bedrooms/studios throughout Germany. Or at least a large portion of the TVP´s fanclub inhabits the country. Somewhere, someone - could it be Ralf Claussen? - can feel his spine tingling even at this mere suggestion. Call it a hunch, but something tells me TGW might just be old Ralfy doing the one-man-as-band thing. And that´s OK. Maybe he´s just a particular kind´ve guy. It certainly sounds like that might be the case, judging from the sound ´n feel of this LP. There´re a couple´ve straight ahead fall-apart rockers, but the ones that are the real toe-tappers sound like Jowe Head´s Pincer Movements LP remastered by Outrageous-era Kim Fowley during a binge in a nitrous oxide lab, esp. ´the Cake´ - at 15.27, that´s more than enough time for a carload of clowns (or one) to inhale many a cannister, exhale, & stomp on everything in sight - fuzzboxes, phase shifters, wah-wahs, a Roland - which is what happens. It is certainly an album w/ its moments, though I´d never think to insinuate that it´s the kind´ve record ´for you´ (I wouldn´t even say that it´s necessarily ´for me´), but for that certain someone out there - you know who you are - I would think this would be indispensable. And seein´ as how they only pressed 299 of ´em, you can bet The Green Windows think so too. -Tom Lax