JULY 24TH NEW RELEASES
------------------------------• WINTER - ENDLESS SPACE (BETWEEN YOU & I) | Cassette (BRN274cass) | Bar/None Records PHYS UPC:032862027444 • WINTER - ENDLESS SPACE (BETWEEN YOU & I) | CD (BRN274cd) | Bar/None Records PHYS UPC:032862027420 • WINTER - ENDLESS SPACE (BETWEEN YOU & I) (PURPLE VINYL) | LP (BRN274lp-C1) | Bar/None Records PHYS UPC:032862027413
• STRAITJACKET FITS - HAIL | CD (FN142cd) | Flying Nun Records PHYS UPC:942190363896 • STRAITJACKET FITS - HAIL (BLACK VINYL) | LP (FN142lp) | Flying Nun Records PHYS UPC:942190363872 • MANSIONS - BIG BAD (COKE BOTTLE CLEAR VINYL) | LP (BTR064lp-C1) | Bad Timing Records / Run For Cover Records PHYS UPC:843563127902 • LET IT COME DOWN - SONGS WE SANG IN OUR DREAMS (HOURGLASS CLEAR VINYL) | LP (SHIMMY-2001lp-C1) | Shimmy Disc / Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:753936905924 • LINGO SEINI ET SON GROUPE - MUSIQUE HAUKA (BLACK VINYL) | LP (SS061lp) | Sahel Sounds PHYS UPC:602318137241 • ANDRÉ BRATTEN - SILVESTER (BLACK VINYL) | 2xLP (STS374lp) | Smalltown Supersound PHYS UPC:7072822374006 • PHILIP CORNER - CHORD / GONG! (WITH CHARLES SANTOS) (BLACK VINYL) | LP (UW032lp) | Unseen Worlds PHYS UPC:744790142792 • KEVIN KRAUTER - MAGNOLIA (YELLOW TAPE) | Cassette (WSP004cass) | Winspear PHYS UPC:704751184193
JULY 31ST NEW RELEASES
------------------------------• OHMME - FANTASIZE YOUR GHOST | CD (JNR330cd) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:753936905351 • OHMME - FANTASIZE YOUR GHOST (SPECTRAL BLUE VINYL) | LP (JNR330lp-C1) | Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:753936905368
• MIKE POLIZZE - LONG LOST SOLACE FIND | CD (POB048cd) | Paradise of Bachelors PHYS UPC:843563125939 • MIKE POLIZZE - LONG LOST SOLACE FIND (BLACK VINYL) | LP (POB048lp) | Paradise of Bachelors PHYS UPC:843563125915 • MIKE POLIZZE - LONG LOST SOLACE FIND (TRANSPARENT BLUE VINYL) | LP (POB048lp-C1) | Paradise of Bachelors PHYS UPC:843563125922 • GANSER - JUST LOOK AT THAT SKY | CD (FLT072cd) | Felte PHYS UPC:843563127124 • GANSER - JUST LOOK AT THAT SKY (GOLDEN TICKET YELLOW VINYL) | LP (FLT072lp-C1) | Felte PHYS UPC:843563127117 • VARIOUS ARTISTS - NU LEAF (BLACK VINYL) | LP (NUM107lp) | Numero Group PHYS UPC:825764110716 • VARIOUS ARTISTS - GHOSTLY SWIM 3 (GREEN & PINK MARBLED VINYL) | 2xLP (GI353lp-C1) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297835310
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Winter Endless Space (Between You & I) About the album The power of a Winter song is hard to describe, like how the delicate world building of a good book can be more compelling than real life. There's a make-believe, fairy tale surrealism that sets Winter's blend of shoegaze and psychedelia apart while existing in the same universe as the ethereal dream pop of Cocteau Twins and Melody's Echo Chamber. Samira Winter grew up in Curitiba, Brazil, where her Brazilian mother filled their home with the gentle melodies of MPB (música popular brasileira), and her father introduced her to the distorted sounds of American punk. At 18, she moved to Boston where she first released music as Winter, eventually moving to LA's Echo Park. Winter has built a cult following with a stream of bilingual releases and national tours supporting Boogarins, Broncho and Cherry Glazerr, not to mention dates in Mexico, South America and Europe.
Details STREET DATE July 24, 2020 FORMAT: LP – Purple Opaque CATALOG: BRN-LP-274 UPC CODE: 032862027413 BOX LOT: 30 Nonreturnable CATLOG: BRN-CD-274 UPC CODE: 032862027420 FORMAT: CD / 60 per box CATALOG: BRN-CS-274 UPC CODE: 032862027444 FORMAT: CS/50 TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: None
Key Selling Points National tour with Surfer Blood scheduled for January 2021. Video premieres at Fadar and Remezcla as well as key press breaks at Bandcamp, The Big Takeover, American Songwriter, and tons more. Features guest vocalist Dinho Almeida from South American psych legends Boogarins. Samira Winter sings the lead vocals on the recent Surfer Blood single “Playing Dumb”
LP UPC: 032862027413
CD UPC: 032862027420
CS UPC: 032862027444
DIGITAL UPC: 032862027468
Key Markets: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, São Paulo
Tracks 1 2 3 4 5 6
Between You & I Endless Space (Between You & I) Here I Am Existing Healing In the Z Plan Say
www.bar-none.com
7 Bem No Fundo (feat. Dinho Almeida) 8 Constellation 9 Memoria Colorida 10 Wherever You Are 11 Pure Magician
“Winter’s breathy voice is pretty magical.” –Brooklyn Vegan “Winter makes cosmic dream-pop fit for stargazing. The languid motion of their soaring tunes are filtered through fuzzy sounds of slowly writhing guitar work.” –AudioTree
STRAITJACKET FITS – ‘Hail (Reissue)’ RELEASE DATE: July 24th, 2020 GENRE: Alternative / Rock RIYL: Headless Chickens, The Chills, The Bats, Chris Knox Shayne Carter and John Collie formed Straitjacket Fits in in 1986 after the demise of the Doublehappys and were joined by Andrew Brough and David Wood. The reissue of Hail is deeply tinged with sadness following the recent loss of Andrew Brough; gifted songwriter and guitarist of not only Straitjacket Fits, but also Bike and Dunedin band The Blue Meanies. Andrew’s musical impact is undeniable and it’s unimaginable to think of a world without his contributions to New Zealand music. Straitjacket Fits’ debut release, the Dialling a Prayer EP appeared in 1987 and the album Hail was released in 1988. Both were recorded at The Lab in Auckland with Terry Moore (from The Chills). This reissued version of Hail is a combination of both those records as it was originally released in the UK by Rough Trade.
TRACKLIST SIDE A 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Dialling A Prayer All That That Brings Hail Sparkle That Shines She Speeds
SIDE B 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
So Long, Marianna Grate Fabulous Things Life In One Chord This Taste Delight
“[The songs] ‘Hail’ and ‘Grate’ suggested a monolithic guitar monster future and, while that is part of what can be found on Hail, there is a remarkable diversity of song and sound on show. The oft-described Shayne Carter/Andrew Brough duality of sour/hard and sweet/soft is a simplified observation of what is a much deeper and richer stew of ideas and sounds.” reflects Flying Nun Records founder, Roger Shepherd. Hail is an album that beautifully showcases the many strengths of Straitjacket Fits in the early part of their development. It is a record full of furious off-piste guitaring and startling vocals anchored by a granite hard rhythm section but that also showcases gentler melodic material including a cover of Leonard Cohen’s ‘So Long Marianne’. But generally the songs are more experimental in nature with a considerable range of material from Andrew Brough’s standout ‘Fabulous Things’ to the vigorous guitar noise of Shayne Carter’s ‘Grate’. Hail is a documentation of a band on the up, a band flexing its potential and oozing confidence and optimism. With Hail the Straitjacket Fits were well on their way to giving the rock ‘n’ roll thing their very best shot. Hail is set to be released 24th July, 2020 via Flying Nun Records on CD and Vinyl LP.
PRODUCT DETAILS CAT #: FN142 LABEL: Flying Nun Records FORMATS: CD / LP CD LIST PRICE: $11.98 LP LIST PRICE: $18.98
CD UPC: 942190363896
CD BOX LOT: 30 LP BOX LOT: 20 TERRITORY: World excl. NZ Vinyl is not returnable.
LP UPC: 942190363872
Mansions Big Bad
July 24, 2020 ABOUT THE ALBUM
Mansions fourth LP calls itself Big Bad, referring to the conscious and unconscious ways we react to our own mortality and self-sabotage the good things in life. While fans of Mansions previous releases - 2011’s Dig Up the Dead, 2013’s Doom Loop, and 2017’s Deserter - will appreciate Big Bad’s strikingly personal lyrics and lush atmosphere, Big Bad is more indicative of a specific place in time and the visceral feelings that go along CATALOG NUMBER: BTR064 with it than it is a direct follow-up to any of the RELEASE DATE: July 24, 2020 band’s previous work. FORMAT: LP/Digital LP BOX LOT: 40 GENRE: Alternative / Indie / Pop KEY MARKETS: Seattle, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, Boston TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: None VINYL NOT RETURNABLE
Digital UPC 843563127919
SELLING POINTS
- First new album in seven years from Mansions - Other Bad Timing Records Mansions releases: New Best Friends, Dig Up The Dead, Dig Up The Dead (Acoustic), Deserter RIYL: Manchester Orchestra, Kevin Devine, Weatherbox
TRACKLIST Side A 1. Do It Again 2. Black and White 3. Power Lines 4. Leader of the Pack 5. Let’s Explode 6. Laser Beams
Coke Bottle Clear LP UPC 843563127902
Side B 1. Get Loose 2. PPV 3. Redeemed 4. To Be Free 5. Strugglers
Let It Come Down
Songs We Sang In Our Dreams
Overview Let It Come Down has been percolating in Kramer’s mind for over two decades. Nearly 22 years after the doors of his infamous Shimmy-Disc label were shuttered, Let It Come Down’s debut album, Songs We Sang In Our Dreams, marks the return of one of the 20th century’s seminal NYC indie labels. It is also Kramer’s first one-on-one collaboration since Bongwater circled the drain 30 years ago. Initially conceived as a studio-only, one-man-band called TIME, everything changed in 2016, when Kramer met vocalist Xan Tyler (Mad Professor/Mission Control, Technique, Orinoko, GlassHouse). After producing an EP for her in Scotland, Kramer invited Tyler to be the human voice of his new recording project. “I’d been hearing Xan's voice in my dreams for decades, so you can imagine the shock I experienced when I first heard her voice while awake,” said Kramer. “I invited her to work with me on an LP of songs I'd been working on for a long, long time.” The results are ethereal, combining the most introspective songwriting of Kramer’s career with luminous vocal performances from Xan Tyler. Fans of Kramer's most recent solo work on John Zorn’s Tzadik Records—as well as his extensive scroll of production work for artists like Galaxie 500, Low, and Daniel Johnston—will lose themselves in the shadowy labyrinths of Let It Come Down’s Songs We Sang In Our Dreams.
Selling Points - Mixed on the same Universal Audio ‘610’ console that Brian Wilson created Smile, & Love created Forever Changes - Re-launch of seminal indie label Shimmy-Disc - Front cover painting by Pop-Art artist Ed Ruscha - Featuring new music from Kramer - HOURGLASS CLEAR Vinyl & includes download card - Recommended If You Like: Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood, Dean & Britta, Astrud Gilberto, Jose Gonzalez, Antena, Vanishing Twin, Judee Sill, Jeff Buckley, Julee Cruise
Details Release Date : July 24, 2020 Catalog # : SHIMMY-2001 / JNR335 (Internal) Available Formats : LP-C1 / Digital Genre : Alternative / Indie Box Lot Quantity : 20 LP Packaging : LP - Standard Jacket Key Markets : New York City, NY, LA, Seattle, UK, Europe Territory Restrictions : Worldwide Vinyl Non-Returnable. L P - C1 H O U R GL AS S CL E A R V I N YL 75393 69 059 24
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Track Listing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Moonlight Monday One Moon Forget Pennies Two Dreams Vicky Fingers Three Wishes Tomorrow Uh-Oh Four Hands
4 :06 6:15 1:51 3:50 4 :53 2 :06 4 :22 4 : 40 1:53 4 : 42 6:31 2 :50
joyful noise recordings 3625 E. Raymond St. | Indy, IN 46203
joyfulnoiserecordings.com press@joyfulnoiserecordings.com
ANDRÉ BRATTEN Silvester
ABOUT THE ALBUM A lot has been written about seminal Norwegian black metal band Mayhem but André Bratten’s new record for Smalltown Supersound surfaces a little known story about the group. In 1986-87, years before their 1993 debut record, guitarist Øystein Aarseth (aka Euronymous) took a musical pilgrimage to Germany to solicit collaboration with one of his musical heroes. Øystein, who tragically was destined to be murder by former member Varg Vikernes in 1993, bought an Interrail ticket and travelled from Norway to Germany to seek out experimental musician Conrad Schnitzler. Conrad was the founder of West German Krautock incubating club the Zodiac Free Arts Lab in West Berlin in 1968 and a former member of Tangerine Dream and Kluster (key experimental groups in the development of industrial music and Kosmiche electronic music).
DETAILS
CATALOG NUMBER: STS374 RELEASE DATE: July 10th, 2020 FORMAT: LP/digital LP BOX LOT: 25 GENRE: Electronic, experimental KEY MARKETS: London, New York TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: None
Øystein sat outside Schnitzler’s house and refused to leave until he was allowed in to talk. His persistence paid off, with Schnitzler surprisingly agreeing to write a piece of music for Mayhem. The piece of music became “Silvester Anfang”, the first track and introduction to Mayhem’s classic debut “Deathcrush”. A detailed percussive number, Mayhem still open their heavy live shows with this music today.
When Mayhem founder Jørn “Necrobutcher" Stubberud told the story behind “Silvester Anfang” to Bratten at a party, they immediately had the idea that Bratten should remix or rework this little known track. Totally absorbed in the sounds of Schnitzler and its strange and unusual pairing with Mayhem, Bratten started out with a plan to make one remix. He ended up with a series of tracks inspired by both Schnitzler's intro and the sounds of teh debut record “Deathcrush”. The results transpired into a mutation of Conrad Schnitzler, Mayhem and André Bratten.
“Silvester” is Mayhem and Schnitzler reimagined. Or deconstructed and then rebuilt. However you term it, a remix turned into a new André Bratten unlike any he has recorded before, haunted by the echoes of Mayhem’s grisly legacy as well as Klusters early industrial music’s concrte looped experiments. 5 new tracks and 50 minutes of new music. An album of abstract freeform structures morphing elements of kraut, techno, ambient, black metal, industrial, minimalist and drone. A perfect fusion of two dystopian extremes of Norwegian underground music.
VINYL NOT RETURNABLE
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Digital UPC:
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TRACKS
SIDE A: 1. Side B: 1. Side C: 1. Side D: 1. 2.
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Witching Hour Silvester Anfang Untitled 1 Untitled 2 Coral
ARTIST
PHILIP CORNER
TITLE LABEL CAT # GENRE RIYL DATE FORMAT BOX LOX RETURN
CHORD/GONG! (WITH CARLES SANTOS)
UNSEEN WORLDS UW032LP, UW032digital Classical, Minimalism, Avant-Garde Charlemagne Palestine, Lubomyr Melnyk July 24, 2020 LP, Digital LP=25 LP=NO VINYL
RELEASE DESCRIPTION New York, 1978, kindred composers Philip Corner and Carles Santos meet at the Bösendorfer piano of Charlemagne Palestine to record four-hand piano versions of Corner’s pieces “Chord” and “Gong!”. The result is a long-flowing distillation of the source of the two composers’ affinity: avant-garde practice of austere artistic devotion at play with perfect imperfections of the uncontainable human spirit. A small cassette edition appeared in the late 1980’s and is now presented in a new digital restoration by Stephan Mathieu, alongside a limited edition of 300 vinyl records cut by Lupo.
UW032LP - 744790142792
TRACK LIST Side A 1.Chord: B Major / Bb Minor 9 [28:00] Side B 2. Gong! (Transcription For Low Strings) [21:10]
SELLING POINTS
- Includes download code - Limited Edition of 300 LPs - Cut for vinyl by Lupo
LABEL CONTACT:
Tommy McCutchon Unseen Worlds, PO BOX 250558 New York, NY 10025 (917) 420-0788 email: tommy@unseenworlds.com twitter + instagram: @unseen_worlds
WSP004
KEVIN KRAUTER MAGNOLIA (CASSETTE) tracklist
A side 01. Haec 02. Nightly 03. Lazy River
B side 04. Wind 05. Timepiece 06. Let Me Be The One
release info
release bio
Kevin Krauter's debut EP, Magnolia, comes from a place of ease, instinct, and sincerity; ease in its conception and execution, instinct present yet well-informed, and sincerity felt but never forced. The initial four tracks were recorded in Muncie, Indiana for a fellow student's semester project in the Spring of 2015, with the completed six-song EP finished shortly thereafter. What resulted is a raw yet accessible work that feels familiar on the first listen. Taking inspiration from early folk artists from the 60s and 70s like Vashti Bunyan and Simon & Garfunkel as well as more contemporary acts such as Sigur Rós and The Clientele, Krauter synthesizes a wide range of creative impulse into a refreshing and original body of work that pays humble respect to its predecessors while tastefully utilizing their influence.
Catalogue Number: WSP004 Genre: Indie, Folk Release Date: 24 Jul 2020
RIYL: Vashti Bunyan, Simon &
Intl. Release: 16 May 2015
Garfunkel, Sigur Rós, Hoops
Format: Cass
Territory Restrictions: None
Limited Edition 5th Anniversary Yellow Cassette Cassette not returnable points of interest Prolific Indiana songwriter Kevin Krauter was first known as the bassist and songwriter in dream-pop outfit Hoops, but more recently has gained attention for his solo recordings. Magnolia is the first glimpse into the songs Krauter would go onto make across his solo work and collaborations with others. Past Touring: 2018/2019 tours supporting Soccer Mommy, Beach Fossils, Triathalon, The Marias, Hovvdy, Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Future Touring: US & Canadian headline tour booked for Fall of 2020. Backup dates held in Spring 2021. Japan show planned for November 2020. UK planned for Spring 2021. contact US Press Contact: Patrick Tilley - patrick@pitchperfectpr.com
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Ohmme
Fantasize Your Ghost Overview
There's an obvious chemistry emanating throughout Ohmme's music that's so tangible it can only come from a decades-spanning friendship. Songwriters Sima Cunnningham and Macie Stewart formed their unbreakable bond performing throughout the fringes of Chicago's many interlocking communities, collaborating with titans from the city's indie rock, hip-hop, and improvised worlds. But together, along with drummer Matt Carroll, they've stretched the boundaries of what guitar music can do starting with the band's experimental 2016 self-titled EP and their adventurous debut 2018 LP Parts. Now their longstanding partnership culminates with the stunning and muscular follow-up Fantasize Your Ghost. Ohmme formed in 2014 as an outlet for Cunningham and Stewart to explore an unconventional approach to their instruments. "That's the whole genesis of the band: us walking up to our guitars and saying, 'how can we make this noisemaker do something different?'" says Cunningham. But as their musical collaboration strengthened, bringing Parts and intensive tours with acts like Wilco, Iron & Wine, Twin Peaks, and more, the band's scope and focus has also broadened. Fantasize Your Ghost is the direct result of the band spending more time on the road than in Chicago, a record deeply concerned with questions of the self, the future, and what home means when you're traveling all the time.
Details Release Date : July 31, 2020 Catalog # : JNR330 Available Formats : LP-C1, CD, Digital Genre : Alternative / Indie Box Lot Quantity : 40 LP / 30 CD Packaging : LP-C1 - Standard Jacket / CD - Wallet Key Markets : Chicago, IL; LA; NYC/Brooklyn, NY; Philadelphia, PA & Washington DC, Austin, TX; UK (London) & EU (Amsterdam, Berlin & Paris) Territory Restrictions : Worldwide Vinyl Non-Returnable. L P-C1 S P ECT RAL BLUE 7539369053 68
Fantasize Your Ghost was recorded over a six day session in August when the band decamped to the Post Farm in southern Wisconsin, where Cunningham runs a yearly DIY music festival. With indie rock journeyman producer Chris Cohen and the idyllic setting just outside Chicago, the songs came to vibrant life. Fantasize Your Ghost encapsulates the thrilling and sometimes terrifying joy of moving forward even if you don't know where you're going. It's an album that asks necessary questions: When life demands a crossroads, what version of yourself are you going to pursue? What part of yourself will you feed and let flourish and what do you have to let go of? When they sing, "Just walk out the door and / Don’t tell them goodbye" it's drastic but also exhilaratingly hopeful. This is a record of strength, of best friends believing in each other. Unapologetic and brave, Ohmme are ready to figure it all out together.
Selling Points - Produced by Chris Cohen - COLORED VINYL SPECTRAL BLUE + comes with download code. - Recommended If You Like: The Breeders, Jeff Tweedy/Wilco, The Roches, Chris Cohen, Deerhoof, Twin Peaks, Lala Lala
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Track Listing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Flood Your Gut Selling Candy Ghost The Limit Spell It Out Twitch 3243 Some Kind of Calm Sturgeon Moon After All
3: 44 3:27 3:30 3:18 4 :31 4 :13 4 :06 4 : 41 4 :10 3: 48
joyful noise recordings 3625 E. Raymond St. | Indy, IN 46203
joyfulnoiserecordings.com press@joyfulnoiserecordings.com
Paradise of Bachelors P.O. Box 1402, Carrboro, NC 27510 www.paradiseofbachelors.com / info@paradiseofbachelors.com US/CA PR: Catherine Herrick, catherine@motormouthmedia.com UK PR: Will Lawrence, will@inhousepress.com Elsewhere: Lara Greening, @secretlydistribution.com The debut solo album by Mike Polizze—and his first release for Paradise of Bachelors—finds the erstwhile Purling Hiss frontman and Birds of Maya shredder stepping out from behind the wall of guitar noise into the bright sunshine. Performed entirely by Polizze with longtime friend Kurt Vile (largely live and acoustic) and recorded by War on Drugs engineer Jeff Zeigler, this intimate Philadelphia affair clarifies the bittersweet earworm melodicism of Dizzy Polizzy’s songwriting, revealing bona fide folk-pop chops. Long Lost Solace Find finally harvests the wild local honey from the buzzing hive of Hiss.
MIKE POLIZZE LONG LOST SOLACE FIND
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Paradise of Bachelors PoB-048 LP / LP-C1 (transparent blue vinyl) / CD / Digital June 12, 2020 Alternative / Singer-Songwriter No territory restrictions; LPs not returnable 25 inner box; 50 outer box / 40
A1. Bainmarie 4:32 A2. Revelation 4:32 A3. Cheewawa 2:26 A4. Wishing Well 3:32 A5. Eyes Reach Across 4:01 A6. Do do do 4:21
B1. Edge of Time 3:20 B2. Rock on a Feather 2:52 B3. D'Modal 2:42 B4. Sit Down 3:45 B5. Marbles 2:22 B6. Vertigo 4:29
+ Deluxe LP edition features 140g virgin vinyl; heavy-duty board jacket; full-color inner sleeve and labels; and high-res Bandcamp download code. + Deluxe transparent blue vinyl LP edition is limited to 650 copies. + CD edition features gatefold board jacket with LP replica art. + RIYL Purling Hiss, Birds of Maya, Kurt Vile, Steve Gunn, Nap Eyes, the War on Drugs, Ted Lucas, Daniel Johnston, Jonathan Richman, the Clean, the Kinks, Neil Young, the Grateful Dead + For more information: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/pob-048 + Artist page/tour dates/back catalog: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/mike-polizze “Beautifully melancholic… A craftsman whose easy mastery hides the years of work it took to get there. The hooks seem to never stop.” – Pitchfork “Idiosyncratic and remarkable … unwashed, long-haired pop strum.” – NPR Music
Tourists beware: if you wander around Old City Philadelphia—the thoroughly sanitized home of the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, all manner of Ye Olde Hoagie Shoppes, and the “non-partisan” historical theme park abomination known as the National Constitution Center—you’re liable to be accosted by one of many ersatz Ben Franklins shucking and jiving for your Yankee dollars. The Disneyfied colonial cosplay can make you forget the fact that the real Ben was, in his time, a true-blue Philly freak, who alongside all the radical politicking, pamphleteering, and scientific tinkering, found time to write raunchy letters and something called The Drinker’s Dictionary. He not only invented bifocals, swim fins, and the lightning rod, but also a musical instrument called the armonica—or better yet, the “glassychord.” The story of Long Lost Solace Find, the debut solo album by Mike Polizze, is a Philadelphia story. It’s also a story about the erstwhile Purling Hiss frontman and Birds of Maya shredder stepping out from behind the wall of guitar noise into the bright sunshine to inhabit the dazzling realm of glassychords. Performed entirely by Polizze (largely live and acoustic), with notable instrumental and vocal contributions from longtime friend Kurt Vile, and recorded (slowly, over the course of a year) by War on Drugs engineer Jeff Zeigler, this intimate Philly affair clarifies the bittersweet earworm melodicism of Polizze’s songwriting, revealing bona fide folk-pop chops. Long Lost Solace Find finally harvests the wild local honey from the buzzing hive of Hiss. Mike moved from nearby Media, Pennsylvania to Fishtown, Philadelphia in 2004, cofounding Birds of Maya with Jason Killinger (later of Spacin’) and Ben Leaphart (later also of Purling Hiss, Watery Love, et al.) and subsequently falling in with a nascent scene that included the War on Drugs, Kurt Vile, Espers, and the future Founding Fathers of Paradise of Bachelors. In the early years of the new millennium, Philadelphia, and particularly the affordable neighborhoods north of Northern Liberties that attracted artists and musicians, could be a brutal and sinister place, with acres of abandoned and blighted post-industrial blocks ripe for reclamation through thoughtless gentrification. (One of my final, fateful memories before I moved to North Carolina in 2006 was watching a threadbare, discombobulated pigeon stagger in sidewalk circles, impaled wingwise with a syringe. Tourists beware!) The primeval caveman roar of Birds of Maya—through which Polizze carved savage solos, wielding his guitar like a garotte—reflected that uneasy, transitional urban milieu. Beginning with his first record as Purling Hiss in 2009, Polizze retained the pervasive (if somewhat softened) fuzz but gradually pivoted to a more pop-inflected idiom that, as he refined it—Adam Granduciel of the War on Drugs produced 2013’s Water on Mars—increasingly recalled the classic indie rock of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Although, particularly in the early days, it sometimes constituted a de facto solo bedroom project, Purling Hiss eventually released six studio records (on the estimable Woodsist, Richie, and Drag City labels, among others) and toured for ten years as a proper band. Mike never entirely ventured out from behind the moniker, or the clamor. (On Long Lost Solace Find, he jokes about sometime nickname Dizzy Polizzy, singing, in the final lines of “Vertigo,” the last song on the record, “I am dizzy in your world.”) In 2015 Christopher Smith of Paradise of Bachelors urged Polizze to play his first proper solo show under his own name, opening for the Weather Station. The present album developed from that decisive moment, with Polizze, Zeigler, and Vile hunkering down in Uniform Recording to chip away at these twelve songs. And what songs! With very little electric guitar and few effects audible, Polizze’s expressiveness and dexterity as a fingerstyle player (not to mention a singer) emerges, especially on unadorned tunes like “Wishing Well” and the instrumental “D’Modal,” both of which bring to mind friend and fellow Delco native Steve Gunn. An amiably languid mood prevails, offhandedly achieving an atmosphere of quiet bliss and charming nonchalance that belies the morass of contradictions, bruising anxieties, nostalgia and nauseous stasis suggested by the elliptical lyrics (I told you it’s a Philadelphia story). The lyrical content sometimes dissolves into the simple, childlike pleasures of rhymes and phonemic play, dispensing with parsable grammar entirely, as in the chorus of “Do do do” and the “Bam-bam a rambling man, a midnight sham” bit in infectious lead single “Revelation,” an instantly winsome number which features Kurt on backing vocals and surprise trumpet. The way Polizze sings the banal title of “Bainmarie”—literally, from the French, “Mary’s bath,” a kind of double-boiler kitchen device, a reference to the hardships of past jobs—like “memory” gets at the remarkable way these lilting melodies unfold with gorgeous, unpretentiously Proustian grace and ease. The endless hooks here sound casual, almost shrugged-off, despite their carefully constructed recursive and ramifying nature. Long Lost Solace Find demonstrates Polizze as a fount of perfectly turned little melodies and riffs and guilelessly sung ditties—glassychords—not unlike the way that Ben Franklin was a fount of indelible, perfectly phrased aphorisms. Here’s one that feels rather relevant to Mike’s move from the shadows into the sun: “Hide not your Talents, they for Use were made. What’s a sun-dial in the shade!” Long Lost Solace Find represents the apotheosis of Polizze’s evolving craft.
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Ganser Just Look At That Sky 1. Lucky 2. Self Service 3. Projector 4. Emergency Equipment & Exits 5. Told You So
6. Shadowcasting 7. Bad Form 8. [NO YES] 9. Bags for Life
RELEASE BIO Growth with no reward. Finding strength in your less desirable traits. Coming up with the perfect comeback hours later in bed, glaring at the ceiling. Asking yourself: am I improving, or am I just changing into something unrecognizable? Chicago quartet Ganser probe the futility of striving for self-growth during the chaos of our times for dark comedy and jagged sounds on their potent new LP, Just Look at That Sky. Equal parts Space Odyssey and Ghost World, Ganser released their debut LP Odd Talk in 2018 to favorable coverage from The New York Times, Billboard, and Stereogum. Building on their dissociative disorder namesake, the album’s tone vacillated between frenzied and contemplative, probing on questions of communication, intimacy, and avoidance. On Just Look at That Sky, Ganser further explores the personal inner climate of uncertain times. Opening track “Lucky” announces an explosive energy that evokes the Midwest noise-rock legacy of bands like Jesus Lizard and Shellac, while embracing a more colorful palette of post-punk and art rock influences. Nadia Garofalo and Alicia Gaines, a self-described two-headed monster who share lead vocal duties, can bring both a recalcitrant cool worthy of Kim Gordon and a booming sneer that recalls Poly Styrene; the discordant interplay of Charlie Landsman’s guitar and Brian Cundiff’s drums on standouts “Self Service” and “Bad Form” build to blistering climaxes that wouldn’t feel out of place on Red Medicine-era Fugazi. And then there’s Ganser’s lyrics: manic explorations of worry and dread mark this record, the epic messiness of daily life in our damaged times attacked with sardonic specificity as often as generalized doom. Just Look at That Sky isn’t afraid to acknowledge that we’re all Extremely Online all the time, but rather explicitly owns it. These songs chart inner monologues of emphatic confusion, emotions already deeply felt further ratcheted up by the anxiety of always having too much information about other people, and always being just one tweet or status update away from knowing what everyone really thinks about us. This culminates in closing track “Bags for Life,” which imagines how online discourse might tackle a front-row seat for the end of the world. These are songs that never shy away from ugliness and confusion, that believe embracing the totality of the self sometimes means leaning into our dickish behavior. In the past, some listeners have had trouble reconciling non-male voices with the sorts of topics Ganser writes about, but that comes to an end with Just Look at That Sky. Co-produced with Electrelane's Mia Clarke and engineer Brian Fox, this is an assured, fully realized triumph of a record from an art-punk band that’s figured out how to focus on making great art, even if everything else around them falls apart.
RELEASE INFO Label: felte Catalogue Number: FLT072 Release Date(s): July 31, 2020 Format: LP UPC-LP-c1: 843563127117 (color vinyl) UPC-CD: 843563127124 Box Lot: LP = 40, CD = 30 Genre: Art Rock, Noise Rock, Post-punk, Indie Rock RIYL: The Jesus Lizard, Sleater-Kinney, Protomartyr, Girl Band, Liars, Iceage, Throwing Muses, etc Key Markets: Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Oakland, Brooklyn/NY, Portland, Seattle, Austin, Philly, Detroit, DC, Philadelphia, Milwaukee NO EXPORTS VINYL IS NON-RETURNABLE POINTS OF INTEREST • Sophomore album, first for Felte • 500 Units of limited “Golden Ticket Yellow” colored vinyl • Produced w/ Mia Clarke (Electrelane) & Brian Fox • Mastered by Barry Grint (Buzzcocks, King Krule, et al) • Future tour w/ Algiers confirmed + Control Top TBD • Favorable coverage from The New York Times, Billboard, KEXP, Stereogum, Billboard, Alternative Press, Talkhouse, Paste + more Tour Dates 12.02 St Paul @ Turf Club * 12.03 Milwaukee @ Cactus Club * 12.04 Chicago @ Empty Bottle * 12.05 Columbus @ Rumba Cafe * 12.06 Detroit @ The Loving Touch * * w/ Algiers ganserband.com facebook.com/ganserband instagram.com/ganserband twitter.com/ganserband
LABEL CONTACT Felte info@feltesounds.com http://felte.net
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Ten incredible albums culled from the deepest, weirdest co-op of record enthusiasts ever gathered under one banner. We’ve spared no expense packaging these, pairing the idea of the Art of Compilation with living and breathing art, creating little fortune cookies baked in a factory of forgotten dreams. Video games, pyramids, trading cards, matchbooks, mazes, lottery tickets, film canisters, yearbooks, and various other exercises in design absurdity. As the rift between academic jazz, new age, and pop narrowed in the 1980s, D.I.Y. practitioners of metronome driven riffs found new growth in a burgeoning managerial middle class, a commercial audience held captive in dentist offices and waiting rooms across America. Session players took to midi-banks stocked with every instrument imaginable and delivered on a road rage-induced demand to stay cool, relaxed, and focused all at once. The extra-wide cuts packaged here will be mint for years to come. Go ahead, break the seal on a fresh pack of NuLeafs: There’s only one sensation this smooth.
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NuLeaf Catalog Number: NUM107 Artist: Various Title: NuLeaf Release Date: 7/31/2020 UPC: 825764110716 Available Format: LP Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz Box Lot: 25 Territory Restrictions: None Vinyl is not returnable Track Listing: A1 Michael Hayes - Orphans A2 Larry Bright - Sunbeam A3 George Shaw - 6295 SW Fisher A4 Plunky - Tropical Chill (Jazz Mix) B1 Calvin Keys - Maria’s First B2 Frank Potenza - Waiting For You B3 Tony Palkovic - Born With A Desire B4 James Dallas- Sidetrack
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GHOSTLY SWIM 3 Tracklist 01. Bogdan Raczynski - ggowwksstane 02. Black Noi$e - Potatoe Salad 03. Yak - Take Flight 04. Bullion - Rhino 05. Aquarian - Redux (GAD Mix) 06. LNS - Kabeljau 07. Ouri - A NUN’S VVET DREAM 08. Gábor Lázár - Fractured 09. Alec Ness - Meal (feat. Dizzy Fae) 10. DJ Python - Chalet 11. DJ Clea - Mind Body 12. Superstructure - onesix-four 13. Human Resources - Steady On 14. X-Altera - Ikat
Release Info Catalog Number: GI-353 Format: 2xLP Release Date: July 31st, 2020 Genre: Electronic, dance, techno Box Lot: LP-8 Vinyl is not returnable.
Release Bio Ghostly International has now pushed beyond two decades of genre-agnostic operation and ten years since its first collaboration with [adult swim]. A roster-clashing 2009 compilation — featuring the likes of Matthew Dear, Tycho, Dabrye, and School of Seven Bells — Ghostly Swim encapsulated the label’s founding spirit of playful darkness and irreverence. The follow-up, released in 2015, Ghostly Swim 2 isolated its focus, inviting quiet introspections from Heathered Pearls, AceMo, Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler and more. To cap its 20th year in 2019 and suggest a characteristically wayward path forward, Ghostly reconnects for a third round with the Cartoon Network nighttime institution, a bastion of free thought and independent creation. Under the collective mindset that the only way out is through, Ghostly Swim 3 revels in the reliable catharsis that movement can afford. Dynamic, freeform body music as kinetic therapy, as entertainment, as a triumph courtesy of up-and-comers and established talents affiliated with techno, electro, breaks, and the uptempo unclassified et cetera. Fans will recognize a range of rising stars outside of Ghostly’s roster, outlining several corners of the underground dance community; Black Noi$e (Portage Garage Sounds, Vanity Press), Yak (R&S, Orson), LNS (Wania, 1080p), DJ Python (Incienso, Dekmantel), lock and jitter across the comp alongside Ghostly and Spectral Sound label mainstays like Ouri, Todd Osborn (here as Superstructure), and Tadd Mullunix under his X-Altera alias. 14 tracks in total, this is a choose-your-own-adventure showcase befitting [adult swim]’s bold programming mission.
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Follow up to previous loved compilations with [adult swim], Ghostly Swim 1 + 2. Features Ghostly artists Ouri, X-Altera (AKA Tadd Mullinix, JTC, Dabrye), and Superstructure (AKA Osborne, Todd Osborn). Also featuring Black Noi$e (Portage Garage Sounds, Vanity Press), DJ Python (Dekmantel, Incienso), LNS (Wania, 1080p), Yak (R&S, Orson). Ltd edition vinyl pressing (1,000 worldwide) features green + pink marbled standard weight vinyl.
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