12/26/24.
I was flipping through my records stacks the other day, and came across a release from Record Store Day that hasn't been listened to all that much - Human Switchboard "Fly-In EP" (with the 'zine).
Human Switchboard were a short lived late 1970s Cleveland, Ohio band. A lot of comparisons I read mention The Velvet Underground and Joy Divison. I wouldn't use either of those bands as starting point comparisons. Rather, I would say they sound a bit like Pere Ubu, Television and maybe The Rats (early Dead Moon...there is a garage rock sound here). Every once in a while I was also reminded of Blondie and The Police (Outlandos era).
"Who's Landing in My Hangar?" was their debut LP, and Fat Possum did an excellent reissue around the same time they reissued the "Fly-In EP".
