Headswim – Flood

2023-08-04

2LP TAR055V 5055869548328 180g purple neon + banana yellow vinyl, gatefold

2CD TAR055CD 5055869548335 double CD digipak

First time available for the USA.

Trapped Animal is pleased to announce the return of 90's legends Headswim! We present a reissue of their seminal psych-grunge masterpiece, Flood. Pressed on 180G, Double Vinyl Gatefold with photo lyric insert all printed on uncoated card, and available also as 2CD and lossless download, this is an absolutely stunning package that truly matches the timeless quality of the songs it houses. Flood #Redux - Headswim's seminal 1994 Psych-Grunge masterpiece gets its first reissue since the original 1994 pressing. A highly sought after record and produced with mountains of love between label and artists. Previously unreleased BBC sessions, and material from the Flood era. Tracklist:

August 4, 2023

Topshelf Records

TSR186

Home market: Kyoto, Japan

tricot - T H E

Info: tricot is a Japanese all-female alternative rock band formed in Kyoto, Japan Started in 2010, tricot have developed a unique sound that utilizes captivating guitar interplay and stop-and-start percussion over complex polyrhythms while harnessing the emotional vocals of singer Ikkyu Nakajima. The end result is somehow neatly packaged and delivered as dense, and invigorating pop songs By 2014 and 2015, their music had spread to the rest of Asia, Europe and North America tricot have been garnering attention from all around the world, and in 2014 and 2015, they toured Asia and Europe twice, supported Pixies in the UK and toured North America. In March 2016, their third European tour included 21 shows in 12 countries with a lot of sold-out dates

For Fans of:

Cibo Matto, Marnie Stern, TTNG, Metric, CHON, and other Topshelf artists: Braid, Del Paxton, Elephant Gym, Gingerlys, LITE, Really From, Stand Up Get Down, Their / They're / There, The Velvet Teen.

Selling Points:

• US college radio campaign through Pirate Promotions

• Press campaign handled by Will Osiecki

• LP includes download code and marketing sticker and is pressed in grey and cloudy clear vinyl.

• Over 230,000 monthly Spotify listeners

• Nearly 15,000,000 album streams on Spotify

• Millions of views for music videos for tracks on these albums on Youtube

“The greatest

-Noisey trio on

Earth

”

"“the nonstop

-Rolling Stone time-signature shifts and band in its own lane.” torrid playing that animate their tricky pop is the work of a

“tricot’s music is characterised by the frenetic math rock rhythms that underpin Ikkyu’s vocals, which ip from sprightly to a sprawling rage on a knife’s edge Fans of Battles,

Speedy Ortiz, Zach

Hill’s pre-Death like here

”

-NME

Grips band Hella, and proto-emos

Don Caballero should nd plenty to

August 4, 2023

Topshelf Records

TSR187

Home market: Kyoto, Japan

tricot - A N D

Info: tricot is a Japanese all-female alternative rock band formed in Kyoto, Japan Started in 2010, tricot have developed a unique sound that utilizes captivating guitar interplay and stop-and-start percussion over complex polyrhythms while harnessing the emotional vocals of singer Ikkyu Nakajima. The end result is somehow neatly packaged and delivered as dense, and invigorating pop songs By 2014 and 2015, their music had spread to the rest of Asia, Europe and North America tricot have been garnering attention from all around the world, and in 2014 and 2015, they toured Asia and Europe twice, supported Pixies in the UK and toured North America. In March 2016, their third European tour included 21 shows in 12 countries with a lot of sold-out dates

For Fans of:

Cibo Matto, Marnie Stern, TTNG, Metric, CHON, and other Topshelf artists: Braid, Del Paxton, Elephant Gym, Gingerlys, LITE, Really From, Stand Up Get Down, Their / They're / There, The Velvet Teen

Selling Points:

• US college radio campaign through Pirate Promotions

• Press campaign handled by Will Osiecki.

• LP includes download code and marketing sticker and is pressed in black and pink vinyl

• Over 230,000 monthly Spotify listeners

• Nearly 4 5 million album streams on Spotify

• Millions of views for music videos for tracks on these albums on Youtube.

“The greatest

-Noisey trio on

Earth

”

"“the nonstop

-Rolling Stone time-signature shifts and band in its own lane.” torrid playing that animate their tricky pop is the work of a

“tricot’s music is characterised by the frenetic math rock rhythms that underpin Ikkyu’s vocals, which ip from sprightly to a sprawling rage on a knife’s edge Fans of Battles,

Speedy Ortiz, Zach

Hill’s pre-Death like here

”

-NME

Grips band Hella, and proto-emos

Don Caballero should nd plenty to

supernowhere - Skinless Takes A Flight

Info:

The majority of the nine slithery songs that comprise supernowhere’s Skinless Takes A Flight were originally cuts that didn’t make their debut Gestalt But after collectively moving across the country from Burlington, VT to Seattle, WA, the scrapped tracks transformed substantially into orid, at times entrancing compositions

The pulsating “Circles” opens the album with lilted re ections on empathy, breathing in midtempo syncopation with subdued guitar tip-toeing around melodic drumming supernowhere’s cast of Meredith Davey (bass, vocals), Kurt Pacing (guitar, vocals), and Matt Anderson (drums) share a collective ambition for maximum interplay and collaborative writing, materializing cleanly knotted compositions that evoke vivid dreamscapes and the profound epiphanies drawn from them (“The Hand”, “Ecdysis”) On upbeat “Dirty Tangle” Davey’s voice glides through Pacing’s angular arpeggiations, carving their own rhythmic lane with their distinctive, descanting singing style

Skinless Takes A Flight notably would not have come to fruition without the help of engineer Dylan Hanwright (mix Gulfer, mem Great Grandpa, I Kill Giants), whom the band met shortly after relocating to Seattle Hanwright offered up his practice space as a temporary rehearsal and writing space during the early pandemic, which in turn gave him intimate familiarity with the music, resulting in an album that was recorded as intimately as it was written Hanwright helped make the little moments shine too, as heard in the eeting vocal harmonies on "Augury", or the spiraling chaos in "Basement Window," a further testament to the collaborative, everyone’s-input-matters nature that characterizes supernowhere’s dizzying yet meditative sophomore record

For Fans of:

Mothers, Great Grandpa, Duster, Palm, orid indie rock, and other Topshelf artists: addy, bad heaven LTD, Boyscott, Crisman, Poppies, Really Big Pinecone, Special Explosion, Us and Us Only, Wished Bone

Selling Points:

• US college radio campaign through Pirate Promotions

• Press campaign handled by Will Osiecki

• Music videos for both singles in the campaign

• Mixed and engineered by Dylan Hanwright (mem Great Grandpa; mix Gulfer)

• LP includes printed dust sleeve, lyric sheet, two download cards, marketing sticker, and an OBI strip

• Manufactured with green processes: using steam and solar energy, using no toxic chemicals in the vinyl granulate, printed with water-based inks, packaged and shipped with biodegradable parts and via carbon-neutral methods

[E]rudite and expansive and intricate rock that builds to some satisfying swells Lead single “Basement Window” is a good example of that sort of build, as lead singer Meredith Davey’s words trip over themselves in a breathless rush to track’s chaotic conclusion.

-Stereogum

[A] highly promising entry point into the underground rock world

-Recommended Listen

Street Date: 8.11.23 | Order Date: 7.21.23