New Releases - July 13th & July 20th by Secretly Distribution

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JULY 13TH NEW RELEASES -------------------------------

• BEAK> - BEAK> (BLACK VINYL) | 2xLP (TRR306lp) | Temporary Residence Ltd. PHYS UPC:656605330617 • BEAK> - >> | CD (TRR307cd) | Temporary Residence Ltd. PHYS UPC:656605330723 • BEAK> - >> (BLACK VINYL) | 2xLP (TRR307lp) | Temporary Residence Ltd. PHYS UPC:656605330716 • CHASTITY - DEATH LUST | CD (CT279cd) | Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949014674 • CHASTITY - DEATH LUST (BLACK VINYL) | LP (CT279lp) | Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949014667 • THE OPHELIAS - ALMOST | CD (JNR265cd) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270692512 • THE OPHELIAS - ALMOST (GREEN GLASS COLORED VINYL) | LP (JNR265lp-C1) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC: 714270692499 • CARL STONE - ELECTRONIC MUSIC FROM THE EIGHTIES AND NINETIES (BLACK VINYL) | 2xLP (UW020lp) | Unseen Worlds PHYS UPC:766008587874 • LOTIC - POWER (BLACK VINYL) | LP (TRI044lp) | Tri Angle Records PHYS UPC:843563103128 • URSULA K. LE GUIN & TODD BARTON - MUSIC AND POETRY OF THE KESH | CD (FTS009cd) | RVNG INTL. PHYS UPC: 603786278825 • AMERICAN NUDISM - NEGATIVE SPACE (BLACK VINYL) | 7" (IPU146lp) | Perennial / K Records PHYS UPC:789856214617 • ALEXANDER HEIR - WARRR2K∞//WORK 2014-17 | Book (SBB008book) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:843563103012

JULY 20TH NEW RELEASES -------------------------------

• NATHAN SALSBURG - THIRD | CD (NOQ057cd) | No Quarter PHYS UPC:843563101056 • NATHAN SALSBURG - THIRD (BLACK VINYL) | LP (NOQ057lp) | No Quarter PHYS UPC:843563101063 • NEGATIVE SCANNER - NOSE PICKER | CD (TIM135cd) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983140 • NEGATIVE SCANNER - NOSE PICKER (BLACK VINYL) | LP (TIM135lp) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983164 • NEGATIVE SCANNER - NOSE PICKER (SNOT GREEN VINYL) | LP (TIM135lp-C1) | Trouble In Mind PHYS UPC:630125983171 • OPTIGANALLY YOURS - O.Y. IN HI-FI (MUSTARD VINYL) | LP (JNR280lp) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270692581 • OPTIGANALLY YOURS - O.Y. IN HI-FI (RED/YELLOW SPLIT COLOR VINYL) | LP (JNR280lp-C1) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270692598 • DRAHLA - TWELVE DIVISIONS OF THE DAY (CLEAR VINYL) | 7" (CT288lp) | Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949015626

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Beak> >>

TRR307 LP

56605 33071

TRR307 CD

56605 33072

RELEASE DATE: July 13, 2018 FORMAT: CD / 2xLP LIST PRICE: CD $14.98 / LP: $27.98 UPC CD: 656605330723 UPC LP: 656605330716 PACKAGING: Full-color wide-spine jacket w/ foil stamping, matte varnish GENRE: Indie-Alternative BOX LOT: CD: 35 / LP: 25 NOT EXPORTABLE VINYL IS NON-RETURNABLE 5% New Release Discount Through July 27! TRACK LISTING 1. The Gaol (3:12) 2. Yatton (5:20) 3. Spinning Top (6:15) 4. Eggdog (4:15) 5. Liar (2:25) 6. Ladies’ Mile (4:47) 7. Wulfstan II (7:13) 8. Elevator (4:26) 9. Deserters (3:40) 10. Kidney (6:52) 11. Trong (3:51)* 12. Failand (11:05)* *Vinyl Bonus Tracks

SALES POINTS

• Remastered reissue of the second

album by acclaimed UK out-rock trio

• Includes vinyl-only bonus tracks PRESS “An impressive document of a band in full Krautrock-psychedelia-horrorprog flow.” – BBC

BIO To celebrate the addition of Bristol’s preeminent out-rock trio, Beak>, to the Temporary Residence family, we are reissuing their acclaimed second album, >>, on audiophile-quality double vinyl. Remastered for vinyl by Josh Bonati, and packaged in a heavyweight foil-stamped jacket, >> includes the original album in its entirety, as well as vinyl-only bonus tracks not available on the CD or Digital formats. Following the release of his Quakers hip-hop project, and the Judge Dredd-inspired Drokk soundtrack collaboration, Geoff Barrow unveiled the second album by Beak>, the krautrock-influenced band formed with Billy Fuller and Matt Williams. There is an accepted music industry strategy, mainly from the mouths of experienced music managers and A&R men, that for a band to get ready to present themselves to the world they should go on tour. In most cases this advice works; the band hone their craft on the road so by the time they get on to late-night TV and summer festivals, they can amaze with their slick, tight rock performance. However, this doesn’t always work. Beak> – formed by Geoff Barrow, Matt Williams, and Billy Fuller in 2009 – recorded their self-titled debut album in Bristol, created from 12 days of improv sessions and then edited into song form. Shorty after releasing it, the band went on a successful tour, playing various festival dates across Europe and the U.S. Buzzing from the tour, Beak> promptly returned to the studio to start work on album #2, only to find that the time on the road had taken its toll on the band’s delicately sensitive and creative nature – and, by consequence, had turned them into a truly awful-sounding pub prog-rock band. The magic had gone. It seemed that the band were thoroughly moribund. Until... One rainy afternoon in Bristol – after many tortured, truly terrible recording sessions – something changed. It may have been the diesel fumes from the band’s tour splitter bus had finally worn off; others say that the band simply turned their amplifiers down. We may never know the true events of that afternoon, but the band began to play and, once again as before, their bleak, wobbly, anti-blue note sound had returned – now with more synthesizers. And once again as before, it was all recorded live in one room (with very few overdubs).

Beak> BEAK>

TRR306 LP

ARTIST: Beak> TITLE: Beak> CATALOG: TRR306 RELEASE DATE: July 13, 2018 FORMAT: 2xLP UPC: 656605330617 BOX LOT: 25 TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: NORTH AMERICA ONLY (USA, CANADA, MEXICO) VINYL IS NON-RETURNABLE TRACK LISTING 1. Backwell (6:15) 2. Pill (5:34) 3. Ham Green (6:27) 4. I Know (5:02) 5. Battery Point (7:10) 6. Iron Action (5:00) 7. Ears Have Ears (4:23) 8. Blagdon Lake (4:44) 9. Barrow Gurney (2:01) 10. The Cornubia (4:00) 11. Dundry Hill (7:38) 12. Flax Bourton (2:50) 13. Granby Hill (10:23)* *Vinyl Bonus Track

SALES POINTS

• Remastered reissue of debut album by acclaimed UK out-rock trio • Includes vinyl-only bonus track PRESS “Beak> is a cohesive, ambitious and thoughtfully-executed murky delight. A godsend of a record in these times of landfill indie.” – Drowned In Sound

56605 33061

BIO To celebrate the addition of Bristol’s preeminent out-rock trio, Beak>, to the Temporary Residence family, we are reissuing their eponymous debut album on audiophile-quality double vinyl. Remastered for vinyl by Josh Bonati, and packaged in a heavyweight old-styile tip-on gatefold jacket, Beak> includes the original album in its entirety, as well as a vinyl-only bonus track not available on the CD or Digital formats. Beak> were formed in January 2009 by Bristol musicians Billy Fuller, Matt Williams, and Geoff Barrow. The band instituted very strict guidelines governing the recording and writing process of their work: The music was to be recorded live in one room with no overdubs or repair, only using edits to create arrangements. All tracks were written over a twelve-day session in SOA Studios, Bristol. Often a band can be no more than the sum of its parts, but Beak> are an equation in which it’s impossible to define equivalents or totals. Instead the meeting of three unique talents form a foundation from which ideas assimilate and propagate. Those talents are: Billy Fuller: Reared in Bristol, on an aural diet of anything and everything, facilitated later by his time working in the city’s top independent record shop Replay Records, and also playing with handfuls of bands – including Massive Attack, Robert Plant, and Malakai. Billy is Beak>’s thoughtful pulse; his bass a forceful origin for their superlative narrative arcs. Matt Williams: Picked up a Yamaha keyboard at age 3 and never looked back, as Team Brick creates dissonance that immediately elucidates free-forming thought, and impacts heavily on Beak>’s rolling landscape. He enjoys playing air drums whilst cycling, singing lines from a favorite Latin prayer and doesn’t understand the music he makes himself. Geoff Barrow: Musician and producer born near Bristol. Best known for forming and producing popular music group Portishead, as well as scoring acclaimed film and TV productions, including Black Mirror, Ex Machina, and Annihilation. Commenting on working in Beak>, Barrow states: "It’s really good to create music under different conditions than you’re used to.”

CHASTITY

DEATH LUST - LP/CD • Hometown: Whitby, Ontario •Touring Summer through Fall 2018 Chastity is a world of its own from the mind of Brandon Williams. Reflecting the working class background of Whitby, Ontario, Chastity’s songs are charged with the ethos of archetypal youth on the fringe. A project more aptly characterized by its intentions than specific sound or medium, Chastity stands to confront the struggles of those existing in the unseen, often silenced periphery. It is an artifact of youth culture constantly working to form community, bridging isolation with collectivity.

CT- 279 01 . Childre n 02. Cho ke 03 . S ca r y 04 . N eg a t i v e Wi t h Reason To Be 05 . Hea v e n H e ll Any whe re Else 06 . S uffer 07. Ch a in s 08 . A n oxi a 09 . Co me 10. Inn o ca nce (Please n ote : LP co n tain s al t e r n a t e t ra ck se q u e n ce . )

LP UPC: 817949014667 LP FORMAT: 12” LP + MP3s LP BOXLOT: 50 EXPORT: WORLD EX: CANADA VINYL NON-RETURNABLE

It was clear from the release of Chastity’s first demos that this was not “another punk band that can operate at only one speed.” Always concerned with the trending lack of accessibility and inclusivity in public spaces for the arts, the first Chastity show was held in Williams’ own bedroom where, packed wall-to-wall, the police were quickly called. But after the project’s second show supporting DC punk band Priests, Chastity was off to the races, sharing stages with the likes of Metz, Chelsea Wolfe and Fucked Up. All without a full length recording out. Since signing with Brooklyn label Captured Tracks, Chastity has re-released those initial demos, along with 2 new singles and an EP, stoking the anticipation of Chastity’s debut full length record, Death Lust.

Death Lust follows the plot of suffering to survival. The album begins on a tortured note with ‘Come’ and builds toward the plummeting finale of ‘Chains’, evolving from start to finish in a crescendo of severity. Chastity explains, “Death Lust is about growing up death obsessed. It’s about the pain that it takes but the capacity that we have to overcome.”

RELEASE DATE: JULY 13th, 2018 GENRE: ALTERNATIVE / INDIE

CD UPC: 817949014674 CD FORMAT: JEWEL CASE CD BOXLOT: 30 EXPORT: WORLD EX: CANADA

Press: Grace Jones gracej@grandstandhq.com Sales : Dave Martin dave.martin@omnianmusicgroup.com

THE OPHELIAS Almost

GREEN GLASS VINYL

RELEASE DATE : July 13, 2018 CATALOG # : JNR265 AVAILABLE FORMATS : LP / CD

L P -C 1 UP C : 71427069 249 9

GENRE : Indie Rock / Indie Folk BOX LOT QUANTITY : 10 LP / 30 CD PACKAGING : JACKET / WALLET

VINYL NON-RETURNABLE. TRACK LISTING :

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Fog General Electric Lover's Creep Night Signs O Command Lunar Rover Bird House Zero Moon Like Sour Candy

VINYL INCLUDES DOWNLOAD

C D UP C : 71427069 25 1 2

OVERVIEW :

1:43 3:33 3:30 4:25 2:16 4:09 1:39 2:41 2:35 3:12

Through a blend of understated rock, baroque pop and wide-skied atmospheres, The Ophelias explore the juxtapositions of youth in their album Almost. Having formed the band while still in high school, bassist Grace Weir, guitarist/lyricist Spencer Peppet, percussionist Micaela Adams, and violinist Andrea Gutmann Fuentes first met at a time when each were independently serving as the “token girl” in various dude-bands from their hometown of Cincinnati, OH. Coming from varied musical backgrounds (ranging from garage-rock, to surf, to opera), the distinct talents and influences of each member collided in unexpected ways at the band’s first rehearsal. It was here the band discovered that their chemistry wasn’t rooted in a shared musical reference point, but in the creative relief from the expected censorship of being a sideperson. “In the past we had all kind of been the ‘girl in the band,’ in some capacity,” Peppet said. “Having a band of all women eradicates that possibility logistically, but also makes for a really creative environment without the patronization that often comes along with being the ‘girl in the band.’”

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Produced by Yoni Wolf (WHY?), the new album Almost glides between palatial assuredness and pallid introspection, looking back on youthful yearning—the uncertainties, the traumas, the anxieties—without discounting its soft beauty. The Ophelias steer Almost through the lineage of coming-of-age confessionals, and affectionately document their growth into a warm, fractured adulthood.

joyful noise recordings 1030 Orange St | Indianapolis, IN 46203

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Following the widely acclaimed 3LP collection, Electronic Music from the Seventies and Eighties, Unseen Worlds has compiled a second, 2LP collection of favorite and unreleased Carl Stone works. Electronic Music from the Eighties and Nineties presents the soothing, hallucinatory side of Stone’s slow-evolving, time-bending composition. While we can’t always identify the source, we can hear that his sounds come from somewhere, and that there is a “correct” or “complete” version of them in theory; and so we can hear when they are being changed. What drives Stone’s music is the flow that he draws out of those differences: the way an Indonesian gamelan morphs into a chorus built from one female vocalist over the course of “Mae Yao”’s twenty-three minutes, the surprise emergence of a Mozart chorus out of the synths and skip-glitches of “Sonali,” or the slow, ambient evolution of “Banteay Srey”. “Woo Lae Oak,” issued in a single side edit for the first time, is an exception. Its samples – a tremolo string and a bottle being blown across the top like a flute - are simple in the extreme. Yet the Stone hallmark is clearly present, he locates the inherent emotional properties of the sounds – the tingling anticipation of the string and the calm nobility of the wind – and takes them into unexpected expressive territory.

Carl Stone Electronic Music from the Eighties and Nineties Unseen Worlds UW20

RIYL The Caretaker, Elysia Crampton, Editions GRM, Oneohtrix Point Never, Ryuichi Sakamoto RELEASE INFO Genres: Acousmatic, Modern Composition, Electronic, Ambient, Plunderphonic Release date: July 13, 2018 Formats: 2LP, Digital List Price: 29.98 (2LP), Box Lot: 20/40 UPC: 766008587874 Returns: LP=No HOMETOWN Tokyo, Los Angeles, San Francisco SELLING POINTS • Gatefold LP jacket • New liner notes from Tim Rutherford Johnson, Robin Rimbaud, and Carl Stone • First time vinyl collection for some of Carl Stone’s most beloved tracks from the 1980s and 1990s, and the ﬁrst ever release in any format of “Mae Yao” TRACK LIST Side A: 1. Banteay Srey Side B: 2. Sonali Side C: 3. Woo Lae Oak Side D: 4. Mae Yao

2LP BARCODE:

66008 58787

LABEL CONTACT: Tommy McCutchon Unseen Worlds, PO BOX 250558 New York, NY 10025 (917) 420-0788 email: tommy@unseenworlds.com twitter + instagram: @unseen_worlds

Lotic Power

TRACK LISTING: 1. Love and Light 2. Hunted 3. Bulletproof 4. Distribution of Care 5. The Warp and the Weft 6. Resilience 7. Fragility 8. Nerve 9. Heart 10. Power 11. Solace 12. Burn a Print ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Power is the debut album from Lotic, an expansive exploration of the many ways in which power can be expressed and experienced. Those familiar with Lotic’s two 2015 EPs — Heterocetera (Tri Angle) and Agitations (Janus) — will trace a warm-blooded evolution: Power retains the Berlin musician’s inquisitive intensity, while mining the depths of nuance like never before. Across its 11 songs, Lotic stretches their wings into unexpected new spaces, both compositionally, and, for the first time, vocally. “Hunted”, returns the colonial gaze with an arched eyebrow and a hushed chant in one of the more pop-leaning moments on the album. “Distribution of Care” pulls Lotic’s rigorous club aesthetic into a symphonic context, pairing strings and drums in a wordless questioning of society’s priorities. The playful “Nerve” serves up an icey hip-hop beat over which they invoke their H-Town roots while issuing a warning. And, of course, there couldn’t be a sonic exposition of power without its most generous manifestation: “Heart” is a love ballad that finds Lotic and NON Records’s Moro, the album’s sole guest, trading vulnerable verses. “It originally started as an empowerment album,” says Lotic. “I felt that I needed to offer something outside of myself, as sort of a healing moment. And then I lost my apartment. Mentally, I could only work on music once every three months or something. The question of what would be empowering — the answer to that changed so often over a two-year period. I had to figure out who I was all over again. With this record, I went back and incorporated all of my musical selves.”

Limited edition vinyl, 1000 copies pressed. Vinyl edition comes in a die cut sleeve and features an exclusive, vinyl only track called ‘Burn a Print’. Lotic was born in Houston, and studied electronic music composition and saxophone at university. They moved to Berlin in 2012, where they helped form the Janus club collective. In 2015, they were commissioned to create two remixes for Björk’s Vulnicura, and subsequently were invited to be the opening act at her live show in Berlin. CATALOG: TRIANGLE44 ARTIST: Lotic TITLE: Power GENRE: Electronic RELEASE DATE: 07/13/2018 AVAILABLE FORMATS: LP Territory Restrictions; Worldwide VINYL IS NOT RETURNABLE LP BOX LOT: 25 LP UPC: 843563103128 LABEL CONTACT:

info@tri-anglerecords.com www.tri-anglerecords.com

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.

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

ARTIST HIGHLIGHTS • Ursula K. Le Guin was an American author and illustrator best known for her 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 CD edition of Music and Poetry of the Kesh following the sold out first vinyl edition. The CD will include a booklet with illustrations from Always Coming Home, a facsimile of the original lyric sheet and liner notes by Moe Bowstern.

Genre Ambient / Spoken Word / Interplanetary Folk Music

Cat# FTS009 Artist Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton Title Music and Poetry of The Kesh

Release date June 15, 2018 Formats CD / Digital Non Exportable SRP CD— $14.98 Box Lot CD—80 Inner, 320 Master Carton UPC CD— 603786278825

RVNG Intl. / Freedom To Spend PO Box 20752 Tompkins Sq. New York NY 10009 matt@igetrvng.com 718 812 8443

AMERICAN NUDISM Negative Space E.p.

AMERICAN NUDISM is a co-release presented by K and Perennial. "American Nudism or Gabriel Gutierrez is the former front person of LYSOL. Done with starving on tour in the American underground he has settled in Olympia where he can bathe in synthesized chocolate syrup.” “too much change in too short a time. Can you tell what’s real or unreal? Science fiction becomes future truisms “Vroom- vroom” says the philosopher Change is a cop And he’s an action machine.” 3 tracks 45RPM

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Tracklist

A1. Negative Space B1. Video Surveillance B2. Future 5-0

Catalog Number: IPU146 Format: 7” Release Date: 07/13/2018 Boxlot: 80 UPC: 789856214617 Genre: Electonic Alternative Packaging: 7”Jackets Vinyls is Non-Returnable. Territory Restrictions: none

7” Vinyl

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BOX 7154 OLYMPIA, WASH. 98507, U.S.A. 360.786.1594 / FAX 360.786.5024 WWW.KRECS.COM

This avant pop project features Olympia, WA performance artist and frontperson Gabriel Gutierrez (LYSOL). Recorded in a mix of self produced home sessions and continued teamwork of the seminal Olympia Engineer Captain Tripps Ballsington (Milk Music, CC Dust, Gun Outfit), this release continues the Olympia tradition of singular artist blazing trails for others to soon follow. Look for the videos for single “Future 5-0” Along with a West Coast tour to follow in support of this 7”. “Sick synth-pop from the genius mind of Gabriel Gutierrez (Lysol/VATS). Imagine The Normal's Warm Leatherette and a 1980's Sci-fi movie soundtrack.” (RICHTER SCALE RECORDS)

Alexander Heir WARRR2K∞//WORK2014-17

Key Information / Selling Points: Hometown / Key Markets: • New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Tokyo, Barcelona, Berlin, Mexico City

Brooklyn artist and musician Alexander Heir has created one of the defining aesthetics of the contemporary underground music scene, through more than 15 years of design and printing work for countless international punk and metal artists. His work has graced the albums, singles, and flyers of highly regarded artists such as The Mob, Martin Rev of Suicide, Warthog, and John Carpenter, and his commission work includes ephemera for horror films It Follows and The Puppet Man. Similarly, his clothing brand Death/Traitors has become a counterculture staple, reaching beyond the hardcore punk community, while still embracing its values. Members of Three Six Mafia, Fucked Up, and Odd Future have all been known to support the brand. In addition to his design and commission work, Heir also fronts the industrial punk band L.O.T.I.O.N. and has a prolific artistic practice of personal work. Heir has exhibited around the world, including a solo show at Boo-Hooray in New York City in support of his first book, Death Is Not the End.    WARRR2K∞//WORK 2014-17 showcases all of Alexander Heir’s visual work created since the release of his last book, Death Is Not the End, in addition to a new full-color series exclusive to this volume. Expanding upon war, police brutality, political corruption, and death as his canon of punk subject matter, his latest work brings sci-fi and psychedelia influences into the fold, blending them with his impeccable design aesthetic and signature sense of twisted playfulness. The result shows Heir making his most sophisticated, detailed and demented work to date.

Selling Points / Key Press: • Commission clients include: John Carpenter, Martin Rev, The Mob, Warthog, It Follows • Heir has exhibited nationally and internationally including a solo show in 2014 at Boo Hooray Gallery in NYC • Heir runs popular clothing line Death/Traitors • 33K+ Instagram followers • Foreword by Chris Stein of Blondie RiYL: Raymond Pettibon, Gary Panter, Pushead, Joe Coleman, Tom of Finland, Russian prison tattos catalog #: SBB-008 genre: Fine Art Release Date: 6-22-2018 available formats: soft cover isbn: 978-0-9996099-2-7 not returnable Box Lot: book 20 label contact: Sacred Bones Records 144 N. 7th Street #413 Brooklyn, NY 11211 info@sacredbonesrecords.com www.sacredbonesrecords.com

Nathan Salsburg Third

Release Date: July 20, 2018 Catalog #: NOQ057 CD: Boxlot 30 / UPC: 843563101056 LP: Boxlot 25 / UPC: 843563101063 (Non-returnable, Non-exportable) Genre: Folk / Acoustic

Timoney’s B.B. Impossible Air Planxty Davis A Hovering Ruby’s Freilach / Low Spirits The Walls of the World Sketch From Life Exilic Excursions Offering

Third is the stunning third album by Nathan Salsburg, one of his generation’s most gifted and idiosyncratic acoustic guitarists. It’s been five years since his last solo record (Hard for to Win and Can’t Be Won, 2013) — but not because he hasn’t been playing guitar. In the intervening years he’s backed up Joan Shelley on three releases and several hundred live dates; put out a collection of guitar duets with multi-instrumentalist James Elkington; teamed up with fellow Louisvillian and neighbor Bonnie “Prince” Billy on an EP; and contributed playing to records by The Weather Station, Wooden Wand, Watter (what’s with the Ws?), Jake Fussell, and Red River Dialect. Meantime he’s also managed to keep his head above water at his day job as curator of the Alan Lomax Archive. The original pieces on Third, his first strictly solo guitar record—no singing, no guests—were composed in fragments of down-time, with little expectation that they would ever come to comprise a collection: Impossible Air, was written in a converted cow-shed outside of Eeklo, Belgium; Sketch from Life, while watching college basketball on TV. Exilic Excursions resisted completion for nearly four years. The songs, as others have before them, distill a love of old-time dance music and rural ragtime; the melody-centric compositions of American guitarists Peter Lang and William Ackerman; and the work of Scottish and English folk-revivalists like Dick Gaughan, Dolly Collins, and especially Nic Jones, whose monumental arrangement of the pipe tune Planxty Davis has been adapted here in turn. And they all display a notable increase in confidence and ease, as Salsburg has quietly, persistently established a style marked by a depth and a complexity that are utterly his own. LP 843563101063

CD 843563101056

TROUBLE IN MIND

TIM135

Negative Scanner Nose Picker TRACKLIST 1. T.V.

7. The Only One

2. Nose Picker

8. Shoplifter

3. Histor y Lesson

9. First Blood

4. 6 Ft. Hole

10. 10 Million Kids

5. A Vision

11. Let It Die

6. A Cross

12. Health Insurance

RELEASE BIO RELEASE INFO

Chicago punk band Negative Scanner return to the fray with their second

Catalogue Number: TIM135

long-player, the cheekily titled Nose Picker.

Format: CD, LP, LP-C1

Once again recorded by the band themselves in their Chicago practice

Release Date: July 20th, 2018

space, Nose Picker opens with a question; “Is there anybody there?”, which acts

CD: 630125983140

as both a legitimate quer y as well as a rallying cr y. Negative Scanner make it

UPC-LP: 630125983164

clear that they want your attention, as opening tune “T.V.”s stutter step guitar

UPC-LP-C1: 630125983171

riff leans into an lean and mean, 4-on-the-floor churn. The rest of the album

Territor y Restrictions: None

follows suit, either with raging punk snarl (”Histor y Lesson”, “First Blood”,

Genre: Indie / DIY / Punk

“Let it Die”), or angular, emotive jagged guitar riffage (”A Cross”, “10 Million

RIYL: Wire, Sheer Mag, Courtney Barnett, Rays, Parquet Courts,

Kids”, “The Only One”), punctuated by vocalist/guitarist Rebecca Valeriano-

Vinyl is not returnable

Flores’ voice, teetering between a full throated roar and a plaintive monotone.

Box Lot CDs: 300

Her lyrics are insular, spitting accusator y and inquisitor y barbs inward, talking

Box Lot LP: 20

to anyone who listen. Is there anybody there? Despite the darkness on the

POINTS OF INTEREST

surface, Nose Picker has an unmistakable air of whimsy, and a sense of humor, punctuated by the ver y literal album cover, and by the sound of a toilet flushing

- Limited “ Snot Green” color vinyl available direct to shops

at the album‘s closing.

- PLEA SE NOTE: Vinyl does NOT include a download code.

The past two years have seen the band step out of the Midwest DIY spaces and

- Second self-recorded album from this Chicago punk quartet.

basement shows and tour the USA and Europe, support UK band Sleaford Mods on

- Mastered by Mikey Young

select dates in the UK and the USA and standing toe-to-toe with the underground’s finest acts, including Sheer Mag, Protomartyr and more.

LABEL CONTACT

Nose Picker is released on CD, black vinyl LP, limited, “snot-green” color

TROUBLE IN MIND RECORDS P.O. BOX 30079 Chicago, IL 60630-1340 troubleinmindrecs@gmail.com www.troubleinmindrecs.com

vinyl for direct accounts (while supplies last) and availale to stream digitally via the usual suspects.

CD - UPC

30125

98314

LP - UPC

30125

98316

LP-C1 - UPC

30125

98317

OPTIGANALLY YOURS O.Y. In Hi-Fi RELEASE DATE : CATALOG # : AVAILABLE FORMATS : GENRE : BOX LOT QUANTITY : PACKAGING :

INDIE EXCLUSIVE

July 20, 2018 JNR280 LP Indie, Alternative

L P - C 1 U P C : 7 1 4 2 70 69 2 598

SPLIT COLOR “ketchup & mustard” VINYL

10 LP JACKET

VINYL NON-RETURNABLE.

L P U P C : 7 1 4 2 70 69 2 5 81

MUSTARD VINYL TRACK LISTING :

1 Theme from O.Y.nisqatsi 2 How Do You Feel? 3 Whomever Watches You Sleep 4 Pirates And Monkeys 5 Hope In Your Eyes 6 Martin (midori2tree) 7 Lemons And Tacos 8 Too Close To The Sun 9 Night Shop 10 Prelude to O.Y.nisqatsi 11 O.Y.nisqatsi 12 Bionic Whale 13 This Heart

OVERVIEW :

0:55 2:53 3:40 2:26 3:24 1:59 4:02 4:02 3:41 0:56 3:37 3:34 6:43

The Optigan was a chord organ made by Mattel in the early 1970s. This intriguing instrument played back lo-fi sound loops on flexible LP-sized discs, each disc containing optically-encoded rhythm section grooves in a particular style of music (ie country, bossa nova, etc), along with drum loops and keyboard tones. Think of it as the 1970s version of GarageBand, where amateur musicians could put together their own songs using loops of recordings by professional musicians. Optiganally Yours started in the mid 1990s when one of Rob Crow’s housemates, Pea Hix, became obsessed with the magnificent Optigan. When Pea had the idea to start a band around these haunting sounds, Rob chimed in and said “I’ll be the singer, and the band will be called Optiganally Yours.” O.Y.’s first album, Spotlight On Optiganally Yours, was released on Cargo/Headhunter Records in 1997, along with a suitably grainy music video for the single ‘Mr. Wilson’ (which is, perhaps, the band’s most well-known song to date). In 2000, a second album, Optiganally Yours Presents: Exclusively Talentmaker, was released on Absolutely Kosher Records (US) and Vroomsound (Japan). This album jettisoned the Optigan in favor of two related instruments, which utilized the same technology: the Chilton Talentmaker and the Vako Orchestron.

VINYL INCLUDES DOWNLOAD

RECOMMENDED IF YOU LIKE :

Pinback The Optigan Magnetic Fields The Swirlies

Shortly after the release of Exclusively Talentmaker, work began on a third release. Through much research and a little detective work, Pea rescued the original studio master tapes--which held all of the sounds recorded for the Optigan discs--from a SoCal garage, and set out to assemble basic tracks from the thousands of loops and samples the tapes contained. Since the tapes contained large amounts of material that never made it onto Optigan discs in the 1970s, there was a lot of fresh territory to explore. In contrast to the grainy, lo-fi sound of the Optigan discs, these sounds were all hi-fi studio quality. O.Y. in Hi-Fi was born. “Several of these sessions never became discs, so Pea chopped them up, as you would with a real Optigan,” says Crow. “And we wrote all these new songs using these materials, in addition to my guitar and voice of course. I think it's the best record I've ever done.” O.Y. in Hi-Fi will finally see a release on July 20, 2018 via Joyful Noise Recordings.

joyful noise recordings 1030 Orange St | Indianapolis, IN 46203

joyfulnoiserecordings.com info@joyfulnoiserecordings.com

DRAHLA

Twelve Divisions of the Day - 7” •

Hometown: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK • First single on Captured Tracks Released two sold out singles ‘Fictional Decision’, ‘Faux Text’ and acclaimed EP ‘Third Article’ on their label ‘Blank Ad’ • Touring USA and UK in 2018

Blending wiry, dark post-punk with unpredictable art-rock, Drahla have established themselves as a formidable and distinctive band across their two sold out 7” singles and the 2017 Third Article EP. Formed in late 2015, Drahla quickly found their identity in Yorkshire’s fertile music scene with their minimal yet robust bass-heavy sound.

C T- 2 8 8 1. Twelve Div is ion s o f th e Day 2. Twelve Divisions of the Day (Black R i b b o n Al te r nate M i x)

EP UPC: 81794901562 EP LIST: $9.98 EP FORMAT: 7” EP BOXLOT: 75 EXPORT: USA ONLY VINYL NON-RETURNABLE

Their reputation as a fervent live act is ever-growing, with the band being asked to share stages with the likes of Parquet Courts, METZ, Ought, Buzzcocks, Hookworms, The Cribs and more. Their Third Article EP, produced by Hookworms’ MJ, was released at the end of 2017 on the band’s own Blank Ad label followed by their first European tour supporting Metz. Third Article finds the band at their most captivating, with track ‘Silk Spirit’ exhibiting Luciel’s mesmerizing spoken drawl, paired with the steady unrelenting wall of sound from Rob Riggs on bass, and Mike Ainsley on drums. After watching the band’s self-made video for ‘Silk Spirit’, Mike Sniper, founder of Brooklyn independent label Captured Tracks, was immediately hooked. The band signed to Captured Tracks shortly after. Now, having just completed a tour supporting Ought, the band are releasing their commanding new 7-inch single ‘Twelve Divisions of the Day’, featuring a B-side remix that strikes with as much fervor as the original but leaves a different bite mark. As they commence a slew of May and June shows, including an invitation to play Robert Smith’s Meltdown Festival, the band are poised to take their mark as one of the most visceral and exciting new bands on the scene.

RELEASE DATE: JULY 20th, 2018 GENRE: POST PUNK / ALTERNATIVE

Press: Grace Jonesgracej@grandstandhq.com Sales: Dave Martin dave.martin@omnianmusicgroup.com

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