PREVIOUSLY SOLD-OUT PNKSLM CLASSICS, REPRESSED!!!
Is there a genre that you would consider to be the label’s “signature style,” or is it a mix?
I wouldn’t say we focus on any genre as such, but we like to think everyone we work with has that sort of special “edge” or whatever. We turn down a lot of bands that are probably a much safer bet financially, but if they don’t get us excited, then there’s no fun in it. I’d class everything we do as “Rock & Roll” in some form, but that branches out into weirdo pop, psychedelic rap, garage punk, acoustic ballads, whatever really, so long as it has some heart.
How would you describe your overall ambitions and goals as a label from when you first started compared to now?
How did you personally get started in the music industry?
My mum has always been a musician, so my childhood summers were basically being dragged to folk festivals with her, so I guess I didn’t have much choice. But the first big “business” move was when I was 16, me and my best friend started promoting shows in our hometown (Leicester), purely so we could get into shows before we turned 18. We ended up putting on early shows for the likes of Arctic Monkeys and The Cribs… Funnily enough doing that was what got me accepted into University, after my grades sucked. Did a 3 year degree in “Music Management & Studio Production”, which set me up for this life of fortune and success.
When and where did the label begin?
The year was 2013. I accidentally ended up moving from London to Stockholm, and was working as an A&R assistant at a Universal imprint. We got a demo from this band Sudakistan, who clearly weren’t a good fit for a major label, but I loved it. I’d been thinking about starting a little side project label, just a few 7”s here and there, so figured they would be a good first band for that. That went great, sold out entirely in a couple of days, Pitchfork was all over it… I thought “damn this is easy.” So then I did a few more, then a few albums... and then it just sort of took over my life. Johan came in as co-owner to sort out all my fucking mess in 2016, which was when it started to look more like an actual business and not some sort of international tax scam. Around that time we thankfully managed to trick Redeye into distributing us. Then in 2021 we hired Axel, who came in to sort both of our fucking messes, as a sort of label manager. Someone we pay to shout at us and remind us of what we’re forgetting to do on a daily basis.
What is the meaning behind the name for the label?
As the label was just supposed to be a side project, I didn’t really think enough about it. I couldn’t really think of a label name, so I just took the name of my club-night I was running in London (Punk Slime), thinking it wouldn’t matter much. By the time I realized that it was a pretty shite name it was too late. The whole “PNKSLM” thing really confuses radio DJs as well, we’ve been called all kinds of things, Pink Slim, Punk Slam etc. It’s got to the point though now where even if we could change it, I’d be too stubborn to.
How has the label changed since it started?
We spend a shitload more money, get a lot more stressed out, and Pitchfork now don’t give a fuck about us. But we’re a million times more organized than we used to be. And we now finally understand the need for solid lead times.
Describe the general makeup of your team at the label.
At the core it’s just me, Johan and Axel, so we kind of all do a million different things. But we definitely have certain specific skill sets that work together well - Johan’s great with the business/numbers side of things, Axel is great at keeping stuff organized, and I’m really great at shouting at people on the phone.
What has been the biggest challenge for you and the label during the Pandemic?
We’ve always naturally leaned towards working with brand new artists, and I guess sort of one of our specialties was introducing them into the world to some degree. But we learned very fast and hard that without any live shows being possible, that task became practically impossible.
Is the label tied to a specific geographical area? How is this reflected in your releases?
We’ve got artists all over the world now. We obviously end up working with a lot of Swedish artists, often things work better the tighter the relationship can be between us and the artist, which of course is easier if they are at least in the same time zone. But with my English background, we’ve got a fair amount of UK based artists as well. Quite a few from Birmingham UK actually - that’s where I used to hang out and play shows myself as a teenager. Those bands I used to play with, we now release on the label which is pretty awesome. Black Mekon in particular have a lot to blame for my life choices over the years, so it’s cool to work with them and still be releasing their records all this time later.
To be honest I think the ambitions are still pretty much the same as they always were. Basically to each artist as “big” as that artist can get. It’s probably a sign of some degree of narcissism, but I’ve always been terrible at accepting that something is out of reach from us. Like why can’t we get our bands on that big festival, or that TV show, in that magazine, or that tour, whatever it is. Of course it doesn’t always work out, but we’ve definitely always been punching way above our weight when it comes to what we achieve, especially for such a small company on such small budgets. If we take a band on as a label, we’ve got that responsibility to push them to the maximum of our ability. What’s the wildest marketing promotion you’ve ever worked on for any release?
Maybe not the wildest idea, but one that sort of backfired a bit. So when ShitKid retired from music in 2020, she left us with several releases to still put out. She literally left town, had her name changed, and became a nurse. Totally disappeared. So when we released her final album, she was already long gone, but we needed something to help market the release, so I thought it was a good idea to make a load of “Missing” posters with her face on and get them plastered around Stockholm. It turned out a lot of her friends genuinely didn’t know what she was up to, or where she had gone, so we started getting a lot of very worried phone calls. I guess people were talking about it at least!
If you had the budget, what would be your dream “outside-the-box” or “crossover” marketing campaign?
I strongly believe we need to make some bribes, to get me into the writing room for the final episode of HBO’s hit show Succession. Episode synopsis as follows:
The Roy siblings are stunned when Waystar Royco’s imminent takeover is suddenly thrown into chaos, as a surprise last minute high bidder is dramatically revealed - eccentric music industry mogul, Tor Hansen (Redeye co-founder). In a futile effort to ease tension between the two companies at this pivotal point, Kendall Roy is flown out to Stockholm to meet the hip young company PNKSLM Recordings, to get a grasp on the sort of people they will now be forced to work with. Kendall’s emotions start to rock as he boards the plane, specifically as he’s taking the same flight route his father recently had. Relationships fail almost instantly after Kendall meets PNKSLM founder Luke Reilly (played by Keanu Reeves), as the two industry giants clash personalities on every level. They both go to top local restaurant “The Crazy Horse” for dinner with the previously expected buyer of Waystar Royco, the Swedish tech entrepreneur Lucas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård). Whilst Kendall visits the bathroom, Reilly and Matsson make plans to kill him, following poorly received comments he made about Brexit “being kinda cool, if you think about it”. Reilly & Matsson lace his meatballs with rat poison taken from the restaurant floor. Kendall returns, and starts to eat the meatballs. The song “Done With The Day” by PNKSLM artist 7ebra starts playing. In one final twist, whilst consuming his final köttbular - Kendall opens up to Reilly & Matsson - and apologizes for all his wrongdoings, and admits it was a poor decision “based on my own insecurities and my fundamental need to be accepted” to wear the 50,000 dollar leather jacket to a meeting with a record label. Reilly & Matsson look regretfully at each other, but know it’s too late. The episode and series wrap up with a shot of Tor Hansen reclining in his chair with a cigar, in the new Waystar Redeyeco office. The song “No Regrets” by PNKSLM artist She/Beast begins playing. Cut to Roman and Shiv slowly packing their boxes at the office, tears in their eyes - finally realizing, albeit too late, that despite all their differences - Kendall truly was their one last chance to keep the family legacy alive.
How would you describe the average fan of the label?
A person of an immaculate, distinguished taste.
What in your opinion has been the biggest change in the music industry from when you first started compared to now?
Definitely streaming. But not because of sales. I’m unfortunately not old enough to know what it was like to sell a million CD’s at 99% profit margins. But more the music discovery side of things. When I started doing this, it was relatively easy to create a genuine buzz/hype around new bands by getting coverage on music blogs, and the bigger music sites. But as playlists started taking over as the way people discover new music online, all those sites have died off. Which I think is a big shame to be honest. If you had to start a new sub-label, what would it be called and what kind of music would it be geared towards?
I still really want to do “Pop Slime” and just release really tacky but happy 90’s style pop music. But Johan won’t let me. One day…
They say our sun will explode in about 5 billion years or so- how would you like the label to be remembered?
The label that ruined the finale of HBO’s hit show, Succession.
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• Squid’s Highly Anticipated Follow-up their debut album Bright Green Field
• Indie / D2C Exclusive Color LP
• Global headline tour and festivals beginning with Scala
• Produced by Dan Carey, mixed by John McEntire (Tortoise, the Sea and Cake)
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01. Swing (In A Dream)
02. Devil’s Den 03. Siphon Song 04. Undergrowth
05. The Blades 06. After The Flash 07. Green Light
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“Rising blues star Selwyn Birchwood is the real deal. He puts his own fresh spin on the blues, taking the tradition and making it into something new.”
Gifted songwriter, blistering guitarist and rugged vocalist is one of the blues’ brightest young stars, playing exhilarating, visionary new roots music.
A charismatic, relentless touring artist, Selwyn plays over 150 live performances a year at clubs, theatres and festivals in the U.S., UK, Canada, Holland, Belgium, Norway, France, Switzerland, Spain, Russia, Poland, Ireland and Mexico. Tour dates will begin right after street date.
Alligator will be promoting Exorcist to over 1700 print, radio and social media contacts around the world. In the U.S., Selwyn has been featured on NPR’s World Café and XM/Sirius Satellite radio, and in Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, DownBeat, American Songwriter, Goldmine, Vintage Guitar and No Depression.
Outside the U.S., his 2021 release, Living In A Burning House, received positive reviews or features in Canada, the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand.
Exorcist will be promoted to radio for rock and blues shows worldwide, as well as internet music programmers. Living In A Burning House hit #1 on the Living Blues Radio Chart, had multiple songs reach heavy rotation on SiriusXM’s Bluesville, and crossed over to AAA and Americana stations, jam band specialty shows and tastemaker NPR Music stations.
Over 1100 worldwide radio contacts will be serviced, as well as national outlets like NPR Radio, BBC, CBC, Radio France Musique, Deutschlandfunk, NDR and MDR in Germany, ABC and Double J in Australia, RAI in Italy, RVT1 in The Netherlands and more.
Produced by Grammy winner Tom Hambridge (Buddy Guy, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Susan Tedeschi), Exorcist features 13 vividly detailed new Birchwood originals. It’s an intoxicating mix of deep blues, heady, psychedelic-tinged rock, booty-shaking funk and sweet Southern soul, performed with the fire-and-brimstone fervor of a revival tent preacher.
•Advertising includes a Facebook ad campaign, plus placements in Living Blues, Blues Music Magazine, Blues Matters (UK), Blues in Britain (UK), Soul Bag (FR), Maple Blues (CA) and Bluesnews (DE), plus email blasts with Living Blues and Blues Blast Magazine.
• In-store play copies.
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 9 th , 2023
ARTIST: SELWYN BIRCHWOOD
TITLE: EXORCIST GENRE: BLUES
LABEL: ALLIGATOR RECORDS
FORMAT: CD
CATALOG NO: ALCD 5012
UPC: 0 14551-50122 0 BOX LOT: 50
FORMAT: PURPLE LP + DOWNLOAD
CATALOG NO: AL 5012
UPC: 0 14551-50121 3 BOX LOT: 40
TRACK LIST:
1. Done Cryin’ 2. FLorida Man
3. Horns Below Her Halo 4. Underdog
5. Exorcist 6. Lazarus
7. Hopeless Romantic
8. Plenty More To Be Grateful For
9. ILa-View 10. Swim At Your Own Risk
11. Call Me What You Want To*
12. My Own Worst Enemy
13. Show Tune
*Not on LP but included with download
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• THE FIRST NEW MUSIC SINCE ‘20
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THROUGHOUT 2023. HEADLINING PITCHFORK FESTIVAL IN JULY
• AVAILABLE ON LIMITED CLEAR LP
• +1m MONTHLY SPOTIFY LISTENERS
• ANNOUNCED APRIL UNDERPLAYS IN NEW YORK CITY AND EUROPE, SOLD OUT IN MINUTES
• RECENT PRESS IN NME, DAZED, HYPEBEAST, STEREOGUM, FADER, PITCHFORK, UPROXX, MORE
Written from 2020 to 2022 in between London and Liverpool, SpaceHeavy took shape over the course of Archy’s commutes between the two cities where he was splitting his time. Befitting an album quite literally written on the commute between the two places he called home, Archy found himself fascinated by the notion of “the space between” – the space haunted by dreams of love, touching a narrative of lost connection, losing people and situations to the guillotine of the universe. SpaceHeavy, indeed.
The result is an album that inhabits the deepest reaches of the subterranean sonic world that Archy has constructed over the course of his career as King Krule. In it you hear a generational artist stepping into the height of their artistic powers – the auteurism apparent on his debut 6 Feet BeneathThe Moon, the shapeshifting sonic palette of The OOZ and the primality of Man Alive! all coalesce into a wizened, dynamic body of work that reveals new elements with each listen. In line with Archy’s interest in the space between, it is an album wherein the negative space demands the same attention as the positive space. If one is willing to wade into the mire the reward is rich.
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 9, 2023
Jess Williamson’s Time Ain’t Accidental is the sound of a woman running into her life and art head-on, on her own terms for the first time in a long while. With vocal power kindred to Linda Rondstadt and Emmylou Harris, Williamson blends the emotional immediacy and story-telling of traditional country with the artful, wholly honest transmissions of songwriters like Townes Van Zandt and Terry Allen. The album’s reckoning with loss, isolation, romance, and personal reclamation signals both a stylistic and tectonic shift for Williamson: from someone who once made herself small to an artist emboldened by her power as an individual.
Last year, Williamson and Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee released I Walked With You A Ways under the name Plains; a critically acclaimed record filled to the whiskey-barreled brim with feminine confidence, camaraderie, and straight-up country bangers and ballads. After past records Cosmic Wink (2018) and Sorceress (2020), both released on Mexican Summer, Williamson felt primed to shift in a new direction. Revisiting what she loved growing up, simplifying her process, and making music with a friend proved to be the best step forward for Williamson.
Williamson now splits her time between Marfa, Texas and Los Angeles. Time Ain’t Accidental, with its synthesis of traditional country instrumentation with digital effects and modern sounds, unequivocally embodies the energy of the two very different places that she calls home. The album’s artwork, subtly menacing and neon in awareness and strength, displays, in Williamson’s words, “that supernatural forces are acting all around us, that we can trust that we will be in the right place at the right time.”
SELLING POINTS
• Press Quotes:
• “The Texas singer-songwriter’s fourth album sounds older and wiser, casting her mystical interests as a foil to the bittersweet, ordinary moments that add up to earthly life”
- Pitchfork
• “While love is by far the most common subject of all time when it comes to recorded music, Williamson wrings new insight and feeling out of this oft-tread territory. Free of sappiness or the numbing effect of anything trite, Williamson’s words are the real deal” - PASTE
• “Williamson brings effortless intimacy to her psychedeliaflecked country, shades of Bobby Gentry peeling out from behind the 90s country influences she grew up with...her fourth album has a gentle-assured incantatory feel” - Mojo
• TOUR: US Tour May 19th - June 17th, kicking off in Nashville, with two dates at The Basement; past support tours with Weyes Blood, Kevin Morby, Hamilton Leithouser, and José González; 2022 US tour with Plains (Jess Williamson + Waxahatchee)
• NOTABLE CONTRIBUTORS: Produced by Grammy-nominated Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee, Snail Mail, The War On Drugs, Nathaniel Rateliff, etc)
• PLAINS: (Jess Williamson + Waxahatchee): Feature in NY Times, Pitchfork (8.0 review), Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, NPR All Songs Considered, The Guardian (★★★★), and “Abilene” named #18 Best Songs of 2022 by NPR Music. #1 on the CDX Americana album charts for seven consecutive weeks
• MUSIC VIDEOS: Music videos directed by Rocco Rivetti & Gilles O’Kane (Bat for Lashes, North Americans plus commercials for Louis Vuitton and Adidas)
• PRESS / RADIO: Press and radio teams hired in US, UK, and France
• FOR FANS OF: Waxahatchee, Plains, Hand Habits, Kevin Morby, Hamilton Leithauser, Weyes Blood, Courtney Marie Andrews, Orville Peck, Molly Birch, Big Thief, Angel Olsen, Charley Crockett, Margo Price, Lainey Wilson, Kacey Musgraves, Phoebe Bridgers
ARTIST: Jess Williamson
ALBUM: Time Ain’t Accidental
STREET DATE: June 9, 2023
GENRE: Singer-Songwriter / Americana / Indie Folk
FORMAT: Standard LP, Indie LP, CD
TRACKLISTING
1. Time Ain’t Accidental
2. Hunter
3. Chasing Spirits
4. Tobacco Two Step
5. God in Everything
6. A Few Seasons
7. Topanga Two Step
8. Something’s in the Way
9. Stampede
10. I’d Come to Your Call
11. Roads
MEX338-1: Standard LP
UPC: 184923133813
Specs: Black LP with printed inner sleeve featuring lyrics. Includes download code.
Box lot: 40
Redeye Label Manager: Lori Miller Lori@redeyeworldwide.com 877-733-3931 (ext. 216)
Redeye Contact Info: Redeye Worldwide 505 Eno St. Hillsborough, NC, 27278 redeyeworldwide.com
MEX338-2: CD
UPC: 184923133820
Specs: CD housed in 4-panel gatefold wallet.
Box lot: 50
MEX338-0: Indie LP
UPC: 184923133806
Specs: Hot Pink LP with printed inner sleeve featuring lyrics. Includes download code.
Box lot: 40
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Jess Williamson ‘Sorceress’
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MEX 280-2: CD (184923128024)
MEX 280-0: Crystal Ball LP (184923128000)
Jess Williamson ‘Cosmic Wink’
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MEX253-2: CD (184923125320)
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STREET DATE: 6/9/2023
GENRE: ALTERNATIVE / INDIE / ROCK
FORMAT: CAT NO: UPC: CD LUCKY166CD 689492216825
Gatefold Digipac CD with folder poster insert
LP LUCKY166LP 689492217013
Deep Red Vinyl in gatefold sleeve
LPX LUCKY166LPX 689492217112
Limited Edition Deluxe Vinyl with Alternate Cover Design in gatefold sleeve, Red & Black Vinyl and Bonus “Love You More” Flexidisc (1k copies w-wide)
The return of Dream Wife is a moment worth savouring, with the band in electrifying form with an entirely self-written and self-produced third album. The only outside influence being the heavyweight mixing duo of Alan Moulder (Nine Inch Nails, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Killers, Depeche Mode) and Caesar Edmunds (Wet Leg, Beach House). The incendiary and riotous record finds the trio once again tackling big subjects in their trademark unapologetic manner where, with the band being adept at merging the political with the playful, vital statements are hidden within hot and heavy anthems about making out, having fun and staying curious. Social Lubrication, in the bands words, is “Hyper lusty rock and roll with a political punch, exploring the alchemy of attraction, the lust for life, embracing community and calling out the patriarchy. With a heathy dose of playfulness and fun thrown in.”
“New wave structure meets punk blatancy and 21st-century gender fluency” - NEW YORK TIMES
“[Dream Wife] combine sticky pop flourishes and bruising sounds with brazen self-assurance....extending the continuum of uncompromising feminist musical statements with refreshing directness.” - NPR Music
“The outspoken Brighton punks are back to finish what they started, smashing the patriarchy with hooks and excoriating, witty lyrical missives.” - NME
“Dream Wife just want to dismantle the patriarchy. The U.K. art punks make music that’s roiling with feminist rage and Spice Girls attitude” - Rolling Stone
TRACKLISTING:
LIMTED-EDITION TRANSLUCENT GREEN
VINYL (600 UNITS)
ITEM NUMBER: LP-PSR-10LE
UPC: 634457127081
PACKAGING: Standard jacket w/ printed inner sleeve and translucent green vinyl
BOX LOT: 25
ITEM NUMBER: LP-PSR-010
UPC: 634457127098
PACKAGING: Standard jacket w/ printed inner sleeve and black vinyl
BOX LOT: 25
ITEM NUMBER: CD-PSR-10
UPC: 634457127074
PACKAGING: Gatefold sleeve w/ printed booklet
BOX LOT: 30
GENRE: Country
SUB-GENRE: Americana
EXPORT: World
STREET DATE: 06/09/2023
After a nine-year hiatus, Laura Cantrell, a familiar presence in the international americana and roots music scene, is back with her latest studio album. Over the years, she has won over loyal audiences both in her home country and the UK through her constant touring and numerous media appearances. Although the album was originally intended to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her debut album, recording was delayed due to covid restrictions. This new collection was expertly crafted in studios located in both New York City and Nashville, with the help of renowned luminaries like Steve Earle, Buddy Miller, and Rosie Flores
Push the Swing Bide My Time
Brand New Eyes
Just Like a Rose
When the Roses Bloom Again
Secret Language
Unaccompanied I’m Gonna Miss This Town
Good Morning Mr. Afternoon
Holding You in My Heart
I Don’t Know How I Survive
Roman Candles
Asphalt Meadows
Rand McNally
Here To Forever
Foxglove Through The Clearcut Pepper
I Miss Strangers
Wheat Like Waves
Fragments From The Decade
I’ll Never Give Up On You The Plan
catalog #: LP-BARK-210
upc: 655173121016
packaging: standard jacket box lot: 25
Death Cab for Cutie went back into the studio in December 2022 with the goal of reinterpreting their latest record Asphalt Meadows with the most minimal arrangements possible and presenting the songs in their rawest, most intimate forms. The result is Asphalt Meadows (Acoustic) available on black, standard weight vinyl via Barsuk Records.
“At first, there was an idea of doing an acoustic version of ‘Pepper,’ which was going to be the next single from Asphalt Meadows,” Death Cab bassist Nick Harmer told SPIN last month. “But then we thought, well, if we’re in there, we might as well see if we can do some other versions. We really love Asphalt Meadows , and we were really happy with the songwriting that’s at the core of every track. For us, we were wondering how all of those songs would sound presented slightly differently. Then we said, maybe we’ll just do an EP. As we got into the process, one thing led to the next, and before we knew it, we had re-recorded every song.”
Asphalt Meadows (Acoustic) also includes the non-album bonus “The Plan” by Low, included as tribute to the late amazingly talented Mimi Parker.
Death Cab for Cutie will be everywhere in 2023. Still touring in support of Asphalt Meadows, their critically acclaimed 10th studio album, the band has already announced and largely sold out a double-bill Postal Service Give Up / Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism tour this fall celebrating the 20th anniversary of these iconic and generation-defining albums.
• Death Cab for Cutie has sold over 6 million albums since the Barsuk debut Something About Airplanes in 1998
• Asphalt Meadows includes “Here to Forever,” a No. 1 hit on both Billboard‘s Alternative and Adult Alternative Airplay charts, and “Pepper,” also a AAA No. 1 and climbing the Alternative Top 10 at press time
• Due to overwhelming demand, the fall 2023 Postal Service Give Up / Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism includes multiple dates in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, Denver and Washington DC with multiple sold-out shows across the country
STREET DATE: JUNE 9, 2023 www.barsuk.com
LP+MP3:
catalog #: LP-BARK-120B
upc: 655173312018
packaging: standard jacket box lot: 20
bark120LPE / LP + bonus download tracks
STREET DATE: JUNE 9, 2023
Barsuk is excited to present a new pressing of Yellow Ostrich’s The Mistress, available now on standard black vinyl. Each copy is prominently stickered touting its download code containing the original 10-track album and 18 bonus tracks, including the 2011 Barsuk bonus material, four previously unreleased b-sides, an early alternate version of the hit “WHALE”, plus 10 covers (recorded in 2010) of songs that inspired founder Alex Schaaf during the writing and recording of The Mistress: songs by Beach House, Jon Brion, Dirty Projectors, The National, Joanna Newsom, The Replacements, The Rural Alberta Advantage, The Tallest Man on Earth, Sharon Van Etten, and Yeasayer
Since songwriter and band-leader Alex Schaaf first uploaded The Mistress (at age 22) to Bandcamp as a free download at the beginning of the last decade, it has captivated listeners: the team at Barsuk (who reissued it within a few months of Schaaf’s initial self-release); fans who fell under the hypnotic spell of standout track “WHALE”; and a host of fellow musicians (notably including Moses Sumney, who included it on his short list of favorite albums of the 2010s, not to mention future Yellow Ostrich members Michael Tapper [Bishop Allen] and the great indie sideman and composer Jon Natchez [Beirut/The War on Drugs/David Byrne/St. Vincent/etc]).
The 10th anniversary reissue of The Mistress at the start of the pandemic heralded something of a rebirth of the Yellow Ostrich moniker as the band went on to release a slew of new music over the past few years including their latest album Soft in 2021; Like a Bird: An Alex Schaaf Anthology (2010-2021), a compilation spanning the career (so far) of the quietly brilliant songwriter/producer Schaaf; and Make It Make Sense EP, released earlier this spring.
New and fresh and totally original… Amazing. – NPR
Yellow Ostrich is equal parts Vampire Weekend's sharp-angled pop and Andrew Bird's whimsical multitasking. – Time Out New York
Kaleidoscopic vocal loops, sparse drums, and electronics into a bubblegum whole with a nuanced, dark edge. – Village Voice
Schaaf's songs have grown impressively dexterous, nimbly hopping from aching verse to pleading chorus. – Pitchfork
Music that has never stopped being fearless and full of risks. – Line of Best Fit
They don't make 'em like this anymore. – Austin Chronicle
▶ Beggars Arkive has launched an extensive Love And Rockets reissue program which sees all of their Beggars Banquet albums pressed on vinyl after years of being out of print.
▶The titles have all been remastered by Sean McGee at Abbey Road Studios.
▶Full press and marketing campaigns will be in action with artist participation
▶The band will play their first live show over 15 years this May at Cruel World Festival in LA.
Love And Rockets is the seminal, groundbreaking trio of Daniel Ash (vocals and guitar), David J (vocals and bass) and Kevin Haskins (drums). Formed in 1985 after the first split of their band Bauhaus, Love and Rockets provided a clean slate and an opportunity to plumb the depths of imagination and influences.
Love and Rockets fifth album Hot Trip To Heaven is strikingly different from anything previous. The album has a diverse range of influences, from twisted lounge jazz to ambient trance. With additional vocals by the celebrated Egyptian-Belgian singer Natacha Atlas, the album’s world music influences are evident. A critical piece of their catalog, many have noted that the album is brave and radical. New York Magazine said it was “hypnotic, glistening, dark and crashing.” The album was ahead of it’s time, pre-dating the electronic music revolution by a few years.
▶This is a double black LP with a gatefold sleeve
▶Out of print for 25+ years, expanded with 3 extra tracks*
A1. Body and Soul Parts 1&2
A2. Ugly
B1. Trip & Glide
B2. This Heaven
B3. No Worries
C1. Hot Trip To Heaven
C2. Eclipse
C3. Voodoo Baby
C4. Be The Revolution
C5. Set Me Free
D1. Firewater *
D2. This Heaven (Experience Remix) *
D3. Coyote *
BBQ-2268-LP
non-returnable
Format: 2XLP, BLACK
Label: Beggars Banquet
Rick Rubin guided Love and Rockets to a return to more guitarbased songs for 1996’s Sweet F.A. While the band were living and working at Rubin’s studio mansion, a fire broke out, which resulted in the band losing all of their gear, some of their demo recordings, and nearly their lives as well. A burnt guitar plucked from the debris is on the album’s cover. The resulting album was inspired by some of their earliest influences – The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Can. It spins tales of passion and loss, carried on a fluid, moody throb. Undulating, hypnotic rhythms twine around melancholy lyrics which examine life at a primal level, as ethereal electronic effects play counterpoint to earthquake reverberating guitars.
▶FIRST TIME ON STAND-ALONE VINYL!
▶This is a double black LP with a gatefold sleeve
BBQ-2259-LP
non-returnable
Format: 2XLP, BLACK
Label: Beggars Banquet
▶Includes 4 previously unreleased tracks*
A1. Sweet F.A.
A2. Judgement Day
A3. Use Me
A4. Fever
A5. Sweet Lover Hangover
B1. Pearl
B2. Shelf Life
B3. Sad And Beautiful World
B4. Natacha
C1. Words Of A Fool
C2. Clean
C3. Here Comes The Comedown
C4. Spiked
C5. Sweet F.A. Reprise
D1. My Dark Twin *
D2. Venus Child *
D3. Butterfly *
D4. Pick Yourself Up *
BBQ-2258-CD
Format: 2XCD
Label: Beggars Banquet
▶ MY DARK TWIN is a 22 track double CD/Digital release containing 8 previously unreleased versions + 6 unreleased songs from the Sweet F.A. sessions.
▶ Also released on June 9th (see separate page) are expanded vinyl editions of Hot Trip To Heaven and Sweet F.A.
▶ These titles are part of an extensive Love And Rockets campaign which sees all of their Beggars Banquet albums pressed on vinyl after years of being out of print.
▶ The band will play their first live shows in over 15 years starting this May at Cruel World Festival in LA.
Love And Rockets is the seminal, groundbreaking trio of Daniel Ash (vocals and guitar), David J (vocals and bass) and Kevin Haskins (drums). Formed in 1985 after the first split of their band Bauhaus, Love and Rockets provided a clean slate and an opportunity to plumb the depths of imagination and influences.
MY DARK TWIN is a companion to the band’s 1996 album Sweet F.A. The 22 track double CD/Digital release contains 8 previously unreleased versions, and 6 unreleased songs from the Sweet F.A. sessions, and 18 of the 22 tracks are on CD for the very first time.
The band began recording the follow-up to Hot Trip To Heaven at San Francisco’s Coast Recorders with Andy Taub at the helm. These initial sessions proved fruitful and produced many quality recordings. Despite the great tracks, it was determined by all that the essential spark just wasn’t there. Rick Rubin suggested a new studio and a new producer. Producer John Fryer came on board and took Andy Taub’s recordings to Chipping Norton studios and deconstructed them, adding an “English” edge to the Coast recordings. The band also recorded some additional, but ultimately unused tracks at Chipping Norton including an improvisation of Mink DeVille’s “Spanish Stroll”. The band brought these tracks back to California and due to lack of funds, were offered full use of Rick Rubin’s possibly haunted 1919 Laurel Canyon mansion to stay and rehearse in and ideally come up with more material that American Recordings felt was needed in order to complete the record.
What was recorded at Rubin’s place was done so onto Kevin Haskins’ portable DAT machine, and thankfully he took them home with him every night, as a massive fire broke out while they were there. They lost all of their gear, some of their demo recordings, and nearly their lives as well.
▶ “U. O. ME.” is a spontaneous, improvised jam between Love and Rockets and Genesis P. Orridge. Though it’s raw, rough and unrehearsed, and not a studio-quality recording, the compilers felt compelled it was important to include.
▶ “California (Have A Nice Apocalypse!)” has a few guest musicians that apparently just happened to be hanging around, including Chuck Prophet on guitar, Bruce Kaphan (American Music Club) on pedal steel and Steve Carter on piano. It was recorded in a single take at the end of a very long and productive day.
▶ “Spanish Stroll” is a spontaneous, loose cover version of the 1977 Mink DeVille classic, taped on an old boombox.
DISC ONE
1. The Fever (First Version) *
2. That’s Progress +
3. Sweet Lover Hangover (Edit)
4. Bomber’s Moon +
5. Words of a Fool (First Version) *
6. Libido Talking +
7. Pearl (First Version) *
8. Shelf Life (First Version) *
9. Sad And Beautiful World (First Version) *
10. Returning +
11. Ritual Radio
12. U. O. ME. +
DISC TWO
1. The Glittering Darkness
2. California (Have A Nice Apocalypse!) +
3. Butterfly
4. Venus Child
5. Here Come The Comedown (Rough Mix) *
6. Pick Yourself Up
7. Sweet F. A. (Rough Mix) *
8. Sweet Lover Hangover (Remix)
9. My Dark Twin
10. Spanish Stroll %
* previously unreleased version + previously unreleased song % previously unreleased cover
Everything changed for The Beths when they released their debut album, Future Me Hates Me, in 2018. The indie rock band had long been nurtured within Auckland, New Zealand’s tight-knit music scene, working full-time during the day and playing music with friends after hours. Full of uptempo pop rock songs with bright, indelible hooks, the LP garnered them critical acclaim from outlets like Pitchfork and Rolling Stone, and they set out for their first string of shows overseas. They quit their jobs, said goodbye to their hometown, and devoted themselves entirely to performing across North America and Europe. They found themselves playing to crowds of devoted fans and opening for acts like Pixies and Death Cab for Cutie. Almost instantly, The Beths turned from a passion project into a full-time career in music.
Songwriter and lead vocalist Elizabeth Stokes worked on what would become The Beths’ second LP, Jump Rope Gazers, in between these intense periods of touring. Like the group’s earlier music, the album tackles themes of anxiety and self-doubt with effervescent power pop choruses and rousing backup vocals, zeroing in on the communality and catharsis that can come from sharing stressful situations with some of your best friends. Stokes’s writing on Jump Rope Gazers grapples with the uneasy proposition of leaving everything and everyone you know behind on another continent, chasing your dreams while struggling to stay close with loved ones back home.
“If you’re at a certain age, all your friends scatter to the four winds,” Stokes says. “We did the same thing. When you’re home, you miss everybody, and when you’re away, you miss everybody. We were just missing people all the time.”
With songs like the rambunctious “Dying To Believe” and the tender, shoegazey “Out of Sight,” The Beths reckon with the distance that life necessarily drives between people over time. People who love each other inevitably fail each other. “I’m sorry for the way that I can’t hold conversations/They’re such a fragile thing to try to support the weight of,” Stokes sings on “Dying to Believe.” The best way to repair that failure, in The Beths’ view, is with abundant and unconditional love, no matter how far it has to travel. On “Out of Sight,” she pledges devotion to a dearly missed friend: “If your world collapses/I’ll be down in the rubble/I’d build you another,” she sings.
“It was a rough year in general, and I found myself saying the words, ‘wish you were here, wish I was there,’ over and over again,” she says of the time period in which the album was written. Touring far from home, The Beths committed themselves to taking care of each other as they were trying at the same time to take care of friends living thousands of miles away. They encouraged each other to communicate whenever things got hard, and to pay forward acts of kindness whenever they could. That care and attention shines through on Jump Rope Gazers, where the quartet sounds more locked in than ever. Their most emotive and heartfelt work to date, Jump Rope Gazers stares down all the hard parts of living in communion with other people, even at a distance, while celebrating the ferocious joy that makes it all worth it — a sentiment we need now more than ever.
• North American publicity by Pitch Perfect
• College/Non-Comm/AAA/Commercial Specialty radio by Terrorbird
• Digital playlisting & positioning and sync licensing by Terrorbird
• Facebook boosted posts and targeted Instagram dark posts throughout campaign
• “Dying To Believe”, “Not Getting Excited”, “Out Of Sight” and “Jump Rope Gazers” music videos available
• Pressed on Lemon Lime Vinyl, includes free digital download
THE BETHS
JUMP ROPE GAZERS
CAK143
Street Date: June 9, 2023
File Under: Alternative/ Indie Rock
LP (Lemon Lime vinyl)
UPC 677517114348
CD UPC 677517014327
CS UPC 677517114324
DISTRIBUTION CONTACT
jillw@redeyeworldwide.com
1. I’m Not Getting Excited
2. Dying to Believe
3. Jump Rope Gazers
4. Acrid
5. Do You Want Me Now
6. Out of Sight
7. Don’t Go Away
8. Mars, the God of War
9. You Are a Beam of Light
10. Just Shy of Sure
RIYL Alvvays
Courtney Barnett
Lucy Dacus
Death Cab For Cutie
Phoebe Bridgers
ALSO AVAILABLE
Expert In A Dying Field LP
UPC 677517016413 (Canary Yellow vinyl)
UPC 677517116427 (Bone vinyl)
Future Me Hates Me LP
UPC 677517112825
Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 LP UPC 677517115703
CARPARK
The Search for God is a wake-up call for a troubled world that’s still worth saving, animated by a belief in the power of small connections to add up to big changes. At 10 songs delivered in a brief 15 minutes, Jimmy Whispers’ long-awaited sophomore album feels present in a way that feels brand new for the cult auteur. Like many of us, Jimmy has been affected by the pressure of the past few years. After embracing sobriety, and now as a filmmaker sharing the stories of lesser known Los Angeles community members, he’s brought his dreaming down to earth, while turning its direction even further out.
Recorded with his longtime friend Ziyad Asrar of the band Whitney (and re-recorded after a hard drive incident destroyed the original files), The Search for God was created in the wake of Jimmy’s COVID isolation, and returns to some teen influences that are out of step with the chill/lo-fi LA indie rock scene he’s found himself lumped in with. Created mostly with two vintage synths, a single Roland CR5000 drum machine, and a busted karaoke machine, it channels Midwestern emo, the Beach Boys’ Smile, subtle nods at hyper-pop production, and forgotten jewel-box era college radio of the early aughts into a pure pop sound that transcends easy categorization.
The album’s standout single—and its statement of purpose—is “Hellscape,” which packs more into a minute and 40 seconds than you’d think possible: multiple immediately-unforgettable hooks, kaleidoscopic keyboards, and a bracing reminder that even the most transcendent moments are rooted in a world full of suffering. “This is a fucking hellscape,” Jimmy sings. “This is real life / this is happening.”
That may sound like punk nihilism, but The Search for God is anything but. Every lyrical acknowledgment of how fucked things are right now comes with a promise that we can still make positive changes. Jimmy calls it “God”; you might call it Love or Peace or A Place In the Universe That Makes Some Kind of Sense.
Will The Search for God deliver whatever that is to you? Of course not. At its heart, it’s still just a really good pop album. But maybe that’s enough. For a minute or two at a time, Jimmy’s music cracks open a space where the divine can enter our lives. The utopia we’ve all been dreaming of is already here if we’re just willing to build it. Jimmy Whispers is there, ready to add his voice, whenever we want to reach out.
• North American publicity by Hive Mind
• College/Non-Commercial radio by Terrorbird
• Sync licensing by Terrorbird
• Produced and mixed by Ziyad Asrar (Whitney)
• Co-writer for recent Dent May and Drugdealer tracks
• Pressed on Cotton Candy vinyl and includes digital download card
• Music videos for “Hellscape,” “True Love is Freedom,” “Ice Cream Truck,” and “Stray Dogs” in the works
• Short Film Swimming in the works
JIMMY WHISPERS THE SEARCH FOR GOD CAK169
Street Date: June 9, 2023
File Under: Indie / Indie Rock
LP (Cotton Candy vinyl) 677517016918
CD 677517016925
DISTRIBUTION CONTACT jillw@redeyeworldwide.com
TRACKLISTING
1. Ice Cream Truck
2. Stray Dogs
3. The Search for God
4. Swimming
5. True Love is Freedom
6. Hiding in the Basement
7. Meditation Song
8. Hellscape
9. The Search for God (Reprise)
10. The Right Time to Leave
RIYL Future Islands Porches
The Drums Molly Nilsson
Release Date: June 9, 2023
Jayda G, unveils her forthcoming album on Ninja Tune. ‘Guy’ is available on limited color LP made from recycled vinyl records and offcuts and CD.
Jayda G, the Grammy-nominated writer, producer, DJ, environmental toxicologist, campaigner and broadcaster, is set to return with her new full length album ‘Guy’. Co-produced with Jack Peñate (who has previously worked with the likes of SAULT, David Byrne and Adele), with contributions from Lisa-Kaindé Diaz (of Ibeyi), Ed Thomas (Stormzy, Nia Archives, Jorja Smith) and more.
The album arrives on the back of a busy few years that have seen her Grammy-nominated (for her mid-pandemic single “Both Of Us”, created with producer Fred again..); release a trove of high-profile remixes for the likes of Taylor Swift and Dua Lipa; tour the worlds biggest festival and stages including Glastonbury and Coachella; release a compilation for the renowned DJ Kicks series and highly praised collaboration with Aluna; appear as a guest judge on BBC’s ‘Glow Up’; marry her childhood sweetheart in her hometown of Grand Forks, BC (in the same house her parents got married decades earlier); and contribute to the immersive installation ‘Undercurrent’ (New York, June ‘21) which focussed on the Climate Crisis, alongside artists like Khruangbin, Nosaj Thing, Mount Kimbie and Bon Iver.
The new album ‘Guy’ brings Jayda’s own voice and words more prominently into focus than ever before, across 13 tracks that draw on her House, Disco, RnB and Soul roots while emphasizing her pop songwriting sensibilities, interspersed with archival recordings of her late father, the eponymous William Richard Guy.
CAT NO: ZEN287
UPC:
5054429170047
Box Lot: 20
￫ Limited colour 1LP made from recycled vinyl records and offcuts (**DISCLAIMERFINAL VINYL COLOR AND APPEARANCE WILL VARY FROM MOCKUP**)
￫ Housed in a gatefold Bagasse board sleeve (made from sugar cane by-product, flax and hemp fibre) and printed inner sleeve
￫ Mixed by Marta Salogni. Mastered by Heba Kadry. Cover photography by Nabil Elderkin.
￫ Download code included.
CAT NO:
ZEN287SIG
UPC:
5054429173949
Box Lot: 20
CAT NO: ZENCD287
UPC:
5054429170054
Box Lot: 35
￫ Same product specs as above, plus includes limited signed 12” photo insert
￫ CD housed in Bagasse board sleeve (made from sugar cane by-product, flax and hemp fibre). Mixed by Marta Salogni. Mastered by Heba Kadry. Cover photography by Nabil Elderkin
A1. Intro
A2. Blue Lights
A3. Heads Or Tails
A4. Scars
A5. Interlude: I Got Tired Of Running
A6. Lonely Back In O
A7. Your Thoughts
B1. Interlude: It Was Beautiful
B2. Meant To Be
B3. Circle Back Around
B4. When She Dance
B5. Sapphires Of Gold
B6. 15 Foot
Genre: Electronic
Key Markets: Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Denver, Miami
Recommended if you like… Channel Tres, Moodymann, SAULT, Little Dragon, Anz, The Blessed Madonna, Honey Dijon, Roisin Murphy
naretail@ninjatune.net
ninjatune.net
From the tender-hearted “Jinzou Maria” to the rumbling and raucous “Yurei Zanmai”, the songs of Hagata bear an eerie yet somehow familiar sensation. Japanese pop tones, Serge Gainsbourg grandeur, folk whisper, and Brazilian surf rock all mix into the psychedelic stew. Blending past and present, from Canada to Japan, multiple lives lived at once, each track carries a sense of change, impact, of having been marked in an intimate way. And yet the force behind that marking is always just out of grasp, a wisp, a ghost, an energy, a spirit that compels you to keep reaching. And at the end of the day, the concrete answer of how that bite happened is far less thrilling than the bite itself. On Hagata, TEKE::TEKE move beyond the idea of walking across multiple paths, instead existing so fully in the space between that the usual constraints of creativity no longer apply.
Psychedelic rock group TEKE::TEKE are intimately familiar with duality, of splitting reality between past and present, complex melodies and hushed interludes, intense action and lingering response. After building their sound through careful assembly of countless splinters of Japanese folk, psychedelia, Brazilian surf rock, and other far-flung touchstones, the Montreal-based seven-piece indulged in and learned from stretching out in free-floating experimentation on the road. Now releasing their sophomore album, Hagata (due June 9th via Kill Rock Stars), TEKE::TEKE move fully in the space between, embracing the power of mythic pairings and identities lived at once. Matching muscly intensity with moments of cloudy meditation—like a world-class high jumper finding bliss at the apex of their leap—the group frame expressive compositions with regal flute, rich horns, ecstatic guitar, and a thumping rhythm section.
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 9, 2023
ARTIST: BROOK BENTON
TITLE: ENDLESSLY: HITS & RARITIES
CONFIGURATION: DIGI PAK / TWO CD SET
CAT #: CD-SBR-7036
UPC: 708535703624
BOX LOT: 45 UNITS
GENRE: R&B / POP
• The silky smooth baritone who ruled the R&B
• Side One contains previously unreleased demos from ’55 to ’59
• Side Two features Benton revisiting his hit catalog of 7 R&R #1 Hits / 8 Billboard Top Ten Hits
Silky smooth: that was Brook Benton’s byword from his first record to his very last.Benton crashed the top spot on the R&B charts in early 1959 with his moving “It’s Just a Matter of Time,” then rapidly encored with three more R&B chart-toppers: “Thank You Pretty Baby,” “So Many Ways,” and “Kiddio.”
“At the top of her game.” – Under the Radar “Clever lyrics, clashing instrumentals and unique vocal patterns create a dizzying and heady album that feels as refreshing as it does personal.” – The Line of Best Fit
PR, radio and other promotional plans: Press targets include Bandcamp, Fader, New Yorker, New York Times, NPR, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Paste, New York Mag / Vulture, Uproxx and more. Full radio campaign by Beggars In-House team.
• Produced by Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals)
• Noted collaborator of the National (I Am Easy To Find)
• US and UK Tours through 2023 and 2024
LP: RT-0414-LPE
Indie Green Vinyl
Singer-songwriter and composer, Kate Stables returns with a wondrous new This Is The Kit album, Careful of Your Keepers, that chronicles a world of mistakes and mishaps, cruel circumstances, and universe-driven surprises. It’s a record that embraces the concept of outrospection – the idea that you get to know oneself by developing relationships and empathic thinking with others –and brings the Paris-based, UK born bandleader’s signature ability to move swiftly between cryptic poetry to honest inquisition to the fore.
Guiding the ship through changing seas is producer Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals), who deftly enhances the innate shared language that Stables has with her band, capturing beautiful instrumental performances while leaving the space required for her robust, silken voice to lead. The music here is daring and soft, cutting and warm, a wild feat of complexity and combined dispositions. Surviving change is a constant throughout this record and This is the Kit takes us to the front lines in “More Change,” where we celebrate the losing battle of fighting change with barbed dancing lyrics that whisk us from the mundane to the massive as a steady beat and delicate guitars wind in and out, down and around Stables words: “light bulb / life changing / found a friend…claw sanity back again.” The sonic brilliance always comes back to bite and the cascading melodies of “Stuck In A Room” plant the listener in the most familiar of recent quandaries, wanting to leave but being unable to. There are so many versions of “leaving” one might be attracted to in this disappointing modern age, and Stables works through them all. Conflict hits hard and with surprise but have the right people around you and you can escape by the skin of your teeth.
LP: RT-0414-LP
CD: RT-0414-CD
1. Goodbye Bite
2. Inside Outside
3. Take You To Sleep
4. More Change
5. This Is When The Sky Gets Big
6. Scabby Head and Legs
7. Careful Of Your Keepers
8. Doomed Or More Doomed
9. Stuck In A Room
10. Dibs
JUNE 9TH, 2023
“Pittsburgh quartet feeble little horse know exactly how much noise belongs in their noise-pop, a balance they strike with ease on the shaggily infectious”
- The New Yorker
Indie Exclusive LP pressed on grey galaxy vinyl. Limited to 500 copies. LP includes digital download
feeble little horse makes thrilling and wildly unpredictable songs that are a re ection of the joys that come with making music with your best friends. The Pittsburgh quartet’s sophomore album, Girl with Fish, which is out June 9, was made focusing on intuition over intention: letting the magic of collaboration come rst. “Anything that makes us laugh or puts a smile on our faces, we usually end up keeping in the songs,” explains drummer Jake Kelley. Across 11 self-recorded and self-produced tracks, the band careens from blissed-out pop to harsh noise, glitchy programmed drum beats, and o -kilter indie rock—sometimes all in one song. As a follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2021 debut Hayday, this LP, with its overwhelmingly inviting and emotionally resonant tracklist, is a document of four people trusting their instincts and most importantly each other.
For the members of feeble little horse, Hayday was originally going to be their rst and last album. Guitarist Ryan Walchonski was moving to Washington D.C. for work while the rest of the band, including Kelley, guitarist-producer Sebastian Kinsler, and singer-bassist Lydia Slocum were all still in college. “When we made Hayday, we wrote really quickly to get it done before he moved away and we couldn’t make songs anymore,” says Kinsler. “But we realized making music with each other was too fun to walk away from. For this album, we got to take our time with every decision that went into it.” Despite the distance with Walchonski out-of-state and Slocum attending school a few hours away in central Pennsylvania, the band immediately started work on a new batch of songs, trading voice memos, new mixes, and song ideas remotely.
Like the album name, which came from an inside joke the band shared about imagined painting titles at a museum, there’s a sense of humor that’s welcoming and light. The bruising opener “Freak,” for all its pummeling drums and guitar blasts, is a breezy track about an unrequited crush on a college star athlete (Slocum sings, “how can you be satis ed / she's 5'1 and you're 6'5”). “I think we just felt more con dent on this album,” says Slocum. “We could have felt more pressure and more unsure of ourselves. But we just wanted to try new things, and learn from what people liked about Hayday but not make the same song again.” Girl with Fish is a testament to the power of self-recording, doing it yourself, and taking a leap with the people you are closest with. “Besides our friendship getting stronger and our songs becoming more interesting to us, nothing’s really changed,” says Kinsler. “It's still us just hanging out: This is what we do instead of playing video games.”
Artist: feeble little horse
Title: Girl with Fish Catalog #: LBJ-365
Formats: CD / LP / Indie Exclusive LP / Tape Street Date: June 9th, 2023
Box Lot Quantity: 50 CD / 40 LP / 40 Ltd LP / 100
Tape Genre: Alternative
PRESS PROMOTION
Grandstand (US)
Eloy Lugo - Eloyl@grandstandhq.com
Inside Out (UK)
Tom Sloman - tom@insideout.agency
RADIO PROMOTION
Radio (US)
Terrorbird
Emma Chekroun radioteam@terrorbird.com
Additional Radio Inquiries radio@saddle-creek.com
MASTER USE LICENSING US - syncteam@terrorbird.com
INTERNATIONAL LICENSING & DISTRO robb@saddle-creek.com
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT retail@saddle-creek.com
505 ENO ST. HILLSBOROUGH, NC, 27278 redeyworldwide.com
Matt Abels abelsm@redeyeworldwide.com
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9 June 2023
1 LP SNDW12051
Soul, Disco
Worldwide (ex US/CA/MX)
United States
LONG AWAITED REISSUE OF THE
I LOVE YOU’,
UNRELEASED RECORDINGS FROM THE SAME SESSION
Soundway reissues the vocal and instrumental versions of ‘If I Love You’, from G.C. Cameron, the lead singer of the legendary soul group The Spinners. The release also includes two unreleased recordings from the same session - ‘Live for Love’ and ‘Thank You Baby’.
Hailing from Mall Creek, Mississippi, G.C. Cameron rose to fame at 22 years of age, when he joined Motown Records to become lead singer of The Spinners. After a string of well received releases, including chartbuster ‘It’s A Shame’, cowritten and produced by Stevie Wonder, Cameron left The Spinners to pursue a solo career.
It was a trip to Fantasy Studios, San Francisco in 1977, where Cameron teamed up with Harvey Faqua, Greg Crockett and Elgie Stover to realise what is arguably his finest work. A full album was recorded, but only two tracks saw the light of day, via the short-lived UK label, Flamingo.
Soundway’s Live for Love release comprises the two indemand cuts previously released on Flamingo - the deep and dubby disco-workout ‘If I Love You (Instrumental)’ and soul drenched ballad ‘Live For Love’, coupled with two unreleased recordings rescued from the abyss after 45 years of collecting dust. The modern-soul-dancer ‘Thank You Baby’, backed by Jeanie Tracy and Martha Walsh, is a jewel that displays Cameron’s full range whilst the vocal to ‘If I Love You’ elevates the recording to dance-floor-ready.
FOR FANS OF:
Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, The Spinners
info@soundwayrecords.com
www.soundwayrecords.com
TRACKLIST:
SIDE A
1. If I Love You
2. If I Love You (Instrumental)
SIDE B
1. Thank You Baby
2. Live For Love
LISTEN LINK:
https://soundcloud.com/ soundway-records/sets/ gccameron-live-for-lovenew-masters/s-L4knQsHXiCF
SNDW12051
5060571362117
CAPTAIN PLANET SOUNDS LIKE HOME
CAT#: BJLP41
UPC (Black): 674276571276
UPC (Blue): 674276502676
TRACKLISTING
1. For Sumo (feat. Henry D'Arthenay)
2. Captain Planet & Shungudzo - Music Is Medicine
3. Captain Planet & Tagua Tagua - Destello
4. Hammock Dreams
5. Captain Planet & Jimena AngelPambelé
6. Captain Planet, Zuzuka Poderosa & Raphael Futura - Moqueca
7. Captain Planet & David Walters - Kité Soufè
8. Captain Planet & Maiya Sykes - Break Through To My Heart
9. Mirage (feat. Taj Bethel)
10.Captain Planet & Chico Mann - Elevando
11.Loose Wires (feat. El Din)
12.Captain Planet & David Walters - Shake
13.Mind Reader
14.4th of July
15.No Better Place
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 9, 2023
§ 12” Full Color Jacket, Black 2xLP on Initial Pressing
§ 12” Full Color Jacket, Indie Exclusive Blue 2xLP on Initial Pressing
BOX LOT: 25 EXPORT
STATUS: US & Canada
DISTRIBUTION CONTACT: STEPHEN SVACINA stephen@redeyeworldwide.com
§ Sounds Like Home is a return to Captain Planet’s roots, filled with funk, disco, and psychedelic soul. Focusing more on organic songs for living room dance parties, kitchen cooking sessions, and backyard BBQ hangouts.
§ Extensive press and blog coverage, including such notable outlets as The Fader, Complex, Bandcamp, Remezcla, Sounds and Colors, and many others
§ Worldwide Radio coverage from BBC6’s Cerys Matthews (UK), FIP (FR), World Beat (CA), NPR’s World Cafe (US), with substantial support from KCRW by featuring “Pambele” as a Top Tune Of The Day, in addition to spins from Morning Becomes Eclectic, Raul Campos, Anne Litt, Scott Dallavos, Jose Galvan and more.
§ 7” vinyl from previous single “Moqueca” hit #1 Best Seller on Juno’s International charts
§ Notable editorial placements for album singles such as Apple’s “New in Alternative” and “New Fire ”, Spotify France’s "Feel Good” and more.
After a huge year of traveling in 2022, playing DJ sets in more than 30 cities across 10 countries, Captain Planet dove back into the studio to create his 5th and most ambitious album to date- Sounds Like Home. Taking a turn toward the more organic, retro sounds of artists who originally inspired him as a young musician, Charlie Wilder (aka Captain Planet) flexed his composer and bandleader muscles- incorporating horn sections, strings and acoustic drums more than the big club focused electronic sounds he has often come to be known for. “The basic concept was to make a record like the ones I constantly pull off my shelves at home and play on the weekends. The records that turn into living room dance parties with my family, the soundtracks while I'm cooking, the music that fills the backyard for lazy hang outs.” An avid vinyl record collector and musicologist since his teens, the Captain has a near encyclopedic knowledge of music from around the world, particularly artists from the 60’s and 70's, which is the era that inspired much of the sonic texture on this new album.
In classic Captain Planet style, a kaleidoscopic array of genres from around the world find their way into the mix- Brazilian disco, Latin funk, Jamaican dub, Middle Eastern psychedelia, and American soul music. While this diversity may sound more like a mixtape, the Captain's trademark uplifting vibe and impeccable knack for building a great groove, provide the special ingredients that pull it all together and make the sauce work. The Fader wrote “the Captain is a walking 'recommended vinyl' section from the best record store you've ever been to”, because all his deep love and appreciation for classic music comes right through him in his original songs. Throughout this album you'll hear echoes of timeless artists like Cymande, Gilberto Gil, Ray Barretto, Curtis Mayfield, Mulatu Astatke, and Gabor Szabo, all funneled through the Captain's modern musical sensibility, shaped by nearly 2 decades of being a professional world-traveling DJ.
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 9, 20023
The spellbinding Toronto-based outfit Pantayo (Eirene Cloma, Michelle Cruz, Joanna Delos Reyes, Kat Estacio, and Katrina Estacio) find a satisfying resolution by reinventing their relationship to the traditional kulintang ensemble instruments, indigenous to the islands known as Mindanao, that provide the foundation for their unmistakable and unyielding sound.
On their sophomore record Ang Pagdaloy, the Polaris-shortlisted group give themselves permission to dive into an appreciation for the music they discovered growing up —searing, minimal R&B; heaving drone metal; airy 90s guitar-driven rock, and gauzy, alt-country balladry. In the process, they build into their sonic landscape a constellation of somatic and aural influences, like the low-belly simmer of an unresolved crush or the metallic cacophony of the carts from early morning bottle collectors in Manilla.
At its core, Ang Pagdaloy is an intricately constructed collage that rejects narrow definitions, and instead, mirrors the properties of water — taking inspiration from its shape-shifting elements, devotion to organic paths of least resistance, and desire to to let go and flow.
“Capturing a modern spin on the sortofclassic70s folksongwriting, withplenty ofmodern flourishes andtextures. ” -We AllWantSomeone To ShoutFor
"['So Down ' ]is a trackthatembraces duality , be itin the way thegentle delivery anddrifting shimmer is edgedby crunchyguitar, or how Wolken ’ s lyrics are wholly sincereyetnonetheless inpossession ofa wry smile too. " - Various SmallFlames
"Wolken ’ s voice floats above the instrumentation, conveying raw emotion andvulnerability . "
-Up To Hear Music
Artist: Cooper Wolken
Album: Chapters
Format: LP
LP UPC: 701220916682
CAT #: EL298
Genre: Alternative / Indie / Folk / Singer Songwriter
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Release date: 2023/06/02
Over the last few years, Bristol born, London based artist LCY has become one of the guiding lights in a scene of fans who like their club music deep, dark and with a heavy dose of rhythm. Releasing predominantly on their own label SZNS7N, LCY has transcended musical boundaries, taking from a wide range of musical influences to create their own fluid hybrid style that indulges the deepest desires of those who chase a visceral dancefloor response - uplifting a huge amount of unconventional producers alongside them in the process. Today marks the announcement of their first release on fabric Originals, the flagship label from global club imprint fabric
LCY’s He Hymns EP is a dystopian reimagination of club music. Each track within the project takes inspiration from elements of beloved genres of club music and metamorphoses them into works of dancefloor experiments that alter the perception of what music built for soundsystems can be.
Simultaneously warm and unrelentingly intense, He Hymns perfectly sets the stall for LCY’s vision for the club; transporting the listener to an alternate future in which the driving heart of electronic music sits unapologetically at the fore. He Hymns is dynamic, confounding club music that is still inherently propulsiveready to lift the curtain on a new level of invention within the electronic space.
Highlights:
• Black vinyl cut by award winning engineer Matt Colton
• The fifth release in the new series ‘fabric Originals’ from fabric Records
• Artwork designed by fabric’s inhouse creative director
• A producer with a lot of hype – phenomenal artist
A1 Sora
A2 Believe
A3 He Hymn
B1 Bad Blood
B2 Heartbreaker
Format: Black Vinyl 12” EP
Catalog No. FRO005
UPC/EAN: 5060845322137
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Artist: Wobbly
Album: AdditionalKids
Label: HausuMountain
Cat#: HAUSMO132
Formats: CD,Cassette
Cassetteedition CDedition Ina4-paneldigipak C50-graytapew/imprints
SanFrancisco-basedmultimediaartist,composer,and improviser JonLeidecker makesmusicunderthe pseudonym Wobbly.Heisanactivememberofboththe seminalexperimentalgroup Negativland,andwiththe ThurstonMooreGroup.Overthecourseofavaried musicalpracticethatbeganinthemid-1980s, Wobbly hascollaboratedwithartistsincluding Matmos, Dieter Moebius (Cluster), JenniferWalshe, FredFrith, Tim Story, CherylE.Leonard, ZeenaParkins,and People
LikeUs.Leideckerhasreleasedrecordingsonlabelslike IllegalArt,ImportantRecords,BureauB,andTigerbeat6.
Aftercontributingextensivelyto Negativland’slive-mix radioprogram OverTheEdge,spearheadedbythe lateDonJoyceandbroadcastfromBerkeley’sKPFAFM, Leideckerinheritedtheprogramin2015.
AdditionalKids featurescontributionsfrom: 0th, LizAlbee, KevinBlechdom, BlevinBlectum, AnneBourne, DemonSleeper, DinaEmerson, DominiqueLeone, Mai
Lingani, AnaMachado, AnneMcGuire, MarisaElene
Nadieja, KanokoNishi-Smith, JohnOswald, PhippsPt., DanishtaRivero, ShatterPattern, Sue-C,and PamelaZ. “ForanexperimentalelectronicmusicianWobblyakaJon Leideckerhashadanunusuallatecareerascendance…as molecularlykineticasCarlStone’srecentreleasesandthe disturbingalienfunkof“LentFoot”makesMateossound likeOMD.PopularMonitressoffersanoverloadof unprecedentedsonicevents,yieldingescapistmusicofthe highest(dis)order.” - TheWire …evenatitsmostrandom-sounding,there'sstillan unexplainablesuperhumanlogicpropellingitforward.
- AllMusicGuide
AdditionalKids, Wobbly’sthirdreleaseonHausuMountain,follows theapp-exploitingexperimentsof2019’s Monitress (HAUSMO96) and2021’s PopularMonitress (HAUSMO110)withasongcyclethat introducesastrainofLeidecker’smusicrarelyheardinhiswiderangingsolocatalog:mutatedpopmusicwithvocalperformances fromadiverseguestlistofsingersappearingonnearlyeverytrack. Farfromconformingtoanystandardplaybook, Wobbly’s conceptionofpopcan’thelpbutgetwarpedandrefractedthrough hisidiosyncratictonalsensibilitiesandhisirreverentsenseofhumor. Inconsortwiththeconstantlysurprisingturnsofeachguestartist’s vocalperformance, AdditionalKids carriesonLeidecker’severbewilderinghigh-definitionsynthesispracticeandhisconfounding productiondecisionsashebuildstracksfromstaccatoburstsofsynth, clangingpercussion,andgarbledswathesofglitchedtexture. Wobbly considers AdditionalKids tobea“multi-generationalalbum aboutgenerations”andexplainsthatitwas“originallyrecordedin theearly2000sfromtheperspectiveofabunchoffriendsasking themselvesthequestionofwhetherornottohavekidswhileintheir early30s,thenfinished15yearslaterintheirlate40saftersome ofthemhad,andsomeofthemhadn’t.”Headds,“astheyearspass askingyourselfwhetherornotyoushould,thequestioniseasily answeredbyanyofthekidswhoarealreadyhere.”Thoughsome sonicelements,lyrics,andproductionideasdatebackasfaras 1999,thealbumsidestepsthestatusofanarchivalreleaseora collectionofodds-and-endsandstandsasafullyformedstatement initsownright—abittersweetandultimatelyridiculousopusthat couldhaveonlybeencompletedafteralongperiodofgestation andreflection.Insteadofwallowinginthetrappingsofpro-orantinatalism, Wobbly andhiscollaboratorscastthemselvesasjesters whocandeflatetheseheavyexistentialconsiderationsthrough parodyandexaggeration,throughabrasionanddelight.
Whilealbumopener“NotHome”presentsaparticularlydemented Wobbly productionlikeabustlingdwarvenworkshopofsynthetic woodwinds,Burkinabeartist MaiLingani’spyrotechnicvocal performanceprovidesanimprobablecontrastwithescalating sequencesofhighnotesandecstaticchants.“TheHospital”finds vocalist DemonSleeper (AlexandraBuschman-Románof LasSucias) floatingtooperaticheightsoverLeidecker’swebofsawwavesand kosmischebleeparchitecture.AnaMachado’scharismaticrapping weavesbetweensquishesandpercussivedetonationson“White Eggs.”Outsiderlegend MarisaEleneNadieja matchesthelunacyof Wobbly’sproductionon“BankAccount”withfreewheelingsing-song melodieslikeanunsupervisedchildspinningaroundanempty playground.“YouBelongHere”lopesoveraconsonantchord progressionoflightlydetunedsynthsthatserveasabackdropfor achoirofBayAreaundergroundlegends: PamelaZ, LasSucias, and BlectumfromBlechdom —abettedbythesaxophoneof plunderphonicprogenitor JohnOswald.Speakingonthe contributionsofthemanycollaboratorsthatappearon Additional Kids,Leideckerreveals,“OnlyrecentlydidIreallyhearwhatallof ourlyricswereonabout”:theviabilityofhavingchildren,theterror andexhilarationofparenting,thesacrificesofdomesticlife,andthe realitybehindthealternatives.Thoughthesethemesswirlthrough AdditionalKids, Wobbly andhiscollaboratorstwistthemintotheir owngleefulformsofcreationandrecreation.AsLeideckerexplains, “Thealbumisalsoverymuchaboutthatoverlappingbitonthevenn diagrambetweenthethingspeopledotomaketheirkidshappy, andthethingspeopledoinsteadofhavingkids.”
Release date: 6/9/2023
From the teenage 4-track tapes she made as Greenpot Bluepot to the recent albums under her own name, Natalie Rose LeBrecht’s recordings have been fascinating dispatches from her progressively deeper dives into her gorgeous, weird, wildly idiomatic aesthetic. Holy Prana Open Game is a jewel of intensely personal cosmic music, created through a remarkable process of openness, craftiness, addition and subtraction. It belongs to a tradition of albums that document a rich, meditative sound as it rises up to join the world outside its creators’ minds: Alice Coltrane’s Universal Consciousness, Harmonia’s Musik von Harmonia, Philip Glass’s North Star, Talk Talk’s Laughing Stock.
American Dreams Records is a transcontinental experimental label dedicated to showcasing art inspired by patience, intention, perseverance, hope, and leaving the world a little more beautiful than we found it. Our ethos is rooted in story-telling, inclusivity, community, and cohabitation with the natural world.
Label Contact: Eli Winter, label manager eli@american-dreams.zone
RIYL: Alice Coltrane, Virginia Astley, Harmonia, Philip Glass, Talk Talk
File under: Ambient, Experimental
A stunning arrangement of visionary, symphonic songs overflowing with moments of bliss, wonder, and profundity, augmented by contributions from members of Dirty Three.
Selling Points:
• Features guest contributions from Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Mess Esque), Jim White (Dirty Three, Xylouris White), David Lackner (ARP, Adeline Hotel, Ben Seretan)
• Past appearances with Devendra Banhart, Animal Collective, Sharon Van Etten, Dirty Projectors, Ian MacKaye, Tara Jane O’Neil
• Collaborations with Avey Tare (Animal Collective) and Matt Marinelli (Beastie Boys, Lauryn Hill)
• “Natalie LeBrecht seems to offer us the totality of musical history at once -- snippets fly through our periphery, all demanding our attention simultaneously.” - Post Post Rock
Catalog #: 64 ADR
Black LP: 727431749369
Box lot of 30
Title: Maxime
Label: APOLLON RECORDS
Genre: Classic Rock/ Alternative
Cat No: Format: Barcode:
CD-APR-133 CD 7090039726005
LP-APR-133 LP (Black) 7090039726012
LP-APR-133LE LP (Orange) 7090039726029
OVERVIEW:
Howlin’ Sun is finally back with their highly anticipated 2nd album. The sound is familiar for fans of the first album, but this time it is crisper, darker and bigger. The dark and heavy title track «Maxime» - a homage to a legendary former venue in Bergen, sets the stage for the album. The album is a broad exploration of the rock genre going from southern country rock to gritty garage, complimented by the indie intermission «Jayne» and the americana album closer «Bittersweet Morning Sun».
The album was recorded live to tape in an old sardine packaging plant by the sea side in Bergen, by Robert Jønnnum from Underschön studio. The sound of the room, the feel of the band playing together in real time, and the vintage compressors, audio console and reel-to-reel tape machine gives «Maxime» an organic and warm presence.
For fans of classic rock, modern fuzz, blues, southern rock and garage rock.
MARKETING & PROMOTION / SELLING POINTS
For fans of Wolfmother, Greta Van Fleet & The Black Keys
Highly anticipated sophomore album.
Limited edition LP on transparent orange vinyl (350x)
Digital single: Let’s Go Steady
Band website: www.facebook.com/howlinsun
Label website: www.apollonrecords.no
Listening link: https://promo.theorchard.com/lroJWzlRDqjZVdie8kDt?skin=light
For interviews / info / press contact: robin@karismarecords.no
Street Date: 6.16.23 | Order Date: 5.26.23
Side A
1. Where The Devil Don’t Stay
2. Tornadoes
3. The Day John Henry Died
4. Puttin’ People On The Moon
5. Goode’s Field Road
Side B
1. Carl Perkins Cadillac
2. TVA
3. The Sand of Iwo Jima
4. Danko/Manuel
Side C
1. The Boys From Alabama
2. The Buford Stick
3. Never Gonna Change
4. Cottonseed
Side D
1. The Great Car Dealer War
2. Daddy’s Cup
3. Lookout Mountain
4. Goddamn Lonely Love
CONFIG: 2xLP, “Reposado Color Vinyl”, 32-page booklet, Gatefold, Slip-Sleeve Case.
UPC: 607396572410
In 2004 the Drive-By Truckers released what would become the best selling album in their illustrious catalog. The Dirty South is a concept album that examines the state of the South, and unveils the hypocrisy, irony, and tragedy that continues to exist. The album features live show staples like, “Tornadoes”, “Where The Devil Dont Stay” and “Puttin’ People On The Moon” as well as rarities like “Goode’s Field Road” and “Daddy’s Cup.”
The Complete Dirty South is a band-led rework of the original album. Principal member, Patterson Hood, took the reins and reimagined this record as it was originally intended. The complete version features resequenced audio, three additional tracks, four remixes along with updated vocals. The packaging comes with a perfect bound book featuring liner notes from Patterson Hood, track by track descriptions from Mike Cooley and Jason Isbell as well as never before seen photos along with updated artwork from the late Wes Freed.
“This ‘Director’s Cut’ is the way it was always intended to be heard”
- Patterson Hood
Catalog: NW5724 LP
Box Lot: 20 Count
Genre: Rock N Roll CD
CONFIG: Digi Wallet, Slip Case, 48-page booklet
UPC: 607396654826
Catalog: NW6548 CD
Box Lot: 30 Count
Genre: Rock N Roll
• THE DEFINITIVE VERSION FINALLY AVAILABLE AS THE BAND INTENDED
• FEATURING RESEQUENCED AUDIO, 3 ADDITIONAL TRACKS, UPDATED VOCALS ON 2 TRACKS, AND 4 REMIXES
• REMASTERED BY ACCLAIMED ENGINEER GREG CALBI
• INCLUDES A PERFECT BOUND BOOK WITH NEW LINER NOTES BY PATTERSON HOOD, NEVER BEFORE SEEN PHOTOS, AND UPDATED ART FROM THE LATE WES FREED
As an artist, an educator, A&R executive, and activist, Terri Lyne Carrington has emerged as one of the fiercest voices in jazz This album takes us back to the beginnings of her career as a band leader. Though Carrington was still a teenager when she recorded TLC & Friends, she was by no means an amateur; she was already an acclaimed jazz prodigy who’d shared the stage with the likes of Oscar Peterson, Clark Terry, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
As a result, her first recording session found her surrounded by seasoned sidemen who backed the likes of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, and Chet Baker: Kenny Barron on piano, George Coleman on saxophone, and Buster Williams on bass. Terri Lyne’s father, Sonny, also steps in for a solo on “Sonnymoon For Two ”
Originally self-released in 1981, it’s now being made widely available for the first time and features refreshed and expanded artwork.
Written and recorded after four years of personal and professional upheaval, Daughter represented a bracing new beginning for Lydia Loveless. Originally released on her own Honey, You’re Gonna Be Late label, Bloodshot is proud to bring this incredible album to a wider audience.
Recorded with Grammy-winning producer Tom Schick (Wilco, Mavis Staples, Norah Jones) at The Loft with her longtime accomplices–multiinstrumentalists Todd May and Jay Gasper, and drummer George Hondroulis–Loveless pushed herself to chase new ideas, sounds, and directions, making Daughtera revelation.
The album captured Loveless at her fiery best, with her songwriting stronger and exhibiting an even keener insight than ever. Critics took notice, praising the album has her best to date and naming it among the year’s best recordings.
Her self-released 2020 masterpiece, now available on Bloodshot Records on pink vinyl
“This record is such a gut-punch
. . . powerfully honest and uncompromising”
—Ann Powers, NPR All Songs
Considered
“Her best album”
—Pitchfork
“One of America’s best & boldest songwriters working at the top of her game”
—AllMusic
One of the Best Albums of 2020
— Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot Sound Opinions
SIDE A
1. Dead Writer
2. Love Is Not Enough
3. Wringer
4. Can’t Think
5. Say My Name
SIDE B
1. Never
2. Daughter
3. When You’re Gone
4. September
5. Don’t Bother Mountain
VINYL
The Beths’ Warm Blood is a strong contender for the catchiest record you’ve never heard. Formed when four jazz students at the University of Auckland bonded over their shared love of the pop-punk sounds of their youth, The Beths bring new energy to the genre. This 5-song debut EP, a deliriously pleasurable statement of purpose, comes crammed with enough blissful hooks to carry through most bands’ careers.
Listeners for whom the tag “New Zealand indie rock” brings to mind the Flying Nun sound of bands like The Clean and The Chills may be surprised to find Warm Blood’s five unstoppable tunes landing closer to artists like Slant 6 and The Breeders. The nimble guitar work here moves from heavy riffing reminiscent of Sleater-Kinney to hazily bending lines that would make Stephen Malkmus and Mary Timony beam, while the joyous vocal harmonies from all four members bubble and swell to ecstatic crescendos that channel The Zombies’ Odessey and Oracle.
With impeccable production from guitarist Jonathan Pearce and stellar musicianship across the board, Warm Blood is a non-stop delight. Tracks like leadoff track and first single “Whatever,” the ridiculously addictive standout “Idea/Intent,” and “Rush Hour 3,” a playful ode to romance in this era of download-and-chill franchise films, take delight in the challenge of breathing new energy into the limitations of the 3-minute pop song. This U.S. re-release of Warm Blood (released in New Zealand in 2016) offers a perfectly distilled introduction to a band that has become a live favorite Down Under.
HIGHLIGHTS
• North American publicity by Pitch Perfect
• Vinyl includes digital download
• Predecessor to critically-acclaimed full length, Future Me Hates Me
THE BETHS WARM BLOOD CAK127
Street Date: June 16, 2023
File Under: Alternative/Indie
LP (Light Blue vinyl)
UPC 677517012781 Box lot: 25
DISTRIBUTION CONTACT jillw@redeyeworldwide.com
TRACKLISTING
1. Whatever
2. Warm Blood
3. Idea/Intent
4. Rush Hour 3
5. Lying in the Sun
RIYL
Alvvays
Courtney Barnett
Lucy Dacus
Death Cab For Cutie
Phoebe Bridgers
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UPC 677517016420
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UPC 677517112825
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UPC 677517012828
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UPC 677517114348
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UPC 677517014327
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It’s fitting that Philadelphia guitarist Victoria Rose and Baltimore producer/musician Stone Filipczak named their band @ (pronounced “At”) — a symbol that calls to mind the detachment of an email exchange or a Twitter mention. The folk-pop duo created their debut album Mind Palace Music almost entirely remotely from, sending each other recordings over iMessage from their respective cities throughout fall/winter 2020. But although its creators were 100 miles away, the 11-track album gleams with a sense of closeness, tied together with @’s penchant for deeply personal and candid lyrics.
With an affinity for blending digital with analog elements, @ describe Mind Palace Music as “hyperfolk,” though the record never feels self-indulgent — hitting the sweet spot between pleasantly familiar and refreshingly innovative. “We were pretty aware of trying to make something well-crafted that would hold up,” Filipczak says. “I was stoked that I could show some of the tracks to my grandma and she would be able to dig it. It probably doesn’t sound that different from, like, Simon and Garfunkel to her.”
Rose and Filipczak are just as inspired by the thoughtful delicacy of ambient pioneers like Laurie Spiegel as they are by the timeless quality of singer-songwriters like Vashti Bunyan. You can feel the influence of those ‘70s folk greats on songs like “Where’d You Put Me,” a drumfree incantation that culminates with a flute solo from Filipczak. Elsewhere, @ evoke the tender drone and foolproof melodies of Elliott Smith, Alex G, or Sparklehorse, like on the spare acoustic ditty “Friendship is Frequency” or the bittersweet “Cut From Toxic Cloth”: “While I’m waiting for my mind and face to sync/I smile to my heart and I think/I like you just the way you are,” Filipczak murmurs on the latter. A subtle eeriness looms in the background throughout Mind Palace Music, preventing it from feeling too outdated or hackneyed.
@ test their limits further on songs like the chugging closer “My Garden,” where Rose and Filipczak’s striking arrangements build to a triumphant coda as Rose mulls over the frustrations of a relationship’s natural ebbs and flows and the “curse” of desire: “I don’t want intensity, no/Just a way to warmth and amity,” she sings. @ know that some of the most rewarding moments in life don’t come easily, and Mind Palace Music is no exception. But sometimes, even the hard work flows out naturally: “It was truly a something from nothing type of experience,” Filipczak says. “We just shared a bunch of music until we started collaborating, and then once we started, we didn’t want to stop.”
HIGHLIGHTS
• North American publicity by Hive Mind
• College/Non-Commercial radio by Terrorbird
• Sync licensing by Terrorbird
• Pressed on Tangerine vinyl and includes digital download card
• Music videos for “Friendship is Frequency,” “Where’d You Put Me,” and “Letters”
@ MIND PALACE MUSIC CAK167
Street Date: June 16, 2023
File Under: Indie/Folk
LP (Tangerine Vinyl) UPC 677517016741
CS UPC 677517016734
DISTRIBUTION CONTACT jillw@redeyeworldwide.com
TRACKLISTING
1. Parapet
2. Star Game
3. Letters
4. Friendship is Frequency
5. Boxwood Lane
6. Where’d You Put Me
7. Major Blue Empty
8. First Journal
9. Cut From Toxic Cloth
10. Camera Phone
11. My Garden
RIYL
Alex G Vashti Bunyan
Bon Iver
Elliot Smith
The Microphones
WORLDWIDE RELEASE DATE CD/LP: JUNE 16, 2023
Peter Morén (Peter Bjorn and John) debuts his new project, SunYears, with an album of guitar based folk/ rock songs and numerous collaborations.
“As you get older, it gets easier to write songs because you become more vulnerable in a different way,” Morén explains of the bold and open-hearted song ‘Come Fetch My Soul!’ featuring Jess Williamson, offering, “it’s about being overwhelmed by the love you have for your partner, and this feeling of putting yourself in the hands of something or someone else.”
The 10-track album’s melodic wisdom immediately feels familiar yet is unexplored territory for Morén, who delivers a collection of tunes that instantly feel timeless. Ranging from wistful folk and Beatles-esque pop to psychedelic guitar jangle and shimmering balladry, the album is a result of nostalgic listening habits and thematically from dreams, most notably the rockabilly-esque track “Last Night I Dreamt I Met Phil & Don,” which takes inspiration from a dream meeting pop legends the Everly Brothers. For the album, Morén enlisted fellow indie artists Ron Sexsmith, Jess Williamson, Eric Johnson (Fruit Bats, Bonny Light Horseman), and Kathryn Williams, which resulted in multiple duets throughout the album. The closing track “Wake Up,” written during a songwriting retreat, features Ren Harvieu. “During that trip, we sang a lot together in different groups,” explains Morén, “and it was that spirituality of singing with other people that I want to bring into this record.”
An open-ended name that references both the classic sound of 1950’s Sun Records and the passage of time itself, SunYears has been years in the making with a figurative birth that came during the pandemic. With touring scrapped, Morén rediscovered his love of playing guitar in solitude and the art of collaboration, which he did with a tight-knit group of friends and peers in his hometown of Stockholm.
Despite evoking the music of the past, Come Fetch My Soul ultimately embodies Morén’s desire to look to the future, both of the project and of his career as a songwriter in general. “At my age, I’m becoming more relaxed when it comes to how I make music,” he reflects. “I feel more comfortable now, and I could make music like this for the rest of my life.”
HIGHLIGHTS:
☛ Debut album from new Peter Morén (Peter Bjorn and John) project
☛ Special guests include: Ron Sexsmith, Fruit Bats, Jess Williamson and Kathryn Williams
1. Come Fetch My Soul! (feat. Jess Williamson)
2. Day To Day Way
3. Two Birds, Mid-Flight
4. Granddad’s Song (feat. Ron Sexsmith)
5. A Dog’s Life
6. Slipping Away
7. These Quiet Tunes
8. Last Night I Dreamt That I Met Phil & Don (Feat. Fruit Bats)
9. Wordy
10. Wake Up! (feat. Ren Harvieu & Kathryn Williams)
ARTIST: SunYears TITLE: Come Fetch My Soul!
UPC: 634457118225 SKU: CD-YEP-3071
PACKAGING: CD Wallet
TERRITORY: Worldwide BOX LOT: 20
ARTIST: SunYears TITLE: Come Fetch My Soul! UPC: 634457118218
SKU: LP-YEP-3071C
PACKAGING:
RELEASE DATE: 16th June 2023
Selling Points
A:Pablo Meets Mr Bassie
B: Mr Bassie Special!
This is the re-release of our second ever Rough Trade single release.
Richard Scott was working with us, developing a mail order and then a distribution company. He had deep Jamaican connections as he had been part of the management team for Third World.
He made a deal with Joan Higgins a fifteen year old relative of Augustus Pablo who worked the Saturday shift in Pablo’s Kingston Record shop. A man called Everton Da Silva was also involved, perhaps as a go between. I always maintain this is one of the best ever Rough Trade releases, if not actually the best. One of my very bad jokes is that it was all downhill from this point. In any case it’s a monumental record and very likely justification for the whole enterprise.
-Geoff Travis, Founder & Co-owner of Rough Trade Records
Blurtations is the follow-up to Snapped Ankles’ 2018 Record Store Day release Violations, which included woodland reworkings of songs by Can, The Fugs, Joey Beltram and Comateens. On this, the woodwose have focussed their magpie eyes on the work of a single artist - Ted Milton’s post-punk Dada-jazz stalwarts Blurt. It offers another tantalising glimpse into the rarefied record collections of these elusive forest people.
Blurt are a key part of the surrealist Snapped Ankles DNA. An early iteration of the band played a version of ‘Planet You’ from different rooms of a dilapidated squat at a TOPOPHOBIA art performance night, and ‘The Fish Needs A Bike’ has found its way into the current blistering live set. They’ve recently struck up a friendship with Ted Milton, and the woodwose have been invited to DJ at Blurt’s upcoming show at London’s legendary 100 Club.
street date: Friday June 16 2023
file under: Rock & pop territory: World ex. Europe
Yellow vinyl EP DOCK 75 UPC 843190057566
8 43190 05756
Tracklisting:
A1. Alouette
A2. Machina Machina
A3. Tube Plane
B1. Some Come
B2. The Fish Needs A Bike
B3. Planet You
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• Packaged in a die-cut sleeve and pressed on yellow vinyl, Blurtations also includes a postcard which riffs on the artwork of Blurt’s self-titled debut studio album
• All six songs are available exclusively on vinyl, in a strictly limited edition of 1,200 for the world
• The EP builds on the success of 2021’s Forest Of Your Problems album, which has seen Snapped Ankles grow their reputation both in the studio and as a formidable live force
• Forest Of Your Problems flirted with an actual top 40 UK Chart Position (#41), and hit #1 in the Record Store Chart, #2 in the Indie Chart and #3 in the Vinyl Chart
• Rough Trade made FOYP their Album of the Month
• It found its way into the album of the year lists for Piccadilly (#8), Rough Trade (#27) and Jumbo (#42)
• Brooklyn Vegan have been big supporters, awarding Forest Of Your Problems Album of the Week and hosting the woodwose at their SXSW showcase
• Since the album’s release, Snapped Ankles headlined their biggest show to date at Camden’s Roundhouse, toured North America twice, played shows and festivals across Europe and ventured to South East Asia for the first time
On Forest of Your Problems:
“Forest of Your Problems takes in Krautrock, tribal rhythms, post-punk - but it winds up sounding almost nothing like anyone else” The Guardian
“The kind of hyperactive, motorik bangers that can send audiences into hysterics”
Album of the Week, Brooklyn Vegan
“One of the most intriguing bands to come out of London” Paste Magazine
The bones of a bird, stripped of flesh and feather, give no sign of the heights and depths a living bird can reach, the lengths it can travel, or the songs it can sing. The same is true of the bones of the human hand. For all their strength and delicacy, seeing them skeletal and stark obscures our knowledge of the rhythmic energy with which they engage space, the burdens they can bear, the music they can produce. Yet, in both bird and hand, the foundation of grace and motion remain. Music above all else proves this to be true. To experience a guitarist playing is to experience the hand taking flight.
This flight is the essence of all of Danny Paul Grody’s work. His compositions seem to be the sonic tracings of migrations patterns. They grant us that avian instinct to simply take to air and trust our innate knowledge of the route.
Arc Of Day is Grody’s first collection of new music since his self-released Furniture Music II in 2021 and first with Three Lobed Recordings since 2013’s Between Two Worlds. Born of explorations with Rich Douthit on drums & percussion, the album charts a path from grief and isolation to re-emergence, picking up Trevor Montgomery on bass, Chuck Johnson on pedal steel, and Jonathan Seilaff on clarinet along the way. Arc Of Day not only encapsulates the journey from bone to flesh and feather, it renews the listener like birdsong in Spring after the long Winter silence.
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LP Street Date: June 16, 2023
Format: LP (with download) UPC: 634457124820 1.
- The first widely-available album of new guitar material by this founding member of Tarentel and the Drift since 2013’s Between Two Worlds (Three Lobed). This is both Grody’s first proper studio album and his first base around multiple musicians, featuring appearances by Chuck Johnson, Rich Douthit, Trevor Montgomery and Jonathan Sielaff.
- 180g black vinyl housed within a jacket bearing new artwork from Billy Joe Miller (with Bandcampenabled download).
“…as if Brian Eno had cut an LP for John Fahey’s Takoma Records sometime back in the mid-70s…” Tyler Wilcox, Aquarium Drunkard
“…there are memorable note patterns all over… (Grody’s work), but a deeper impression is left by the way Grody turns them into mantras. His playing stretches time, making even his busiest passages patient and meditative.” Marc
Masters, Pitchfork
- “Grody’s guitar roots sometimes reflect traditionalist threads, but often weave in the unconventional: the picking of the West African kora, for example, or plains of New Zealand and New York minimalist drone. His wider musical pursuits know few bounds electronics, long form improvisation, multiple electric bands. (Grody’s music) is a precise experiment in revised composition, chancing his acoustic playing less towards a melody, and more towards the areas surrounding it.”
Charles Sage, Fluid Radio –Experimental Frequencies- RIYL: Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Daniel Bachman, William Tyler, guitar soli, intricate and thoughtful instrumentals, and/or journeys of the mind.
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Strut presents an exclusive new collaboration between UK jazz keyboardist Greg Foat and Venetian ambient / electronic maestro Gigi Masin.
Long awaited collaboration between UK jazz keyboardist and Venetian ambient composer. Quartet recording features Moses Boyd (Drums) & Tom Herbert (Bass)
Recorded remotely and honed at Chale Abbey Studios, Isle Of Wight
Selected tour dates to support release
Recorded remotely during 2021-2022 the album took shape in the form of mutual compositions, gradually developed and embellished online. Final recording sessions took place at the majestic Chale Abbey Studios on the Isle Of Wight with Moses Boyd (drums), Tom Herbert (bass) and Siobhan Cosgrove (flute, clarinet) adding elements to several pieces Tracks include the reflective, wistful single ‘Viento Calido’ and drifting ambient piece ‘Sabena’, a beautiful tribute to Gigi’s wife who sadly passed away during 2022
Greg Foat has recorded prolifically in recent years including acclaimed albums Symphonie Pacifique (2020) and The Mage (2019).
Best known for his 1986 ambient masterpiece Wind and as a member of Gaussian Curve, Gigi Masin has enjoyed a revival in recent years through his Calypso album on R&S’s Apollo label and renewed touring Dolphin represents Greg and Gigi’s first landmark recording collaboration together. “I first heard Gigi’s album Wind in 2016,” remembers Greg “I was living in Miami and I heard it playing one Summer evening Since then, it has always been in my mind to be able to record together ”
1 / A1 LEE
2 / A2 LONDON NIGHTS
3 / A3 LOVE THEME
4 / B1 DOLPHIN
5 / B2 SABENA
6 / B3 LEO THEO
7 / B4 VIENTO CALIDO
8. YOUR MOVE
Release Date : 16th June 2023
Artist: Greg Foat & Gigi Masin
Title: Dolphin Cat No STRUT311LP/LPC/CD
CONFIGURATION: 1LP
PACKAGING: 1LP – 1 x SINGLE LP SLEEVE / THICK SLEEVE /
LPC: 1 x SINGLE LP SLEEVE / CLEAR VINYL /THICK SLEEVE
1CD – DIGIPAK THICK CARD
BAR CODES:
STRUT311CD: 4062548051629
STRUT311LP: 4062548051636
STRUT311LPC: 4062548054866
For more information, contact Adam Calman: adam@k7.com
"This album is a tribute to the joy of playing together and creating something beautiful and exciting. A sincere hymn to life"
(Gigi Masin)
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Tracklist; Dancing On the Moon
Another Fine Mess
Scars
Never Trust A Blonde
Psycho Girl
My Revolu�on
Good Girls
Red Le�er Day
Invisible Strings
Everyone’s A Fool
Junkee Love
The Other Man
Ian Hunter´s wonderful Dirty Laundry album from 1995, will be issued for the first �me as a limited edi�on LP via Big Dipper. The record features Hunter with Casino Steel, Darrell Bath, Honest John Plain and ex-Pistol Glen Matlock �on bass� and original Mo� The Hoople sideman Blue Weaver plays keyboards on five tracks.
The album was produced by Bjørn Nessjø and was well received, thanks in part to excellent word-of-mouth and a hit single in ‘My Revolu�on’. A�er Hunter and Steel agreed that Nessjø was the man for the job, they arranged a few rehearsals with the band before herding them to Abbey Road Studios in July of ´94 with engineer Rune Nordal.
The Norwegian producer had a reputa�on as one who could use his arranging and orchestra�on skills to create songs from slivers of musical ideas and meet deadlines. The result was a real cracker.
The special LP edi�on is pressed on heavyweight vinyl and comes with a gatefold sleeve with notes from Michael Monroe, Darrell Bath and Casino Steel. The outer sleeve has a brand new design.
Label: Topic Records
Cat. No: TSCD615 (CD) / TXLP615
Format: CD / LP / Digital
Barcode: 714822046152 (CD) / 714822186155 (LP)
FOLK |
RELEASE DATE: July 28 2023
Eponymous collaboration between Jim Ghedi & Toby Haytheir first since 2018's 'The Hawksworth Grove Sessions' and their debut for Topic Records. Postponed for two years due to the small matter of a global pandemic, finally, as some semblance of normalit y took shape, in February 2022, the duo headed into Giant Wafer Studios, mid -Wales, with very little rehearsal time and recorded the entire album live, with no edits or overdubs over three days.
Tracklisting:
Jim Ghedi and Toby Hay are both prolific, praised and established artists in their own right. Hailing from South Yorkshire, Ghedi's previous work has often been instrumental, exploring the natural world and his relationship to it, as seen on 2018's A Hymn For Ancient Land but also developing into using his voice, songwriting and traditional material on his more recent album, In The Furrows Of Common Place. Toby Hay, hailing from the Cambrian mountains, professes likewise, that the landscape serves as eternal muse and the spiritual groundwork of his entrancing guita r playing which has dazzled critics and listeners alike throughout his career. All of this makes their collaboration with the world's oldest independent label and custodians of UK folk music, Topic Records, a natural home for this exceptional record.
The album artwork includes beautiful liner notes by Andrew Male, senior associate editor of Mojo magazine .
Note : CD/Digital out May 26 th 2023.
Vinyl to follow June 16th, 2023.
Vinyl to follow July 28 th 2023.
1. Bright Edge Deep 2. Moss Flower 3. Bog Cotton Jig 4. Bridget Cruise 3rd Air 5. Swale Song 6. With The Morning Hills Behind You 7. A Year And A Day 8. Skeleton Dance 9. Seasoned By The Storm 10. Suo Gan 11. When The Blackthorn Blooms 12. GylfinirLabel: WHIRLWIND RECORDINGS
Cat. no: WR4807
Format: CD
Barcode: 5065014356050
At the heart of saxophonist and composer Alex LoRe's music making is a fearless approach to exploring the fault lines and contradictions within his art: reconciling the timeless post-bop verities explored by his friends and mentors Greg Osby and Bunky Green with his own awareness of the possibilities of the seemingly opposite extremes of through-composition and freedom.
His Whirlwind Records debut Evening Will Find Itselfmarks a powerful step forward in his journey to reconcile these tensions to create a music that isn't limited by expectations, always centered around the unapologetic warmth and humanity of his own playing, and carried forward by his band of long - term musical partners: Glenn Zaleski on piano, Desmond White on bass and (relative) newcomer Allan Mednard on drums.
'This album is me trying to find some different sound worlds to exist in, striking a new balance between notated music and improvisation, giving the musicians freedom to explore those worlds'.
Alex LoRe: alto saxophone
Glenn Zaleski: piano
Desmond White: bass
Allan Mednard: drums
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Tracks: Stripes / Face Unseen / Fauxlosophy / Silent Ship / Radiance I / Green / Radiance II / Underground and Back / At Shore / Radiance III
Label: WHIRLWIND RECORDINGS
Cat. no: WR4806
Format: CD
Barcode: 5065014356012
Charm is the debut release from Naya Baaz - a groundbreaking new collaboration between two extraordinary musicians, both of whom have achieved a rare level of mastery in demanding musical traditions from opposite sides of the globe.
Recent Guggenheim Fellow, Rez Abbasi moved from Karachi to Californ ia as a child and has built up a formidable reputation as a guitarist who combines his love of jazz (evidenced on his last major release, 'Django - Shift') with an international array of influences from South Asia and beyond: Josh Feinbergis one of a handful of Western musicians to excel at the challenging legacy of the Hindustani sitar, specialising in the Maihar Gharana style from North India, and also a jazz bass player who studied with Paul Bley and Dave Holland.
"Josh earnestly understands jazz harmony and chromaticism as well as Indian musical traditions" says Rez 'That's a very rare combination'. Completing the endlessly flexible line-up are Jennifer Vincent's bespoke five-string cello, opening up possibilities to add both basslines and melodies, and Satoshi Takeishi's specially augmented drumset.
Rez Abbasi: electric & acoustic guitars
Josh Feinberg: sitar
Jennifer Vincent: 5-string cello
Satoshi Takeishi: drums
Audio Link: Click to listen
Tracks: Introduction I / Bekhayal (without a thought) / Bhairavi / Chick's Magnet / Introduction II / No Lack There Of / Charm / Make It So / Introduction III / Emancipation / Reaching / Peony
Selma Savolainen is one of Finland's most exciting emerging vocalists who effortlessly combines Finnish folk sounds with jazz and alt singer songwriter styles, while writing highly emotive compositions for her band alongside striking arrangements
Label: WHIRLWIND RECORDINGS 'Horror Vacui' is her debut record and features some of the most sought-after Cat. no: WR4805 musicians on the Finnish jazz scene - Max Zenger on clarinets, Tomi Nikku on Format: CD trumpet, Toomas Keski-Säntti on piano, Eero Tikkanen on double bass and Okko Barcode: 5065014356036 Saastamoinen on drums.
Savolainen is an alumnus of the Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead program and the Banff International Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music. She has studied at the Sibelius Academy and the Conservatory of Paris. In 2022 Savolainen was awarded with the Rising Talent Prize by the Pori Jazz Festival. 'Horro r Vacui' is a set of songs composed and arranged specifically for this sextet, exploring the fear of emptiness, renunciation and sudden discoveries. Savolainen says, "by creating space for every musician's voice we hope to create a place where solitude does not exist."
'Horror Vacui' is a strong debut entry from an exciting musician whose compositional approach is captivating and underpinned by impressive technique. An accomplished vocalist and cerebral composer, Savolainen 's star is most definitely on the rise.
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Tracks: Intense Ways To Recover / Fourteen / So Loud / Subjects I / A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing / Intro / Haunted / Speak Low / Days of Suffering / Fear of the Empty
Seriously is an alternative, psychedelic rock band hailing from Birmingham, AL. The group is comprised of Chayse Porter (bass, vocal), Jonathan Cain (guitar, vocal) and Michael Harp (synth, guitar).
"Crooning Morrissey-esque vocals combined with Proper Synth Usage (TM) give a nice callback to the 80’s in a similar vein of MGMT’s
Little Dark Age LP."
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Toured w/ Man or Astro-Man? -
Touring again Spring 2023
Album "Built Environment" due June 16 via Earth Libraries - digital + LP
Press Inquiries: sophie@earthlibraries.com
Catalog #: MD318
Label: n5MD
Street Date
JUNE 16 2023
Format: Transparent LP
Box lot: 20
File under: Ambient, Drone, Neoclassical
Deepriver is the recently formed intercontinental project of Cape Town-based Jason van Wyk and long time Stockholm-based collaborator Joni Ljungqvist. Having worked previously in collaboration mining the more introspective side of trance, Deepriver’s inaugural aural statement, “Volume One”, finds the two experimenting with atmosphere and composition to maximal effect. Van Wyk's recent viscerally experimental direction seamlessly coalesces with Ljungqvist's conceptually reflective approach in a way that recalls the sounds and nostalgia of electronic music from decades past.
LP • 702224131811
TRACKLISTING
Tides
Coastal Home Valley
Slower Waves
Motion Blur Hours
Divided
Spikes
HIGHLIGHTS
Limited editon transparent lp with HQ download
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‘Re-issue album includes relevant single releases, a 7” booklet with lyrics, and new sleeve notes by the members of the band. LE JARDIN DE HEAVENLY - the second album. By the time their second album was ready to roll Heavenly were an established part of the Sarah Records stable in the UK and honorary members of the International Pop Underground in the USA, where Le Jardin De Heavenly was released by K Records. The songs on the album are rich with pop melodies and complex harmonies but the band aren’t holding back – Mathew’s drumming is intense; Peter’s guitar flourishes are sharp-edged and loud. There are still elements of the gentler twee sound that had become the band ’s hallmark (or curse): Different Day and So Little Deserve are winsome, delicate pop songs. But there are also swirls of early shoegaze – Starshy is a dreamy, atmospheric confection heavy with reverb and harmony. And there ’s a defiant attitude in there too: I’m Not Scared Of You is the sound of a young woman refusing to be cowed by a male bully. It’s not hard to see how Heavenly ended up as part of the riot grrrl scene in the US (an encounter that would have a profound influence on the band ’s later output). At the heart of the album, ‘C Is The Heavenly Option’ feels like a perfect celebration of Heavenly’s transatlantic existence, and the marriage of two indie traditions: Amelia ’s English pop voice duets with Calvin Johnson ’s gravelly American baritone while the band alternate between cute melody and all -out thrash. It’s a joyous combination. The eight -track album was released by Sarah Records and by K Records. The Skep Wax re-issue of ‘Le Jardin De Heavenly’ includes Heavenly’s third Sarah Records single – So Little Deserve/I’m Not Scared Of You ’ and the first K Records single‘She Says/Escort Crash On Marston Street’.
: SIDE A: 1 Starshy 2 Tool 3 Orange Corduroy Dress 4 Different Day 5 C Is The Heavenly Option 6 Smile. SIDE B: 1 And The Birds Aren ’t Singing 2 Sort of Mine 3 So Little Deserve 4 I ’m Not Scared Of You 5 She Says 6 Escort Crash On Marston Street
The explosive new project from garage rock godfather Jim Jones takes to the road to foul up your town! Jim Jones All Stars have announced details of their long-awaited, full-length UK and European tour in support of their new 7” single, ‘Gimme The Grease’, out now on Ako-Lite Records. This is the first physical bite of their forthcoming album, ‘Ain’t No Peril’, which is scheduled for an autumn release. Returning to his natural environments of the stage and analogue studio, Jim Jones cements his position as the Grand PooBah of red, raw rock’n’roll and the facilitator of illicit sonic thrills. Having spearheaded garage rock pioneers Thee Hypnotics, and international favourites The Jim Jones Revue, Jim is at a point in his career where he is drawing from past, present, and future. Joined by Jim Jones Revue members Gavin Jay (bass) and Elliot Mortimer (piano and keys), drummer Chris Ellul (The Heavy), veteran punk blues guitarist Carlton Mounsher (The Swamps), and the threeway tenor/baritone sax attack of Stuart Dace, Chuchi Malapersona and Tom Hodges, this is the filthy grind and sonic ramalama that you’ve all been waiting for! Having made a midnight offering at Clarksdale, Mississippi's legendary crossroads in the Deep South, ‘Gimme The Grease’ was recorded at Memphis Magnetic studios in Memphis, Tennessee – and it’s impossible not to feel that Southern alchemy oozing from this music. “When you’re recording within spitting distance of the Mississippi river, there’s something about that heavy Memphis air that changes the way that you hear the groove and grind,” says Jim Jones. “’Gimme The Grease’ captures that feeling and bathes in that magic.”
Gimme The Grease / I Want You (Any Way I Can).
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Globe spanning covers album of Bolan songs starting with the earliest cover in 1965 • Covering a huge range of genres and styles • A response to the U.S Hit album Angel Headed Hipster which opened up the songs of Bolan to a new American audience by using big names and TV advertising…this concentrates on quality recordings by lesser known artists • Presented in deluxe gatefold sleeve. •
CD Tracklist Disc 1 1. Beyond The Rising Sun (Il Faut Trouver Son Coin De Ciel) - Sylvie Vartan
2. The Third Degree - Andy Ellison & Boz Boorer 3. Menthol Dan - Andy Ellison & Boz Boorer 4. Pictures of Purple People - Automatic Shoes 5. Child Star - Witchwood 6. Chateau in Virginia Waters - Swervedriver 7. Stacey Grove - Marsha Hunt 8. Travelling Tragition - Fair Folk (CD Only) 9. Eminesque Head - Puretongue (CD Only)10. Cat Black (The Wizard ’s Hat) - Chris Connelly & The Liquid Gang 11. Lofty Skies - Automatic Shoes 12. Wind Cheetah - Catherine Lambert 13. Elemental Child - The Charms 14. Visit - Tarwater Disc 2 1. Cosmic Dancer - Mair https:// youtu.be/om61U2DHSUM 2. Lean Woman Blues - Alison MacCallum (CD Only) 3. Jeepster (Alt Version) - The Polecats 4. Raw Ramp - Black Bombers 5. Ballrooms of Mars - Kelly Reilly 6. Spaceball Ricochet – Speedtwinn 7. Life’s A Gas - Mexican Dogs 8. Children of the RevolutionBurn it to the Ground https://youtu.be/2zByZkqcT4c 9. Life is Strange (Dziunaje Zyccio) - Illa Falazynski 10. Calling All Destroyers - Rachel Stamp 11. Soul of My Suit - Chris Braide 12. Visions of Domino - Schwefel 13. Prelude – Jewel - Buick Mackane. Vinyl Tracklist Side A 1. Beyond The Rising Sun (Il Faut Trouver Son Coin De Ciel) - Sylvie Vartan 2. Third Degree - Andy Ellison & Boz Boorer (Exclusive) 3. Pictures of Purple People - Automatic Shoes 4. Stacey Grove
- Marsha Hunt 5. Chateau in Virginia Waters - Swervedriver 6. Child Star - Witchwood Side B 7. Cosmic Dancer - Mair (Exclusive) https://youtu.be/om61U2DHSUM 8. Wind Cheetah - Catherine Lambert 9. Elemental Child - The Charms 10. Visit - Tarwater 11. Cat Black (The Wizard ’s Hat)Chris Connelly & The Liquid Gang Side C 12. Children of The Revolution - Burn it to the Ground https://youtu.be/2zByZkqcT4c 13. Lofty Skies - Automatic Shoes 14. Ballrooms of Mars - Kelly Reilly 15. Spaceball Ricochet – Speedtwinn 16. Jeepster - The Polecats 17. Soul of My SuitChris Braide Side D 18. Calling All Destroyers - Rachel Stamp 19. Menthol Dan (Dan The Sniff)Andy Ellison & Boz Boorer 20. Raw Ramp - Black Bombers 21. Life ’s A Gas - Mexican Dogs 22. Life is Strange - Illa FalaZynski 23. Visions of Domino - Schwefel
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These days everyone loves The Fall, but rarely has a band's rise to cult status been quite as lengthy, unpredictable and unprecedented as that of those lovable Mancunian misfits who went through more line -up comings and goings than anyone sane would bother to count. Martin Bramah, The Fall's singer until Mark E Smith's lesser guitar skills caused them to swap places, was, per Daryl Easlea, "possibly the last true equal to Smith in the group" and likewise the longest survivor of the original line -up. Yet while The Fall was later famous for their legendary productivity, Bramah often went great spans of time between releases, releasing fewer albums in thirty-five years (under any guise) than he has in the last seven with Blue Orchids - who already have a fantastic new album in the can. What caused HOUSE Of ALL to come together is something of a mystery. Bramah has joined forces with four other mighty Fall alumni: Steve Hanley, The Fall's longest-serving bassist, as well as his brother Paul Hanley, who drummed on what may be the best run of Fall records, from "Grotesque" to "Bend Sinister". The three have also played together as Factory Star, for a brief period. Joining them are two surprise members - drummer Simon Wolstencroft, who joined the Fall around the time Paul left, and more surprisingly, guitarist Pete Greenway, The Fall's longserving and final guitarist who has, to our knowledge, never played with the other four before. And the album? Recorded in a burst of intense creativity, we won't tempt to propagandise you, the album speaks or itself, but it wouldn't be a false boast to say that it stands with much of the best Fall or Blue Orchids music, displaying an energy and psychic impulse all its own, each member playing as sharply and with as much drive as ever, around manic motorik grooves and a shocking lack of 'compromise'. It's an album of depth which demands multiple visits to uncover its many dimensions, yet it still satisfies upon first listen.
Release date: 4/9/2021
claire rousay’s music zeroes in on personal emotions and the minutiae of everyday life - voicemails, haptics, environmental recordings, stopwatches, whispers and conversations - exploding their significance. a softer focus is her breakout album: a pop-inflected collaboration with artist and ceramicist Dani Toral that quickly won praise from the New York Times, Pitchfork, The Wire and more.... and quickly sold out. At last, American Dreams presents its longawaited reissue. Don’t delay.
1. preston ave
2. discrete (the market)
3. peak chroma
RIYL: “emo ambient,” Oren Ambarchi, Felicia Atkinson, More Eaze
4. diluted dreams
5. stoned gesture
6. a kind of promise
File under: Ambient, Experimental
“She turns...found sounds into musique concrète that locates grains of emotion in the mundane — a car door slamming, a lighter igniting, the plink of an Apple keyboard mid-text. What a songwriter might convey in poetry, Rousay evokes with raw audio.” - New York Times
Selling Points:
• Reissue of acclaimed LP
• Praise for claire rousay from the New York Times, Pitchfork, The Guardian, The Wire
• “On a softer focus, she captures a newfound intimacy, one that’s grounded and personal while still feeling otherworldly.... rousay unearths modes of expression that make it hard to remember a time when ambient music sounded any differently.” - Pitchfork
• Collaborations with More Eaze, bloodzboi, How To Dress Well, Patrick Shiroishi and more
• Tour dates planned throughout 2023
Catalog #: 64 ADR
Black LP: 727431749369
Box lot of 30
American Dreams Records is a transcontinental experimental label dedicated to showcasing art inspired by patience, intention, perseverance, hope, and leaving the world a little more beautiful than we found it. Our ethos is rooted in story-telling, inclusivity, community, and cohabitation with the natural world. Redeye
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