New Releases: 3-23 + 3-30 by Secretly Distribution

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MARCH 23RD NEW RELEASES -------------------------------

• PREOCCUPATIONS - NEW MATERIAL | Cassette (JAG320cass) | Jagjaguwar PHYS UPC: • PREOCCUPATIONS - NEW MATERIAL | CD (JAG320cd) | Jagjaguwar PHYS UPC:656605232027 • PREOCCUPATIONS - NEW MATERIAL (BLACK VINYL) | LP (JAG320lp) | Jagjaguwar PHYS UPC:656605232010 • PREOCCUPATIONS - NEW MATERIAL (GREY-BLACK STREAKED VINYL) | LP (JAG320lp-C1) | Jagjaguwar PHYS UPC:656605232034 • DABRYE - THREE/THREE | CD (GI303cd) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC: • DABRYE - THREE/THREE (BLACK VINYL) | 2xLP (GI303lp) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297830315 • DABRYE - THREE/THREE (CLEAR VINYL) | 2xLP (GI303lp-C1) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297830308 • VARIOUS ARTISTS - ECCENTRIC SOUL: THE SARU LABEL | CD (NUM071cd) | Numero Group PHYS UPC:825764107129 • VARIOUS ARTISTS - ECCENTRIC SOUL: THE SARU LABEL (BLACK VINYL) | 2xLP (NUM071lp) | Numero Group PHYS UPC:825764107112 • DJ KATAPILA - AROO (BLACK VINYL) | 12" (ATFA023lp) | Awesome Tapes From Africa PHYS UPC:616892564348 • URSULA K. LE GUIN & TODD BARTON - MUSIC AND POETRY OF THE KESH (BLACK VINYL) | LP (FTS009lp) | Freedom To Spend/RVNG INTL. PHYS UPC:603786278818 • HANZ - PLASTY II 12" EP (BLACK VINYL) | 12" EP (TRI042lp) | Tri Angle Records PHYS UPC:616892523642 • DABRYE - BOX SET (BLUE VINYL) | 6xLP (GI318lp-C1-dlx) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297831817 • DABRYE - ONE/THREE (2018 REMASTER) (BLACK VINYL) | LP (GI004lp) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297900414 • DABRYE - INSTRMNTL (BLUE VINYL) | LP (GI024lp-C1) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297902418 • DABRYE - TWO/THREE (BLACK VINYL) | 2xLP (GI050lp) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297905013

MARCH 30TH NEW RELEASES -------------------------------

• AMEN DUNES - FREEDOM | CD (SBR195cd) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:616892561347 • AMEN DUNES - FREEDOM (BLACK VINYL) | LP (SBR195lp) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:616892561149 • AMEN DUNES - FREEDOM (FOREST GREEN VINYL) | LP (SBR195lp-C1) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:616892561248 • AMEN DUNES - FREEDOM (NAVY BLUE VINYL) | LP (SBR195lp-C2) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:616892562443 • MAJOR MURPHY - NO. 1 | Cassette (WSP025cass) | Winspear PHYS UPC:601202542451 • MAJOR MURPHY - NO. 1 | CD (WSP025cd) | Winspear PHYS UPC:601202542444 • MAJOR MURPHY - NO. 1 (BLACK VINYL) | LP (WSP025lp) | Winspear PHYS UPC:601202542420 • MAJOR MURPHY - NO. 1 (CLOUDY CLEAR VINYL) | LP (WSP025lp-C1) | Winspear PHYS UPC:601202542437 • NO JOY / SONIC BOOM - NO JOY / SONIC BOOM | CD (JNR254cd) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270692055 • NO JOY / SONIC BOOM - NO JOY / SONIC BOOM (OPAQUE BABY PINK VINYL) | 12" (JNR254lp-C1) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270692048 • FACS - NEGATIVE HOUSES | CD (TIM130cd) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983386 • FACS - NEGATIVE HOUSES (BLACK VINYL) | LP (TIM130lp) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983409 • FACS - NEGATIVE HOUSES (METALLIC GOLD VINYL) | LP (TIM130lp-C1) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983416

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PREOCCUPATIONS NEW MATERIAL ABOUT THE ALBUM

DETAILS

Preoccupations’ songs have always worked through themes of creation, destruction, and futility, and they’ve always done it with singular post-punk grit. The textures are evocative. The wire is always a live one. But while that darker side may have been expertly explored, it’s not quite the same as having been fully, intensely lived. This time it was, and the result is ’New Material’, Preoccupations’ deepest and most fully realized record to date. In it lies the difference between witnessing a car crash and crashing your own, between jumping into an ocean and starting to swallow the water.

CATALOG NUMBER: JAG320

Opener “Espionage” lives up to multi-instrumentalist Scott Munro’s stated goal of making a record where “nobody knows what instrument is playing EVER”, kicking off with a clattering, rhythmic echo that gives way to sprinting percussion and a melody straight from Joy Division’s best playbook.” “Manipulation” explores the futility of going through the motions, balancing a droney, minimal march with a thunder roll that brings it to the brink and “Disarray” bursts up like a blackened confetti cannon, the song’s bright melody dancing over a refrain of “disarray, disarray, disarray”.

TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: Not available in Canada,

‘New Material’ does offer some relief. “This is somehow the most uptempo thing we’ve ever done,” singer/bassit Matt Flegel. In this lies the crucial point of tension, as it’s that propulsive, itchy quality that rescued ‘New Material’ from the proverbial bottom of the pit.

RELEASE DATE: March 23, 2018 FORMAT: CD/LP/Cassette/Digital CD BOX LOT: 30 LP BOX LOT: 50 CASSETTE BOX LOT: 25 GENRE: Alternative KEY MARKETS: New York, Chicago, Portland, Vancouver, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Calgary Exclusive to Hostess in Japan VINYL NOT RETURNABLE

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SELLING POINTS ··

Preoccupations are fresh off their most recent critical success,

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Preoccupations, with acclaim from Pitchfork (BNT), Billboard, Chicago Tribune, Consequence of Sound and many more ··

Third record, New Material, is available on ltd edition orange vinyl and cassettes

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Preoccupations will tour extensively in the US through April and May with festivals following in the summer

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‘New Material’ mixed by Justin Mendel Johnson (Wolf Alice, Paramore, M83, Beck)

TRACKS SIDE A:

SIDE B:

1. Espionage 2. Decompose 3. Disarray 4. Manipulation

5. Antidote 6. Solace 7. Doubt 8. Compliance

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Three/Three TRACKLIST

01. Tunnel Vision (feat. Guilty Simpson) 02. Emancipated (feat. Ghostface Killah) 03. Tape Flip Too 04. Lil Mufukuz (feat. Doom) 05. Fightscene (feat. La Peace) 06. Electrocutor 07. Stranded (feat. Fatt Father) 08. The Appetite (feat. Roc Marciano, Quelle Chris & Danny Brown) 09. Pretty (feat. Jon Wayne) 10. Sunset (feat. Shigeto) 11. Nova (feat. Nolan The Ninja)

12. Bubble Up (feat. Phat Kat aka Ronnie Euro) 13. Vert-Horiz 14. Dr. Shroomen (feat. G&D) 15. Sisfo Ridin’ (feat. Clear Soul Forces) 16. Culture Shuffle (feat. Kadence, Intricate Dialect & Silas Green) 17. Honey 18. First Law of Nature Rock Day (feat. Denmark Vessey) 19. Tahn Ice Rhythm

RELEASE BIO

RELEASE INFO

When Ann Arbor's Tadd Mullinix began exploring hip-hop under the name Dabrye 20 years ago, he soon honed in on a startling vision of what the genre could be: ingenious, refined, daring. This vision came to life across two albums for Ghostly International — 2001's One/Three and its 2006 follow-up Two/Three — with each record further positioning the quiet Michigan producer as one of his generation's best, equally comfortable creating minimalist instrumental meditations or sharp rap salvos. In the late 2000s, following critical acclaim and accolades from both peers and inspirations (including the late Jay Dee with whom Mullinix collaborated before his untimely passing), Mullinix put the Dabrye moniker on ice and dedicated himself to other genres and ideas. All the while the influence of his work on a new generation of electronic musicians continued to make itself felt in subtle but meaningful ways. All this changes in 2017 as Dabrye makes his long-awaited return with Three/Three, a razor-sharp rap album that brings to completion a prophetic trilogy. Mullinix's incisive productions provide the backdrop for equally acute rhymes that run the gamut from intergenerational observations and being your best self to back alley deals and having fun in the ride. Guests include indie rap legend DOOM, whose previous collaboration with Dabrye remains a point of reference for many, Wu Tang storyteller Ghostface Killah, L.A word fanatic Jonwayne, and Long Island's rugged surrealist Roc Marciano. Most importantly Three/Three is, much like its predecessor, an unfettered celebration of Detroit-area talent with Guilty Simpson, Phat Kat, Kadence, Quelle Chris, Danny Brown, Shigeto, Clear Soul Forces and more all lending their touch to Dabrye's return. The blend of American and British dance music, hip-hop sampling, and Jamaican sound clash energy that underpinned Two/Three remains a quiet, guiding principle. At the same time Mullinix rejoices in a refreshed perspective, having had time to incubate ideas and find clarity in the distance between albums and the evolution of scenes. The beats are looser and less angular, more embracing of repetition. Organic techniques inspired by soul and jazz round off some of the harsher sonics. The resulting broad palette of tracks reflects both this evolution and the range of the Dabrye persona: relaxed headnod ("Tunnel Vision"); nervous, slow-motion electro ("The Appetite"); glacial motifs ("Emancipated"); jazzy, cut-up funk ("Sunset"); minimal brutalism ("Electrocutor"); intricate layering ("Culture Shuffle").

Catalogue Number: GI-303 Format: CD, 2xLP Release Date: March 23rd, 2017 UPC-CD: 804297830322 UPC-LP: 804297830315 UPC-LPC1: 804297830308 Genre: Electronic, hip hop Box Lot: LP- 8, CD-35 Territory Restrictions: None Vinyl Is not returnable

POINTS OF INTEREST • Final installment of the /Three series, started in 2001 • Guests include Ghostface Killah, Jonwayne, Doom, Danny Brown, Shigeto, and more. • Media support from: The Wire, FACT Magazine, The Detroit Free Press, Pitchfork, XLR8R • Past collabs with Jay Dee (J Dilla), MF DOOM, Beans & more • Vinyl is housed in a matte jacket with black hot foil and includes 24-page zine designed by Michael Cina. • Clear vinyl is limited to 1250 units worldwide.

Three/Three marks the return of an innovator after close to a decade of silence. Despite what the title might imply, the album isn't the end of the story but rather the completion of a creative arc. Expect more Dabrye in the near future. The game is far from over. LP UPC

LABEL CONTACT Ghostly International 61 Greenpoint Ave. #506 Brooklyn, NY 11222 dado@ghostly.com www.ghostly.com

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CD UPC

Numero Group Eccentric Soul: The Saru Label Catalog Number: num071 Artist: Various Title: Eccentric Soul: The Saru Label Release Date: 3/23/2018 UPC: LP: 825764107112 CD: 825764107129 Available format: 2xLP, CD Genre: Soul Box Lot: LP: 15, CD: 30 Territory Restrictions: None Vinyl is not returnable Track Listing

Vinyl: The 20th volume of our flagship Eccentric Soul series has all the boxes checked: Guntoting, skip-tracing record producers, child stars, rip-offs, the “World’s Greatest Bail Bondsman,” swindles, soaring falsettos, and a dwindling rust-belt cityscape offering mere glimpses of hope before the record industry escaped for the coasts. Helmed by the O’Jays Bobby Massey, Saru was a creative vortex that pulled Cuyahoga County’s greatest talent in, making a strong case for Cleveland to contend with Detroit, Philly, and Memphis as America’s soul music’s capital. Includes obscure and unknown sides from the Out of Sights, the Elements, Pandella Kelly, David Peoples, Sir Stanley, the Ponderosa Twins + 1, Ba-Roz, Bobby Dukes, and of course, the O’Jays.

A 1. Out Of Sights For The Rest Of My Life 2. The O’Jays Now He’s Home 3. Pandella Kelly Stand In For Love 4. The Ponderosa Twins Bound 5. Elements Son In Law

C 1. The Ba-roz The Last Time 2. Elements Hey Lady 3. The Ponderosa Twins I Remember You 4. Out Of Sights My Woman’s Love 5. Out Of Sights Baby You Got It 6. The O’Jays Shattered Man

B 1. Sir Stanley Are You Man Enough 2. Bobby Dukes Just To Be With You 3. David Peoples Got To Get My Broom Out 4. Michael Bell Can’t Make It Without You 5. Out Of Sights I Can’t Take It

D 1. Sir Stanley I Believe 2. Out Of Sights Tears Don’t Care Who Cry 3. Elements Prove It 4. The Ba-roz Come Back Boy 5. Out Of Sights You Made Me Beg 6. Out Of Sights I Was Wrong

CD: TRACKS 1-22 MATCH LP Bonus CD Exclusive tracks: 23. Elements Just To Be With You 24. Pandella Kelly Love’s Needed 25. Elements Got To Make It Right

DJ Katapila — Aroo

DJ Katapila’s Aroo EP is the latest addition to the iconoclastic producer’s catalog of fast-paced, pan-West African-influenced dance music. From a young age, Ishmael Abbey was a beloved local DJ in Accra, Ghana’s competitive and rapidly-evolving music galaxy. DJ Katapila’s debut release with Awesome Tapes From Africa, 2016’s reissue of Trotro, ignited international acclaim for the Ghanaian DJ and producer: The New York Times, Pitchfork, Resident Advisor and FACT heaped praise on his work. Katapila launched a touring career beyond his grueling schedule of all-night parties around Ghana’s southern coast and neighboring countries, heading to Europe and the UK, where he performed at festivals and clubs the pasty two years. Katapila brought Ghana’s street party culture to audiences overseas; a wave of joy and happy dancers were left in his wake. The song “Aroo” uses his earlier song “Cocoawra” as a jumping off point and expands upon its endearing quick-rhythmed interplay of vocal hiccups and percussive clinks. Katapila thinks of “Aroo” as a simple math equation: “Francophone rhythms plus techno equals so hot and danceable.” While traveling this past summer in Europe, he continued to work on the minimalist electronic music steeped in his hometown rhythms that has made him a growing and singular voice in West African music. Having never traveled outside his region before, the contemporary sounds of London impacted his sonic palette, triggering new song “African Techno.” He explains, “In Europe and the UK they like these techno songs and house music. They have songs that sound like African music, and we have songs that sound like house music and techno music.” “Ghana Baby DJ” references his ongoing development of Ga dance music style gbe ohe. It also conjures his daughter’s voice and inimitable vibe and blends it with the characteristic clave rhythm of this . The EP’s final cut is a track released with a an eye-catching music video this summer called “Monkey.” Following radioplay in Ghana and demand from fans online, this track makes its debut on vinyl. Awesome Tapes From Africa is proud to present new music from this unmistakably original artist with an honesty and unpretentiousness that feels good at this current point in history. AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA PO BOX 986 NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10009

01. Aroo (04:03) 02. African Techno (04:33) 03. Ghana Baby DJ (05:03 04. Monkey (04:14) CATALOG #: ATFA023 RELEASE DATE: 03/23/18 FORMAT: LP/Digital DISCOUNT: 5% discount thru two weeks past street date LP BOX LOT: 25 UNITS PER SET: 1xLP GENRE: African/Dance/Techno KEY MARKETS: NYC, LA, Chicago, SF, Miami VINYL NOT RETURNABLE NO TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS

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Selling Points: -New original works, including popular new track “Monkey” -Follows successful ATFA issue Trotro (ATFA019) -Builds on Katapila’s big year of Europe/UK shows -Pressed at 45rpm for big sound

URSULA K. LE GUIN & TODD BARTON MUSIC AND POETRY OF THE KESH

Music and Poetry of the Kesh is the documentation of an invented Pacific Coast peoples from a far distant time, and the soundtrack of famed science fiction author, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home. In the novel, the story of Stone Telling, a young woman of the Kesh, is woven within a larger anthropological folklore and fantasy. The ways of the Kesh were originally presented in 1985 as a five hundred plus page book accompanied with illustrations of instruments and tools, maps, a glossary of terms, recipes, poems, an alphabet (Le Guin’s conlang, so she could write non-English lyrics), and with early editions, a cassette of “field recordings” and indigenous song. Le Guin wanted to hear the people she’d imagined; she embarked on an elaborate process with her friend Todd Barton to invoke their spirit and tradition. For Music and Poetry of the Kesh, the words and lyrics are attributed to Le Guin as composed by Barton, an Oregon-based musician, composer and Buchla synthesist (the two worked together previously on public radio projects). But the cassette notes credit the sounds and voices to the world of the Kesh, making origins ambiguous. For instance, “The River Song” description reads, “The prominent rhythm instrument is the doubure binga, a set of nine brass bowls struck with cloth-covered wooden mallets, here played by Ready.” According to writer and long-time friend of LeGuin, Moe Bowstern (who pens the liners for the Freedom To Spend edition of Kesh), Barton built and then taught himself to play several instruments of Le Guin’s design, among them “the seven-foot horn known to the Kesh as the Houmbúta and the Wéosai Medoud Teyahi bone flute.” Barton’s crafting of original instruments lends an other-worldly texture to the recordings of the Kesh, not unlike fellow builders Bobby Brown and Lonnie Holley. Bowstern notes, “Other musician / makers have crafted their own Kesh instruments after encountering the earlier cassette recordings that accompanied some editions of the book.” Both Barton and Le Guin are sensitive to the sovereignty of indigenous Californians and were careful not to trample the traditions of the Tolowa people who lived in the valley long before the Kesh. “You research deeply, and then you bring your own voice to the table,” said Barton. Within the Kesh culture, the numbers four and five shape the lives, society and rituals. Barton composed loosely around these numbers, patiently listening to the land of Napa Valley for signs and audio signals from the natural elements. Todd incorporated ambient sounds of the creek by Le Guin’s house and a campfire they built together. The songs of Kesh are joyful, soothing and meditative, while the instrumental works drift far past the imaginary lands. “Heron Dance” is an uplifting first track, featuring a Wéosai Medoud Teyahi (made from a deer or lamb thigh bone with a cattail reed) and the great Houmbúta (used for theatre and ceremony). “A Music of the Eighth House” sends gossamer waves of the faintest sounds to “float on the wind.” Like the languages invented in the vocal work of Anna Homler, Meredith Monk, and Elizabeth Fraser, the Kesh songs and poems play with the shape of voice.

The Music and Poetry of the Kesh cassette was meant to accompany and enhance the experience of reading Always Coming Home. Presented in this edition as a long-playing album, where only traces of the book linger (the jacket offers some of Le Guin’s illustration, and a letterpressed bookmark featuring the the narrative modes of western civilization and the Kesh valley is included), the music alone breaking the silence of what might be. It can transport—offering a landscape for imagining a future homecoming. One in which we are balanced, peaceful, and tend to the earth and its creatures. A line from the Sun Dance poem reminds us, “We are nothing much without one another.” Freedom To Spend gives new life to the recordings of the Kesh people in the first ever vinyl edition of Music and Poetry of the Kesh, out on LP, and digital formats on March 23, 2018. The LP will include a deluxe spot printed jacket with illustrations from Always Coming Home, a facsimile of the original lyric sheet, liner notes by Moe Bowstern, multi-format digital download code and a limited edition bookmark letterpressed by Stumptown Printers in Portland, OR. ARTIST HIGHLIGHTS • Ursula K. Le Guin is an American author and illustrator best known for he works in the genres of fantasy and science fiction.  • Some of her most notable works include the Earthsea fantasy series, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Lathe Of Heaven and Lavinia, to name a few.  • In 2016 The New York Times named Le Guin “America’s greatest living science fiction writer.” She has won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award, each more than once, and was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In 2013 she was named Grandmaster of Science Fiction by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America organization.  • Todd Barton is an American composer, sound designer, multimedia performer and analog synthesist specializing in Buchla electronic musical instruments.  • Barton has collaborated with a variety of jazz musicians and poets in addition to Le Guin including Anthony Braxton, Zakir Hussein, William Stafford and Lawson Fusao Inada. His compositions have been performed by the Kronos Quartet, Oregon Symphony Orchestra, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Southern Oregon Repertory Singers, the Shasta Taiko, and the Rogue Valley Symphony among others.  • Le Guin’s classic 1985 science-fiction novel Always Coming Home—surveying the life & culture of a group of far future humans called the Kesh—was originally published with an anthropological cassette tape, Music and Poetry of the Kesh.  • Music and Poetry of the Kesh features music by Todd Barton and words by Ursula K. Le Guin, who also performs many of the pieces. The collection of music includes songs, poems, and dance ceremonies all purportedly recorded on site of the Kesh people.  • Freedom To Spend gives new life to the recordings of the Kesh people in the first ever vinyl edition of Music and Poetry of the Kesh, out on LP, and digital formats on March 23, 2018. The LP will include a deluxe spot printed jacket with illustrations from Always Coming Home, a facsimile of the original lyric sheet, liner notes by Moe Bowstern, multi-format digital download code and a limited edition bookmark letterpressed by Stumptown Printers in Portland, OR.

Track Listing 01. Heron Dance 02. Twilight Song 03. Yes—Singing 04. Dragonfly Song 05. A Homesick Song 06. The Willows 07. Lullaby—Lahela 08. Long Singing 09. The Quail Song 10. A Teaching Poem 11. A River Song 12. Sun Dance Poem 13. A Music of the Eighth House Cat# FTS009 Artist Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton Title Music and Poetry of The Kesh Genre Ambient / Spoken Word / Interplanetary Folk Music Release date March 23, 2018 Formats LP / Digital Vinyl Is Not Returnable Box Lot LP—50 Outer / 25 Inner UPC LP— 603786278818

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GI-318 Dabrye

Box Set CONTAINS • GI-04 One/Three [2018 Remaster] LP (Black Vinyl) • GI-50 Two/Three 2xLP (Black Vinyl) • GI-303 Three/Three 2xLP (Ltd Edition Clear Vinyl) • GI-24 Instrmntl (Blue Vinyl)

RELEASE BIO

RELEASE INFO Catalogue Number: GI-303 Format: CD, 2xLP Release Date:March 23rd, 2018 UPC-BOX SET: 804297831817 Genre: Electronic, hip hop Territory Restrictions: None Vinyl Is not returnable

Tadd Mullinix created his Dabrye alias in the late ’90s as a hip-hop alter ego, a sonic wildstyle that weaved together the laid back vibes of midwestern hip-hop and east coast boom bap, the futuristic funk of Ummah-era Jay Dee, and the calculated subtlety of Detroit dance music. Upon discovering local Detroit hip-hop producers Mullinix realized many of the best had a rhythmic sensibility that set them apart from the rest of the country. Detroit wasn’t a hotspot on the nationwide rap map yet but it had its own swing, full of subtle differences and embodied by groups like Slum Village. As Dabrye, Mullinix captured some of this sensibility — the nuance of metric modulation — and paired it with electronic touches and rap swagger across three albums that brought a new set of Detroit aesthetics to the 2000s hip-hop conversation. Early fans of his refined style included the late James ‘J Dilla’ Yancey and fellow adventurer Prefuse 73 alongside whom Mullinix laid the foundations for a new wave of beat enthusiasts to emerge. In 2018, nearly 20 years after the first Dabrye beats burst out of Mullinix’s home computer, Ghostly International is compiling reissues of all three Dabrye albums - One/Three, Two/Three, and Instrmntl - with the third chapter in the Dabrye album trilogy, the long-awaited Three/Three album, in an exclusive limited edition box set. Time hasn’t dulled Mullinix’s sonic throw-ups, if anything the blur between digital and physical, hip-hop and electronic, subtlety and ruggedness that his music always implied is even more relevant today, especially in a world where students of his style are among the biggest names in the game. Like the city it looked to for inspiration, Dabrye’s sound was built to last.

POINTS OF INTEREST • Includes the limited edition clear vinyl version of the longawaited Three/Three vinyl, as well as represses of all three classic Dabrye albums. • Box is sturdy matte black with debossed lettering • Limited to 500 copies worldwide & numbered in silver foil on back. • Clear vinyl is limited to 1250 units worldwide.

LABEL CONTACT Ghostly International 61 Greenpoint Ave. #506 Brooklyn, NY 11222 dado@ghostly.com www.ghostly.com BOX SET UPC

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GI-04 Dabrye

One/Three [2018 Remaster] TRACKLIST 01. The Lish 02. We’ve Got Commodity 03. With A Professional 04. I’m Missing You 05. How Many Times (With This)

06. Truffle No Shuffle 07. Hyped-Up Plus Tax 08. Smoking The Edge 09. So Scientific 10. Hot Mating Ritual

RELEASE BIO It was chance that brought about the release of One/Three, Dabrye’s debut album. Early demos were tucked on the B side of a cassette Tadd Mullinix passed to Sam Valenti in 2000 while working at the Dubplate Pressure record shop in Ann Arbor. Mullinix had spent the late ’90s producing jungle, techno, house, hip-hop and more using the All Sound Tracker software as a primary instrument. Each style pulled from a similar sound palette as Mullinix used limitations to define the contours of different musical personalities. Dabrye was his hip-hop wildstyle, a captivating collage of sparse instrumentals inspired by the laid back vibes of midwestern hip-hop and east coast boom bap, the futuristic funk of Umma-era Jay Dee, and the calculated subtlety of Detroit dance music. Released in 2001 as the first in an intended trilogy, One/Three announced Dabrye’s arrival with an unavoidable contribution to Detroit hip-hop. Ghostly International is reissuing the album in 2017 for the first time, including a long overdue vinyl edition.

RELEASE INFO Catalogue Number: GI-04 Format: LP Release Date: March 23rd, 2018 UPC-LP: 804297900421 Genre: Electronic, hip hop Box Lot: LP- 10 Territory Restrictions: None Vinyl Is not returnable

On its release One/Three was the rare album that appealed to both fans of Slum Village’s smooth yet rugged hip-hop and enthusiasts of the distinct American IDM released by labels like Schematic. Over the following decade, the inadvertent demo submission turned into a body of work that placed Dabrye alongside innovators such as Prefuse 73 amid the cannon of a new generation of producers. Today, One/Three remains a concise and intriguing study in instrumental hip-hop that helps join the dots between J Dilla and Flying Lotus. One/Three is a record that says much with little. There are no obvious hip-hop tropes. Instead Mullinix captures the ingenious minimalism of ’90s hip-hop instrumentals to build tracks both supple and hard, joyous and melancholy, full of sharply angled rhythms and warm rubbery basslines: ‘The Lish’ throws a sickly sweet saxophone against digitally fragmented melodies; ‘How Many Times (with this)’ draws you in with an irresistible, clipped guitar groove; the rhythmic stutter of ’Smoking The Edge’ makes your head spin with pleasure. Playing with his inspirations, Mullinix injects omitted downbeats for imagined rhymes and repurposes the intricacy of ragga jungle for breakdowns. But what really defines One/Three is the rhythmic sensibility and metric modulation of Detroit’s school of hip-hop production, which Mullinix was a fervent student of. The beats feel like they’re constantly escaping a rigid tempo grid even though they are, in fact, pretty tight. “A lot of it is nuance,” Mullinix explains. “I’ve been known to say that I’m not impressed by spectacle. I think that nuance is what really captivates people.”

POINTS OF INTEREST • “If you like your beats with a dash of class, do not miss this. An essential purchase of the highest order.” -BBC • First time all tracks from the original 2001 release appear on vinyl. • Remastered by Daddy Kev • Standard weight black vinyl is inserted in to 3.5mm matte finish vinyl jacket. • Download card includes free download of the Payback EP

LABEL CONTACT Ghostly International 61 Greenpoint Ave. #506 Brooklyn, NY 11222 dado@ghostly.com www.ghostly.com

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GI-24 Dabrye

Instrmntl TRACKLIST 01. Intrdctn. 02. Won 03. No Child Of God 04. D-Town Tabernacle Choir 05. You Know The Formula Right?

06. Evelyn 07. This Is Where I Came In 08. Prospects (Marshall Law) 09. Take Me Home 10. Gimme Lowlands

RELEASE BIO The early 2000s were a time of upheaval for hip-hop. The underground and mainstream divide that had defined so much of the previous decade was showing the first signs of irrelevance. Timbaland and The Neptunes made radio rappers sound futuristic while independent artists struggled in a quagmire of backpacks and misguided claims to keep it real. Away from this, in a misunderstood middle ground between hip-hop and electronic music, a new generation of artists were busy imagining a new sound for hip-hop.

RELEASE INFO Catalogue Number: GI-24 Format: LP Release Date: March 23rd, 2018 UPC-LP: 804297902418 Genre: Electronic, hip hop Box Lot: LP-10 Territory Restrictions: None Vinyl Is not returnable

One such artist was Scott “Prefuse 73” Herren, whose perpendicular MPC chops on his 2001 debut for Warp Records set curious minds racing with possibilities. That same year Tadd Mullinix released his debut as Dabrye on Ghostly International, a sonic wildstyle that appealed to both hip-hop heads and IDM nerds. Sometime that same year Herren and Mullinix met after sharing a bill in Detroit. CD-Rs were exchanged and a year later Eastern Development, Herren’s newly launched label, released Dabrye’s Instrmntl, a short album with a big impact. On its fifteenth anniversary Ghostly International is reissuing Instrmtl on vinyl and making it available digitally for the first time. Instrmntl is a continuation of the beat experiments Dabrye began with One/Three and a bridge to the diverse textures that would define Two/Three four years later. About half of its nine tracks (ten if you lived in Japan) were created at the same time as One/Three while the rest were newer or made specifically for the album. Once again Mullinix looked outside of hip-hop to techno, house, and drum & bass for stylistic and technical ideas while embracing the blissful minimalism of a good hip-hop instrumental and the rhythmic nuance of Detroit. Despite the similarities between Dabrye’s debut and this follow up, Mullinix didn’t simply replicate what had made One/Three so arresting. He pushed and pulled further between the two cornerstones of his approach to reveal more potentials. Instrmntl takes you deeper into electronic depths — the rugged synth stutter of ‘Won’, the tumbling, wobbling bass in ‘No Child Of God’, the electro get down of ‘Prospects (Marshall Law)’ — while also treading more organic grounds by letting samples breathe and moods unfurl at a gentler pace (‘Take Me Home’, ‘Evelyn’, and ‘You Know The Formula Right?’). And then there are the moments where this push and pull finds balance and the result becomes more, as it does on the mournful march of ‘D-Town Tabernacle Choir’ and the twinkling daydream of ‘This Is Where I Came In’.

POINTS OF INTEREST • Reissue of the out of print 2002 album; available for the first time on Ghostly. • Includes previously Japanese-only bonus track, “Gimme Lowlands” • Standard weight blue vinyl is housed in a matte jacket. •“Dabrye’s beats are like Jay Dee getting crunked up with Autechre.” — Prefuse 73

At just over 30 minutes, Instrmntl offers a snapshot of a time when potentials seemed infinite, when lines could be drawn between jazz, ragga jungle, techno, and hip-hop and the resulting shape divined an exciting future.

LABEL CONTACT Ghostly International 61 Greenpoint Ave. #506 Brooklyn, NY 11222 dado@ghostly.com www.ghostly.com

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GI-50 Dabrye

Two/Three TRACKLIST

01. The Stand (feat. Wildchild) 02. Air (feat. Doom) 03. Machines (Pt. I) 04. Encoded Flow (feat. Kadence) 05. That's What's Up (feat. Vast Aire) 06. Tell Dem 07. Nite Eats Day (feat. Beans) 08. Jorgy (w/ Waajeed) 09. Special (feat. Guilty Simpson and Paradime) 10. Bloop 11. Viewer Discretion (feat. Invincible and Finale)

12. Piano 13. Pressure (w/ Waajeed | feat. Ta-Raach) 14. Reconsider (feat. Kadence) 15. Get It Together (feat. Invincible and Finale) 16. My Life (feat. AG) 17. In Water 18. Get Live (feat. Big Tone) 19. Machines (Pt. II) 20. Game Over (feat. Jay Dee and Phat Kat)

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RELEASE INFO

Tadd Mullinix first made a name for himself as Dabrye in the early 2000s with a pair of instrumental albums combining the rhythmic finesse of Detroit hip-hop with the ingenuity of electronic music. But instrumental beats were only a temporary goal, a way for Mullinix to catch the ears of MCs. On Two/Three, his second Dabrye album for Ghostly International, Mullinix brought together a formidable crew of local and national talent to make the statement he’d always intended. Released in 2006, Two/Three offered a fevered vision of rap’s future that remains just as intoxicating a decade on. Ahead of the long-awaited conclusion of Dabrye’s hip-hop trilogy in 2018, Ghostly is reissuing Two/Three. Dabrye’s move towards rap began in 2004 with the album’s first single, ‘Game Over’ featuring Jay Dee and Phat Kat. An early inspiration of Dabrye’s, Jay Dee invited Mullinix to his crib in 2002 for a listening session during which he picked the ‘Game Over’ beat to rap on. Crucially everyone involved was in accord that despite perceptions of their respective work this would be a hardcore rap song. Together with Kat, Jay delivered a one-two lyrical punch on ‘Game Over’ that no one saw coming. Detroit made the world go round and everyone’s head spun. ’Game Over’ set the tone for the album and, over the next few years, became a Detroit anthem — shortly after Jay’s passing in 2006 the audience at Movement Festival sung his verse. Moody, propulsive, and above all ambitious, Two/Three emerges from a sonic stew of Detroit and UK dance music, Jamaican sound clashes, and hip-hop sampledelia. The guests, a who’s who of the mid-’00s underground rap scene, engage in a raucous rhyming session that pays as much attention to the realities of the streets as it does world events. MF Doom, Wildchild, Vast Aire, Beans, and AG represent for the various coasts while local talents — Waajeed, Ta-Raach, Invincible, Finale, Kadence, Guilty Simpson, Big Tone, Phat Kat, and Jay Dee — bring Two/Three alive with an infectious energy. In between bursts of raw rap and hard beats, Dabrye showcases detailed instrumentals that evoke bleak industrial futures, underwater meditations, and smoky late night sessions. With Two/Three Dabrye placed himself at the forefront of hip-hop’s new wave, throwing a Molotov cocktail into the rap world as uncompromising as the head-twisting cover art from WK Interact. The independent press praised Mullinix’s audacity. Over the following years the impact of Two/Three was felt in slow increments as Dabrye’s music became central to the sonic makeup of a new generation of producers. As this beat scene grew and moved away from rap, it showed Mullinix the influence of his work and the value of his vision for Dabrye as his own brand of Detroit hip-hop.

Catalogue Number: GI-50 Format: 2xLP Release Date: March 23rd, 2018 UPC-LP: 804297905013 Genre: Electronic, hip hop Box Lot: LP- 8 Territory Restrictions: None Vinyl Is not returnable

POINTS OF INTEREST • Repress of the 2006 sequel to One/Three • Feat. J Dilla, Doom, Wajeed, Vast Aire, Guilty Simpson, Beans, and more. • 2xLP vinyl is housed in a matte jacket with silver ink.

LABEL CONTACT Ghostly International 61 Greenpoint Ave. #506 Brooklyn, NY 11222 dado@ghostly.com www.ghostly.com

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Amen Dunes Freedom 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

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With every record, Damon McMahon aka Amen Dunes has transformed, and Freedom is the project’s boldest leap yet. Enlisting a powerful set of collaborators that included Parker Kindred (Antony & The Johnsons, Jeff Buckley) on drums, Chris Coady (Beach House) as producer, and Delicate Steve on guitars, Freedom was recorded at the legendary Electric Lady Studios in NYC and at Sunset Sound in L.A. On the surface, Freedom is a reflection on growing up, childhood friends who ended up in prison or worse, male identity, McMahon’s father, and his mother, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer at the beginning of recording. The characters that populate the musical world of Freedom are a colorful mix of reality and fantasy: father and mother, Amen Dunes, teenage glue addicts and Parisian drug dealers, ghosts above the plains, fallen surf heroes, vampires, thugs from Naples and thugs from Houston, the emperor of Rome, Jews, Jesus, Tashtego, Perseus, even McMahon himself. Each character portrait is a representation of McMahon, of masculinity, and of his past. Yet, if anything, these 11 songs are a relinquishing of all of them through exposition; a gradual reorientation of being away from the acquired definitions of self we all cling to and towards something closer to what’s stated in the Agnes Martin quote that opens the record, “I don’t have any ideas myself; I have a vacant mind” and in the swirling, pitched down utterances of “That’s all not me” that close it. The music, as a response or even a solution to the album’s darker themes, is tough and joyous, rhythmic and danceable; a true NYC street record. It’s a sound never heard before on an Amen Dunes record, but one that was always asking to emerge. “Blue Rose” and “Calling Paul the Suffering” are pure, ecstatic dance songs. “Skipping School” and “Miki Dora” are incantations of a mythical heroic maleness and its illusions. “Freedom” and “Believe” offer a street tough’s futuregospel exhalation, and the funk-grime grit of “L.A.” closes the album, projecting a musical hint of things to come.

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track listing: Intro (0:50) Blue Rose (4:06) Time (4:51) Skipping School (5:28) Calling Paul the Suffering (3:02) Miki Dora (5:04) Satudarah (2:44) Believe (5:46) Dracula (4:17) Freedom (5:00) L.A. (6:04) Key Information / Selling Points: Hometown / Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia Selling Points / Key Press: Previous LP Love Soundscan LTD: 8000 Extensive North America/European touring planned for 2018 Sold out headlining show at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom on last LP Glowing coverage in Pitchfork, NPR, The Quietus, and more U.S.-exclusive Forest Green color vinyl and international-exclusive Navy Blue color vinyl limited to 2000 units each Related Catalog: sbr-035 Amen Dunes Murder Dull Mind 12" EP SBr-059 Amen Dunes Through Donkey Jaw LP/CD sbr-113 Amen Dunes Love LP/CD sbr-124 Amen Dunes Cowboy Worship 12" EP RiYL: The War on Drugs, Animal Collective, Van Morrison cd catalog #: SBR-195 genre: Alternative/Rock Release Date: 3-30-2018 available formats: CD, lp, lp-c1 (U.s.), lp LP-C2 (InTernational) UPC-CD: 616892561347 UPC-LP: 616892561149 UPC-LP-c1: 616892561248 FOREST GREEN color vinyl lp UPC-LP-c2: 616892562443 (U.S. EXCLUSIVE) Vinyl is not returnable export restrictions: None Box Lot: CD 30 / lP 30 NAVY BLUE color vinyl lp label contact: (INTERNATIONAL EXCLUSIVE) Sacred Bones Records 144 N. 7th Street #413 Brooklyn, NY 11249 info@sacredbonesrecords.com

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MAJOR MURPHY NO. 1 tracklist 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

No. 1 Who I Will Be Mary Radi-Yum My C. C. Blues

6. Step Out 7. One Day 8. Jesus 9. When I Go Out 10. Lisa, Robbi, And Me

release bio Grand Rapids’ Major Murphy is set to release their debut full-length No. 1 this year. Those who caught feelings for “Mary,” the plaintive single released in November of 2017, may be pleased to ﬁnd that the single is no outlier in this album. Brimming with jangly guitar, bright riffs, synth-sheened grooves, and commanding backing vocals, No. 1 reimagines 1970s radio rock with bristling sensitivity for our present era. Not quite pastiche, the lyrics of songwriter Jacob Bullard come from millennials’ unique cache of societal anxiety and ego-crises. On one hand, the technicolor and mechanized world of No. 1 is unmistakably ours: we are over-stimulated and pressured, confused and frustrated. On the other, Bullard heaves up worries seeded in adult selfhood and relationships, working for answers beyond life’s many brief and manic vanities. The album’s musical sensibilities catch all this with A-side’s sudden velocity and mechanical repetitions, and B side’s encouraging grooves and contemplative soft-rock. The sound is rich and evocative, owing in large measure to bassist Jacki Warren’s faculty for harmonic structure. Drummer Brian Voortman’s keen responsiveness to melodic progressions and emotional shifts make for concert-like, energetic recordings--in fact, most of No. 1 was recorded live, capturing how naturally Major Murphy makes music together. When Major Murphy tours, they travel in a light-blue Dodge van and make a memorably caring and playful threesome. On stage, they’re a tight and assertive performance. “This album is kind of an experiment,” says Bullard, “We wanted to see what would happen if we recorded in a studio instead of at home. We wanted to extend the idea of capturing our live dynamic a little further.” The result is an album that holds the kinetic charge of these three musicians. With precise control and live versatility, they never quite let the tension out. Even their dreamy soft-rock tracks have moments that feel utterly urgent, as if something dear were at stake. And isn’t there? Major Murphy’s No. 1 releases via Winspear on March 30, 2018. CASS UPC

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release info Catalogue Number: WSP025 Format: LP, CD, Cass, Digital Release Date: Mar. 30th, 2018 UPC-LP: 601202542420 UPC-LP-C1: 601202542437 UPC-CD: 601202542444 UPC-CASS: 601202542451

Territory Restrictions: None Genre: Indie Rock RIYL: Luke Temple, Kurt Vile, Wings, Television Vinyl and Cass. not returnable Box Lot: LP(20), CD(30), CS(50)

points of interest Debut LP after 2017’s “On & Off Again” EP Based in Grand Rapids, MI Gorilla Vs Bear “Easy, gorgeous harmonies, shimmering production, and timeless subject matter” Brooklyn Vegan “a lovely magic hour vibe...great harmonies too” GoldFlakePaint “lifts you out of the monotony of the real world and off to somewhere else entirely” label contact Winspear 209 E Grimes Ln Bloomington, IN 47401 LP UPC

jared@winspear.biz ben@winspear.biz www.winspear.biz LP-C1 UPC

NO JOY / SONIC BOOM NO JOY / SONIC BOOM RELEASE DATE : March 30, 2018 CATALOG # : JNR254

LP (PINK VINYL) UPC: 7 14270692048

AVAILABLE FORMATS : LP / CD GENRE : Experimental Electronica BOX LOT QUANTITY : 10 LP / 30 CD PACKAGING : JACKET / WALLET

VINYL NON-RETURNABLE. TRACK LISTING :

1 2 3 4

Obsession Slorb Triangle Probably Teenage Panic

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CD UPC: 7 14270692055

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No Joy / Sonic Boom is Jasamine White-Gluz and Pete Kember. You know Jasamine from her eight-years (and counting) stint as a founding member and principal songwriter of Canadian shoegaze/noise-pop band No Joy. And Pete Kember is Sonic Boom, of Spacemen 3, Spectrum, and E.A.R. While neither can accurately recollect how they met, the pair first touched on the idea of working together in an exchange of emails during the fall of 2015. No Joy had just finished touring on the back of LP More Faithful (their third full-length on the Mexican Summer imprint, and their heaviest to date), and Jasamine was eager to walk a new path. “No Joy functioned as a four-piece ‘rock band’ for so long,” she says. “I wanted to pursue something solo where I collaborated with someone else who could help me approach my songs from a completely different angle. Pete is a legend and someone I’ve admired for a long time. Being able to work with him on this was incredible.” What started as a sonic exploration between two friends—passing songs back and forth intercontinentally, with Jasamine writing and producing songs in Montreal and Pete writing, arranging, and producing in Portugal—soon grew into a project of substance, the result being four glistening tracks that dance along the lines of electronica, trip-hop and experimental noise. “I wrote some songs that were intended for a full band and handed them off to Pete, who helped transform them. I barely knew how to use MIDI so I was just throwing him these experiments I was working on and he fine-tuned my ideas. There are barely any guitars on this album, because I was focused on trying to find new ways to create sounds.” The No Joy / Sonic Boom EP begins with the 11+ minute epic “Obsession,” a disco-y dream trance jam that ebbs and flows, before “Slorb” slinks in, casting its seductive spell. “Triangle Probably” rings triumphant, an industrial beat thumping below, the track interwoven with Jasamine’s silvery vocals. “Teenage Panic” begins in celebration, brimming with hope and excitement, and then—a full stop—before striking back in the form of a droning loop that gathers more and more layers as it spins out into the infinite void. No Joy / Sonic Boom is an experiment in testing boundaries and stepping out of comfort zones gone cosmically right. joyful noise recordings 1030 Orange St | Indianapolis, IN 46203

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TROUBLE IN MIND

TIM130

FACS Negative Houses TRACKLIST

1. Skylarking

5. Others

2. Silencing

6. Primar y

3. Houses Breathing

7. Exit Like You

4. Just A Mirror

8. All Futures RELEASE BIO

RELEASE INFO

FACS sprung forth in early 2017 from the ashes of beloved Chicago band Disappears. “Negative Houses” is their debut recording; an abstraction of their former outfit, even more minimal and bare than what came before. After the departure of bassist Damon Carruesco, Disappears remaining members Brian Case, Noah Leger and Jonathan van Herik initially put the project on hold, but ultimately decided to carr y on, pushing the project towards new frontiers. Musically, FACS heads in the same direction as Disappears, albeit on a different path. They approach the stark, gothy post-punk they perfected more rhythmically and abstract than in Disappears, with Leger ’s motorik, machine-like drumming taking the forefront (see the tunes ‘Skylarking’ and ‘Others’) and van Herik’s guitar alternating between slashes of dissonant ambience and percussive accent. Case switches from guitar to bass in FACS, adding an economical throb to the band’s drive on songs like ‘J ust A Mirror ’ & the album’s centerpiece, the near nine-minute, sax-soaked tour-de-force ‘Houses Breathing’, whose electric heartbeat lumbers forward, sounding like an outtake from Cold Storage Studios circa 1979. “Negative Houses” was recorded at Electrical Audio by Grammy award-winning engineer Jon Congleton (St. Vincent, War on Drugs, Roots) & mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Service. The album is released on CD, black vinyl, & will be made available via all digital retailers. A limited metallic gold vinyl version will be available for direct accounts.

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98338

Catalogue Number: TIM130 Format: CD, LP, LP-C1 Release Date: March 30th, 2018 CD: 630125983386 UPC-LP: 630125983409 UPC-LP-C1: 630125983416 Territor y Restrictions: None Genre: Indie / Post Rock / Noise / Experimental RIYL: Explosions In the Sky, Disappears, This Heat, PIL, Oneida, Can Vinyl is not returnable Box Lot CDs: 300 Box Lot LP: 30

POINTS OF INTEREST - Limited metallic gold color vinyl available direct to shops - New band featuring Brian Case, Jonathan van Herik & Noah Leger, formerly of Chicago band Disappears - Recorded by (Grammy award winner) Jon Congleton at Electrical Audio - Mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Ser vice LABEL CONTACT TROUBLE IN MIND RECORDS P.O. BOX 30079 Chicago, IL 60630-1340 troubleinmindrecs@gmail.com www.troubleinmindrecs.com

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