The Troubled Times: Sparkle Tube (2025)

A return to the duo lineup of our earliest recordings (Antony Milton and Dave Edwards).

Listen

CD-R edition

Limited edition physical copies of Sparkle Tube are available from Antony’s Grey Cyphers CDR label, along with other NZ artists including Rain Sleepers, Agentsss, L$D Fundraiser, CJA, Tower of Heaven, and more.

Old school cdr label out of back blocks New Zealand/Aotearoa releasing music by Agentsss and other lo-fi mystic wannabes

Antony Milton

About

Duo outing for The Troubled Times on this disk, ostensibly this is material Dave and Antony recorded while waiting for drummer David to show up for practice. He never showed up…
More of a weird improv noise album this one- except for the ‘musical’ bits..
Kind of dreamy.

(But you know what dreams are like, cruising one minute- terror the next.)

Loop pedals were used a little more than usual.
Synth and cheap keyboards.
Great feedbacking from Dave.
30 mins in the garage -and it sounded like a record.

Not only recorded in a garage, but includes the garage door as a percussion instrument.

Credits

released August 30, 2025

Dave Edwards: bass/percussion/electronics/ukulele
Antony Milton: guitar/keyboards/synth/bass

Recorded in Masterton NZ, 17/08/2025

Mixed,edited and mastered by A.M. Artwork by A.M.

Further listening

Antony and Dave‘s previous duos, recorded in 2021, are Return of the Sun and […]:

Sparkle Tube is released on Antony’s Grey Cyphers CDR label, along with other NZ artists including Rain Sleepers, Agentsss, L$D Fundraiser, CJA, Tower of Heaven, and more.