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Customer Highlight — Russian Circles

Chicago trio Russian Circles return with their fourth album – Empros .  As with 2009’s Geneva, the album was produced by Brandon Curtis (Secret Machines, Interpol) at Chicago’s Phantom Manor Studio.  The band picks up where the anthemic riffs and melodies of Geneva left off and injects evermore slithering rhythms amid skull-crushing heft with all the visceral intensity of Godflesh, Swans and Neurosis. Put simply, Empros is Russian Circles’ Master of Reality: a radical revision of both heavy and melody that is monolithic in its clarity and perfection.

Available everywhere on October 25!

Customer Highlight — Jannick Schou

The Act of Shimmering encompasses the act of leaving conscious thought behind. It’s accepting what lies beyond the corporeal, transcending the physical; the soul is aware and the body, eyes, skin are distant empty casings. A clamorous, chaotic cacophony surrounds a beatific center. An endless assault of guitar, of noise that glistens, a poignant rigor. Jannick Schou, proprietor of tape loop drone, places himself within the tunnel of din to produce this profound work: an ethereal dream using nightmarish parts and images. Black and grays generate vibrant innards. Brightness is unearthed within the fetid mass and these six tracks immerse the listener into a raging sea to find a gentle undertow. Furious outbursts emerge from simple, slow shivers. Tremors of noise gather, reaching an elongated crescendo, becoming transformative, and shattering what form or structure was designed to contain such an outpouring of sound.

This pressing is limited to 300 copies, and the first 100 copies are available on transparent blue vinyl — exclusive to orders made direct from Experimedia.net.

Customer Highlight — EDM

Thanks to the folks at Western Vinyl, we just completed pressing EDM‘s Night People.

Night People is a series of character studies. Alienated and out of fashion, these people stay up all night, stumbling through isolation to explore trauma and ecstasy in search of their own glamour. The boundaries of reality dissolve in their environment, and the light from within transforms street lamps at last call into beacons towards infinity. Guided through fuzz and fog, truths emerge, as the knots binding sensuality and spirit unravel. In a world defined by EDM’s music, the Night People’s stories are projected, as reality turns into a film. Like the characters in his songs, songwriter and guitarist Daniel Burton has experienced a rebirth and transformation. Night People punctuates his catalog of work under the Early Day Miners moniker. Additionally, this release finds the band coming full circle, transitioning back to the Western Vinyl label, home of Early Day Miners’ first record, Placer Found.

Just as the band’s name has been abbreviated, their process of recording and producing has been been stripped down for this album. Unlike the meticulous self-production that defined Early Day Miners’ albums, their first effort under the EDM moniker finds the band relinquishing engineering duties. Recorded and mixed by engineer Mike Bridavksy at Russian Recording in just five days, the Night People sessions have yielded the most expressive vocal and instrumental performances of Burton’s career.

You can pre-order the album now, or stay tuned to your favorite indie record store!

Customer Highlight — Magic City

Magic City has been performing around St. Louis since January 2009, and is composed of experienced musicians spanning a generation — Larry Bulawsky, Adam Hesed, Anne Tkach, Jonas Hamon, and Sam Meyer.  The band has been touring the US and Europe with different groups since 1997.

They return with their album release party celebrating Les Animaux Épouvantables on July 23 with Warm Jets USA and The Ransom Note at El Lenador in St. Louis.  Be sure to hit them up if you are around!

 

Customer Highlight — Centro-Matic

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!

Customer Highlight — Lüüp

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.

Customer Highlight — Twerps

After releases with both Night People and Chapter Music, Australia’s Twerps bring their dark dream-pop to Brooklyn label Group Tightener. This three song 7-inch works as a companion piece (same art split into two) to their recently released 7-inch on Under Water Peoples.

“She Didn’t Know,” begins with a roar of vocals and steadily swings through delicate guitar riffs, rollicking organ jams, and playful puppy dog yelps. The first few moments of the second track, “Anything New,” are a gentle lullaby until the vocals crash in with classic the suburban conundrum of being bored but dreading change. It’s full of delightful wallowing in the desire of an impossible paradox: “I’m gonna be more than a backyard boy” but I also don’t want anything new to happen in my life. The B-side wraps up the record with a devastatingly saccharine winding ballad called “Peculia.”  Limited to 500 copies.  Get it from Group Tightener.

Customer Highlight — All Dinosaurs

We had the pleasure of having Joe Willis and Dave Gibian of All Dinosaurs as our guests yesterday.  They came by to pick up their hot-off-the-press copies of their latest album, Paranoid Indiginous.

If you are in Cleveland on Feb 26, be sure to hit the LP release party at Beachland Ballroom (just announced)  w/ HotChaCha / Trigger Effect (montreal) / the Strutting Cocks.

Customer Highlight — Ultimate Fakebook

Thanks to Rocket Heart Records for enlisting GGR to press their Kickstarter-backed reissue of the seminal first album by Kansas rockers, Ultmate Fakebook.  The album, Electric Kissing Parties, is available as a limited edition black vinyl package, or an ultra-limited (only 100 copies) RED vinyl package.

You can grab one form Rocket Heart while supplies last!

Customer Highlight — The Aggrolites

Young Cub Records is assembling the amazing 7″ Reggae On Rugged Road series by the reggae/ska group, The Aggrolites (Jesse Wagner (vocals, lead guitar), Brian Dixon (rhythm guitar), Roger Rivas (organ), and Jeff Roffredo (bass)).

For five months, beginning on December 14, Young Cub will be releasing a new limited edition 7″.  You can pre-order each individually (or the entire series) by clicking here.

GGR is proud to be the official pressing plant for this amazing series – thank you to Young Cub Records!

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