My last post was about Hamell on Trial's "Choochtown", an album that had a profound effect on me when I first heard it in 2002. Ed Hamell recorded that LP in the basements of his friends' houses in New York and produced a lo-fi classic. Another record I was introduced to at this time, which was also home recorded (although in Walthamstow rather than the Big Apple) and featured the artist playing all the instruments himself, was "North Circular" by The Bevis Frond. These two a