7.19 & 7.26 New Release Book

PLANET MU RECORDS

LABEL OF THE MONTH

µ-ZIQ - GRUSH

GLOW IN THE DARK 2XLP: 5056321682635

CD: 5056321682659

JOHN FRUSCIANTE - MAYA

LILAC VINYL 2XLP: 5055869565905

CD: 5055300399830

MIKE & RICH - EXPERT KNOB

TWIDDLERS

CD: 5055300385833

JLIN - AKOMA

GOLD VINYL 2XLP: 5056321682536

CD: 5056321682550

VENETIAN SNARES - ROSSZ CSILLAG ALATT SZÜLETETT

CD: 600116811127

SPEAKER MUSIC - TECHXODUS 2XLP: 5056321682468

JLIN - PERSPECTIVE

CLEAR VINYL LP: 5056321682499

CD: 5056321682581

µ-ZIQ - LUNATIC HARNESS

4XLP BOXSET: 5055869566131

4XLP CLEAR VINYL BOXSET: 5055869566285

2XCD: 5055869566148

MUN SING - INFLATABLE GRAVESTONE

WHITE VINYL LP: 5056321682345

CD: 5056321682352

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 selfreleased 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.

PRAISE FOR ARC OF DAY:

- “There’s a kind of spiritual serenity to his solo instrumental guitar work that feels at once gentle and transcendent, evoking American Primitivists such as Robbie Basho and Leo Kottke with occasional full- band arrangements and flute accompaniment ” Jeff Terich, Treble

- “ [Arc of Day] is more about being as present as possible to the only time you really have: the moment you’re in.” Bill Meyer, Magnet

Danny Paul Grody ARC

OF DAY

LP-TLR-145

LP Street Date: June 16, 2023

20% OFF THROUGH AUGUST 31 IN CONNECTION WITH JUNE’S RELEASE OF ARC OF NIGHT (TLR148), THE “SISTER” LP TO ARC OF DAY

Format: LP (with download) UPC: 634457124820

1. Daybreak (2:28) 2. Light Blooms (4:14) 3. California Angelica (7:31) 4. Cathedral Tree (3:55) 5. Path to Olema (8:27) 6. Slow Walk (10:12)

SALES POINTS

- 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.

Three Lobed Recordings PO Box 2345 Jamestown, NC 27282

www.threelobed.com

JERRY DAVID DECICCA’s 5th solo album, NEW SHADOWS, is a Kafkaesque, avant-Americana meditation, surreal and ruminative, featuring singer Rosali Middleman (ROSALI), DAVID HIDALGO and STEVE BERLIN (from LOS LOBOS), guitarist JEFF PARKER, tenor saxophonist JAMES BRANDON LEWIS, trumpeter AQUILES NAVARRO (from IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS) and composer/sound archivist, BRIAN HARNETTY

New Shadows peaks into corners where interior and exterior worlds collide, where miniscule revelations can be found in the darkness of ourselves and our community: lost children, unheard prayers, bugs, money, depression, romantic relationships, regret, and Zoom funerals, all become a lens for self-reflection.

The production (by DON CENTO and JDD) is modeled after DeCicca’s favorite early 80’s albums (Lindsey Buckingham’s Law & Order, ZZ Top’s Afterburner, Robert Palmer’s Clues, Lou Reed’s New Sensations,) while the songs’ architectures and pathos lean more towards Warren Zevon, Townes Van Zandt, and John Prine - all these record-makers and songwriters are embedded in DeCicca’s DNA, having seen them, and in some cases met them after gigs, when his brain was still developing between the ages of 13-19 years old.

The virtual collaborators are the musicians who kept DeCicca company on his stereo while isolated in his rural town, Bulverde, TX: Brian Harnetty’s Many Hands, Rosali’s No Medium, Irreversible Entanglements’ Who Sent You?, James Brandon Lewis’s Jessup Wagon, Jeff Parker’s JP’s Myspace Beats and Suite for Max Brown, and the Los Lobos discography.

New Shadows isn’t so much about DeCicca’s new discoveries, as it is the penumbrous reminder of what’s always been there.

Jerry David DeCicca New Shadows

SALE 25% OFF LIST PRICE ON GATEFOLD TIP-ON JACKET VINYL & DIGIPACK CD

CD/LP-Bwatue 08

Original CD/ LP Street Date: September 29, 2023

Format: Black Vinyl (Stoughton Printing, Gatefold, Tip-on jacket) UPC: 666449185540

Format: CD UPC: 666449177897

1. New Shadows (3:47) / 2. Manzanita Bay (3:05)

3. Lost Days (4:23) / 4. Angelina (5:49) / 5. These Blues (3:54)

6. When You Needed My Help (3:53) / 7. 97 Nights (3:20) /

8. Walking Stick (3:59) /

9. Sing (4:36) / 10. Ivory Tower (2:49)

SALES POINTS

- UNCUT feature, 8/10, “A country-folk auteur embraceskeyboardsandsequencers.”

- UPROXX favorite albums of 2023

- AQUARIUM DRUNKARD: “Always astonishing Texas troubadour shares what may be his most personal, internalreflectionsyet…”

- Vinyl in STOUGHTON TIP-ON GATEFOLD jacket; mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound & lacquers cut by RTI for premiere sound.

- Recent duet with BILL CALLAHAN on TOMPKINS SQUARE tribute to BRUCE COCKBURN

- "If you somehow think that you like the band Spiritualized but not the Bob Dylan album Nashville Skyline then Jerry David DeCicca is on the scene to prove you wrong." Tyler Mahan Coe, Cocaine & Rhinestones podcast

- "DeCicca is a careful, precise songwriter, but the songs don't necessarily sound written. Instead, they seem like they occurred to him naturally and ineluctably."

– Stephen Deusner, Pitchfork

- RIYL: 80s Lou Reed, anti-genre songwriting, Michael Hurley and drum machines, Lindsey Buckingham solo albums more than The Mac, bugs, crying babies, helicopter sounds.

Three Lobed Recordings PO Box 2345 Jamestown, NC 27282

www.threelobed.com

Artist: LAMBRINI GIRLS

Title: God’s Country / Body of Mine

Release Date: May 10 2024

Genre: Punk-Rock, Alternative, Indie-Punk Label: City Slang

Formats:

7Inch Vinyl - Purple Edition

Cat #: Slang50282

UPC: 4250506849627

Conf.: Purple vinyl, jacket w/ spine

Limited to 700 units world wide

Tracklisting:

A1 God’s Country B1 Body of Mine

LIVE

Thurs, July 18

- Boston, MA @ Sonia Live Music Venue

Fri, July 19 - Brooklyn, NY @ The Sultan Room

Sat, July 20 - Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Music Hall^

Sun, July 21 - Washington, DC @ DC9

Mon, July 22 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie

Wed, July 24 - Toronto, CA @ The Garrison

Thurs, July 25 - Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre^

Fri, July 26 - Milwaukee, WI @ Vivarium

Sat, July 27 - Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village

Sun, July 28 - St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club

Tue, July 30 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater^

Wed, July 31 - Louisville, KY @ Mercury Ballroom^

Thurs, August 1 - Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-Fi Annex^

Fri, August 2 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern

Sat, August 3 - Buffalo, NY @ Asbury Tavern^

Mon, August 5 - Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Ballroom^

Thurs, August 8 - Vancouver, CA @ Fox Cabaret

Fri, August 9 - Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern

Sat, August 10 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios

Mon, August 12 - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop

Tue, August 13 - Del Mar, CA @ The Sound Del Mar^

Wed, August 14 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda^

Thurs, August 15 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda^

^ = w/ Amyl & The Sniffers www.cityslang.com

LAMBRINI GIRLS

God’s Country / Body o f Mine

Release Date: May 10 2024

After the overwhelming success of debut EP “You’re Welcome”, Lambrini Girls are back with new 7Inch ‘God’s Country / Body of Mine’ via City Slang

Originally from Brighton, the two piece are Phoebe Lunny (Vocals/Guitar - she/they) and Lilly Macieira (Bass - she/they) are here to offer you their sincere flavor of punk rock. They’ve made a name for themselves through unforgettable live performances and support from the likes of Rolling Stone, BBC Radio 1, NME, The Line Of Best Fit, KEXP, Consequence, Evening Standard, CLASH, and recently covered Kerrang! Magazine alongside Sleater-Kinney, bagged a nomination for Rolling Stone UK’s Rising Stars Award, and even Iggy Pop is a fan. The band will tour with IDLES and Amyl and The Sniffers in the coming months. Check out this release ahead of their forthcoming debut LP.

Praise for Lambrini Girls:

".. an absolute, queer punk anthem!” - BBC Radio 1, Jack Saunders "A cornerstone of Brighton's queer music scene" - Kerrang! Magazine “Lambrini Girls are an essential band for anyone who likes their music on the boisterous and angry side.” - NME

“Some of the rowdiest, snottiest punk on the circuit.”- The Line Of Best Fit “It’s one thing to build a reputation for putting on unmissable chaotic and raucous live shows; it’s another to channel it onto a record that hits with the same impact and meaning. Lambrini Girls have made it look easy…”UPSET Magazine ★★★★★

“Lambrini Girls aren’t afraid to piss people off” - Variety Magazine

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5/15/2024 Am e dam, NL Pa adi o Noo d

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5/26/2024 Gla go , UK S L ke S

5/28/2024 Bi mingham, UK O2 In i e2 Bi mingham

5/29/2024 B i ol, UK Thekla

5/30/2024 London, UK Koko

TRACK LISTING

1. Ci cling 2. People Al a Change

3. The Knocke

4. Flicke

5. M d oom

6. Malleable

7. B oken

8. Plan ing Flo e

9. I Don’ Ha e The Hea

10. Small Eno gh

11. Wi he

12. Sal & Sand

LABEL STREET DATE CONFIGURATION DESCRIPTION CATALOGUE # UPC Tin Habi All Fo Some hing Mom + Pop 05/24/24

S anda d LP Coke Bo le Clea Vin l MP755 810090094823

The music of The Growlers is unmistakable.

Sure, you can hone in on some influences baked into the work of this Californiabred band. Heck, even they’d cop to a few, like Ricky Nelson and The Stranglers.

But once those same RIYL tags have been filtered through the minds and hands and voices of this five-piece, there’s simply nothing else like it.

This is especially true of Chinese Fountain, The Growlers’ fifth full-length set which celebrates it’s 10th anniversary this year.

Confidence bleeds through every track on Chinese Fountain, with the band assured enough to layer in shades of many new influences: the loping ska beat of “ Dull Boy ” and “Going Gets Tough,” the playful disco beat behind the title track, or the Teardrop Explodes-like agitation of “Good Advice.”

Now reissued on translucent magenta vinyl and a gatefold package with unearthed photos from the studio sessions.

BeachwoodSparks

AcrossTheRiverOfStars

LP/CD/Digital

Catalog#:CURED043

Labelwebsite: www.curationrecords.com

UPCVinylLPBlack: 850014131944

UPCVinylLtdBlue: 850014131968

UPCCD: 850014131975

UPCDIGITAL: 634457175556

BeachwoodSparkspioneeredtheindie-countrygenre,pushingAmericanainto experimentalterritorieswiththeirfusionoftwangycountryvibesandpsychedelic sounds.Theiruniquenicheintheindiemusiclandscapeismarkedbyetherealmelodies andintrospectivelyrics,influencingcountlessartistsandshapingthe"weirder"side ofAmericanamusic.Withthereleaseof"AcrossTheRiverOfStars"in2024,their legacyasgenreinnovatorscontinuestogrow,solidifyingtheirplaceastrailblazers intheindie-countrymovement.

Marketing&SellingPoints

● Themostanticipatedcomebackalbumfromindie-country-psychrevivalistsBeachwood Sparks,theacclaimedLAband’sfirstnewalbuminoveradecade.It’sBeachwoodSparks firstreleaseofnewmaterialonCurationRecords,followingupthelabelssuccesswith the20thAnniversaryReissueoftheirself-titleddebutalbumforSubPopreleasedin 2020,theBeachwoodDeluxeCD(containingbonustracksfromthereissue+fulllive concert)andtheSandboxSessionsEP.

● TheCDincludestwoBonustracks,alternativemixesofalbumtracksWildSwansHoomix+ FallingForeverHigh&LonesomeMix

● ‘ArossTheRiverOfStars’isBeachwoodSparksnewalbum,theirfirstsincetheir successwith‘TheTarnishedGold’(releasedbySubPopin2013).Thethreefounding membersChrisGunst,FarmerDaveScherandBrentRademakerrecordedthealbumduring thesummerof2023togetherwiththeirlongtimefriendandsupporterChrisRobinson fromTheBlackCrowesasproducer.

● BigPRcampaignthroughJoMurrayPublicistUSAandBigPotatoPress/RadioUK.They willusealltheircontactswithintheUS/UKindie/rockpress

● DuringtheirhiatusBeachwoodSparksFarmerDaveplayingwithJennyLewis,KurtVile, Interpol,AllNightRadio,TheSkifflePlayersandlatelyFarmerDave&TheWizardsOf theWest(alsoonCurationRecords),ChrisGunstformingMysticChordsofMemoryand BrentRademakerstartingtheGospelbeacHwhilealsofoundingCurationRecords,anindie labelofCaliforniaCuratedCool.

THE CHICK COREA ELEKTRIC BAND LIGHT YEARS

THE COMPLETE ALBUM ON VINYL FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER

AUDIO RESTORED BY ORIGINAL ENGINEER BERNIE KIRSH WITH NEW LACQUERS CUT BY BERNIE GRUNDMAN

2-LP SET IN DELUXE GATEFOLD JACKET WITH PRINTED INNER-SLEEVES AND NEW LINER NOTES BY BILL MILKOWSKI

SIDE ONE Light Years Second Sight Flamingo Prism

SIDE TWO Time Track Starlight Your Eyes

SIDE THREE The Dragon View From The Outside Smokescreen

SIDE FOUR Hymn Of The Heart Kaleidoscope

Chick Corea changed the face of jazz with his explosively virtuosic Elektric Band. In 2023, Candid remastered and repackaged their 5 studio albums on vinyl, unedited and in their original running order for the first time ever as part of a strictly limited, deluxe box set.

Now, we’re making each album available individually, following up our stand-alone release of the The Chick Corea Elektric Band with Light Years—the Top Ten jazz album that also won the R&B Grammy® for Best Instrumental Performance.

Released in the midst of the CD explosion, Corea took full advantage of the increased running time the format offered, letting his group stretch for over an hour across a dozen tracks. With vinyl entering its hibernation period, 3 songs were cut from the track list to fit Light Years on a single LP.

Candid is proud to give Light Years the release it’s always deserved, spreading its full 12 songs across 2 LPs with fully restored audio, expanded artwork, and new liner notes featuring contributions from members of the Elektric Band.

The24for‘24ArtistSeriesisanexclusiveedition,partofa limitedseriescharacterizedbyuniquepressings.Itisdistinguishedby theartisticcontributionsofkipdafog,whoadornsclassicMelloMusic Grouprecordswithoriginalartonlimitededitionspeciallycrafted colorwayvinyl.

PeteRock,acornerstoneofhip-hopfromMountVernon,has influencedthegenreprofoundly,withindustrygiantslikeDillaand KanyeWestamonghisadmirers.Hislatestwork,"Petestrumentals2," continueshislegacyofcraftingsoulful,resonantbeatsthatconnect deeplywithlisteners.Thissequeltohis2001classic,nowwithMello MusicGroup,showcasesRock'sunparalleledskillinevokingvivid emotionsandmemories,payingtributetoiconslikeDilla.Rock's timelessmusic,blendingnostalgiawithfreshrhythms,solidifieshis statusasamasterofthecraft,making"Petestrumentals2"ashowcase ofHipHopartistryatitsfinest.

"Reallysolid,impressiveneo-soulcutwithagorgeous, luxuriousinstrumental,solidvocalperformance,anda solidhook."-AnthonyFantano

Ariel,withheruniquelysoothingandvibrantsound,makesanimpactful entranceundertheMelloMusicGrouplegacy.Herlatestsingle,"Something Amazing,"blendsthenostalgiaof90'sR&Bwithmodernsensibilities, courtesyofRelyae'sproductionfeaturingwarmsynthsandlaid-backguitar riffs,capturingtheessenceoflove'severydaymagic.FollowingherdebutEP 'Symfonia,'whichenjoyedsignificantacclaimandstreams.

Arielcontinuestoexplorethemesofloveandpresencewith"Time,"atrack thatcelebrateslivinginthemoment,underscoredbyharmoniousblendsof pianoandbassguitar.Ariel'sjourneyrepresentsafreshandpromising chapterinthefusionofR&BandSoul,promisingmoreenriching soundscapesthatresonatewiththewarmthandeaseoftrueconnection.

ITEM NUMBER: LP-SMR-778

UPC: 656382642743 GENRE: Rock EXPORT: World

TRACK LISTING

Tongue Long

Open a Vase

The Inquisition

Wingtip Lizards

Dance for Nails

Got a Lot of Blood

Safer

Matador

Squash Beetle

Mean to Me

Ballroom

Sutpen

Moss Howl

Mr. Flavor

Deem-On

METAL FLAKE MOTHER 1989-1991

STREET DATE

07/19/2024

"In 1990 the Chapel Hill, North Carolina music scene was bubbling up into a soon-tobe-legendary froth and at its center was a mysterious band called Metal Flake Mother. As bands like Polvo and Archers of Loaf were all just forming, they all looked up to and often opened for Metal Flake Mother during the height of this cultural tipping point. While the previous sonic template of the region had been set by bands like Corrosion of Conformity, Flat Duo Jets and a very early form of Superchunk, Metal Flake Mother were the first to reach for a kind of Beatles-esque form of indie-rock and cut a timeless record that could build a bridge out to the burgeoning national scene. But before that could happen the band tragically broke up and their lost masterpiece "Beyond the Java Sea" was never released on LP. The arrival of this new release "Metal Flake Mother, Songs 1989-1991", will mark the first time any of their tracks recorded with Boston legend Lou Giordano have ever been on vinyl. This release will be limited to only 500 copies."

“Metal Flake Mother were one of the more modest spokes comprising the mega wheel that was the North Carolina indie scene circa the early '90s.” – (Willfully Obscure) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

“Out of all of the bands and different genres of music to come out of the vibrant 90’s Chapel Hill, NC music scene, it is universally agreed, by just about everyone who was part of it, that Metal Flake Mother were the best. They only recorded one album’s worth of material and disbanded. It is a true representation and snapshot of the early 90’s scene in our community. I’m very proud to bring this release to a wider audience and also release it on Vinyl for the first time, for our community to cherish forever”

– Stephen Judge (Schoolkids Records)

“A long overdue and essential document of a brilliant, hugely-influential band. Buy it now and play it loud. “ – Tom Maxwell (Author: A Really Strange and Wonderful Time (Chapel Hill Music Scene 1989 – 1999) and founding member of Squirrel Nut Zippers)

FOR FANS OF: THE PIXIES, POLVO, SUPERCHUNK, ARCHERS OF LOAF

LABEL CONTACT

STEPHEN H. JUDGE SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS schoolkidsrecordsnc@gmail.com

ARTIST: PLUREX RECORDS

TITLE: FROM PUNK TO ULTRA: THE PLUREX STORY

BOX LOT QUANTITY: 15 2LP/60 CD

FILE UNDER: POST PUNK

LP-MH-8302 UPC: 090771830210

CD-MH-8302 UPC: 090771830227

• A Double LP’s worth of Plurex’s Proto-Post-Punk singles from 1978-’80!

• Compiles all their 45 A sides onto one LP and the B’s to another! Also available on CD!

• Features liner notes from Jim Allen in conversation with Plurex Founder and Minny Pop Wally van Middendorp.

• Cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearant Audio & Pressed in the USA at Citizen Vinyl!

The spark ignited the Dutch post-punk scene!

Homogeneity be damned, these early Plurex tracks are a head-turning snapshot of what was happening in the late ‘70s Netherlands underground! Includes an interview with Plurex founders and all of the singles from 1978-‘80!

Some of the bands would never release another record, but for the label and many of the artists there was yet more history to be made, not least of which was Minny Pops’ ascendance to seminal status, and Plurex’s emergence at the center of the envelope-pushing Dutch music scene that came to be known as Ultra.

“It’s extreme, that’s what that word stands for,” explains van Middendorp of the movement, “It stands for something that’s clearly outspoken, and that’s what we tried to do.” From the confrontational clang of their early punk releases to the electronic art attacks that arrived soon after, Plurex was about saying something new, loudly enough for all to hear.

When those records were made,” says van Middendorp, “I never expected that we would have a conversation about them 40 years later if not longer. At the time nobody was even thinking for one minute that this might happen.... That so many years down the line there’s still people out there that will discover this music. And the great thing [about The Plurex Story] is that it’s also on a format that I’m a big fan of, because who gives a shit about the stream? It’s nice to have a physical album in your hands.”

– Jim Allen

COMPACT DISC BLACK VINYL DOUBLE LP

Doubt

July 19, 2024

MAS AYA

COMING AND GOING

RELEASE DATE: July 12, 2024

July 19, 2024

Coming And Going is the fifth release from Mas Aya, pseudonym of acclaimed Nicaraguan-Canadian composer, producer, and musician Brandon Miguel Valdivia. Over the past twenty years Valdivia has emerged as one of the most prolific and respected musicians in Canada.

In 2021 Valdivia's breakthrough LP as Mas Aya, Máscaras, ushered in a new era. With warm reception from the likes of Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and NPR it shed new and long-overdue light on his inventive compositional outlook.

Coming And Going is the follow-up to Máscaras and, much like its predecessor, it represents yet another colossal shift in Mas Aya's creative journey. The fact that its title is so evocative of flux is no mistake; it's an album that teems with subtle contradiction and restless intrigue, all the while carving pathways toward the reconciliation of these opposing sonic and thematic forces.

It's this very plurality that makes Coming And Going Valdivia's most intimate and personal effort to date. The music reflects upon community, family, the nature of home, and spirituality.

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Of The Void

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Originally released to a fan base and music press that were unprepared for the band to move on from the punk fury of “Crossing The Red Sea”, The Adverts “Cast Of Thousands” has since been recognized as a lost classic of the time. TV Smith’s cutting observational lyrics and sharp musical instincts saw his song writing grow and move in unexpected directions. The primal thumping was replaced by dynamic and driving drumming, acoustic guitars and probing solos emerged, and Tim Cross joined to add keyboards and fill out the overall sound. The one constant was the pounding throb of Gaye Advert’s bass. Encouraged to experiment by surprise producer Tom Newman (Mike Oldfield “Tubular Bells”) the band found themselves stretching creatively, both in song writing and recording techniques. They might agonize over the sound of recording a match being lit in the middle of one song, while doing a single take of a vocal via a microphone hung in the bathroom for another. Giant choirs were built meticulously over multiple tracks, while the sound of a rat running through the reverb room would be captured forever. The results wrapped some of TV’s best songs in strange and inventive sounds to compliment his anti-pop smarts and rock and roll heart. They did not know it at the time, but the band was falling apart. Tensions would soon rise to the level that replacement players were called in to finish their final tour. Punk fans left them in droves. Critics skewered the singles from the album. Their record label had moved on to the next big thing. Feeling that they had reached a creative peak made the tumble even harder to swallow. Time has been very kind though, and fans discovering punk after the first wave have been able to hear “Cast” for what it is - a brilliant and biting collection of rock and roll. Still full of stomp and swagger even when stripped down on “My Place” or via the anthemic surge of “Television’s Over”, with TV’s hook factory on full display on the anti-love song “Love Songs”, and the band closing the album with the creeping ballad “I Will Walk You Home”; The Adverts had grown from a great punk rock band to a great rock band.

Tracklisting: 1. Cast Of Thousands 2. The Adverts 3. My Place 4. Male Assault 5. Television's Over 6. Fate Of Criminals 7. Love Songs 8. I Surrender 9. I Looked At The Sun 10. I Will Walk You Home // Bonus donload tracks: 11. Television's Over (single) 12. Back From The Dead 13. One Chord Wonders (radio) 14. Bored Teenagers (radio) 15. Gary Gilmore's Eyes (radio) 16. Newboys (radio) 17. Quickstep (radio) 18. We Who Wait (radio) 19. Ne Church (radio) 20. Safety in Numbers (radio) 21. Great British Mistake (radio) 22. Fate of Criminals (radio) 23. Television's Over (radio) 24. Love Songs (radio) 25. Back From The Dead (radio) 26. I Surrender (radio) 27. The Adverts (radio) 28. I Looked At The Sun (radio) 29. Cast of Thousands (radio) 30. I Will Walk You Home (radio)

July 19,

Topshelf

Home market: Philadelphia, PA

Knifeplay Pearlty (2024 Remaster)

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Info:

7.

Credits:

all songs written by Tj Strohmer

produced and recorded by Cameron Konner and Tj Strohmer

Patrick McBride - lead guitar on Tears, Suffer, Specula, Held My Hand, and Lemonhead

Alex Stackhouse - bass on Tears, Suffer, Lover, Specula, and Held My Hand

Alex Ha - drums on all except Mirage

Chris Norcross - keyboard on Tears

Tommy Fala - keyboard/piano on Angel and Lemonhead

Harmony Tividad - guitar on Bouquet

Cameron Konner - auxiliary percussion, and a few other things

mastered by Fred Kevorkian

cover art by Tj Strohmer

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Over atmospheric instrumentation expanded by cinematic structure and pacing, Pearlty presents Knifeplay somewhere between dream-pop in�uenced shoegaze and lofty slowcore, never fully committing to one or the other in its insistence on creating an immersive, organic world.

Originally released in 2019, Knifeplay’s vivid debut Pearlty documents songwriter Tj Strohmer’s expressions of early adulthood in what he describes as “the journey from innocence to experience.”

Written during a time of immense inspiration, Strohmer was able to peel himself away from detached nihilism, uncovering the physicality and therapeutic powers of songwriting. Newly emboldened by this discovery and the talented community surrounding him, Strohmer channeled this revelation into his work, taking Knifeplay from a bedroom experiment that merely wrote songs to a more substantial project with a purpose.

Pearlty’s various climactic passages, like those heard on the impressionist album opener “Tears”, envelop listeners in textured walls of distorted guitar and noisy breakdowns, a distinct hallmark of shoegaze – but Knifeplay’s compositions go far beyond such conventions.

Also featured are downtempo compositions – such as the tribute track “Angel” – that call on a range of in�uences, from grunge to lo� pop, all the way back to slowcore. Layers of Strohmer’s falsetto lilt adorn the songs with another dimension of sentimentality, while rounding out the sonic vastness of the group’s emotionally enrapturing style, lending impressive depth to the band’s debut full-length.

For Fans of:

Alex G, Red House Painters, My Bloody Valentine, shoegaze-in�ected guitar rock, and other Topshelf artists: addy, bad heaven LTD, Crisman, Good Morning TV, In�nity Girl, Moller, Us and Us Only, Wished Bone

Selling Points:

• LP includes obi strip, download codes, fully printed sleeve, and 180g black vinyl.

• Press campaign handled by Tyler Andere.

• 2022 Topshelf debut Animal Drowning drew wide press support from Pitchfork, Stereogum, NPR, and more.

• US college radio campaign through Pirate Promotions.

• NA Booking: Anniversary Group.

• Sync: Secret Road (master) & Maps (publishing).

• Spotify: 34k monthly listeners.

• Animal Drowning saw Spotify playlist placements on: IRL Angel, Fresh Finds, Fresh Finds Indie, and All New Rock.

• Animal Drowning saw Apple Music playlist placements on: Sad Times, Sinister Sounds, Today's Indie Rock, New in Rock, and New in Indie.

• Music video for focus track "Tears" directed by Ben Turok.

• 2024 touring: North America tour supporting Ride.

• Past touring: North America.

• Remastered reissue of 2019 album; �rst ever vinyl pressing.

"Knifeplay are pushing the shoegaze revival to embrace the jagged textures of experimental rock, the earnestness of emo, and the delicacy of string compositions without any pretension."

-Pitchfork

“Too often these days do we move on from where an artist started and are instead pushed to focus in on only newness, but the �ve-year anniversary reissue of the Philly band’s promising �rst glimpse is a critical discovery passage for anyone who appreciates how their identity emerged out of obscurity.”

-Recommended Listen

"The song's fuzzed-out guitars and warped riffs give just a hint of how heavy Animal Drowning can get, but its soaring �nal minute is a reminder that the band is just as committed to crafting moments of beauty you can get lost in."

-NPR on "Nobody"

"To call Knifeplay a shoegaze band is to undersell the glorious sounds they conjure... it’s clear this band is practicing what it preaches regarding cutting your own path, with stellar results."

-Stereogum

July 19, 2024

Topshelf Records

TSR252

Home market: Singapore

Sobs Air Guitar

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Info:

Credits:

Sobs is Celine Autumn, Jared Lim and Raphael Ong.

With:

Shaun Khiu [Drums, Percussion]

Zhang Bo [Bass, Additional Guitars]

Produced and engineered by Jared Lim

Mastered by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering

Photography by Christopher Sim

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Dedicated to the power of pop music, Sobs are Singapore’s premier indiepop propagandists. After releasing a breakout bedroom pop EP Cat�ap and a dream-jangle LP Telltale Signs that brought international embrace, Sobs now assemble a front-to-back indiepop behemoth – Air Guitar – after a much anticipated three-year wait.

A thirty-minute trip for the post-Internet consumer, Air Guitar calibrates inventive pop hooks for the indie rock lover, instantly accessible yet intricately arranged. The album draws a line through the history of pop stylistics from 80s new wave ("Last Resort") and 90s power-pop ("Burn Book") to 00s sk8er punk and radio pop ("Air Guitar"). Further informed by the cosmopolitan, culturally astute ethos of PC Music – Sobs connects the uptempo of Shibuya’s Advantage Lucy ("Lucked Out"), heart-onsleeve indie rock of Bettie Serveert and Big Star ("World Implode"), with the eclecticism of New York’s Darla Records ("Friday Night") to de�ne the pulse of indiepop then and now.

Sobs is Celine Autumn, Jared Lim and Raphael Ong.

For Fans of:

Kero Kero Bonito, Crying, Hatchie, sugary sweet guitar-pop, and other Topshelf artists: Boyscott, Eerie Summer, Gingerlys, gobbinjr, Jay Som, Lunarette, Moller, No Joy, No Vacation, Queen of Jeans, tricot, Wild Ones, Wildhoney

Selling Points:

• LP features obi strip, download codes, marketing sticker, printed dust sleeve, and "cloudy blue" vinyl.

• Press support by Pitchfork, CNN, The Fader, Bandcamp Daily, and more.

• 25 Spotify Editorial placements during and after Air Guitar campaign.

• 38k monthly listeners on Spotify.

• Past touring includes North America, Asia.

• Music video for lead single "Air Guitar."

• CS is printed on a "Clear with Clear Liner" shell with standard J card

• CD is packaged in Digipak with 4 panel inserts

• All formats include bonus track.

"Sobs translate the cyclical feeling of falling in and out of love into gleaming, guitar-led confections across Air Guitar, exuberantly delivering on the promise of going big."

-Pitchfork

"Forty seconds into “Air Guitar” and vocalist Celine Autumn is already delivering one of those hooks that latches onto one’s brain and doesn’t let go."

-Bandcamp Daily

"On “Air Guitar,” they’ve honed their irresistible pop hooks with higher �delity than ever before."

-CNN Philippines

"a perfect encapsulation of what the indie-pop band do so well."

-The Fader

"[Air Guitar is] the gold standard for guitar pop in 2022."

-The Alternative

Thank you for your interest in our catalog! Over the last thirteen years, Topshelf has released 250+ albums by 100+ artists from all around the world. Our roster’s catalog spans a wide and eclectic array of musical styles and genres. To check out hand-picked suggestions for other artists on our roster we think you might also enjoy, visit: topshelfrecords.com/like

Subsonic Eye All Around You

�le under: dream pop indie pop indie rock jangle pop pop rock

Info:

Credits:

Nur Wahidah - vocals

Daniel Borces - guitar

Jared Lim - guitar

Samuel Venditti - bass

Lucas Tee - drums

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Subsonic Eye are enraptured by nature. On their 2021 album, Nature of Things, the Singaporean �ve-piece explored the tolls of human indulgence through raw tonality and zippy jangle pop, poignantly celebrating the spirits of a natural world fast disappearing. But on their fourth full-length All Around You, Subsonic Eye expand this relationship to nature with a renewed appreciation for its coexistence with urban cities. The hectic character of urban life refracts through snappy, invigorating hooks, prisms of entrancing tone layered with singer Nur Wahidah’s restless, velvety lilt.

All Around You’s lead track “Yearning” unravels the band’s religious dedication to the idea that nature is all around us, that we are whole with it. Sung over a nimble guitar melody and tension-building rhythm, “dunk my head into waters / wake me up fully new now” arrives in direct reference to Wahidah’s newfound perspective that we over indulgent humans can still �nd a harmonious balance with nature.

The ten songs that comprise All Around You also comprise a space to sit with the complex feelings inspired by this intense world we inhabit. Rather than succumb to doom, Subsonic Eye relish the opportunity to meditate on these uncomfortable emotions to �nd their way to the ultimate realization that beauty is all around us.

For Fans of: Alvvays, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Snail Mail, snappy invigorating pop-rock, and other Topshelf artists: Boyscott, Gingerlys, Harry the Nightgown, Lunarette, Moller, No Vacation, Ratboys, Sobs, Wild Ones

Selling Points:

• LP features "insomnia" vinyl, obi strip, download codes, marketing sticker, and printed dust sleeve.

• US college radio campaign through Pirate Promotions.

• Press campaign handled by Will Osiecki.

• Press support from Pitchfork, Paste, The Fader, Guitar World, and more.

• Music video for lead track "Yearning".

• Music video for second single "J-O-B".

• CS printed on clear shells with standard J Card.

• CD is packaged in standard Digipak.

• 26k Spotify monthly listeners.

• Spotify playlist placements include Just Rock!, Summer Indie, .ORG, Indie shuf�e, OTW, and more.

• Apple Music playlist placements include New in Punk, New in Rock, New in Alternative, New in Indie, and more.

'All Around You' proves that connection—to nature, to a lover—can be a profoundly potent force.

-Pitchfork

The breathlessness of “Circle” and “Performative” (the latter a contender for one of the tracks of the year— it’s beautiful) conjures the feel of cars rushing around junctions or streets bustling with people.

-Bandcamp Daily

the band’s most exhilarating material to date.

-NME

Driven by drummer Lucas Tee’s facility for rollicking breakbeats and singer Nur Wahidah’s characteristic drawl, it’s full of adolescent unease and bittersweet longing; the band’s jangle and pitch bends seem both warm and cool, like a malaise brought on by summer rain.

-Pitchfork

Restless and con�dent, and topped with a sugary chorus that packs a deceptively effective punch, Hurt Your Head is one of those ‘this is my new favorite band!’ songs – you know the ones.

-Guitar World

Singaporean band Subsonic Eye come of age in real time on “Aquarius” with lead singer Nur Wahidah trying to maintain focus as adolescence and adulthood begin to blur and real life rears into view. Tight drumming and chiming guitars act as stabilizers on her journey as she stumbles towards a new reality.

-The Fader

MOLECULAR STEVE

What does Penicillin, Microwaves, and Rubber have in common with Molecular Steve? All four were created accidently. What started as a creative project with his son–has expanded to nine collaborative band members from diverse backgrounds and experiences united by an addiction to creative exploration.

Molecular Steve reawakens the zeal to articulate the unspoken nuances of lived experiences–a medium for connection and expression. It's an exploration into hooks that don't just catch the ear but burrow into the psyche, lingering long after the last note. Atypical harmonies and rhythms that celebrate life’s weathered moments–irreconcilable scars and unvarnished joy.

Molecular Steve’s debut album is set for release on July 19, 2024 via Strolling Bones Records.

Street Date:

July 19, 2024

Heavens To Betsy 1.

2. Last of His Kind

3. Wolfman

4. Nil Game

5. NDA

6. Agamemnon

7. Psyhic Radio

8. Clover Boys

9. It’s On

10. Spent

11. Crisis, Patience, Allegiance

12. Fair Enough

13. Just Like I Told Ya

14. Lost in the Weather

Track Listing: Vinyl CD

Sel. #: SB33 CD

CONFIG: Digiwallet

UPC: 607396033119

MSRP: $13.99

Genre: Indie-Rock

Sel. #: SB33 LP

CONFIG: Jacket, Peach Vinyl

UPC: 607396033133

MSRP: $24.99

Genre: Indie-Rock

CAT#BJLP47 Release Date:

July 19th, 2024

▪ Vinyl LP Full color jacket

TRACKLISTING:

Description

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Manatee Commune Simultaneity

Seattle's own Manatee Commune (aka Grant Eadie) makes his long-awaited return to Bastard Jazz with his fourth album, 'Simultaneity'. Lush and vibrant production is familiar to his previous works, though Eadie has significantly matured in the activation of space and character. A step away from standard songwriting, and a total disassociation from lyrics at all,has made this record closer to the ambient genre than anything Manatee Commune has released, all the while keeping one solid foot in the realm of dance music.

Highlights

● After a lengthy hiatus Simultaneity is Manatee Commune’s first album in over 5 years

● Simultaneity includes 2023 singles Path & Cast as well as Amaat One which was released in 2021

● A stalwart of the Pacific Northwest music scene, he was featured on KEXP’s YouTube Channel (3m+ Subscribers) as a part of their acclaimed live in-studio video series

UPC: 674276666347

● Restful, detailed, childlike, meticulous, and unfettered, Manatee Commune has become an icon among the PNW for the liberated dance floor, selling out solo shows at Seattle’s Neptune Theatre and Nectar, Portland’s Holocene and Bellingham’s Wild Buffalo venues.

● Press support from NPR’s All Songs Considered, KEXP (US), KCRW (US), Atwood, Kaltblut, Magnetic Magazine and more

● Worldwide radio support from stations like KEXP (US), KCRW (US), RTBF (BE), FM4 (AT), RTS Couleur 3 (SZ), RBB Radioeins (DE), Worldwide FM (UK), WFMU (US) and more

● Has toured across North America playing to sell out 400 cap rooms and festivals like Electric Forest, Bumbershoot, Sasquatch!, Capitol Hill Block Party, and Summer Meltdown

● Has opened for the likes of ODESZA, Gold Panda, Washed Out, Dan Deacon, Geographer, Beat Connection and others

Eyal Maoz and Eugene Chadbourne

The Coincidence Masters

A rare opportunity to create the album arose during Chadbourne's 2022 visit to New York City. This led to a fortunate recording session where nothing was planned and everything was recorded without amps, making each listening experience as pristine as if it were the first time the album has ever been played through speakers. Maoz has long been a fan of Chadbourne, admiring his direct, no-consequences approach to creating sound. Eyal is experimenting here with a partly new set of pedals, while Eugene gives us an old-school lesson in genius through the simplicity of it all, using mostly hands and sticks. At times, a vague sense of a constant beat is present, making this the go-to album for those seeking easy listening insanity. This is the first recording of two outstanding improvising musicians streaming their unconsciousness while caressing (and at times bashing) their guitars. Track List:

Eyal Maoz (guitar)

Eugene Chadbourne (guitar)

Recorded in New York City, NY on June 10, 2022 by Eyal Maoz

Mixed by John Davis and Bunker Studios, Brooklyn, NY

Mastered by Elliott Sharp

Cover picture by Yoram Porath

Eyal Maoz at Deer and Fortress Music (ASCAP)

Eugene Chadbourne at Nukem Music (BMI)

RIYL: Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser, John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Mary Halvorson, Ava Mendoza, Brandon Seabrook, John Medeski, Lukas Ligeti

Photo by Todd Turner

Photo by Peter Gannushkin

1. Binding Time

2. Busy at His Play

3. The Death of Blind Davy

4. Londonderry

5. Never Pity Me

6. Two Murders

7. After Hepburn’s Union

8. A Guardian at the Stables

9. Landless Forever

10. Ranter’s Prayer

BLACK VINYL

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UPC: 5056340106730

Field Music and the NASUWT Riverside Band Binding Time

STREET DATE: 19 July 2024

LABEL: Daylight Saving Records

Binding Time is a suite of new songs inspired by the formation of the Durham Miners’ Association and performed with musicians from the NASUWT Riverside band.

The songs for Binding Time were originally written as a commission for Durham Brass Festival and were due to be performed at Redhills, the home of the DMA in July 2021. Unfortunately, Covid restrictions at the time meant that this performance could not take place and the suite was eventually premiered at Durham’s Gala Theatre in the summer of 2022 Following this performance, Peter and David set about recording the songs at their studio in Sunderland.

Research for the project began back in 2020 with Peter and David tracing the growth and decline of mining in the region and the struggles of mining communities. “Growing up in the North East in the 1980s, you took for granted that mining was part of the landscape but I don’t think I really understood what it meant for the region. The whole area has been shaped by the coal industry; socially, economically, politically, even geographically.”

“We were looking for a balance between telling stories which someone with no prior knowledge could understand, whilst also threading in all these fascinating factual details. We felt it couldn’t just be historical. It had to be personal too.”

“Across the album we have songs that tell tales of miner’s being blacklisted for unionising, that touch on the barbarism of the yearly bond, where mostly-illiterate miners annually signed themselves into bondage for fear of being without work, and portraits of the hated 3rd Marquis of Londonderry, Charles Vane, who built Seaham Harbour to avoid paying keelmen on the River Wear, and Thomas Hepburn, whose selfless efforts to unionise his fellow miners in the 1820s and 30s left him destitute.”

This new collection completes a tryptic of Field Music releases with a socio-historical theme, following 2015’s Music for Drifters - written as a live accompaniment to John Grierson’s pioneering documentary - and 2021’s Making a New World, which examined the social and technological aftermath of the First World War.

HAUSU MOUNTAIN

Artist: MothCock

Album: HausLive3:ChicagoTwofer

HausuMountain continuesthe HausLive seriesofliveshowrecordings thatcapturesomeoftheheadiestmomentsinChicagoundergroundmusic, followingvolumesfrom Sunwatchers and GoodWillsmith withapairof Chi-towngigsfromKent,Ohio’slegendarycarnival-core-free-jazz-noise duo MothCock —compiledtogetherinto HausLive3:ChicagoTwofer.The serieschannelsthespiritoftheinformalbootleggingandtapetradingof audiencerecordingsaspioneeredbythecommunitysurroundingthe GratefulDead,honinginontherawliveenergyandin-the-moment emotionsthatmakeeachshowstandoutinthestreamoftime.Selectedas partofthelabel’songoingcollaborationwiththeprolificChicagotaper andHausMomega-friend JoelBerk, HausLive3:ChicagoTwofer documents twoof MothCock’ssetsatbelovedDIYspacesinChicagoin2023:onein Mayat NotNot,andanotherinDecemberat DigitalArtDemoSpace (DADS) aspartofthelabel’s HausMoHolidayBash.Presentedasasingle releasewithtwo40+minutesets, HausLive3:ChicagoTwofer continues MothCock’sstreakofcontinualevolutionasanunpredictableliveact whoselooselystructuredimprovisationsspiraloffintoconfoundingzones capableofinducingthedeepestalteredstatesofmindandbody.The albumrepresentsanotableshiftin MothCock’srecordedoutputfrom performancesrecordedforvariousremotelivestreamsduringthe pandemicbackintotherealmofliveshows,ashiftthatcorrespondswith theongoingreawakeningandfreshopeningsofDIYspacesoldandnew thatChicagohasseenoverthelastcoupleyearsofburgeoning undergroundactivity.

Label: HausuMountain Cat#: HAUSMO141

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Formats:2xCD,Tape

Cassetteedition 2xCDedition ina4-panel,2-pocketgatefoldjacket

“AfixtureintheHausuMountainrostersincethelabel’s 2012founding,Ohiofree-jazzduoMothCockbridge thegapbetweenthenoisyDIYcassettesceneofthe aughtsandtheprogressive,MIDI-poweredscenethat emergedinitsplace.TheirmanicimprovisationblendsPat Modugno’scrunchyliveelectronicsandtrumpetwithDoug Gent’ssaxophone,testingonesurrealtexturalfusionafter anotheratlength.Thoughthey’vetypicallystucktoa traditional45-minutealbumformatinthepast,dropping offasmallhandfulofdrawn-outjamspertape,their latestHausureleaseallowsthebandtoexploreits maximalistimpulsestothefullest.”- Pitchfork

“Reminiscentinformtoanhours-longGratefulDead bootleg,thealbumisorientedtowardthelong-formjam, evokingtrancelikeeffectsthroughpatternsanddrones. Theduoconsistentlyexcels,however,ingoingbeyondthe sumoftheirparts.”- Bandcamp

With HausLive3:ChicagoTwofer joiningtheHausuMountaincatalogasthe seventh(!) MothCock release,thebandbecomesthemostreleasedproject inthelabel’shistory—beginningallthewaybackin2012with Bremmy andreachingonenotablepeaktenyearslaterwith2022’smammoth three-tape/three-point-five-hourodyssey WhippedStreamandOther EarthlyDelights.Broughttolifebytheduo’sstrippeddownrigofdrum machine,guitarpedals,microphones,saxophone,andtrumpet,themusic capturedon HausLive3 completelydefiesthehumblephysicalrealityofits originandblastsintotheouterreachesofbrain-scramblingelectroacousticnoiseimprov.Alwaysdeliveredwithawink,oreventhefull-on grimaceofamutatedclown,theduo’smusicrejectsnotionsofnoise performanceasanoutletforaggressionorauralviolenceinfavorofa senseofcartoonishwhimsyandgonzotomfoolery.

Withtheindividualcomponentsoftheirsoundlockedinforoverfifteen yearsoftheband’sexistence,youmightthinkyouknowwhattoexpect whenyouputona MothCock album.Butasanyonewhohasseenthem playliveorwaspresentattheshowsdocumentedon HausLive3 knows,the bandlivestodefyexpectations.Thetwosetsdemonstratetheextentto whichtheduo’sawarenessofnarrativedramaandthearcofanygiven improvisationhasdevelopedovertheiryearsofshreddingtogether.The duoslidesfromcarnivalbackgroundmusicintounexpectedmomentsof near-consonanttranquilityandoutintosomeoftheirmostminimal passagesevercapturedontape,beforefallingthroughatrapdoorinto whatsoundslikearobotfactoryspewingoutnewmachinesthatfallapart beforeoureyesontheconveyorbelt.

It’sworthrememberingthattheseare40+minuteliveperformancesthat neverlosetheirtwitchyenergyandneversettleintoanythingresemblinga pattern.DougGentandPatModugnoaremarathonnoiserspossessingthe mentalandphysicalstaminatoleadusonlongjourneyswiththem,and theirobviousgleeintakingstrangeleftturnsandsurprisingtheiraudience comesacrossevenontheaudioalone.JoelBerk’saudiencerecordings capturethetoneandspiritoftheroom,asattendeesgaspandcheeralong witheachtwistthattheduothrowsatthem.Itwouldbetemptingtosaythat thetapescapturetheband’sperformanceswithwartsandall,butwhen you’redealingwith MothCock,it’sallwartsfromthetoptobottom.Plus, weallknowthattherearenomistakesinjazz,baby.With HausLive3: ChicagoTwofer, MothCock onceagaintestifytowhytheyremainacentral pillaroftheHausuMountainrosterbybestexemplifyingthelabel’s ongoingmissiontochallengeandentertainlistenersinequalmeasure.It’s certainlychallengingmusic,populatedwithwailingklaxonsandatonal horns,start-and-stoprhythmsandinhumangrunts,andyetyoucan’thelp butgrinasithitsyourbrainstem:thesedudesknowhowtohaveagood time,man.IwishIwasthere.(Iwas.)

SOUTHERN ROCK OPERA - DELUXE EDITION

Southern Rock Opera is the third studio album by the American rock band Drive-By Truckers, released in 2001. Originally released as a double album covering an ambitious range of subject matter from the politics of race to 1970s stadium rock, Southern Rock Opera either imagines, or filters, every topic through the context of legendary Southern band Lynyrd Skynyrd.

New West Records is proud to present a remixed and remastered deluxe edition LP featuring a resequenced record as well as a third disc with multiple bonus tracks including a song - “Mystery Song” - that was recorded one night in Birmingham. Lead Singer, Patterson Hood, explains, ““Birmingham” and “Moved” were originally part of Act I on the original CD release. This is the first vinyl version to feature “Moved” and we felt that “Birmingham” would be the best other song to move without messing up the story element of Betamax Guillotine. We moved them here to keep the vinyl sides within time of maximum high fidelity. (Under 23 minutes per mastering guidelines).

In the process of re-mixing the original tracks for the album, we stumbled upon a mysterious track that was recorded late one night in Birmingham. None of us have any memory whatsoever of recording it. The song itself was never even written down, just made up on the spot while the tape was rolling. We’re calling it “Mystery Song.” It’s actually a keeper.”

This 3-disc deluxe edition comes packed in a foil stamped rigid slipcase with the original album packaged as a 2xLP set in gatefold. The 3rd LP is packaged in a separate jacket. Each record comes with a 28-page book that is given the spot gloss treatment throughout.

STREET DATE: July 26, 2024

TRACK LISTING

ACT 1 - Disc 1 - SIDE A

1. DAYS OF GRADUATION

2. RONNIE AND NEIL

3. 72 (THIS HIGHWAY’S MEAN)

4. DEAD, DRUNK, AND NAKED

5. GUITAR MAN UPSTAIRS

Disc 1 - SIDE B

1. THE SOUTHERN THING

2. THE THREE GREAT ALABAMA ICONS

3. WALLACE

4. ZIP CITY

ACT II - Disc 2 - SIDE A

1. LET THERE BE ROCK

2. ROAD CASES

3. WOMEN WITHOUT WHISKEY

4. PLASTIC FLOWERS ON THE HIGHWAY

5. CASSIE’S BROTHER

Disc 2 - SIDE B

1. LIFE IN THE FACTORY

2. SHUT UP AND GET ON THE PLANE

3. GREENVILLE TO BATON ROUGE

4. ANGELS AND FUSELAGE

BETAMAX GUILLOTINE - Disc 3 - SIDE A

(recommended to play between Act I & II)

1. Birmingham (Remixed/Remastered)

2. Mystery Song (Unreleased Bonus Track)

3. Moved (Remixed/Remastered)

LIVE AT THE EARL (Atlanta, GA - November 24, 2001) - Disc

3 - Side B

1. Don’t Cockblock the Rock (Unreleased Bonus Track)

2. Zip City (Live)

3. Road Cases (Live)

4. 72 (This Highway’s Mean) (Live)

VINYL

CONFIG: 3xLP (Total) - Rigid Slipcase, 2xLP in gatefold, bonus 1xLP in jacket, 28p book, spot glosses throughout, red foil stamping on slipcase

UPC: 607396583119

Catalog: NW5831LP

Box Lot: 20 Count

Genre: Rock n Roll

INDIE VINYL

CONFIG: 3xLP (Total) - Rigid Slipcase, 2xLP in gatefold, bonus 1xLP in jacket, CLEAR VINYL, 28p book, spot glosses throughout, red foil stamping on slipcase

UPC: 607396583218

Catalog: NW5832LP

Box Lot: 20 Count

Genre: Rock n Roll

CARPARK / JULY 26, 2024

THE BETHS EXPERT IN A DYING FIELD

On The Beths’ new album Expert In A Dying Field, Elizabeth Stokes’ songwriting positions her somewhere between being a novelist and a documentarian. The songs collected here are autobiographical, but they’re also character sketches of relationships -- platonic, familial, romantic -- and more importantly, their aftermaths. The shapes and ghosts left in absences. The question that hangs in the air: what do you do with how intimately versed you’ve become in a person, once they’re gone from your life?

The third LP from the New Zealand quartet houses 12 jewels of tight, guitar-heavy songs that worm their way into your head, an incandescent collision of power-pop and skuzz. With Expert, The Beths wanted to make an album meant to be experienced live, for both the listeners and themselves. They wanted it to be fun in spite of the prickling anxiety throughout the lyrics, the fear of change and struggle to cope.

Most of Expert was recorded at guitarist Jonathan Pearce’s studio on Karangahape Road in Ta–maki Makaurau, Aotearoa (Auckland, New Zealand) toward the end of 2021, until they were interrupted by a four-month national lockdown. They traded notes remotely for months, songwriting from afar and fleshing out the arrangements alone. The following February The Beths left the country to tour across the US, and simultaneously finish mixing the album on the road, culminating in a chaotic three-day studio mad-dash in Los Angeles. There, Expert finally became the record they were hearing in their heads.

The album’s title track “Expert In A Dying Field” introduces the thesis for the record: “How does it feel to be an expert in a dying field? How do you know it’s over when you can’t let go?” Stokes asks. “Love is learned over time ‘til you’re an expert in a dying field.” The rest is a capsule of The Beths’ most electrifying and exciting output, a sonic spectrum: “Silence is Golden,” with its propulsive drum line and stop-start staccato of a guitar line winding up and down, is one of the band’s sharpest and most driving. “Knees Deep” was written last minute, but yields one of the best guitar lines on Expert

Stokes strings it all together through her singular songwriting lens, earnest and selfeffacing, zeroing in on the granules of doubt and how they snowball. Did I do the wrong thing? Or did you? That insecurity and thoughtfulness, translated into universality and understanding, has been the guiding light of The Beths’ output since 2016. In the face of pain, there’s no dwelling on internal anguish -- instead, through The Beths’ music, our shortcomings are met with acceptance. And Expert In A Dying Field is the most tactile that tenderness has been.

HIGHLIGHTS

• North American publicity by Pitch Perfect PR

• College/Non-Commercial, Commercial Specialty radio and sync licensing by Terrorbird

• Alternative Commercial Radio by U.N.C.L.E.

• Named one of 2022’s Best Albums by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Paste, Brooklyn Vegan, and more

• Extensive touring in 2023, including dates supporting Death Cab For Cutie, The Postal Service, The National, and Alvvays, and festival appearances at Coachella, Primavera, Newport Folk Festival, Bonnaroo

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Street Date: July 26, 2024

File Under: Alternative/ Indie Rock

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TRACKLISTING

1. Expert In A Dying Field

Knees Deep

I Told You That I Was Afraid 12. 2am

RIYL

Alvvays

Courtney Barnett

Lucy Dacus

Death Cab For Cutie

Phoebe Bridgers

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Sleaford Mods

Divide and Exit

10th Anniversary Edition

July 26th 2024

SELLING POINTS

• Fully remastered album – complete with a limited-edition LP sleeve (first pressing only) designed by Cold War Steve and new sleevenotes written by Jason Williamson and a 7” flexi only available with the indie version.

• “Sleaford Mods are the voice of their generation” The Times

• “Sleaford Mods are Britain’s laureates” Financial Times

• “Sleaford Mods, from Nottingham, England, are fantastic complainers...Divide and Exit is their most consistent record” The New York Times

• Divide and Exit is about as punk as punk gets… [Jason Williamson] has become one of the most sharp and funny chroniclers of his country’s widespread slump into disillusionment” Pitchfork

TRACKLISTING

1. Air Conditioning

2. Tied Up In Nottz

3. A Little Ditty

4. You’re Brave

5. Strike Force

6. The Corgi

7. From Rags To Richards

May 19 marks 10 years of Sleaford Mods seminal album, Divide And Exit.

Allying strong words and minimal electronics, Sleaford Mods’ second ‘proper’ album the selfreleased Divide And Exit was not only Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson’s most effective artistic expression to that point, it also truly captured the taste of a land souring by the day.

Now set for a reissue through Rough Trade Records to mark the record’s tenth anniversary, the fully remastered album – complete with a limited-edition LP sleeve designed by Cold War Steve – offers a chance to fully appreciate a band beginning to hit their artistic stride while acknowledging and commiserating that many of the dark forces that inspired its creation linger on. Yet once again it is possible revel in the hopeful anger that underpins Sleaford Mods’ blasts of outrage and electro.

ALEX IZENBERG ALEX IZENBERG & THE EXILES

TRACKLISTING

1. The Gospel of Exiles

2. An Obscured Odyssey

3. The Wraith Behind Our Eyes

4. Drinking the Dusk Away

5. Dreams of Déjà Vu

6. Threaded Dances

7. Only the Moon Knows

8. Pareidolia

9. United States (of Mind)

10. Apophenia

11. As the Dawn Serenades the Dark

CATALOG NUMBER: WEIRD167

RELEASE DATE: July 26, 2024

FILE UNDER: Alternative “I”

CD

Boxlot: 30 UPC: 887833016725

LP w/ DOWNLOAD

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Vinyl is non-returnable

OVERVIEW

As Alex Izenberg was piecing together the sweeping, psychedelic opuses on his full-band debut Alex Izenberg & The Exiles, the Los Angeles artist was focused on a simple goal: making something built to last. At the heart of his songs are bold ideas that take inspiration from the heady musings of philosopher Alan Watts, the multi-layered storytelling of King Crimson, and the imagistic vistas of Fleet Foxes. While the subject matter may feel esoteric—“My unconscious named the tongue/Of the lights of closed eyes” goes a characteristic lyric—Izenberg and his band let the music drift pleasantly to earth. The melodies are romantic and warm, and the arrangements are invitingly expansive, making expert use of a new ensemble formed around the strongest songs of his career.

Fitting for a record that collects Izenberg’s widest array of collaborators, he expanded his process further by enlisting veteran producer Phil Ek to mix the album. “In the past, I've had trouble handing off my work,” he admits, always preferring to handle things on his own. But knowing that Ek worked on some of the records that most inspired his own music—particularly Fleet Foxes’ 2017 album Crack-Up —helped to calm his nerves. The resulting sound is just as intimate as any of Izenberg’s more hermetic material, while casting a mystical, communal glow that feels brand new in his body of work.

SELLING POINTS

• Full press campaign - New York Times feature on Alex Izenberg confirmed for release week!

• Alex Izenberg & The Exiles was mixed by legendary producer Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, The Shins, Modest Mouse) and is his first record to introduce The Exiles, Alex Izenberg’s new band who appear on the record and will join him on the road.

• Summer 2024 US Tour Dates in support of record TBA.

• US College & Specialty Radio campaigns.

• LP format includes download card.

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...tick tock, rappa tap tap, glitch bloop ’n roll here come ol’ Wand back, they’re coming down slowly. The denser they get, it appears, the simpler they fly. And now five years after a Laughing Matter, baby who are “ Wand ” this time? With Vertigo, what hath Wand spawned?

It’s multichromatic, that’s for sure, but its too soon to tell, we’re too close to see. The way cells are replaced and all new again? That’s it. Now they are ten and all new again (see Ganglion Reef, 2014), but in the sample set of the time between this time/the time of the quintet Wand of late, of Plum and Laughing Matter they’ve undergone the complex -2+1 dimensional restructure, coming out a quartet (Evan Backer, Evan Burrows , Robbie Cody, Cory Hanson). Two original members, if you’re keeping a chart. We’re not judging you!

So, new-ish, in new ways anyway. But don’t the new Wand ’s built upon the exalted altars of old. There’s flashes of sentiment and tension, nudity and evasion, theatrical elevation, giant pieces chunked throughout alongside little bits of things. Allowing for slippage, it’s all one: the far horizon drawn in, nearer than ever before, allowing the chance for greater integration, if you stay open. And so they did. Vertigo is the sound of feet lost, regained, lost again, equilibrium in soft focus, a swaying feeling, more automatic and associative: in time, direct.

Determining to work backwards (or at least insideout) this time, Wand recorded everything in their own studio; pieces cut from improvisations and reshaped, writing from within the performance, without the woodshed. Unconsciously, in the shadow of themselves, and turning

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round and round (and round), they kept finding that empty space and playing what it implied. Everybody took on a new position in addition to the old one. It was intuitive, strangely ego-less . . . going somewhere they’d never been and not knowing what they were doing, but committing and recommitting, unafraid to eject in a constant positive forward momentum.

Listen: it’s like folk music for children, with synthesizers and other crap. Raw details with a lush velvet backing. Hear the articular evidence granular within the jams as it flows.

Just slip it on and hope to become one with the landscape?

You were anyway.

Hoping to listen and, more and more, feel less and less? Naw.

Wand are funneling energy, pitching space your way more like to stand your hair on its toes with every verse-chorus. Pulling on segments of infinity, boiled down and resequenced, they’ve devised their own dream gear to drive the old moterik into wide open space, in atmospheric reverb, on perma-globular drift. In stereo. A pulpy SLiCE of the collective contradiction; the songs slide cuts of genus and genii, captured beatscape and soundtrack, found melody on anxious rock beats pulled into the ether and spurt back out again pret zeled and more into a new gravitational center, sewn together by tongues. And propagated by more, as you commence to sing along. Looking back, everything was improvisation. Vertigo was inescapable. But what music did await!

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Street Date: July 26, 2024

NO EXPORT TO UK, EU, AUSTRALIA, NZ — SALES TO ALL OTHER TERRITORIES ARE POSSIBLE!

The Nathan Bowles Trio’s Are Possible is a spark-throwing, undulating fusion of styles played (mainly) on banjo, upright bass and drums. The individual perspectives of Nathan, double-bassist Casey Toll (Jake Xerxes Fussell, Mt. Moriah) and drummer Rex McMurry (CAVE ) work together in an easy-rolling manner, but one that contains an expansive, ass-shaking confabulation of ideas.

Music’s been dubbed “time remembered”— YES, but it’s also vital to recognize that this world of music, arts and the literal social politic existing beyond (or below, or wherever you find it) is in never-ending flux. Spiraling through encounters with the past is a means of bringing the old collectives into our future present, for the necessity of creating something new. Nathan’s solo music-making explorations with the banjo are evidence of the range of possible places to go in the world while still in contact with one’s roots: clawhammer boogie, strummed, bowed and percussive techniques, original compositions and traditional tunes, all cutting a path between old-time Appalachian music and its long-lost cousin, ecstatic minimal drone. In conversation with Rex and Casey ’s own conceptions, with guitar, bass, mellowtone, keyboards, drums and percussion aboard, he continues to ride toward new vistas.

It’s been a long six years since these three players first appeared on Nathan’s 2018 album, Plainly Mistaken, a stretch made weird by the period of time in which social music couldn’t be played socially. But again, nothing ever really dies: the time since, experienced as individuals and as a band, informs everything about Are Possible’s multitudinous group sound. The details along the road that the band traveled to get here, where where one riff blossomed into ten, then melted back down, and parts were added and subtracted and became each other in moments of new collective understanding, lent a unique prog-nosticafication to the possibilities of Are Possible before they’d even recorded a note.

Music is time in redux: Are Possible’s many moments in time carry details from all over the place. Rex brought a rhythm to the table after drumming on buckets at work, Casey provided a bassline that redirected a previous jam, Nathan brought in a song he’d been fucking with forever and they figured it out together. Their diversity of sources moves easily within the arrangements, rendering a far-ranging set of feels, from transcendental to new country funk to good ol’ jazz and the folk-rock, even all of it drawn out exquisitely when they mixed at Electrical Audio in Chicago with the delicate hands of Cooper Crain upon the faders.

The Nathan Bowles Trio have done their due diligence, passing their music through time and space on their way to now; now, the real trip begins, as Are Possible travels on, through you.

Pastor Brady L. Blade, Sr. & The Hallelujah Train

Brady L. Blade, Sr. has been the Pastor of The Zion Baptist Church in Shreveport, Louisiana since 1961 and at 85 years of age, he is still preaching teaching and singing

The Hallelujah Train includes a full-length documentary about the life and ministry of Pastor Blade as well as a live concert film and CD recording from the Hayti Heritage Center in Durham, NC, recorded on October 10th, 2009. The performance features Ada Small, Daniel Lanois, Buddy Miller, Greg Leisz, Chris Thomas, Aaron Embry, Kelly Jones, Brian Blade, Brady L. Blade, Jr. and the Zion Baptist Church Choir under the direction of Sereca Henderson.

The Hallelujah Train concert film and documentary was written and directed and edited by Brian Blade and Adam CK Vollick.

Released through the label founded by Brian Blade, Stoner Hill Records and Press

BRADY L. BLADE, SR. WAS CALLED TO PASTOR THE ZION BAPTIST CHURCH IN SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA ON SEPTEMBER 5, 1961. SINCE THEN, HE HAS DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO SHARING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS WITH ANYONE THAT MIGHT HAVE THE EAR AND DESIRE TO LISTEN.

GIVEN THE GIFT OF VOICE TO RENDER BOTH SERMON AND SONG, MAKING IT PLAIN THROUGH PARABLES AND LIFTING HYMNS OF PRAISE. THE HALLELUJAH TRAIN SERVES AS A MUSICAL METAPHOR THAT PLACES US ALL ON THE PLATFORM OF LIFE, WAITING, WATCHING AND LISTENING FOR THE COMING OF THAT SANCTIFIED IRON HORSE TO STOP ON IT'S COURSE, PICK US UP AND CARRY US ON DOWN THE LINE. THERE IS AMAZING GRACE IN THIS WORLD. AT TIMES, THERE WILL BE TROUBLE IN THE WAY, BUT AS ANOTHER NIGHT BECOMES DAY, WE WILL SHARE OUR DREAMS AND EXPERIENCES ON OUR TRIP SO FAR. BY DOING THIS, PERHAPS WE WILL FEEL LESS LIKE STRANGERS HERE, TRAVELING THROUGH THIS BARREN LAND. SURELY, HE'S ABLE TO CARRY US THROUGH AS WE SING ALONG WITH JOY IN OUR HEARTS.

EMPERORS I WANT MY WOMAN THE

ARTIST: THE EMPERORS

TITLE: I WANT MY WOMAN

BOX LOT: 30 WHITE VINYL LP / 60 CD

FILE UNDER: GARAGE PUNK

LP-BEAT-183 UPC: 090771018311

CD-BEAT-183 UPC: 090771420923

•INCLUDES ALL OF THE EMPERORS’ SINGLES, ACETATES & UNISSUED TRACKS!

•CUT BY KEVIN GRAY & PRESSED ON WHITE VINYL IN THE USA AT CITIZEN VINYL!

•FEATURES NEW LINER NOTES BY RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP’S AUTHOR DOMENIC PRIORE!

BLISTERIN’ BLEACH BLONDE GARAGE PUNK FROM LONG BEACH’S EMPERORS!

PREVIOUSLY LIMITED TO A HANDFUL OF SINGLES, THIS FULL LENGTH LP INCLUDES ALL OF THEIR MATERI AL, INCLUDING 4 UNISSUED TRACKS! FROM THE MANIACAL LAUGHTER ON “LAUGHIN’ LINDA” TO THEIR FOOTTAPPIN’ COVER OF THE ZOMBIES’ “YOU MAKE ME FEEL SO GOOD” IT’S EASY TO SEE WHY THIS GROUP OF TEENS WERE HAILED AS LONG BEACH’S FAVORITE GROUP.

SUSAN GILMORE, AN EMPEROR FAN, RECOLLECTS, “THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE DANCES WERE WHEN THEY PLAYED. WHILE ATTENDANCE WAS PRETTY GOOD FOR OTHER BANDS, THE EMPERORS PACKED THE PLACE EVERY TIME. THE BUZZ WOULD START DURING THE WEEK AT SCHOOL. ‘THE EMPERORS ARE PLAYING THIS WEEKEND. ARE YOU GOING TO GO?’”

THE WILD TEENAGE SOUND OF THE ORIGINAL EMPERORS IS STILL THE GREATEST. “IT'S JUST A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE,” CONCLUDED RANDALL. “IN A WAY, I FELT THAT WE WERE AHEAD OF OUR TIME. THE WAY WE PLAYED AND THE WAY WE PRESENTED EVERYTHING ON STAGE, NOBODY WAS SHY. IT WAS A WON DERFUL EXPERIENCE.”

A NEW VERSION OF THE BAND REBRANDED AS SIMPLY EMPEROR, LED BY STEVE WATTS AND RANDY BUDIHAS, WOULD RECORD FOR RCA, THEN PRIVATE STOCK DURING THE ‘70S. AFTER A 20YEAR BREAK, THE EMPERORS REFORMED IN 2002 AND ARE STILL PERFORMING AND ENTERTAINING FANS TODAY.

Birdie

“Some Dusty”

1. Laugh

2. Dusty Morning

3. Let Her Go

4. Port Sunlight

5. Lazy Day

6. Folk Singer

7. One Two Five

8. Blue Dress

9. Linus

10. I Can't Let Go

Territory: World

Alternative - B

Label: Slumberland

Catalog Number: SLR 281

Release Date: July 26, 2024

St Etienne, The Carpenters, Paul Williams, Burt Bacharach, The High Llamas, The Clientele

Long-awaited reissue of this lost soft/ sunshine pop classic, newly remastered and packaged in a heavy, 60s-style laminated jacket.

live band rehearsals. Debsey Wykes and was on board as a backing East Village and was now part of Saint Etienne's touring band. The pair became fast friends and then a couple, bonding over a love of the sunshine pop and soft rock music of the 60s and 70s, and began spending hours together strategizing a new band, eventually forming Birdie in 1994 and releasing the "Spiral Staircase" 7" in 1997.

In the summer of 1998 Birdie recorded their debut album Some Dusty with the estimable Brian O'Shaughnessy (Denim, Moose, The Clientele). It's a deep and beautiful album, with melodic & sophisticated (yet understated) arrangements providing the perfect setting for Debsey's sweet and soulful soft-pop vocals. Add in gorgeous string arrangements from The High Llamas' Sean O'Hagan and you have all the makings of a pop classic. Birdie followed up the 1999 release of "Some Dusty" with a series of essential singles -- "Let Her Go," "Such A Sound," and "Sidewalk" -- culminating in the release of their second album "Triple Echo" in 2001.

Life commitments and other artistic pursuits called, and Birdie has only been sporadically active since then, gigging on occasion and releasing a handful of songs. Their brief but perfectly-formed discography has become the stuff of legend, charming savvy pop fans around the world with its timeless songcraft and flawless production. We’re very pleased to return their classic debut Some Dusty to much-needed availability, featuring a plush new remastering, a deluxe 60s style heavy card jacket and a fine insert with rare photos and liner notes by Chickfactor’s Gail O’Hara.

Contact: Stephen Svacina

email: stephen@redeyeworldwide.com tel: 1.877.733.3931

LP UPC: 749846028112

Packaging: Limited edition LP with heavy, 60s-style tip-on jacket and insert with rare photos and liner notes by Chickfactor Magazine’s Gail O’Hara. Box Lot: 20/40

AMANDA FISH KINGDOM

Vizztone proudly presents Amanda Fish’s third studio release, KINGDOM.

Amanda Fish came out strong with her 2015 VizzTone debut, DOWN IN THE DIRT, which won the “Sean Costello Rising Star” Blues Blast Music Award and led to extensive touring. Her second VizzTone release, FREE, debuted on the top ten Billboard Blues Album Chart and nabbed a 2019 Blues Music Award for Best Emerging Artist album.

KINGDOM, the third studio album by Amanda Fish, was written over a six year gap and is heavily influenced by the events of the pandemic, riots, and government corruption, seen through the eyes of a new parent and frontline healthcare worker. A journey of faith, redemption, and hope against a backdrop of chaos and upheaval, KINGDOM returns time and again to its message of truth and love.

STREET DATE: 7/26/24

TRACKS:

1. Mockingbird

2. Sell The Record

3. The Hard Way

4. Unbreakable

5 The Great Reset

KINGDOM features a core group of musicians including Terry Midkiff, Dom Knott, Dylan Farrell, Glen James, and Paul Niehaus IV, along with friends Mama Moo, Billie Baumann, Bob Walther, the audience of the Augusta Ramble chipping in on additional percussion and vocals, and guest performances by Billy Evanochko, Jeremiah Johnson, and Richard Rosenblatt, the album was recorded and mixed by Paul Niehaus IV at Blue Lotus Studio in St Louis, mastered by Chris Latham at Gorilla’s Nest in Nashville, and it features ten all-original new songs written and sung by Amanda.

6. Broke Ass Blues

7. Work

8. The World We Leave Behing

9. Mother

10. Kingdom

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AMANDA FISH

KINGDOM

Label: VIZZZTONE

Territory: Worldwide

Compact Disc - Eco Wallet

Cat. # VT-FF-03

UPC: 634457183216

Street Date: 7/26/24

Melanie –

Neighbourhood Songs

Easy Action / Neighbourhood Records

6CD Box Set NERE002 2024-07-26

5060446074077

• Over 100 Tracks of unreleased or very rare recordings • In depth liner notes by two critically acclaimed journalists, Dave Thompson & Mark Paytress • Unseen photos • Mastered and audio restored in studios in London and Sweden •

Disc 1 The Sixties 1.Beautiful People 2.Tuning My Guitar 3.Visit My Dreams 4.Uptown & Down 5.Baby Guitar 6.Bobo's Party7.Johnny Boy 8.Momma Momma 9.Interview 10.What is and What is Not 11.Ruby Tuesday 12.For My father 13.Jig-Saw Puzzle 14.The Good Guys 15.Getting Out 16.People in the Front Row 17.Don’t You Wait by the Water 18.I Really Loved Harold 19.Animal Crackers 20.I’m Back In Town 21.Bobo's Party 22. Tuning My Guitar 23. Beautiful People 24. Close to it all 25. Candles in the Rain (first ever broadcast early version) 1-5 London 15.09.69 John Peel Session BBC. 6-10 Paris Feb 1969 Studio Broadcast. 11&12 New York Summer of ’68 Home demo.13-15 London Summer of ’69. 16. New York Studio Demo Summer 1968. 17. New York Unreleased Studio Demo Summer 1968. 18-22. German Broadcast 29.3.69.23-25. Hershey PA The Show TV Broadcast October 1969.Disc 2 1970-1974 1.Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) with the Edwin Hawkins Singers 2.Why Didn’t My Mother Tell Me 3.Ruby Tuesday 4.Close to it all 5.Tuning My Guitar 6.The Nickel Song 7.Beautiful People 8.What Have they done to my Song Ma 9.Peace Will Come (According To Plan) 10.Railroad (Excerpt) 11.Some Say (I Got Devil) 12.Between the Road Signs 13.Hearing the News 14.All the Pretty Little Horses (Hush a bye) excerpt.15.Trick or Treat 16.Do You Believe? 17 Jason 18. Ooh Child 19. Shy As A Violet 1. Live broadcast in the studio Amsterdam 1970. 2. Neighborhood Records Session. 3. 28.03.1971 U.S TV Show. 4-9 Live in concert London 14.7.1971.10. Neighborhood Records Session 1971. Radio Broadcast Miami 08.08. 1972. Neighborhood Records Session 1971. 1972 Neighborhood Records Session.14 & 15. 1972 For UNICEF. 16. 15.12.1972 U.S Tonight Show. 17 & 18. 1973 Neighborhood Records Session. 19. 1974 Neighborhood Records Session Disc 3 1975 (Studio) Creative Workshop Nashville 1.I'm Back in Town 2.Deep Down Under My Bed 3.Perceive It 4.Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own (Full Version) 5.People are Just Getting Ready 6.The Sun and Moon (Snow Heaven) 7.What Do I Keep 8.Dream Lover 9.Sandman 10.You Can't Hurry Love 11.Another You 12.Darling Be Home Soon 13.Deep Down Low (Sax Version) 14.When The Saints 15.Another Side 16.White Man Sings The Blues 17.Guantanamera Disc 4 1975 II (In Concert) London with Barry Lee Harwood 1.Autumn Lady 2.Chords of Fame 3.Almost Like being in Love 4.Stoneground Words 5.Here We Go Again 6.Any Guy 7.Do You Believe 8.Leftover Wine 9.The Nickel Song 10.(I Hope You) Remember Me Good 11.Beautiful People 12.Virgin Mary (Pretty Little Baby) 13.Hallelujah Chorus 14.Sign in the window 15.Ring the living Bell 16.Perceive It 17.Sun & The Moon Tracks 1 to 14 6th November 1975-BBC In Concert, London. 15 & 16 Hitsa -go-go Holland. 17 U.S Tv Broadcast Disc 5 1976-1978 1.Cyclone (Candles in the Rain) Ballroom Streets Remastered 2.Summertime Studio Outtake 3.Jukebox Magazine Fidelity Studios Los Angeles, 1977 4.Leftover Emotion Suntreader Studios Vermont 1978 5.If You Go Your Way (take 1) Suntreader Studios Vermont 1978 6.Rites of passage (River Bottom take 3) Suntreader Studios Vermont 1978 7.Knock On Wood 8.Bo Bo's Party 9.Buckle Down 10.Hand Me Downs (Golden Chains) 11.Oh Boy 12.Beautiful Sadness 13.Brand New Key 14.Beautiful People - Almost like being in love 15.Friends and Company Tracks 7-15 Complete tracks recorded at Telstar Studios for the coffee break radio session at WQSR 1978 Disc 6 – Home Demos New York Summer of 1968 from Original Acetates 1.Ruby Tuesday Take II 2.Take Me Home Take I 3.For My Father Take III 4.Any Guy 5.People in the Front Row 6.If You Were a Carpenter. 7.Tuning My Guitar 8.Ruby Tuesday Take III 9.Take Me Home Take II 10.For My Father Take I 11.Don't You Wait By The Water II New York Unreleased Studio Demo Summer 1968 12.Some Say (I got Devil) 1971 Neighbourhood Records Session BONUS 13.Walk The World 1968 Tonight Show TV Broadcast BONUS 14.Find a Little corner 1965 New York BONUS 15.Gods’ Only Daughter 1968 New York The Bitter End Club BONUS 16.Isn’t it a Pity 1967 New York Live unknown Venue BONUS 17.Gimme A Little Kiss (Melanie aged 4) 1951 Live Like a Millionaire TV Show BONUS

Crumbs –

You’re Just Jealous

Skep Wax Records

LP SKEPWAX021LP 2024-07-26

CD SKEPWAX021CD 2024-07-26

5055869550598

5055869550062

New Album From The Most Danceable Post-Punk Pop Band In The UK.

It’s like something has exploded! CRUMBS have been incubating this, their second album, for a few years now. Who knows how they kept all the energy in check. It must have been like sitting on a volcano. The songs burst out with pure pop fire, sending splinters of guitar, sharp lyrics and snatches of the catchiest backing vocals.

The rhythm section (Jamie and Gem): it’s like Delta 5 meeting Le Tigre in a dark alley in Leeds, fusing blindly and completely, and then forcing its way into the back entrance of a venue, sending volts through the limbs of the unwitting punters, forcing them to dance. This is TIGHT.

And as the lights come on and the indie kids throw themselves around, Ruth’s vocals sweetly assault their ears with anger, joy, political intelligence - and all around, Stuart’s guitar, sometimes twanglymelodic like the B52s, sometimes sweet and ringing like a memory of Scars, sometimes furious and feeding back, keeps you alert and thirsty for more.

Tracklisting: 1 Pass Between Houses 2 Theatre for Change 3 Real Home 4 Treat Me a Stranger 5 Utopia of Bog 6 Void Attentive 7 My Love, Let's Take the Stage Tonight 8 The Kiss 9 He Had Always Led

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UPC: 634457177642

(ORANGE YELLOW SPLATTER VINYL)

Georgia Anne Muldrow (Feat. Josef Leimberg) Nuke’s Blues

Angel Bat Dawid

The Cosmic Bypass (Part 1)

Angel Bat Dawid Nuclear War (Part 2)

Angel Bat Dawid

Kiss Yo Ass Good-Bye! (Part 3)

Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O (Feat. Grandmaster CAP)

We’re Not Buying It

Irreversible Entanglements

Nuclear War

Release Date: Friday July 26, 2024

Release Date: Jul 12, 2024

The first project in this exciting new series, Red Hot & Ra - Nuclear War LP, is an album of political and social commentary, stemming from the incomparable Sun Ra track “Nuclear War”. Sun Ra's 1982 track "Nuclear War" is an intense and potent call to action against the use of nuclear weapons and the potential for their use to inflict global destruction. The track is a stark reminder of the consequences of human carelessness and ignorance and the potential for our own demise. Originally written in response to the Three Miles Island incident in Pennsylvania in 1979, close to where The Arkestra was living at the time, in Philadelphia. The song may have been written in reaction to a very specific incident, but its relevance only grows.

Red Hot + Ra: Nuclear War LP features 4 separate versions / interpolations of the Sun Ra single "Nuclear War” by Georgia Anne Muldrow, Irreversible Entanglements, Angel Bat Dawid, and Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O. The album paints a vivid picture of the struggle and resistance in the face of nuclear war, touching on themes of racial injustice, environmental destruction, and the power of love in the face of disaster. The opening track, Nuke’s Blues by Georgia Anne Muldrow, features Josef Leimberg and paints a bleak, but hopeful picture of the struggles of war. Irreversible Entanglements’ Nuclear War is a nearly 19-minute long sonic exploration of the power of collective resistance. The following three tracks, all produced by Angel Bat Dawid, explore the complex emotions that come with facing a nuclear disaster, from fear and sadness to love and redemption. The final track, produced by Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O, features Grandmaster CAP, and is an urgent call to action. Overall, Red Hot & Ra –Nuclear War is an emotionally powerful and thought-provoking album, offering an artistic response to the evergrowing threat of nuclear war.

Long live Sun Ra! Distributed by Red Eye info@redhot.org redhot.org

Cat No. ERATP159LX

Format Petrol Green LP

RRP $27.99

EAN / UPC 3700551785872

Penguin Café Rain Before Seven…

Erased Tapes

Formats LP

Extras Limited edition “Petrol Green” vinyl, 500 copies File under Instrumental, Modern Composition

For fans of Moondog, Harold Budd, Steve Reich

Box lot 20LP

Release date 26th July 2024

Track List A

1. Welcome to London

2. Temporary Shelter from the Storm

3. In Re Budd 4. Second Variety 5. Galahad

6. Might Be Something

7. No One Really Leaves…

8. Find Your Feet

9. Lamborghini 754

10. Goldfinch Yodel

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Penguin Cafe return with new album Rain Before Seven… A sense of optimism infuses Penguin Cafe’s fifth studio album, not the braggadocious, overconfident kind, but more a blithe, self-effacing optimism in keeping with the national character. Even when all signs point to the contrary, it operates within the certainty that things are going to be alright. Probably.

The title comes from an old weather proverb with the rhyming prognostication — fine before eleven — hinting at a happy ending, irrespective of the science: “I found it in a book and I'd never heard it before,” says Arthur Jeffes, leader of Penguin Cafe. “It has faintly optimistic overtones and I quite like it. It's fallen out of usage recently but it does describe English weather patterns coming in off the Atlantic.”

From the widescreen reverie of opener ‘Welcome to London’ with its cheeky nod to Morricone to ‘Goldfinch Yodel’, the self-described “Maypole banger” at the denouement, there’s a welcome sense of sanguinity, always with an undercurrent of exotic rhythmic exuberance. Playfulness pervades, with a titular nod to A Matter of Life... from 2011, the last album title that concluded with an ellipsis. That Penguin Cafe debut is the bridge between the legendary Penguin Cafe Orchestra, led by Arthur’s father Simon Jeffes, and the much- loved descendent, led by Arthur.

“Stylistically it's really satisfying to get back to playful rhythms and instruments,” says the younger Jeffes, who kept the group’s debut from 12 years ago in mind when writing the new album. “Certainly when starting out, I became aware that we’d stopped using quite a few of the textures that had been there at the beginning and it was certainly there in my dad's earlier stuff. So there's a lot of balafon and textures from completely different parts of the world, musically and geographically: ukuleles, cuatros and melodicas that you can hear.”

Encouraged by co-producer Robert Raths, the rhythmic elements of Rain Before Seven... have never been more to the fore and, at times, even hint at the electronic. ‘Find Your Feet’, for instance, is underpinned with more than just a pulse. Mixed by Tom Chichester-Clark, it brings to the musical melange what Arthur describes as a “near electronic feel”. He adds, excitedly: “There are elements of fun here which we haven't really done with the last three records.”

Another ebullient highlight is ‘In Re Budd’, dedicated to the late ambient godfather Harold Budd, who Arthur discovered had died on the day he’d been writing the celebratory ear worm with a deceptively tricky syncopation. Played on an upright piano with some “prepared” felt to accentuate the bounce, Jeffes feels a track with an Afro Cuban Cafe vibe would appeal to Budd’s contrariness.

YELLOW HOUSE

PSALMS OFYELLOW HOUSE

ReleaseDate:July26,2024

Cape Town based songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalistYellowHouse(realnameEmile van Dango) will release his debut album for ODESZA’sForeignFamilyCollectivelabel,following their collaborative EP ‘Flaws In Our Design’ from 2023.‘PsalmsofYellowHouse’setforreleaseJune 28th.

The conception of the album began when Emile was living secluded in a farm cottage hidden in the mountains of South Africa’s Western Cape. Far removed from society, Emile was left to confront his innermost thoughts in stark isolation. Trapped in a cycle of manic bliss and despair, compounded by a battle with substance addiction, this period inspired songs such as “Trouble Always Finds Me”, “Leave the City” and “Comedown King”. Emile elaborates, “During this period, I reflected on my life and recognized that parts of myself needed to be cut loose to create room for rebirth”.Turningtohismusic, he tackled the lingering childhood pains, strained relationships, and the challenges of embracing newfound sobriety through his songwriting. With his demons now behind him, ‘Psalms of Yellow House’ marks a final goodbye to his former self and welcoming a new era. It offersavulnerablechronicleoflifethatdemonstrateshow beauty, power and meaning can be salvaged from the depthsofanyexperience.

Psalms of Yellow House’ is more than a collection of songs.The project embodies the culmination of a journey that is both artistic and deeply personal.As its namesake suggests, each track is a psalm, a hymn that serves as a reflectionofexperienceslivedandlessonshard-learned.

CAT NO: FFC183

UPC: 5054429195132

Box Lot: 20

A1. Saviour Complex

A2.TroubleAlways Finds Me

A3. Milk & Honey

A4. SayYou Will

B1. LeaveThe City

B2. BlowingAway

B3. Comedown King

B4. Don’t Cry (It’s Just Goodnight)

Single 140g gold marble vinyl

Single sleeve with printed inner

Includes download code

Genre: Indie, Dream-Pop

Key Markets: LosAngeles, Denver, NewYork, Seattle

Recommended if you like… ODESZA, Beach House, CocteauTwins, Beach Fossils, Blonde Redhead

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AllAt Once [EP]

Release Date: Friday, July 26th

Newly signed to NinjaTune without having released a single track.This five-track EPmarks Ebbb’s first output. Emerging from the vibrant, avant-garde London live scene that spawned black midi and Black Country, New Road – and despite being together for barely a year – the band have already landed on something truly singular. Fusing pulsing rhythms, immersive electronic production, sparkling melodies, layered vocal harmonies and beats that veer from ambient to industrial, the result is an idiosyncratic hybrid of sounds. One that the group describes as “Brian Wilson meets Death Grips”. But while the EPmight be experimental, loose and unpredictable, it’s also deeply considered, taut, and absolutely flab-free.

Band Highlights

- 2-page feature in tastemaker publication SoYoung Magazine (Issue 48): “Breathtaking” / “a hypnotic seance” / “Ebbb’s sound reaches across the full spectrum of musical understanding” / “Their atmospheric power is unparalleled” / “To watch Ebbb live is to have an almost religious experience”

- Ebbb will be supporting The Smile (ThomYorke and Jonny Greenwood’s band) in Switzerland in August 2024.

- Previous notable supports: PVA, Folly Group, Mary In The Junkyard, Scaler

SIDEA

Himmel Answered Swarm

SIDE B

Torn Seamlessly

Genre: Alternative / Electronic

Key Markets: LosAngeles, NewYork City, Chicago

CAT NO: ZEN12675

UPC: 5054429194098

Box Lot: 20 ￫ Ltd edition black vinyl 12”

￫ white 400gsm disco sleeve with product sticker.

￫ Artwork by Vasilisa Skasca. Design by Flavio Mancini.

Recommended if you like… Young Fathers, Grizzly Bear,Animal Collective, black midi

BLACK BELT EAGLE SCOUT

MOTHER OF MY CHILDREN (Grapefruit Splatter LP)

July 26th, 2024

“Sludgy guitars clash compellingly with Paul’s rich, yearning vocals” - Consequence of Sound

“‘Soft Stud’ expresses the complexity of queer desire, layering intimate lyrics and clean melodies over fuzzy guitar.”

- NPR’s All Songs Considered

Grapefruit Splatter LP. First time on colored vinyl.

“Having this identity—radical indigenous queer feminist—keeps me going. My music and my identity come from the same foundation of being a Native woman.” Katherine Paul (aka KP) is Black Belt Eagle Scout, and Mother of My Children is her debut album originally released in 2018. Recorded in the middle of winter near her hometown in Northwest Washington, Paul’s connection to the landscape’s eerie beauty are palpable throughout as the album traces the full spectrum of confronting buried feelings and the loss of what life was supposed to look like. Paul re ects, “I wrote this album in the fall of 2016 after two pretty big losses in my life. My mentor, Geneviève Castrée, had just died from pancreatic cancer and the relationship I had with the rst woman I loved had drastically lessened and changed.” Heavy and heartbroken, Paul found respite from the weight of such loss in the creation of these songs that “are about grief and love for people, but also about being a native person in what is the United States today.”

On Mother of My Children , the songs weave together to capture both the enduring and eeting experiences of loss, frustration, and dreaming. The structures are traditional, but the lyrics don’t adhere to any format other than what feels right in the moment. Mother of My Children begins with lead single “Soft Stud,” which Paul describes as her “queer anthem.” It’s “about the hardships of queer desire within an open relationship.” It’s followed by “Indians Never Die,” a call out to colonizers and those who don’t respect the Earth. As Standing Rock was happening, many people in Paul’s life were coming together to ght for the most basic necessity to sustain human life: water. “Our treaty rights weren’t being honored. Imagine hearing on the news that the government doesn’t support you as a human being and never has. They don’t care about the water, they don’t care about how they are destroying what is around them. Indigenous people are the protectors of this land. Indians never die because this is our land that we will forever protect in the present and the afterlife.”

Paul grew up in a small Indian reservation, the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, surrounded by family focused on native drumming, singing, and arts. From an early age, Paul was singing and dancing at powwows with one of her strongest memories at her family’s own powwow, called the All My Relations Powwow. Paul reminisces, “When I was younger, my only form of music was through the songs my ancestors taught the generations of my family. Singing in our language is a spiritual process and it carries on through me in how I create music today.” With the support of her family and a handful of bootleg Hole and Nirvana VHS tapes, Paul taught herself how to play guitar and drums as a teenager. In 2007, she moved to Portland, Oregon to attend collegev and get involved with the Rock’n’Roll Camp for Girls eventually diving deep into the city’s music scene playing guitar and drums in bands while evolving her artistry into what would later become Black Belt Eagle Scout.

Mother of My Children is a life chapter gently preserved. The access listeners have to such vulnerability feels special and generous.

LP Black Vinyl Out Now

Mother of My Children

I Don't Have You In My Life 4:24

Just Lie Down 4:02 8. Sam, A Dream 4:34

Artist: Black Belt Eagle Scout

Title: Mother of My Children

Catalog #: LBJ-280

Formats: Grapefruit Splatter LP

Street Date: July 26th, 2024

Box Lot Quantity: 30 CD / 50 LP / 50 Grapefruit Splatter LP

Genre: Alternative

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MikahlAnthony-Muse

HailingfromtheWestsideofSt.Louis,Missouri,MikahlAnthony’ssonic rootsspreadfaracrosstheglobalAlt-Soul/Hip-Hopscene.Ahighlysoughtaftermultidisciplinaryartist(whohascollaboratedwiththelikesofMick Jenkins,ChanceTheRapper,JoeyPurp,Smino&more),aswellasbeinga foundingmemberofChicago’sTHEMpeoplecollective,henowpreparesto unveilhismasterfulfull-lengthdebut‘MUSE’viaR&SRecords.

Accompaniedbyseveralbeautiful,self-directedfilmpieces,MUSEisa recordwithstorytellingatitscore.Interspersedwithcommentaryfroma rangeofsourcestellingtheirstoriestoMikhal,whilstcollaboratively analysingtheirpersonalexperiences,itspeaksacandidandhonest narrative,whichreinforcetheheartfeltlyricswithin.Withtheproject’sname anchoredaroundadualmeaningacronym(1.Ms.Usingsensualenergy&2. Makinguseofseclusioneveryday).Therecordisanaudioversionofdocufilm,thatcreativelyinterpretstheideaofself-therapy,an internal/interpersonalreflectionoflifeexperiencesthatserendipitously connecttoMikahl’spersonalromanticrelationships.Mikahlexplains:‘I wantedtouseauniquestyleofsongwriting,arrangementandfilmingwith theintentionofsoundtrackingmyself-development/maturationprocess’.

Ontheproject’slastingimpressiononthelistener,Mikahlelaborates’The explorationofinnertruthandvulnerabilityiskeytothefutureofgoodmusic.I wantthisprojecttoactassymbolismthathighlightsthemantrathathonest approachesandauthenticitystillhasthemostvalue.Ialsowantpeopleto seehowimportanttheuseofcommunityiswhenyoucanconnectthemto yoursubjectmatter...I'dlikemyaudiencetoobserveandengageintheirown self-reflections,approachesbywayoflisteningorinteractingwiththestory.’

Driftingtoanelevatedstateofconsciousness,‘MUSE’isadeeply intoxicatingandengrossinglisteningexperiencefromfronttoback.Fromthe sliding,kaleidoscopicshadowsofopeningtrack‘LaFlare’,viathe trepidation-lacedatmosphereof‘Polyamorous’andthehazy,reverb drenchedsaxophonenotesofLPcloser‘EddieKane’-Mikahlchannels momentsofjoyandpain,infusedwithspiritenrichinginstrumentationand grittytextures.

VisualstimuliplayanintegralrolewithinMikahl’smusic.Hissongsrepresent transparencyandopennessdippedinfunk.Layersofsoftvelvetyvocals emergefromjazzharmonies,traprhythms,andsocialcommentarysourced fromvoiceovers/excerpts.Hiscreationsarethemusicalrepresentationof documentaryfilms.Hisartisimageryembodied.

CAT NO: RS24LP002

EAN: 5055274710853

ARTIST: Mikahl Anthony

TITLE: Muse

LABEL: R&S Records

RELEASE DATE: 26.07.24

FORMAT: LP - Black

A1.VINTAGECOLLECTION

A2.LAFLARE

A3.DEEPAIN’TIT

A4.SOOTHSAYINGS

A5.MOLLYAMORY

B1.OVERTHEPHONE

B2.CANDYMAN

B3.SUPANATURAL

B4.BRICKTHATBROKETHEWINDOW

B5.SPACEBLUE

B6.BUTTAFLIES&BROWNIES

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Artist: MATTI BYE

Formats:

UPC · Box Lot

CD 0634457144002 · 30

LP (clear)  0634457144033 · 10

LP (dark cyan blue) 0634457144019 · 10

75 clear vinyl reserved for Redeye

75 dark shade of cyan blue vinyl reserved for Redeye

Tracklist:

01. A New Day

02. The Collector

03. Out of the Tunnel

04. Ivo

05. The Cascelot Bridge

06. Trees in the Park

07. Elegant Memory

08. Warm smile

09. The Cinema Pianist

10. Open Sea

11. Capri Clouds

12. The Window Through Clouds

13. Bioscope

Denovali is very delighted to present the new album of the prestigious Swedish pianist and composer Matti Bye - known for his scores for „The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared“, „Young Wallander“, „Superswede“, „Tove“, „Everlasting Moments“ among many others. Matti is also well known for his regular performances at various silent film festivals and screenings around the world, where you will see him perform solo and with artists such as Lau Nau and Anna von Hausswol .

Matti Bye‘s third album, „Capri Clouds“, moves through the element of the air and further into space. A lone piano sounds, echoes - sometimes like a waltz. We have the sound of the wind with us and the sound of the sea below us as we fl y, and above we hear the stars and planets spinning. A piano from the past, as if Satie met space - as if Spiritualized and Satie talked to each other across timeand space.These songs go straight to the heart and to the senses, and create images in your head. Stories from your own memory bank, as well as new visions – music to lean into, meditatively and hopefully longing. But there is also an undertone of something dark and desolate. Musically, Matti Bye moves within the realm of neo-classicism, but he is also approaching romanticism. References to composers suchas Schubert and Beethoven are to be found here, as well as to post-romantic bands such as Kraftwerk and The Cure. In this third album of a trilogy – the first was „Bethanien“, the second „The Forgotten Land“ – Bye continues his musical journey. Here we encounter a brighter and lighter production. Anders af Klintberg has brought „Capri Clouds“ up from the underworld and the dreamscape, towards clouds and skies.

Artist: TAROUG

Album:

Formats: UPC · Box Lot

CD  0634457144170 · 30

LP (clear)   0634457144187 · 10

LP (black)  0634457144194 · 10

75 clear vinyl reserved for Redeye

Tracklist:

01. Panharmonic

02. Defraction

03. Queen of Carthage

04. Osiris

05. Morpheme

06. Jewels I

07. Jewels II

08. Deguech

09. Darts & Kites

Taroug is the solo project by drummer and electronic music producer Tarek Zarroug with roots in the suburbs of the Tunisian desert and having grown up in Germany. Following the release of his 2020 EP, „Perpetual,“ as well as a number of notable remixes for artists such as ARCHIVE, Taroug has continued to refine his musical aesthetic.

Taroug‘s debut album Darts & Kites, set to be released on Denovali Records, draws inspiration from the Penrose tiling and explores themes of change and transformation. Fascinated from the pattern‘s unending possibilities, Taroug incorporated its infinite permutations not only into the album‘s nine tracks, but also in the cover art design.

Darts & Kites showcases a blending of genres and styles, resulting in a sonic landscape, that is both hunting and beautiful. Experimental and abstract soundscapes are enriched by oriental influences, collected field recordings, pulsating dark beats and hypnotic vocals. The album also features the contributions of other notable artists, including Beate Wol ‘s cello performance on Jewels I. Benedikt Koch‘s saxophone adds a sense of controlled chaos with delayed and swelling notes to the track Deguech, while Timo Schieber‘s piano provides a crucial element of the album‘s title track, Darts & Kites. Niklas Genschel lends his vocals to Queen of Carthage, which also features the saz playing of Abdallah Abozekry.

Created in collaboration with architect and designer Marie Brosius, the album artwork captures di erent ornaments reflecting the album‘s content.

Darts & Kites is a mosaic of sound, blending together elements of unfamiliar and familiar.

RIYL: DARKSIDE, RIVAL CONSOLES, APPARAT

26TH JULY 2024