New Releases - August 16th by Secretly Distribution

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AUGUST 16TH NEW RELEASES

------------------------------• IKEBE SHAKEDOWN - KINGS LEFT BEHIND | Cassette (CLMN12034cass) | Colemine Records PHYS UPC:674862654215 • IKEBE SHAKEDOWN - KINGS LEFT BEHIND | CD (CLMN12034cd) | Colemine Records PHYS UPC:674862654208 • IKEBE SHAKEDOWN - KINGS LEFT BEHIND (BLACK VINYL) | LP (CLMN12034lp) | Colemine Records PHYS UPC:674862654185 • IKEBE SHAKEDOWN - KINGS LEFT BEHIND (PINK VINYL) | LP (CLMN12034lp-C1) | Colemine Records PHYS UPC:674862654192 • BLANCK MASS - ANIMATED VIOLENCE MILD | CD (SBR220cd) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:843563117972 • BLANCK MASS - ANIMATED VIOLENCE MILD (BLACK VINYL) | LP (SBR220lp) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:843563117934 • BLANCK MASS - ANIMATED VIOLENCE MILD (GREEN VINYL) | LP (SBR220lp-C1) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:843563117941 • SHURA - FOREVHER | CD (SC373cd) | Secretly Canadian PHYS UPC:656605037325 • SHURA - FOREVHER (BLACK VINYL) | LP (SC373lp) | Secretly Canadian PHYS UPC:656605037318 • SHURA - FOREVHER (SEMI-TRANSLUCENT BLUE VINYL) | LP (SC373lp-C1) | Secretly Canadian PHYS UPC:656605037332 • UNIFORM & THE BODY - EVERYTHING THAT DIES SOMEDAY COMES BACK (BLACK VINYL) | LP (SBA003lp) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:843563117880 • UNIFORM & THE BODY - EVERYTHING THAT DIES SOMEDAY COMES BACK (PURPLE VINYL) | LP (SBA003lp-C1) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:843563117897 • UNIFORM & THE BODY - MENTAL WOUNDS NOT HEALING / EVERYTHING THAT DIES SOMEDAY COMES BACK | CD (SBA004cd) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:843563117910 • ABRAM SHOOK - THE NEON MACHINE | CD (WV195cd) | Western Vinyl PHYS UPC:843563110751 • ABRAM SHOOK - THE NEON MACHINE (NEON PURPLE VINYL) | LP (WV195lp-C1) | Western Vinyl PHYS UPC:843563110775 • COUGHY - OCEAN HUG (WHITE VINYL) | LP (JNR294lp-C1) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:753936904323 • GA-20 - NAGGIN' ON MY MIND (BLACK VINYL) | 7" (KCR105lp) | Karma Chief Records / Colemine Records PHYS UPC:674862653737 • GA-20 - NAGGIN' ON MY MIND (BLUE VINYL) | 7" (KCR105lp-C1) | Karma Chief Records / Colemine Records PHYS UPC:674862653744 • MICHAEL NAU - NO QUIT (BLACK VINYL) | 7" (KCR106lp) | Karma Chief Records / Colemine Records PHYS UPC:674862654321 • MICHAEL NAU - NO QUIT (GOLD VINYL) | 7" (KCR106lp-C1) | Colemine Records PHYS UPC:674862654338 • VARIOUS ARTIST - YIA TALENT CONTEST WINNERS (BLACK VINYL) | LP (BCR087lp) | Big Crown Records PHYS UPC:349223008715

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CLMN-12034

Ikebe Shakedown Kings Left Behind

ABOUT THE LP

RELEASE DETAILS

Ten years ago, Ikebe Shakedown began pushing the boundaries of instrumental music. Each new track and live set has sent them deeper into combining the primal elements of ’70s soul, raw psychedelic style, and cinematic Western soundtracks with powerful grooves and soaring melodies. Now, with their new release, Kings Left Behind (Colemine Records), the band is giving listeners more mystery and majesty than ever before. The album features the entire group collaborating to produce tracks that deliver punches right to the gut, even as dreamy guitars and lush horn melodies and string arrangements capture the imagination.

ARTIST: Ikebe Shakedown TITLE: Kings Left Behind

The album was recorded by Ikebe's bassist, Vince Chiarito, at Hive Mind Recording. Opened with Ikebe's saxophonist, Mike Buckley, and another collaborator in 2017, Hive Mind has become a home base for the band, leading to more experimentation with the textures and sounds of a genre they define as Instrumental Soul.

FOR FANS OF… Menahan Street Band, The Budos Band, Antibalas, El Michels Affair

SELLING POINTS - Limited edition pink vinyl - Several members of Ikebe Shakedown were members of Charles Bradley’s touring band, The Extraordinaires - Previous album scanned 2500+ at indie retail - Featured twice in Blacklist TV show last season

LABEL: Colemine Records CATALOG NUMBER: CLMN-12034 RELEASE DATE: August 16, 2019 FORMAT: LP (pink), LP, CD, CS BOX LOT: LP (30), CD (165), CS (50) GENRE: R&B, Soul KEY MARKETS: NYC, St. Louis, LA, SF, London, Paris VINYL NOT RETURNTABLE

TRACKS 1. Not Another Drop 2. Unqualified 3. The Witness 4. Mary’s Corner 5. Horses 6. Hammer Into Anvil 7. Over My Head 8. No Going Back 9. Kings Left Behind 10. Not Another Drop (Reprise)

PRESS CONTACT Terry Cole: terry@coleminerecords.com

LP (pink) 674862654192

LP 674862654185

CD 674862654208

E x c lus iv e ly d i s t rib u t e d b y Se c r et l y D is t ri b ut io n / P ho ne : ( 8 12 ) 3 3 5 - 1 5 72 / Fa x : ( 8 8 8) 6 7 8 -0 1 67 U S d o m e s t ic s a le s c on t a c t: d om e s t ic @ s ec r e t ly d is t ri b ut i on .c o m / Int e r na t io n a l s a le s c on t a c t : i nt e rn a t io na l @ s ec r e t ly d is t ri b ut io n .c o m

CS 674862654215

Blanck Mass

Animated Violence Mild 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

track listing: Intro (0:35) Death Drop (7:19) House Vs. House (7:42) Hush Money (5:33) Love Is a Parasite (6:16) Creature/West Fuqua (3:44) No Dice (6:07) Wings of Hate (5:54)

Key Information / Selling Points: Hometown / Key Markets: • Edinburgh, Scotland; New York, London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Portland, Austin Selling Points / Key Press: • Fourth full-length under the Blanck Mass moniker by Benjamin John Power (Fuck Buttons) • Previous album World Eater received glowing coverage from NPR, Pitchfork, Stereogum, SPIN, The Quietus, and more • Green vinyl edition limited to 3000 “In this post-industrial, post-enlightenment religion of ourselves, we have manifested a serpent of consumerism which now coils back upon us. It seduces us with our own bait as we betray the better instincts of our nature and the future of our own world. We throw ourselves out of our own garden. We poison ourselves to the edges of an endless sleep.

Related Catalog: • SBR-136 Blanck Mass Dumb Flesh cd/lp • SBR-174 Blanck Mass World Eater cd/lp RiYL: Fuck Buttons, Aphex Twin, Tim Hecker, Arca

Animated Violence Mild was written throughout 2018, at Blanck Mass’ studio outside of Edinburgh. These eight tracks are the diary of a year of work steeped in honing craft, self-discovery, and grief - the latter of which reared its head at the final hurdle of producing this record and created a whole separate narrative: grief, both for what I have lost personally, but also in a global sense, for what we as a species have lost and handed over to our blood-sucking counterpart, consumerism, only to be ravaged by it. I believe that many of us have willfully allowed our survival instinct to become engulfed by the snake we birthed. Animated — brought to life by humankind. Violent — insurmountable and wild beyond our control. Mild — delicious. This is perhaps the most concise body of work I have written to date. Having worked extensively throughout my musical life with dramatics, narrative, and ‘melody against all odds’, these tracks are the most direct and honest yet. The level of articulation in these tracks surpasses anything I have utilized before.” -Benjamin John Power

catalog #: sbr-220 genre: Electronic Release Date: 8-16-2019 available formats: CD, LP, lp-c1 UPC-CD: 843563117972 UPC-lp: 843563117934 upc-lp-c1: 843563117941 export restrictions: none Vinyl is not returnable Box Lot: cd 30 / lp 30 label contact: Sacred Bones Records 144 N. 7th Street #413 Brooklyn, NY 11211 info@sacredbonesrecords.com www.sacredbonesrecords.com

green vinyl lp

Secretly Canadian

Shura

forevher About the album

If you’d claimed just a few years ago that Shura would make an album exploring “all that love is”, few would have been as surprised as Aleksandra Denton herself (nicknamed Shura at a young age). Ever since the 2014 viral hit ‘Touch’ – and its stunning video in which Shura, crucially, ended up alone – an impassioned global fanbase have awaited another record of heartbreak anthems. And when Shura started work on ‘forevher’, she did so at her most tired and homesick, setting up shop in Minneapolis at the close of a twoyear tour cycle for her debut album, ‘Nothing’s Real’. Here, “religion (u can lay your hands on me)” – along with the seeds of the Minneapolis sound – eventually became a lynchpin for the rest of the album. Just as importantly, it was in Minneapolis that Shura began talking to her current girlfriend online. ‘forevher,’ then, is a record born from a budding romance, covering everything from the initial pull of desire, to the giddy joy of finally being together, to recognising the moment when the connection develops from lust into something scarily meaningful. Here is a classic London-to-NYC love story, but one told through the filter of dating apps and Skype chats. And whilst how to live – and love – as a queer woman has always been integral to Shura, it’s remarkable to hear these stories twisted through such a gorgeous amalgam of influences: Joni Mitchell and Minnie Riperton, Bon Iver and Frank Ocean, Prince and Ariel Pink. Through these inspirations, Shura’s own modern, outlier perspective found a newer, more daring approach to sound and song. The luxurious groove of “side effects” shakes off the shackles of past love, chiefly saying goodbye “to that more anxious iteration of me. I don’t miss her.” “religion (u can lay your hands on me),” meanwhile, is an unabashedly queer sex-jam – free of guilt, long-term future, and faith itself. As the album progresses, so too does the relationship deepen, with the risks and rewards getting greater and greater. ‘forevher’ is an album that feels the fear and does it anyway: “princess leia” considers the fact real love means having so much more to lose. Elsewhere, “BKLYNLDN” looks at romantic longing through the lens of texts, anxiety-inducing silences, and what presence and absence really means in today’s relationships. The record closes on the epic “skyline,” which builds to an explosive crescendo before levelling out to peace in a way that evokes some of the lusher, linear moments on Frank Ocean’s ‘Blonde’. For Shura, this soundtracks not only her final relocation to New York but also a much deeper journey as an artist and young woman. ‘forevher’ feels the same as its creator: a little sharper, a little wiser.

Selling Points

• Debut release for Secretly Canadian • Shura’s first album charted top 20 in the UK and had the hit single “Touch” with 30million + streams over platforms • Extensive EU and USA touring plan on release • Beautiful Risograph cover art Exclusively Distributed By Secretly Distribution Phone: (812) 335-1572 US Domestic Sales Contact: domestic@secretlydistribution.com International Sales Contact: international@secretlydistribution.com

Details

CATALOG NUMBER: SC373 RELEASE DATE: August 16, 2019 FORMAT: CD / LP / LP-C1 / Digital CD BOX LOT: 30 LP BOX LOT: 20 GENRE: Alternative / Indie Pop KEY MARKETS: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, SFOakland-San Jose, Seattle, Boston, Dallas, Washington DC TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: None. VINYL NOT RETURNABLE

CD UPC: 656605037325

LP UPC: 656605037318

LP-C1 UPC: 656605037332

DIGITAL UPC: 656605037363

Tracks SIDE A:

SIDE B:

1. that’s me, just sweet melody 2. side effects 3. religion (u can lay your hands on me) 4. the stage 5. BKLYNLDN 6. tommy

7. princess leia 8. flyin’ 9. forever 10. control 11. skyline, be mine

Uniform & The Body Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

track listing: Gallows in Heaven (4:19) Not Good Enough (4:53) Vacancy (4:01) Patron Saint of Regret (4:15) Penance (3:55) All This Bleeding (4:07) Day of Atonement (4:37) Waiting for the End of the World (4:27) Contempt (4:44)

Key Information / Selling Points: Hometown / Key Markets: • New York, Portland, Providence, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin Selling Points / Key Press: • The second collaborative LP by two of the biggest names in forward-thinking heavy music • Toured North America as a collab project in fall 2018 and will tour again in 2019 • Purple color vinyl limited to 1000 On the heels of their monolithic collaborative LP Mental Wounds Not Healing, the collaboration between industrial-noise post-everything bands Uniform & The Body returns with a second entry, Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back. Comprised of an amalgam of abrasive influence that spans Swans-y dirge and purge, Whitehouse’s clenched-jaw noise, middle-period Ministry’s penchant for metallic post-industrial everything, New Order’s nose for melodic emotionality, and Juicy J-inspired beats, Uniform & The Body’s approach delves deeper down the rabbit hole than before, igniting a sonic world of terror and bliss poised to grip the throats of fans yet again. Prepare for a record that the band self-describes as “the middle ground between Robyn and Corrupted, but weirder.” Much like the collective’s bombastic debut, Everything was built over a series of collaborative sessions with Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets in Rhode Island, mixing industrial-influenced synths, squalls of harsh noise, manipulated guitar, oodles of samples along with hard rock-inspired riffs, saccharine pop, and the alternately antagonistic and harrowing vocals of Michael Berdan and Chip King. The result is nine tracks of ear-bleeding and confrontational fury with defined moments of beauty that bring to mind equal parts No Trend, Merzbow, and Information Society while forging a path that is distinctly their own. Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back is specifically culled from the immortal Bruce Springsteen effort Nebraska, joining a long line of literary and cinematic references that pepper the album. And while the title is specific to that lyric, the sentiment also ties into author James Elroy and his notion that closure is an illusion, a conclusion found in his 1996 effort My Dark Places. Dealing with tragic loss is never a closed book, and the details, circumstances, and inherent emotions that surround coping never end, they just morph into something else, only to rear their ugly head again later in life.

Related Catalog: • SBR-170 Uniform Wake in Fright cd/lp • SBR-204 Uniform The Long Walk cd/lp • SBA-001 Uniform & The Body Mental Wounds Not Healing lp • SBA-004 Uniform & The Body Mental Wounds Not Healing / Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back cd RiYL: Ministry, Swans, New Order, Corrupted catalog #: sba-003 genre: Experimental/Metal Release Date: 8-16-2019 available formats: lp, lp-c1 UPC-lp: 843563117880 upc-lp-c1: 843563117897 export restrictions: none Vinyl is not returnable Box Lot: lp 30 label contact: Sacred Bones Records 144 N. 7th Street #413 Brooklyn, NY 11211 info@sacredbonesrecords.com www.sacredbonesrecords.com

purple vinyl lp

Uniform & The Body Mental Wounds Not Healing / Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

track listing: Dead River (2:27) The Curse of Eternal Life (3:49) Come and See (4:55) The Boy With Death in His Eyes (3:31) In My Skin (4:33) We Have Always Live in the Castle (4:00) Empty Comforts (4:00) Gallows in Heaven (4:19) Not Good Enough (4:53) Vacancy (4:01) Patron Saint of Regret (4:15) Penance (3:55) All This Bleeding (4:07) Day of Atonement (4:37) Waiting for the End of the World (4:27) Contempt (4:44)

Key Information / Selling Points: Hometown / Key Markets: • New York, Portland, Providence, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin The first two albums from the collaboration between Uniform & The Body are now available on one, specially-priced CD volume. In Spring 2017, Uniform was asked to support fellow noisy, boundary-pushing duo The Body for a European tour. Having been longtime fans of the band, Uniform vocalist Michael Berdan and guitarist Ben Greenberg jumped at the opportunity. During the planning phase of the tour, Berdan and Lee Buford from The Body started corresponding regularly. Ultimately, Berdan asked Buford if he and The Body cofounder Chip King would be interested in making a collaborative record with Uniform. Buford enthusiastically assented, and the seed of Mental Wounds Not Healing was sown. On the heels of their monolithic collaborative LP Mental Wounds Not Healing, the collaboration between industrial-noise post-everything bands Uniform & The Body returns with a second entry, Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back. Comprised of an amalgam of abrasive influence that spans Swans-y dirge and purge, Whitehouse’s clenched-jaw noise, middle-period Ministry’s penchant for metallic post-industrial everything, New Order’s nose for melodic emotionality, and Juicy J-inspired beats, Uniform & The Body’s approach delves deeper down the rabbit hole than before, igniting a sonic world of terror and bliss poised to grip the throats of fans yet again. Prepare for a record that the band self-describes as “the middle ground between Robyn and Corrupted, but weirder.”

Selling Points / Key Press: • Both Uniform & The Body collab albums on one CD, for the price of one • Touring North America in fall 2019 following successful collab tour last year Related Catalog: • SBR-170 Uniform Wake in Fright cd/lp • SBR-204 Uniform The Long Walk cd/lp • SBA-001 Uniform & The Body Mental Wounds Not Healing lp • SBA-003 Uniform & The Body Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back lp RiYL: Ministry, Swans, New Order, Corrupted catalog #: sba-004 genre: Experimental/Metal Release Date: 8-16-2019 available formats: cd UPC-cd: 843563117910 export restrictions: none Box Lot: cd 30 label contact: Sacred Bones Records 144 N. 7th Street #413 Brooklyn, NY 11211 info@sacredbonesrecords.com

A B R A M S HO O K

THE NEON MACHINE ABOUT THIS RECORD The Neon Machine, the fourth album from Austin musician Abram Shook, is a dystopian dance party, and everyone’s invited. Juxtaposed against 2017’s sepia-tinged, quietly reflective Love at Low Speed, the new record’s mix of irresistible beats and slyly humorous lyrics might seem like a 180 at first glance: a giddy, knowing soundtrack to the end of the world. Those familiar with Shook’s previous work, however, understand that he has always explored his own brand of off-kilter funk, from the soulful swagger of his debut album’s standout single “Coastal” through Low Speed’s Prince-inspired “Lies”. The varied influences of world music and jazz that are present in all his records can still be heard (as in the High-Life inspired guitar work on “My Money”), though here Shook tucks them into the corners and uses them in more subtle ways, giving center stage to a vintage Sequential Circuits Prophet 600, a drum sequencer, and his signature rubbery bass lines. In Shook’s adept hands, The Neon Machine is full of day-glo danceability even though something slightly sinister lurks beneath the surface; it’s a kind of tour de force synesthesia for the fevered mind. With this record, Shook has traded in his usual gimlet-eyed observations for a playfully cynical sense of humor: “I play the game where I drink you off my mind/It never works, but I love to try/And I can go all night,” he sings on “Cocaine Blonde”. Using highly confessional lyrics and deeply personal insight to convey his anger, with the current political climate, he writes candidly about his anxieties, and frustrations toward a country and culture that he’s grown up with, but hasn’t always felt at home in. Every line seems to have a double meaning, and once you start to unlock the code – that every reference to a drug or a lover is actually a metaphor for the United States – they become even darker and more biting, and, for people who are also unhappy with the state of the world, very relatable. Full of Prince-esque riffs, Blood Orange-style beats, and David Bowie allusions, The Neon Machine is accessible and adventurous at once. It has as its backdrop a party that’s lasted too long, and the foreground of a narrator full of anxiety and skepticism whose hangover has already begun. The beauty of it lies in its malleability. What appears on the surface to be an effervescent album of pop anthems, with its familiar themes of sex, love and drugs, soon reveals its true heart: the intimate insights of a man, long accustomed to being an outside observer, who has decided to join the fray. “In a lot of ways it feels like the record I’ve always wanted to make.”

SELLING POINTS • Limited edition neon purple vinyl • Strong past press coverage from Vice, Stereogum, Texas Monthly, Consequence of Sound, and others. • Austin’s NPR afﬁliate KUTX has asked to feature one song as the Song of the Day. • Mixed by Danny Reisch (Shearwater, White Denim) • Mastered by Phil Bova (Father John Misty, Feist, Marlon Williams, Andy Shauf) • R.I.Y.L. Andy Shauf, Cass McCombs, Kevin Morby, Matthew E. White C D

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LP-C1 843563110775

TRACK LIST 01 Neon Love