Coming soon from Blood & Ink Records (for the first time ever on vinyl) – Figure Four’s Suffering. You can pre-order any of the three limited edition vinyl colors now!
Figure Four still stand as one of the heaviest hardcore bands to ever come out of the Spirit-filled scene. Featuring members who would later form such fan favorites as Comeback Kid and Grave Maker, Figure Four were distinctly treading their own path with releases on Facedown Records and Solid State Records.
Talking Helps Records is excited to be releasing a new collaborative album by four amazing musicians on the brand new Your Heart Breaks LP. Ryan Woods (Defiance, Ohio), Toby Foster, Theo Hilton (Defiance, Ohio & Nana Grizol) and Clyde Petersen (Your Heart Breaks) come together on one album to present brand new songs and revisit a few classics.
Theo, Ryan, Toby and Clyde bring you songs of adventure, travel, love, loss and heartbreak with special emphasis on survival and change.
You can pre-order the album now, or it up one of the tour stops near you! Pressed on 100% recycled black vinyl.
Praised by Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Stereogum, Filter and Entertainment Weekly among others for his experimentation with contrasting musical sounds, Sondre Lerche‘s self-titled album is the artist’s sixth full-length and his first on his own label, Mona Records. An artistic statement of purpose, this fittingly self-titled album contains not only Sondre’s most interesting arrangements and catchy songwriting to date, but also some of his most somber and introspective.
You can buy this record at indie stores across the country now!
This project has been in the works for a while, and we were pumped when our buddies at Fast Weapons approached us about pressing a Thurston Moore / Talk Normal three-song 7″. They shipped out this week, just in time for the Talk Normal U.S. tour starting next week. Hit them up if you can!
Available on June 14th from Triple B Records, Dead End Path‘s debut LP Blind Faith is finally hitting the streets! Can’t wait until Tuesday? Well, you can download two album tracks for free beforehand! The band will also have some limited tour edition copies while on the road with Title Fight, Touche Amore, and the Menzingers (still a few shows left).
Stay tuned to the Triple B Records online store so you can grab a copy the second it drops!
Thanks to the Undertow Music Collective for hitting us up for the new Centro-Matic record, Candidate Waltz.
This is Centro-matic’s 10th full length offering; and it is mixed, mastered, and scheduled for release on June 21. Scott Solter helped out with these recordings, and Christian Helms and Erick Montes (Helms Workshop) provided the art direction and layout. All LPs come with a download card inserted inside the package with a code to download 320k MP3s. The LP was mastered direct from hi-res 24/96 files by Jeff Powell at Ardent Studios in Memphis using the same cutting lathe used for many of the classic Stax Records releases on the 60’s and 70’s! Available at indie stores everywhere on June 21!
Thanks to Electric Mountain for enlisting us to press another Super Ape 7″!
“Das Party Hausen” is the latest release from the Apes, packed with that mean mug electric psychedelic fuzz rock that you love.The flip side continues the party with the upbeat psychosis of “Garfunkel”. In a super-cool full color sleeve designed by Dirty Haire.
**while supplies last, every vinyl purchase will come with a slick 2.75″ x 2″ Super Ape sticker (black ink on clear vinyl). The 7″ also comes with a digital download coupon. Get yours now!!!
Greg Brown, accomplished songwriter, co-founder of the influential indie roots label Red House and former musical director for Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion radio program, is a prolific songwriter…and it’s a good thing. As the result of a fateful lighting strike on the studio where he was working, Brown lost the recordings that were to comprise his next album. For most artists, losing that much material would have been a creatively scarring and demoralizing experience. For Greg, it was just an excuse to turn inward once again, and write more songs.
Of the songs that came to comprise his 24th album Freak Flag, the title track is all that remains of that ill-fated lost original album. Greg wrote ten new songs, moving on to record them at Memphis, Tennessee’s legendary Ardent Studios. This time there were no storms, but creative lightning did strike again, resulting in what many have called Greg’s best album. Like a jagged stone worked by ocean waves, Brown’s signature rough hewn-yet-velvet-smooth baritone is in fine form on Freak Flag. Produced by Bo Ramsey, the album also includes a cover of Brown’s wife Iris Dement’s “Let the Mystery Be” and Brown’s daughter Pieta’s song “Remember the Sun.” Available at indie stores everywhere now!
Covered in Dust the debut LP from Louisiana’s Kindest Lines, opens suitably with a beat that sounds a lot like like an industrial rendition of The Ronettes’ ‘Be My Baby’. Brian Wilson cited that song by the legendary New York girl group as the greatest pop recording ever, and many refer to it as the perfect example of Phil Spector’s “wall of sound” production. Those artists established many of the templates for how modern music is made, but what still stands out is the sense of that music having been simply dreamed-up. With organic washes of layered melodic guitars and lush songcraft, this New Orleans-based trio is definitely doing some dreaming of their own. Kindest Lines are blazing a unique path into an enchanting realm of darkened electronic indie pop that is at once welcoming and foreboding.
Produced by cerebral electro-experimentalists Alfredo Nogueira and Josh Eustis of Telefon Tel Aviv, yet brimming with spacey guitar work and hooks aplenty, Covered in Dust is a record that thrives on harmonious disparities while maintaining all of its thematic and sonic cohesion.
You can purchase a copy for yourself from Wierd Records on June 15, 2011.
Foregoing traditional genre boundaries, defying categorization, and embracing the distinct talents of its 19 participants, Luup involves a reexamination of convention by a thorough exploration of the instrument. Led by flautist Stelios Romaliadis, whose direction of the musicians allows for shimmering folk tendencies to mingle with fragile string arrangements and uplifting voice, Luup combines disparate elements of modern musical tendencies to examine man’s primitive nature. Meadow Rituals presents 8 paeans to unite man’s overwhelming distance from nature and self and a celebration of the reunion. Lilting melodies mix with ambient and new age directions; propulsive swells of strings and effervescent electronics make way for profound vocal harmonies to create a universal and timeless experience.
Available now from Experimedia.
