APRIL 2014 NEW RELEASES STREET DATES 4.8.14 AND 4.22.14
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also inside Twitching Tongues, Greg Barris, Sean Patton, Slave Unit, Microwaves, and more!
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Troy, New York-based label Closed Casket Activities was founded in Summer 2005 with the intention of releasing up & coming metal-influenced hardcore bands. In the years since, the label has worked with acts such as Harm’s Way, Another Victim, Twitching Tongues, Xibalba, Incendiary, and Disgrace, to name just a few. Combining elaborate packaging with original artwork from iconic and rising artists, CCA releases have totally unique a look and sound. Closed Casket Activities comes to NAIL via REV Distro.
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Twitching Tongues In Love There Is No Law
Selling Points
• Recorded and produced by Taylor Young at The Pit. • Black vinyl packaged in deluxe gatefold jacket with printed inner sleeve and free digital download. • Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege. • RIYL: Life of Agony, Type O Negative.
Media & Marketing
• Exclusive full album stream with Lambgoat.com. • Music video for title track premiered on Revolver.
Relentlessly savage, utterly memorable, and always compelling, the sophomore album from Twitching Tongues takes all of their devotion to the next level! With nearly 40 minutes of uncompromising crossover fury, In Love There Is No Law melds elements of Carnivore, Obituary, Celtic Frost, Life of Agony, Sam Black Church, Elder, Cro-Mags, and Sheer Terror into an instantly mesmerizing, morose, and wholly distinctive alloy of metal, hardcore, and beyond. Modernizing the works of the masters from two decades ago (or more), with each hook and chorus the band’s punishing and primitive stylings grow more memorable, and will undoubtedly leave a lasting impression.
“By paying tribute to acts such as Life of Agony, Type O Negative, and Sam Black Church, Twitching Tongues update a distinctly ’90s sound for the Lockin’ Out generation.”
UPCOMING DATES
April 17 Worcester, MA – New England Metal Fest
Genre: Metal Label: Closed Casket Activities CD: CCA 30 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/8/14 D
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VINYL: CCA 30 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Gatefold LP Jacket, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/8/14 D
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Track Listing: Eyes Adjust • In Love There Is No Law • World War V • Good Luck... • Preacher Man • Deliver Us To Evil • Departure • Feed Your Disease • Frigid Key Markets: Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: New York, Atlanta, Seattle
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Colin Young: vocals Taylor Young: guitar, vocals Leo Orozco: lead guitar Kyle Thomas: bass Michael Cesario: drums
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Selling Points
• Heavy touring by both artists, all over the world. • Features Jamie Barrier of the Pine Hill Haints. • RIYL: The Pogues, Planxty, Hank Williams, Leadbelly.
Folk music rendered, pure and raw, by two friends, one from Yorkshire UK and the other from Alabama, in a direct and honest manner. A clear, sad, deep record of ancient music presented with a modern breath of life. Track Listing: The North Country Steed • Wild Rose • Sam the Cowboy • RWTB • Birmingham Jail • Mole in the Ground • Cry Yourself To Sleep • I’m In So Much Trouble • Glory Bound • 7 Minutes of Freedom • Teenage Runaway • Silver Dagger • The Nightingale Key Markets: Florence, AL. Also: Mobile, Olympia
James the Fang & Serious Sam Barrett The North Country Steed Genre: Alt Rock/Folk Label: Arkam Records CD: AKM 55 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 4/8/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D
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CD: AKM 44 (N) The Pine Hill Haints The Evening Star (751937410522) LP: AKM 50 (O) Serious Sam Barrett Serious Sam Barrett (751937417712)
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Selling Points
• Early, unreleased material from this landmark band! • Features bassist Morgan Jahnig from Old Crow Medicine Show. • Band regularly tours all over the world, and has a cult following everywhere they go! • RIYL: Hank Williams III, Rev. Horton Heat, Misfits.
Killer early jump blues from this landmark band, featuring Morgan Jahnig from Old Crow Medicine Show on bass!
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“Wild, raving psychobilly … full of enough piss and vinegar for a plenty good time.” — PITCHFORK “Like a devil-horned rooster spitting fire from atop a decrepit barn, Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers exult with hellacious abandon.” — POP MATTERS
Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers Dump Road Yodel Genre: Alt Rock/Rockabilly Label: Arkam Records 7-INCH: AKM 54 Price Code: C (SRP $5.99) Number of Discs: 1 7” Sleeve, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 4/8/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D
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Track Listing: Dump Road Yodel • Pine Tree Boogie Key Markets: Hometown: Nashville. Also: Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Miami
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Greg Barris
Shame Wave
Selling Points
• Greg Barris’ first comedy album. • Recorded at UCB Chelsea in NYC. • Featured on “Funny or Die,” “College Humor,” and “Jay Leno’s Laugh Squad.” • Has been a commentator on MTV’s “All That Rocks” and “Warren the Ape.”
Greg Barris is a staple in New York’s downtown stand-up scene, and the creator of Heart of Darkness, a psychedelic showcase of comedy, live music, and fringe scientists that has been a frequent Time Out New York Critic’s Pick, much loved by BrooklynVegan and hailed as “excellent” by The New Yorker. Comedians who have appeared on Heart of Darkness include Reggie Watts, Fred Armisen, Janeane Garofalo, Jim Gaffigan, Marc Maron, Kristen Schaal, Eugene Mirman, Greg Behrendt, and Chelsea Peretti.
“A great comedian with a distinctly rock & roll style.”
“Greg Barris has made a name for himself with his consistently sold-out variety show of quirks.”
“The perfect combination of very good looking, hilarious, and super-weird.”
“Barris is a grade-A examiner of the human condition, finding its peculiarities and mining them for the humor that is so often present but not always easily articulated.”
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Track Listing: Intro • Farmer’s Tan • Letter to My Afghani Pen Pal • Ron Barris • McCafé • Real, True Love • Pulled Over • I Just Got Out of Jail • Good Kisses • Dominatrix • Dildos • Becoming a Man • Rock Mushroom • Hate Unites Us • I Forgive You Key Markets: Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Miami
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“Greg Barris is the kind of man who believes the universe tilts toward justice AND that a quote from me means something. What a dear, sweet fool.”
Genre: Comedy Label: aspecialthing records CD: ATG 34 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 40 Street Date: Available Now
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Selling Points
• Named in the Top 10 of 2012 by Mouser. • Debut album from Sean Patton.
Brilliant debut album from a brilliant comic! Sean Patton mines jokes from inventive premises for 62 minutes of top-notch comedy. “The record showcases his range; he relays tales of love and family, shitty jobs and smoking weed, with the same electric energy as beatboxed bits and calculatedly grating impressions. While there’s no substitute for seeing him live, Standard Operating Procedure is the next best thing.” — SPLITSIDER “Patton is definitely one of the comedians we’ll watch grow into something to be marveled at. Anyone from the most critical of comedy fans to someone enjoying a few brewskis in a bar will be able to tell you why Standard Operating Procedure is a winner.” — MOUSER
Sean Patton Standard Operating Procedure Genre: Comedy Label: aspecialthing records CD: ATG 35 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Eco Wallet, Box Lot 75 Street Date: Available Now D
Track Listing: Salmon Often Wishes It Were Tuna • Please Remain Seated • Why? • How to Be a Champion • The Reckoning • I’m Not As Cool As You • That Big Brain Must Be Heavy • The Chosen One • Love Hurts • The Scorpio Way • One Man’s Best Friend Is Another’s Worst Enemy • L.I.F.E. • Stick It to the Man! Key Markets: Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Miami
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• Named in the Top 10 of 2012 by Paste Magazine. • Best known for his stand-up chunk “The Best Dinosaur,” which became a runaway viral video hit. • Has appeared on popular L.A. podcasts such as Comedy Bang Bang and Doug Loves Movies. • Has toured as an opener for Maria Bamford, Brian Posehn, and Patton Oswalt. • Writing has appeared in Paste, The Onion, and the official book Mad Men: The Illustrated World.
Dan Telfer blesses us with a solid hour of stellar comedy, injecting a dark and doleful edge to the worlds of science, video games, and the trials of growing up nerdy. But don’t take our word for it; listen to the pros: “This album is the third best resource for jokes by Dan Telfer.” — Patton Oswalt
Dan Telfer Tendrils of Ruin
Genre: Comedy Label: aspecialthing records CD: ATG 28 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 40 Street Date: Available Now D
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“I love Dan Telfer. He is wonderful. He is like a goofier, smarter, funnier, taller, me with glasses. And male parts.” — Maria Bamford Track Listing: Taxes • Hole • Grain • Shell • Planets • Subcon • Nuts • Dimensions • Weathermen • Madness • Binks • Cave • Tantrum • Zipline • Yelp Key Markets: Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Miami
Selling Points
• Debut album from Michelle Biloon. • Includes sixteen tracks of awesome! • Has appeared on E!’s “Chelsea Lately,” Comedy Central’s “The Gong Show with Dave Attell,” CBS’s “The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson,” and Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend.”
After sprinkling her comedy around Madison, Austin, Los Angeles, and even Austria, Michelle Biloon has finally deigned to share her special sauce with the rest of the world. Hear Ms. Biloon take on bus station employees, cheerleaders, her lesbian twin sister, her scientist husband, and even her unborn child! “Like a warm blanket made of hot chuckles, Michelle Biloon is a Thing Which Should Not Exist but, thankfully, she does.” — Patton Oswalt Track Listing: Hello • Pregnothankyou • Everybody’s Against Me • 12 Steps • My Scientist • Wien • We’re Fraternal • What the Hell • Word • Hate Crim’d! • Party’s Over • No Offense • Flipping Channels • Tiffany • Say What? • Goodbye Key Markets: Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Miami
Michelle Biloon You Can Be An Asshole
Genre: Comedy Label: aspecialthing records CD: ATG 30 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Eco Wallet, Box Lot 75 Street Date: Available Now D
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Selling Points
• Debut album from Gabe Liedman. • Recorded live at UCB LA, and completely unedited! • Featured on Comedy Central, The Onion, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” This American Life, and more.
Gabe Liedman shares choice stories from his life (along with his hatred for hoarders, monkeys, and fantasy) in his phenomenal debut album, Hiyeeee!! Recorded live at UCB LA and completely unedited — grab it now and thank us later!
“Perfectly captures Liedman’s fast-paced riffs on pop culture and human behavior, and demonstrates exactly why he’s become such a sought-after act.” — Splitsider Track Listing: Hiyeeee!! • Driving in L.A. • “Only in New York” • Intervention • Hoarders • Monkeys • “Fantasy” • Netflix • Dating Online • Going On a Diet Key Markets: Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Miami
Gabe Liedman Hiyeeee!!
Genre: Comedy Label: aspecialthing records CD: ATG 32 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Eco Wallet, Box Lot 75 Street Date: Available Now D
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“Listening to Gabe talk on stage is like sitting at a bar with your most entertaining acquaintance — it’s effortless, fun, frivolous, and fulfilling.” — Jezebel
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• Debut album from Adam Burke. • Features 52 minutes of highly refined standup! • Has appeared on Doug Loves Movies, The Benson Interruption, The Bob & Tom Show, WGN 720 AM, Put Your Hands Together, and many more podcasts and shows. • Has opened for a variety of comedians including Marc Maron, Jeff Ross, Hari Kondabolu, Maria Bamford, Jake Johannsen, and more.
“Here’s the thing about my act: it’s not very entertaining, but it can be used for college credit.” Adam Burke does not dumb it down for you on his lofty debut. Enjoy the ride as Adam tackles proton accelerators, quantum physics, and the science of laziness. Originally from the UK, Adam began performing stand-up after writing a piece on comedy for a Chicago magazine. Before long, he had become a fixture at Midwestern shows and showcases. His absurdist, verbose comedy is long on metaphor and analogy, and short on common sense.
Adam Burke Universal Squirrel Theory Genre: Comedy Label: aspecialthing records CD: ATG 33 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Eco Wallet, Box Lot 75 Street Date: Available Now D
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Track Listing: Wildly Optimistic • Universal Squirrel Theory • I Have Doubts! • Automatic Touchdowns • Buttery Fortress of Darkness • Slightly Shocked Chartreuse • Repair to the Swoonery • Boutonnières & Absinthe • Subcutaneous Sweater Vest • The Dream-Laden Songs of Baby Hummingbirds • Perfectly Symmetrical Moneymaker • Those Morphean Shores • Lowered Expectations • Slightly Chewed Bamboo Coathanger • Decrees & Strictures • Porcine Miasma (Oh Shit!) • O, Gentle Lagomorph Key Markets: Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Miami
Selling Points
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• Unique hybrid of multiple genres brings in varied fans. • Comes with digital download code that can be redeemed in multiple audio formats (MP3, FLAC, etc). • PR campaign covers online and print press. • Contests and promo via Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and Last.fm. • RIYL: Maps & Atlases, Minus the Bear, Indian Summer.
Shut Up is Two Knights’ debut full-length, built atop a sturdy frame garnered beginning with 2013’s A Lot Of Bad Things Happened, But We’re Still Here EP and a barrage of splits that saw them sharing wax with Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate), Reptilian, and Innards. The two-piece of Parker Lawson (guitar, vocals) and Miles De Bruin (drums) takes the best of emo, hardcore, and jazz and combines it into one complete package. Think early Maps & Atlases technicality with a smoother, warmer edge, coated with a mix of vocals that range from extremely strained to extremely soft in a moment’s notice.
Two Knights Shut Up
Genre: Alt Rock/Emo Label: Count Your Lucky Stars VINYL: CYL 72 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 4/8/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D
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Track Listing: If It’s Brocken, It’s Brocken • It Doesn’t Matter Matt, I’m Never Going to Cast Boulderfall • Just Pick a Dead End and Chill Out Till You Die • Clark Can’t • Symphony for the Righteous Destruction of Humanity • Dear God, This Parachute is a Knapsack • Everything Will Kill You • Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants • Dangerously • Leave My Body In Milwaukee • Dawg... You Watch Smallville? • Sorry: The Musical • Major League Bullshit Key Markets: Hometown: Denton, TX. Also: Austin, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Los Angeles, St. Louis
Selling Points
• Features Steel Hook Prostheses and The Vomit Arsonist. • Strictly limited to 500 copies. • Death industrial/power electronics in the classic vein of the mid ’90s. • Design by Mories of Gnaw Their Tongues. • Promos to all relevant underground industrial publications, webzines, blogs, podcasts, and radio. • Dedicated YouTube channel and SoundCloud set. • RIYL: Steel Hook Prostheses, The Vomit Arsonist, The Grey Wolves.
Simultaneously the debut and swansong for this California-based project from Gordon Lazarus, known previously for his work as Defiler and soon to be United Front. For By All Means, we find him continuing the path laid down by his previous project, upping the paranoia and abject sense of hopelessness and negativity. Make no bones about it: this is a bleak release, and it’s no surprise he’s employed the services of like-minded roster mates John Stillings of Steel Hook Prostheses and Andy Grant of The Vomit Arsonist. “Spectacular and excellent in both its grandiose debauchery and simplistic execution.” — INVISIBLE GUY Track Listing: Forced Neurotic Displacement • Asphyxiant Collapse • The Mechanics of Embalming • Aktion-Freedom.Reaktion-Rsistance • F.E.M.A. Care • By All Means • Suo Gan/Last Rights Key Markets: Hometown: San Diego. Also: Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Dallas
U-731 By All Means
Genre: Electronica/Industrial Label: Malignant Records CD: MGN 10 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 50 Street Date: 4/8/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D
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Selling Points
• Highly anticipated new studio album. • Faderhead has had five major worldwide club hits in the dark electro scene (“Dirtygrrrls/Dirtybois,” “The Way To Fuck God,” “Tanz Zwo Drei Vier,” “Fistful Of Fuck You,” and “Dancers”). • Has toured the U.S. twice in the last three years. • Promo copies will be sent to DJs, radio stations, and print/web media. • Facebook ad campaign with 100,000 contacts. • RIYL: Daft Punk, Rammstein, Combichrist, Nine Inch Nails.
Track Listing: Stand Up • Every Hour Kills • Champagne & Real Pain • Atoms & Emptiness • When the Freaks Come Out • Someone Else’s Dream • I Forget • You Can’t Resist • Through This Pain (You Heal) • Anti-Paradise • My Heart Is Safe
Faderhead Atoms & Emptiness
Genre: Electronica Label: L-Tracks Records CD: COP LTX 1000 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 Super Jewel, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 4/8/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D
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Only 11 months after the successful FH4 album, Faderhead is back to release his new CD, Atoms & Emptiness. The new record chronicles a period of time in the private life of the German producer where almost everything went wrong, and which apparently provided endless inspiration and intensified his songwriting process. Musically, Atoms & Emptiness must be considered the darkest and most melancholic Faderhead record. Although his trademark mix of club electro, pop songs, and ballads defines this album, you’ll be hard-pressed to find fun tracks like “Dancers” or “Coke For My Ass” this time around. Instead, Faderhead impressively shows how a mixture of EBM, industrial, electro, and synth-pop needs to sound in the year 2014 and once again leaves the competition in the dust.
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• State of the Union’s fourth album, and follow up to 2008’s critically acclaimed Evol Love Industry. • First single, “Dancing in the Dark,” reached Top 5 on German DAC. • North American club campaign including release parties in all major markets. • National college radio campaign with focus on RPM programs. • Coverage in RE:GEN, Orkus, COMA, Outburn, Grave Concerns, Brutal Resonance, and more. • RIYL: VNV Nation, Assemblage 23, Icon of Coil, Rotersand, Covenant.
State of the Union My Time Away
Genre: Electronica Label: WTII Records CD: WTI 97 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/8/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D
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State of the Union has returned from a long hiatus with a new album, new attitude, and new singer as Johann Sebastian teams up with vocalist Evannkie to further push musical boundaries. My Time Away showcases SOFU’s more accessible form of futurepop/EBM, blending contemporary electronic styles with inspiring lyrics, hard-hitting beats, and symphonic orchestrations. The first single, “Dancing in the Dark,” has become an instant club hit, charting in the Top 5 on the German DAC and making the Top 10 on DJ playlists across the globe. From start to finish, this album is packed with EDM chart-toppers — and even offers a cover of Fictional’s mega-hit “Blue Lights.” Track Listing: Elevate • My Time Away • Back to Earth • Descent • Stupid Song • Five Minutes to Midnight • Miracle • Dancing in the Dark • Eternally • Blue Lights • Dancing in the Dark (Floor-Mix) • French Underground Assault Key Markets: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Milwaukee, Denver, Portland, Pittsburgh, New York, Columbus, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, Boston
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• First release in five years from one of the innovators of the mid-’90s Coldwave scene. • Produced by “Loud” Chris DeMarcus from Deathproof/Stiff Valentine. • Slave Unit has remixed Skinny Puppy, Stiff Valentine, Battery, SMP, and many more. • Music appeared in the Electronic Arts game “Roadrash Jailbreak” for Sony PlayStation. • Ads & reviews in Outburn, RE:GEN, IDieYouDie, Orkus!, and COMA. • Solicitation to Kerrang, Terrorizer, and Metalhammer. • Full servicing to college radio and club DJ pools. • RIYL: Ministry, BloodWire, SNFU, Descendents, Skinny Puppy.
Slave Unit Through With You
Genre: Electronica/Industrial Label: WTII Records CD: WTI 95 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/8/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D
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After a five-year hiatus, California’s Slave Unit returns with a new attitude and new album! Conceived in 1995 as a solo project of Mike Welch, the group is one of the innovators of the “Coldwave Sound” that took the world by storm in the ’90s. The sound strikes you with powerful rhythms, bass-heavy beats, original samples, and crunching guitars, following SU’s signature formula with stellar tracks like “Typical” and “Euthanize.” Well worth the wait, Through With You propels Slave Unit into a force to be reckoned with for the future. Track Listing: Fuse • 3 • Indestructible • Rep.Resent • I Don’t Care Anymore • Lordfly • Tamo [Push] • Lower • Typical • Euthanize Key Markets: Hometown: Oakland. Also: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Portland, Denver, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Tampa, Milwaukee, Madison, New York
Selling Points
• New album features guests Adam Jackson (Twelve Tribes), Javier VanHuss (The Mistake), and Xavier Vicuna (Forty Winters). • Includes the hidden track “Time Eraser.” • Includes a nine-panel front and back fold-out poster. • Follow up to Ferret Music’s God Save Us. • Recently played New England Metal & Hardcore Fest. • Will play at Jacksonville’s Southeast Beast Fest in early April 2014. • RIYL: Dillinger Escape Plan, Glassjaw, Shai Hulud, Converge.
After a seven-year hush, Remembering Never returns to incite an audible catastrophe that has been sadly missing in the metal and hardcore world since their absence. Being no strangers to controversial subject matter, Remembering Never have returned with 12 tracks that pick up where God Save Us left off, belting out songs about the social injustices and issues that have been overlooked in your content, comfortable, cookie-cutter lives. Track Listing: Sharpening the Sword • Monkey Suit • Electroligion • Glass Ceiling Serenade • All Praise the Victims of the Middle Passage • Shit Slinger • Chasing Ghosts • Excuses & Denials • United Stockholm Syndrome • Holiday In Siberia • Jesus Envy • Overseer To Officer Key Markets: Hometown: Ft. Lauderdale. Also: Orlando, Boston, New York, Richmond, Dallas, San Antonio, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Denver, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, Charlotte, Columbia
Remembering Never This Hell Is Home
Genre: Metal Label: Dead Truth Recordings CD: DTH 15 Price Code: 2D (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/8/14 D
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• Lead vocals by Nicholas Leptos (Arrayan Path, Warlord). • Cover artwork by Thomas Ewerhard (Therion, Jorn, Tankard). • Promos to all major print and online publications, as well as underground webzines, blogs, and radio stations. • Online promotion including heavy use of social media. • Song samples at Pitch Black website and online through SoundCloud. • Album teaser and clips on YouTube. • RIYL: Iron Maiden, Dio, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, Iced Earth.
“Simply the new sensation in metal!” — METAL PERSPECTIVE Track Listing: Disaster 121 • Broken World • Lonely Gods • Once Upon a Crime • Crossroads • God’s Children • The Young Ones • Will to Live • The End (Ashes of Desire Pt. 1) • Pro Defunctis • Pro Defunctis (Bonus Alternate Version) Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, Boston, Detroit
Prodigal Earth Zenith II Zero
Genre: Metal Label: Pitch Black Records CD: PTB 2 Price Code: J (SRP $9.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 4/8/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D
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Originally released in 2009, this is classic heavy metal at its very best! Full of melody and some touches of power metal throughout, the album has a fresh sound overall due to its clean, powerful production. Special mention has to be made of Nicholas Letpos’ (Arrayan Path, Warlord) brilliant vocals and, of course, the rest of the band’s excellent musicianship and performance. An absolute must for any metal fan’s collection!
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• Features members of Nadja, Adoran, Naw, and Urban Refuse Group. • Mastered by James Plotkin (Khanate, OLD). • Professional promo campaign; online promotion through social media and specialized news groups. • RIYL: Can, Autechre, Panamerican, Durutti Column, Bark Psychosis.
Whisper Room The Cruelest Month
Genre: Alt Rock/Electronica Label: ConSouling Sounds CD: CSD 36 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 40 Street Date: 4/8/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D
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Whisper Room is a trio formed in Toronto, consisting of Aidan Baker (Nadja, Adoran), Jakob Thiessen, and Neil Wiernik (Naw, Urban Refuse Group). The band took five years to prepare their sophomore album, and it certainly shows. Building on the beautifully layered soundscapes of 2009 debut Birch White, Whisper Room meticulously constructed a new micro-cosmos of fragile drones and atmospheric ambient pieces. Rippling melodies forged by Baker’s guitars and effects, and slow-progressing musical narratives shaped by Wiernik’s bass and laptop proficiency, keep expanding the listener’s horizon. Yet, before the soundscapes lose themselves in dispersion, Thiessen’s drums focus the narrative and thrust it back in line with vigorous urgency. A riveting and masterfully crafted record that’ll surely intrigue and enrapture its listeners! Track Listing: TCM01 00:00:00 • TCM02 11:45:45 • TCM03 17:06:04 • TCM04 23:51:89 • TCM05 33:01:78 • TCM06 39:54:95 Key Markets: Hometown: Toronto. Also: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Austin, Montreal
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• Features ex-members of Overmars. • Previous releases on Aurora Borealis and Music Fear Satan. • Professional promo campaign; online promotion through social media and specialized news groups. • RIYL: Alkerdeel, Habsyll, Gnaw Their Tongues, Darkthrone, Locrian.
After a split album with The Austrasian Goat for France’s Music Fear Satan, and their debut album for England’s Aurora Borealis, the obscure French entity Neige Morte joins the ConSouling Sounds roster! For their sophomore album, the band builds on their bizarre aesthetic of blending doom, noise, post-hardcore, and black metal. It sounds harsh and filthy at face value, but meticulously crafted tracks lie at the very core of Neige Morte’s practice. No words can do justice to the listening experience this album entails, so be prepared for an intense trip of intelligently concentrated sheer madness.
Neige Morte Bicephaale
Genre: Metal Label: ConSouling Sounds CD: CSD 35 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 40 Street Date: 4/8/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D
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Track Listing: 500 jours de haine • Death Shall Have No Dominion • Eaters of Worlds • Plenitude... • ...& vacuité du combat • Eater of Souls Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Seattle, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Austin, Montreal, Quebec
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• Features ex-members of Gorath. • Previous releases on Robotic Empire. • Professional promo campaign; online promotion through social media and specialized news groups. • RIYL: Year of No Light, Pelican, Isis, Mogwai, Neurosis, Locrian.
As part of the ConSouling Sounds collaboration series, the label was thrilled when Vanessa van Basten and Hemelbestormer accepted their invitation to team up. van Basten is surely no stranger to fans of post-metal and post-rock, having released exceptional albums like 2008’s Psygnosis EP. Hemelbestormer is a new project that formed out of the ashes of Gorath, one of the most unique black metal bands active on Belgian soil. Although they band can’t shake that “black metal feel,” they most definitely shouldn’t be pigeonholed in one genre. Their very idiosyncratic take on ambient, doom, drone, and post-metal matches beautifully with van Basten’s masterful approach to post metal and post rock. A truly unique collaborative effort! Track Listing: HMBSM: Alpha • HMBSM&VVB: Portal I • VVB: Odyssey Song • VVB: Hidden Under Terms Like • VVB&HMBSM: Portal II • HMBSM: Omega Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Austin
Hemelbestormer & Vanessa Van Basten Hemelbestormer & Vanessa Van Basten Genre: Metal Label: ConSouling Sounds CD: CSD 32 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 40 Street Date: 4/8/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D
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• Features members of Amenra, Sembler Deah, Kingdom, Parallel Lines, and Destroyalldreamers. • Mastered by James Plotkin (Khanate, OLD). • Includes bonus track of a live collaboration recorded during the joint leg of their 2013 tour at Magasin4. • Professional promo campaign; online promotion through social media and specialized news groups. • RIYL: Nadja, Aidan Baker, Jesu, Zola Jesus, Treha Sektori, Amenra.
Track Listing: The Cold Valley • A River That Never Ends • A Black Breath Blows in the Sky • Live at Magasin4 (bonus) Key Markets: Hometown: Montreal. Also: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Austin
Syndrome & thisquietarmy The Lonely Mountain Genre: Alt Rock/Drone Label: ConSouling Sounds CD: CSD 34 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 2 Digipak, Box Lot 40 Street Date: 4/8/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D
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After stunning split albums with Aidan Baker, Year of No Light, and Labirinto, Canada’s thisquietarmy now teams up with Belgium’s Syndrome. Musically, this split seems self-evident: both bands share a common view on crafting exhilarating soundscapes, seamlessly blending ambient, drone, and post-rock elements to cathartic climaxes. Yet this release is less self-evident than the premise of this match-up suggests. Taking cues from each other’s work, both bands were driven to explore a different approach to their craft and aesthetic. This split is dark and brooding, and explores the boundaries of atonal chaos and noise.
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• LCMS celebrates the world’s most popular avant classical composers! • Includes world premieres by Tavener, Arvo Pärt, Silvestrov, and more.
This new disc features world premiere recordings of works by Tavener, Pärt, Silvestrov, and Knaifel as well as pieces by Górecki and John Cage — all of whom have, in various ways, been deeply influenced by profound spiritual, religious, or cultural encounters. The release features a number of renowned performers including soprano Patricia Rozario, the Callino Quartet, pianist Michael McHale, violinist Ioana Petcu-Colan, flautist Vourneen Ryan, and percussionist Stephen Kelly. The recordings were made in the acoustically superb historic setting of St. Peter’s Church of Ireland in Drogheda, and the mixing, mastering, and editing were carried out in the state-of-the-art Rainbow Studios in Oslo. “Louth Contemporary Music Society have added to the blooming renaissance in approachable music of our time.” — MUSICWEB-INTERNATIONAL
Various Artists A Place Between
Genre: Avant Classical Label: Louth Contemporary Music Society CD: LCM 901 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/8/14 D
TAVENER: Ikon of Joy/Sorrow (premiere) • PÄRT: Hymn to a Great City (premiere) • Da Pacem Domine (premiere) • KNAIFEL: O Heavenly King (premiere) • SILVESTROV: Ikon (premiere) • 25.X.1893 (premiere) • GÓRECK: Good Night • CAGE: In a Landscape
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An allegro classical crossover title
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Ex-Black Crowes guitarist and acclaimed record producer Marc Ford returns with the best Americana album of 2014! Acclaimed producer for acts such as Ryan Bingham for Lost Highway Records, and British country-soul band Phantom Limb, Ford presents his debut album for British label Naim Edge Records. Track Listing: If I’d Waited • Blue Sky • Dancing Shoes • Dream #26 • In You • I’m Free • Just a Girl • You Know What I Mean • Turquoise Blue • Sometimes • Badge of Descension • Call Me Faithful
Marc Ford Holy Ghost
Genre: Alt Rock/Americana Label: Naim Edge Records CD: NAI 200 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D
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Key Markets: Hometown: San Clemente. Also: San Diego, Los Angeles, Austin, Nashville, Portland, New York VINYL: NAI 203 Price Code: 2T (SRP $29.99) Number of Discs: 1 Gatefold LP Jacket, Box Lot 20 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D
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Ex-Black Crowes guitarist and acclaimed producer Marc Ford returns! Has played with Booker T. Jones, Ben Harper, and Gov’t Mule. Acclaimed producer for Ryan Bingham (Lost Highway). Debut album for British label Naim Edge Records. Produced by Robot Club (Massive Attack, Hope Sandoval). Advertising through social media. Press and radio mailing to country and Americana outlets. Extensive U.S. touring (dates TBA).
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:Wumpscut:
Bulwark Bazooka Selling Points
• One of the most-played artists in the industrial and dark electro genres. • RIYL: Skinny Puppy, Suicide Commando, Combichrist, Grendel, Hocico.
MEDIA & MARKETING
• Facebook and Google ad campaigns coinciding with the release. • Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs.
:Wumpscut: returns with Bulwark Bazooka, the dark, seething follow-up to 2013’s Madman Szpital. Layered synths and samples blend with string elements and atmospheric noises to build a sinister mood over the course of 10 tracks. Chock-full of :Wumpscut’s: trademark seething malice, Bulwark Bazooka is a fine addition to the :W: catalog.
“Much like the bulk of Rudy’s work, these new tracks put me in the mind of a dark and ancient blood-ritual conducted by cyborgs … but this time around, the dark ambient and atmospheric elements have been dialed up a level or two, enhancing the horror atmosphere in ways that I haven’t heard from this artist in many years.”
Genre: Electronica/Industrial Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 932 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/22/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D
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Rudy Ratzinger: music, vocals Track Listing: Rubber Corpse • Furunkel Lolita • Cross of Iron • Atrocity Dancer • Heresy • Supergurl • Vienna • Pagan Crusade • Flesh Trench • Rtl Hariti
Previously AVAILABLE :Wumpscut: Madman Szpital
:Wumpscut: Women and Satan First
CD: MTP 857 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1
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:Wumpscut: Schrekk & Grauss
:Wumpscut: Siamese
CD: MTP 717 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1
CD: MTP 647 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1
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Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh
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Keir Neuringer
Ceremonies Out of the Air Selling Points
• Virtuosic and jaw-droppingly beautiful solo saxophone recording. • Stunning gatefold 2XLP includes download card. • RIYL: Evan Parker, Roscoe Mitchell, Matana Roberts, Terry Riley.
MEDIA & MARKETING
• National promotion; publicist to be hired. • Intense internet promotion; heavy radio promotion.
Genre: Jazz Label: New Atlantis Records CD: NAL 7449 Price Code: J (SRP $9.99) Number of Discs: 1 Deluxe Digipak, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/22/14 D
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VINYL: NAL 7340 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 2 Gatefold LP Jacket, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/22/14
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Ceremonies Out of the Air is the premiere solo album from virtuoso Philadelphia-based saxophonist Keir Neuringer. Consisting of five extended improvisations performed before an invited audience in August 2013, the album presents the widely traveled composer-performer’s raw emotions laid bare in sound. These ceremonies are physical exhalations of grief at the loss of his mother months before the recording, by turns contemplative, ecstatic, restrained, and unbridled. They reveal Neuringer’s prodigious technical vocabulary and physical stamina, as well as his idiosyncratic compositional influences and sensibilities. Central to all of it is the uncompromising urgency that is a key facet of Neuringer’s creative work. Get hip to what will be on every jazz critic’s Top 10 list at the end of 2014! Ceremonies Out of the Air is released on CD and double-vinyl gatefold LP by New Atlantis Records in February 2014. Recorded by Eugene Lew and mastered by Kato Hideki, it features specially commissioned art by Brooklyn-based painter Erin Rice and a deeply personal text by Neuringer. The album takes its title from a passage in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: “Evoke the forms. Where you’ve nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”
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Keir Neuringer: saxophone Track Listing: Okay We Can Go Now • Japanese Maples • I Dreamt There Was Nothing Wrong With My Chemistry • The Dogwood Circle (Round And Round, Round And Round) • We Had Mostly Good Times Key Markets: Hometown: Philadelphia. Also: Baltimore, Boston, New York, Washington DC, Cincinnati, Detroit, Louisville, Columbus, Cleveland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Pittsburgh
“A drum-pounding prophet of doom, keyboard-playing last poet and sax marathonist.”
“Hair-raising, hypnotic, numbing, mad, desperate … but also light, sensitive, full of sonic subtlety and nuance … a very distinctive voice and character … Really strong. Really disorienting. Really modern.”
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Includes a free CD of the album! National promotion; publicist to be hired. In-house publicity and press mailings; massive radio push. RIYL: Jesus Lizard, Flying Luttenbachers, Dazzling Killmen.
Pittsburgh’s Microwaves offer up a behemoth slab of splintered noise-rock fury with Regurgitant Phenomena, the group’s fourth LP and debut for New Atlantis Records. The album explodes from the drop of the needle, showcasing a ferocious power trio with taut, concise compositions, brimming with turbulent dissonance and massively energetic performances. With robotic kineticism, the band splits the difference between the cathartic fury of punk rock, the thorned intricacies of avant prog, and the brash pulsations of no wave. “Electroshock therapy as the new noise rock … deformed, twisted, overdriven, and unpredictable, with a sound that fuses late-period no wave (think the Flying Luttenbachers, minus the jazz chops) with classic hardcore negativity (e.g. Black Flag, Flipper) via testicular electrocution … 9 out of 10.” — DECIBEL Track Listing: Skull System • No Pictures Please • Drug Damage • Holy Week • Tapehead • The Dead Hand • End of an Error • Your Last Nerve • M.M.D.K. • Goonraker • Clone Parade Key Markets: Hometown: Pittsburgh. Also: Washington DC, New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Detroit, Los Angeles, Oakland, Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, Louisville
Microwaves Regurgitant Phenomena Genre: Avant Rock Label: New Atlantis Records VINYL: NAL 7548 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 10 Street Date: 4/22/14 D
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• Vimeo Festival 2012 video finalists. • Concept album centered around the topics of spirit photography and electronic voice phenomena. • Print and banner ads with various outlets. • Facebook campaign with over 100,000 targets. • Email campaign with over 15,000 targets. • RIYL: Múm, Julia Kent, Max Richter, Fred Frith, CM von Hausswolff.
“Mesmerizing … you can’t help but be impressed by Origamibiro’s audio-visual mechanics.” — NME Track Listing: Ada Deane • Tinder • Odham’s Standard • Direct Voice • The Typophonium • Armistice Cenotaph • Raising William • Pulmonary Piano • Butterfly Jar • Feathered Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Austin
Origamibiro Odham’s Standard
Genre: Avant Rock Label: Denovali Records CD: DNV 191 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/22/14 D
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Origamibiro is an audio-visual collective that likes to create music with an array of unorthodox processes and contraptions, found objects, video feeds, and multi instrumentalism. Their aim is to create works of texture, lyricism, and intensity, for fans of intelligent multi-instrumental ambient electronica with an organic feel.
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First collaboration album from the talented Carlos Cipa. Thick covers with high-quality printed inner sleeves. Facebook campaign with over 100,000 targets. Email campaign with over 15,000 targets. RIYL: Ludovico Einaudi, Hauschka, Max Richter.
Carlos Cipa, a musician and composer residing in Munich, teams up with pianist and composer Sophia Jani to follow his highly acclaimed full-length debut The Monarch and the Viceroy with a two-piece collaboration record named Relive. These piano pieces do not only include playing the ordinary way, but also utilize rather unusual sounds from inside the piano, like plucking and beating the strings, bowing them with nylon guitar strings, and creating beats on the cast iron frame.
Carlos Cipa & Sophia Jani Relive Genre: Avant Rock Label: Denovali Records VINYL: DNV 192 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 8 Street Date: 4/22/14 D
“One of the most captivating instrumental albums of its time.” — EXIT MUSIC Track Listing: Anouk’s Dream • Whatever a Sun Will Always Sing Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Austin
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Federico Albanese is a composer born in Milan, Italy in 1982, currently based in Berlin. His musical versatility is a natural gift that pushes him to explore music in all its facets. Albanese’s compositions are airy and cinematic, blending classical music, electronics, and psychedelia. Here, he melts his rarefied piano sound with electronics, strings, and homemade instruments, and the result is a combination of contrasts and colors with a variety of atmospheres.
Federico Albanese The Houseboat and the Moon Genre: Avant Rock Label: Denovali Records VINYL: DNV 193 Price Code: 3N (SRP $38.99) Number of Discs: 2 Gatefold LP Jacket, Box Lot 5 Street Date: 4/22/14 D
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Debut album from a talented composer. Has scored several films including an Ermenegildo Zegna commission. Heavy 180-gram vinyl includes free download. Thick gatefold covers and inner sleeves. Facebook campaign with over 100,000 targets. Email campaign with over 15,000 targets. RIYL: Philip Glass, Yann Tiersen, Clint Mansell, Max Richter.
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“A truly diverse and unique sound … destined to put Albanese on the map amongst the hot contemporary classical composers of our decade.” — ALTORIOT Track Listing: Beyond the milk wood • Disclosed • Carousel #3 • Queen and wonder • Carousel #1 • Double vision • Kato • Lichtung • Beside you • Secret room • The sudden sympathy • Sphere • Space in between Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Austin
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Another great concept album from Petrels’ Oliver Barrett! Heavy 180-gram vinyl includes free download. Thick covers and printed inner sleeves. Facebook campaign with over 100,000 targets. Email campaign with over 15,000 targets. RIYL: Tim Hecker, Fennesz, Hans-Joachim Roedelius.
Mima is the third album on Denovali Records from London-based musician Oliver Barrett, a.k.a. Petrels. Following his highly praised debut Haeligewielle and sophomore album Onkalo, Mima is a further development and distillation of the distinctive sonic palette and inquisitive approach that have come to characterize Petrels so far. Building on retro-futuristic themes and delving deeper into ideas that lie between the twin poles of faith and uncertainty, this is another immersive sonic landscape from Petrels — more interested in posing questions than providing easy answers. “One of the few proper symphonic attempts beyond the tight-fisted so-called high culture.” — DE:BUG Track Listing: The 40 Year Mission to Titan Is Overtaken By The 40 Minute Mission To Titan • Katharina-22B • A Carapace For Carter’s Snort • Treetiger Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Austin
Petrels Mima
Genre: Avant Rock Label: Denovali Records VINYL: DNV 194 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 8 Street Date: 4/22/14 D
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• An important composer emerging out of the long and storied tradition of West Coast experimentalism. • Ensemble Economique is Brian Pyle (Starving Weirdos, RV Paintings). • Previous album rated #6 in Boomkat’s Top 100 of 2013. • Premium cover, printed inner sleeve, 180-gram heavyweight vinyl with free digital download. • Facebook campaign with over 100,000 targets. • Email campaign with over 15,000 targets. • Full album stream premieres at target media e.g. Pitchfork, FACT, Fader, and Noisey. • RIYL: Tim Hecker, My Bloody Valentine, Evan Caminiti, Raime.
Track Listing: Interval Signals Key Markets: Hometown: San Francisco. Also: New York, Los Angeles, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Austin
Ensemble Economique Interval Signals
Genre: Avant Rock Label: Denovali Records VINYL: DNV 186 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 32 Street Date: 4/22/14 D
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A seamless, cinematic tapestry of beauty, filled to the brim with cacophonous melodies, meditative auditory chants, and hypnotic shambolic rhythms, which could be probably briefly classified as a blend of ambient, drone, psychedelic, and shoegaze.
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• A comprehensive collection of the best pieces from well-reviewed albums released by Pulse Emitter. • Promotion to college radio as well as print and web music media. • RIYL: Aphex Twin, Vangelis, Jean Michel Jarre.
A retrospective of the past decade of Pulse Emitter’s work on various U.S. and international labels. “Groetsch exhibits solid control of his instrument and a sonic lucidity that is rare in the realm of modular synthesis.” — TINY MIX TAPES Track Listing: Longing Thresholds 1 • White • Nebula • Spaceship; Meditative Music • The Palace of Love 1 • Forest • Egg Nebula • Hermits • The Palace of Love 2 • Valley • Purple • Longing Thresholds 2 • Triangulum Galaxy • Meditative Music 3 • High Altitude Golden Sunset
Pulse Emitter Planetary Scale Synth Hypnosis Genre: Electronica Label: Metal Postcard Records CD: MPC 72 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 2 Digipak, Box Lot 20 Street Date: 4/22/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D
Key Markets: Hometown: Portland. Also: Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Austin, San Francisco, Seattle, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Miami, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Washington DC, Houston, Bloomington
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• Will be traveling across the U.S. with an estimated 60-date tour in June & July 2014. • Promotion to college radio as well as print and web music media. • RIYL: Thee Oh Sees, The Growlers.
Third album by White Fang on Metal Postcard is hardcore one moment, lo-fi the next. The dream of a West Coast fall has come to fruition!
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“Resonates like that mix tape from your older friend or sibling, the one that opened your ears to the world of underground rock, and features the same offbeat mix of styles and sounds.” — CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND
White Fang Full Time Freaks
Genre: Alt Rock Label: Metal Postcard Records VINYL: MPC 81 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 20 Street Date: 4/22/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D
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Track Listing: Gonna Get It • Shut Up • Doin’ the Damn Thing • Goodbye to Bedtime • Talkin to the Apple • Full Time Freaks • Waste My Time • High On Life • Pass the Grass • Talkin to Gary on the Corner • Before I Pass Out Key Markets: Hometown: Portland. Also: Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas, Seattle, Chicago, St Louis, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Houston, Austin, New York, Washington DC, Madison, Athens, Salt Lake City
UPCOMING TOUR DATES PINK MARTINI & THE VON TRAPPS Dream a Little Dream
COMBICHRIST We Love You
JEN KIRKMAN Hail to the Freaks
CD: HNZ 14 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 UPC: 723721734855 March 1
CD: MTP 911 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 UPC: 782388091121 April 3
CD: ATG 21 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 UPC: 884501525862 *OPENING FOR CHELSEA HANDLER March 7
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Portland, OR – Newmark Theater
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Toronto, ON – Massey Hall
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New York, NY – Rose Hall
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New York, NY – Rose Hall
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Burlington, VT – Flynn Theatre
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Hanover, NH – Spaulding Auditorium
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Cambridge, MA – Harvard University
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Indianapolis, IN – Murat Theatre Atlanta, GA – Atlanta Symphony Hall Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theatre St. Paul, MN – Fitzgerald Theatre Madison, WI – Overture Center for the Arts Chicago, IL – Symphony Center Cedar Rapids, IA – Paramount Theatre Davenport, IA – Adler Theatre Kalamazoo, MI – Miller Auditorium Goshen, IN – Goshen College Jacksonville, FL – Florida Theatre Key Largo, FL – Ocean Reef Cultural Center Tampa, FL – David A Straz, Jr. PAC West Palm Beach, FL – Dreyfoos Hall Miami, FL – Knight Concert Hall New Orleans, LA – Civic Theatre Oklahoma City, OK – City Center Music Hall Portland, OR – Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Portland, OR – Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Portland, OR – Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Charlotte, NC – Tremont Music Hall Springfield, VA – Empire Philadelphia, PA – TLA New York, NY – Grammercy Theatre
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St. Louis, MO – Fubar March 19
Pittsburgh, PA – The Smiling Moose March 27
Detroit, MI – PJ’S Lager House March 28
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New York, NY – Madison Square Garden* March 14
Grand Rapids, MI – Gilda’s Laugh Fest April 7
Los Angeles, CA – Largo
Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club Pittsburgh, PA – Altar Bar Cleveland, OH – Agora Theater Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge Minneapolis, MN – Skyway Theater Des Moines, IA – Wooly’s Lawrence, KS – Granada Theater Denver, CO – Marquis Theater Salt Lake City, UT – In The Venue Seattle, WA – Studio Seven Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater
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San Francisco, CA – Slim’s Las Vegas, NV – LVCS Hollywood, CA – Avalon Phoenix, AZ – Club Red Austin, TX – Elysium May 3
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Boston, MA – CitiWang*
Houston, TX – Scout Bar May 4
Dallas, TX – Trees May 6
Pensacola, FL – Vinyl Music Hall May 8
Jacksonville, FL – Roc Bar May 9
West Palm Beach, FL – Respectable Street May 10
VIJAY IYER Accelerando CD: AMV 9524 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 UPC: 614427952424 February 20
Urbana, IL – Krannert Center February 21
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Urbana, IL – Krannert Center March 1
New York, NY – 92nd Street Y March 14
Cambridge, MA – Sanders Theater May 9
New York, NY – Aaron Davis Hall
Orlando, FL – Backbooth May 11
Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
Chicago, IL – Juniors Sports Bar March 29
Chicago, IL – Underground Lounge March 30
Minneapolis, MN – Turf Club
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751937410522
N
Serious Sam Barrett
Serious Sam Barrett
1
VINYL
AKM
50
751937417712
O
Legendary Shack Shak-
Dump Road Yodel
1
7-INCH
AKM
54
751937430117
C
Legendary Shack Shak-
Lower Broad Lo-Fi
1
CD
AKM
30
751937302926
N
Barris, Greg
Shame Wave
1
CD
ATG
34
884501800907
N
Patton, Sean
Standard Operating
1
CD
ATG
35
884501813129
N
Telfer, Dan
Tendrils of Ruin
1
CD
ATG
28
884501753043
N
Biloon, Michelle
You Can Be An Asshole
1
CD
ATG
30
884501763417
N
Liedman, Gabe
Hiyeeee!!
1
CD
ATG
32
884501785563
N
Burke, Adam
Universal Squirrel
1
CD
ATG
33
884501799102
N
Two Knights
Shut Up
1
VINYL
CYL
72
721762893357
R
5%
U-731
By All Means
1
CD
MGN
10
888295040204
I
5%
Faderhead
Atoms & Emptiness
1
CD
COP LTX
1000
859711672644
T
5%
State of the Union
My Time Away
1
CD
WTI
97
801676009720
Q
5%
Slave Unit
Through With You
1
CD
WTI
95
801676009522
Q
5%
Remembering Never
This Hell Is Home
1
CD
DTH
15
603111941820
2D
Prodigal Earth
Zenith II Zero
1
CD
PTB
2
634479973000
J
5%
Whisper Room
Cruelest Month, The
1
CD
CSD
36
3481574533540
L
5%
Syndrome/thisquietarmy Lonely Mountain, The
2
CD
CSD
34
3481574503000
L
5%
Hemelbestormer/Van-
Hemelbestormer/Van-
1
CD
CSD
32
3481574536671
L
5%
Neige Morte
Bicephaale
1
CD
CSD
35
3481574520809
L
5%
Rozario, Patricia:sop/
Place Between, A
1
CD
LCM
901
837654335246
S
Ford, Marc
Holy Ghost
1
CD
NAI
200
797537120027
Q
5%
Ford, Marc
Holy Ghost
1
VINYL
NAI
203
797537120324
2T
5%
Wumpscut
Bulwark Bazooka
1
CD
MTP
932
782388093224
Q
5%
Wumpscut
Madman Szpital
1
CD
MTP
857
782388085724
Q
Wumpscut
Women and Satan First
1
CD
MTP
793
782388079327
Q
5%
5%
ARTIST TITLE
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CAT#
UPC
$$ DEAL QTY
Wumpscut
Schrekk & Grauss
1
CD
MTP
717
782388071727
Q
Wumpscut
Siamese
1
CD
MTP
647
782388064729
Q
Neuringer, Keir
Ceremonies Out of the
1
CD
NAL
7449
616892177449
J
Neuringer, Keir
Ceremonies Out of the
2
VINYL
NAL
7340
616892177340
Q
Microwaves
Regurgitant Phenomena
1
VINYL
NAL
7548
616892177548
Q
Origamibiro
Odham’s Standard
1
CD
DNV
191
4024572665517
R
Cipa, Carlos/Jani,
Relive
1
VINYL
DNV
192
4024572665401
2O
Albanese, Federico
Houseboat and the
2
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DNV
193
4024572665524
3N
Petrels
Mima
1
VINYL
DNV
194
4024572665487
2O
Ensemble Economique
Interval Signals
1
VINYL
DNV
186
4024572641528
2O
Pulse Emitter
Planetary Scale Synth
2
CD
MPC
72
820103345668
T
5%
White Fang
Full Time Freaks
1
VINYL
MPC
81
820103345804
N
5%
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