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• BRIGHT EYES - DOWN IN THE WEEDS, WHERE THE WORLD ONCE WAS | Cassette (DOC210cass) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605363097 • BRIGHT EYES - DOWN IN THE WEEDS, WHERE THE WORLD ONCE WAS | CD (DOC210cd) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605151021 • BRIGHT EYES - DOWN IN THE WEEDS, WHERE THE WORLD ONCE WAS (BLACK VINYL) | 2xLP (DOC210lp) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605151014 • BRIGHT EYES - DOWN IN THE WEEDS, WHERE THE WORLD ONCE WAS(RETAIL EXCLUSIVE) (TRANSPARENT RED / TRANSPARENT ORANGE VINYL) | 2xLP (DOC210lp-C1) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605151045 • L.A. WITCH - PLAY WITH FIRE | CD (SSQ173cd) | Suicide Squeeze Records PHYS UPC:803238017327 • L.A. WITCH - PLAY WITH FIRE (TRANSLUCENT YELLOW VINYL) | LP (SSQ173lp-C1) | Suicide Squeeze Records PHYS UPC:803238017310 • NO JOY - MOTHERHOOD | CD (JNR340cd) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:753936905740 • NO JOY - MOTHERHOOD (NEON VIOLET VINYL) | LP (JNR340lp-C1) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:753936905757 • MARKUS FLOATS - THIRD ALBUM | CD (CST152cd) | Constellation PHYS UPC:666561015220 • MARKUS FLOATS - THIRD ALBUM (BLACK VINYL) | LP (180 gram) (CST152lp) | Constellation PHYS UPC:666561015213 • T. GOWDY - THERAPY WITH COLOUR | CD (CST153cd) | Constellation PHYS UPC:666561015329 • T. GOWDY - THERAPY WITH COLOUR (BLACK VINYL) | LP (180 gram) (CST153lp) | Constellation PHYS UPC:666561015312 • LE REN - MORNING & MELANCHOLIA (WHITE VINYL) | 12" EP (SC407lp-C1) | Secretly Canadian PHYS UPC:656605040738 • LOREN CONNORS - BEAUTIFUL DREAMER (BLACK VINYL) | 10" (FV111lp) | Family Vineyard PHYS UPC:656605411118 • SETH BOGART - MEN ON THE VERGE OF NOTHING (BLACK VINYL) | LP (WW09lp) | Wacky Wacko Records / Sister Polygon Records PHYS UPC:655160615504 • THANK YOU, I'M SORRY - I'M GLAD WE'RE FRIENDS (OLIVE IN GOLD VINYL) | LP (CYLS104lp-C1) | Count Your Lucky Stars PHYS UPC:721762893753 • SUZANNE LANGILLE & NEEL MURGAI - COME WHEN THE RAVEN CALLS (BLACK VINYL) | LP (FV107lp) | Family Vineyard PHYS UPC:656605410715
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• NARROW HEAD - 12TH HOUSE ROCK | CD (RFC215cd) | Run For Cover Records PHYS UPC:811408035620 • NARROW HEAD - 12TH HOUSE ROCK (CLEAR VINYL) | 2xLP (RFC215lp-C3) | Run For Cover Records PHYS UPC:811408035651 • KELLY LEE OWENS - INNER SONG | CD (STS372cd) | Smalltown Supersound PHYS UPC:7072822372101 • KELLY LEE OWENS - INNER SONG (BLACK VINYL) | 2xLP (STS372lp) | Smalltown Supersound PHYS UPC:7072822372200 • KELLY LEE OWENS - INNER SONG (INDIE EXCLUSIVE) (WHITE VINYL) | 2xLP (STS372lp-C1) | Smalltown Supersound PHYS UPC:7072822372309 • WIDOWSPEAK - PLUM | CD (CT325cd) | Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949020569 • WIDOWSPEAK - PLUM (WHITE VINYL) | LP (CT325lp-C1) | Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949020606 • PRIVATE WORLD - ALEPH | CD (DAIS152cd) | DAIS Records PHYS UPC:011586670396 • PRIVATE WORLD - ALEPH (CLEAR PURPLE VINYL) | LP (DAIS152lp-C1) | DAIS Records PHYS UPC:011586670358 • SILVIA TAROZZI - MI SPECCHIO E RIFLETTO | CD (UW031cd) | Unseen Worlds PHYS UPC:744790142747 • SILVIA TAROZZI - MI SPECCHIO E RIFLETTO (BLACK VINYL) | 2xLP (UW031lp) | Unseen Worlds PHYS UPC:744790142730 • JOHN CARPENTER - SKELETON B/W UNCLEAN SPIRIT (BLOOD RED VINYL) | 12" EP (SBR254lp-C1) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:843563129319 • MOON DUO - ESCAPE: EXPANDED EDITION (BLACK VINYL) | LP (SBR253lp) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:843563127063 • MOON DUO - ESCAPE: EXPANDED EDITION (PINK VINYL) | LP (SBR253lp-C1) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:843563127070 • SELF DEFENSE FAMILY - MAKE ME A PALLET FIRE ON YOUR FLOOR / LOCAL CLERICS (BLUE VINYL) | 7" (RFC217lp-C3) | Run For Cover Records PHYS UPC:811408035460 • ERIC COPELAND - DUMB IT DOWN (BLACK VINYL) | LP (PPM065lp) | Post Present Medium PHYS UPC:795853950885 • GREG FOX - CONTACT (OPAQUE BLUE VINYL) | LP (RVNGNL059lp-C1) | RVNG INTL. PHYS UPC:747742383090
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BRIGHT EYES Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was About the album A lone pair of footsteps meanders down a street in Omaha, into the neighborhood bar and then into a near-imperceptible tangle of conversations – about wars, sleepless nights – a surrealist din pushing against the sound of ragtime. Then, as the background quiets, a line rings out clearly: “I think about how much people need – what they need right now is to feel like there’s something to look forward to. We have to hold on. We have to hold on.” Thus we enter the fitting, cacophonic introduction to Bright Eyes’ tenth studio album and first release since 2011. Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was is an enormous record caught in the profound in-between of grief and clarity – one arm wrestling its demons, the other gripping the hand of love, in spite of it. The end of Bright Eyes’ unofficial hiatus came naturally. Conor Oberst pitched the idea of getting the band back together during a 2017 Christmas party at Bright Eyes bandmate Nathaniel Walcott’s Los Angeles home. The two huddled in the bathroom and called Mike Mogis, who was Christmas shopping at an Omaha mall. Mogis immediately said yes. There was no specific catalyst for the trio, aside from finding comfort amidst a decade of brutal change. Sure, Why now? is the question, but for a project whose friendship is at the core, it was simply Why not?
Details CATALOG NUMBER: DOC210 RELEASE DATE: August 21, 2020 FORMAT: CD / 2xLP / 2xLP-C1 / Cassette / Digital CD BOX LOT: 30 LP BOX LOT: 24 GENRE: Alternative KEY MARKETS: New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Nashville, San Francisco, Chicago TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: None VINYL NOT RETURNABLE CD UPC: 656605151021
LP UPC: 656605151014
CASSETTE UPC: 656605363097
DIGITAL UPC: 656605151069
LP-C1 UPC: 656605151045
The resulting Bright Eyes album came together unlike any other of its predecessors. Down in the Weeds is Bright Eyes’ most collaborative, stemming from only one demo and written in stints in Omaha and in bits and pieces in Walcott’s Los Angeles home. Radically altering a writing process 25 years into a project seems daunting, but Oberst said there was no trepidation: “Our history and our friendship, and my trust level with them, is so complete and deep. And I wanted it to feel as much like a three-headed monster as possible.” As a title, as a thesis, Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was functions on a global, apocalyptic level of anxiety that looms throughout the record. But on a personal level, it speaks to rooting around in the dirt of one’s memories, trying to find the preciousness that’s overgrown and unrecognizable. For Oberst, coming back to Bright Eyes was a bit of that. A symbol of simpler times, vaguely nostalgic. And even though it wasn’t actually possible to go back to the way things were, even though there wasn’t an easy happy ending, there was a new reality left to work with. And here, there is a bleary-eyed hopefulness – earnest, emotive recommitments to
Tracks
SIDE A: 1. Pageturners Rag 2. Dance and Sing 3. Just once in the World 4. Mariana Trench
love appear on “Dance and Sing” and “Just Once in the World.” And throughout, Down in the Weeds features snippets of Oberst’s loved ones speaking, in late-night conversations. The fleeting loveliness of intimate moments punctuates the bleakness of the record’s existential crisis, crackling like lightning bugs illuminating the long night. Down in the Weeds is a distillation of a prolific, enduring canon. It’s immediate and urgent, the product of its creators’ growth across a decade apart, as well as the need to make a record together to find solace from loss. Through deliberate, fearless experimentation in process, the trio made the truest Bright Eyes sound: the sound of a deep bond, of a band coming home, but also a seamless continuation, like Bright Eyes never went away. It’s the impossible, sprawling mess of human experience that Bright Eyes has always sought to put to tape, since the beginning – the sound of holding on. Why now? Why not? Exclusively Distributed By Secretly Distribution Phone: (812) 335-1572 US Domestic Sales Contact: domestic@secretlydistribution.com International Sales Contact: international@secretlydistribution.com
SIDE B: 5. One and Done 6. Pan and Broom 7. Stairwell Song 8. Persona Non Grata 9. Tilt-A-Whirl 10. Hot Car in the Sun
SIDE C: 11. Forced Convalescence 12. To Death’s Heart (In Three Parts) 13. Calais to Dover 14. Comet Song
Selling Points ~ First Bright Eyes album in over nine years! ~ US Consumption over Over 2,500,000 ATD; Over 2,000,000 Phys, 275,000,000 Streams
~ Previous four LPs 2005-2011 charted Billboard Top 15 US; Top 100 UK ~ First pressing on limited edition Transparent Red + Transparent Orange vinyl ~ 2xLP packaging features die-cut jacket and Side 4 phenakistoscope etching! ~ Extensive press and touring history incl numerous TV appearances, magazine covers, marquee press worldwide
~ Pre-release streams over 2,000,000 w/o album announcement
L.A. WITCH P L AY W I T H F I R E Where L.A. Witch's self-titled album oozed with vibe and atmosphere, with the whole mix draped in reverb, sonically placing the band in some distant realm, broadcast across some unknown chasm of time, Play With Fire comes crashing out of the gate with a bold, brash, in-your-face rocker “Fire Starter.” The authoritative opener is a deliberate mission statement. “Play With Fire is a suggestion to make things happen,” says Sanchez. “Don’t fear mistakes or the future. Take a chance. Say and do what you really feel, even if nobody agrees with your ideas. These are feelings that have stopped me in the past. I want to inspire others to be freethinkers even if it causes a little burn.” And by that line of reasoning, “Fire Starter” becomes a call to action, an anthem against apathy. From there, the album segues into the similarly bodacious rocker “Motorcycle Boy”—a feisty love song inspired by classic cinema
TR ACKLISTING 1. Fire Starter 2. Motorcycle Boy 3. Dark Horse 4. I Wanna Lose 5. Gen-Z 6. Sexorexia 7. Maybe the Weather 8. True Believers 9. Starred
outlaws like Mickey Rourke, Marlon Brando, and Steve McQueen. At track three, we hear L.A. Witch expand into new territories as “Dark Horse” unfurls a mixture of dustbowl folk, psychedelic breakdowns, and fire-and-brimstone organ lines. And from there, the band only gets more adventurous. Play With Fire is a bold new journey that retains L.A. Witch’s siren-song mystique, nostalgic spirit, and contemporary cool. Despite the stylistic breadth of the record, there is a unifying timbre across the album’s nine tracks, as if the trio of young
Catalog #: SSQ173 Street Date: August 21, 2020 Genre: Alternative Format: CD / LP Export Restrictions: None
musicians is bound together as a collective of old souls tapping into the sounds of their previous youth. “Los Angeles has always been a home for misplaced souls, and L.A Witch has the sound to go with it, dripping with nostalgia, heavy reverb, and glamour.” - NYLON
Packaging: CD Wallet CD Box Lot Qty: 30 UPC-CD: 803238017327
“Sanchez sounds like she genuinely might steal your car and your soul, and then drive them both through the darkness to Hell.” - VICE “As one might expect of a band called L.A. Witch, this West Coast trio plays pitch-black pop-rock wrapped in blankets of reverb.” - CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND
+ FIRST LP PRESSING LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES
Packaging: Single LP (Translucent yellow vinyl) 1xLP LP Box Lot Qty: 40 UPC-LP: 803238017310 Vinyl Non-returnable
+ LIMITED EDITION FIRST LP PRESSING ON TRANSLUCENT YELLOW VINYL + LP PACKAGE COMES WITH DOUBLE SIDED INSERT + DL COUPON + CD COMES IN A CD WALLET
Suicide Squeeze Records PO Box 80511, Seattle, WA. 98108 www.suicidesqueeze.net
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No Joy
Motherhood Overview
No Joy’s relentless sonic permutations are evidence of frontperson and principal songwriter Jasamine White-Gluz’s insatiable desire to grow. For No Joy’s first full length in five years, White-Gluz took what she learned from synthesis, reincorporated guitars, and produced an album that is not a departure from No Joy’s early shoegaze, but a stylistically omnivorous expansion that ekes into trip hop, trance and nu-metal. Motherhood is the culmination of years composing outside of her comfort zone, and a return to DIY recording with a leveled-up expertise in production. Throughout the record there are loving nostalgic nods to the records White-Gluz adored on their release twenty years ago--Massive Attack, Sneaker Pimps, No Doubt. White-Gluz hadn’t read Sheila Heti’s Motherhood when she wrote and titled this record, but when she did, the narrative parallels between the two projects were “like looking into a mirror. Time is critical, and you have to make decisions that are extremely time sensitive and your body doesn’t care,” she explains. “It’s a lot of seeing myself through my mother’s experiences, and the physicalness of a body getting older.” The album also investigates the implications of her parents’ aging on her role as their child. Heti’s book’s central conceit is an open-ended pondering of whether dedication to writing is more significant than the desire to have children. No Joy doesn’t definitively answer this existential quagmire, either--how could anyone? Instead, Motherhood is a beautifully dense exploration that proves how thoughtful, thorough music can translate into art that is rich, vast and alive.
Details Release Date : August 21, 2020 Catalog # : JNR340 Available Formats : LP-C1, CD, Digital Genre : Alternative / Indie / Electronic Box Lot Quantity : 20 LP / 30 CD Key Markets : Montreal, CA *This is NOT our territory*; Los Angeles, CA; NYC/Brooklyn, NY; Chicago, IL; Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; London, UK; Amsterdam, NL; Paris, FR; Berlin, DE; Japan Territory Restrictions : Worldwide excl. Canada Vinyl Non-Returnable.
L P- C 1 NEO N VIOLET 753936905757
DIGITAL 75 3936905733
CD 75 39369 05740
Track Listing Selling Points - First No Joy LP since 2015’s More Faithful - Mastered by Heba Kadry - COLORED VINYL NEON VIOLET + comes with download code. - Recommended If You Like: Sneaker Pimps, Primal Scream, Slowdive, Massive Attack, Kate Bush, A nice 90s trip-hop moment.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Birthmark Dream Rats Nothing Will Hurt Four Ageless Why Mothers Die Happy Bleeding Signal Lights Fish Primal Curse Kidder
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MARKUS FLOATS Third Album Constellation • CST152 • 180gLP / CD / DL Release date: 21 August 2020 (Revised from 01 May 2020) u THE CONSTELLATION DEBUT FROM MONTRÉAL-BASED ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC COMPOSER MARKUS LAKE’S PRIMARY SOLO PROJECT, FOLLOWING SEVERAL PREVIOUS MARKUS FLOATS ALBUMS RELEASED OVER THE PAST DECADE ON A VARIETY OF MICRO-LABELS u MARKUS LAKE IS A FIXTURE OF MONTRÉAL’S INDIE–ACTIVIST MUSIC COMMUNITY: A CO-FOUNDER OF DIY SPACE DRONES CLUB & BASSIST IN MANY PUNK, NOISE POP & AFROFUTURIST BANDS (ELLE BARBARA’S BLACK SPACE, EGYPTIAN COTTON ARKESTRA, SILVER DAPPLE, ET AL)
Third Album is the Constellation debut from Montréal-based multi-disciplinary artist and musician/composer Markus Lake, an active force in the city’s DIY music community who’s been releasing synthetic audio works under the Markus Floats moniker over the past decade – alongside playing bass in wide range of punk, post-punk, experimental and Afrofuturist outfits (including Elle Barbara’s Black Space) and co-founding the local indie music space Drones Club. With a background in Jazz Performance and Electroacoustic Studies, Lake’s solo work is also guided by a painterly sensibility, and informed by a variety of conceptual interests: non-linear narrative composition; sonic simulacra and naturalizing the digital; poptimism vs avant-gardism; the attentive/ceremonial possibilities of 21st century ‘music for speakers’ (and headphones) in a culture of bombast, nostalgia, and immediate gratification. The music of Markus Floats might best be described as idiosyncratic aural Abstract Expressionism, where
TRACKLIST 01 Forward 02 And 03 Forward Again 04 Always 05 Moving 06 Forward Always DURATION: 32:56 GENRE: Electronic / Modern Composition RIYL: Vangelis, Dedekind Cut, James Ferraro, Oren Ambarchi, Christian Fennesz, Terry Riley
Using primarily in-the-box midi instruments, along with a handful of samples
DELUXE VINYL LIMITED TO 300 AT RETAIL (500 TOTAL PRESSING) LP is 180gram audiophile pressing on midnight ultrablack vinyl in 20pt uncoated paperboard jacket with 12” x 24” art print poster + DL card
and field recordings, Third Album is through-composed and atypically but
CD in custom mini-gatefold 20pt paperboard jacket
unfailingly expressive – like ruminative action painting in sound. Synthetic notes
Vinyl is non-returnable No export to Israel
melodic gestures, sequenced pulses, atonal clusters and granulated textures are arranged like shapes and strokes of timbral hue and depth.
and chords extrapolate in transitory semi-improvised harmonic and melodic themes, often referencing organ sounds of alternately liturgical and souljazz
LP (180gram)
resonance. The album combines a sort of incantatory, exploratory, desecrated
BOX LOT: 40 UPC: 666561015213
dark lounge with more formal touchstones of electronic composition, where arpeggiators surface and recede amidst shifting drones, distortions and
CD
dissonances. The result is a highly original, succinct and lucid set of synthetic-
BOX LOT: 30 UPC: 666561015220
electronic tracks that defies genre: brimming with ideas but not overworked; methodical and discreet but not unassuming or underplayed; deeply integrated in its own ineffable, evocative chronicle of colour, shape and space.
DIGITAL UPC: 666561015268
Third Album is a wonderfully distinctive work of leftfield electronic composition and the most distilled music Markus Floats has recorded to date. (In concert, each Floats live performance is specific and unique: he combines his soundscapes with carefully selected spoken word recordings from the black literary canon.) Constellation is delighted to welcome Markus to the roster and to be releasing Third Album with artwork that features his own paintings, including in a deluxe 180gram vinyl edition with an exquisite 12”x24” pull-out art print reproduction.
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T. GOWDY Therapy With Colour Constellation • CST153 • 180gLP / CD / DL Release date: 21 August 2020 (Revised from 08 May 2020) u THE CONSTELLATION DEBUT FROM THE MONTRÉAL-BASED PRODUCER, DJ AND SOUND ARTIST, AN ALBUM OF DEEP FOCUS/ACTIVE-LISTENING ELECTRONICA INSPIRED BY THE NOVA PRO 100 LIGHT AND SOUND MIND MACHINE u T. GOWDY HAS THREE PRIOR RELEASES OF PRIMARILY AMBIENT ELECTRONIC MUSIC (MOST RECENTLY VIA SHIMMERING MOODS) AND DOZENS OF PRODUCTION CREDITS OVER THE PAST DECADE ON TRACKS AND ALBUMS BY THE LIKES OF ENSEMBLE (FAT CAT), SUUNS (SECRETLY CANADIAN) AND ADA LEA (SADDLE CREEK)
Therapy With Colour is the Constellation debut by Montréal-based producer and sound artist T. Gowdy, who has released three prior albums of exquisitely textured, predominantly ambient electronic music (most recently Pachira Aquatica via Shimmering Moods Records in 2019). His sublime audio/visual performances have featured at MUTEK (Montréal and Barcelona) and Spektrum (Berlin), alongside his ongoing work as an in-demand producer/engineer with over fifty album credits to date, including Suuns (Secretly Canadian), Ensemble
TRACKLIST 01 Therapy With Colour 02 Depse 03 Up CTRL 04 No Wave II 05 Excavating Air
(Fat Cat) and Ada Lea (Saddle Creek) to name just a few.
DURATION: 28:21
Therapy With Colour is Gowdy’s most sonically and conceptually acute solo
GENRE: Electronic
work to date, inspired by experiments with the Nova Pro 100 Light and Sound
RIYL: Actress, Andrea Parker, Laurie Spiegel, Huerco S., Reinhard Voigt, Jan Jelinek, James Turrell
Mind Machine (among the best-known home hypnosis ‘mind machine’ devices, first released in the late 1990s). For Gowdy, the ritualized therapeutic
relationships; to let flow neutral communication with the self and others” and to
DELUXE VINYL LIMITED TO 300 AT RETAIL (500 TOTAL PRESSING) LP is 180gram audiophile pressing on midnight ultrablack vinyl in 20pt/420gsm jacket with 12” x 19” art print poster + DL card
circumvent the technical biases and temporal blockages endemic to digital
CD in custom mini-gatefold 20pt paperboard jacket
reprogramming of consciousness promised by this technology has two primary personal dimensions: “to explore psychological ‘debiasing’ and decorrelation of heteronormative narratives that exist within my familial, intimate and economic
audio workstations and the computer-based editing that governs production of most electronic music. The album’s five tracks are extracted from live, linear,
Vinyl is non-returnable No export to Israel
real-time stereo recordings that have their origins in an audio/visual
LP (180gram)
collaboration between Gowdy and light artist Laura Buckley (whose scanner
BOX LOT: 40 UPC: 666561015312
artwork features on the album cover and packaging). The music on Therapy With Colour is indeed meditative, but in a resolutely
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contemporary and highly engaging way, eschewing gauzy New Age or
BOX LOT: 30 UPC: 666561015329
environmental music tropes and instead conveying the rigour and empiricism of controlled experiments. Consistent with theories of ‘mind machine’ brainwave synchronization, these tracks involve oscillating, shimmering Minimalist pulse
DIGITAL UPC: 666561015367
and techno-adjacent rhythm that reward active listening, while working coequally as dissociative concentration music. Each of the five songs has a distinct vibe but constitute a deeply satisfying and cohesive flow. From the day Gowdy dropped this record on us a few months ago, devoid of context or background notes, we’ve probably listened to it more than anything else – not realizing we’d been self-medicating. But we can see everything so much more clearly now. Thanks for listening.
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Secretly Canadian
Le Ren Morning & Melancholia About the album
Le Ren’s close-to-the-bone, heartbreak folk songs seem, at first, to tap into a shared musical memory. A melody swirls forward and you’re just sure it’s known to the back of your mind; was it in from a movie you saw, some classic mid-60s setpiece? Maybe it’s something you heard as a kid, in the backseat of your mom’s Cutlass, or the shotgun seat of your own. But before you can zero in through the fog, your heart is torn apart by her voice — rich, direct and mellifluous — steering you through these slowburn tunes about real-life loss. “Discussing songwriting feels the same as when someone asks about your tattoo,” says Lauren Spear, 26, the sole voice and songwriter behind Montreal’s Le Ren. “You’re putting it out there, showing it in public right on your arm. Then, when someone asks you ‘Hey, what’s that tattoo mean?,’ you’re shocked to have to explain it, as it is a choice that feels essential for a particular moment.”
Details
CATALOG NUMBER: SC407 RELEASE DATE: August 21, 2020 FORMAT: 12” LP-C1 / Digital CD BOX LOT: n/a LP BOX LOT: 24 GENRE: Alternative KEY MARKETS: New York, Los Angeles, Memphis, Boston, Nashville, San Francisco, Chicago, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: None VINYL NOT RETURNABLE
LP-C1 UPC: 656605040738
DIGITAL UPC: 656605040769
Two years ago, Spear’s ex-boyfriend was killed in a car accident. Since then, she has been struggling with the immeasurable weight of being the sole keeper of their shared memories and in response, translated a sliver of that experience into music. Her EP, Morning & Melancholia, is a mediation on mourning, memory and how to live with the ellipses you’re forever left with in the wake of loss. The way Le Ren is able to look tragedy directly in its eyes and never let her voice so much as quiver is owed to a few things. Raised on rural Bowen Island, British Columbia, the isolated lifestyle allows for a certain independent dedication to craft that is evident in her performances. Spear has studied folk and bluegrass going back to her early teens, partaking in workshops and festivals all over North America. You can hear in her acumen the gorgeous folk formalism of Canadian heroes Kate and Anna McGerrigle. But it’s not all rigor and acuity that makes Le Ren’s music so stunning. She was also raised on The Holy Trinity of songwriters John Prine, Neil Young and Bob Dylan, and their curious, deadpan and cosmic approach to life’s most brutal swipes also feed Le Ren’s sensibilities. Her lyrical couplets are as simply put as they are devastating. “So here we are at the end of all things // I guess I learned too late // that love can’t be the only reason to stay,” she sings on the closer “Love Can’t Be the Only Reason To Stay”. It’s gut wrenching, but sure-footed. And you can almost hear the slight smile on one side of her mouth as she sings, the knowing smile of someone who knows real pain, knows there’s surely more to come, but who also knows it doesn’t erase life’s humorous, enduring beauty. Exclusively Distributed By Secretly Distribution Phone: (812) 335-1572 US Domestic Sales Contact: domestic@secretlydistribution.com International Sales Contact: international@secretlydistribution.com
Tracks SIDE A:
SIDE B:
1. Love Can’t Be The Only Reason To Stay 2. How To Begin To Say Goodbye
4. If I Had Wings 5. The Day I Lose My Mind
Selling Points
•F irst LP pressing on liited-edition White vinyl •E arly press coverage includes: • RIYL: John Prine, Karen Dalton, Joni Mitchell; Bedouine, Sharon Van Etten, This is the Kit
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Loren Connors Beautiful Dreamer
Beautiful Dreamer is a two-part suite dedicated to Steve Dalachinsky -- an original among New Yorkers and everyone else; an indefatigable supporter of the avant garde; an ingenious poet; and a close friend to legendary guitarist Loren Connors. Connors recorded these two solo guitar pieces shortly before Dalachinsky’s passing in September 2019. Afterward, Connors returned to the music, and for the first time, used post-production to transform his realtime improvisations into an ethereal soundwork. The music is unmistakably Connors -- a rich, ghostly tone birthed from the blues -- yet a new direction where slowness reveals a spectrum of shifting notes like a small choir, from rumbling baritones to vibrating sopranos. Beautiful Dreamer equally honors the dreams of Dalachinsky and captures the suspension of the Auguste Rodin dancer on the cover. Connors began self-releasing records of his singular guitar improvisations and compositions in 1978. Since, he’s been lauded as an iconic avant blues visionary by the likes American roots scholar/Grammy winner William Ferris. Selling points • Connors’ vinyl releases sell out quickly • LP limited to 500 copies world wide Select Back Catalog The Departing of a Dream, Vol. VI 10” (FV99) Live In New York CD (FV95) Blues: Dark Paintings of Rothko LP (Reissue) (FV90)
Catalog Number FV111 Release Date August 21, 2020 Format 10-inch / Digital LP Box Lot 30 Genre Alternative Key Markets: NYC, London, Austin, Seattle, Chicago Territory Restrictions None RIYL Grouper, William Basinski, Julia Holter Vinyl Not Returnable LP UPC 656605411118
Digital UPC 656605411125
Tracks Side A 1. Part 1
Side B 2. Part 2
Thank You, I’m Sorry I’m Glad We’re Friends
August 21 2020 ABOUT THE ALBUM
Nerves are one hell of a tool. Short bursts of anxiety and fear often lead to songwriting that doubles down on winking through catharsis. It’s in the spaces between sudden inspiration and deliberate wit where Minneapolis’ Thank You, I’m Sorry resides. Their debut LP, The Malta House, charted a course towards self-acceptance while surrendering to the pull of a music career and a constantly buzzing heart. The charm of that release comes from its CATALOG NUMBER: CYLS104 set-up: it’s an acoustic record that draws on the RELEASE DATE: August 21, 2020 confessions of guitarist/frontperson Colleen Dow to FORMAT: LP generate visceral electricity. Thank You, I’m Sorry LP BOX LOT: 40 is already here with their follow-up, I’m Glad We’re GENRE: Alternative / Indie / Pop Friends. You’re welcome. KEY MARKETS: Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin I’m Glad We’re Friends plusses up selections from TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: None The Malta House and offers plenty of new surprises. Bassist Bethunni Schreiner and drummer VINYL NOT RETURNABLE Sage Livergood upgrade the musical palate with a rhythm section that elevates a simple crush into a pop-punk meditation on healthy boundaries. The new additions here point to a bright future, both internally and externally. As the second release from this outfit in under a year, I’m Glad We’re Friends is as invigorating and confident as making a new connection. Perhaps Thank You, I’m Sorry will connect with you.
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SELLING POINTS
TRACKLIST
Side A 1. Manic Pixie Dream Hurl - First full-band output from the band on Count Your Lucky Stars 2. How Many Slugs Can We Throw - Second Release from Thank You, I’m Sorry this year, following the acoustic Against the Wall Until We Question full-length The Malta House Our Own Morality - Secretly Distribution exclusive vinyl color (Olive In Gold, ltd to 300 copies) 3. Ten Dollar Latte - Extensive previous touring history with more tours planned for fall/winter 4. Menthol Flavored Oatmeal 2020 5. Bees? 6. Slow Ghost
Side B 1. Follow Unfollow 2. Waves 3. Crocodile Tears 4. Two Door Sports Edition Minivan 5. Between Hell and Hair School 6. Backpack Life
FAMILY VINEYARD
Suzanne Langille & Neel Murgai Come When The Raven Calls
Come When The Raven Calls is the second album by Suzanne Langille and Neel Murgai after more than two decades performing together. Langille fuses the rawness of American spiritual blues with Murgai’s trance-like percussion and multi-note vocal overtones. The duo are unmatched in their timeless approach to song, a structure they summon from a tinder of melody or thundering charge of the Persian daf. A lyricist as well as vocalist, Langille is devoted to the spoken word. She pulls the listener into a world of ecstatic sorrow and rage that leaves them transformed as a witness to survival. These nine songs are testimonies to death, sorrow and loss. Yet in “Bury Myself Where I Stand,” a song written by Langille’s sister, the late blues singer Laurette Langille, she summons defiance and freedom. Langille’s first recordings were on a string of rare, self-released 1980s LPs with guitarist Loren Connors. Later, she fronted Haunted House, the defunct downtown ‘blues rock’ improv-combo with Murgai and Connors. Murgai is a multiinstrumental performer, composer and co-founder of the Brooklyn Raga Massive, a raga inspired musician’s collective. Limited edition of 300 copies, comes with lyric sheet. Selling points • Limited to 300 copies world wide
Catalog Number FV107 Release Date August 21, 2020 Format LP / Digital LP Box Lot 30 Genre Alternative Key Markets: NYC, London, Austin, Seattle, Chicago Territory Restrictions None RIYL Jenny Hval, Leonard Cohen, folk music field recordings Vinyl Not Returnable LP UPC 656605410715
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Narrow Head 12th House Rock
August 28, 2020 ABOUT THE ALBUM Narrow Head’s highly anticipated new LP 12th House Rock arrives August 28th on Run For Cover Records. The Houston-based band’s latest entry is the distillation of the greatest moments in 90’s alternative and hard rock with a fresh set of ears, thirteen tracks of their signature brand of bludgeoning lullabies bursting at the seams with creative ideas, new directions and yes, massive, monolithic riffs. In between the sparkle and smash, open-hearted and emotionally naked songwriting showcases a core piece of the band’s identity– showcasing 12th House Rock as one of the best releases of 2020.
CATALOG NUMBER: RFC215 RELEASE DATE: August 28, 2020 FORMAT: LP / CD LP BOX LOT: 20 CD BOX LOT: 30 Delving into deep-seated themes of self loathing, GENRE: Alternative / Rock / Shoegaze desolation, self-medication, the loss of loved ones KEY MARKETS: Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Austin and hopeful redemption,12th House Rock is, as TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: Excl. UK/EU the title suggests, a rock-focused LP themed on transition– exploring the vast abyss of darkness just before the sun cracks upon the horizon. Using VINYL NOT RETURNABLE distorted guitars as their primary vehicle, Narrow Head’s wall of riffs add stark contrast to their best CD 2xLP UPC 811408035620 UPC 811408035651 quality– deceptively sweet pop melodies that channel the lessons of My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, Helmet, Deftones and Guided by Voices all Digital at once. UPC 811408035590
TRACKLIST SELLING POINTS
- Second album following 2016’s Satisfaction (Floodlight Records) - Music Video for ‘Night Tryst’ to accompany announce - Touring History with Fury, Vein, Death Bells, Fucked Up - Double LP with full gatefold layout
Side A 1. Yer Song 2. Ponderosa Sun Club 3. Stuttering Stanley 4. 12th House Side B 1. Hard To Swallow 2. Crankcase 3. Nodding Off
Side C 1. Night Tryst 2. Emmadazey 3. Wastrel Side D 1. Delano Door 2. Bulma 3. Evangeline Dream
KELLY LEE OWENS Inner Song ABOUT THE ALBUM Kelly Lee Owens' masterful second album Inner Song finds the convention-blurring techno producer and singer/songwriter diving deep into her own psyche—excoriating the struggles she's faced over the last several years and exploring personal pain while embracing the beauty of the natural world. It's a leap in artistry from a musician who burst forth on the scene with a confident, rich sound, and Inner Song is endlessly enticing when it comes to what Owens is capable of. Inner Song follows the star-making debut of her 2017 self-titled album, a quixotic blend of body-moving beats and introspective songwriting that garnered numerous accolades from the music press. Owens has indeed come a long way from her background as a nurse, since then she has remixed Bjørk & St Vincent, released an indelibly clubby two-tracker, 2019's "Let It Go" b/w "Omen," and teamed up with likeminded auteur Jon Hopkins on the one-off "Luminous Spaces." Her latest album also comes off of what Owens describes as "the hardest three years of my life," an emotionally fraught time that, in her words, "Definitely impacted my creative life and everything I'd worked for up to that point. I wasn't sure if I could make anything anymore, and it took quite a lot of courage to get to a point where I could make something again." So while the lovely cover of Radiohead's "Arpeggi" might strike some as an unconventional way to open a sophomore effort, to Owens the winding take on the classic tune—recorded a year before work on Inner Song properly kicked off—represents the sort of sonic rebirth that's so essential to Inner Song's aura. Inner Song was largely written and recorded over a month last winter. As with her debut, Owens holed up in the studio with co-producer and collaborator James Greenwood —and letting loose in the studio and being open to whatever sonic whims emerge was essential to Owens' craftwork. The evocative title of the album is borrowed from free-jazz maestro Alan Silva's 1972 opus, which was gifted to Owens Smalltown Supersound's Joakim Haugland for her 30th birthday: "I'm so grateful for him and his perspectives—he's always thinking outside of the box. Those two words really reflect what it felt like to make this record. I did a lot of inner work in the past few years, and this is a true reflection of that." The hair-raising bass and tickling textures of Inner Song drive home that, more so than ever, Owens is locked in to delivering maximal sonic pleasure—as evidenced by the decision to make the album's vinyl release a sesqui album, or triple-sided album: "I'm still obsessed with frequencies that don't do well on vinyl if they don't have the space." "The power of conceptualizing who you are has really informed this album," Owens states about Inner Song's essence, and her second album is truly a discovery of self— the latest statement from a fascinating artist who continues to surprise, gesturing towards a rich and varied career to come.
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CATALOG NUMBER: STS372 RELEASE DATE: May 1st, 2020 FORMAT: LP/digital /CD/colored LP LP BOX LOT: 25 GENRE: Electronic, cosmic KEY MARKETS: London, New York TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: None
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TRACKS SIDE A: 1. 2. 3. 4. Side B: 1. 2. 3. Side C: 1. 2. 3.
Arpeggi On Melt! Re-wild Jeanette L.I.N.E. Corner Of My Sky (ft. John Cale) Night Flow Wake-Up
WIDOWSPEAK
Plum - White Vinyl, CD • Hometown: Tacoma, WA / Chicago, IL / Brooklyn, NY • Limited Edition White Vinyl! • RIYL: Cat Power, Big Thief, Hand Habits, Sharon Van Etten With Plum, the songwriting partnership rooted in the creative rapport between bandleader Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas continues to expand on shared visions, delving deeper into what was always there: dusty guitars, ear-worm melodies, warm expansive arrangements. Each entry to their catalog has marked a subtle reimagining of Widowspeak’s sound, though perennial points of reference remain the same: 90’s dream pop, 60’s psych rock, a certain unshakeable Pacific-Northwestness. Speaking to the timeless feeling of each, the albums continue to be discovered well beyond their respective PR cycles, made beloved by new listeners through word of mouth. CT-325 1. Plu m 2. The Good Ones 3 . Mo ney 4 . B rea dwinner 5. Even True Love
6. Amy 7. Sure Thing 8. Jean ie 9. Y2K
“ Wi d ow speak fu ses lig htness and d arkn e s s l i ke few ot he rs: T he g roup’s sound ma y co n j ur e t he ef f ervescence of d reamp o p , b u t a gl oo m y, an xiou s und ercurrent an t i c i p at e s nightm ares at any g iven momen t . O n eac h al bum , band l ead er Moll y Ha m i l t o n ad d s a few more l ayers t o an at mos pher ic , sl ow - burning sound t hat co n j u re s m el anc hol y in t he ma jest y of s h o ega zing r o ck . ” – NPR Mu sic CD UPC: 817949020569
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The band’s fifth album feels comfortable and lived-in: humble in structure, heavy on mood. Perhaps that came taking time off from the touring grind, instead working full-time jobs and settling into the rhythm of daily life in a small upstate New York town. Plum was recorded over a handful of weekends last winter by Sam Evian (Cass McCombs, Kazu Makino, Hannah Cohen) at his Flying Cloud studio in the Catskills, and was mixed by Ali Chant (PJ Harvey, Aldous Harding, Perfume Genius). In addition to Hamilton (vocals, guitar) and Thomas (guitars, bass, synth), it features instrumental contributions by Andy Weaver (drums), Michael Hess (piano), and Sam himself (bass, synth). Plum nestles into the band’s canon like it was always there, but with new textures coming to the fore, like the polyrhythmic pulse of “Amy” and “The Good Ones”, or the watery, Terry Riley-influenced track “Jeanie” Plum navigates the spaces between the lesser emotions of modern life. Hamilton’s lyrics speak to the unique turmoil of anyone who creates as their work, who must somehow survive off such “fruits of their labor.” Yet, Widowspeak have always made a bitter pill much easier to swallow. The majestic “Breadwinner”, the luminous “Even True Love” – these songs here were made to be listened to, enjoyed. “Money” is particularly hypnotic, built around a repeating, cyclical motif that serves as both skeleton and body. “Will you get back what you put in?” Hamilton asks over an insistent guitar riff. The line is delivered with a knowingness that transcends its surface critiques of late-stage capitalism, asking both herself and the listener whether this is, in fact, the world we want to live in. Through Plum, Widowspeak have brought something into the world that seems to know its own worth, even as it wonders aloud about what is to come. What value and meaning do we assign ourselves, our time, and how do we spend it?
RELEASE DATE: August 28, 2020 GENRE: Alternative / Indie Press Contact: Natalie Miano – natalie@omnianmusicgroup.com Sales Contact: Dave Martin –dave.martin@omnianmusicgroup.com
PRIVATE WORLD ALEPH
ABOUT THE ALBUM Aleph is often defined as the “oneness of God”, and Cardiff, UK indie pop outfit Private World thematically embrace the sentiment on their debut album for Dais while eschewing pop conventions, simultaneously navigating and subverting its context. Rather than individual tracks that inform a greater narrative, Aleph finds members Harry Jowett and Tom Sanders weaving in and out of a space they call the “pop psyche,” where songs become scenes in a collective exploration of sentimentality and melody. In a sense, the songs that comprise Aleph are soothing vehicles that dart about pop history, stopping at touchpoints throughout the ‘80s to borrow from jazztinged synth, ambient music, and even cinéma vérité. The plot twist is while weaving this tapestry, they omit the familiarity of chorus-driven song, allowing space and mood to build melancholy transitions that feel whole and floaty. As much as their single “On the Run,” released with DAIS in 2019, touched on this hushed world of memory, Aleph retains Private World’s DNA but tames the dynamics of pop with Eno-esque intention. Aleph is an album you can pick up at any entry point and loop into its conscious nostalgia. Rather than singular statements, each song on the album nods to Roxy Music, Peter Gabriel, Talk DETAILS Talk, Spandau Ballet in tandem. In a sense, it’s a rolling piece that spans ten movements, each informing a sphere of culture. Though it’s not forward-facing lyrically, Aleph is a culture driven work, as the duo offers it as an equalizer that CATALOG NUMBER: DAIS152 / DAIS152CD transcends social boundaries or divisions—united passages meant to be heard RELEASE DATE: August 28, 2020 and immersed by all. FORMAT: CD/LP/DIGITAL CD BOX LOT: 25x4 inners = 100 box On its own, “Blue Spirit,” is very much the album’s mission statement, as vocal LP BOX LOT: 20x2 inners = 40 box unapologetically indebted to Brian Ferry leads the way over a gated beat as GENRE: Alternative, Indie, Pop, Rock instruments pulse in and out, punctuating the rhythm before disappearing into KEY MARKETS: Los Angeles, New York, Paris, London the echoes of the next moment. One second over five minutes in length, “Magic TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: NONE Lens,” is Aleph’s most direct and authoritative, without disrupting its tonality. As VINYL NOT RETURNABLE Tom Sanders delivers a syncopated vocal, the track lightly sprinkles synth washes and prominent bass accents that plod out atmospheric pattern. Embracing the LP TRANS. PURPLE C1 DIGITAL COMPACT DISC overarching north star for their sound to be a return to sophistication, Aleph 011586670358 011586670389 011586670396 embodies the sentiment by redefining it. Yes, the album’s sounds work back to the masters of synth-pop but the actual journey bounds forward with vivid personality and contemporary control. Private World offers a singular embrace of the pop psyche -- and a startlingly refreshing debut.
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A refreshing take on pop that is strikingly evolved, modern and mature from two young men from Cardiff, where they’ve reached cult status locally.
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Debut album follows a string of well-received cult singles, and performances with Drab Majesty, Molchat Doma, Iceage and more.
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Previous singles played on BBC Radio 1 with Huw Stephens
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For fans of: Talk Talk, Bryan Ferry, Peter Gabriel, Spandau Ballet, Human League, Depeche Mode, Choir Boy, Future Islands
TRACKS LP SIDE A: A Private World Blue Spirit Birdy Hypnagogia Magic Lens
LP SIDE B: Somethin’ Special Chasm Spine Alien Funeral Jones to Engel (Pierrot)
NA PRESS: Chris Hansell | chris.hansell@leftfieldpr.com UK/EU PRESS: Christian & Liv / One Beat | christian@onebeatpr.com daisrecords.com | facebook.com/privateworldband | @privateworldwide
ARTIST
SILVIA TAROZZI
TITLE MI SPECCHIO E RIFLETTO LABEL UNSEEN WORLDS CAT # UW031 GENRE Folk, Prog, Jazz, Experimental RIYL Franco Battiato, Maria Monti, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Juana Molina, Brigitte Fontaine DATE July 31, 2020 FORMAT LP, CD, Digital BOX LOX LP=20, CD=50 RETURN LP=NO, CD=YES RELEASE DESCRIPTION Inspired by the poetry of Alda Merini and her studies with composer Garret List, Italian violinist-composer Silvia Tarozzi turned to the song form after being involved for many years in contemporary music and free improvisation. Over the course of nearly a decade, Tarozzi practiced setting the poetry of Alda Merini to music and then replacing it with her own to reflect her own life experiences. As a result, Mi specchio e rifletto is a wondrous combination of baroque folk, avant-garde, and progressive music art-song that feels both poetic and earnestly autobiographical. Echoes of past masterpieces reverberate throughout: the gentle chamber explorations of Penguin Cafe Orchestra, the science fiction of Franco Battiato’s 'Fetus', the abstract free jazz flourishes of Maria Monti’s 'Il Bestiario', the sweetness of Caterina Casseli’s 'Primavera'. As a solo performer, Tarozzi is a long time collaborator with composers Eliane Radigue, Pascale Criton, Cassandra Miller and Martin Arnold. In duo with Deborah Walker, and as a member of Ensemble Dedalus, she has worked with Christian Wolff, Jürg Frey, Michael Pisaro, Catherine Lamb, Sébastien Roux, and many others. She previously released Philip Corner 'Extreemizms: early & late' on Unseen Worlds in 2018.
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TRACK LIST side A
1. Al cancello (4:27) 2. La forza del canto (2:43) 3. La sostanza dell’affetto (5:36) 4. Mi specchio e rifletto (3:09)
side B
5. Domina (4:28) 6. Hai nella bocca un silenzio (3:36) 7. Astuta (2:24) 8. Spazio (4:32)
side C
9. … e non volevi le ali (1:40) 10. Che cos’è una primavera (2:46) 11. Siedimi accanto (3:12) 12. L’assenza (3:33) 13. Al balcone (0:49)
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14. Sembra neve (5:01) 15. Parlavi di un bambino (2:08) 16. xxx Anna (5:40)
SELLING POINTS
- Both LP and CD editions come with Bandcamp download code - Mixed and Mastered by Bob Drake - Cut for vinyl at Dubplates and Mastering LABEL CONTACT:
Tommy McCutchon Unseen Worlds, PO BOX 250558 New York, NY 10025 (917) 420-0788 email: tommy@unseenworlds.com twitter + instagram: @unseen_worlds
John Carpenter Skeleton b/w Unclean Spirit track listing: 1 Skeleton (3:13) 2 Unclean Spirit (3:01) Key Information / Selling Points: Hometown / Key Markets: • Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Austin, Chicago Selling Points / Key Press: • The first new, non-soundtrack John Carpenter music since 2016’s Lost Themes II •“Blood Red” vinyl limited to 2000 • Deluxe “X-Ray-style” opaque outer sleeve • Features Carpenter’s longtime collaborators and Halloween co-composers Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter • Precursor to an eventual Lost Themes III, tentatively out in early 2021
Legendary composer/director John Carpenter has returned with his first nonsoundtrack music since 2016’s Lost Themes II. Collaborating again with son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, his bandmates and co-composers for the David Gordon Green-directed Halloween films, Carpenter is sharing the propulsive new single “Skeleton” and its B-side, the haunting “Unclean Spirit.” The sessions for these songs saw the trio shifting their focus from scoring for the screen and engaging a totally different creative muscle. Instead of being guided by what was happening in the world of Halloween, they were free to work toward other ends. “It was refreshing to be able to write music that didn’t have to fit to any sort of locked image,” John said. “We also had a specific focus and direction we wanted to follow when working on Halloween, both in terms of mindset and instruments, and being able to return to working without that narrow focus was refreshing. Although working on Halloween didn’t specifically influence any of these new compositions, there is always a honing of craft that must take place when working on a film like Halloween, and our improved skills definitely helped us in writing these songs.” Working together to score a major Hollywood production only deepened the collaborative chemistry between the three composers. That comfort level paid dividends, as the songs developed largely in the room where they were recorded. “Like the majority of the songs that we write, both ‘Skeleton’ and ‘Unclean Spirit’ mainly started with an improvised riff, which was then expanded and built upon to create the full song,” John explained. “Like the previous Lost Themes album, we each handled duties of writing and recording, with all three of us contributing ideas and parts.”
Selected Related Catalog: • SBR-123 John Carpenter Lost Themes LP/CD • Sbr-150 John Carpenter Lost Themes II LP/CD • sbr-177 John Carpenter Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998 LP/CD • sbr-213 John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies Halloween: Original Soundtrack LP/CD • sbr-231 John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies Halloween: Expanded Soundtrack LP/CD RIYL: Horror soundtracks, Goblin, Tangerine Dream, Ennio Morricone catalog #: sbr-254 genre: Electronic/Instrumental Release Date: 8-28-2020 available formats: LP-c1 upc-lp-c1: 843563129319 export restrictions: none Vinyl is not returnable Box Lot: lp 30 label contact: Sacred Bones Records 144 N. 7th Street #413 Brooklyn, NY 11211 info@sacredbonesrecords.com www.sacredbonesrecords.com
“blood red” vinyl 12"
Moon Duo Escape (Expanded Edition) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
track listing: Motorcycle, I Love You (8:02) In the Trees ( 7:25) Stumbling 22nd St (6:58) Escape (6:22) A Little Way Different (6:35) Catch As Catch Can (4:19) Set It On Fire (4:19)
Key Information / Selling Points: Hometown / Key Markets: • Portland, San Francisco, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Austin, Chicago, London, Berlin
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Moon Duo’s long-out-of-print debut LP Escape, Sacred Bones is proud to present a new deluxe version of the album. The new reissue will include the original album in its entirety, plus three additional rare tracks taken from Moon Duo’s wild early days. Reflecting on the album in March 2020, the band shared the following statement: “We made this record in a rehearsal space in San Francisco in late 2009. It was kind of a classic band space, shared by a rangy assortment of musicians over months and years, behind one of several similar doors in a dark red hall. A windowless room lit by string lights and an odd assortment of lamps, the walls a palimpsest of posters and gig fliers. There was a grimy, burn-pocked rug, cluttered gear in various stages of use and abandonment, and the air seemed to hang in a permanent film of smoke residue and stale beer. We recorded to a 4-track tape machine over the course of a few nights - we’d just start the beats, hit ‘record’ and let fly. We had a vague sense of coalescence, or fomentation, like a glimpse of a thing in outline which you can’t yet see, but neither of us knew at the time that this was the record that would mark the beginning of our life as a touring band and would initiate our connections to so many (now long-time) friends, familiars and collaborators. Ten years feels like both a lifetime and the blink of an eye measurable but impossible to quantify. These four tracks, and the others that join them here, are a snapshot of our earliest incarnation: flying blind, but high on the freedom of experimentation and filled with hope for things to come.”
Selling Points / Key Press: • Reissue of the long-out-of-print debut Moon Duo album, with three bonus tracks • Pink vinyl limited to 1000 •“A Little Way Different” previously available only on the Welcome Home: Diggin’ the Universe comp on Woodsist •“Catch As Catch Can” and “Set It On Fire” previously available only on a 2010 7" on Agitated Records Selected Related Catalog: • SBR-168 Moon Duo Occult Architecture Vol. 1 LP/CD • SBR-169 Moon Duo Occult Architecture Vol. 2 LP/CD • SBR-228 Moon Duo Stars Are the Light LP/CD RIYL: Wooden Shjips, Föllakzoid, Spiritualized, Can catalog #: sbr-253 genre: Psychedelic/Rock Release Date: 8-28-2020 available formats: LP, lp-c1 upc-lp: 843563127063 upc-lp-c1: 843563127070 export restrictions: none Vinyl is not returnable Box Lot: lp 30 label contact: Sacred Bones Records 144 N. 7th Street #413 Brooklyn, NY 11211 info@sacredbonesrecords.com www.sacredbonesrecords.com
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Self Defense Family
Make Me a Pallet Fire On Your Floor / Local Clerics
August 28, 2020 ABOUT THE ALBUM
Over the years Self Defense Family’s revolving lineup and improvisational writing process has led to the band often recording new music while on tour, putting the focus on capturing a specific moment between the current collaborators. The Island singles have been snapshots of the band in studios all over the world, from Jamaica, to Iceland, to Scotland, and now Australia. The songs on Make Me A Pallet Fire On Your Floor / Local Clerics are marked by a raw, spacious recording, winding guitar lines mixed with swirling organ, and of course Kindlon’s one-of-a-kind vocals and unflinching lyricism.
CATALOG NUMBER: RFC217 RELEASE DATE: August 28, 2020 FORMAT: 7” 7” BOX LOT: 120 GENRE: Alternative / Indie / Hardcore KEY MARKETS: Boston, Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Austin, Los Angeles TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: None VINYL NOT RETURNABLE
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SELLING POINTS
TRACKLIST
Side A - Fourth installment of Self Defense Family’s Island Series 7”s - First RFC physical release since 2018’s critically acclaimed LP, Have You 1. Make Me A Pallet Fire On Your Floor Considered Punk Music - Digitally released earlier this year as part of the band’s Quarantine Collection, a weekly series of unearthing previously unreleased material
Side B 1. Local Clerics
ERIC COPELAND “DUMB IT DOWN”
Catalog Number: PPM65 Release Date: August 28, 2020
“Dumb it Down” is the fifteenth solo LP by Eric Copeland of Black Dice, released in 2020
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by Post Present Medium, who also released Eric’s first solo LP in 2007. Nimble, persuasive,
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and brisk, these ten songs bounce along with a charm and directness that’s entirely unprec-
Genre: Alternative / Indie, Experimental
edented in Eric’s 20+ year career. The evocative, carnival loops that have defined his solo
Key Markets: Los Angeles, London, New
work for the past decade are joined here by the organic warmth of a nylon string guitar and
York, Brooklyn, Madrid.
breezy vocals that make no attempt to hide the laughter behind the words. It’s captivating,
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and Eric’s sense of catching and holding attention has truly never been stronger than on
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this record—he’s chatty and sly, direct yet never exposed. An interviewer once asked Eric what his lyrics were about. “You know,” he replied, “like the
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blues.” The unprecedented clarity of “Dumb It Down” proves it true. Rooted in everyday life,
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these songs dart between enthusiasm and resignation, a deeply relatable contradiction of spirit. While this tension could derail a lesser record, Eric uses it to his advantage, con-
Track Listing
structing songs that feel casual and unrelenting in equal measure. It’s the balance found
Side A
in “Louie Louie” and “Sex Bomb” and really only two or three others. In the alternate reality
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where Flipper is the most revered band of the 20th century, Eric Copeland’s “Dumb It Down”
2. Groove Into
is the music buskers play in subway stations.
3. Vanilla Gorilla 4. Hey Worm 5. Motorcycles — Side B 6. Motor 7. Push 8. Dinosaurs 9. Feeding a Giant 10. Hey Zeus
• Eric Copeland from Black Dice returns with his mesmerizing take on pop. • First record on PPM since 2012
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GREG FOX Contact Greg Fox’s Contact is an extension and evolution of the multidisciplinary artist’s rigorous, virtuosic sound-making practices. On Contact, the devoted performer, intrepid composer and avid collaborator channels an alchemy of influences and ideas through the kinetic exchange of human and percussive forms. Produced and mixed by Randall Dunn, Contact sees Fox accessing ever more raw and ruminative states, processing the tumult of sentience into stick-hit-drum. Track Listing A1. Vedana A2. Arising and Passing A3. Contact (sukha & somanassa) A4. Parasthesia A5. Contact (dukkha & domanassa) B1. Ill Being B2. From the Cessation of What B3. Contact (upekkhā) Cat#: RVNGNL59 Release date: September 18, 2020 Formats: LP / Digital Genre: Rock / Experimental / Progressive Vinyl Not Returnable LP Box Lot: 25 Inner / 50 Outer LP UPC: 747742383090
2017’s The Gradual Progression introduced Fox’s synergistic relationship with Sensory Percussion music technology, a conspiratorial force in developing his gestural jazz and metal mathematics into four-limbed polyphony. With Dunn tasked to further Fox’s gradual progress, the two focused their combined energy on the intricacies of sound design during an intense, immersive recording process. On the other end of the deep dive, the duo had yielded something ritualistic and minimalistic, both building on and stripping back Fox’s previous work while welcoming an honest and cathartic weight and collaboration. Throughout Contact, melody-blossoming rhythm patterns are interceded by straight, unadorned drumming. The album grows silence into sound with its opener, “Vedana,” a clamor of tuned percussion ringing out into space. By its third entry, the palpating “Contact (sukha & somanassa),” we are transported to an intimate situation, as if sitting on the drummer’s throne. Fox’s mesmeric playing is both technically impactful and electrically spontaneous from this vantage, which we return to again with a brusquer “Contact (dukkha & domanassa)” and its liberated conclusion “Contact (upekkhā).” Transformative manifestations of interior states are released between, in the epic rise and fall of “Arising and Passing” and “From the Cessation of What,” where melodics arrive in spurts before flowing freely along with barreling percussion. And then there’s the slow deliberation of “Ill Being”, a simple resounding ostinato stabilizing fervent energies. Contact was delivered during a period of intense creative, emotional and spiritual
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growth. Fox takes the concept of sensation and pushes it beyond its technical potential into philosophical realms. While a reference to the instrumental impact, Contact also embodies the phenomenon of sensation in lived experience, and Buddhist notions about painful and pleasant physical and mental sensations, from which one may be liberated through internal process. We are offered a close, confidential perspective on this process through Contact, as Fox works through the impact before us. Greg Fox’s Contact will be made available May 29, 2020 digital formats, with a limited edition colored vinyl pressing of 600 being released on September 18th. The album features original artwork by Emma Kohlmann and design by Will Work For Good. Artist Highlights
• Over a year in the making, Contact
presents the strongest actualization of Greg Fox’s core artistic practice. • Contact was recorded, mixed, and produced by Randall Dunn (Sun O))), Oren Ambarchi) • The release of Contact will coincide with a Kickstarter campaign fundraising for Greg Fox’s new recording studio in Brooklyn. Kickstarter will support the album launch and awareness for Greg Fox using their marketing channels. • Greg Fox will tour Contact throughout 2020. • Contact follows widespread press acclaim for his 2017 solo debut, The Gradual Progression, with support from Pitchfork (7.7), NPR, FADER, Vice, The Creative Independent, Clot Mag, Groove, and many more international outlets. • 300 copies of the blue vinyl pressing will be available via retail, the rest being sold directly from Greg Fox’s Kickstarter and RVNG Intl. • Artwork is by New York painter Emma Kohlmann (IG: @meiow_mix)
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