NewReleases:January26th&February2nd
JANUARY 26TH NEW RELEASES -------------------------------
• KHRUANGBIN - CON TODO EL MUNDO | Cassette (DOC153cass) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605145396 • KHRUANGBIN - CON TODO EL MUNDO | CD (DOC153cd) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605145327 • KHRUANGBIN - CON TODO EL MUNDO (BLACK VINYL) | LP (DOC153lp) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605145310 • KHRUANGBIN - CON TODO EL MUNDO (OFF-WHITE VINYL) | LP (DOC153lp-C1) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605145334 • BIG BLACK - RACER X (BLACK VINYL) | LP (TG091lp) | Touch and Go Records PHYS UPC:036172079117 • BIG BUSINESS - HEAD FOR THE SHALLOW (REISSUE) (BLACK VINYL) | LP (JNR240.1lp) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270691751 • BIG BUSINESS - HERE COME THE WATERWORKS (REISSUE) (BLACK VINYL) | LP (JNR240.2lp) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270691768 • BIG BUSINESS - MIND THE DRIFT (REISSUE) (BLACK VINYL) | LP (JNR240.3lp) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270691775 • UNWOUND - NEW PLASTIC IDEAS | LP (NUM1292lp) | Numero Group PHYS UPC:825764609210
FEBRUARY 2ND NEW RELEASES
------------------------------• THE SOFT MOON - CRIMINAL | Cassette (SBR192cass) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:616892554943 • THE SOFT MOON - CRIMINAL | CD (SBR192cd) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:616892546740 • THE SOFT MOON - CRIMINAL (BLACK VINYL) | LP (SBR192lp) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:616892546542 • THE SOFT MOON - CRIMINAL (WHITE VINYL) | LP (SBR192lp-C1) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:616892546641 • MONTERO - PERFORMER | CD (CH144cd) | Chapter Music PHYS UPC:711583807640 • MONTERO - PERFORMER (BLACK VINYL) | LP (CH144lp) | Chapter Music PHYS UPC:711583807671 • MONTERO - PERFORMER (GREEN VINYL) | LP (CH144lp-C1) | Chapter Music PHYS UPC:711583807619 • RED RIVER DIALECT - BROKEN STAY OPEN SKY | CD (POB039cd) | Paradise of Bachelors PHYS UPC:616892483946 • RED RIVER DIALECT - BROKEN STAY OPEN SKY (BLACK VINYL) | LP (POB039lp) | Paradise of Bachelors PHYS UPC:616892483847 • SUNWATCHERS - II | CD (TIM127cd) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983423 • SUNWATCHERS - II (BLACK VINYL) | LP (TIM127lp) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983447 • SUNWATCHERS - II (RAINBOW SPLATTER VINYL) | LP (TIM127lp-C1) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983454 • AKIRA SAKATA & CHIKAMORACHI WITH MASAHIKO SATOH - PROTON PUMP | CD (FV104cd) | Family Vineyard PHYS UPC:656605410425 • AKIRA SAKATA & CHIKAMORACHI WITH MASAHIKO SATOH - PROTON PUMP (BLACK VINYL) | LP (FV104lp) | Family Vineyard PHYS UPC:656605410418 • EFRIM MANUEL MENUCK - PISSING STARS (BLACK VINYL) | LP (CST129lp) | Constellation PHYS UPC:666561012915 • TASHI DORJI & TYLER DAMON - LEAVE NO TRACE: LIVE IN ST. LOUIS (BLACK VINYL) | LP (FV103lp) | Family Vineyard PHYS UPC:656605410319 • MARCUS MARR - FAMILIAR FIVE 12" EP (BLACK VINYL) | 12" EP (DFA2562lp) | DFA Records PHYS UPC:829732256215 • MARTIN NEWELL - GREATEST LIVING ENGLISHMAN (BLACK VINYL) | LP (CT271lp) | Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949014100
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KHRUANGBIN Con Todo El Mundo About the album
Formed of Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald “DJ” Johnson on drums; globetrotting Texan trio Khruangbin present their second album ‘Con Todo El Mundo’, set for release on 26th January 2018. Whereas their 2015 debut album ‘The Universe Smiles Upon You’ was influenced by 60s and 70s Thai cassettes and compilations of southeast Asian pop, rock and funk, ‘Con Todo El Mundo’ hops east over India to take inspiration in similarly under discovered funk and soul sounds of the Middle-East, particularly from Iran. Laura Lee explains the album’s title: “My grandpa would always ask me ‘Como me quieres?’ (‘how much do you love me’?), and he’d only ever accept one response. ‘Con todo el mundo’ (With all the world).” Throughout ‘Con Todo El Mundo’, Laura Lee’s melodic low-end theory, Mark’s lyrical, free-role guitar lines, and DJ’s ever-steady, ever-ready backbeat form something greater than their parts. A vibe-synchronous soul-unit travelling the planet, honing their craft, absorbing the sights, sounds and feels from cultures across the globe, processing them through the Khruangbin filter and gifting the result... with all the world.
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CATALOG NUMBER: DOC153 RELEASE DATE: January 26, 2018 FORMAT: CD/LP/Cassette/Digital CD BOX LOT: 30 LP BOX LOT: 20 CASSETTE BOX LOT: 25 GENRE: Alternative KEY MARKETS: Los Angeles, Brooklyn, NYC, Austin, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Toronto TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: Available to North and South America Only VINYL NOT RETURNABLE
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~ Touring North America in early 2018 ~ Follow up to the critically acclaimed debut album “The Universe Smiles Upon You” ~ Toured with Father John Misty, Massive Attack, Chicano Batman, & more! ~ Off-white vinyl limited to 1500 copies
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1. Como Me Quieres 2. Lady and Man 3. Maria También 4. August 10 5. Como Te Quiero
6. Shades of Man 7. Evan Finds the Third Room 8. A Hymn 9. Rules 10. Friday Morning
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BIG BLACK Racer-X TG091LP + MP3 Album Download Box Lot: 25 Filed Under: Big Black UPC: 036172079117
TRACK LIST 1. Racer X 2. Shotgun 3. The Ugly American 4. Deep Six 5. Sleep! 6. The Big Payback
Big Black was started by Steve Albini in 1982 while he was attending Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Lungs, the first Big Black release was recorded by Steve on a borrowed 4-track. He played everything on the EP himself - except the sax bleating courtesy of pal John Bohnen and the drums courtesy of Roland. Soon after, Steve recruited Jeff Pezzati (Naked Raygun) on bass, and Santiago Durango (also Naked Raygun) joined them on guitar. In 1983, together with live drummer Pat Byrne, they recorded the Bulldozer EP. By 1984, the band had done some touring and recorded the Racer X EP and the start of the Il Duce 7”. After that, Jeff returned to Naked Raygun and was replaced by Dave Riley. In 1985, Big Black recorded their first full-length, Atomizer, as well as finishing the Il Duce 7”. Atomizer was released in 1986 along with the release of the Hammer Party compilation CD. In 1987, the Headache EP and Heartbeat 7” were released. That same year, the band recorded and released the 7” of The Model/He’s A Whore as well as their second full-length album, Songs About Fucking. They toured extensively (for Big Black). And they broke up.
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BIG BUSINESS HEAD FOR THE SHALLOW release date : January 26, 2017 catalog # : JNR240.1 available formats : LP
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genre : Metal / Sludge Metal box lot quantity : 10 LP packaging : jacket vinyl non-returnable. track listing :
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O.G. Focus Pocus White Piz Azz Stareadactyl Easter Romantic Technically Electrified Eis Hexe Off Off Broadway
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The year is 2003. The place: Seattle, Washington. In a tiny room packed some really nice gear, Jared Warren and Coady Willis recorded the first full-length Big Business album, Head For The Shallow. Both Jared and Coady had previously recorded with Phil Ek, and both really liked him as person, as well as his production sensibilities. Phil had made many records at AVAST! Studios and was right at home, which made the band feel a lot more comfortable. Says Coady, “I remember listening to the rough mixes of the O.G. in the van and getting super excited. It was sounding great, just like a real record! I still feel proud of this album. It made me feel confident that we could do more.�
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BIG BUSINESS HERE COME THE WATERWORKS release date : January 26, 2017 catalog # : JNR240.2 available formats : LP
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Just As The Day Was Dawning Hands Up Shields Grounds For Divorce Another Fourth Of July... Ruined Start Your Digging I'll Give You Something To Cry About Another Beautiful Day In The Pacific Northwest
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4:13 2:59 3:06 5:30 4:30 4:04 9:09 7:10
The timeline of writing and recording Here Come the Waterworks is intertwined with Big Business’ move to Los Angeles to play with the Melvins. Although Jared Warren and Coady Willis had not yet toured with the Melvins, they were living and practicing in L.A., and had just recorded (a)Senile Animal. Most of the songs on Here Come the Waterworks were already fully formed at this point. Big Business headed back up to Seattle to once again record with Phil Ek at AVAST! Studios. David Scott Stone was along to play guitar, with the idea that he would be in the band playing live as well. As the recording progressed, it became clear that Dave would be unable to tour so that kind of put the kibosh on him being in the band. Says Coady, “I think we made a good record, the songs were starting to get a little more ambitious.”
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BIG BUSINESS MIND THE DRIFT release date : January 26, 2017 catalog # : JNR240.3 available formats : LP
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genre : Metal / Sludge Metal box lot quantity : 10 LP packaging : jacket vinyl non-returnable. track listing :
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Found Art Gold And Final Cats, Mice. I Got It Online The Drift Ayes Have It Cold Lunch Theme From Big Business II
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Toshi Kasai had been playing guitar with Big Business (Jared Warren and Coady Willis) for a while at the time of the Mind the Drift release. The band had been touring pretty heavily with the Melvins before this record was made. Says Coady, “I think we wanted to elevate the songs and make it really grand, like a Queen record. It was definitely the hardest record we had made to this day. The session was plagued with technical glitches from the get go, so it never felt like we picked up any momentum. To my memory, it always felt like we were under this insane time crunch every step of the way. So as you can imagine the fun factor was pretty low. I think we learned an important lesson about how we best operate in the studio, and what we needed to have fun and feel creative and comfortable.�
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Numero Group Unwound: New Plastic Ideas
Catalog Number: NUM1292 Artist: Unwound Title: New Plastic Ideas Release Date: 1/26/2018 UPC: LP 825764609210 Available format: LP Genre: Punk Box Lot: 35 Territory Restrictions: None Vinyl is not returnable Track Listing A 1. Entirely Different Matters 2. What Was Wound An album Maximum Rock ’N’ Roll deemed 3. Envelope not punk enough to review, Unwound’s 1994 4. Hexenszene sophomore effort was a lethal depth charge 5. Abstraktions aimed at major label grunge and independent hardcore alike. From the off-kilter, vertiginous rhythm of “Entirely Different Matters” to the B neck-snapping velocity of “What Was Wound” to the relentless pounding at the end of “All 1. All Soul’s Day Souls Day,” New Plastic Ideas is the Sonic 2. Usual Dosage Youth-loving older sister to Fake Train’s post- 3. Arboretum 4. Fiction Friction punk-obsessed little brother. “If you’re seeking catharsis, here it is.” —Mother Jones LP
This album previously released in: NUM202.3 Unwound “Rat Conspiracy”
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• • • • • Criminal, The Soft Moon’s fourth studio album, is a confessional work. Through the stark lens of shame and guilt that has followed Luis Vasquez since a violent childhood growing up within the humming ambient sprawl of ’80s Mojave Desert, here he documents the gut-wrenching sound of going to war with himself. Battling with his own sanity, self-hatred, insecurity, self-entitlement and grappling with the risk of these things transforming him into a person he despises, Vasquez has laid his feelings bare with this: his confession and most self-reflective work to date. “Guilt is my biggest demon and has been following me since childhood. Everything I do strengthens the narrative that I am guilty,” Vasquez reflects. “The concept of Criminal is a desperate attempt to find relief by both confessing to my wrongdoings and by blaming others for their wrongdoings that have affected me.” Criminal marks a striking and important chapter in his self-exploration, both artistically and emotionally. As a young musician living in Oakland, Vasquez began to try and process the narrative of his difficult upbringing veiled through musical exploration. Working with producer Maurizio Baggio at La Distilleria in Bassano Del Grappa, Italy, Criminal sees Vasquez further explore putting his lyrics at the forefront and letting his raw emotions flow. The album begins with a confrontation with his true self through the torrid bass lines and searing vocals of “Burn,” a song evoking a loss of control akin to demonic possession, stating: “Eyes, reflecting the person that I am, and it burns”. In this track, Vasquez’s guilt bores deeper and deeper into a condemnation that ultimately is: “Fire, hell is where I’ll go to live, so I burn.” The album is Vasquez’s way of holding himself accountable and seeking redemption for the abuse he inflicts on himself, and acknowledges roots in the abuse which, inflicted upon him as a child, broke him.
track listing: Burn (3:20) Choke (3:09) Give Something (4:30) Like a Father (4:40) The Pain (4:37) It Kills (4:18) ILL (2:35) Young (3:51) Born Into This (3:50) Criminal (4:54) Key Information / Selling Points: Hometown / Key Markets: Berlin, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, London Selling Points / Key Press: Fourth album by industrial/post-punk project The Soft Moon Previous LP Deeper (on Captured Tracks) Soundscan LTD: 6,000+ Extensive touring planned for 2018 Favorable coverage on last album from Pitchfork and NPR Coverage on new album has already run in Noisey, Stereogum, Tiny Mix Tapes, Treble and more, with more confirmed to run RiYL: Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Cold Cave, A Place To Bury Strangers, Bauhaus, Factory Floor catalog #: SBR-192 genre: Industrial/Alternative Release Date: 2-2-2018 available formats: CD, lp, lp-c1, cassette UPC-CD: 616892546740 UPC-LP: 616892546542 UPC-LP-c1: 616892546641 upC-CS: 616892554943 Vinyl is not returnable export restrictions: None Box Lot: CD 30 / lP 30 / cs 112 label contact: Sacred Bones Records 144 N. 7th Street #413 Brooklyn, NY 11249 info@sacredbonesrecords.com www.sacredbonesrecords.com
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CHAPTER MUSIC
CH144 Montero Performer TRACKLIST 1. Montero Airlines 2. Aloha 3. Caught Up In My Own World 4. Running Race 5. Performer
6. Quantify 7. Vibrations 8. Tokin’ The Night Away 9. Destiny 10. Pilot
RELEASE BIO Montero is Australian musician and artist Ben Montero. New album Performer was recorded at Mark Ronson’s Tileyard studios in London. It is co-produced by Ben, Tame Impala/Pond/Gum’s Jay Watson, and Grammy Award winning engineer Riccardo Damian. Performer glories in the widescreen soft rock tradition, updating the romantic classicism of golden era love songs with a psychedelic pop brush. Montero's music evokes the extended soundscapes and textures of 70s prog, the easy listening adult weirdness of Jimmy Webb and Burt Bacharach, and the sports arena pounding of vintage MOR rock sometimes all in the space of one song. With an emphasis on clear vocals, soaring melodies, lush instrumentation and dreamy glam pomp, Performer ventures into gently surreal realms of romance, yearning, and wonder. As a visual artist, Ben's much-loved comic-based style highlights the universality of small human moments via a cast of furry (or sometimes slimy) friends. His art has graced album covers, t-shirts and posters for Mac Demarco, Ariel Pink, Kurt Vile, Pond and others. Ben has lost count of the number of fans who have had his drawings tattooed on their body. His Facebook page Ben Montero Sketchbook has more than 70,000 fans. Ben currently lives in Athens, Greece and his live band are made up of members of Greek psych heads Acid Baby Jesus, plus other Athens friends. The Montero band tour UK/Europe in November 2017 supporting Mac Demarco. CD
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RELEASE INFO Catalogue Number: CH144 Format: CD, LP Release Date: 2 February 2018 UPC: 711583 807619 (LP – green vinyl) 711583 807671 (LP – black vinyl) 711583 807640 (CD) Territory Restrictions: none Genre: psychedelic pop/rock Vinyl is not returnable Box Lot: 30 (CD), 12 (LP) POINTS OF INTEREST
- Co-Produced with Jay Watson (Tame Impala/ Pond/Gum) and Riccardo Damian (Grammy Award winning engineer) at Mark Ronson’s Tileyard Studio. - Ben Montero has done artwork for Mac Demarco, Ariel Pink, Kurt Vile, Pond and others.
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LABEL CONTACT Chapter Music 78 Walker St Clifton Hill VIC 3068 Australia info@chaptermusic.com www.chaptermusic.com LP - green vinyl
Exclusively distributed by SECRETLY DISTRIBUTION PHONE: 812.335.1572 / FAX: 888.678.0167 US Domestic Sales contact Shelly Westerhausen (shelly@secretlydistribution.com) International Sales contact Lauren Brown (lauren.brown@secretlydistribution.com)
Paradise of Bachelors P.O. Box 1402, Carrboro, NC 27510 www.paradiseofbachelors.com / info@paradiseofbachelors.com US/CA PR: Stephanie Bauman, stephanie@pitchperfectpr.com UK PR: Lucy Hurst, lucy@butilikeyou.co.uk Everywhere else: press@paradiseofbachelors.com Broken Stay Open Sky is the fourth full-length album by Red River Dialect, and their first for Paradise of Bachelors. The London-based band (with Cornish roots) brings a windswept energy and daylight to a contemplative, gorgeously rendered suite of songs about inhabiting the landscape, and our bodies, in joy and pain alike. Informed by songwriter David Morris’s spiritual practice, and recorded largely live in the studio, this is the band’s most ambitious and emotionally affecting work to date: atmospheric but deeply rooted, equally concerned with investigating the concrete and the cosmic, both quiet details of the everyday and looming matters of faith. Morris shares the following testimony about how these recordings came about.
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Paradise of Bachelors PoB-039 LP / CD / digital (vinyl not returnable) February 2, 2018 616892483847 / 616892483946 Alternative / Folk-Rock N/A 25 / 30
A1. “Juniper / The View” 6:55 A2. “Kukkuripa” 7:11 A3. “Open Sky (bell)” 4:01
B1. “Aery Thin” 6:30 B2. “Cinders” 6:48 B3. “Gull Rock” 5:55 B4. “Campana” 4:47
+ Deluxe 140g virgin vinyl LP features heavy-duty matte board jacket, full-color inner sleeve, lyrics, and high-res Bandcamp download code. CD edition features matte gatefold jacket. + RIYL Talk Talk, Tindersticks, Tim Hardin, Fairport Convention, Red House Painters, Mighty Baby, Michael Chapman, James Elkington, Steve Gunn, The Weather Station, Nathan Salsburg, Joan Shelley. + For more information: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/pob-039 + Artist page/tour dates: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/red-river-dialect + “So damn pretty … Always but a squall away from breaking apart.” – NPR Music + “Fuses folk-rock's past with its future. Red River Dialect is a language open to all.” – The Quietus + “Brave and different.” – Uncut + “Evocative songs of Cornish coastal contemplation.” – MOJO + “Strangely life-affirming sorrow ... a tribute to the power of healing and reconciliation.” – AllMusic
When writing the last Red River Dialect album, which was called Tender Gold and Gentle Blue, my everyday was infused with a magnificent, radiant sadness. A sudden space of loss had opened up and swallowed all sorts of exhausting but addictive inclinations: to hunt for volatility, nurture delusions and hide in distractions. Eventually these waves of sad-joy began to subside and I found myself back on familiar ground with a new understanding of what I was seeking: freshness, movement and vibrancy. I was learning how to feel perky and how to ride on the wind; the one that is called lungta in Tibetan (and is also a horse). I looked for this energy in chords, rhythms and words. When my friend, the great songwriter Joan Shelley, invited me out on a UK tour to play an opening set, I recognised it as an opportunity to develop these new songs and to try them out at shows. A couple of them took shape before the tour, but most followed after. Hearing Joan, Nathan Salsburg and Glen Dentinger play and sing every night brought me many glimpses of the fresh genuineness I was seeking. I tried to turn those glimpses into songs. I wanted to make a whole album about lungta, to be called Windhorse, after the English translation of the term. It was also going to be a concept album about bells of all kinds. I used to ring church bells when I was a child in the English change ringing style. I have strong memories of the smell of old wood and damp stone, the delirious cacophony of the six bells, the sight of the dancing ropes and the fear of breaking the stay. The stay is the small piece of wood upon which the heavy bell comes to rest in an upright position when the ringing is done. If the bell is brought to rest too roughly the stay may be broken, causing the bell to flail around its axle and whipping the rope up into the tower. The leader of our group of campanologists, a Cornish stone-hedger by trade, told tales of ringers who had been whipped up along with the rope and killed, and my experience of ringing became fused with this fear of losing control. The coil of coloured wool around the portion of the rope that you grip is called the sally, a name derived from Latin and Old French words for leaping, salire and sailie respectively, and related to the English somersault and salmon, the name the Romans gave to the fish that leaps. As I wrote the songs, this attempt at conceptual coherency started to crumble. Half-familiar sadnesses and new-old confusions poked through the rubble. For a time I tried to keep them out. Eventually I gave up, knowing that to treat these experiences like enemies or unwelcome strangers was dishonest and stale. And so each song that makes up this new album called Broken Stay Open Sky is a coming together of pain and love, selves and others, embraced together in the same broken heart, which is moving-joy and still-sad. The cover photograph portrays Gull Rock, as seen from Trebarwith Strand in North Cornwall. Once I had seen this image, the work of Dayna Cowper, it would not leave my imagination, and I hoped it could become a part of this album. Initially I wanted to conceal it inside the album’s sleeve; a double-lurking cave on an inside horizon of childhood memories. But it would not stay hidden, and strangely it shone through every other proposal for the cover. So now Gull Rock sits there like the hub shared by thirty spokes: Thirty spokes converge at the hub, but emptiness completes the wheel. Chapter 11, Tao Te Ching I am glad that this album is not entirely what I intended it to be, and even gladder for the companionship of the band who articulate these songs into a real-shared living. Simon Drinkwater, Coral Rose, Ed Sanders, Robin Stratton and I had spent a few years playing mostly acoustically, without drums or percussion. In the summer of 2016 we had a fortuitous meeting with drummer Kiran Bhatt, who then joined the band, allowing us to get a little more electric and dynamic once more. Over the summer we worked up these songs, recording over three days in October 2016 with our friend Jimmy Robertson at the console. We set up as a live band in the room, which was not a big room, and so there is a merging of our playing into each other’s microphones, a bleeding that even Pro Tools cannot efface without taking the song away too. There were, however, a handful of overdubs, a couple of tricks, and a little bit of corruption. There was a shadowed rock like a cave in the sky, from which the wheel of a ringing bell turned. If I could break into song, would I break my stay? David Morris UPC-LP
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TROUBLE IN MIND
TIM127
Sunwatchers II TRACKLIST
1. Nose Beers 2. The Hot Eye
3. There Are Weapons You Can Bring To School 4. Silent Boogie 5. The Works 6. Flowers of The Water RELEASE BIO
RELEASE INFO
Brooklyn ensemble Sunwatchers return with the incendiar y follow up to their 2016
Catalogue Number: TIM127
eponymous debut, the appropriately titled “II”. The quartet continues to defy adequate description, incorporating elements of free jazz, psychedelia, punk, Ethiopian and Thai
Format: CD, LP, LP-C1
music and funk into a dizzy, invigorating sound.
Release Date: Februar y 2nd, 2018
“II” kicks off with the click of sticks and launches into “Nosebeers”, a righteous burner
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that writhes and squawks with heady desert vibes and white hot saxophone, sounding
UPC-LP: 630125983447
not unlike something akin to Group Doueh jamming with John Zorn. “The Hot Eye” is next,
UPC-LP-C1: 630125983454
and the band doesn’t let up revving up an anxious marching beat into a raging squall that
Territor y Restrictions: None
ebbs & flows with tidal waves of horn and guitar. The band has more in store for listeners,
Genre: Psychedelic / Indie / Jazz / Punk / Experimental / World Music
easing into the third track “There Are Weapons You Can Bring To School”. With it ’s
RIYL: Rangda, Sun City Girls, Group Doueh, Albert Ayler, John Zorn,
contemplative tone, the song sets a mood for the album, righteous, socially conscious
Thee Oh Sees, Mdou Moctar, Ethiopiques series
messaging, no more evident than the message embriodered onto the tapestr y that graces the front cover artwork: “SUNWATCHERS STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE DISPOSSESSED,
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IMPOVERISHED AND EMBATTLED PEOPLE OF THE WORLD”. The band considers it both a
Box Lot CDs: 300
mission statement & a battle cr y: “ We are musicians, and we will leave political specifics to
Box Lot LP: 30
those more qualified than we are. All the time and energy and passion we can muster we
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dedicate to writing, performing, recording and releasing music: instrumental music, released
- Second album from the Brooklyn-based ensemble inspired by
from the tyranny of semantics into the freedom and hopefulness of universality-ofconnection. We thusly realize the need to become overt about our own intentions and our own mores; without the ease and accessibility of direct language, the onus is on us to express our principles in other ways.”* The album’s second side opens with the barn-burning “Silent Boogie” with saxophonist Jeff Tobias tapping into the elemental fires of free-jazz skronk while the rhythm section hammers away like the Asheton brothers on a speed trip.
psychedelia, Ethiopian & Thai music & the headier moments of jazz - Features current & former members of NYMPH, Dark Meat, Chris Forsyth’s Solar Motel Band & Arthur Doyle’s New Quiet Screamers - “Flowers of The Water ” features former Oh Sees vocalist Brigid Dawson on vocals - Mastered by Sarah Register (Talk Normal / Lee Ranaldo / Frankie Rose / EMA)
“The Works” & “Flowers Of The Water (For Lou)” close out the album, simmering the boil, and
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Sunwatchers “II” is released on compact disc, black vinyl & limited “rainbow splatter ” vinyl for direct account. It will also be made available via all digital retailers.
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Akira Sakata & Chikamorachi with Masahiko Satoh Proton Pump Catalog Number: FV104 Release Date: February 2, 2018 Format: LP / CD LP UPC: 656605410418 CD UPC: 656605410425 Genre: Jazz / Alternative LP Box Lot: 30 CD Box Lot: 35 No Territory Restrictions Vinyl Is Not Returnable RIYL John Coltrane, BYG / Actuel, Sun City Girls, Peter Brotzmann
LP Proton Pump is a milestone achievement in the winding career of alto saxophonist, gibberish shrieker and jazz legend Akira Sakata. It’s a lightning-fast, real-time cut-up of melody and bare-knuckle action that swings between the avant garde and hardcore be-bop. Sakata is backed by his famed rhythm crew Chikamorachi -- drummer Chris Corsano and acoustic bassist Darin Gray -- and joined by composer and pianist Masahiko Satoh. Sakata and Satoh emerged out of the late-1960s Tokyo jazz scene -- Satoh already releasing albums and Sakata soon joining the famed The Yamashita Trio -- and while they’ve since become uncompromising pillars of free music and vision this marks their first proper album together. On Proton Pump’s four pieces, Sakata is on absolute top form on alto saxophone and clarinet -- blowing bold melodies with unstoppable momentum and also injecting deep textural fields with his startling vocalizations. Satoh’s piano is hyperbolic throughout as he splatters counterpoints and brilliant tones at dizzying speed. Recorded before a jaw-dropped audience at Pit Inn, Tokyo in November 2015. LP limited to 500 copies worldwide, includes a full-color inner sleeve and download coupon. CD version comes in a digipak.
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Track Listing 1.Proton Pump 2. Bullet Apoptosis 3. Chemiosmotic Coupling of Acorn 4. Voyage of Eukaryote
Selling points • LP limited to 500 copies world wide • First time Tokyo jazz legends Akira Sakata and Masahiko Satoh recorded an album together Akira Sakata & Chikamorachi back catalog Flying Basket 2xLP/CD (w/ Jim O’Rourke & Merzbow) and that’s the Story of Jazz... 2xCD (w/ Jim O’Rourke) Live At Hungry Brain LP Friendly Pants CD
Efrim Manuel Menuck Pissing Stars 180gLP • DL Release Date: 02 February 2018
The 2nd solo album by the co-founder of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt. Zion, following his 2011 solo debut. RIYL: Suicide, Scott Walker, Throbbing Gristle, Neil Young, Einstürzende Neubauten, Pharmakon, Wolf Eyes, Yellow Swans, EMA, Avey Tare, Thee Silver Mt. Zion
Efrim Manuel Menuck returns with his second album Pissing Stars, the brilliantly intense follow-up to his 2011 solo debut Plays “High Gospel” (CST078) and the first new material with Menuck as central songwriter and vocalist since 2014’s acclaimed Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything (CST099) from his chamber-punk-rock band Thee Silver Mt. Zion. The legendary Montréal-based musician has much-deserved cult status among fans of political punk, post-rock and avant-noise songcraft alike. Menuck celebrates 25 years of unflinching and uncompromising sonic output with Pissing Stars, wherein he launches acerbic darts, impassioned salvos and fragile flowers into gusts of noise-battered song built around pulsing maximalist electronics and drone, shot through with alternately plaintive, chilling, often processed vocals. Pissing Stars is Menuck at his most vulnerable and his most adventurous – with a timely narrative framework that only he could conjure: PISSING STARS is inspired by the brief romance of american television presenter MARY HART and MOHAMMED KHASHOGGI, the son of a saudi arms dealer. i don’t know how
long their union endured, but i remember reading about them when i was a desperate teenager – there was something about their pairing that got caught in my head. i was
living in a flooded basement with two other lost kids and a litter of feral kittens. we were all unfed. this strange intersection – the televisual blonde and the rich saudi kid with the murderous father; it got stuck in me like a mystery, like an illumination. i’ve carried it in me for 3 decades now, this obscure memory, and i return to it often, tracing its
edges like a worn talisman. this record is about the dissolution of their relationship, and
the way that certain stubborn lights endure. this record was made in dark corners
between 2016 and 2017. a very rough pair of years, shot thru with fatigue, depression,
CST129 CONSTELLATION TRACKLIST: A1 Black Flags Ov Thee Holy Sonne A2 The State And Its Love And Genocide A3 The Lion-Daggers Of Calais A4 Kills v. Lies A5 Hart_Kashoggi B1 A Lamb In The Land Of Payday Loans B2 LxOxVx / Shelter In Place B3 The Beauty Of Children And The War Against The Poor B4 Pissing Stars DURATION: 46:12 GENRE: Electronic, Power Electronics, Noise, Avant-Punk
180gram vinyl with artworked inner sleeve + 12”x18” art print poster + 320kbps MP3 download
despair, and too many cigarettes and too much booze. but also = the giddiness of
enervation, and the strange liberation of being emptied – borne aloft and carried by the
drift. the world continues its eternal collapsing, fires everywhere and everything
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drained of meaning. this record was made in various states of unease, with a brittle
heart and a clear intent. like running towards a cliff with 2 swinging knives, roaring with
an idiot grin. overcome and overjoyed. this record is about the dissolution of the state, and all of us trapped beneath, and the way that certain stubborn lights endure. – EMM
Pissing Stars comes in a deluxe 180gram vinyl edition with artworked inner dust sleeve and a killer 12”x18” art poster designed by Menuck, all printed on uncoated papers and boards. Thanks for listening.
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Tashi Dorji & Tyler Damon Leave No Trace: Live In St. Louis Catalog Number: FV103 Release Date: February 2, 2017 Format: LP LP UPC: 656605410319 Genre: Alternative LP Box Lot: 30 No Territory Restrictions RIYL Sun City Girls, 75 Dollar Bill, Sonny Sharrock, Six Organs of Admittance
LP As live albums go, Tashi Dorji and Tyler Damon nail it down. No matter the crowd -- head thrashers, Instagram zombies, shaken jazzniks -- the shadow lines of feedback and bombastic percussive bombs are always at peak intensity. Through telepathic engagement the Bhutanese-born guitarist Dorji and Midwestern drummer Damon act with one-mind destruction as Leave No Trace: Live In St. Louis perfectly captures. It’s a pure sound for these disruptive, politically tumultuous times. Or Marc Master’s describes it as, a power lurching at you “in ways that feel dangerously uncontrolled, like someone playing with a plugged-in toaster over a filled-up bathtub.” Leave No Trace -- a companion release to their hyper-acclaimed debut Both Will Escape -- was recorded at Gaslight in St. Louis. The 500-edition LP features jacket designed by the hand/razor of Jeremy Kannapell; comes with a download coupon.
Track Listing 1. Calm The Shadows 2. Leave No Trace
Selling points • LP limited to 500 copies world wide • The duo just completed a U.S. tour, performing at Hopscotch and Cropped Out festivals Back catalog Both Will Escape LP (FV97)
Marcus Marr
Familiar Five EP
DFA is proud to present the long-awaited debut EP by London’s Marcus Marr, Familiar Five. Influenced by classic soul, rock, disco, and acid house, the multiinstrumentalist, DJ, and producer makes spacy dance music, often including percolating synths, funky bass guitar, and vocals. Over the last few years, Marr has been releasing acclaimed records via DFA Records, including “Brown Sauce,” named in Pitchfork’s Tracks in 2015, and “The Music,” named one of the “Best Dance Tracks of 2013” by SPIN. A regular at Berlin’s famed nightclub Berghain/Panorama Bar since 2014, the lifelong music obsessive’s first encounters with dance music were acid house records, which grew his vinyl collection of rock and soul, and attending all night parties under Brixton’s St Matthews Church. Traveling to Brighton’s famous Zap Club to watch DJ Harvey play a lengthy set, he saw the kind of power a DJ can wield over a willing crowd. At last, Marr returns to DFA with a collection of elastic bassline stompers, reminiscent of early Daft Punk. The title track “Familiar Five” originally began with a rock riff, which he later repurposed as the backbone of a piece of slow, dark, dance music. Inspired by Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Faust, and Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Marr explains that he wanted to make something spooky and simple – a song utilizing “very few elements, with a throb and synth vomit.” On the flip side, lead single “High Times” channels the electric guitar stylings of Nile Rodgers circa 1979, and makes good use of the producer’s trademark whizzing synths as well as vocals from collaborator Nandi Bhebe. “Love Release” and “Rocketship” are both equally effective tracks built for the dancefloor.
DFA2562 LP, Digital February 2, 2018 829732256215 Vinyl is non-returnable. 10 LP Box Lot: Territory Restrictions: LP – worldwide Digital – North America Electronic, Dance, Disco, Indie Genre: Daft Punk, Chic, Holy Ghost, Todd Terje RIYL: Catalog Number: Formats: Release Date: LP UPC:
01. Familiar Five 02. Love Release 03. High Times 04. Rocketship
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COMING SOON FROM SECRETLY DISTRIBUTION... FEBRUARY 16th: • DABRYE - ONE/THREE (2018 REMASTER) (BLACK VINYL) | LP (GI004lp) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297900414 • DABRYE - INSTRMNTL (BLUE VINYL) | LP (GI024lp-C1) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC: • DABRYE - TWO/THREE (BLACK VINYL) | 2xLP (GI050lp) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297905013 • DABRYE - THREE/THREE | CD (GI303cd) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC: • DABRYE - THREE/THREE (BLACK VINYL) | 2xLP (GI303lp) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297830315 • DABRYE - THREE/THREE (CLEAR VINYL) | 2xLP (GI303lp-C1) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297830308 • DABRYE - BOX SET (BLUE VINYL) | 6xLP (GI318lp-C1-dlx) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297831817 • ROBERT EARL THOMAS - ANOTHER AGE | CD (CT272cd) | Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949014193 • ROBERT EARL THOMAS - ANOTHER AGE (BLACK VINYL) | LP (CT272lp) | Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949014186 • MARK RENNER - FEW TRACES | CD (ReRVNG11cd) | RVNG INTL. PHYS UPC:716670165894 • MARK RENNER - FEW TRACES | 2xLP (ReRVNG11lp) | RVNG INTL. PHYS UPC:716670165887 • SONGS: OHIA - TRAVELS IN CONSTANTS (BLACK VINYL) | LP (TRR246lp) | Temporary Residence Ltd. PHYS UPC:656605324616 • SONGS: OHIA - TRAVELS IN CONSTANTS (BLACK VINYL) | LP (TRR246lp-C1) | Temporary Residence Ltd. PHYS UPC:656605324647 • JIM WHITE - WAFFLES, TRIANGLES & JESUS | CD (PIAPTK241cd) | People In A Position To Know/Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270691782 • JIM WHITE - WAFFLES, TRIANGLES & JESUS (BLACK VINYL) | LP (PIAPTK241lp) | People In A Position To Know/Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270691799 • MARLON WILLIAMS - MAKE WAY FOR LOVE | CD (DOC137cd) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605143729 • MARLON WILLIAMS - MAKE WAY FOR LOVE (BLACK VINYL) | LP (DOC137lp) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605143712 • MARLON WILLIAMS - MAKE WAY FOR LOVE (WHITE VINYL) | LP (DOC137lp-C1) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605143736
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• S. CAREY - HUNDRED ACRES | CD (JAG311cd) | Jagjaguwar PHYS UPC:656605231129 • S. CAREY - HUNDRED ACRES (BLACK VINYL) | LP (JAG311lp) | Jagjaguwar PHYS UPC:656605231112 • S. CAREY - HUNDRED ACRES (TRANSLUCENT GREEN VINYL) | LP (JAG311lp-C1) | Jagjaguwar PHYS UPC:656605231136 • JOEY DOSIK - GAME WINNER | CDEP (SC363cd) | Secretly Canadian PHYS UPC:656605036328 • JOEY DOSIK - GAME WINNER (BLACK VINYL) | 12" EP (SC363lp) | Secretly Canadian PHYS UPC:656605036311 • ESSAIE PAS - NEW PATH | CD (DFA2567cd) | DFA Records PHYS UPC:829732256727 • ESSAIE PAS - NEW PATH (BLACK VINYL) | LP (DFA2567lp) | DFA Records PHYS UPC:829732256710 • JACQUELINE HUMBERT & DAVID ROSENBOOM - J. JASMINE: MY NEW MUSIC (BLACK VINYL) | LP (UW016lp) | Unseen Worlds PHYS UPC:766008587669 • LIONLIMB - TAPE RECORDER | CD (BR015cd) | Bayonet PHYS UPC:859575005411 • LIONLIMB - TAPE RECORDER (CLEAR VINYL) | LP (BR015lp) | Bayonet PHYS UPC:859575005404 • JACKSON MACINTOSH - MY DARK SIDE | CD (LYN035cd) | Sinderlyn PHYS UPC:858458006156 • JACKSON MACINTOSH - MY DARK SIDE (BLACK VINYL) | LP (LYN035lp) | Sinderlyn PHYS UPC:858458006149 • HAILU MERGIA - LALA BELU | CD (ATFA028cd) | Awesome Tapes From Africa PHYS UPC:616892557340 • HAILU MERGIA - LALA BELU (BLACK VINYL) | LP (ATFA028lp) | Awesome Tapes From Africa PHYS UPC:616892557241 • OLDEN YOLK - OLDEN YOLK | CD (TIM129cd) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983348 • OLDEN YOLK - OLDEN YOLK (BLACK VINYL) | LP (TIM129lp) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983362 • OLDEN YOLK - OLDEN YOLK (MILKY HAZE VINYL) | LP (TIM129lp-C1) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983379 • JASON SHARP - STAND ABOVE THE STREAMS (BLACK VINYL) | LP (CST130lp) | Constellation PHYS UPC:666561013011 • STARCHILD & THE NEW ROMANTIC - LANGUAGE | CD (GI310cd) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297831022 • STARCHILD & THE NEW ROMANTIC - LANGUAGE (BLACK VINYL) | LP (GI310lp) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297831015 • STARCHILD & THE NEW ROMANTIC - LANGUAGE (BLACK VINYL) | LP (GI310lp-C1) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297831008 • TOTALLY MILD - HER | CD (CH149cd) | Chapter Music PHYS UPC:711583807633 • TOTALLY MILD - HER (BLACK VINYL) | LP (CH149lp) | Chapter Music PHYS UPC:711583807626 • TOTALLY MILD - HER (BABY PINK VINYL) | LP (CH149lp-C2) | Chapter Music PHYS UPC:747742112317
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