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• BLANCK MASS - Dumb Flesh CD (Sacred Bones Records) SBR136cd (UPC#: 616892275145) • BLANCK MASS - Dumb Flesh 2xLP (Sacred Bones Records) SBR136lp (UPC#: 616892275046) • BLANCK MASS - Dumb Flesh (Clear Vinyl) 2xLP (Sacred Bones Records) SBR136lp-C1 (UPC#: 616892279440) • LOREN CONNORS - Blues: The 'Dark Paintings' of Mark Rothko (Reissue) CD (Family Vineyard) FV90cd • LOREN CONNORS - Blues: The 'Dark Paintings' of Mark Rothko (Reissue) LP (Family Vineyard) FV90lp (UPC#: 656605409016) • JAD FAIR & NORMAN BLAKE - Yes CD (Joyful Noise Recordings) JNR142.4cd (UPC#: 656605485621) • JAD FAIR & NORMAN BLAKE - Yes LP (Joyful Noise Recordings) JNR142.4lp (UPC#: 656605485614) • GUANTANAMO BAYWATCH - Darling... It's Too Late CD (Suicide Squeeze Records) SSQ137cd (UPC#: 803238013725) • GUANTANAMO BAYWATCH - Darling... It's Too Late (Peaches & Cream Vinyl) LP (Suicide Squeeze Records) SSQ137lp-C1 (UPC#: 803238013718) • THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE - Moonlust CD (Sacred Bones Records) SBR129cd (UPC#: 616892274841) • THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE - Moonlust LP (Sacred Bones Records) SBR129lp (UPC#: 616892274742) • KENNY KNIGHT - Crossroads CD (Paradise of Bachelors) POB018cd (UPC#: 616892257547) • KENNY KNIGHT - Crossroads LP (Paradise of Bachelors) POB018lp (UPC#: 616892257646) • NOVELLA - Land CD (Sinderlyn / Captured Tracks) LYN005cd (UPC#: 858458005012) • NOVELLA - Land LP+7" (Sinderlyn / Captured Tracks) LYN005lp (UPC#: 858458005029) • PFARMERS - Gunnera CD (Jurassic Pop / Joyful Noise Recordings) JNRSPEC01cd (UPC#: 656605486123) • PFARMERS - Gunnera LP (Jurassic Pop / Joyful Noise Recordings) JNRSPEC01lp (UPC#: 656605486116) • PFARMERS - Gunnera (Green Vinyl) LP (Jurassic Pop / Joyful Noise Recordings) JNRSPEC01lp-C1 • PREFUSE 73 - Rivington Não Rio CD (Temporary Residence Ltd.) TRR239cd (UPC#: 656605323923) • PREFUSE 73 - Rivington Não Rio LP (Temporary Residence Ltd.) TRR239lp (UPC#: 656605323916) • PRINZHORN DANCE SCHOOL - Remixes 12" (DFA Records) DFA2473lp (UPC#: 829732247312) • GYASI ROSS - Isskootsik (Before Here Was Here) CD (K Records) KLP257cd (UPC#: 789856125722) • SCHARPLING & WURSTER - The Best of the Best Show 16xCD+Book (Numero Group) NUM203cd (UPC#: 825764120319) • ABRAM SHOOK - Landscape Dream CD (Western Vinyl) WV129cd (UPC#: 751937432821) • ABRAM SHOOK - Landscape Dream LP (Western Vinyl) WV129lp (UPC#: 751937432814) • SURFER BLOOD - 1000 Palms CD (Joyful Noise Recordings) JNR165cd (UPC#: 656605486222) • SURFER BLOOD - 1000 Palms LP (Joyful Noise Recordings) JNR165lp (UPC#: 656605486215) • SURFER BLOOD - 1000 Palms (Sky Blue & White Swirl Vinyl) LP (Joyful Noise Recordings) JNR165lp-C1 (UPC#: 656605486253) • SURFER BLOOD - 1000 Palms (Blue Vinyl) LP (Joyful Noise Recordings) JNR165lp-C2 (UPC#: 656605486291) • THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH - Dark Bird Is Home CD (Dead Oceans) DOC100cd (UPC#: 656605140025) • THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH - Dark Bird Is Home LP (Dead Oceans) DOC100lp (UPC#: 656605140018) • THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH - Dark Bird Is Home (White Vinyl) LP (Dead Oceans) DOC100lp-C1 (UPC#: 656605140032) • JUAN WAUTERS - Who Me? CD (Captured Tracks) CT224cd (UPC#: 817949011246) • JUAN WAUTERS - Who Me? LP (Captured Tracks) CT224lp (UPC#: 817949011239) • THE WEATHER STATION - Loyalty CD (Paradise of Bachelors) POB019cd (UPC#: 616892265948) • THE WEATHER STATION - Loyalty LP (Paradise of Bachelors) POB019lp (UPC#: 616892265849) • WHITE EYES - White Eyes CD (Numero Group) NUM1230cd (UPC#: 825764603027) • WHITE EYES - White Eyes LP (Numero Group) NUM1230lp (UPC#: 825764603010)

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THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH DARK BIRD IS HOME Fields of Our Home Darkness of the Dream Singers Slow Dance Little Nowhere Towns Sagres Timothy Beginners Seventeen Dark Bird Is Home

CATALOG #: DOC100 RELEASE DATE: MAY 12, 2015 FORMAT: CD/LP/DIGITAL CD BOX LOT: 30 LP BOX LOT: 28 GENRE: AVANT FOLK / INDIE ROCK KEY MARKETS: BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CITY, PHILADELPHIA, NASHVILLE, CHICAGO, LOS ANGELES, PORTLAND, SEATTLE, AUSTIN TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: SWEDEN (CD FORMAT)

Dark Bird Is Home doesn’t feel like it came from one time, one place, or one tape machine. The songs and sounds were captured in various countries, studios, and barns, and they carry a weather-worn quality, some dirt and some grit. If you’re a fan of The Tallest Man On Earth, Dark Bird pays real tribute to the old records you fell for, and goes new places you’re going to love as well. If you’re new to The Man: holy shit! Many would be jealous of your position. Enjoy these songs, and know there are 40 or more other gems waiting on earlier albums and singles. Early in Dark Bird, toward the end of the opening track, we hear other voices and sounds backing Kristian Matsson’s own. One of them, later credited in the liner notes with Angel Vocals, shows up several times throughout the record, adding new color to the familiar palette. And so the story grows and expands. That first song has horns and a piano, keyboards, synthesizers, and other modern noisemakers… and by track two you’ve got The Tallest Man on Earth as full-throttle rock and roll. While Dark Bird is The Tallest Man at his most personal and direct, deeper and darker than ever at times, it’s also an album with strokes of whimsy and the scent of new beginnings — which feels fresh for The Tallest Man on Earth, and well timed. Reliably, the melodies and arrangements are sturdy and classic, like old cars & tightly wound clocks. The lyrics and their delivery are both comforting and alarming, like tall trees & wide hills. The other musicians and layers on this recording put a wide lens on familiar themes. Fear and darkness, sleep or lack of it, dreams in the dark and in the light. Moving, leaving, going. Distance and short stops, long straight lines, temporal places. More hopefully, a grateful nod to a traveling partner, a healing mind. Maybe a little forgiveness needed. Definitely some things to forget.

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And of course, that last song. The title track. If there is a little legend-building to be done here, let it be this scene a few of the album’s early-listeners can recount: Kristian gently warning them over their shoulder before track ten begins: “Watch out for this one.”

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You should expect the loudest and proudest sounds yet from The Tallest Man on Earth on album number four, but also the softest and the lowest. For the next few years, the Dark Bird tour will come to your city or a town nearby, and for the first time The Man is bringing a band to the stage with him.

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SELLING POINTS 1. The Tallest Man On Earth has catalog scans over 225k. The previous two albums both topped 55k. 2. A full national tour and festival run is planned in conjunction with release. Additional fall dates are in the works. 3. Not to be missed, the live show will be, for the first time, a full band. Featuring members of Bon Iver, it will be a 5-piece band of multi-instrumentalists and singers. 4. Dark Bird Is Home was recorded in various locations, including Justin Vernon's Wisconsin studio April Base, where members of Bon Iver contributed to the album.

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release date : May 12, 2015 catalog # : JNR165 available formats : LP / CD / digital

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01. Grand Inquisitor

1000 Palms marks a return to Surfer Blood's DIY ethos. Abandoning the big time studio, the band decided to head back home to self-record and self-produce their third full-length album. Free of major-label-influence, Surfer Blood has delivered a uniquely compelling album, unlike anything in their catalog.

02. Island 03. I Can't Explain 04. Feast - Famine 05. Point of No Return 06. Saber-Tooth & Bone 07. Covered Wagons

The story of 1000 Palms began on January 1st 2014, after playing a New Year’s show in Portland, OR. The band decided to stick around for the rest of the month, renting a practice space and sorting through a backlog of ideas. By February, as their lease ran out, Surfer Blood had recorded demos for most of the tracks that are now featured on their third LP.

08. Dorian 09. Into Catacombs 10. Other Desert Cities 11. NW Passage

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After a frustrating time at their previous home, Warner Brothers, the quartet was beyond ready to return to a more DIY recording process, completely void of the middlemen scrutinizing every bar of previous LP, Pythons. With the band self-recording, it was in the glamorous setting of an attic studio above a doctor’s office where drums were committed to tape. Of the work, frontman John Paul Pitts states “fortunately none of us are strangers to DIY recording, so this seemed like the kind of challenge well-suited to our band”. The making of 1000 Palms also owes a lot to the kindness of friends and family, with the remaining instrument sessions taking place at the home of drummer Tyler Schwartz’s parents, while they were on vacation. Following a few days of very little sleep and after the band pooled resources and called in favors, the band had managed to craft everything you now hear on the upcoming record.

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Blanck Mass Dumb Flesh 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

track listing: Loam (4:07) Dead Format (6:16) No Lite (9:57) Atrophies (5:08) Cruel Sport (8:43) Double Cross (5:38) Lung (5:29) Detritus (8:15) Life Science Suite (17:05) [Vinyl only]

Key Information / Selling Points: Hometown / Key Markets: • London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Austin

Blanck Mass is the solo project of Benjamin John Power. The Fuck Buttons musician has been making music under the moniker since 2010. Described by Fact magazine as “simultaneously soothing and sweepingly grandiose, esoteric and surprisingly accessible”, his self-titled debut album was an elegant, introspective departure from the stadium electronica he had become known for. In 2012, his track “Sundowner” soundtracked the London Olympics Opening Ceremony and was performed by London’s Symphony Orchestra to 900 million people worldwide. Power’s newest solo offering, Dumb Flesh, was written, produced and recorded by Power in a number of different locations over the space of a year. As a work of art, Dumb Flesh is a comment on the flaws of the human form in its current evolutionary state. The frailty of the human body naturally became a resonant and inescapable part of the album’s gestation. The album went through myriad stages of completion before arriving at this definitive version. Power elaborates: “There must have been at least three occasions where I re-produced the whole thing, replacing instrumentation and experimenting with new machines until I was happy with where the evolution of the project had arrived.” The geographical spread of the sessions is reflected in the shifting landscapes of the tracks and the ever-changing sound palette used to realize Dumb Flesh as an expansive but coherent body of work. This release sees Power’s solo work transition seamlessly from euphoric ambient soundscapes to definitive techno anthems.

Selling Points / Key Press: • Sophomore LP by Benjamin John Power (Fuck Buttons) • Previous Blanck Mass single “Sundowner” soundtracked the London Olympics Opening Ceremony, where it was performed by London’s Symphony Orchestra to 900 million people worldwide • Clear vinyl limited to 2500 copies worldwide • Fuck Buttons’ Slow Focus SoundScan LTD is 11,000 • Full U.S. tour including summer festivals planned around album release • Full press campaign by Motormouth Media • College radio campaign by Never Better RiYL: Fuck Buttons, Ben Frost, Tim Hecker, Arca, early Aphex Twin catalog #: SBR-136 genre: Electronic Release Date: 5-12-2015 available formats: CD, Lp UPC-CD: 616892275145 UPC-2xLP: 616892275046 UPC-2xLP-clear: 616892279440 territory restrictions: None Vinyl is not returnable Box Lot: CD 30 / lP 20 label contact: Sacred Bones Records 67 West St., Suite 221 Brooklyn, NY 11222 info@sacredbonesrecords.com www.sacredbonesrecords.com

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Prefuse 73

RIVINGTON NÃO RIO

ARTIST: Prefuse 73 TITLE: Rivington Não Rio CATALOG: TRR239 RELEASE DATE: May 12, 2015 FORMAT: CD / LP UPC CD: 656605323923 UPC LP: 656605323916 BOX LOT: CD: 35 / LP: 25 TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: NO CD/DIGITAL EXPORT TO JAPAN VINYL IS NON-RETURNABLE TRACK LISTING 1. Señora 95 (Intro) (1:01) 2. Applauded Assumptions (5:22) 3. Quiet One (feat. Rob Crow) (4:10) 4. Through A Lit And Darkened Path (Pts. 1+2) 5. Inside (4:22) 6. Infrared (feat. Sam Dew) (3:28) 7. Jacinto Lyric Range (3:20) 8. 140 Jabs Interlude (feat. Milo & Busdriver) (2:27) 9. See More Than Just Stars (feat. Helado Negro) 10. Mojav Mating Call (5:01) 11. Open Nerve Farewells (3:17) SALES POINTS  First new album in four years  One of the true pioneers of modern electronic music  Features guest collaborations with SAM DEW (WALE, ROC NATION, JESSIE WARE), ROB CROW (PINBACK), MILO & BUSDRIVER (HELLFYRE CLUB), HELADO NEGRO

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BIO It has been four years since Guillermo S. Herren released anything significant from his most famous and respected moniker, Prefuse 73 (though he has certainly kept busy with live shows, collaborations, and remixes). That's a long time for virtually any artist, but it's an eternity for Herren, whose first three Prefuse 73 albums dropped in the span of under four years. As if to make up for lost time, 2015 will see the release of not one, but three major works from Prefuse 73. After several albums that saw Herren progressively drift away from the beatmaking prowess that made him synonymous with emotionally resonant, damaged hip-hop, he’s found himself reinvigorated. As Herren puts it, "I’ve come back to hyper focusing – immersing myself in the sounds, rhythms, and formations that created Prefuse 73 in the first place. Recently, I’ve found a new life in the whole process of refining what I’ve created over the years as “Prefuse”. Right now I'm at my most confident and comfortable since 05/06." It shows. Rivington Não Rio revels in the kind of compassionate complexity that marks Prefuse 73's greatest works, with a profound new element added to the mix: Patience. Herren's ability to marry the manic to the melodic has always been uncanny, but here it feels downright magical as the songs inhale with his trademark sense of urgency…then exhale in longer, more revealing breaths. The prismatic textures that have long been a staple of Prefuse 73 are bound to beats and melodies with the spirit of hip-hop and the subtlety of modern minimalism. The album's guests treat the material with a hushed respect: Roc Nation songwriter and Jessie Ware collaborator Sam Dew turns "Infrared" into a sublimely soulful, dimly-lit portrait of inverted R&B; Milo & Busdriver's vicious, rapid-fire verses contrast a pastoral downbeat to brilliant effect; and elsewhere, Pinback's Rob Crow and Latin electronic-folk crooner Helado Negro navigate splintered tropics with passive grace. As a stand-alone album, Rivington Não Rio ranks extraordinarily high in the Prefuse 73 canon. As a centerpiece to an epic triptych that includes the Forsyth Gardens and Every Color of Darkness EPs, it's a new peak from a pioneer who appears to only just now be hitting his prime. For an artist who has played an undeniably integral role in the careers of so many influential artists, it's not just refreshing to hear him return to top form...it's revelatory.

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Paradise of Bachelors P.O. Box 1402, Carrboro, NC 27510 www.paradiseofbachelors.com info@paradiseofbachelors.com publicity: Bailey Sattler, Grandstand Media baileys@grandstandhq.com The record was called Loyalty from the beginning—it was the first decision I made about it. It’s a word you usually see written in copperplate script, a virtue: LOYALTY. But the songs don’t treat it that way, just as a thing to unpack. It’s a force that you have to reckon with: loyalty to the dream, to the “work,” to the mythical idea of “you” that somebody thought they saw. It can be a weakness as much as a strength; it can keep you from the reality of your own life, your own self. - Tamara Lindeman

THE WEATHER STATION LOYALTY + label: + catalog number: + formats: + release date: + UPC-LP / UPC-CD: + genre(s): + territory restrictions: + LP / CD box lots:

Paradise of Bachelors PoB-19 LP; CD; digital (vinyl is not returnable) May 12, 2015 616892265849 / 616892265948 folk-rock/cosmic Canada 10 / 30

A1. Way It Is, Way It Could Be 3.40 A2. Loyalty 4.00 A3. Floodplain 2.49 A4. Shy Women 2.48 A5. Personal Eclipse 3.35 A6. Life’s Work 3.30

B1. Like Sisters 4.40 B2. I Mined 4.57 B3. Tapes 4.17 B4. I Could Only Stand By 3.15 B5. At Full Height 2.22

+ The third and finest album yet by The Weather Station, recorded at La Frette Studios in France with Afie Jurvanen (Bahamas) and Robbie Lackritz (Feist) + Available on 150g virgin vinyl as an LP, with heavy-duty matte jacket, full-color inner sleeve, and full lyrics, as well as on gatefold CD and digital formats + Vinyl edition includes digital download coupon + For more information: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/pob-19 + PoB artist page: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/the-weather-station “Built from blocks of bluegrass, British balladry, and country sadness … Lindeman’s voice flits and cracks, peaks and valleys, comforts and cries … clenching truth like a catch in the throat. She possesses the unwavering patience of Bill Callahan’s later records, delivering every word and worry like she’s pondered it all into acceptance. For songs so intimate, and performances so inward, such careful singularity feels like a remarkable feat.” - Grayson Haver Currin (Pitchfork)

In excess virtue lies danger, or at least limits to pragmatic action—it’s a lesson hard learned by anyone disillusioned by the erosion of youthful mythologies. Strict fealty to a fixed ideal of identity doesn’t do us any favors as adults. Loyalty, the third and finest album yet by The Weather Station (and the first for Paradise of Bachelors) wrestles with these knotty notions of faithfulness/faithlessness—to our idealism, our constructs of character, our memories, and to our family, friends, and lovers—representing a bold step forward into new sonic and psychological inscapes. It’s a natural progression for Toronto artist Tamara Lindeman’s acclaimed songwriting practice. Recorded at La Frette Studios just outside Paris in the winter of 2014, in close collaboration with Afie Jurvanen (Bahamas) and Robbie Lackritz (Feist), the record crystallizes her lapidary songcraft into eleven emotionally charged vignettes and intimate portraits, redolent of fellow Canadians Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and David Wiffen, but utterly her own. Lindeman describes La Frette, housed in an enormous, crumbling 19th-century mansion, as “a secret garden, a place of enchantment and grace”: walls mantled in ivy and lions, corridors piled high with discarded tape machines, old reels, and priceless guitars. As she puts it, “Recording where we did meant we embraced beauty—we weren’t afraid of it being beautiful.” Like the record itself, it’s a quietly radical statement, especially since certain passages achieve a diaphanous eeriness and harmonic and rhythmic tension new to The Weather Station. The stacked vocal harmonies of “Tapes,” the drifting, jazz-inflected chording in “Life’s Work,” and the glacial percussion in “Personal Eclipse” contribute to a pervading sense of clock-stopping bloom and smolder, recalling the spooky avant-soul of Terry Callier’s Occasional Rain. Beyond the decaying decadence and vintage gear, the brokedown palace atmosphere of La Frette afforded a more significant interior luxury as well, one stated with brutal honesty in the stunning “Shy Women”: “it seemed to me that luxury would be to be not so ashamed, not to look away.” Accordingly, Loyalty brings a freshly unflinching self-examining gaze and emotional and musical control to The Weather Station’s songs. She is an extraordinary singer and instrumentalist—on Loyalty she plays guitar, banjo, keys, and vibes—but Lindeman has always been a songwriter’s songwriter, recognized for her intricate, carefully worded verse, filled with double meanings, ambiguities, and complex metaphors. Though more moving than ever, her writing here is almost clinical in its discipline, its deliberate wording and exacting delivery, evoking similarly idiosyncratic songsters from Linda Perhacs to Bill Callahan. Outside her musical practice, Lindeman also happens to be an accomplished film and television actor, and it’s her directorial eye for quietly compelling characters and the rich details of the everyday, Bressonian in its specificity and scope, that drives the limpid singularity of The Weather Station’s songs. As in Bresson’s films, there is no trace of theater here, no brittle singer-songwriter histrionics, but rather a powerful performative focus and narrative restraint, a commitment to what the auteur called the “simultaneous precision and imprecision of music.” Despite the descriptive delicacy, the album never lapses into preciousness or sentimentality, instead retaining its barbs and bristles and remaining resolutely clear-eyed and thick-skinned. Lyrically, Loyalty inverts and involutes the language of confession, of regret, of our most private and muddled mental feelings, by externalizing those anxieties through exquisite observation of the things and people we accumulate, the modest meanings accreted during even our most ostensibly mundane domestic moments. (“Your trouble is like a lens,” she discerns in “I Mined,” “through which the whole world bends.”) “Tapes” and “I Could Only Stand By” expose and exalt the quotidian—“the little tapes” hidden beneath a lover’s bed, “the sunken old moorings” at the “bruise-colored lake”—without romanticizing these scenes of, respectively, grief and guilt. “Like Sisters” analyzes the darker contours of a friendship with devastating scrutiny. The breathless momentum of “Way It Is, Way It Could Be”—“both are,” she sings of the way we sometimes live, for better or for worse, amid multiple truths—hinges on a mysterious moment when two brown dogs die underwheel, then don’t, and that gut-sickness is overturned, a sin redeemed with a second glance. “Floodplain” and “Personal Eclipse” are also road songs about traveling through, and owning, the empty places in-between, literally and figuratively—what Lindeman deems “the various ways people try to disappear from themselves, in physical distance, in politeness.” To invoke Melville (author of PoB’s namesake story), “extreme loyalty to the piety of love” can be a destabilizing force, a kind of bondage from which we must emancipate ourselves. The line is from his strange masterpiece Pierre, or the Ambiguities; The Weather Station’s Loyalty could quite easily support the same subtitle for the fascinating ways it navigates the deep canyons between certainty and uncertainty, faith and doubt. UPC-LP

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G U A N T A N A M O B AY W A T C H D A R L I N G … I T ' S T O O L AT E “Oldies weren’t lo-fi,” says Guantanamo Baywatch guitarist and vocalist Jason Powell, even though people have a hard time distinguishing the crackle and pop of worn-out vinyl or the low bandwidth of AM radio from the actual production mastery of early rock n’ roll. With Darling… It’s Too Late, Guantanamo Baywatch sought to harness and manipulate the sparkling sounds from yesteryear, all while staying true to the tape hiss and rough takes of analog recording. “We really wanted a mixtape compilation sound to the record,” says Powell, and that approach can be heard in both the songwriting and the production. According to Powell, each individual song was approached with all the amps and the EQs on the recording console zeroed out. That meant that every song was recorded with a new template. The title track and lead single, “Too Late”, perfectly captures this new aesthetic. With Burger Records soul singer Curtis Harding contributing backing vocals and rounding out the classic Motown ballad vibe of the track, “Too Late” is an enormous departure from the trashy Mummies-esque ruckus of their earlier recordings. Of course, the band hasn’t completely abandoned the rowdy surf rock of their previous releases—Powell put the finishing touches on the album back at his Jungle Muscles Studio in Portland to keep that rough-hewn feel

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1. Jungle Bride 2. Raunch Stomp 3. Sea of Love 4. Corey Baum's Theme 5. Too Late 6. Mr. Rebel 7. Beat Has Changed 8. Shenanigans 9. Boy Like Me 10. Do What You Want Catalog #: SSQ137 Street Date: May 12, 2015 Genre: Alternative Format: CD/LP Export Restrictions: Australia / New Zealand. Packaging: Jewelcase CD CD Box Lot Qty: 25 UPC-CD: 803238013725

intact. But even when he and his bandmates Chevelle Wiseman (bass) and Chris Scott (drums) tread on their familiar territory with songs like “Raunch Stomp” or their cover of Eddie & The Showmen’s “Mr. Rebel”, there’s a newfound clarity, punch, and swagger to their sound. Throughout the course of Darling… It’s Too Late the trio continues to fuck with various subgenres, from the dusty Western twang of “Corey Baum’s Theme” to the straight-outta-Sun

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Studios rocker “Do What You Want." + FULL NA TOUR KICKS OFF ON MAY 26, 2015 IN PORTLAND, OR. + RECORDED AT LIVING ROOM RECORDING (BLACK LIPS, THE COATHANGERS, JACUZZI BOYS) IN ATLANTA, GA. + VIDEOS SHOT FOR "TOO LATE" + "DO WHAT YOU WANT" + LP FIRST 1,000 COPIES PRESSED ON LIMITED EDITION CUSTOM PEACHES-AND-CREAM COLOR VINYL + LP COMES W/ DL COUPON and PRINTED INNER SLEEVES + FULL PRESS CAMPAIGN THROUGH RIOT ACT MEDIA

Suicide Squeeze Records PO Box 80511, Seattle, WA. 98108 www.suicidesqueeze.net

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The Holydrug Couple Moonlust 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

track listing: Atlantic Postcard (3:08) Dreamy (3:40) Light or Night (3:59) French Movie Theme (3:32) If I Could Find You (Eternity) (3:03) I Don’t Feel Like It (3:23) Concorde (3:27) Baby, I’m Going Away (3:56) Generique Noir (2:50) Submarine Gold (4:09) U Don’t Wake Up (2:37) Remember Well (2:58)

Key Information / Selling Points: Hometown / Key Markets: • Santiago, Austin, Portland, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago

The Holydrug Couple began in Santiago, Chile in 2008, a little over a half-decade after Ives and Manu met for the first time. The two friends hadn’t seen each other in a few years when Manu texted Ives to tell him that he bought a drum kit. They started jamming, and a week later, the band was formed. A flurry of songwriting activity followed, culminating in 2011’s Ancient Land EP and 2013’s Noctuary, both released on Sacred Bones. Moonlust boldly treads territory that those earlier psych-indebted recordings only hinted at, especially French movie soundtracks of the ’70s and ’80s and the discography of Serge Gainsbourg. “I had clear what I wanted to revisit from the last album, as well as what I didn’t want to do again,” Ives said. “I definitely wanted to make a good-sounding record, clear and heavy. I wanted to get away as much as possible from the ‘band’ sound. The last album wasn’t recorded live, but I tried to make it sound as if it had been. This time, I wanted to make an electronic-like album instead.” The result is an album in the self-recorded Moonlust that falls well outside the boundaries of the prevailing psych-rock idiom. In addition tothe French soundtrack and Gainsbourg influences, they cite inspiration from the soul ballads of Aretha Franklin, ’80s South American synthpop acts like Los Encargados, Virus, and Los Prisioneros, and the contemporary French electro group Air. The songs are streamlined hook delivery machines, without any baroque arrangements or unnecessary flourishes to get in the way of their ultimate goal. To Ives, the lyrical themes on the record represent “feeling lust, desire, for something that you see when it’s dark but it’s so far away that it’s unreachable. It’s an unrealistic target, like God, maybe, or a dream archetype of a goddess. It’s the feeling of melancholy that you can’t fulfill with anything.”

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Selling Points / Key Press: Leaders in the the current Chilean psych movement Confirmed for Austin Psych Fest in May 2015 Panache currently booking U.S. tour around release date Previous record covered by Stereogum, Consequence of Sound, and Brooklyn Vegan, among others RiYL: Serge Gainsbourg, Air, Los Prisioneros

Related Catalog: • SBR-045 The Holydrug Couple Ancient Land 12" eP • SBR-086 The Holydrug Couple Noctuary CD/lP catalog #: SBR-129 genre: Alternative/Psych Release Date: 5-12-2015 available formats: CD, Lp UPC-CD: 616892274841 UPC-LP: 616892274742 territory restrictions: None Vinyl is not returnable Box Lot: CD 30 / lP 30 label contact: Sacred Bones Records 67 West St., Suite 221 Brooklyn, NY 11222 info@sacredbonesrecords.com www.sacredbonesrecords.com

If that feeling sounds anything like the songs on Moonlust, then here’s hoping that he and Manu keep reaching out into that cosmic void anyway. Exclusively distributed by SC Distribution / Phone: (812) 335-1527 / Fax: (888) 678-0167 US domestic sales contact: Shelly Westerhausen shelly@scdistribution.com / International sales contact: Kraegan Graves kraegan@scdistribution.com

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Scharpling & Wurster: The Best of The Best Show Catalog Number: NUM 203 Artist: Scharpling & Wurster Title: The Best of The Best Show Release Date: 05/12/15 UPC: 825764120319 Available formats: 16CD +Book Genre: Comedy Box Lot: CD Boxset: 5 Territory Restrictions: None Product Not Returnable Track Listing

Culled from the vaults of WFMU—the world’s most acclaimed free-form radio station—comes over 20 hours of mind-bending, hilarious phone calls between the renowned comedy duo of Tom Scharpling & Jon Wurster. From 2000 to 2013, their tremendous imaginations took over the WFMU airwaves every Tuesday night with bizarre tales from a fictional town called Newbridge, NJ and the desperate denizens that inhabit it. Included inside this definitive collection are 75 calls over 16 compact discs, edited by Scharpling & Wurster (over 50 of them previously unreleased or unaired), a 108-page hardcover book with cover art by Joe Matt that features essays by Patton Oswalt, Julie Klausner, Damian Abraham (lead singer of F*cked Up) and Best Show associate producer Michael Lisk (aka A.P. Mike), a definitive interview with Scharpling & Wurster by Jake Fogelnest, notes on the evolution and inspiration behind each bit written by Scharpling & Wurster, a USB drive with all of the calls plus 4 hours of bonus material, a fold-out map of Newbridge, Philly Boy Roy & Timmy von Trimble Paper Dolls, postcards, and temporary tattoos with The Best Show catch-phrases.

1. Coconut Water 2. Rock, Rot & Rule 3. Philly Boy Roy’s Memorial Day 4. OnStar 5. Hall Of Fame Status 6. The Gas Station Dogs 7. ‘Archie Bunker’s Place’ Finale 8. Rick From The Washington Generals 9. Jimmy Crespo & Mac 10. Pudge #1 11. The Gorch 12. Bryce #1 13. Planet GG 14. Zeph #1 15. Bob From Newbridge #1 16. Count Rockula 17. Bob From Newbridge #2 18. Darren Takes A Boarder 19. Bob From Newbridge #3 20. This Is Zachary Brimstead 21. Kid eBay 22. The Mike Sajak Saga 23. Lady Wanesworth’s Desires 24. Big Bill / Little Bill 25. The Shout! Network #1 26. All Night Lovemaking 27. Terrence From Brooklyn 28. Timmy Von Trimble 29. Herb Wilkinson 30. Pudge #2 31. Movie Fun 32. Horse From Jock Squad 33. The Springsteen Book 34. The Music Scholar 35. Gene Ted And Carl 36. Darren Takes The Van Mellen Cruise 37. Wire Train 38. Kenny Dupree #1 39. Trivius

40. Kenny Dupree #2 41. Andy From Lake Newbridge 42. The Pastor’s Audiobook 43. Sleepy Man Explodes 44. The Hero 45. The Shout Network #2 46. Mother 13 47. Bryce #2 48. Philly Boy Roy Is Depressed 49. Judge Montgomery Davies 50. Shout Radio Network 51. Bishop Pablo Fontana 52. NY vs. Chicago 53. Power Pop Pop Pop 54. Zachary Brimstead On Newbridge Now 55. Pudge #3 56. Bryce #3 57. Zeph #2 58. Bryce #4 59. Gus Brennan From The Newbridge Rats #1 60. Reggie Monroe 61. Philly Boy Roy Talks To Udo Erasmus 62. Gus Brennan From The Newbridge Rats #2 63. Zachary Brimsteads Bush Song 64. Gus Brennan From The Newbridge Rats #3 65. Rhoda Ziegler 66. Hammerhead 67. Darren And The Greasy Funk 68. The Autuer 69. Nostradamus Scholar 70. Philly Boy Roy Wants To Star In A Movie 71. The 80s Are Back 72. Jay And Paul In The Studio 73. Sucks 74. I Dropped My Fluffernutter

PFARMERS GUNNERA

release date : May 12, 2015 catalog # : JNRSPEC01 / JP035

available formats : LP / CD / digital

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genre : Indie, Pop, Electronic

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territory restrictions : none box lot quantity : LP - 10/50 , CD - 30

packaging : jacket / wallet

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vinyl non-returnable. track listing :

overview :

SIDE A 01. Benthos (7:12) 02. You Shall Know The Spirit (2:35) 03. Work For Me (4:37) 04. El Dorado (5:35)

Pfarmers is the new project from Danny Seim (Menomena, Lackthereof), Bryan Deven-

SIDE B 05. The Ol’ River Gang (4:58) 06. How To Build A Tube (4:22) 07. Promised Land (8:49)

dorf (The National), and Dave Nelson (David Byrne & St. Vincent, Sufjan Stevens). Danny and Bryan have been friends since The National and Menomena toured together in the early 2000s. Their paths crossed several times since then, most recently backstage at a festival, where Bryan showed Danny some severly damaged, synth-affected drumbeats he had recorded with his friend Dave, sho was currently playing horns in David Byrne’s band. Shortly after, Pfarmers was born. According to Seim, “The record is about a dream I had where I’m reluctantly accepting a fear of drowning by focusing on being reincarnated as a giant Gunnera plant, which thrive on the banks of rivers (specifically the Jordan River i.e. the Biblical promised land) after I paint myself gold and sink to the bottom like the El Dorado of South American folklore.” Despite the notoriety of it’s members, Pfarmers sounds unlike anything they’ve produced before. The first track “Benthos” is a sprawling ambient piece comprised of looping, layered horns. The album then launches into a set of pop songs, reminiscent of Lackthereof (Danny’s solo project), as played by Kraftwerk. Devendorf’s trademark drum style is present, but here they’re filtered so heavily as to sound mechanical. Seim contributes layered vocals, and thick bass brooves, while Nelson provides complex spatial arrangements. It’s a diverse record, switching swiftly between catchy pop songs and long instrumental

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JUAN WAUTERS WHO ME? LP/CD

• Hometown: Queen, NY via Uruguay • Formely of The Beets • Touring now through end of 2015 • National college and specialty radio campaign via AAM

Over ten years ago, a teenage Juan Wauters came to New York from Uruguay. Quickly after his arrival to the Big Apple, he turned to music to take control of the loneliness that came with his new surroundings. However, his isolation didn’t last long though and, in the Queen’s neighborhood Jackson Heights, he formed The Beets with new friends, garnering a reputation that allowed him to record three albums and tour the United States extensively. As the band began to slow down in 2012, Juan had more to say and he kept going on his own with his debut solo album, N.A.P. North American Poetry, released on Captured Tracks in 2014.

CT-224 01 . En M i 02. To do Te r minó 03 . I’m All Wro ng 04 . Th ere’ s S o m et hing Still The re 0 5 . Wo o ds id e , Qu e e ns 0 6 . Th ro ugh Th at Re d 07. M i sbe h a v e 0 8 . Sh e Mi g ht Get Sh ot 0 9 . Grey M a t t e r 10. I Wa s We ll 11 . A s í n o m ás 12. Thi s Is I 13. El Show D e Lo s Me u rtos

LP UPC: 817949011239 LP FORMAT: 12” LP + MP3s LP BOXLOT: 45 EXPORT: WORLD VINYL NON-RETURNABLE CD UPC: 817949011246 CD FORMAT: JEWEL CASE CD BOXLOT: 30 EXPORT: WORLD

Who Me? is the next chapter in the ongoing story of Juan Wauters. Whereas his debut solo record was recorded casually over the course of one year, his new album was crafted in under two weeks at Future Apple Tree in Rock Island, Illinois. Inspired by both the arrangements of Uruguayan songwriter Jaime Roos and the production of American master Dr. Dre, this collection of songs presents his continued approach to existential questioning through pop music. Tracks like “She Might Get Shot” and “I Was Well,” which may seem like wisdom addressed to the listener, are in fact part of Juan’s reciprocal process of self-actualization through songwriting and performing. Bringing new sounds to his repertoire, “This Is I” and “Through That Red” add a spiritual tone with ethereal string arrangements. Juan’s voice — which has risen to the forefront of his music since his first recordings with The Beets — intensifies with added nuance. This year Juan Wauters will continue to tour the world in support of his second solo record.

RELEASE DATE: MAY 12TH, 2015 GENRE: ALTERNATIVE / FOLK / WORLD “In contrast to his shambolic band’s [the Beets] crude punkish impressions, the man’s solo material hews more acoustic and bare, showcasing his warm voice and knack for, yes, poetry, that feels beamed in from a halcyon era.” Spin

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Paradise of Bachelors P.O. Box 1402, Carrboro, NC 27510 www.paradiseofbachelors.com info@paradiseofbachelors.com publicity: Nicky Devine press@paradiseofbachelors.com The first-ever reissue of the private-press country-rock rarity by Colorado auto body painter, Marine, and garage band lifer Kenny Knight—he played in the original `60s Black Flag—Crossroads recalls a homebrew American Beauty-era Grateful Dead in its world-weary, low-key mood and indelible songwriting. Faded, anxious, melancholy, and beautifully woozy, this out-of-time document belies its 1980 release date. Produced in collaboration with Numero Group, it features liner notes by writer and collector Michael Klausman and Kenny himself. “I’ve been shook up, stood up, and refused. I’ve been put down, shoved ’round, and confused. It won’t be long; I’m holding on.”

KENNY KNIGHT CROSSROADS + label: + catalog number: + formats: + release date: + UPC-LP / UPC-CD: + genre(s): + territory restrictions: + LP / CD box lots: A1. "Does He Hide" 3.22 A2. "One Down" 3.32 A3. "All My Memories" 3.24 A4. "Carry Me Down" 3.32 A5. "Jean" 4.48

Paradise of Bachelors PoB-18 LP; CD; digital (vinyl is not returnable) May 12, 2015 616892257646 / 616892257547 country-rock/folk-rock Japan 10 / 30 B1. "To Be Free" 5.46 B2. "Baby's Back" 2.05 B3. "You Can Tell Me I'm Wrong" 4.11 B4. "Whiskey" 3.25 B5. "America" 3.04

+ First-ever reissue of the private-press country-rock rarity by Colorado auto body painter, Marine, and garage band lifer Kenny Knight + RIYL The Grateful Dead, The Youngbloods, Gram Parsons, Gene Clark, Lawrence Hammond, F.J. McMahon, pedal steel guitars, and Leslie speakers + Available on 150g virgin vinyl as an LP, with heavy-duty reverse board matte jacket, and liner notes by Kenny Knight and writer and collector Michael Klausman, as well as on gatefold CD and digital formats + Vinyl edition includes digital download coupon + For more information: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/pob-18 + PoB artist page: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/kenny-knight

I met up with Kenny Knight in the parking lot of a Guitar Center at the southern end of Denver a couple years back. He was there to drop off a guitar that needed to be repaired, and I took that as a sign that he was still involved with music. He did confirm that was the case, for which I was glad. Despite the intervening decades since Kenny had released his sole LP, it was easy to recognize him as he stepped out of his pickup truck; although his hair was shorter, he still retained the compact frame and thoughtful gaze you see on the cover of Crossroads. He struck me as being somewhat shy and diffident, a person who values his privacy and probably wary about some random guy being interested in the music he’d made long ago. About a year and half before our meeting, I came across Kenny’s record sitting in the bins at a shop in Denver, and it just had that look: sepia tones, a rugged guy hanging off a train, all original songs, a pedal steel player in the credits. Promising stuff, the only thing I was unsure about was its 1980 release. Yet from the first couple of notes I was totally elated, for these were beautifully well-crafted songs, timeless, really, and impossible to date if it hadn’t been for the copyright on the back of the LP cover. It turned out there was nary a mention to be found on Google of this album, and none of my collector friends had ever seen it. Now, I realize there’s nothing more obnoxious than reading liner notes which paint some self-aggrandizing portrait of the heroic record-digger, and that’s certainly not what I’m trying to do here. The fact of the matter is this LP and its songs, which are simply undeniable; if I hadn’t picked up Crossroads and passed it around, it would only have been a matter of time before someone else did. There’s a very singular combination of world-weariness and hope running throughout Crossroads, a still timely grappling with the realities of getting by in this country. You can hear it most clearly in “America,” which is at turns a paean to this nation, as well a plea to it: “don’t lock me out.” This juggling of sophisticated dualities extends even to his love songs, as on “One Down” (possibly the album’s finest track, and one which could sit comfortably next to American Beauty’s best), where he asks, “how much can one heart take?” while still acknowledging that he’ll “stay in love forever more.” As so often is the case, life got in the way of Kenny’s music, and even after crafting such a perfect LP, his hopes and dreams would remain unrealized, with family obligations and service to his country ultimately having to take precedence. As we talked in that Guitar Center parking lot, I discovered a quietly humble man, proud of the album he’d made and seemingly appreciative that I’d expressed interest, that the folks for whom I’d been playing it also thought it was great. It was sadly obvious, though, that he didn’t think Crossroads had received the reception he felt it had deserved; he told me rather regretfully that he had tossed all the leftover copies of the pressing into a dumpster at some point during the 1990s. And while he didn’t expressly say it, I got the sense that he had no other choice but to throw them out, as if he just couldn’t face the album’s commercial failure any longer. Some records take a while to find their audience, however, and Crossroads is one of them; it’s just a matter of holding on. Michael Klausman Longmont, Colorado January 2015 “An understated Colorado country rock gem, unknown and unloved since its release 35 years ago. It’s bound to get the audience it deserves this May, however, thanks to a reissue from the Paradise of Bachelors label. Blending the dusty acoustic rambles of the Dead circa 1970, the world weary ache of White Light-era Gene Clark and Knight’s own brand of faded Americana, the ten tracks here offer up a shot of pure, private press pleasure. While the pedal steel and warm backing vocals are as lovely as a Rocky Mountain sunrise, there’s an intensity and melancholy seared into every moment here.” - Tyler Wilcox, Aquarium Drunkard UPC-LP

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Numero Group White Eyes Catalog Number: NUM1230 Artist: White Eyes Title: White Eyes Release Date: 5/12/15 UPC: LP 825764603010 CD 825764603027 Available formats: LP, CD Genre: Rock Box Lot: LP:50, CD:30 Territory Restrictions: None Vinyl is not returnable Track Listing Hailing from the Show-Me State, White Eyes lugged their heavy psych and harmony-clad ballads across the Midwest, honing their live set wherever audiences were abundant. Whether it be the famed Cowtown Ballroom in Kansas City or the nearest American Legion, the quintet of long-haired bohemians loaded a double bass drum set, a wall of Marshall amplifiers, and a array of acoustic guitars into their 1953 Cadillac hearse to deliver their impeccable stage show across the plains. Despite years of relentless gigging, White Eyes never caught their break. This previously issued LP, recorded between the fall of 1969 and 1970, was originally intended as a demo for talent buyers and industry prospectors. Well-crafted arrangements and pro-sounding production make this an exceptional piece of lost psychedelic pop.

1. It’s For You 2. Streetcar Love 3. Rider 4. October 5. I Know What It’s Like 6. Hard Hard Livin’ 7. A Girl On A Hill 8. I’m Not A Free Man

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JAD FAIR & NORMAN BLAKE YES release date : May 12, 2015 catalog # : JNR142.4 available formats : LP / CD / digital genre : Indie box lot quantity : 10 LP / 25 CD packaging : jacket / digipak vinyl non-returnable.

LP UPC: 656605485614 CD UPC: 656605485621

track listing :

overview :

1. Undeletable

Two legends, together again. Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake and Half Japanese’s Jad Fair have teamed up to bring you their new magnum opus, “Yes”. Encompassing all the songwriting eccentricities that have made these guys famous, this new collaborative album also features some of the most genteel, engagingly catchy, and downright adorable music in recent memory.

2. Two Hearts Together 3. Your Smile 4. Yes 5. Now Is The Time 6. Thank You 7. Add Your Name 8. This Is It 9. The Real Deal 10. Our Motto 11. Have You Heard The News 12. You Are The One

Norman Blake and Jad Fair originally collaborated over a decade ago on the Teenage Fanclub and Jad Fair album “Words of Wisdom and Hope” (Domino/Alternative Tentacles). Unlike the simple, aggressive style of Half Japanese, the 13 new tracks on “Yes” feature refined, guitar-laden power-pop and saccharin-sweet melodies, accompanied by backup singers and layered horn arrangements. Fair’s characteristically-manic vocal style is still present, but when coupled with the head-bopping, articulately-layered arrangements of Norman Blake, the result is a potently earnest album that is brimming with positivity.

OXBLOOD COLORED VINYL RELATED TITLES: JNR151 Half Japanese “Overjoyed”

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Loren Connors Blues: The “Dark Paintings” of Mark Rothko reissue Release date May 12, 2015 Catalog# FV90 Format LP Packaging Regular jacket UPC 656605409016 Limited 800 Box lot 25 Genre Avant blues Key markets Brooklyn (hometown) RIYL Grouper, John Fahey, Julia Holter, Keiji Haino, Blind Willie Johnson Vinyl is non-returnable Territory restrictions None

“Blues: The ‘Dark Paintings’ of Mark Rothko” is one of Loren Connors’ most cherished and sought after albums. Originally released in a handmade edition of around 300 copies on Connors’ own St. Joan label in January 1990 under the name Guitar Roberts -- this album has been unavailable in any form until now. At the time of its release, Connors was still an inscrutable guitarist whose matchless and alien rendering of the blues was just gaining recognition despite more than two dozen solo and collaborative releases since 1978. Connors’ classic, song-based “In Pittsburgh” had only been available for three months when “Blues” welcomed the new decade. It would be the first of four solo albums issued by Connors that year and distilled the blues form into bleak, minimalist lines and tone; a compound of influences spanning Louisiana guitarist Robert Pete Johnson to painter Mark Rothko. For this reissue, the audio has been restored to Connors’ specifications of how these seven instrumentals were originally intended to sound. Cover art is an untitled 1969 Rothko work -- one of the paintings that influenced Connors to record this album. The original LP art and liner notes are replicated as a glossy inner sleeve. New liner notes by music historian Byron Coley chart Connors’ development and Rothko’s effect on the music. Pressed on pristine 150-gram vinyl by Quality Record Pressing in an edition of 800. LP includes a coupon for a full download.

Track Listing 1. Blues No. 1 2. Blues No. 2 3. Blues No. 3 4. Blues No. 4 5. Blues No. 5 6. Blues No. 6 7. Blues No. 7 Selling points • Connors is an avant-garde legend, his singular alien take on blues is considered on par with John Fahey’s rewrite of American string music. • Connors has been the subject of career-spanning features in Pitchfork and Red Bull Music Academy • Connors’ previous LPs for Family Vineyard have quickly sold out. Back Catalog Into the Night Sky (w/ Alan Licht) CD (FV75) Red Mars CD (FV69) The Curse of Midnight Mary LP/CD (FV64) The Departing of a Dream LP (FV11) The Lost Mariner LP/CD (w/ Darin Gray) (FV2)

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NOVELLA LAND LP/CD

• Hometown: London, England • Debut Album • Touring Planned for 2015, Previously Supported Veronica Falls and Dum Dum Girls • National college and specialty radio campaign via AAM

LYN -0 0 5 01 . Fo llow 02. S o m et hing M u s t Change 03 . S en tence s 04 . Two Ships 0 5 . La n d G o ne 0 6 . Ph ra se s 07. B lue Swall ow s 0 8 . Yo un g e r Th an Ye s te rday 0 9 . Ag a in Yo u Tr y Yo ur Lu ck 10. S k i es O pe n

LP UPC: 858458005029 LP FORMAT: 12” + 7”+ MP3s LP BOXLOT: 45 EXPORT: WORLD VINYL NON-RETURNABLE

Novella’s formation was the result of an instant spark—guitarist Hollie Warren, guitarist Sophy Hollington, and bassist Suki Sou met through mutual friends in Brighton in 2010, where they quickly realized that they shared a common love for ‘60s counterculture and bands like Black Sabbath, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Pale Saints. The addition of drummer Iain Laws in 2011 and keyboardist Isabel Spurgeon in 2014 solidified the group into a propulsive engine, capable of welding woozy, cosmic psychedelia to sustained squalls of flanged-out, far-out dream pop. Novella’s debut album, Land, is a controlled blast of mainlined electricity, a tempest of relentless groove and crystalline vocals that is at once the vicious edge and the calm eye of the storm. Recorded during one ice-cold week in January of 2014 by Jonas Verijnen (Moon Duo, Ballet School) and Joshua Third (The Horrors) in an abandoned clothing factory-turned-studio in Dalston, East London, Land perfectly absorbs the band’s vast array of influences and transforms them into songs that Fact Magazine described as “equal parts effete jangle and ferocious riffage.” Combining London gloom and cosmic escapism, Sou and Laws channel Can and the 13th Floor Elevators on the krautrock-inspired jams like “Follow” and “Something Must Change,” while Warren and Hollington stomp their homemade flanger and phaser pedals to create dueling arcs of electric guitars. As the band churns and riffs, the girls’ voices soar brilliantly, their glassy clarity recalling the Lynchian shoegaze of Lush or Stereolab. During quieter, more reflective songs like “Sentences” and “Younger Than Yesterday,” there are echoes of eerie psychedelia like Broadcast, evident in the myriad of flutes, synths, and Fender Electric XII guitars. On Land, Novella captures the wild spirit of creating something new from pieces of the past. They ward off the overcast London melancholy with evocative tales of weightless meandering, of drifting over the pavement of familiar streets while dreaming about exploring fantastical alien landscapes. These are the yarns of twenty-somethings in limbo, a collection of late night tales that more often end in avoided glances than locked eyes.

CD UPC: 858458005012 CD FORMAT: JEWEL CASE CD BOXLOT: 30 EXPORT: WORLD

RELEASE DATE: MAY 12TH, 2015 GENRE: INDIE / ALTERNATIVE

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ABOUT THIS RECORD

Landscape Dream is Abram Shook's followup to 2014's Sun Marquee, an album VICE called "…pleasant as fuck" and Texas Monthly called "…compelling, weird, and lovely." Applying what he learned through writing and recording Sun Marquee, Landscape Dream demonstrates how much Shook's songwriting and production acumen has sharpened over the past year. Creating Sun Marquee was a learning process, where songs were often forced out of experiments in recording techniques. As Abram explains, "I had a lot of thoughts I just threw out there, but often I arrived at dead-ends and had to figure out how to make something out of what was available." However, on Landscape Dream he "went back to writing with just voice and guitar and then used arranging, production, and recording ideas pulled from Sun Marquee." The effectiveness of his new approach is clear from the 70's rock of "Find It" and "Chelsea" to the African vibes of "Get Gone", the dreamy Brazilian vibes on "5AM" and "Beach Glass", and the slow-jam soul found on "Perfect", "Jaw", and "Vessel".

TRACK LIST

To capture the songs, Abram joined forces with some of Austin's elite engineers including Erik Wofford, Danny Reisch, Justin Douglas, Grant Johnson, and Christopher Cox. Over the course of several months the team explored where each of these 12 songs would go. One example of how far they took the songs from their original form is the energetic "Find It", which started as a fast tropicalia tune Abram wrote on a classical guitar, but through production choices evolved into an ode to garage-rock, psychedelia, and Zepplin all in one. Like many of us, Abram dreads the exhausting sea of digital noise, which can be detrimental to our ability to foster meaningful human connections. To escape the deluge of social media, texts, emails, etc, he takes a daily walk in a vast, underutilized South Austin park with his dog. Carving out a little time to step away from the laptop and cell phone has become a crucial ritual for Abram, allowing him to reflect, and get some perspective on the world and how he fits into it. Landscape Dream features several songs that reference that precious time he spends communing with nature. In addition to working on his own music, Abram became a touring member of the Austin-based band Shearwater in 2014. As tiring as touring can be, escaping the noise of his everyday life provided him with intense periods of self-reflection. Much like his daily walks, he found the solitude of touring to be a nourishing and enlightening reminder of what really matters, and that awareness and clarity helped him pen many of the brilliant songs you'll hear on Landscape Dream..

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION + Abram is a touring member of Shearwater (Subpop) + Landscape Dream was mixed by Danny Reisch (Midlake, White Denim) and Erik Wofford (Octopus Project, Black Angels)

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