DOUG SNYDER & BOB THOMPSONDaily Dance (New Frontiers)::This one’s been out a while, but I’ve put off plugging it for fear of arousing charges of nepotism; seems as though Bob and Doug just happen to be two of your reviewer’s true soul brethren from a shared 1960’s adolescence in Fayette County, Ohio. However, repeated listenings to Daily Dance have convinced me that it’s just plain good, better than maybe 90% of the aboveground LPs I hear, so what the hell. Doug plays mean distorto-chop guitar inspired by James Williamson, while Bob smashes out the cascading, enveloping melodies on his drums; Daily Dance lies somewhere between rock and jazz, in a place you’ve never been before (no “fusion” licks in evidence). Abstract, but terribly immediate music, plus class song titles like “Teenage Emergency”. Highly recommended, only $5.50 postpaid from Jazz Composers Orchestra Assn./New Music Distribution Service, 6 W. 95th St., New York, NY 10025. . R.R.

OHIO PLAYERS—Angel (Mercury)::What, no S&M concept jacket this time around? You mean all those cockring teasers & funky pleasers were leading up to this capitulation to that scourge of young black males, the worship of the eternal mammy-fetish (“Lord, send me down an angel, someone that I can love.”)?!? The great black hope bites the dust in order to compete more effectively with run-of-the-mill sambos like Tavares? Say it ain’t so, bruz. I’ll give ’em a 90 anyway, for being from O-H-l O (cradle of civilization, y’know). R.R.