New Releases: February 23rd // March 2nd by Secretly Distribution

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FEBRUARY 23RD NEW RELEASES -------------------------------

• S. CAREY - HUNDRED ACRES | CD (JAG311cd) | Jagjaguwar PHYS UPC:656605231129 • S. CAREY - HUNDRED ACRES (BLACK VINYL) | LP (JAG311lp) | Jagjaguwar PHYS UPC:656605231112

• S. CAREY - HUNDRED ACRES (TRANSLUCENT GREEN VINYL) | LP (JAG311lp-C1) | Jagjaguwar PHYS UPC:656605231136 • THE LOW ANTHEM - THE SALT DOLL WENT TO MEASURE THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA | CD (JNR255cd) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270691874 • THE LOW ANTHEM - THE SALT DOLL WENT TO MEASURE THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA (BLACK VINYL) | LP (JNR255lp) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270691881 • THE LOW ANTHEM - THE SALT DOLL WENT TO MEASURE THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA (SALT WHITE VINYL) | LP (JNR255lp-C1) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270691898 • HAILU MERGIA - LALA BELU | CD (ATFA028cd) | Awesome Tapes From Africa PHYS UPC:616892557340 • HAILU MERGIA - LALA BELU (BLACK VINYL) | LP (ATFA028lp) | Awesome Tapes From Africa PHYS UPC:616892557241 • HAILU MERGIA - LALA BELU (BLACK VINYL) | 7" (ATFA028.5lp) | Awesome Tapes From Africa PHYS UPC: • OLDEN YOLK - OLDEN YOLK | CD (TIM129cd) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983348 • OLDEN YOLK - OLDEN YOLK (BLACK VINYL) | LP (TIM129lp) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983362 • OLDEN YOLK - OLDEN YOLK (MILKY HAZE VINYL) | LP (TIM129lp-C1) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983379 • TOTALLY MILD - HER | CD (CH149cd) | Chapter Music PHYS UPC:711583807633 • TOTALLY MILD - HER (BLACK VINYL) | LP (CH149lp) | Chapter Music PHYS UPC:711583807626 • TOTALLY MILD - HER (BABY PINK VINYL) | LP (CH149lp-C2) | Chapter Music PHYS UPC:747742112317 • LIONLIMB - TAPE RECORDER | CD (BR015cd) | Bayonet PHYS UPC:859575005411 • LIONLIMB - TAPE RECORDER (CLEAR VINYL) | LP (BR015lp) | Bayonet PHYS UPC:859575005404 • JACKSON MACINTOSH - MY DARK SIDE | CD (LYN035cd) | Sinderlyn PHYS UPC:858458006156 • JACKSON MACINTOSH - MY DARK SIDE (BLACK VINYL) | LP (LYN035lp) | Sinderlyn PHYS UPC:858458006149 • JOEY DOSIK - GAME WINNER | CDEP (SC363cd) | Secretly Canadian PHYS UPC:656605036328 • JOEY DOSIK - GAME WINNER (BLACK VINYL) | 12" EP (SC363lp) | Secretly Canadian PHYS UPC:656605036311 • MARK RENNER - FEW TRACES | 2xLP (ReRVNG11lp) | RVNG INTL. PHYS UPC:716670165887 • MARTIN NEWELL - GREATEST LIVING ENGLISHMAN (BLACK VINYL) | LP (CT271lp) | Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949014100 • JACQUELINE HUMBERT & DAVID ROSENBOOM - J. JASMINE: MY NEW MUSIC (BLACK VINYL) | LP (UW016lp) | Unseen Worlds PHYS UPC:766008587669 • JACQUELINE HUMBERT & DAVID ROSENBOOM - J. JASMINE: MY NEW MUSIC (BLACK VINYL) | LP (UW016lp) | Unseen Worlds PHYS UPC:766008587669

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S. CAREY HUNDRED ACRES ABOUT THE ALBUM

DETAILS

At its heart, Hundred Acres - the third full-length from Wisconsin singer/songwriter S. Carey - finds him grounded and confident, writing the strongest songs of his career. More direct than ever, there is a wellspring of confidence in this new batch of songs that allow for ideas to remain uncomplicated while laying bare the intricacies of life. Written in between touring schedules and the growth of his family, Carey produced Hundred Acres at April Base in Fall Creek, WI with support from his regular crew and contributions from the likes of Rob Moose (yMusic), Casey Foubert (Sufjan Stevens) and Sophie Payten (Gordi). He employed a smaller, more focused scale of instrumentation than on his previous albums while writing mostly on guitar instead of his go-to piano. Using more traditional song structures instead of the Steve Reich-ian repetitions of his past work, a new balance is struck that creates something unique. The result is a collection of poetic yet clear-eyed songs that both stand brightly on their own and tightly weave together to create a powerful album.

CATALOG NUMBER: JAG311 RELEASE DATE: February 23, 2018 FORMAT: CD/LP/Digital CD BOX LOT: 30 LP BOX LOT: 50 GENRE: Alternative/Indie Rock KEY MARKETS: Minneapolis, MN, Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, Louisville, KY, Nashville, TN, Chicago, IL TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: None VINYL NOT RETURNABLE

CD UPC: 656605231129

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COLORED LP UPC: 656605231136

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LP UPC: 656605231112

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DIGITAL UPC: 656605231167

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Tour dates planned through 2018

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Album features guest vocals from Gordi

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First pressing of 4,000 on Translucent Green vinyl

TRACKS SIDE A:

SIDE B:

1. Rose Petals 2. Hideout 3. Yellowstone 4. True North 5. Emery

6. Hundred Acres 7. More I See 8. Fool’s Gold 9. Have You Stopped to Notice 10. Meadow Song

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THE LOW ANTHEM The Salt Doll Went to Measure the Depth of the Sea RELEASE DATE : Febuary 23, 2018 CATALOG # : JNR255

LP (BLACK) UPC: 7 1 4 2 7 0 6 9 1 8 8 1

AVAILABLE FORMATS : LP / CD GENRE : Indie Folk, Experimental BOX LOT QUANTITY : 10 LP / 30 CD

LP-C1 (SALT WHITE) UPC: 7 1 4 2 7 0 6 9 1 8 9 8

PACKAGING : JACKET / WALLET

VINYL NON-RETURNABLE.

Bone of Sailor, Bone of Bird River Brine Give My Body Back Drowsy Dowsing Dolls The Krill Whistle Their Fight Song Toowee Toowee Coral Crescent Dotwav Cy Twombly By Campﬁre Gondwanaland To Get Over Only One Side Final Transmission From The Diving Umbrella

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The Low Anthem would beckon you into the salty sea. Formed in 2007 by best friends, Ben Knox Miller and Jeff Prystowsky, The Low Anthem grew from DIY ethos in the late-aughts to semi-accidental success. Having originally self-released What The Crow Brings and Oh My God, Charlie Darwin (which sold a combined 100,000+ copies), the group signed with Nonesuch, toured the world, and were reluctantly lumped in with the so-called "folk revival". However, night after night of performing their early material was not ultimately where they wanted to land: “The moment was losing its mystery. We were scared of becoming robots,” said the band after six years of reflection. So, in the winter of 2012, the group came back to their hometown of Providence, RI, with an eye toward re-exploring their musical understanding from the ground up. Largely abandoning the international folk movement they were a part of, the group instead poured their energy into their local community by rehabbing a vaudeville-era theater, and building their own recording studio. It’s in this newly restored vaudeville theater-studio that The Low Anthem found new direction. The band began recording in increasingly experimental and meticulous ways (using various non-instruments and painstakingly tracking hundreds of hours of material). It was an exercise in complete musical deconstruction - scrambling and reassembling their musical ideas – which eventually resulted in the album Eyeland. A complexly experimental album, the release of Eyeland was tragically cut short after four shows due to a crippling car accident, leaving the band hospitalized and the tour cancelled. It was through this whole journey that The Low Anthem were able to boil-down their musical ideals and find their true voice. With their new album The Salt Doll Went To Measure The Depth Of The Sea, The Low Anthem present 12 short songs that are fragile, nuanced, and honest. In contrast to the existential freakout that is Eyeland, or the folk-faithful incubator albums, The Salt Doll... feels delicately purposeful. Acoustic arrangements are peppered with subtle and fragmented electronic elements. Rhythms are physically composed on the center loops of vinyl records. These elements weave songs that sound at once organic and highly-conceptual.

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Hailu Mergia — Lala Belu

Capping several successful years traveling the world performing to audiences big and small, Hailu Mergia’s Lala Belu has been a long time coming. It builds on Mergia’s remarkable career resurgence over the past few years. Beginning in 2013 with the reissue of his dreamy Hailu Mergia and His Classical Instrument followed by the enormous success of his seminal Ethio-jazz masterpiece Tche Belew and continuing with last year’s widely acclaimed Wede Harer Guzo, Mergia has received considerable accolades from listeners and press globally, including The New York Times, Pitchfork and The Wire. His old recordings are cherished revelations for Ethiopian music fans; however, Mergia’s return to the stage has been just as inspiring and electrifying. Mergia’s vintage recordings are known for an inherently mysterious and worn-in quality, while his new recordings echo his band’s 21st century live show with modern instrumental interpretations of crucial Ethiopian standards and Mergia’s own original compositions. Tony Buck (drums) and Mike Majkowski (bass), who have backed Mergia on tour throughout Europe and Australia, form the bass-drums trio on the recording. Having played venues from Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center to jazz festivals, rock clubs and DIY spaces all over North America, Europe and Australia, Mergia and Awesome Tapes From Africa want to document this moment in his landmark career with a snapshot of Mergia’s current sound. Since he emigrated from Ethiopia and built a life in Washington, D.C. around 1981—where he remains working as an airport taxi driver when he is not on tour—Mergia’s career has followed a humble trajectory. He made a few recordings in America but they didn’t easily reach fans back home. He kept making music on his own and with friends but after the early 80’s his gigs in the U.S. mostly dried up. It wasn’t until he began working with Awesome Tapes From Africa and putting together bands with the help of booking agents and musicians in Europe and the U.S., that he was able to chart a new path. With a broad audience of young listeners in diverse venues and distant locales, at age 71, Mergia is enjoying his comeback and is not slowing down. AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA PO BOX 986 NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10009

01. Tizita (10:00) 02. Addis Nat (04:34) 03. Gum Gum (06:47) 04. Anchihoye Lene (07:06) 05. Lala Belu (04:42) 06. Yefikir Engurguro (06:15) CATALOG #: ATFA028 RELEASE DATE: 02/23/18 FORMAT: LP/CD LIST PRICE: CD: 14.98 / LP: 19.98 DISCOUNT: 5% discount thru two weeks past street date LP BOX LOT: 25 CD BOX LOT: 40 UNITS PER SET: 1xLP, 1xCD GENRE: World/Jazz KEY MARKETS: NYC, LA, DC, Chicago, Detroit, Seattle,   San Francisco VINYL NOT RETURNABLE NO EXPORTS LP#616892557241

CD#616892557340

Selling Points: -First new LP in over 15 years -Builds on 3 successful ATFA reissues of Mergia’s music -First release following several worldwide tours -Legendary artist still active after decades of historic work -Modern Ethiopian jazz built on ancient scales and standards

Hailu Mergia —   Yegojam Marnesh / Yegle Nesh 7”

01. Yegojam Marnesh (5:12) 02. Yegle Nesh (4:38)

This bonus 7” of extra tracks are a sonic complement to Hailu Mergia’s new album. Where the album scales angular heights between modern jazz and Ethiopian harmonies, these two tracks explore the heavier side of Mergia’s trio work with drummer Tony Buck and Bassist Mike Majkowski. The band has toured the world together over the last few years following Mergia’s reissuing some of his classic recordings via Awesome Tapes From Africa.

CATALOG #: ATFA028.5 RELEASE DATE: 02/23/18 LIST PRICE: LP: 6.97 DISCOUNT: 5% discount thru two weeks past street date LP BOX LOT: 25 CD BOX LOT: 40 UNITS PER SET: 1xLP GENRE: Electronic/World KEY MARKETS: NYC, LA, DC, Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, San Francisco VINYL NOT RETURNABLE NO EXPORTS

Selling Points: -Limited to 1000 copies -Extra tracks from first new album in 15 years -Original compositions -Features diverse facets of   Mergia’s performances

AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA PO BOX 986 NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10009

TROUBLE IN MIND

TIM129

Olden Yolk s/t TRACKLIST

1. Verdant

7. Hen’s Teeth

2. Cut To the Quick

8. Esprit de Corps

3. Gamblers On A Dime

9. After Us

4. Vital Sign

10. Takes One To Know One

5. Aria 6. Common Ground RELEASE BIO

RELEASE INFO Olden Yolk is a New York-based group whose penchant for dystopian folk, abstract Catalogue Number: TIM129 poeticism, and motorik rhythms have enveloped them in a sound uniquely of-the-moment yet Format: CD, LP, LP-C1 simultaneously time-tested. The project is currently led by songwriters, vocalists, and multiRelease Date: Februar y23rd, 2018 instrumentalists Shane Butler and Caity Shaffer, whose interlaced vocals are found guiding each composition on their enlivening self-titled debut. The project was initially conceived CD: 630125983348 in 2012 by Butler as an outlet for one-off songs and visual art while touring and releasing UPC-LP: 630125983362 albums with the band Quilt (Mexican Summer). Following the release of a split-record with UPC-LP-C1: 630125983379 Weyes Blood in 2014, Olden Yolk became a collaborative entity. Territor y Restrictions: None Olden Yolk’s debut ruminates on questions surrounding love, self-doubt, and locating Genre: Indie / Psychedelia / Folk autonomy amidst burgeoning unrest. Wrought with hazy melancholy and halcyon joy, Butler RIYL: The Clientele, Nap Eyes, Cate Le Bon, Yo La Tengo, Fresh & Onlys, Quilt and Shaffer’s lilting vocals play off one another through a devotional dialogue, taking Vinyl is not returnable form in haunting choral melodies and candid rock n' roll. These songs are ecstatic odes to Box Lot CDs: 300 the life of the city; to the subway platforms, kiosks, and monuments which enliven and Box Lot LP: 30 encompass our collectivity, elevating into an urban-psychedelia. On the album, Butler and Shaffer are joined by drummer Dan Drohan (Tei Shi, Uni Ika Ai) and guitarist Jesse DeFrancesco who round out the studio sessions and live-band. Drohan’s POINTS OF INTEREST deep passion for jazz, hip-hop, and experimental percussion come to fore while - Limited “storm cloud” haze color vinyl available direct to shops Defrancesco’s minimal yet powerful guitar ambiences are heard swelling in the peripheries - New band featuring Shane Butler, formerly of Quilt of each song. The album was recorded at Gary’s Electric in NYC by Jarvis Taveniere - Recorded by Jar vis Taverniere ( Woods) (Woods) with co-production, electronics, and mixing by Jon Nellen (Ginla, Terrible Records). Other guests, such as multi-instrumentalist John Andrews (Woods, Quilt, - Mastered by Mikey Young The Yawns) and violinist Jake Falby (Mutual Benefit, Julie Byrne), add to the mercurial nature of the record, creating a landscape tinged with beatific songwriting and LABEL CONTACT transgressive underpinnings. TROUBLE IN MIND RECORDS Olden Yolk’s debut is released on CD, black vinyl, & limited “storm cloud” haze colored P.O. BOX 30079 vinyl for direct accounts. the album will also be made available via all digital retailers. Chicago, IL 60630-1340 troubleinmindrecs@gmail.com www.troubleinmindrecs.com

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CHAPTER MUSIC

CH149 Totally Mild Her TRACKLIST 1. Sky 2. Pearl 3. Working Like A Crow 4. From One Another 5. Lucky Stars

6. Today Tonight 7. Underwater 8. Take Today 9. More 10. Down Together

RELEASE BIO Her is the second album by Melbourne lush pop quartet Totally Mild. Following on from their acclaimed 2015 debut Down Time (released by Fire Records in the UK and Bedroom Suck in Australia), Her is a shining jewel of an album. Elizabeth Mitchell’s voice soars and swoops in shiver-inducing ways, while her songs address desires and dreams with affecting frankness. “Her is a record of failure and victory, new desire, stale romance, queer domesticity and what comes when the party is over,” says Mitchell. First single Today Tonight is kinetic, dynamic guitar pop at its finest, while Lucky Stars showcases Mitchell’s love for piano balladry, and From One Another is an eulogy for a toxic relationship given the most graceful pop setting. Totally Mild toured UK/Europe in 2015 and the US in 2017, playing SXSW and a string of LA/NYC shows. In Australia they have shared stages with the likes of Real Estate, Kurt Vile, Best Coast, DIIV and The Chills. Across their powerful, delicate, luminous second album Her, Totally Mild move through light and shade with silky finesse. “A shining talisman for the heartbroken” - Pitchfork “Engorged, engaged, empowered bedroom sulk music” The Guardian “Sweet, harmony-rich, pointedly concise jangle-pop” NPR “Skewed pop gold” - Noisey CD

LP - black vinyl

RELEASE INFO Catalogue Number: CH149 Format: CD, LP Release Date: 23 February 2018 UPC: 747742 112317 (LP – pink vinyl) 711583 807626 (LP – black vinyl) 711583 807633 (CD) Territory Restrictions: none Genre: lush guitar pop/rock Vinyl is not returnable Box Lot: 32 (CD), 12 (LP) POINTS OF INTEREST

- Second album for lush Australian guitar pop quartet - Feted by Pitchfork, NPR, The Guardian, Noisey etc - Produced by James Cecil (ex Architecture In Helsinki) - Have played with Kurt Vile, Best Coast, DIIV, Real Estate - Touring USA around SXSW 2018 - Available on black or baby pink vinyl

LABEL CONTACT Chapter Music 78 Walker St Clifton Hill VIC 3068 Australia info@chaptermusic.com www.chaptermusic.com LP - pink vinyl

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Lionlimb TAPE RECORDER catalog number:

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Project of Stewart Bronaugh from Angel Olsen’s band

01. CLOVER 02. MARIA 03. STAR MANGLED 04. TAPE RECORDER 05. SWALLOW’S SONG 06. VELVET

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‘Tape Recorder’ is the second album from Nashville’s Lionlimb, the project of Stewart Bronaugh and Joshua Jaeger. The record is a collection of six tracks written by Bronaugh after their second European tour in the fall of 2016, primarily on piano in Columbia University practice rooms. After having collaborated with a friend who played cello, the Bronaugh and Jaeger began expanding into scoring music for violins and bass clarinet. Having been the first time he scored music by hand, Bronaugh looked to 70’s minimalist composers for research. After recording the entire album live, the resulting six tracks of ‘Tape Recorder’ are reflective, soulful, and based around the themes of love, loss, heartache, friends, and family. Bronaugh recalls an incident that inspired the album’s title track, ‘Tape Recorder,’ from his youth when a friend of his collapsed during gym class and went into a 2 week-long coma due to a heart condition. His teacher told everyone to make cassette tapes of themselves singing songs to help him wake up. This ended up being one of the experiences that inspired Bronaugh to continue writing music as a means of connecting, healing, and having hope. On the flip side, songs like ‘Clover’ on the album also deal with some of the struggles that come with writing music, such as experiencing self-doubt, isolation, obsession, and competition. The minimal, bare-bones live recording of the album and collaborative orchestration of the music give ‘Tape Recorder’ a deeply personal and tangible beauty. Digital list price: $9.98 LP LIST PRICE: $18.95 CD LIST PRICE: $13.00

• UNITS PER SET: 1X LP • RETURNABLE?: No • BOX LOT FOR LP: 25 • PRESSING QTY FOR LP: 1000 Clear • EXPORT RESTRICTIONS: No exports • SCD Retail Discount: N/A

• UNITS PER SET: 1X CD • RETURNABLE?: yes • BOX LOT FOR CD: 30 • PRESSING QTY FOR CD: 1000 • EXPORT RESTRICTIONS: World • SCD Direct Retail Discount: Yes

LTD COLOR LP UPC: 859575005404

DIGITAL UPC: 859575005428

CD UPC: 859575005411

JACKSON MACINTOSH MY DARK SIDE - LP/CD

• Hometown: Montreal, Canada • Toured Winter 2017, Touring throughout 2018 • National College & Specialty Radio Campaign via Terrorbird • Album announced in December 2017 with single “Lulu” via Fader

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C an I t B e L ove Lulu In th e G r ass I W i s h I C ou ld F e e l Like I Us ed To M y D ar k S id e Pe te r Pan P r e tty C le a r (f e at . E llis e B arbar a) Q u ot ation Can’t Stop H oldin O n Wh e n To Tu r n t h e L ig ht s B ack O n

Jackson MacIntosh may be an alien figure to most, but his resume pinpoints him as near the epicenter of the recent explosion in fantastic pop music currently being forged in the city of Montreal and exported the world over. He spent 2016 and 2017 deploying funky, percolating bass lines on the road for indie pop outfit TOPS. He recorded and engineered the last two albums for labelmate Homeshake at his now-defunct home Montreal studio and venue, Drones Club. He has collaborated with cherished LA weirdo Drugdealer as well as Montreal’s Bernardino Femminielli, all in addition to fronting the masterfully hooky power pop band Sheer Agony. Such is the man’s work ethic that, when catching up with MacIntosh, the question that inevitably springs to your lips is: so what are you working on next? And so it is that Sinderlyn is proud to introduce listeners to My Dark Side, the debut solo album from Jackson MacIntosh. Recorded over three years and two break-ups, My Dark Side is as confessional as it is casual: a collection of songs that oozed out of necessity.

RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 23, 2018 GENRE: ALTERNATIVE / INDIE LP UPC: 858458006149

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

CD UPC: 858458006156

CD FORMAT: JEWEL CASE WITH O-CARD CD BOXLOT: 30 EXPORT: WORLD

“Complete mastery of the rock & roll form in its many guises.” – All Music [Sheer Agony’s Masterpiece]

Press: Bailey Sattler baileys@grandstandhq.com Sales : Dave Martin dave.martin@omnianmusicgroup.com

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Joey Dosik Game Winner EP About the album

Details

Joey is an inveterate collaborator who has worked extensively with the likes of Vulfpeck, Nikka Costa and Miguel Atwood Ferguson, and who is a vital part of an LA scene that updates vintage sounds into a more contemporary context. But Game Winner was a different project with a different process; the lion’s share of the EP was recorded solo in Joey’s home studio.

VINYL NOT RETURNABLE

Joey Dosik didn’t set out to make a conceptual EP about basketball. It was his first love before music, and some of his earliest memories are of attending Lakers games, but he’d never thought to look to the sport for inspiration. But when Joey blew out his knee during his regular pick-up game and had to undergo reconstructive ACL surgery, he found himself confined to the couch, watching a lot of television and waiting to resume his normal life. He gravitated toward basketball, and when he started recording again, he found it seeping into his writing. The result is Game Winner, a brisk, emotive collection of songs loosely inspired by the language and lore of the game.

The common thread in the EP’s six songs — as well as the four bonus tracks — is musicality and song craft: the two pillars of Joey’s sound. “The most important thing is the song,” explains Joey. “Songwriting won’t go out of style.” It’s that approach, one that thinks beyond style, that gives the EP’s title track its magic. Minimal and almost languid, “Game Winner” has a confidence that’s hard to place in time, an ease that meets a buzzer-beater just as well as it meets a Sunday morning. Basketball may have been Joey’s first love, but the sport is also the perfect metaphor for where he’s ended up musically, always striving to stay timely and timeless, to bring deep, foundational elements in sync with innovation and imagination.

Selling Points

• ‘ Game Winner EP’ was originally released in 2016; the re-release will feature four bonus tracks available digitally for the first time •D osik is a Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter •D osik has toured extensively throughout the US and EU with the jam group Vulfpeck, including sold-out shows at Brooklyn Steel •P ast one-off performances include playing the National Anthem at stadiums across the US for NBA games •T ouring to continue in 2018 at SXSW and beyond in anticipation of his debut LP

CATALOG NUMBER: SC363 RELEASE DATE: February 23, 2018 FORMAT: CDEP/12”EP/Digital CD BOX LOT: 50 12”EP BOX LOT: 50 GENRE: R&B / Soul / Singer-songwriter KEY MARKETS: Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Ann Arbor TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: Exclusive To Hostess In Japan

CD UPC: 656605036328

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12”EP UPC: 656605036311

DIGITAL UPC: 656605036366

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Tracks SIDE A:

SIDE B:

1. The Night Before… 2. Game Winner 3. Running Away 4. …The Big Game 5. Competitive Streak

6. Game Winner Remix 7. Northridge Park (Bonus Track) 8. Game Winner by The JD’s (Bonus Track) 9. Running Away (Stripped Mix) (Bonus Track) 10. Gentle Giant (Bonus Track)

Mark Renner Few Traces Few Traces surveys the total chapter of Mark Renner’s scarcely released and unreleased material from 1982 to 1990, embracing and evoking the timelessness of his artistic statement: a wordless translation of the individual’s musical experience, met with the poetic expression of being here. Mark Renner first encountered punk while a teenager in Upperco, a country town in rural Maryland. Growing up on his family farm, he became a young acolyte of the British exports hitting not-so-distant Baltimore record store shelves in 1979 / 1980 and was baited by an area musician-wanted ad declaring Ultravox a primary touchstone. This nascent band and a pair of other group experiments flamed out under the typical totem of despotism. In their ashes Renner began recording independently around 1983 with a portable four-track, electric guitar, and classic Casio CZ101 synthesizer. Aside from John Foxxera Ultravox, Renner’s process was inspired by the period’s electronic pioneers venturing into deeper, romantic pop pastures: Yellow Magic Orchestra, Bill Nelson, The Associates. With his tools and teachers in place, the blueprints for Renner’s sound were laid out – metronomic, skeletal rhythms built on sturdy yet singular drum machines supporting luminescent guitar and synth lines, Renner’s reverent voice guiding the fables and construction. Renner’s enthusiasm for Days in Europa, the third album by Scottish new wave band Skids, became most directly influential, and lead to a correspondence and long-distance tutorship with Skids’ member Stuart Adamson. Before Adamson would achieve worldwide success co-founding the group Big Country, a chance friendship with Renner imparted great confidence in the young musician from Maryland, who, after a visit in Edinburgh, would then travel to London to demo an early version of “Half A Heart” featured in its final form on Few Traces. The sum of Renner’s music is one-part literary, one-part painterly. The artist cites the individualism of Herman Hesse as a guiding force, and there are overt references to W. B. Yeats and John Greanleaf Whittier among other authors. Lyrical themes evoke the presence of the ancient past, much like early Felt songs or the spiritual visions of Van Morrison. (Tellingly, Renner cites Morrison’s 1980s albums made between Inarticulate Speech of the Heart and No Guru, No Method, No Teacher as musical influences.) Apart from his writing, Renner explored music as a complement to visual language: many of the dream-like instrumental passages presented across Few Traces were originally implemented as sound elements for exhibitions of his paintings. Renner pursued wordless music as a pure aesthetic in its own right, pristinely balanced segues and open-ended compositions that lead to pasture but not without shepherd. Compiled three decades after the music was originally put to tape, Few Traces collects Mark Renner’s early music but strives not to simplify or reframe it. (Mark is still active making music and painting) The instrumental explorations remain on par with the great ambient adventurers of the period (Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Roedelius), while the vocal and guitar-centric songs crystalize across similar terrains being transversed by Cocteau Twins and The Durutti Column. Few Traces highlights in intuitive sequence gems from Renner’s scarce discography and archive: the self-released debut All Walks of This Life (1986), the aptly titled follow-up Painter’s Joy (1988), plus early singles, compilation tracks, and exemplary songs that saw no original release. The collection allows an intimate look at an artist growing into their sound and surroundings, finding the in between echoes and spirituality of the individual. Mark Renner’s Few Traces will be released February 16, 2018 on double LP, CD, and digital formats. The collection includes extensive liner notes from Brandon Soderberg and unseen ephemera. A short documentary on Mark Renner by Maia Stern will be shared around Few Traces’ release date. Artist Highlights • Mark Renner is an American musician and visual artist originally from Baltimore, Maryland now based in Ft. Worth, Texas.  • Renner grew up in the rural outskirts of Baltimore, eventually finding his way to the city to join a couple short-lived post-punk bands and work the local record store circuit.  • Renner started producing his own music in 1983 with a 4-Track, Casio CZ101 synth, and a world of echoes from his past growing up in vaunted church settings.   • Renner’s music was inspired by the period’s great synth pioneers such a Yellow Magic Orchestra, Bill Nelson, and The Associates, as well as poets like Herman Hesse, Yeats, and John Greanleaf Whittier.  • Renner cites his most crucial influence as his long-distance mentorship with The Skids’ Stuart Adamson, later the co-founder of the successful ‘80s band Big Country. An artistic breakthrough came from visiting Adamson in Edinburgh, Scotland where the elder musician called in favors for Renner to demo his music in London.  • Few Traces highlights gems from Renner’s scarce discography and archive: the self-released debut All Walks of This Life (1986), the aptly titled follow-up Painter’s Joy (1988), plus early singles, compilation tracks, and exemplary songs that saw no original release. The collection will be released via RVNG Intl. on February 16, 2018.

Track Listing Riverside Saints and Sages Few Traces Half A Heart Princes Street The Mirror At Saint Andrews The Wild House The Dyer’s Hand A Fountain In The Cloister James Cowie (The Portrait Group) Autumn Calls You By Name Ageless Jars of Clay More Or Less The Eternal Purpose The Sun In His Head, A Storm In His Heart The Man & The Echo As Big As Trees Yeats, and the Golden Dawn It Might Have Been

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Cat# ReRVNG11 Artist Mark Renner Title Few Traces Genre Rock / Ambient / Spiritual Release date February 16, 2018 Formats DBL LP / CD / DIGITAL Vinyl Is Not Returnable Box Lot DBL LP: Inner 12 / Outer 24 CD: 80

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MARTIN NEWELL GREATEST LIVING ENGLISHMAN - LP • Hometown: Wivenhoe, England • Solo Album by Cleaners from Venus Mastermind • Produced by XTC’s Andy Patridge • 25th Anniversary Edition, incl. 8-Page Booklet Martin Newell spent the ‘80s being compared to Robyn Hitchcock, XTC, and other lesser-known ‘60s-influenced pop maestros, so it was poetic that XTC’s Andy Partridge would produce this Newell solo album. The result isn’t a stretch from Martin’s days as The Cleaners from Venus or The Brotherhood of Lizards. The production is cleaner than on Newell’s home recordings, but the songs are as melodic and adventurous as ever. If one’s naturally attracted to the charms of “We’ll Build a House” (which sounds like what Guided by Voices’s Robert Pollard has spent his career emulating), then there’s plenty more from where this came from.

CT- 271 01 . Go o d bye D re a ming Fie lds 02. B efo re t h e H u r r i cane 03 . We’ll Build a H o u se 04 . Th e Gre a t e s t Li v ing Englishman 05 . She R ings t h e Ch ange s 06 . Ho m e Co u nt i e s Boy 07. A Stre et Ca ll e d Prospe ct 08 . Ch r i st m a s in S u b urbia 09 . Stra i ght To Yo u B oy 10. Th e Ja ngling M a n 11. Th e Gre e n- G o ld Girl of the Su mme r 12 . A n Engli s h m an’ s Home

Newell is devoutly English, writing his songs much in the way Ray Davies sculpted his observations of British life, past and present, with The Kinks. There’s a Davies-like shuffle to “Tribute to the Greatest Living Englishman,” a barrage of guitars to “She Rings the Changes” and an “all the lonely people” feel to “A Street Called Prospect” and “The Green-Gold Girl of Summer.”; The only drawback to being seduced by Mr. Newell? It’s a full-time job to get up to speed!

RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 9TH, 2018 GENRE: ALTERNATIVE / INDIE / DIY “A rock classic.” - Rolling Stone

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Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom J. Jasmine: My New Music Unseen Worlds UW16

RIYL Julia Holter, Laurie Anderson, Robert Ashley, “Blue” Gene Tyranny RELEASE INFO Genre: Alternative, Jazz, Experimental Release date: 02/23/2018 Formats: LP, Digital UPC: 766008587669 Returns: No RELEASE DESCRIPTION Privately pressed to LP in 1978 under the name J. Jasmine and made especially for the Ann Arbor Film Festival, with artistic collaboration from the festival’s founder and Once Group artist, George Manupelli, My New Music is the debut album by Jacqueline Humbert and David Rosenboom. Featuring a cast of Mills College personalities like David Behrman and Sam Ashley on backup vocal duties, this song cycle is at every turn boundary-pushing and gender-busting, yet still hilarious, sweet, and genuine, all delivered in a post-genre, art-song, cabaret musical style that happens to boast some serious avant-garde chops, courtesy of Rosenboom. If it weren’t so spot on, you’d swear it was a guilty pleasure. As J. Jasmine writes, My New Music is a collection of personal stories and private desires, exposed, articulated, performed and dedicated to the hope that one person's fantasies can contribute to another person's freedom. Get lost in J. Jasmine’s world for a little long while.

HOMETOWN Los Angeles, CA; Oakland, CA; NYC SELLING POINTS • First-time vinyl reissue • Bonus track “Oasis in the Air” TRACK LIST 1. Androgeny 2. Broke and Blue 3. Wild about the Lady 4. Rented Car, Painted Lady, Borrowed Time 5. Strong Arms 6. How Much Better if Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims (Section VIII, excerpt) 7. Grand Canyon Heartache 8. Clear Light 9. Environmental Collage / Younger Lady 10. Oasis in the Air

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Jason Sharp

Stand Above The Streams 180gLP • DL

Release Date: 23 February 2018 “Far from any recognizable jazz or new music, Sharp’s evocative fluidity and ambiguous intensity bring to mind Carmine Coppola’s soundtrack for Apocalypse Now, filtered through the new school of electronic music exemplified by Tim Hecker and Ben Frost.” MUSICWORKS “Jason Sharp boils down the detritus of fragmented abstraction to its molten essence.” JAZZWISE

RIYL: Ben Frost, Haxan Cloak, Andy Stott, John Carpenter, Tim Hecker

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Jason Sharp has emerged as one of Canada’s most fascinating new music composers in recent years. From his roots as a saxophonist in Montréal’s fertile jazz and improv scene, Sharp developed as a soloist with drone-based durational music, circular breathing, and an increasing exploration of the body and technology. His impressive 2016 debut A Boat Upon Its Blood is a roiling and musically diverse work of modern composition inspired by a Robert Creeley poem, distinguished by Sharp’s use of a heart monitor and amplified breath to trigger various rhythmic and textural electronic elements – alongside his own saxophone playing and contributions from guest players on violin and lap steel guitar.

TRACKLIST: 01 Stand Above The Streams Pt. 1 02 Stand Above The Streams Pt. 2 03 Stand Above The Streams Pt. 3 04 Stand Above The Streams Pt. 4

Stand Above The Streams expands on this approach, with Sharp having further developed his custom Midi and synthesis apparatuses, and most notably collaborating on these compositions with Adam Basanta, whose renowned practice in sound art, sound installation and autonomous sound systems makes for impressively immersive, layered and complex new work. All sound sources on Stand Above The Streams originate with Sharp (with the exception of violin from the album’s co-producer and mixing engineer Jesse Zubot on one song): bass and baritone saxophones, heartbeat, pulse, and breathing are played/processed in real time through Sharp’s own signal-bending synthesis rig and through Basanta’s bespoke ‘controlled feedback’ amplification system. The album’s rhythms are generated wholly from Sharp’s similarly controlled breathing and heart rate. The results are utterly gripping, with melodic and micro-tonal elements flowing amidst waves of atmospheric pink and brown noise, low-end modulation and calibrated distortion. Through four parts each running in the 10-minute range, Stand Above The Streams conjures an evocative, abstracted survey of organic nature, perhaps from on high, like a satellite scanning and processing data across diverse and slowly changing landscapes. The album also sits very comfortably alongside the recent resurgence in synth-based soundtrack music (John Carpenter, Tangerine Dream et al) – though as alien as it can sometimes sound, there is an unmistakable human element and underlying warmth that courses through the tensile strength of this music, electrifying it with the viscera of the body. Thanks for listening.

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The Men Drift 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

track listing: Maybe I’m Crazy (4:11) When I Held You in My Arms (4:59) Secret Light (4:16) Rose on Top of the World (4:28) So High (3:26) Killed Someone (2:30) Sleep (2:45) Final Prayer (5:46) Come to Me (2:45)

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

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Selling Points / Key Press: New York rock polymaths’ return to Sacred Bones after their previous self-released album Most eclectic The Men album to date, with the broadest range of instrumentation than they’ve ever employed Combined U.S. SoundScan for their previous albums: 50,000 Live dates planned in NYC, LA, and Austin around release “Deep Drift” color vinyl limited to 2000 units

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Related Catalog: sbr-057 The Men Leave Home LP/CD SBr-071 The Men Open Your Heart LP/CD sbr-090 The Men New Moon LP/CD sbr-107 The Men Tomorrow’s Hits LP/CD watm-005 The Men Devil Music LP

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Drift is the seventh full-length by NYC rock polymaths The Men. The band’s last album, the self-released Devil Music, was the sound of a band who had been through hell hitting reset and looking to their roots to rediscover themselves. On Drift, The Men return to their longtime label Sacred Bones Records and explore the openness that Devil Music helped them find. The immediately evident result of that exploration is the experimental quality of much of the material on Drift. Songwriters Mark Perro and Nick Chiericozzi chase their muses down a few dozen thrilling rabbit-holes over the course of the album’s nine tracks. The songs on Drift veer in a number of directions, but notably, almost none of them feature a prominent electric guitar. The lone exception, “Killed Someone,” is a rowdy riff-rocker, worthy of the finest moments of the band’s now-classic Leave Home and Open Your Heart albums. The rest of the album drives down stranger highways. “Secret Light” is an improvisation based on an old piano riff of Perro’s. “Maybe I’m Crazy” is a synth-driven dancefloor stomper for long after last call. “Rose on Top of the World” and “When I Held You in My Arms” are paisley-hued, psyched-out jams with big, beating hearts. The album was recorded to 2" tape with Travis Harrison (Guided by Voices) at Serious Business Studios in Brooklyn. A whole pile of instruments was involved — synths, strings, sax, steel, harmonica, tape loops, on top of the usual guitar, bass, and drums. Unlike recent releases from The Men, there aren’t many overdubs on Drift — a reflection of the personalities of its makers becoming less frantic, Chiericozzi suggests. In fact, the band removed a lot of the additional parts they tried adding early on, giving the final product a bit of a ghostly feel. The songs on Drift took giant leaps and trips from their beginnings only to find the band returning to the first spark of creation.

RiYL: The Stooges, The Byrds, Kurt Vile, Ty Segall catalog #: SBR-191 genre: Alternative/Rock Release Date: 3-2-2018 available formats: CD, lp, lp-c1 UPC-CD: 616892555940 UPC-LP: 616892555742 UPC-LP-c1: 616892555841 Vinyl is not returnable export restrictions: None Box Lot: CD 30 / lP 30 label contact: Sacred Bones Records 144 N. 7th Street #413 Brooklyn, NY 11249 info@sacredbonesrecords.com www.sacredbonesrecords.com

“deep drift” color vinyl lp

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Suuns Felt About the album

There are those in our ranks who are touting this new triumphant collection from Montreal’s art-rock heroes SUUNS as the most outright grooved record they’ve made. But hold it right there. Not so fast. SUUNS have always had that deep groove on fucking lock, albeit oft-slithering within an austere and/or sneering veneer. Consider, if you will, how Kraftwerk had far more funk flowing through their wires and cables than most of we flesh bodies. Same goes for the necromancers of SUUNS. And their world class drummer Liam O’Neill has heroically accepted the challenge of playing in and around programmed beats like a diabolical, sentient metronome. O’Neill’s kit is a bit more out front than it’s been in a hot minute and he’s as patient and ferocious as ever. Meanwhile, Singer/guitarist Ben Shemie’s sourmilk deliver is as frightening and enchanting as ever, but now coming from some deep area that feels like a human heart. And as alluded to by its title and neon-warm album art, SUUNS’ Felt is gonna make you feel things. You’re gonna learn something about your body listening to cuts like on DJ Shadow-leaning, head-bobber “Look No Further” or “Make It Real,” which could be a radio signal of a lost Silver Apples cut — that is, before it becomes a doomsday siren breakup song. These four gentlemen could be making beats for 21 Savage or Migos. But for now, lucky for you, they’re ruthlessly set on being one of the planet’s finest, bravest bands.

Selling Points

•L imited pressing of 2k color vinyl •S uuns will be touring in support of this album •F ollow up album to Suuns’ 2015 critically acclaimed Hold/Still •S uuns is a favorite among music supervisors, scoring major placements in ad campaigns (Nike Flyknit, Nissan Leaf) and trailers (Only God Forgives).

Details

CATALOG NUMBER: SC360 RELEASE DATE: March 2, 2018 FORMAT: CD/LP/Digital CD BOX LOT: 30 LP BOX LOT: 40 GENRE: Alternative KEY MARKETS: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, San Francisco, Baltimore, Seattle, Philadelphia, Paris, London, Berlin TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: Exclusive To Hostess In Japan VINYL NOT RETURNABLE

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1. Look No Further 2. X-ALT 3. Watch You, Watch Me 4. Baseline 5. After the Fall

6. Control 7. Make It Real 8. Daydream 9. Peace and Love 10. Moonbeams 11. Materials

In Tall Buildings

Akinetic

ABOUT THIS RECORD

Akinetic, the new album from Chicago songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Erik Hall’s one-man polymathic project In Tall Buildings sees its creator plunge headlong into allegories of communication, loss, impulse, vice, and mass-denialism. With the addition of producer and engineer Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine) Hall crashes through the aforementioned subject matter with brightness and lucidity, yielding his most intelligent and focused songwriting yet. Working out of his house with Deck in Pilsen, Chicago, Hall’s efforts yield ten tracks of spacious and textured handmade pop, comprising one of the most sharply written and deftly recorded home-studio albums in memory.

TRACK LIST

Due out March 2nd 2018 on Western Vinyl, Akinetic could not have transpired in any other time. Since his 2015 LP, Driver, Erik Hall has produced records for ambient artist Justin Walter and labelmates Lean Year, all while touring perpetually and sowing the seeds for his own new album. Where his previous titles were natural documents of his musicianship and songcraft, Akinetic arose from deliberate intent to write in concrete pop forms, lyrically informed by what he observed of modern culture, namely its fixation on technology-driven pseudo-progress at the cost of direct communication. “Rather than merely dwell in an inviting musical bed,” Hall states, “I wanted to write songs with intentionality that would more directly declare themselves to a listener instead of just passively inviting them in.

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True to aim, album-starter “Beginning to Fade” gets to the point, offering a few seconds of growling guitar chords and piano before the hook bursts in declaring the tone of affairs. The title track follows with stabs of determined synth, painted over with Hall’s verdant three-part harmonies bearing lyrics of one of the record’s core ideas: anemic communication and frustrating disconnection in the age of distraction. “Akinetic anthem’s a generation older,” sings Hall in his signature timbre of hushed realism, “and apathetic eyes love staring at the shoulder.” The album continues on-theme exploring the struggle of impulse versus discipline on “Overconscious”, and the mass-denial of highly probabilistic cataclysm on “Cascadia” whose title refers to the oft-overlooked Pacific Northwest subduction zone, arguably prone to catastrophic volcanic destruction any day now. Understated breakthrough “Siren Song” propels on a motorik thump and mellotron that ramps to a gratifying collision of mangled drums and guitar; a moment of unrestrained catharsis on an otherwise satisfyingly groomed record. From here, the warm Moog-laden interlude “New Moon” marks the start of Akinetic’s come-down, leading into the undeniably beautiful Heather Woods Broderick duet “Days in Clover”. These junctures of space and texture provide a window into Hall’s ambient predilections, revealing them as a vital part of his toolkit. He’s not merely a singer-songwriter… He is a sound-designer who writes good songs. The epilogue “Wake Up” takes classic In Tall Buildings form with fluttering guitar, softly thumping drums, and Hall’s trademark production flourishes. Tape-crushed voices chirp behind the instruments (all played by Hall, as per the rest of the album) as our host poetically urges us to do what the song’s title suggests. The lights slowly fade up on Akinetic showing it for exactly what it is: a crystal clear, well-crafted montage of honest emotion, with pointed social commentary crouching just beneath the topsoil. That this was all achieved by one person playing every instrument, gently guided by a kindred and veteran co-producer, denotes Akinetic as the greatest height yet reached for In Tall Buildings.

Beginning To Fade Akinetic Long Way Down Overconscious Cascadia Siren Song Curtain New Moon Days In Clover Wake Up

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MORE INFO • Produced by Brian Deck (known for his work with Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine, and others). • Rick Alverson, director of music videos by Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen, Oneohtrix Point Never, and others, directed a video for the song “Curtain.”

PRESS QUOTES “Wide-eyed and instantly likable…” – POP MATTERS “…lovely…the perfect soundtrack to your snow-soaked mid-week.” – SPIN “…expertly crafted…” – PASTE “…deftly arranged metropolitan pop…” – STEREOGUM LP UPC 616892539643

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GIFT WRAP

LOSING COUNT LP • Hometown: Brooklyn, NY • Solo project from B Boys bassist/vocalist Brendon Avalos

For some time now, Brendon Avalos has been forging a path for himself among the clamor of emerging indie artists as the bassist and vocalist of Brooklyn punk trio B Boys. Now, he is releasing his first solo effort - a full length album entitled Losing Count - under the moniker Gift Wrap.

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Losing Count is the culmination of a personal goal Avalos set two years ago: to see through the completion of a collection of music all his own. “Artistically, I think the sole purpose of this record was to just do everything. An exercise in realizing a full concept without seeing what the end result would be.” As it turns out, that end result is a 13-track experimental pop album that packs a large punch with influences ranging from early new wave acts like Depeche Mode and OMD to Frank Ocean. With each track draped in whimsically looping layers and interspersed with the pervasion of old radio samples, buzzing, and hums to create a state of constant white noise, Avalos successfully conveys a state of latent anxiety through danceable, weirdo pop. In this way, Losing Count becomes an exercise in synthesizing the collective experience of today’s political and cultural climates into a fully individualized expression.

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RELEASE DATE: MARCH 2nd, 2018 GENRE: ALTERNATIVE / INDIE

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• ERIC CHENAUX - SLOWLY PARADISE (BLACK VINYL) | LP (180 gram) (CST131lp) | Constellation PHYS UPC:666561013110 • ERIC CHENAUX - SLOWLY PARADISE | CD (CST131cd) | Constellation PHYS UPC:666561013127 • DUB NARCOTIC SOUND SYSTEM - RHYTHM RECORD VOL. ONE | LP (KLP045lp) | K Records PHYS UPC:789856104512 • MAJEURE - TIMESPAN REDUX (BLACK VINYL) | 2xLP (TRR145RDXlp) | Temporary Residence Ltd. PHYS UPC:656605314549 • MAJEURE - TIMESPAN REDUX (CLEAR W/ TRANSPARENT BLUE STREAKS VINYL) | 2xLP (TRR145RDXlp-C1) | Temporary Residence Ltd. PHYS UPC:656605314556 • THE SKULL ECLIPSES - THE SKULL ECLIPSES | CD (WV144cd) | Western Vinyl PHYS UPC:751937436720 • THE SKULL ECLIPSES - THE SKULL ECLIPSES (BLACK VINYL) | LP (WV144lp) | Western Vinyl PHYS UPC:751937436713 • THE SKULL ECLIPSES - THE SKULL ECLIPSES (BLACK VINYL) | LP (WV144lp-C1) | Western Vinyl PHYS UPC:616892556848

MARCH 16th

• CAROLINE SAYS - NO FOOL LIKE AN OLD FOOL | CD (WV164cd) | Western Vinyl PHYS UPC:616892490746 • CAROLINE SAYS - NO FOOL LIKE AN OLD FOOL (BLACK VINYL) | LP (WV164lp) | Western Vinyl PHYS UPC:616892490845 • CAROLINE SAYS - NO FOOL LIKE AN OLD FOOL (TWO-TONE SKY + OCEAN COLORED VINYL) | LP (WV164lp-C1) | Western Vinyl PHYS UPC:616892561545 • DURAND JONES & THE INDICATIONS - DURAND JONES & THE INDICATIONS | CD (DOC157cd) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605145723 • DURAND JONES & THE INDICATIONS - DURAND JONES & THE INDICATIONS (TRANSLUCENT RED VINYL) | LP (DOC157lp-C1) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605145730 • ESSAIE PAS - NEW PATH | CD (DFA2567cd) | DFA Records PHYS UPC:829732256727 • ESSAIE PAS - NEW PATH (BLACK VINYL) | LP (DFA2567lp) | DFA Records PHYS UPC:829732256710 • STARCHILD & THE NEW ROMANTIC - LANGUAGE | CD (GI310cd) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297831022 • STARCHILD & THE NEW ROMANTIC - LANGUAGE (BLACK VINYL) | LP (GI310lp) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297831015 • STARCHILD & THE NEW ROMANTIC - LANGUAGE (BLACK VINYL) | LP (GI310lp-C1) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297831008

*All releases are subject to change

SPOTIFY

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• 2/23 + 3/2 New Release Mix - https://open.spotify.com/user/oq0bngi2l32cphjlf1pbyxpfv/playlist/4F0Yim6L5IGCzjsti7Sp3C