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DECEMBER 7TH NEW RELEASES -------------------------------
• RICHARD SWIFT - THE HEX | CD (SC242cd) | Secretly Canadian PHYS UPC:656605024226 • RICHARD SWIFT - THE HEX (BLACK VINYL) | LP (SC242lp) | Secretly Canadian PHYS UPC:656605024219 • ANAL TRUMP - THE FIRST 100 SONGS | CD (JNR290cd) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270693595 • ANAL TRUMP - THE FIRST 100 SONGS (DRAIN-THE-SWAMP GREEN VINYL (SCREEN-PRINTED B-SIDE) VINYL) | LP (JNR290lp-C1) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270693588 • DELVON LAMARR ORGAN TRIO - LIVE AT KEXP! | Cassette (CLMN12020cass) | Colemine Records PHYS UPC:659123100335 • DELVON LAMARR ORGAN TRIO - LIVE AT KEXP! | CD (CLMN12020cd) | Colemine Records PHYS UPC:659123100328 • DELVON LAMARR ORGAN TRIO - LIVE AT KEXP! (BLACK VINYL) | LP (CLMN12020lp) | Colemine Records PHYS UPC:659123100342 • LOS SOSPECHOS - POSTALES SOUNDTRACK | Cassette (CLMN12007cass) | Colemine Records PHYS UPC:674862653959 • LOS SOSPECHOS - POSTALES SOUNDTRACK | CD (CLMN12007cd) | Colemine Records PHYS UPC:659123100427 • LOS SOSPECHOS - POSTALES SOUNDTRACK (BLACK VINYL) | LP (CLMN12007lp) | Colemine Records PHYS UPC:659123100434 • LAURIE SPIEGEL - THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE | 2xCD (UW019cd) | Unseen Worlds PHYS UPC:766008587805 • LAURIE SPIEGEL - THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE (BLACK VINYL) | 3xLP (UW019lp) | Unseen Worlds PHYS UPC:766008587799 • LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - I USED TO (DIXON REWORK B/W PULSE V.1) (BLACK VINYL) | 12" (DFA2604lp) | DFA Records PHYS UPC:829732260410 • LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - OH BABY (LOVEFINGERS REMIXES) (BLACK VINYL) | 12" (DFA2605lp) | DFA Records PHYS UPC:829732260519 • HXXS - MKDRONE (BLACK VINYL) | 12" EP (CT294lp) | Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949016609 • RICHARD SWIFT - THE NOVELIST / WALKING WITHOUT EFFORT (BLACK VINYL) | LP (SC111lp) | Secretly Canadian PHYS UPC:656605011110 • THE SIGHT BELOW - GLIDER 10 (REMASTERED) (BLACK VINYL) | LP (GI124lp) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297812441 • GONG GONG GONG - SIREN / SOMETHING’S HAPPENING (BLACK VINYL) | 7" (WCR089lp) | Wharf Cat Records PHYS UPC:843563106877
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------------------------------• RETAIL & DOMESTIC SALES - SHELLY WESTERHAUSEN - shelly@secretlydistribution.com - 812.822.3886 • DOMESTIC SALES & MARKETING - ANN JONKER - ann@secretlydistribution.com - 812.822.3884 • INTERNATIONAL SALES & MARKETING - LAUREN BROWN- lauren.brown@secretlydistribution.com - 812.822.3894 • DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION & PROMOTION - CHARLEY KIEFER - charley@secretlydistribution.com - 812.822.3885
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Richard Swift The Hex About the album
Richard Swift believed in and sought real beauty. And so, even at its most caustic and sardonic, his masterpiece swan song The Hex is beautiful. Conceived in pieces over the last several years and completed just the month before his passing, The Hex is the grand statement Swift acolytes have been a-wishin-and-a-hopin’ for all these years. After a career of sticking some of his finest songs on EPs and 45s, here are all his powers coalescing into a single, long-player statement. At its core, The Hex is an aching call out into the void for Swift’s mother (“Wendy”) and his sister (“Sister Song”) whom he lost in back-to-back years. You hear a man at his lowest and spiritually on his heels. The pain fueling Swift’s cries of “She’s never comin’ back” on the absolutely gutting standout “Nancy” is some sort of dark catharsis for anyone who’s ever lost a loved one to the cold abstraction of Death. Over a slow, Wall of Sound kick and a warbling synth, Swift’s cries climb higher-n-higher-n-higher into what may be his most devastating vocal performance on record. A cry of pain so real and so raw Swift had to treat the performance with just a little studio effect, without which the recorded grieving might be too much to bear. The Hex is presented here as “The Hex For Family and Friends.” An obsessive fan of Wall of Sound doo-wop, early Funkadelic, Bo Diddley, Beefheart and Link Wray, Swift gives them all a moment with the flashlight around The Hex campfire, one moment to make a strange shadow-cast face for us, his family and friends.
Details
CATALOG NUMBER: SC242 RELEASE DATE: December 7, 2018 FORMAT: CD/LP/Digital CD BOX LOT: 30 LP BOX LOT: 40 GENRE: Alternative KEY MARKETS: London, Los Angeles, New York City, Brooklyn, Chicago, Philadelphia TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: None VINYL NOT RETURNABLE
CD UPC: 656605024226
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LP UPC: 656605024219
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DIGITAL UPC: 656605024264
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Tracks Selling Points
• Conceived in pieces over the last several years and completed just the month before his passing • A close collaborator and performer with The Shins, The Black Keys and producer of some of the most loved independent releases of the last 10 years
Exclusively Distributed By Secretly Distribution Phone: (812) 335-1572 US Domestic Sales Contact: domestic@secretlydistribution.com International Sales Contact: international@secretlydistribution.com
SIDE A:
SIDE B:
1. The Hex 2. Broken Finger Blues 3. Selfishmath 4. Dirty Jim 5. Babylon 6. Wendy
7. Sister Song 8. Nancy 9. HZLWD 10. Kensington! 11. Sept20
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ANAL TRUMP
The First 100 Songs RELEASE DATE : CATALOG # : AVAILABLE FORMATS : GENRE : BOX LOT QUANTITY : PACKAGING :
VINYL INCLUDES DOWNLOAD
TRACK LISTING :
1. That Makes Me Smart 2. To All The Broads I've Nailed Before 3. If You Thought Six Million Jews Was A Lot Of People, You Should've Seen My Inauguration 4. If You Wanted To Qualify For Health Insurance, Then Maybe You Shouldn't Have Gotten Raped? 5. Make America Say Merry Christmas Again 6. Thoughts 7. Prayers 8. The Golden Age Of Willful Ignorance RECOMMENDED IF YOU LIKE :
Cattle Decapitation Mitch McConnell Hate Eternal Metal Bleak Humor Therapy Charity
SCREEN-PRINTED ART ON SIDE B
December 7, 2018 JNR290 CD
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LP-C1 / CD Grindcore / Metal 20 LP / 30 CD JACKET
VINYL NON-RETURNABLE.
DRAIN-THE-SWAMP GREEN VINYL
OVERVIEW :
The true identities of Rob and Travis Trump remain shrouded in mystery. Are
2 : 5 8 they the unwanted bastard children of the Philanderer-in-Chief? Regular 1 : 0 5 citizens transformed into angry mutants by the deluge of toxic waste spewing
from the 45th President’s mouth? Or simply two dudes from high-profile San Diego musical acts who decided to pay tribute to grindcore pioneers Anal Cunt 1 : 2 9 through the words of a man who embodies that band’s name? Whatever the origin of these mystery men, they found only one way to deal with the insanity happening in the political world: they became Anal Trump. As Rob puts it, “Protest music is boring, and once I got the idea, the potential seemed 1 : 1 6 bottomless.” Anal Trump come from a rich tradition of politically-motivated extreme music. Grindcore’s origins date back to Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, when a collective 0 : 4 6 of teenage anarcho-punks decided to call themselves Napalm Death and throw thrash metal and hardcore punk in a blender set to “loudest” and “fastest.”
1:40 The First 100 Songs pays tribute to classic AxCx album titles like The 110 Song 1 : 5 5 CD and 5643 Song EP. Rob feels their appeal lies in that gray area. “They took 0 : 2 3 hate so far beyond everything that all meaning seemed to invert at some point and back again so often that it became impossible to take seriously.” Whatever the intent, they succeeded in horrifying parents everywhere. Anal Trump have one distinct advantage over Seth Putnam’s trailblazing act: whereas Putnam and his collaborators had to come up with their own sleazy subject matter, Rob and Travis have a ready-made supply of parent-offending quotes straight from the Oval Office.
Produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Rob Trump, The First 100 Songs boasts a hundred songs in eleven minutes -- their entire recorded output to date. With songs based on actual quotes by the man (“I Like The Soldiers Who DON’T Get Captured”) to creative interpretations (“My Cabinet Is Nuanced As Shit”) to Putnam-esque bon mots (“Renewable Resources Are Gay”), there’s a smorgasbord of Trumpiliciousness! According to Rob, their material has a universal appeal: “One of the things about this stuff is that, since most of it is taken right from his mouth or ideology, a Trumpster should be fine with it as much as a Bernie person would enjoy laughing at it. It's just a mirror and that, in itself, is terrifying.” Rob and Travis Trump aren’t going to fill your ears with talk of universal healthcare or equal voting rights or any of that socialist stuff -- although they donated 100% of the proceeds from their EPs to non-profit organizations like the ACLU and Planned Parenthood. They just want to point out that the most powerful man in the world is a hate-mongering clown, using shrieks and micro-riffs as their chosen vehicle. Anal Trump will soon take this show on the road with help from Justin Trump on bass and John Putin on drums, but as for their future plans? “I just want this ugly chapter of human history to finally be over.”
joyful noise recordings 1030 Orange St | Indianapolis, IN 46203
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HXXS
MKDRONE 12” EP •
• Hometown: Kansas City First release on Captured Tracks • Touring USA in 2018
When recording their EP ‘MKDRONE,’ duo Jeannie Colleene and Gavin Neves – a/k/a HXXS – were cramped in a San Jose warehouse, sharing a wall with a porn studio. Despite their vocal takes periodically interrupted by even louder and harsher vocal takes echoing in the halls, MKDRONE came together. When prescription medication became the only reprieve for an inoperable tooth infection that had one member sliding between unbearable pain and prescription-induced euphoria, the first single “Seppuku,” the historical Japanese term for suicide by disembowelment, came to fruition. But similar to life with no health insurance and recording music wedged in the walls of a porn studio, HXXS live somewhere between the uncomfortable and the alluring. Their live show, which consists of any hardware they can get their hands on – drum machines, synthesizers, samplers – is built on loops, making the songs feverish and at times deliberately frenzied to a point of anxiety. However the duo anesthetize this angst with more subdued nods to electronic and post-punk acts of the 80’s, 90’s, 00’s and Present.
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While their music is undeniably erotic – a tip of the hat to their vocal San Jose neighbors – the EP is what happens when your intrigue with pop culture media and conspiracy theories from the 60’s to present turns obsession. Contemplating the bombardment of modern media and those ill served by it. Women, the LGBTQ+ community, people of color, victims of white supremacy and the patriarchy.
EP UPC: 817949016609
LP FORMAT: 12” LP BOXLOT: 45 EXPORT: USA ONLY VINYL NON-RETURNABLE
As the 10 year anniversary of Captured Tracks draws to a close, HXXS were welcomed to the roster with an invitation to join the final CTX show at Baby’s Alright on November 11, playing alongside Drahla and Wax Chattels. RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 7, 2018 GENRE: ELECTRONIC / ALTERNATIVE
Press: Lisa Gottheil and Bailey Sattlerlisag@grandstandhq.com baileys@grandstandhq.com Sales : Dave Martin -
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Richard Swift The Novelist / Walking Without Effort About the album
Richard Swift’s duo debuts, The Novelist and Walking Without Effort, are fraternal twins wrestling with same Big Questions in opposite ways — one toiling in a cinderblock basement slugging typewriter coffee; one lost on the Pacific Coast Highway, looking again and again for something in a sunset that just ain’t there. One’s wheezing through a crusty gramophone in some Artie Shaw air-conditioned nightmare; one’s gliding on the soft tape of an 8-Track, fat tears welling up behind those outlandish 70s sunglasses. Taken together, they speak to Swift’s wild, preternatural shapeshifting ability, an auteur’s understanding of mood and place. Yet, you always know you’re seeing these new places through Swift’s translucent, wolven eyes. These two recordings are his 8½, both the portal and the Rosetta Stone to Swift’s singular musical universe and language.
Details
CATALOG NUMBER: SC111lp RELEASE DATE: December 7, 2018 FORMAT: 2XLP 2XLP BOX LOT: 20 GENRE: Alternative KEY MARKETS: London, Los Angeles, New York City, Brooklyn, Chicago, Philadelphia TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: None VINYL NOT RETURNABLE
2XLP UPC: 656605011110
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Selling Points
• Much sought after release, repressed on vinyl for first time in years • A close collaborator and performer with The Shins, The Black Keys and producer of some of the most loved independent releases of the last 10 years • Swift’s legacy undergoing wide reevaluation in light of his untimely passing.
Exclusively Distributed By Secretly Distribution Phone: (812) 335-1572 US Domestic Sales Contact: domestic@secretlydistribution.com International Sales Contact: international@secretlydistribution.com
SIDE A:
SIDE B:
1. Foreward 2. Lady Day 3. Lovely Night 4. Sadsong St.
5. Blues For Mother 6. The Novelist 7. Ballad of Clifford Swift 8. Looking Back, I Should Have Been Home More
SIDE C:
SIDE D:
9. Walking Without Effort Theme 10. Half Lit 11. In the Air 12. As I Go 13. Above & Beneath
14. Mexico (1977) 15. Losing Sleep 16. Not Wasting Time 17. Beautifulheart
GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
GI-124X The Sight Below
Glider 10 TRACKLIST 01. At First Touch 02. Without Motion 03. Life’s Fading Light 04. The Sunset Passage 05. Already There
06. Further Away 07. Dour 08. A Fractured Smile 09. Nowhere
RELEASE BIO "Running a guitar through a variety of looping, reverb, and delay stations, he uses the E-bow, the slide, and tentative picking techniques to circumvent the physical essence of the strings and to marshal clouds of edgeless tone." - Pitchfork "... a fresh slant on that post-classical sound that's so rarely executed with any originality but which is here crafted with an expert hand. ...A massive recommendation = Essential Purchase" - Boomkat There's a beating heart buried in the cold landscape of Glider, a warm 4/4 pulse that enervates the album's echoing, looped drones and pulls the listener swiftly through the snow. By pinning barely-there electronic beats to his wisps of guitar melody, the Seattle-based producer turns ambient music into a hybrid strain of breathtakingly intimate, small-scale dance music.
RELEASE INFO Catalogue Number: GI-124X Format: LP Release Date: December 7th, 2018 UPC: LP- 804297812441 Genre: Electronic, ambient RIYL: Gas, Fennesz, Basic Channel, Tim Hecker Not available for export Box Lot: LP-10 Vinyl is not returnable
There's a separation of elements in The Sight Below's songs POINTS OF INTEREST that's almost meteorological in nature: Tendrils of treated guitar trail lazy patterns in the sky like the Aurora Borealis ("At First • Remaster of 2008 classic ten years after release. Touch"), flicker in the distance like heat lightning ("Dour"), or • Standard weight vinyl is inserted in to printed expand and contract like time-lapse cloud formations ("Life's inner sleeves in a matte jacket, now available as 1xLP. Fading Light"); running along beneath, nearly obscured by the • Press support from Pitchfork, Tiny Mix Tapes, The AV Club, airborne phenomena, is an ever-present beat, which ranges Resident Advisor and PopMatters from the mud-puddle throb in "Without Motion" to the tiny, insistent high-hats in "A Fractured Smile." The tracks evolve at a deliberated pace, but as the tones overlap and the rhythms build, time oozes to a halt and hangs in blissfully frost-bitten suspended animation. With Glider, The Sight Below has created a work of vertiginous sonic depth and exquisite melancholy: techno music for a dark, brooding night. The 2018 vinyl reissue features recently remastered versions of the original tracks in a new single LP format.
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Ghostly International 181 Chrystie St., 3rd Floor New York, NY 10002 dado@ghostly.com www.ghostly.com
LP UPC
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WHARF CAT RECORDS
WCR 089
Gong Gong Gong Siren / Something’s Happening ALBUM ARTWORK
TRACKLIST 1. Siren 2. Something’s Happening RELEASE BIO Beijing’s Gong Gong Gong make driving, stripped-down transnational blues, tapping into the spirit of Bo Diddley, the Monks, and psychedelic music from West Africa to Southeast Asia. “Phantom Rhythm” is the concept at the duo’s core: between Tom Ng’s percussive guitar and Joshua Frank’s melodic, charging bass, an aura of ghostly snare hits emerges over a thumping low-end pulse. Atop this framework, Ng recounts Cantonese tales of absurdity, love and lust with fragmented, wry vision. On their first US release, Gong Gong Gong brings to life a cinematic chase scene. Shot-by-shot, frame-by-frame, “Siren” is a story of galloping hooves and screeching tires—a horse and car racing each other through mountains and desert, charging into the city. The flip-side, instrumental “Something’s Happening” is Gong Gong Gong at their most raw: locomotive jangle and fuzz-faced roar. Dust, sweat and engine oil, the landscape rushing by. TOUR DATES 9/23/18 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox * 9/24/18 Vancouver, BC @ Imperial * 9/25/18 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom * 9/27/18 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore * 9/28/18 San Jose, CA @ The Ritz * 10/7/18 Brooklyn, NY @ Alphaville 10/19/18 Queens, NY @ Outpost Artist Resources 11/30/18 Washington, DC @ Black Cat # 12/3/18 Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern # 12/4/18 Chicago, IL @ The Hideout # 12/5/18 Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups # 12/6/18 Paterson, NJ @ The Red Wheelbarrow # * = w/Parquet Courts # = w/Flasher & Public Practice
RELEASE INFO Catalog Number: WCR 089 Format: 7”, Digital Release Date: November 16th (WW) UPC-LP: 843563106877 Territory Restrictions: None Genre: Alternative, World Psychedelic, Blues Vinyl is non-returnable Box Lot: 50
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POINTS OF INTEREST Transnational blues with swarming psychedelic borders - Stereogum stripped down dirty blues rock, whose mantra is “Phantom Rhythm” - Brooklyn Vegan • Currently touring US w/Parquet Courts • Touring UK & Europe Q1 2019 w/Bodega
LABEL CONTACT Wharf Cat Records 810 Humboldt St Brooklyn, NY 11222 info@wharfcatrecords.com www.wharfcatrecords.com VINYL UPC
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