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------------------------------• MONOPHONICS - IT'S ONLY US | CD (CLMN12032cd) | Colemine Records PHYS UPC:674862654567 • MONOPHONICS - IT'S ONLY US (BLACK VINYL) | LP (CLMN12032lp) | Colemine Records PHYS UPC:674862654581 • MONOPHONICS - IT'S ONLY US (RANDOM VINYL) | LP (CLMN12032lp-C1) | Colemine Records PHYS UPC:674862654598 • PORRIDGE RADIO - EVERY BAD | CD (SC393cd) | Secretly Canadian PHYS UPC:656605039329 • PORRIDGE RADIO - EVERY BAD (TRANSPARENT BLUE VINYL) | LP (SC393lp-C1) | Secretly Canadian PHYS UPC:656605039336 • OXZ - ALONG AGO: 1981-1989 | CD (CT293cd) | Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949016357 • OXZ - ALONG AGO: 1981-1989 (LAVENDER VINYL) | LP (CT293lp-C1) | Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949016340 • HILARY WOODS - BIRTHMARKS | CD (SBR245cd) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:843563125489 • HILARY WOODS - BIRTHMARKS (BLACK VINYL) | LP (SBR245lp) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:843563125496 • HILARY WOODS - BIRTHMARKS (DARK RED VINYL) | LP (SBR245lp-C1) | Sacred Bones Records PHYS UPC:843563125502 • HONEY CUTT - COASTING | CD (KR227cd) | Kanine Records PHYS UPC:827175022725 • HONEY CUTT - COASTING (ORANGE VINYL) | LP (KR227lp-C1) | Kanine Records PHYS UPC:827175022718 • JOYFULTALK - A SEPARATION OF BEING | CD (CST150cd) | Constellation PHYS UPC:666516015022 • JOYFULTALK - A SEPARATION OF BEING (BLACK VINYL) | LP (180 gram) (CST150lp) | Constellation PHYS UPC:666561015015 • CALVIN JOHNSON - WHAT WAS ME | Cassette (KLP117cass) | K Records PHYS UPC:789856111749 • CALVIN JOHNSON - WHAT WAS ME (BLACK VINYL) | LP (KLP117lp) | K Records PHYS UPC:789856111718 • TREY GRUBER - HERCULEAN HOUSE OF CARDS (OPAQUE BLUE VINYL) | 2xLP (NUM1273lp-C1) | Numero Group PHYS UPC:825764607322 • EARLY DAY MINERS - PLACER FOUND (20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) (BLACK VINYL) | 2xLP (SC152lp) | Secretly Canadian PHYS UPC:656605015217
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Swamp Dogg
Sorry You Couldn't Make It Overview Jerry Williams’—aka Swamp Dogg—first love was country music, listening to it as a Navy family kid growing up in Portsmouth, Virginia. “My granddaddy, he just bought country records out the asshole,” Swamp remembers. “Every Friday when he came home from the Navy yard he’d stop off and get his records, like ‘Mule Train’ by Frankie Laine, or ‘Riders in the Sky’ by Vaughn Monroe.” His first time performing on stage, in fact, was a country song at a talent show when he was six years old: “I did Red Foley’s version of ‘Peace in the Valley.’” While the 77 year-old Williams’ most enduring persona is the psychedelic soul superhero Swamp Dogg—a musical vigilante upholding truths both personal and political since 1970’s immortal album, Total Destruction To Your Mind—he will tell anybody who will listen that he’s considered himself country this entire time. “If you notice I use a lot of horns,” Swamp says. “But actually, if you listen to my records before I start stacking shit on it, I’m country. I sound country.” Swamp began his professional singing career as Little Jerry Williams back in the ‘50s before working as an A&R man for Atlantic Records in the late ‘60s. His biggest hit is actually a country song: 1970’s “Don’t Take Her (She’s All I Got).” Written with his best friend Gary U.S. Bonds, the track is country in that woeful, underdog-baring-their-soul sort of way that for some reason only country songs really ever allow themselves to be. Freddie North covered it first and made it a Top 40 pop song, but Johnny Paycheck took it all the way to #2 on the country charts in 1971. Following 2018’s critically acclaimed, Ryan Olson-produced Love, Loss, And Auto-Tune—his first LP to debut on 11 Billboard charts (including at #7 on 'Heatseekers’) and his first chart ink since his 1970 song “Mama's Baby - Daddy's Maybe”—Sorry You Couldn’t Make It allows Swamp to finally dive into the sound he grew up playing. With the support of Pioneer Works Press, they recorded the album at Nashville’s Sound Emporium with Olson as producer once again, and backed by a crack studio band led by Derick Lee, a keyboard virtuoso who worked as the musical director of BET’s Bobby Jones Gospel Show for nearly four decades. Nashville guitar firebrand Jim Oblon combusts his way through lead duties, while frequent collaborator Moogstar and special guests Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), John Prine, Jenny Lewis, Channy Leaneagh and Chris Beirden of Poliça, and Sam Amidon join the action throughout. A band of 14 players, including Vernon, Lee, Beirden, and Moogstar, among others, provides the background for Swamp’s devastating new take on “Don’t Take Her (She’s All I Got).” Lead single “Sleeping Without You Is A Dragg” is one of Swamp’s most heartfelt songs to date and features Vernon on piano as well as backing vocals by Lewis and Leaneagh. He duets with country-folk legend Prine on two songs (“It’s the first time I seen John since the sixties!” laughs Swamp): the indelible, psychedelic ballad “Memories” and the reflective “Please Let Me Go Round Again.” Originally written and demoed in his forties, “Please Let Me Go Round Again” is a plea for one more chance at life, sung with acute emotional connection. These are narratives about love, of missing the one you love, of compassion, family and friends, and even the kind of love that transcends death. “I was looking for a new way for Swamp Dogg to go,” he explains. “Apart from me singing and writing most of the songs, I didn’t participate—in other words, I told ‘em, ‘Don’t ask me, I wanna see what happens without my influence.’ It was hard for me to do, ego-wise.” Sorry You Couldn’t Make It sees Swamp come full circle, and closes what has felt to him like unfinished business. “They didn’t have any blacks in country until Charlie Pride came along,” he says. “But in time, all things change and that's what has happened to country music.” Surveying today’s Nashville reality, Swamp sees opportunity: artists as divergent as Darius Rucker and Lil Nas X are converging in a genre that he once worried might never give him his shot. “I'm anxious because it's like I've taken all my money and put it on one horse,” he says. “But I believe in this horse.”
Selling Points - Vinyl comes with Download Card. - LIMITED EDITION (ltd to 1500) “Swamp Green” Colored Vinyl Includes Bonus 7” with 3 unreleased songs. - Recommend If You Like: John Prine, Swamp Dogg, Curtis Mayfield, Lil Nas X
Noteworthy Quotes "Has soul music generated a more outlandish persona than Swamp Dogg?" - NPR
Details Release Date : March 6, 2020 Catalog # : JNR327 Available Formats : LP / LP-C1 / CD / Digital Genre : R&B / Country Box Lot Quantity : 20 LP / 30 CD Packaging : LP - Gatefold / CD - Wallet Key Markets : LA, NYC, US, UK, Europe Territory Restrictions : Worldwide Vinyl Non-Returnable.
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Sleeping Without You Is a Dragg 4 :02 Good, Better, Best 2 :50 Don't Take Her (She's All I Got) 5:00 Family Pain 3:08 I Lay Awake 3: 42 Memories (feat. John Prine) 4 : 48 I'd Rather Be Your Used To Be 4 :16 Billy 2 : 44 A Good Song 2 :55 Please Let Me Go Round Again 4 : 41 (feat. John Prine) joyful noise recordings 3625 E. Raymond St. | Indy, IN 46203
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WHARF CAT RECORDS
WCR 097 P.E. Person 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
TRACKLIST Mandarin Machine Machine Top Ticket Lovers’ Lane Entertainment Viniagrette
7. Dirty Plumage 8. Expectations 9. Soft Dance 10. Shimmy 11. Pink Shiver 12. Person
ALBUM ARTWORK
RELEASE BIO The 12 tracks from P.E.’s snarling debut, Person, display the bandmembers’ collective experience in piecing together unforgettable compositions then gleefully tearing them apart at the seams, while the album’s clattering industrial percussion, zigzagging synths and sax, and colorful dystopian poetry maintain the spark of P.E.’s improvisational bent. The result is a sonic lexicon that reflects the unnatural surroundings of their adopted home in NYC—chaotic yet alluring, gnarly yet beautiful, gritty yet fun. This is music for fully-formed persons—human music for the 21st century.
RELEASE INFO Catalog Number: WCR 097 Release Date: March, 7 2020 (WW) Genre: Alternative, Electronic, Art-Punk Format: LP, CD, Digital Territory Restrictions: None Vinyl Non-Returnable Key Territories: NYC, LA, Austin RIYL: LIARS, Pill, Eaters, Yeah Yeah Yeahs LP Box Lot: 40 CD Box Lot: 30 5% discount through 2 weeks past street date
P.E BIO P.E. is a band born of New York City’s storied art-punk underground and dedicated to continuously pushing creative boundaries via ongoing experimentation. Comprised of Veronica Torres, Jonathan Campolo, and Benjamin Jaffe (of the freshly defunct, no wave-riffing Pill) alongside Jonathan Schenke and Bob Jones (of electronic/art-rock favorites Eaters), P.E. features some of NYC’s most notable experimental voices united by a collaborative chemistry forged during their early—and entirely improvised—performances.
POINTS OF INTEREST LABEL CONTACT Wharf Cat Records 810 Humboldt St Brooklyn, NY 11222 info@wharfcatrecords.com
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a propulsive thump, strung along by drill whirs and Torres’ snotty delivery - STEREOGUM a veritable sonic Reese’s Cup, mixing Pill’s attitude-heavy, skronky, saxy sound with Eaters’ electronic wizardry BROOKYN VEGAN The Veronica Torres-led (formerly of Pill) outfit offers a caustic synthesis of art rock, no wave and electronic music, genres that coalesce seamlessly within the band’s uncompromising approach. - TREBLE ZINE
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BEATRICE DILLON WORKAROUND PRESS RELEASE
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‘Workaround’ is the lucidly playful and ambitious solo debut album by rhythmobsessive musician and DJ, Beatrice Dillon for PAN. It combines her love of UK club music’s syncopated suss and Afro- Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to express fresh ideas about groove-driven music and perpetuate its form with timeless, future-proofed clarity.
CATALOG #: PAN106 RELEASE DATE: March 6th, 2020 FORMAT: LP, Digital LP BOX LOT: 20 GENRE: Electronic KEY MARKETS: London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Tokyo TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: US Only, None for Digital
Recorded over 2017-2019 between studios in London, Berlin and New York, ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo. Mixing meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples from a wide range of guests including UK Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra (tabla); Pharoah Sanders Band’s Jonny Lam (pedal steel guitar); techno innovators Laurel Halo (synth/vocal) and Batu (samples); Senegalese Griot Kadialy Kouyaté (Kora), Hemlock’s Untold and new music specialist Lucy Railton (cello); amongst others, Dillon deftly absorbs their distinct instrumental colours and melody into 14 bright and spacious computerised frameworks that suggest immersive, nuanced options for dancers, DJs and domestic play. ‘Workaround’ evolves Dillon’s notions in a coolly unfolding manner that speaks directly to the album’s literary and visual inspirations, ranging from James P. Carse’s book ‘Finite And Infinite Games’ to the abstract drawings of Tomma Abts or Jorinde Voigt as well as painter Bridget Riley’s essays on grids and colour. Operating inside this rooted but mutable theoretical wireframe, Dillon’s ideas come to life as interrelated, efficient patterns in a self-sufficient system. With a naturally fractal-not-fractional logic, Dillon’s rhythms unfold between unresolved 5/4 tresillo patterns, complex tabla strokes and spark-jumping tics in a fluid, tactile dance of dynamic contrasts between strong/light, sudden/restrained, and bound/free made in reference to the notational instructions of choreographer Rudolf Laban. Working in and around the beat and philosophy, the album’s freehand physics contract and expand between the lissom rolls of Bhamra’s tabla in the first, to a harmonious balance of hard drum angles and swooping FM synth cadence featuring additional synth and vocal from Laurel Halo in ‘Workaround Two’, while the extruded strings of Lucy Railton create a sublime tension at the album’s palatecleansing denouement, triggering a scintillating run of technoid pieces that riff on the kind of swung physics found in Artwork’s seminal ‘Basic G’, or Rian Treanor’s disruptive flux with a singularly tight yet loose motion and infectious joy. Crucially, the album sees Dillon focus on dub music’s pliable emptiness, rather than the moody dematerialisation of reverb and echo. The substance of her music is rematerialised in supple, concise emotional curves and soberly freed to enact its ideas in balletic plies, rugged parries and sweeping, capoeira-like floor action. Applying deeply canny insight drawn from her years of practice as sound designer, musician and hugely knowledgable/intuitive DJ, ‘Workaround’ can be heard as Dillon’s ingenious solution or key to unlocking to perceptions of stiffness, darkness or grid-locked rigidity in electronic music. And as such it speaks to an ideal of rhythm-based and experimental music ranging from the hypnotic senegalese mbalax of Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, through SND and, more currently, the hard drum torque of DJ Plead; to adroitly exert the sensation of weightlessness and freedom in the dance and personal headspace. Exclusively distrubuted by SECRETLY DISRIBUTION PHONE: 8123351572 US SALES CONTACT: domestic@secretlydistrubution.com
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TRACKS SIDE A: 1. Workaround One 2. Workaround Two 3. Workaround Three 4. Workaround Four 5. Workaround Five SIDE B: 6. Clouds Strum 7. Workaround Six 8. Workaround Seven 9. Workaround Eight 10. Workaround Nine 11. Square Fifths 12. Workaround Bass 13. Pause 14. Workaround Ten
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USE NO HOOKS The Job - Lost Recordings 1979-1983 About the album
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"An iconic punk-funk artefact" - Vice
CATALOGUE NUMBER: CH146LP RELEASE DATE: 6 March 2020 FORMAT: LP (royal blue vinyl) LP BOX LOT: 20 GENRE: Rock, Alternative KEY MARKETS: Australia, USA, UK TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: none
Chapter Music reveals a trove of previously unreleased recordings by early 80s Aussie disco-punk heroes Use No Hooks. The band feature Arne Hanna from Michael Hutchence's late 80s INXS side-project Max Q, as well as members of infamous Melbourne synth-punk band Primitive Calculators. Use No Hooks are best known for their 1983 Aussie punk-funk classic Do The Job, never released at the time and first heard on Chapter's Can't Stop It! #2 compilation in 2007. The track was later bootlegged on a 12" by UK DJs Psychemagik and has since become a leftfield club staple. The band existed in various incarnations from 1979-84. They took part in Melbourne's renowned Little Band scene, before morphing unexpectedly into a nine piece disco-funk big band in 1983. This final incarnation took nods from Chic, Talking Heads and the Sugarhill Gang, twisting them into an Australian punk-funk, proto-rap format uniquely their own. The band recorded five songs onto reel-to-reel four track with engineer Simon Grounds in 1983, including the legendary Do the Job, but the unmixed tape remained in a cupboard for more than 35 years. A chance conversation between Simon and Chapter’s Guy Blackman lead to the songs finally being rescued from the aging reel. Mikey Young and Simon Grounds mixed the recordings, and UNH bandleader Mick Earls added choice live/ rehearsal tracks from the band’s earlier lineups as digital bonus material. The end result proves Do the Job was no accident. Lead vocalist (and Primitive Calculators frontman) Stuart Grant intones Mick Earl’s dry, colloquial lyrics in playful dialogue with singers Denise Hilton (Primitive Calculators), Marisa Stirpe (The Take) and Wendy Morrissey, over frighteningly tight white funk grooves from Mick Earls (guitar), Phil Nichols (keys), Matt Errey (keys), Andre Schuster (bass) and Arne Hanna (drums).
Selling Points
- Never before heard recordings from Australian cult punk-funk heroes - Features members of Michael Hutchence side-project Max Q and Melbourne synth-punk legends Primitive Calculators - 6 digital bonus tracks available via download card - First pressing only in “royal blue” colored vinyl
VINYL NOT RETURNABLE UPC: 747742112690
Tracks Side A:
Side B:
1. Do the Job 2. The Hook 3. Circumstances Beyond Our Control 4. Spoonful
5. In the Clear 6. Your Services Are No Longer Required (live) 7. Do the Job (live)
Digital bonus tracks: 8. But You Smile Anyway 9. Instrumentality 10. Momentum 11. Sideshore Boogie 12. This Way Up 13. Back Story
OTIS HOUSTON JR. “AMERICA”
Catalog Number: PPM63
Otis Houston Jr. can frequently be found making art, performance, poetry and social com-
Release Date: March 6, 2020
mentary at his long-held spot in New York City at the entrance to the FDR drive at 122
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Street. Over the years, he has come to occupy and claim this marginalized stretch of the
LP List Price: $21.98
FDR as gallery, studio, and public forum. Since 1997, following a period of incarceration and
LP Box Lot: 30
his mother’s death, Houston Jr. has set up shop weekly at this self-anointed soapbox under
Genre: Soul, R&B, Experimental
the Triborough Bridge, where he stages impromptu performances and displays an arrange-
Key Markets: Los Angeles, New York,
ment of signage, drawings, and found-object assemblages that critique racism, poverty and
South Carolina
addiction, and also celebrate health, education, happiness, and freedom. As he says, “We
Territory Restrictions: None
not in the same boat, but we all in the water.” The works of Houston Jr., who calls himself
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“Black Cherokee,” are made primarily with discarded objects that he collects from the street and the dumpster at his job, and creates in his East Harlem apartment of 30 years, or in the basement of the office building where he works in Midtown Manhattan. LP
Houston Jr. recorded the songs for “America” in 3 locations around Harlem and the Bronx
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in 2006, the year the album was originally self-released on CD. Makeshift studios that no longer exist provide a telling context for his autobiographical storytelling. Prerecorded beats
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made by studio owners were picked based on which suited his cadence laden poetry best
Side A
and often times on “America” the songs repeat, with different lyrics, transforming them-
1. Soul Brother
selves. Houston Jr., a raconteur and quick witted wordsmith has so much to say, that when
2. The Children
there is a groove, he doesn’t want to let it go, but rather float around and experiment. Influ-
3. Me
enced by Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye and the like, his strong voice and natural
4. One More River To Cross
ability to use slogans give this album a cunning stance. Juxtaposed by the highly visible time
5. Who’s The Fool
stamp of mid-aughts DIY R&B production “America” sounds sometimes like worlds colliding,
6. This Real Man Black Cherokee
smooth improvisations, quick turnarounds and soul bearing truths.
7. My Books I Read —
“America” opens with a song not written by Houston Jr., the only song on the record penned
Side B
by someone else. In “Soul Brother 27”, he explains “…It was given to me 30 years ago, 1975
1. The Thang
by my cellmate… but has been such a part of me I wanted everyone to hear it”. He goes on to
2. Sugar Ray Get Out Of My Way
read this poem that sets the tone for his story laid out in 14 tracks. Songs about Incarcera-
3. Thanking The Lord
tion for drug charges, his short stint as a boxer, getting shot, being in the hospital, and his
4. I Like Where I Stay
positive approach to life and desire for change in his community. In the song “The Children”
5. AMERICA
he spells it out: “We need to raise up a new generation. We need to use video, rap music,
6. My Name And My Word
pop sounds and any and everything all around. We need to sing it, play it, sew it, picture
7. Red-Yellow-Black-White
it, draw it, wave it, and shout it everywhere.” This touching and unsuspecting underground classic finally gets the release it deserves. • Reissue of an unsuspecting underground classic. • First time on vinyl. • Limited to 300.
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Peter Zinovieff & Lucy Railton RFG Inventions for Cello and Computer
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‘RFG Inventions for Cello and Computer’ is a steeply adventurous, highly structured and rewarding electro-acoustic collaboration between pioneering British/ Russian inventor and engineer Peter Zinovieff and preeminent cellist Lucy Railton.’
CATALOG #: PAN 90 RELEASE DATE: March 6th, 2020 FORMAT: LP, Digital LP BOX LOT: 20 GENRE: Electronic KEY MARKETS: London, Berlin TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: Physical: NA only, Digital: Worldwide
The collaboration is notably issued as Peter Zinovieff’s first album and also becomes the follow-up to Lucy Railton’s acclaimed solo debut ‘Paradise 94’. It finds Zinovieff, co-founder of London’s influential EMS Synthesizer company and owner of the world’s first home computer, using custom computer software to create and orchestrate a “soft” version of Railton’s vast instrumental vocabulary, modelled from a large series of cello improvisations inspired by objects such as an Egyptian figure, pots, and old computer boards, as well as tales of pre-revolution Russia from his Grandfather. Railton added solo cello to the manipulated results, before these quasi-improvisations were recombined into the work’s filigree matrix during final co-production with members of ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. Initially conceived as a live project and performed at festivals including Norberg, Atonal, Rewire and FAQ between 2016-2017, the final 33 minute recording thrillingly sustains the duelling, visceral tension and unpredictability of their live shows in its brute scrapes across 17 variated sections. But, with the ability to unstitch/embroider sounds outside the strictures of real-time live performance, the resulting structure is confoundingly labyrinthine, assiduously swerving the prosaic and sentimental in pursuit of explorative, emotively in/human expressions of complexity and unpredictability in a manner that has always been key to the ideals of experimental music. In effect, the pair speak as one through an electro acoustic prism in a symbiotic, syncretic process of transformation. Railton is here the catalyst for some of Zinovieff’s definitive work in a career spanning 60 years. Her performances provide a radical variable - a sort of spirit in the machine - which is diffused, inverted and scattered by Zinovieff using various software applications, so that Railton plays around herself like a fractal mise-en-abyme, cutting her warped image to ribbons in a double refraction of the “real”, the instrumental, and its virtual allegory. In this (un)common, metaphoric language and poly-temporal syntax, they incisively speak to ideas of an uncanny valley of perception between the haptic and the intangible, conducting an absorbing dialogue that transcends and bends the story of avant-garde and electronic music in beguiling, free fashion.
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TRACKS SIDE A: 1. RFG Inventions for Cello and Computer - part 1 SIDE B: 2. 1. RFG Inventions for Cello and Computer - part 2
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Mansions Dig Up the Dead
March 6, 2020 ABOUT THE ALBUM
Dig Up The Dead remains Mansions’ most celebrated release to date. The 2011 full-length served as frontman Christopher Browder’s rounding into form, garnering rave reviews from publications such as AbsolutePunk.net and Alternative Press. The fuzzy, lo-fi sound provides ample room for Browder’s lyricism to shine. CATALOG NUMBER: BTR059 RELEASE DATE: March 6, 2020 FORMAT: LP LP BOX LOT: 40 GENRE: Alternative / Indie / Pop KEY MARKETS: Seattle, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, Boston TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: None VINYL NOT RETURNABLE
White in Orange LP UPC 843563120538
SELLING POINTS
- First time Bad Timing is pressing Dig Up the Dead on Vinyl - Follows the label pressing Dig Up the Dead Acoustic years ago - RIYL Manchester Orchestra, Kevin Devine, Now Now
TRACKLIST Side A 1. Dig Up The Dead 2. Blackest Sky 3. Not In My Blood 4. City Don’t Care 5. Call Me When It’s Over
Side B Side B 1. Wormhole 2. Close That Door 3. Seven Years 4. You Got Cool 5. Yer Voice
LIMITED EDITION PURPLE VINYL * MARCH 6, 2020 Catalog Number: TG003lp-C2 UPC: 036172070381 Format: Translucent Purple Vinyl Limited Edition: 1000 LP Box Lot: 25 Genre: Alternative / Hardcore Territory Restrictions: None Vinyl is Not Returnable Download Card Included
Track Listing Tied Down - Hypocrite - Evacuate - Said and Done - Nothing - Your Mistake Live Your Life - Friend or Foe - Dead Stop - I'll Survive TRANSLUCENT PURPLE VINYL LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES WORLDWIDE * NOW WITH PURPLE JACKET * Born in 1981 in Detroit, MI, Negative Approach were the undisputed champs of Midwestern hardcore in the early to mid-’80s. Led by John Brannon’s hoarse wail, with OP Moore on drums and brothers Rob and Graham McCulloch playing guitar and bass respectively, the band concocted an extreme sound devoid of frills. This was first documented on their 10 Song 7” released on Touch and Go Records in 1982. The band released the more metallic-sounding Tied Down in 1983. After disbanding Negative Approach in 1985, John Brannon went on to form Laughing Hyenas. For over three decades, Negative Approach’s minimalist and aggressive brand of punk has inspired countless hardcore bands around the globe. Their classic LP, Tied Down, is still considered paramount by most hardcore fans new and old. Also Available: TG407 Negative Approach 10-Song EP 7” TG078CD Negative Approach Total Recall
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Monophonics It’s Only Us
ABOUT THE LP With a timeless sound that blends heavy soul and psych-rock, Monophonics have built a reputation over the past decade as one of the best live bands in the country. Led by singer Kelly Finnigan, the band of has drawn on their colorful history — both their experiences as veteran touring performers and as individuals growing up in the Bay Area — to create “It’s Only Us,” their fourth release since 2012. A reflection of what they see as the current state of the world, the record touches on difficult subjects such as broken relationships, mental health issues, gun violence and power struggles, all with an underlying message of unity, resilience and acceptance. The band’s signature style of arrangement has been expanded with top-notch production and creative instrumentation to round out the Monophonics’ trademark soul sound, while Finnigan’s vocals are more powerful than ever. At times these tracks can feel classic, as familiar as an old song you grew up with, while simultaneously raising questions about the state of music in 2020 and what the future might hold. “It’s Only Us” is the sound of a group continuing to grow as songwriters, musicians, performers and people — reflecting on where they’ve been, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the years to come.
FOR FANS OF… Durand Jones & The Indications, Tame Impala, Temples, Lee Fields
RELEASE DETAILS ARTIST: Monophonics TITLE: It’s Only Us LABEL: Colemine Records CATALOG NUMBER: CLMN-12032 RELEASE DATE: March 13, 2020 FORMAT: LP (random), LP, CD BOX LOT: LP (30), CD (165) GENRE: R&B, Soul KEY MARKETS: San Francisco, LA, NYC, Paris, Greece
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TRACKS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Chances Suffocating Last One Standing Tunnel Vision It’s Only Us Run For Your Life All In The Family Day By Day
SELLING POINTS - First album since 2015 - Last album "Sound Of Sinning" scanned over 10k physical units - Full US tour in March and April hitting all major markets - Playing SXSW CD UPC: 674862654567
PRESS CONTACT Terry Cole: terry@plaidroomrecords.com
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Porridge Radio Every Bad About the album
Porridge Radio grew out of Dana Margolin’s bedroom, where she started making music in private. Living in the seaside town of Brighton, she recorded songs and slowly started playing them at open mic nights to rooms of old men who stared at her quietly as she screamed in their faces.
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CATALOG NUMBER: SC393 RELEASE DATE: March 13, 2020 FORMAT: CD / LP / LP-C1 / Digital CD BOX LOT: 30 LP BOX LOT: 50 GENRE: Alternative / Indie Rock KEY MARKETS: United Kingdom, London, Brighton, New York, Los
Though she eventually grew out of them, for Margolin these open mic nights unlocked a love of performing and songwriting, as well as a new way to express herself. She decided to form a band through which to channel it all, and be noisier while she was at it – so Porridge Radio was born. Inspired by interpersonal relationships, her environment - in particular the sea - and her growing friendships with her new bandmates (bassist Maddie Ryall, keyboardist Georgie Stott, and drummer Sam Yardley) Margolin’s distinctive, indie-pop-butmake-it-existentialist style soon started to crystallise. Quickly, the band self-released a load of demos and a garden-shed-recorded collection on Memorials of Distinction, while tireless touring cemented their firm reputation as one of UK DIY’s most beloved and compelling live bands. As the band’s sound – bright pop-rock instrumentation blended with Margolin’s tender, open-ended lyrics – has developed and refined, Porridge Radio have also received enthusiastic radio airplay on the BBC, Radio X and more. Now, they are taking that development a step further, as they put out their label debut, Every Bad.
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• The debut album from one of the most exciting British bands around, Porridge Radio • Limited UK exclusive colour of the vinyl! • Very limited free 7’ featuring two exclusive tracks for UK independent stores • Loads of instores and European touring around release Exclusively Distributed By Secretly Distribution Phone: (812) 335-1572 US Domestic Sales Contact: domestic@secretlydistribution.com International Sales Contact: international@secretlydistribution.com
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CD UPC: 656605039329
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DIGITAL UPC: 656605039367
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1. Born Confused 2. Sweet 3. Don’t Ask Me Twice 4. Long 5. Nephews
6. Pop Song 7. Give/Take 8. Lilac 9. Circling 10. (Something) 11. Homecoming Song
OXZ
Along Ago: 1981-1989 – LP/CD • Reissue of the Complete Discography of Japanese Post-Punk Trio • First LP Pressing on Limited Edition Lavendar Vinyl
The mid ‘80s were an exciting time for music in Kansai (OsakaKyoto), Japan. There were more stages for bands to play on, more releases by independent labels and a variety of bands playing in different styles. The 80s were also a time when women’s rights in Japan, though a topic of conversation, were not widely visible in the real world. There were very few women in the underground music scene at the time, but none of them dressed like punks or dyed their hair, or outwardly showed much interest in declaring independence from the usual rules. So, in 1981, when Hikko, Mika, and Emiko (aka Chasenmaru) first appeared together as OXZ, they were intentionally shocking.
CT-2 93 1. Fa l l in t h e Nig ht 2 . Al ong Ago 3. Life a n d Deat h 4 . To u c h i ng My Hear t 5. Viv ian 6. B e Ru n Dow n 7. Etra nge r (1 985 ) 8. B oy B oy 9. Etrange r (1 98 8) 10. Is L ife 11. Teena ge B 12 . (我等 は 何 し て ） 老ひ ぬ ら ん
1 3. B l ue Si ng * 1 4 . B l eed Love * 1 5 . Dow n Ea sy * 1 6. A ngel 1 7. Orgel B o ny * 1 8. Tr uth * 1 9. B a by Aga i n *
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Nothing happens in a vacuum, however. It was already acceptable for young women to form bands in the safety of their high school music clubs. They generally played cover songs at school events. However, actually stepping out into the dirty world of live houses was for the adventurous and compelled. To do so in OXZ’s overtly provocative, dramatic way was unheard of. Contemporaries of Shonen Knife, OXZ were known for the intensity of their live performances. Releasing their first EP in 1984 – an 8” EP – their catalog belies their reputation for moody, dark post-punk ahead of its time. The bass and drums dominate; the guitars are angular and spiky – punk, but with something extra. Along Ago: 1981-1989 collects the band’s entire catalog – three EPs and a single – alongside unearthed, unreleased demos. Then, 1989, it ended as the band went their separate ways. And the name? No one seems to remember how it came about, but it should be noted that in Japan, O means acceptable and X means rejected, so maybe OXZ means “going beyond all usual standards.”
RELEASE DATE: March 13th, 2020 GENRE: POST-PUNK / ALTERNATIVE “One of the pioneering Japanese female underground bands... unique, strange and provocative.” - Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mother’s Temple)
Hilary Woods Birthmarks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
track listing: Tongues of Wild Boar (3:55) Orange Tree (2:49) Through the Dark, Love (5:07) Lay Bare (3:08) Mud and Stones (4:20) The Mouth (4:45) Cleansing Ritual (4:28) There Is No Moon (3:13)
Key Information / Selling Points: Hometown / Key Markets: • Dublin, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles, Austin, Chicago, Portland
• • • • • • Hilary Woods’ Birthmarks has been a labor of intensity and intuition, written over the course of two years. Recorded whilst heavily pregnant between Galway and Oslo in the winter of 2019, Woods explores the oscillating and volatile processes of selfhood and becoming, hidden gestational growth, and the birthing of the Self, amidst continuous social and personal change. Birthmarks is a record that hunts for ways in which to revisit and caress wounds left by the memory of their scars. In its mystery and attentiveness to the art of alchemy and the world of the unseen, it is a journey through textural fog and feral density that gives way to passages of voracious sonic exorcism and poetic healing. Its eight songs traverse planes of visceral physicality, stark tender space, and breathtaking introspective beauty. Spurred on and crafted by the impulse to create a more corporeal sonic tendon for her songs to inhabit, Woods took her vision and home recordings to Norwegian experimental noise producer and filmmaker Lasse Marhaug. The collaboration proved rare and fruitful and lies at the heart of this record. Field recordings, analogue bass synthesizers, hushed vocals, and the breath are underpinned with heavy noise processing, fierce and wide cello, rich percussion, sable saxophone, and electronics. Birthmarks is inspired and informed by ideas of inner transmutation in the face of anxiety, post-war Japanese and wet-plate photography, early music, the secret life of trees, wolves, drone, the drawings of Francis Bacon, the images of Francesca Woodman, the films of Chris Marker, the experiential collapse of community, and the power of the lone human voice. It is a deeply powerful and enigmatic record that ultimately transcends its disquiet roots.
Selling Points / Key Press: Dark red vinyl limited to 1500 Guest appearance by Jenny Hval Produced by Jenny Hval collaborator Lasse Marhaug Live performance confirmed at Roadburn Festival Full tours planned for U.S. and Europe Previous tours include supporting Low and Phosphorescent RiYL: Jenny Hval, Grouper, Julianna Barwick catalog #: sbr-245 genre: Alternative/Folk Release Date: 3-13-2020 available formats: cd, LP, lp-c1 UPC-cd: 843563125489 UPC-LP: 843563125496 upc-lp-c1: 843563125502 export restrictions: none Vinyl is not returnable Box Lot: lp 30 / cd 30 label contact: Sacred Bones Records 144 N. 7th Street #413 Brooklyn, NY 11211 info@sacredbonesrecords.com www.sacredbonesrecords.com
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HONEY CUTT - Coasting "Easy-going but fantastical” Stereogum “Catchy, charmingly ramshackle” The Fader For Fans Of: Surf pop, indie, Alvvays, Best Coast Release Date: MARCH 13, 2020 Honey Cutt’s fantastical surf pop hooks will reel you in with dreamy cooing and nostalgic melodies, but do not let Catalog #: KR227lp-c1 these seemingly carefree tunes fool you. Young songwriter, Kaley Honeycutt has a knack for serving up some of her Format: LP (orange) w/mp3s darkest moments with a breeziness you can’t help but sway Label: Kanine Records along to. Genre: Garage/Surf/Indie Pop Territory: World - ex. Canada CD Box Lot: 40 CD UPC:
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On her debut album, Coasting, out March 13, 2020 on Kanine Records, Honeycutt lulls you in with emotional personal stories that are refreshingly self-aware and satirical. Her warmth and charm resonates throughout this catchy guitar pop record. -
Recorded with Jesse Weiss of Palehound
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Best Boston indie band nomination
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Previous US touring. Upcoming dates to be announced Vinyl includes mp3 download and fold out poster with lyrics
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Side A 01 Vacation 02 Hung Up On Me 03 Suburban Dream 04 Fashion School 05 Judas Waltz
Side B 06 Coasting 07 All I Have 08 Orange Blossom Trail 09 Gentleness 10 Love Me, Still
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JOYFULTALK A Separation Of Being Constellation • CST150 • 180gLP / CD / DL Release date: 13 March 2020 u THE NEW SYSTEMS MUSIC WORK BY CANADIAN ARTIST/COMPOSER/PRODUCER JAY CROCKER, BASED ON HIS MURAL-SIZED GRAPHIC SCORE ARTWORK RECENTLY ACQUIRED BY THE NOVA SCOTIA ART BANK (AND REPRODUCED AS A 12”x24” ART PRINT POSTER IN THIS DELUXE 180GRAM VINYL EDITION) u FEATURES POLARIS AND JUNO AWARD WINNER JESSE ZUBOT (TANYA TAGAQ, DESTROYER) PERFORMING ACOUSTIC STRING ARRANGEMENTS
Free-thinking Nova Scotia composer, musician and visual artist Jay Crocker
score, A Separation Of Being is translated from two-dimensional page to
TRACKLIST A1 Part I • I've got that trans-dimensional feeling again A2 Part II • Pixelated skin B1 Part III • Liquified then evaporated
trans-dimensional aural life using an array of homemade instruments, crowned
DURATION: 33:20
(aka JOYFULTALK) channels Minimalism, Japanese environmental music, Maghrebian rhythmic modes and other numinous folkways to create his most focused, vibrant work to date. Based on a monumental, kaleidoscopic graphic
with a majestic string arrangement written by Crocker and performed by Polaris and Juno winner Jesse Zubot (Tanya Tagaq, Destroyer). Visual scores often provoke ideas of openness, interpretation, improv and fluidity. JOYFULTALK’s third album, and second for Constellation, is an altogether different beast. This three-part suite is airtight; interlocking arcs of polyrhythmic deep groove and new minimalism roll out in spellbinding propulsion, the music gathering its warmth from the strings and its peculiarities from Crocker’s bespoke instrumentation and analog clockworks. The separation of being here is not division or rupture, but buoyant freedom through conduction of circulatory energies, marked by flowing melodic rondos
GENRE: Electronic / Modern Composition RIYL: Steve Reich, Laurel Halo, Actress, Mikael Seifu, Laurie Spiegel, Penguin Café Orchestra, Oliver Coates, Kelly Moran, Clark, Laraaji LP is 180gram audiophile pressing on midnight ultrablack vinyl in 100% recycled 20pt CCNB paperboard jacket with 12” x 24” art print poster + DL card CD comes in custom mini-gatefold jacket printed on 100% recycled 20pt CCNB paperboard
of gyrating strings and sonic pointillism. A Separation Of Being is an organic systems music feast for the heart and mind. And lest we forget the eyes: Crocker began developing ‘The Planetary Music System’, his particular methodology for visualized composition, in 2012. The score for A Separation Of Being is the pinnacle of his system to date.
Vinyl is non-returnable No export to Israel
LP (180gram) BOX LOT: 40 UPC: 666561015015
Impressive in scale and scope, this stunning 5’x10’ mural (acquired by Nova Scotia’s provincial Art Bank in 2019) features geometric multi-directional cycles
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of brightly-coloured, finely-detailed sound notation. Album packaging on CD
BOX LOT: 30 UPC: 666561015022
and audiophile 180g LP features details on the outer jacket cover art, and a reproduction of the full score on the inside gatefold, and as an exquisite 12”x 24”pull-out art print, respectively.
DIGITAL UPC: 666561015060
Both the intricate graphic score and the superterrestrial music distinguish and elevate Crocker/JOYFULTALK as a creator/producer/performer who’s been integrating sonic, artistic and sculptural practices into unique installation, environmental and recorded works for the past 15 years. A Separation Of Being is a career-defining conceptual and compositional endeavour that finds one of Canada’s most iconoclastic experimental music minds sublimated into a work of entrancing rigour and dynamism. Thanks for listening.
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CALVIN JOHNSON What Was Me catalogue number: KLP117 Format: LP, CS, CD, digital album Release date: March 13, 2020 Box lot: 24; This album is NON-RETURNABLE in all formats LP UPC: 789856111718
CS UPC: 789856111749
CD UPC: 789856111725
Ten songs: The Past Comes Back to Haunt Me Can We Kiss? Love Will Come Back Again Ode to St. Valentine Palriga Nothing to Hold Us Here Warm Days Lies Goodbye Lightnin’ Rod for Jesus What Was Me The first Calvin Johnson solo album, What Was Me [KLP117], originally released in 2002, has been remastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering and is now available on cassette tape. Below is text from the original one-sheet: “The first of what promises to be many posthumous solo albums from Calvin Johnson, culled from the extensive archive of tapes left behind by the prolific songmaker and performer. Calvin Johnson made up songs about the feeling inside for over twenty years. What Was Me collects ten bits of lifeness and spreads them thickly with voice and acoustic guitar; a capella 40% of the time. There are patches that are worn and threadbare but the overall effect is gutty and moist. The affect is also noteworthy. Calvin is joined by the K divas Mirah on “Ode to St. Valentine” and Beth Ditto (the Gossip) on “Lightnin’ Rod for Jesus”. “Calvin Johnson is also known for his work with Beat Happening, Dub Narcotic Sound System and Halo Benders. He has performed all over the country and the world, in basements, gymnasiums, theaters, art galleries, nightclubs, city parks, coffee shops, outdoor amphitheaters, hotel lobbies and ice cream stands; his songs have been recorded by the likes of Jon SpencerBlues Explosion, Spectrum, Luna, Seaweed, Jazz Butcher, Lois Maffeo and Yo La Tengo. He has produced work by such folks as Mirah, the Gossip, Make-Up, Built to Spill, Gene Defcon, Sarah Dougher, Versus, godheadSilo, Modest Mouse and Robyn Hitchcock.”
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Trey Gruber: Herculean House Of Cards Catalog Number: num1273 Artist: Trey Gruber Title: Herculean House Of Cards Release Date: 3/13/2020 UPC: 825764607322 Available format: LP-C1 Genre: Indie Rock Box Lot: 20 Territory Restrictions: None Vinyl is not returnable Track Listing
A tortured songwriter and struggling addict who jolted the tired Chicago DIY scene with his own brand of primal despair, Trey Gruber and his band Parent were on track to join the ranks of Twin Peaks, Mild High Club, and Whitney. His death in 2017 at the age of 26 brought it all to a halt. In his final years, Trey wrote and recorded hundreds of previously unheard demos, dandelions in the cracked concrete of 21st-century disconnect, an alphabet’s worth of which have been compiled by his family and friends for his only album: Herculean House Of Cards.
A 1. Eisenhower to the West Side 2. Do You Feel Fine 3. Guillotine 4. Same 5. Money’s Ran Off 6. Pray to Christ in Heaven 7. No Man for No Home 8. Last July B 1. Sister Say 2. Dirt 3. I Tried 4. Summer City 5. Jess
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C 1. Stay in Line 2. Get Your Fix 3. On Fear 4. Momma’s Way 5. Herculean House of Cards 6. The Leaving D 1. In Between - Live 2. Ain’t Nobody’s Fault - Live 3. Fool’s Gold - Live 4. Even Jesus Christ Had Died - Live 5. Eisenhower to the West Side (Ballad Reprise) - Live 6. Hammer Out the Edges (Bonus Track)
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Early Day Miners Placer Found
(20th Anniversary Edition) About the album
“A whisper awash in celestial din, Placer Found establishes the sonic and emotional palette that would come to define Dan Burton’s work as Early Day Miners. This is music that rewards patience, and reveals itself more with each listen. There’s a deep clarity within the soft focus - equal parts lost and found. Everything in its right place. We need this music now more than ever.” - Charlie Hall, The War on Drugs
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CATALOG NUMBER: SC152 RELEASE DATE: March 13, 2020 FORMAT: 2xLP/Digital LP BOX LOT: 20 GENRE: Alternative KEY MARKETS: Bloomington, New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Nashville, San Francisco, Chicago
“I knew anything Burton created would be worth my time and attention, but I wasn’t quite prepared for how “Placer Found” would affect me — or how it still does. As someone whose friends describe as “instantly nostalgic,” I couldn’t have imagined a more perfect soundtrack to the competing impulses of missing my life in Indiana and pretending to be a professional adult in the Big Apple in my early 20s. It makes me think of otherworldly Indiana and Kentucky nights that never seemed to end. Kissing my girlfriend under an impossibly starry sky. Wondering what I was doing on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. After all these years, I return to “Placer Found” often, not only when I need to nourish those memories, but when I’m ready to make new ones. The opening title track sets the mood just right, its comforting guitar interplay and gentle vocals holding your hand toward an unseen destination that’s “still a ways to go.” “East Berlin at Night” is the definition of cinematic, almost like an Ativin song with the amplifiers turned down from 12 to 3, while the last two minutes of “Texas Cinema,” are the equivalent of a deep embrace from which you never want to let go. Why some sharp-eared music supervisor hasn’t utilized “In These Hills” in a movie montage of two people falling in love, I’ll never understand. This new edition brings it all back to the proverbial start, as it is being released on the Bloomington label Secretly Canadian which championed Ativin from the beginning and quickly became a home for Early Day Miners after the initial Western Vinyl release of “Placer Found.” The two unreleased instrumental tracks on side D are fascinating glimpses into creative paths not taken. “Prospect Refuge” is a delicious slice of posivibes math-rock, while the taut, vaguely ominous “Blue Casino” makes an entirely different song out of a riff later utilized for the standout “Jefferson” from the band’s 2003 “Jefferson at Rest” LP. For nearly 20 years, the music on “Placer Found” has fed my soul in a way few albums ever have. I hope it might do the same for you.” - Jonathan Cohen Exclusively Distributed By Secretly Distribution Phone: (812) 335-1572 US Domestic Sales Contact: domestic@secretlydistribution.com International Sales Contact: international@secretlydistribution.com
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2XLP UPC: 656605015217
DIGITAL UPC: 656605015262
Tracks SIDE A:
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1. Placer Found 2. East Berlin at Night 3. Texas Cinema
4. In These Hills 5. Stanwix
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6. Longwall 7. Desert Cantos
8. Prospect Refuge 9. Blue Casino
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•2 0th Anniversary Edition •F irst time Placer Found is released on vinyl •T ouring in US & UK/EU in 2020
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