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• LYDIA AINSWORTH - DARLING OF THE AFTERGLOW | CD (ABT053cd) | Arbutus Records PHYS UPC:888295481809 • LYDIA AINSWORTH - DARLING OF THE AFTERGLOW | LP (ABT053lp) | Arbutus Records PHYS UPC:061297514892 • LYDIA AINSWORTH - DARLING OF THE AFTERGLOW (WHITE VINYL) | LP (ABT053lp-C1) | Arbutus Records PHYS UPC: • OLIVIER ALARY - FICTION / NON-FICTION | LP (FAT1324lp) | FatCat Records PHYS UPC:600116132413 • DAVID CHESWORTH - 50 SYNTHESIZER GREATS | LP (CH135lp) | Chapter Music PHYS UPC: • RICHARD EDWARDS - LEMON COTTON CANDY SUNSET | CD (JNR223cd) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270690990 • RICHARD EDWARDS - LEMON COTTON CANDY SUNSET | 2xLP (JNR223lp) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270691003 • RICHARD EDWARDS - LEMON COTTON CANDY SUNSET (LEMON & PINK VINYL) | 2xLP+flexi (JNR223lp-C1) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270691010 • GEOTIC - ABYSMA | CD (GI283cd) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297828329 • GEOTIC - ABYSMA | LP (GI283lp) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297828312 • GEOTIC - ABYSMA (HOLO-SPLATTER VINYL) | LP (GI283lp-C1) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297828305 • HAUSCHKA - WHAT IF | CD (TRR290cd) | Temporary Residence Ltd. PHYS UPC:656605329024 • HAUSCHKA - WHAT IF | LP (TRR290lp) | Temporary Residence Ltd. PHYS UPC:656605329017 • JAKE XERXES FUSSELL - WHAT IN THE NATURAL WORLD | CD (POB031cd) | Paradise of Bachelors PHYS UPC:616892415145 • JAKE XERXES FUSSELL - WHAT IN THE NATURAL WORLD | LP (POB031lp) | Paradise of Bachelors PHYS UPC:616892415046 • PHARMAKON - CONTACT | CD (SBR175cd) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:616892454045 • PHARMAKON - CONTACT | LP (SBR175lp) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:616892453949 • PHARMAKON - CONTACT (BLACK & CREAM VINYL) | LP (SBR175lp-C1) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:616892454243 • RAYS - RAYS | CD (TIM120cd) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983737 • RAYS - RAYS | LP (TIM120lp) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983751 • RAYS - RAYS (YELLOW VINYL) | LP (TIM120lp-C1) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983768 • REPTALIENS - PREQUEL / OLIVE BOY | 7" (CT261lp) | Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949013202 • SALTLAND - A COMMON TRUTH | CD (CST123cd) | Constellation PHYS UPC:666561012328 • SALTLAND - A COMMON TRUTH | LP (180 gram) (CST123lp) | Constellation PHYS UPC:666561012311 • TALL SHIPS - IMPRESSIONS | LP (FAT0145lp) | FatCat Records PHYS UPC:600116514516 • THIS WILL DESTROY YOU - THE PURITAN (BROWN & BLACK SPLATTER VINYL) | 7" (SSQ146lp) | Suicide Squeeze Records PHYS UPC:
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Pharmakon Contact 1 2 3 4 5 6
track listing: Nakedness of Need (6:18) Sentient (2:20) Transmission (4:54) Sleepwalking Form (7:35) Somatic (4:26) No Natural Order (6:51)
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• • • • • • Bestial Burden, the previous album by Margaret Chardiet’s Pharmakon project, focused on the disconnect between mind and body, looking at the human as an isolated consciousness stuck inside of a rotting vessel. For Contact, she wanted to look at the other side of the spectrum – the moments when our mind can come outside of and transcend our bodies. In trance states, music and the body are used to transcend the physical form and make contact with some outside force. Chardiet decided to structure the compositions of each side of Contact after the stages of trance: preparation, onset, climax, and resolution. ARTIST’S STATEMENT: Man is a rabid dog, straining at its leash of mortality with bared teeth. Snarling and clawing over each other, we aim to reach a higher ground to claim as our own. There are those who will attempt to exert power over others to attain it. They will sniff you out; lay claim over your body, your actions, your thoughts, your time. (How starkly human, so desperate for the sense of vantage over all versions of its own reflection!) Their aims are empty, because their power is a construct they created and gave back to themselves. They too are small and inconsequential. All people are only human and humans are only animals. The nature of existence and our sentience is chance, owing nothing to anything. Humankind is of no special significance to the universe. (Despite all our scrambling rejections, we cannot transcend all of our instincts — just animals, lost in a confused dream, where mankind is real and at the center of everything). We are each nothing but a single, short-lived cell in a vast organism which itself will one day die. If we accept that the only true claim sentience gives us is our tiny sliver of time, it opens us to revel in it, to make CONTACT. When we pick up on transmissions between the private rooms inside our heads and the flesh of our vessels, when thought escapes its isolation and is seen, heard and understood. When our mind uses the body in order to transcend and escape it! The moments of connection/communion/ CONTACT, when the veil is for a brief but glorious moment lifted, and we are free. Empathy! EMPATHY, NOW!
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Selling Points / Key Press: Release marks 10 years since the beginning of Pharmakon, the solo noise project of Margaret Chardiet First Pharmakon album recorded in a high-fidelity studio Previous records and live show glowingly reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, Pitchfork (Best New Music) Has toured with Swans, Godflesh, and Suicide Performed at Primavera Festival, Basilica Soundscape, and confirmed for 2017 festivals including CTM Festival Berlin SoundScan LTD for Abandon and Bestial Burden at a combined 7500 units Black-and-cream marble color vinyl limited to 1500 worldwide Related Catalog: SBR-099 Pharmakon: Abandon cd/LP SBR-117 Pharmakon: Bestial Burden cd/LP RiYL: Swans, Diamanda Galás, Godflesh, Throbbing Gristle catalog #: SBR-175 genre: Noise/Industrial Release Date: 3-31-2017 available formats: CD, lp, lp-c1 UPC-CD: 616892454045 UPC-LP: 616892453949 UPC-LP-c1: 616892454243 Vinyl is not returnable export restrictions: None 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
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Hauschka
WHAT IF
56605 32902 4 6 56605 32901 7 CD LP BIO Since 2004, Volker Bertelmann – aka Hauschka – has, steadily earned a remarkable reputation as a purveyor of imaginative, distinctive, prepared piano music. On What If – which finds him adding player pianos (also known as pianolas) to his arsenal – Bertelmann expands his range even further, defying expectations and delivering what is without a doubt his most ingenious album yet
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ARTIST: Hauschka TITLE: What If CATALOG: TRR290 RELEASE DATE: March 31, 2017 FORMAT: CD / LP / Digital UPC CD: 656605329024 UPC LP: 656605329017 BOX LOT: CD: 35 / LP: 50 TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: NORTH AMEIRCA ONLY (USA, CANADA, MEXICO) VINYL IS NON-RETURNABLE TRACK LISTING 1. I Can’t Find Water (5:08) 2. Constant Growth Fails (4:09) 3. My Kids Live On Mars (3:57) 4. I Need Exile (4:55) 5. I Can’t Express My Deep Love (3:32) 6. Nature Fights Back (3:59) 7. Familiar Things Disappear (5:12) 8. Trees Only Exist In Books (7:25) 9. We Live a Thousand Years (4:07) SALES POINTS The new album from Golden Globe-nominated prepared piano composer Recently scored LION with award-winning composer, DUSTIN O’HALLORAN (TRANSPARENT)
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While engaging with his trademark technique of utilizing unusual objects – art erasers, for example – to treat (or ‘prepare’) the piano, Hauschka also programmed parts for player pianos, exploiting the speed at which they could play, manipulating the resulting sounds, and building layers to emphasize a composition’s meter. What If aims to provoke reflection beyond the musical sphere with the titles of the both the album and its individual tracks. Overflowing with haunting melodies, mysterious sounds, and complex patterns, What If crowns an extraordinary couple of years for Hauschka. Likely to prove one of 2017’s most original albums, What If redefines the very notion of piano music in dramatic and exceptional fashion. It stands as a rebuttal to those who lazily shoehorn Hauschka’s work into the so-called, uncomfortably broad ‘new classical’ category, and instead underlines his status as a unique and invaluable artist.
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@butlikeyou.co.uk Everywhere else: press@paradiseofbachelors.com Entrancing guitarist and singer Jake Xerxes Fussell follows his celebrated debut (produced by William Tyler) with a moving new album of Natural Questions in the form of transmogrified folk/blues koans. This time these radiant ancient tunes tone several shades darker while amplifying their absurdist humor, illuminating our national, and psychic, predicaments. Featuring art by iconic painter Roger Brown and contributions from three notable Nathans—Nathan Bowles (Steve Gunn), Nathan Salsburg (Alan Lomax Archive), and Nathan Golub (Mountain Goats)—as well as Joan Shelley and Casey Toll (Mt. Moriah). “Thus is nature: beyond all things is the ocean, beyond the ocean nothing.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Natural Questions, c. 65 AD
JAKE XERXES FUSSELL WHAT IN THE NATURAL WORLD
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Paradise of Bachelors PoB-031 LP / CD / digital (vinyl not returnable) March 31, 2017 616892415046 / 616892415145 Folk / Alternative N/A 25 / 30
A1. "Jump for Joy" 4:15 A2. "Have You Ever Seen Peaches Growing on a Sweet Potato Vine?" 6:10 A3. "Pinnacle Mountain Silver Mine" 4:18 A4. "Furniture Man" 4:40 A5. "Bells of Rhymney" 4:02
B1. "Billy Button" 4:45 B2. "Canyoneers" 4:34 B3. "St. Brendan’s Isle" 3:53 B4. "Lowe Bonnie" 6:44
+ Available on 150g virgin vinyl as an LP, with heavy-duty 24pt matte jacket, color labels, and high-res DL code. CD edition features heavy-duty matte gatefold jacket and LP replica artwork. + Look for upcoming tour dates with Wilco, Daniel Bachman, and more. + Artwork features two paintings by iconic Chicago Imagist artist Roger Brown (1941–1997). + RIYL: Michael Hurley, Bob Dylan, John Prine, Dave Van Ronk, Jim Dickinson, Raccoon Records, Joan Shelley, Nathan Bowles, Nathan Salsburg, William Tyler, Daniel Bachman, Wilco. + For more information and album trailer: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/pob-031 + PoB artist page and tour dates: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/jake-xerxes-fussell + “The professor you always wished you had, the human jukebox, the guitar player and singer who makes any band that he’s in better. He’s a southern scholar and gentleman in the tradition of Jim Dickinson, George Mitchell, & Les Blank. He’s a Dave Van Ronk for SEC country.” – William Tyler + “A singular combination of pedigree, experience, education, and talent.” – The Oxford American + “Beautifully loose arrangements of playful, resilient songs.” – Uncut + “Music that takes us to a deep place in the American spirit.” – Art Rosenbaum
Roger Brown, whose preternaturally vivid paintings grace Durham, North Carolina guitarist and singer Jake Xerxes Fussell’s second album What in the Natural World, is usually associated with the loose confederacy of artists known as the Chicago Imagists, but at heart he was fundamentally a Southern boy whose Alabama origins root his work. (He grew up in Opelika, about thirty miles northwest of Fussell’s childhood home in Columbus, Georgia, and counted Elvis Presley as a distant cousin.) Influenced both by comics and the folk and self-taught art he collected, Brown’s distinctive landscapes—which oscillate between architectural and natural, urban and bucolic, busy and barren, depicting the incursion of culture on our environment—are meticulously rendered in a stylized idiom of alien symmetries: recursive, patterned terrains as saturated with vibratory color as with psychological and political subtexts. Both Brown and Fussell approach their art as a consequence of their practices as collectors and scholars of Southern vernacular culture—material culture and music, respectively—imbuing their own inventive work with the clarity and vigor of folk traditions, while reframing their durable, multivalent strangeness for our own times. Fussell has become a masterful interpreter and mutative performer of American folk and popular music, always allowing the songs he selects to breathe and swell with oceanic ambiguity, never closing them off to contemporary contexts and sonics. It’s the result of a lifetime dedicated to apprenticeships with master storytellers, from Piedmont blueswomen Precious Bryant and Etta Baker to documentary artists Les Blank and Art Rosenbaum. So if What in the Natural World feels both several shades darker, and unsettlingly funnier, than Jake’s self-titled 2015 debut (produced by brother-in-arms William Tyler), you need only look around at our national predicament in 2017 for clues. Since then Jake has played around the country, opening for Wilco, dueting with Tyler, and touring with Mt. Moriah, Nathan Bowles, and Daniel Bachman … and the territory he’s traversed, for many of our fellow citizens, doesn’t brook much hope. This time round Fussell has sourced his repertoire from beyond his primary Southeastern foraging grounds, including songs from the Southwest (“Canyoneers”) and even Wales (“Bells of Rhymney”). He encounters monsters, literal and figurative, everywhere in this landscape of loss and longing—from the hellhounds of “Jump for Joy” to cruel Mr. Brown in “Furniture Man” (“a devil born without horns”); from the oppressive mine owners (“they have fangs, they have teeth”) of “Bells of Rhymney” to the demons and dragons on “St. Brendan’s Isle.” Unlike his debut, the majority of these songs are not nominally traditional; they don’t hail from what Jake calls “the weird void of folk anonymity and the dark, fertile past.” Five of nine are attributed to specific artists, both canonical (Duke Ellington) and obscure (Helen Cockram), and all are recast in vibrant, assured recordings that elide genres and dissolve the false binaries of tradition and innovation, folk and modern, old and new. What in the Natural World was recorded by Jason Meagher (Steve Gunn, Michael Chapman) in Orange Co., NY, and by Nick Petersen (Horseback, Mt. Moriah) in Orange Co., NC, and features contributions from three notable Nathans—Nathan Bowles (drums, banjo, piano, melodica; Steve Gunn), Nathan Salsburg (guitar, “Pinnacle Mountain”; Alan Lomax Archive), and Nathan Golub (steel guitar; Mountain Goats)—as well as Joan Shelley (vocal, “Lowe Bonnie”) and Casey Toll (bass; Mt. Moriah). Throughout, Fussell poses Natural Questions in the form of transmogrified folk/blues koans. These nine elliptical riddles, spare but sturdy, driven by Jake’s limpid guitar and understated singing, both absorb and reflect the conditions of their listeners, refusing to offer easy answers. Though the album title lacks a question mark—it can be read as exclamatory or interrogative—all of these songs contain axial, and anxious, questions about the Natural World and our tenuous position within it. “All the hounds, I do believe, have been killed/Ain’t you thrilled?” The minimally arranged “Jump for Joy” (from Duke Ellington’s eponymous 1941 “Sun-Tanned Revu-sical”) and “Billy Button” (an odd relic of nonsense verse with likely roots in medicine shows and minstrelsy) anchor Sides A and B with mutual echoes. Fussell’s nimbly fingerpicked chord progressions, buttressed by Bowles’ piano and melodica, hew an achingly bittersweet mood of yearning from rough doggerel about “groovy pastures” and “hog meat”—transforming their absurdist lyrics into affecting statements about mortality and the distant promise of paradise. What to do when we finally “stomp up to heaven and meet old St. Pete,” when we arrive in “the happy land of Canaan”? “It’s a long way to travel, and the money for to spend.” “Have you ever seen peaches growing on a sweet potato vine?” Can nature yield further fruits? Instead of a response to the titular paradox we get sleepily affectionate flirtation: “Wake up, woman, take your big leg off of mine.” (“She’s a married woman, but I love her just the same.”) Bowles shuffles winningly. “What kind of business has the poor man got/dealing with the Furniture Man?” “Furniture Man,” a desperate tale of poverty, dispossession, and imminent homelessness—its cascading guitar refrain descending into a quiet pit of resignation—is as relevant and heartrending now as it was when first recorded in the 1920s. “What’s in a man to make him thirst/for the kind of life he knows is cursed?” “Pinnacle Mountain Silver Mine” (by Appalachian Virginia singer Helen Cockram) and “Canyoneers” (by Arizona producer and Lee Hazelwood associate Loy Clingman) explore the rugged topography of risk and impossibly remote rewards. Pinnacle Mountain holds a “secret I may never know” (intimated by Salsburg’s charming, filigreed guitar), but the “lonely river rats” of “Canyoneers” seemingly toil for purely existential reasons. “Have you ever wondered what you’d do when all the chips were down?” “‘Is there hope for the future?’/Say the brown bells of Merthyr.” The arcane coal miner’s lament “Bells of Rhymney” shares its text, by Welsh poet Idris Davies, with the song popularized by Pete Seeger and the Byrds, complete with personified, protesting bells, but here Jake supplies his own gospel-tinged musical setting. “St. Brendan’s Isle” offers a faux-Celtic companion piece by Arkansan Jimmy Driftwood, wherein monstrous mine owners are replaced by actual brimstone and scaly “monsters that be.” “How can I live, how can I live?/You wounded me so deep.” The hero of “Lowe Bonnie,” a chilling Alabama variant of the Child murder ballad “Young Hunting” (aka “Henry Lee”), is slain by his jilted lover (voiced here by Joan Shelley) in a deathly embrace, as he watches her “pen knife” spill his “own heart’s blood” onto his feet. Jake’s guitar shivers. In his first-century scientific and philosophical treatise Natural Questions, Seneca interrogates his environment for answers, venturing some, but warning that “a single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject.” Maybe the meaning of a thing reveals itself only through tradition, through time, through iterative summoning and study. You get the sense, listening to Fussell’s music, and looking at Brown’s paintings, that they would agree.
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Lydia Ainsworth Darling Of The Afterglow TRACKLISTING 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11
The Road What Is It? Ricochet Afterglow Open Doors Spinning Into The Blue Wicked Game I Can Feel It All WLCM Nightime Watching
“Ainsworth refuses to ever be only one thing, so by the end of her debut, it's clear she's an artist capable of most anything.” - Pitchfork “Epic, orchestral pop.” - FADER “Jimi Hendrix said you need fantasy”, says Toronto's Lydia Ainsworth,” to see reality more clearly.” On her sublime second album, Darling of the Afterglow, Ainsworth upholds Hendrix's wisdom in the best way. Vividly imagined and richly felt, the follow-up to Ainsworth's Juno-nominated Right from Real (2014) is an album of intimate emotions projected in heightened widescreen, where yearning pop classicism and classical smarts merge with other-worldly synthetic sounds and weird-gothic R&B infuences. For Ainsworth, it represents a great leap of confdence from her prodigious debut, whether she's conjuring the crystalline harmonies and deaths-head rhythms of The Road, the lush earworm pop of Ricochet or the small-hours reverie of WLCM. Blessed with an extraordinarily supple voice, Ainsworth commits herself fully on all fronts, honouring the words of Afterglow: To play it safe is not to play at all. The album title itself came to her while she was out of her element, explains Ainsworth, living near LAs Echo Park - home to the Art Deco statue [ Nuestra Señora Reina de Los Angeles (Queen of the Angels). ”Walking around the lake just after sunset at a time when I was desperate for human connection, I found comfort in this statue. She gave me the inspiration for the lyrics to the song. It was as if she was singing them to me.” Pass the message on: Darling of the Afterglow is a bold, beautiful album from a voice ready to be heard. Darling Of The Afterglow
CATALOGUE NUMBER: ABT053 ARTIST: Lydia Ainsworth TITLE: Darling Of The Afterglow GENRE: Pop, Orchestral, Electronic RELEASE DATE: March 31st, 2017 AVAILABLE FORMATS: CD, LP TERRITORY: North America BOX LOT: CD – 200, LP – 40 VINYL IS NOT RETURNABLE CD: 888295481809
LP: 061297514892
Available March 31st, 2017 via Arbutus Records.
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Darling Of The Afterglow is Lydia Ainsworth's second LP, following 2014's critically-acclaimed Right From Real. Featured regularly on Pitchfork (Rising, Best New Track), FADER, Gorilla Vs. Bear, Consequence Of Sound.
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US headline tour in support of release, including appearances at SXSW.
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First 500 LP copies on limited edition white vinyl.
LP-C1: 061297533497
LABEL CONTACT: Arbutus Records #300 - 6545 Durocher Ave Outremont, QC H2V 3Z4 CANADA info@arbutusrecords.com www.arbutusrecords.com
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release date : March 31, 2017 catalog # : JNR223
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available formats : LP / CD genre : indie, pop, rock, alternative C D U P C : 714270690990
box lot quantity : 6 LP / 25 CD packaging : gatefold jacket (2xLP) / wallet vinyl non-returnable. track listing :
1. 2. 3. 4.
(beware the golden fang) Lil Dead Eye-d Git Paid Fool
5. Disappeared Planets 6. Postcard 7. Management of Savagery 8. When You Get Lost 9. Lemon 10. Rollin', Rollin', Rollin' 11. 12. 13. 14.
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In 2014, Richard Edwards (then frontman of Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s) was diagnosed with a potentially fatal stomach ailment, lost 50 pounds, was to forced to abandoned a sold out tour, and spent the next couple years recovering and writing a record about absence. With his marriage also ending he moved into a basement, underwent surgery on his abdomen, and re-wrote the record about absence. The result is Edwards’ first effort post-Margot “Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset”. Produced by Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Cass McCombs, Beck) the album brings together friends, both old and new, for a sound that may be familiar to some fans of his former band, but more rightly a step into new territory. “I hope it sounds like being lost in an ocean”, says Edwards.
Sister Wives Pornographic Teens (chakra khan) Moonwrapped
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Produced by Rob Schnapf Related back-catalog titles: JNR177cd Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s box-set
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TROUBLE IN MIND
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Attic Dead Mans Curve Lost In A Cage Back Downtown Gambler Drop Dead
7. Pain and Sorrow 8. Theatre of Lunacy 9. Made of Shadows 10. Model or You 11. Over and Over
RELEASE BIO There's a certain excitement that hits you when a band seemingly comes out RELEASE INFO of nowhere to blow you away, a tingle that starts behind the ears & moves Catalogue Number: TIM120 down your spine forcing your feet to move. Oakland, CA's RAYS didn’t come Format: LP, LP-C1, CD out of nowhere, but they ’re sure to make your body herk & jerk. Calling RAYS a “supergroup” might be misleading, but not entirely inaccurate; comprised of Release Date: March 31st, 2016 four Bay-area music veterans; Stanley Martinez, Eva Hannan, Troy Hewitt & Alexa UPC-LP: 630125983751 Pantalone whose current & past musical projects include local bands-of-note UPC-LP-C1: 630125983768 like The World, Life Stinks, Violent Change, & Dadfag. UPC-CD: 630125983737 On RAYS ’ debut album the band spins eleven tunes of wir y, urgent post-punk, one foot planted firmly in the nihilistic apathy of 70 & 80’s punk (Wire, Electric Eels, Territor y Restrictions: None Pere Ubu, Eno, Television The Fall), Australian punk past & present (UV Race, Terr y, Genre: Garage / Punk/ Post-Punk / DIY/ Indie Victims, Babeez), and the addictive strum of 80’s & 90’s New Zealand/Flying Nun RIYL: Television Personalities, Desperate Bicycles, Eddy Current, UV Race, Modern Lovers pop; all of whom have found their own way to meld the ferocity & thugger y of punk Vinyl is not returnable with a singular melodic voice. RAYS are no different; the swirling jangle of “Attic” starts the album off, sardonically extolling the joy of ‘attic life’ with Hannan’s Box Lot LP: 30 monotone conveying an underlying sense of dread & isolation. “Dead Man’s Box Lot CD: 100 Cur ve”, with it ’s hook-filled, organ-laden chorus plays like a lost teenage tragedy song, celebrating the desperation & angst of reckless youth. POINTS OF INTEREST ”Elsewhere, tunes like “Theatre of Lunacy ”, “Made of Shadows” & “Drop Dead ” Oakland band’s debut! rage with a desperate fire, speaking to the absurdities of ever yday life, but with a wr y smile. Shit is fucked, but the members of RAYS seem intent on finding humor - Features members of The World, Life Stinks & Violent Change within the world ’s ever yday desperation, because sometimes that ’s the only way - Recorded by Kelley Stoltz / Mastered by Mikey Young to stay sane. “Pain & Sorrow ”, “Back Downtown” all speak to these truths. - Limited YELLOW vinyl available for direct retailers The album ends with Hannon’s “ Over and Over ”, it ’s sweet melody belying a derisive outlook on the necessity of modern life & the repetition it requires. Throughout it all, RAYS ’ debut never feels angr y, Recorded by Bay-area stalwart LABEL CONTACT Kelley Stoltz & mastered by Australian tone-genius Mikey Young (Total Control/ TROUBLE IN MIND RECORDS Eddy Current Suppression Ring) RAYS is a joyous album packed with weird newP.O. BOX 30079 wave swirls and sugar-sticky hooks. Chicago, IL 60630-1340 RAYS is released on CD and on black vinyl w/ Download code. A limited, troubleinmindrecs@gmail.com yellow vinyl edition is available for direct retail accounts. www.troubleinmindrecs.com
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A Common Truth 180gLP • CD • DL Release Date: 31 March 2017
The second solo album by Rebecca Foon, composer and cellist from Esmerine, Thee Silver Mt Zion and Set Fire To Flames.
Features special guest Warren Ellis (Nick Cave, The Dirty Three) on the album’s four instrumental tracks. RIYL: Juliana Barwick, Stars Of The Lid, Ólafur Arnalds, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Eluvium, Tara Jane O’Neil, Warren Ellis/Nick Cave soundtracks
A Common Truth is the second album by Saltland, the solo project of veteran Montréal cellist and composer Rebecca Foon. Following the acclaimed 2013 debut I Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us, Foon performed Saltland live in various successful configurations, but as the concept and compositions for a new album began to materialize, she wished to further expand on an approach with her cello as primary source for all sounds on the record. Combining unadulterated, processed and sampled cellos, A Common Truth largely reflects this commitment and results in an album of gorgeous integrity, restraint, and meditative intensity. The one notable exception: longtime friend and prior collaborator Warren Ellis (Nick Cave, The Dirty Three) is the sole invited guest player on the new album, contributing his inimitable violin (and pump organ) to the album’s four instrumental tracks. Working with engineer Jace Lasek (The Besnard Lakes), Foon has produced a song cycle that alternates between wordless instrumentals and lyric-driven pieces, balancing austere, organic intimacy and lush, multi-layered expansiveness. The analog warmth of Lasek’s naturalistic rock production anchors Saltland’s juxtaposition of dry and processed strings, and the placement of Foon’s voice very much within the mix but never veiled or concealed; a voice described as “an instrument of somnolent, gossamer allure which floats gracefully amid the eddying, amniotic music” (Mojo, 2013). Electronic music strategies, via signal processing and re-sampling, are deployed minimally and judiciously – and all the more powerfully as such. A Common Truth also importantly channels other strands from Rebecca’s life: the record is about climate change and marks an attempt to musically translate a complex mix of emotional, social and political resonances in this regard. The album’s atmosphere and pace is guided by the coexistence of optimism and despair, resolve and resignation, the intimacy of the local/personal and the hope of the global/collective. Foon has devoted much of her life in recent years to working for decarbonization, land conservation and renewable energy – as a member of Sustainability Solutions Group cooperative, as founder of the conservation charity Junglekeepers, and as co-founder of Pathway to Paris, an international concert series bringing together musicians, writers and activists to help raise consciousness toward implementation of a robust international climate agreement. Rebecca Foon’s new Saltland album A Common Truth is a compelling coalescence and fullest musical expression of the inspiring trajectories charted by this committed and renowned artist, activist and organizer. Thanks for listening.
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To Allow Us All To Breathe Under My Skin I Only Wish This For You Light Of Mercy Forward Eyes I Magnolia This Other Place A Common Truth Forward Eyes II
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THIS WILL DESTROY YOU T H E P U R I TA N Continuing her journey into uncharted waters, Julianna Barwick’s remix of This Will Destroy You’s serene composition The Puritan is an exercise in both refinement and intensification. Taken from TWDY’s viscerally cinematic full-length studio LP Another Language (out now on Suicide Squeeze), the Brooklyn-based songstress elicits an invisible structure from the track’s warbling textures and oceanic vastness, distilling
TRACKLISTING 1. The Puritan (Julianna Barwick remix) 2. The Puritan
and reconstituting the band’s reflective soundscape into a rarefied elemental form. The resulting single is pristine and subtle; a fully immersive pairing of melodic piano with layers of decaying tape textures, anchored and paradoxically tethered to submersed bassline programming and distant, hyperborean 4/4 kick drum. By once again shifting shapes and adding emphasis with the beats she does and doesn’t drop, Barwick is able to forge a totally new path for both herself and instrumental-stalwarts This Will Destroy You. A feat not easily accomplished on either count. Like so much of
Catalog #: SSQ146 Street Date: March 31, 2017 Genre: Alternative Format: 7” vinyl Box Lot Qty: 125 Export Restrictions: None NON-RETURNABLE
Barwick’s work, The Puritan remix sounds as if it is both sinking, and, floating. The Puritan 7” is limited to 1000 copies on brown and black splatter color vinyl and includes a download card.
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REPTALIENS PREQUEL - 7” SINGLE • Hometown: Portland, OR • West Coast Tour Planned for Spring 2017 • Album coming soon on Captured Tracks
Captured Tracks presents the debut single Prequel from their newest signing – Portland, Oregon’s dream pop purveyors Reptaliens. The project is the husband and wife team of Bambi and Cole Browning. The couple met on a basketball court while filming a music video for a mutual friend’s band that didn’t exist. After dating for six months, the two married under a blanket of smoke from the season’s forest fires. Named in reverence for their interests in cult mentality, transhumanism, and conspiracy theories, Reptaliens quickly evolved from a bedroom-recording project to a full-fledged band that explores fringe pop culture through analog synthesizers, electric guitars, melodic bass lines, and Bambi’s lulling vocals. Inspired by science fiction writers like Philip K. Dick and FM-2030 and music ranging from Paul McCartney and Wings to African artists Francis Bebey and Nahawa Doumbia, the band creates lo-fi chameleonic dreamscapes that fall sonically and visiually somewhere between abstract expressionism and surrealism.
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As long time, active participants in the Portland music scene, Bambi and Cole call on a number of talented musicians for Reptaliens’ recordings and live performances, including Julian Kowalski (guitar), Bryson Hansen (synth), and Tyler Vergian (drums). The band enraptures audiences with their sincere and theatrical performances. 7” UPC: 817949013202 7” FORMAT: 7”/45 7” BOXLOT: TBD EXPORT: WORLDWIDE VINYL NON-RETURNABLE
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 31, 2017 GENRE: INDIE ROCK / DREAM POP
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