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• MARC BARRECA - MUSIC WORKS FOR INDUSTRY | LP (FTS002lp) | Freedom To Spend/RVNG INTL. PHYS UPC:603786278740 • THE BESNARD LAKES - THE BESNARD LAKES ARE THE DIVINE WIND | 12" (JAG303lp) | Jagjaguwar PHYS UPC:656605230313 • BLANCK MASS - WORLD EATER | CD (SBR174cd) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:616892451648 • BLANCK MASS - WORLD EATER | LP (SBR174lp) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:616892451549 • BLANCK MASS - WORLD EATER (BLACK & RED VINYL) | LP (SBR174lp-C1) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:616892451846 • BLEACHED - CAN YOU DEAL? (WHITE VINYL) | 12" EP (DOC128lp-C1) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605142814 • THE BOOKS - THE LEMON OF PINK (REISSUE) | LP (TRR181lp) | Temporary Residence Ltd. PHYS UPC:656605318110 • GABRIELLA COHEN - FULL CLOSURE AND NO DETAILS | CD (CT262cd) | Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949013233 • GABRIELLA COHEN - FULL CLOSURE AND NO DETAILS | LP (CT262lp) | Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949013226 • LUSINE - SENSORIMOTOR | CD (GI287cd) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297828725 • LUSINE - SENSORIMOTOR | 2xLP (GI287lp) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297828718 • LUSINE - SENSORIMOTOR (BLACK/GREY MARBLE VINYL) | 2xLP (GI287lp-C1) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297828701 • MINUS THE BEAR - VOIDS | Cassette (SSQ152cass) | Suicide Squeeze Records PHYS UPC:803238015248 • MINUS THE BEAR - VOIDS | CD (SSQ152cd) | Suicide Squeeze Records PHYS UPC:803238015224 • MINUS THE BEAR - VOIDS | LP (180 gram) (SSQ152lp) | Suicide Squeeze Records PHYS UPC:803238015217 • MINUS THE BEAR - VOIDS (SPLATTER COLOR VINYL) | LP (SSQ152lp-C1) | Suicide Squeeze Records PHYS UPC:803238099316 • MOZART'S SISTER - FIELD OF LOVE (CLEAR VINYL) | LP (ABT055lp-C1) | Arbutus Records PHYS UPC:061297523726 • VAGUESS - GUILT RING | LP (LYN021lp) | Sinderlyn PHYS UPC:858458005494 • WHY? - MOH LHEAN | CD (JNR222cd) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270690815 • WHY? - MOH LHEAN | LP (JNR222lp) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270690822 • WHY? - MOH LHEAN (BLUE VINYL) | LP (JNR222lp-C1) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270690839
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MINUS THE BEAR VOIDS On their sixth album VOIDS, Minus the Bear started with a blank slate, and inadvertently found themselves applying the same starting-from-scratch strategies that fueled their initial creative process. Album opener “Last Kiss” immediately establishes the band’s renewed fervor. An appropriately dizzying guitar line plunges into a propulsive groove before the chorus unfolds into a multi-tiered pop chorus. From there the album flows into “Give & Take”, a tightly wound exercise in syncopation that recalls the celebratory pulse of early Bear classics like “Fine + 2 Pts” while exploring new textures and timbres. “Invisible” is arguably the catchiest song of the band’s career, with Jake Snider’s vocal melodies and Knudson’s imaginative guitar work battling for the strongest hooks. “What About the Boat?” reminds us of the “math-rock” tag that followed the band in their early years, with understated instrumentation disguising an odd-time beat. “Erase,” recalls the merging of forlorn indie pop and electronica that the band dabbled with on their early EPs, but demonstrates the Bear’s ongoing melodic sophistication and tonal exploration. By the time the band reaches album closer “Lighthouse,” they’ve traversed so much sonic territory that the only appropriate tactic left at their disposal is a climactic crescendo, driven at its peak by
TRACKLISTING 1. Last Kiss 2. Give & Take 3. Call the Cops 4. Invisible 5. What About the Boat? 6. Silver 7. Tame Beasts 8. Erase 9. Robotic Heart 10. Lighthouse Catalog #: SSQ152 Street Date: March 3, 2017 Genre: Alternative Format: CD/LP/CA Export Restrictions: None
Cory Murchy’s thunderous bass. Not since Planet of Ice’s “Lotus” has the Bear achieved such an epic finale. All in all, it’s an album that reminds us of everything that made us fall in love with Minus the Bear in the first place, and a big part of that appeal is the sense that the band is heading into uncharted territories.
Packaging: CD Wallet CD Box Lot Qty: 30 UPC-CD: 803238015224
+ HOMETOWN: SEATTLE, WA.
Packaging: Single LP (180g black vinyl) 1xLP die-cut jacket LP Box Lot Qty: 50 UPC-LP: 803238015217 Vinyl Non-returnable
+ FIRST STUDIO ALBUM SINCE INFINITY OVERHEAD (2012) + PRODUCED BY SAM BELL (THE CRIBS, WEEZER, SNOW PATROL, BLOC PARTY) + MASTERED BY GREG CALBI AT STERLING SOUND + DESIGN BY NICK STEINHARDT (DEAFHEAVEN, TOM PETTY) + 29 DATE HEADLINE TOUR ROUTED FOR MARCH / APRIL 2017 + CATALOG SALES TOTAL 500K+ + LP FIRST PRESSING OF 5,000 180g BLACK VINYL, 5,000 SPLATTER COLOR VINYL + DIE-CUT LP JACKET w/ PRINTED INNER SLEEVE and DL COUPON
Packaging: Single LP (Splatter color vinyl) 1xLP die-cut jacket LP Box Lot Qty: 50 UPC-LP: 803238099316 Vinyl Non-returnable
+ CD WALLET w/ 8 PANEL BOOKLET + CASSETTE LIMITED TO 500 COPIES w/ DL COUPON + PAST PRESS / RADIO COVERAGE: ROLLING STONE, PITCHFORK, SPIN, MTV, MODERN DRUMMER, GUITAR WORLD, BILLBOARD, JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE, PASTE,KROQ, THE END / Seattle, etc.
Packaging: Cassette 1xCA LP Box Lot Qty: 100 UPC-CA: 803238015248
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Blanck Mass World Eater 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
track listing: John Doe’s Carnival of Error (2:37) Rhesus Negative (9:10) Please (7:30) The Rat (6:11) Silent Treatment (7:37) Minnesota / Eas Fors / Naked (7:30) Hive Mind (8:33)
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Key Information / Selling Points: Hometown / Key Markets: Edinburgh, London, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles
• • • • • • As humans, we are aware of our inner beast and should therefore be able to control it. We understand our hard-wired primal urges and why they exist in an evolutional sense. We understand the relationship between mind and body. Highly evolved and intelligent, we should be able to recognize these genetic hangovers and control them as a means to act positively and move forward as a compassionate species. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Recent global events have proven this. The human race is consuming itself. World Eater, the new album by Benjamin John Power’s Blanck Mass project, is a reaction to this. There is an underlying violence and anger throughout the record, even though some of these tracks are the closest Power has ever come to writing, in his words, “actual love songs.” “Maybe subconsciously this was some kind of countermeasure to restore some personal balance,” Power explains. On World Eater, Power further perfects the propulsive, engrossing electronic music he has created throughout his impressive decade-plus career, both under the Blanck Mass moniker and as one-half of Fuck Buttons, as he elaborates upon the sound of 2015’s brilliant double album Dumb Flesh. As massive as the sonic world of the new record often feels, its greatest achievement is in its maximization of a limited set of tools, a restriction intentionally set by Power himself. “As an exercise in better understanding myself musically, I found myself using an increasingly restricted palette during the World Eater creative process. Evoking these intense emotions using minimal components really put me outside of my comfort zone and was unlike the process I am used to. Feeling exposed shone a new light on this particular snapshot. I feel enriched for doing so.”
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Selling Points / Key Press: Solo project of Benjamin John Power (Fuck Buttons) The Blanck Mass track “Sundowner” performed by the London Symphony Orchestra at 2012 Olympics opening ceremony Dumb Flesh received glowing coverage from NPR (Songs We Love), The New York Times (print review), Thump, Pitchfork “D7-D5” single released via Adult Swim Summer Singles in 2016 Full press campaigns by Motormouth and In House Black-and-red marble color vinyl limited to 1500 units Related Catalog: SBR-136 Blanck Mass: Dumb Flesh cd/LP RiYL: Fuck Buttons, Aphex Twin, Tim Hecker, Underworld, Mogwai, Flying Lotus CD catalog #: SBR-174 genre: Electronic Release Date: 3-3-2017 available formats: CD, lp, lp-c1 lp UPC-CD: 616892451648 UPC-LP: 616892451549 UPC-LP-c1: 616892451846 Vinyl is not returnable Black and red marble export restrictions: None color lp Box Lot: CD 30 / lP 40 label contact: Sacred Bones Records 144 N. 7th Street #413 Brooklyn, NY 11249 info@sacredbonesrecords.com www.sacredbonesrecords.com
WHY?
Moh Lhean release date : March 3, 2017 catalog # : JNR222
L P U P C : 714270690822
available formats : LP / CD genre : Indie, Hip-Hop box lot quantity : 10 LP / 25 CD
LP-C1 BLUE: 714270690839
packaging : jacket / wallet export restrictions : Japan, Australia, New Zealand vinyl non-returnable. track listing :
1. This Ole King 2. Proactive Evolution 3. Easy 4. January February March 5. One Mississippi 6. The Longing Is All 7. George Washington 8. The Water 9. Consequence Of Nonaction 10. The Barely Blur (VINYL INCLUDES DOWNLOAD)
BLUE VINYL AVAILABLE POINTS OF INTEREST - Full US tour planned for March/April 2017 - UK/EU Tour planned for May & June - Why? career scans total over 40 K Related back-catalog titles: JNR117 WHY? “Golden Tickets”
C D U P C : 714270690815
overview : The final words sung on the sixth album by WHY? are an apt place to begin: “Hold on, what’s going on?” Because while there’s much familiar about the oddly named Moh Lhean—mastermind Yoni Wolf’s sour-sweet croon, his deadpan poet’s drawl and ear for stunningly fluid psych-pop-folk-whatever arrangement—a great deal has changed in the four years that’ve passed since 2012’s Mumps, Etc., an LP that honed the band’s orchestral precision and self-deprecating swagger to a fine point. It’s significant that this is the first fully home-recorded WHY? album since the project’s 2003 debut. Made in Wolf’s studio and co-produced by his brother Josiah, the result is obsessive, of course, but also intimate, and flush with warmth and looseness. But the biggest transformation is a bit subtler. After years of eying his world, in part, with a cynical squint, Wolf here learns a new mode. While Moh Lhean never stoops to outright optimism, it chronicles our hero finding peace in the unknowing, trading the wry smirk for a holy shrug, and looking past corporeal pain for something more cosmic and, rest assured, equally weird. A low tone opens the album on “This Ole King” as acoustic pluck and upright bass form a Western bedrock beneath Wolf’s fragile voice. But as the song pushes on, the playing gets brighter and the vocal becomes a mantra-like hum inspired by Ali Farka Touré’s blues, before rolling into a second part rich with chiming keys and twisting harmony— Brian Wilson’s kaleidoscopic vision of pop. If there’s new litheness here, it’s probably because Wolf spent much of the time between albums collaborating—with ex/muse Anna Stewart as the fuzz-pop duo Divorcee, and MC Serengeti as the puckishly depressive Yoni & Geti. And if there’s a lithe newness, it may be that Wolf excised some nostalgia via his 2014 solo tapes— one re-recording choice raps from his own catalog, and another covering cuts by artists like Bob Dylan and Pavement. It’s no wonder, then, that “The Water” handily morphs a moody folk tune into some strange new form of full-band dub. Or that “One Mississippi” bounces along happily over a flurry of bizarre percussion, whistled melodies, and trippy synthesizer blips. Perhaps most impressive is “Consequence of Nonaction,” which vacillates between a quiet meditation for guitar/voice/clarinet, and wild, sax-strewn astral art-funk. Movement is a key theme of Moh Lhean. It’s a breakup album without a romantic interest—coded within the lyrics is a tale about fleeing the seductions of a wintry figure for something synonymous with spring. “Easy” plays like a ward against the old ghost who haunts “January February March,” while “George Washington” places our host in a tiny watercraft, “paddling for land/hand on heart and heart in hand” as that faceless malevolent force stays ashore. While writing these songs, Wolf suffered a severe health scare far from home. Rather than drive him to depression, his brush with mortality imparted an incongruous impression of peace and connection to the living. At the end of “Proactive Evolution,” wherein WHY? enlists mewithoutYou’s Aaron Weiss to celebrate the stubborn persistence of humankind, Wolf samples not only thinkers like Sharon Salzberg and Ram Dass, but his actual doctors—the voices that helped shape his new outlook. Sure, Wolf poses as many questions as ever. Moh Lhean’s gorgeously psychedelic closer, “The Barely Blur” with Son Lux, puzzles over the nature of existence. But rather than leave us with the macabre chill of death, as many a WHY? LP has, the song dissolves into the infinite—the sound of the Big Bang. Don’t bother asking Wolf what “Moh Lhean” means. He won’t tell you. It’s the name of his home studio, where friends and family—WHY? regulars Josiah, Matt Meldon, Doug McDiarmid, Liz Wolf, and Ben Sloan, plus a handful of Ohioans—gathered to record this (and also at Josiah’s studio, dubbed El Armando). And like the titles of Alopecia and Mumps, Etc., it references a concrete thing that Wolf experienced. Most likely it’s something to do with letting go, rebirth, coming home to a familiar feeling, or venturing out to discover a new one. Or maybe it’s just a yoga pose. But there’s something in Moh Lhean, even with all its mysteries and all its differences, that’s both ephemeral and distinctive, like something the Wolf Brothers might’ve heard on a praise album in their father’s synagogue as kids, or on some ‘60s hippie LP they thrifted in their teens, or, perhaps, on the other side of the records they’ve been making their entire adult lives. Thus, it seems appropriate to conclude with some words sung on the very first song of WHY?’s sixth album, Moh Lhean: “One thing, there is no other. Only this, there is no other.... Just layers of this one thing.”
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GABRIELLA COHEN FULL CLOSURE AND NO DETAILS LP/CD • Hometown: Melbourne, Australia • Debut Album, Touring throughout 2017
CT - 262 1. B e achs 2. I D on ’t Fe el S o Alive 3. S ev e r the Wall s 4. Ye s t erd ay 5. Pi a n o S o n g 6. Fe e lin ’ Fin e 7. D own town 8. D ream S o n g 9. Thi s Co uld Be Love 10 . Ali e n A n them
LP UPC: 817949013226
CD UPC: 817949013233
LP FORMAT: 12” LP + MP3s LP BOXLOT: 50 EXPORT: WORLD VINYL NON-RETURNABLE CD FORMAT: JEWEL CASE CD BOXLOT: 30 EXPORT: WORLD
Gabriella Cohen’s debut solo full-length is the product of ten days and two microphones. Co-produced alongside close friend, bandmate, and engineer Kate ‘Babyshakes’ Dillon, the record is the result of what Cohen describes as the “ceremony” of reflecting on a relationship. The album’s raw, personal side could be traced back to its place of birth at Dillon’s parents’ place in the country, or to the Brisbane streets the songs were composed in. The songs are soaked in the kind of aching nostalgia that is tinged with equal measures of sadness and triumph. On “I Don’t Feel So Alive”, Cohen warns: “This could be the last time we get together”, and on one hand it’s melancholy, but it’s in the spirit of endings that are also beginnings. After finishing the record, Cohen and Dillon hit the road down Australia’s East Coast, from Brisbane to Melbourne, a truck full of instruments and gear following in their wake. There are two sides to Cohen’s coin though — for every moment of raw, cutting emotion, there’s one of otherworldly ethereality. It’s what makes the record feel timeless, which doesn’t mean old-fashioned — it means that the vocoder on “Feelin’ Fine” and the fuzzy, frenzied drums of “Alien Anthem” don’t feel at odds with the dreamy, ambling melodies and old-school ethos at the heart of Cohen’s songwriting.
Full Closure is a definitional labour of love: when Cohen talks about her collaborators she sounds like she’s talking about her family — her bass player and backing singers, ring-ins that recorded after Cohen and Dillon finished up in the country, are “dear friends”; and Dillon is her “sister”. The songs were written on Cohen’s grandpa’s nylon string guitar, and “Piano Song” was recorded on Dillon’s parents’ old, out-of-tune upright, the same piano she learned on as a child.
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 3, 2017 GENRE: INDIE / ALTERNATIVE “Full Closure and No Details is quietly impressive - a slow-burning fusion of defiance and heartache.” – The Guardian (****)
Press: Bailey Sattlerbaileys@grandstandhq.com Sales : Dave Martin dave.martin@omnianmusicgroup.com
MARC BARRECA MUSIC WORKS FOR INDUSTRY Marc Barreca’s Music Works for Industry is a layered assertion. An economic mantra for the mind to spin, like the many loops on this recording, or churn, as gears of some godhead machine. From the pool of playful compositions, a social subtext appears - a somewhat sardonic riposte to the commercial and cynical abuse of music and musicians. The work profits the listener over industry. Said another way, its motivations are more generative than lucrative. No longer than four minutes, no shorter than two, each piece on MWFI is a fragment of modern life. Propaganda transmitted between the click of the remote or the turn of the dial. Friend and collaborator K. Leimer checks Cluster, Steve Reich, Iannis Xenakis, and Morton Subotnick as esoteric influences on MWFI in the album’s liner notes, while one might imagine Upton Sinclair, Studs Terkel, or Chris Anderson as egalitarian influences. Made with musicians, performance artists, and a bespoke instrument maker, Barreca combines multiple disciplines into a collective, industrious whole. An experiment fabricated in the synth and tape studio at the artist-run alternative space and/or (Seattle’s version of NYC’s The Kitchen), Barreca manipulates dynamic sound sources into tidy, minimal arrangements using synthesizers, modified instruments, tape looped voices, and melodic, metallic phrases. The cover of MWFI features a black and white photo of a figure in silhouette, backlit at a window, softened with curtains and plants. Maybe this is the room where the music was made: a private space, a refuge from some industrial work or at least the dubious fruits of this labor. In a way, listening to the music is entering a space without work, an apple to pluck and eat without wage or taxation. One can imagine photographer Chauncey Hare listening to Music Works for Industry as he moved from documenting domestic interiors to the bleek efficiency of American offices. His black and white portraits of workers, isolated and obscured by cubicles and files, and published in This Was Corporate America, led to Hare’s disillusionment with the art market. Not wanting to sell images, he left photography, and become a therapist: publishing the self-help book, Work Abuse. Perhaps peering into the music industry led to Barreca’s eventual career, and a similar impulse to more directly touch those at the effects of economic systems. While exploring the cassette version of Music Works For Industry, we found a business card tucked inside: Marc Barreca—bankruptcy judge in Seattle. Material traces of the cassette are evident in the record’s packaging, the album format a newly manufactured form for Barreca’s work. But even in post-industrial times, Barreca’s music offers listeners easily consumable musings on current work conditions. Freedom To Spend accepts your hard-earned and fortuitously won money in exchange for these morsels, but also believes that you need not invest unless pressed.
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RVNG Intl. / Freedom To Spend PO Box 20752 Tompkins Sq. New York NY 10009 matt@igetrvng.com 718 812 8443 UPC LP— 603786278740
Cat# FTS002 Artist Marc Barreca Title Music Works For Industry
Additional Information
• Hometown: Seattle, WA • Key Markets: Seattle, Portland, New York, London, Amsterdam, Paris • RIYL: Moebius & Plank, Cluster, K. Leimer, Esplendor Geometrico • Marc Barreca emerged from the underground music scene of Seattle
Track Listing 1. Community Life 2. Shopping 3. Hotcake 4. Glass And Steel No. 1 5. The Urge To Buy Terrorizes You 6. Glass And Steel No. 2 7. Nerve Roots Are Uncontrollable 8. Music Works For Industry 9. Georgetown 10. Organized Labor 11. Vs Chorus 12. Radio And Television 13. Church And State
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• Barreca’s Music Works For Industry was originally released on cassette tape in small quantities via Kerry Leimer’s record label Palace Of Lights in 1983.
• Unlike Twilight, Barreca’s 1980 album on which he was the only musician, Music Works For Industry draws on a diverse pool of musicians and performance artists. • Barreca was also a founding member of Young Scientist and part of Savant, a Seattle experimental “supergroup” whose archives were collected on RVNG in 2015 as Artificial Dance. • Freedom To Spend’s edition of Music Works For Industry is the first time the album is offered on vinyl, remastered from the original tapes by Josh Bonati
Genre (Literal) Industrial / 9-to-5 / Retirement Fund Release date March 3, 2017 Formats LP / Digital Vinyl Is Not Returnable Box Lot LP— 50 Master Carton, 25 Inner Box
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VAGUESS
GUILT RING - LP/CD For all those idiots who said that a President Trump would mean better punk rock in this god-forsaken world, then here’s Exhibit A: Guilt Ring, the second helping of acid tongued punk rock smashers from Vaguess. Across 14 songs that rarely break the minute and half marker, Vinny Vaguess wields Roky Erickson-esque demonized guitar solos as deftly as his sharp eye for sordid details. On his follow-up to 2015’s compilation The Bodhi Collection, Vinny successfully peels back the sun dappled, “surf’s up” lies of the California tourism board to reveal scenes of domestic discord that would look just right as plot points in Repo Man. Standing among the wreckage of his generation’s swan dive into mediocrity and malaise, Vinny welds a short story writer’s punchy, pulpy plot lines to airtight 1970s American punk sensibilities, tapping into the anxieties and fears that spurred bands like The Adolescents and The Descendents. These songs sure are bleak: they’re about guys getting their girlfriends pregnant and thinking it’s some kind of accomplishment (the title track), kombucha-swilling yuppie scum herd mentality (“Sober Cult”), pornography and Internet addiction (“Private Windows”) and TWO songs about how Life, that glorious beautiful miracle, is really just a little too long, thanks (“Life’s Long Enough,” “Less 2 Live For”). All of it played to the hilt with heaping doses of black humor, sharp hooks (this is the first Vaguess album to feature Miles Lutrell, of Useless Eaters and Scraper, on drums) and zinger riffs. Vaguess is back!
LY N -021 01. Gu i l t R i n g 0 2. C an’t H an g 0 3. C an Co mpla in 0 4. Ji m my ’s G ot t a G o 0 5. L i f e’s Lo n g E n o u g h 0 6. B ad Ch ick s 07. Un cl e G r e t ch e n 0 8. O G 1 0 9. L e s s To L ive F or 10 . Bl ack Ta r B lu e s 11. L u x u r y S e da n 12. So be r C v lt 13. B e Bo r e d 14. Pr i vate W in d ow s
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 3RD, 2017 GENRE: PUNK / ALTERNATIVE “Vaguess has a real knack for writing earworm riffs that sound simultaneously fresh and like an ode to time-honoured punk of the past.” – EXCLAIM “Vaguess (pronounced Vegas) is the moniker of...Vinny Vaguess, and the best punk rock band out of the L.A area that you haven’t heard yet.” - AUSTIN TOWN HALL “Mixing proto-punk riffs, garage sneer and the attitude of heyday-era Ramones, the songs are twominute nuggets caked with bonehead attitude and crackling distortion.” - MAD MACKEREL
LP UPC: 858458005494
LP FORMAT: 12” LP + MP3s LP BOXLOT: 45 EXPORT: WORLD VINYL NON-RETURNABLE Press: Bailey Sattler baileys@grandstandhq.com Sales : Dave Martin dave.martin@omnianmusicgroup.com
BLEACHED CAN YOU DEAL? CATALOG #: DOC128 RELEASE DATE: MARCH 3, 2017 FORMAT: 12” 12” BOX LOT: 50 GENRE: ALTERNATIVE/INDIE ROCK KEY MARKETS: LOS ANGELES, PORTLAND, CHICAGO, NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: EXCLUSIVE TO HOSTESS IN JAPAN OPAQUE WHITE VINYL NOT RETURNABLE AND LIMITED TO 2,000 COPIES WORLDWIDE
12” UPC: 656605142814
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Los Angeles-based sister duo Jennifer and Jessie Clavin knew things were going to be different for their band Bleached’s sophomore LP Welcome The Worms. Not only had they managed to charm world renowned producer Joe Chiccarelli (Morrissey, The Strokes, Elton John) to join them and their bassist Micayla Grace in the studio, but the sisters had been crawling out of their own personal dramas. While emotionally spinning, they dove head first into music. In the studio, Chiccarelli and co-producer Carlos de la Garza (Paramore, YACHT) helped the band perfect their fervent songs into fearlessly big pop melodies. They drew inspiration from the iconic hits of everyone from Fleetwood Mac to Heart to Roy Ayers. The result is an ambitious rock record with a new found pop refinement that somehow still feels like the Shangri-Las on speed, driven forward in a wind of pot and petals, a wall of guitars in the back seat. After touring extensively worldwide and finding success with their hit single “Wednesday Night Melody,” Bleached is back with four new blazing tracks on their Can You Deal? EP. Fueled by the experiences they’ve had as women in their calling for music, Can You Deal? takes on the complexities of issues female musicians encounter in an industry dominated by men. With this fire in their bellies, they connected with Alex Newport (Bloc Party, Mars Volta) to produce the EP. With their singularly triumphant mix of sunny melodies, thrashing guitars and lyrics highlighting the darker sides of life, Bleached continues to demand your attention.
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DIGITAL UPC: 656605142869
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ABOUT THE ALBUM
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TRACK LIST SIDE A: 1. Can You Deal? 2. Flipside
SIDE B: 3. Turn To Rage 4. Dear Trouble
SELLING POINTS - The Can You Deal? EP follows last year’s electrifying release of Welcome The Worms - “Wednesday Night Melody” received ADDs at AAA stations across the US and reached the 90th percentile for audience engagement - The band toured heavily in 2016 and will continue to in 2017
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COMING SOON FROM SECRETLY DISTRIBUTION... MARCH 17TH
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• ANOHNI - PARADISE EP | CD (SC348cd) | Secretly Canadian PHYS UPC:656605034829 • ANOHNI - PARADISE EP | 10" (SC348lp) | Secretly Canadian PHYS UPC:656605034812 • CALIFONE - QUICKSAND / CRADLESNAKES (DELUXE REISSUE) | 2xLP (DOC119lp) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605141916 • CHERRY GLAZERR - HAXEL PRINCESS (TRANSLUCENT RED VINYL) | LP (SCSPEC27lp) | Secretly Canadian PHYS UPC:656605102610 • THE CREATION - ACTION PAINTING | 2xCD+Book (NUM064cd) | Numero Group PHYS UPC:825764106429 • THE CREATION - ACTION PAINTING | 2xLP+Book (NUM064lp) | Numero Group PHYS UPC:825764106412 • THE CREATION - MAKING TIME B/W MAKING TIME (INSTRUMENTAL) | 7" (NUM711lp) | Numero Group PHYS UPC:825764801171 • GRAILS - BLACK TAR PROPHECIES VOL'S 1, 2, & 3 (REISSUE) | CD (TRR284cd) | Temporary Residence Ltd. PHYS UPC:656605328423 • GRAILS - BLACK TAR PROPHECIES VOL'S 1, 2, & 3 (REISSUE) | LP (TRR284lp) | Temporary Residence Ltd. PHYS UPC:656605328416 • GRAILS - TAKE REFUGE IN CLEAN LIVING (REISSUE) | CD (TRR285cd) | Temporary Residence Ltd. PHYS UPC:656605328522 • GRAILS - TAKE REFUGE IN CLEAN LIVING (REISSUE) | LP (TRR285lp) | Temporary Residence Ltd. PHYS UPC:656605328515 • JACASZEK - KWIATY | CD (GI281cd) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297828121 • JACASZEK - KWIATY | LP (GI281lp) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297828114 • JACASZEK - KWIATY (CLEAR VINYL W/ PURPLE CENTER) | LP (GI281lp-C1) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297828107 • PINBACK - SOME OFFCELL VOICES | CD (TRR286cd) | Temporary Residence Ltd. PHYS UPC:656605328621 • PINBACK - SOME OFFCELL VOICES | LP (TRR286lp) | Temporary Residence Ltd. PHYS UPC:656605328614 • PINBACK - SOME OFFCELL VOICES (TRANSPARENT BLUE W/ ORANGE MARBLE COLORED VINYL) | LP (TRR286lp-C1) | Temporary Residence Ltd. PHYS UPC:656605328645 • PUBLIC MEMORY - VEIL OF COUNSEL | 12" EP (FLT040lp) | Felte PHYS UPC:616892442646 • THOSE WHO WALK AWAY - THE INFECTED MASS | CD (CST122cd) | Constellation PHYS UPC:666561012229 • THOSE WHO WALK AWAY - THE INFECTED MASS | LP (180 gram) (CST122lp) | Constellation PHYS UPC:666561012212
*All releases are subject to change.
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