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Record Highlight — Andy The Doorbum

Andy the Doorbum has been making music for over ten years, as well as making visual art, writing zines, working at the World Famous Milestone Club for six years, touring extensively, making his own merchandise, and preparing for the apocalypse. He has recorded four EPs and four full-lengths that have never seen the light of day; and has released three splits, one EP, a cassette tape, and three full length albums. He also contributed to several compilations including Another Merrie Kinnikinnik, the Shuffle Magazine Valentine’s Comp, and Piedmont Hellstompers.  His tour history has consisted of playing anywhere possible: from dance recitals to library openings, barns, baby showers, basements, skate parks, Italian Heritage Festivals, and events as small as house shows, to a World Music Festival attended by 3000+ people (performing as a member of Etran Finatwa from Nigeria). He has also toured with and also been a member of Cryptorchid Chipmunk, The Emotron, PPR, 2013 Wolves, Morbid Toothbrush, FleshHouse, IYF PoRK, Pangolin Wasser, and Appalucia; and recently collaborated on a recording with Mack Johansson (from Sweden) of the group Hyacinth House. Alongside these endeavors, he has been actively recording his own projects, including this new double LP – The Man Killed The Bird, And With The Bird He Killed The Song, And With The Song, Himself – available now, only on vinyl.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Record Highlight — The Strange Attractors

Austin psych-rock luminaries The Strange Attractors are back with their boldest release on Past/Futures Records to date.  Midnight at Xochil’s is the third full length for the Austin, Texas based quartet, which includes former and current members of the Riverboat Gamblers and the Ugly Beats, among others.

After 6 years of searing psych rock nihilism, band founder Jeremy Diaz’s vision to streamline the sound is realized with Xochil’s — a group of beautifully written songs, simplistic in their sophistication. From raging psych rock tension ala Spacemen 3 to soft Jesus and Mary Chain-inspired lullaby/dirges, the album is  delivered with a maturity and confidence not yet seen from the band, and in turn proves to be the most honest.

Producer Che Arthur was on hand in Austin with Engineer Michael Landon (Okkervil River, Neil Michael Hagerty) for the fiendishly paced 4 day recording session. Afterwards the record was taken to Chicago for mixing and mastering. Theres something for everyone here – the lineage of old Texas psych rock is still prevelant, and new fans are sure to enjoy the evolution of a group that is constantly breaking new ground.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Record Highlight — The Soil & The Sun

the Soil & the Sun is corn-fed, Michigan-made New Mexican Space Music, or Experiential Spiritual Folk. Originating in 2008 as two-piece, the band has grown and matured into an eight-piece community of friends and musicians. Oboe, violin, cello, guitars, accordion, percussion, piano, and vocals, cooperate to create complex harmonies, layered melodies, and driving rhythms. The careful orchestration and intentional instrumentation will speak to your soul.

You can now grab Wake Up Child on limited edition vinyl, which features revamped and re-recorded versions of songs by the group from the past three years, all wrapped up as a cohesive new LP.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Record Highlight — Apples In Stereo

Fun Trick Noisemaker was the first full-length installment in the ongoing musical journey that has grown out of Apples In Stereo frontman Robert Schneider’s infatuation with recording techniques; ranging from four-track bedroom recordings to 100-track studio experiments, to creating new musical scales and mind-controlled synthesizers. Not to mention his ongoing obsession with writing the perfect pop song, a song “that even little kids or your grandparents can sing along with,” as Schneider put it at the time. That creative journey continues until this day. But more than just a starting point, Fun Trick Noisemaker stands on its own today as a masterpiece in the indie rock canon, featuring some of the band’s most loved and indelible tracks such as: “Green Machine”; “Glow Worm” and “Tidal Wave” (featuring one of the most rip roaring lead guitar lines ever put to wax.)

 

Record Highlight — Bryter Layter

Comprised of Joseph Raglani (Kranky) and Mike Pollard (Arbor), Bryter Layter is a collaborative unit that focuses on the lyrical faculties of analog synthesis. For the most part, these recordings find the pair eschewing the at-times unfocused, long-form drone techniques that have become fixtures in the scene in favor of short, melodic compositions that are strikingly rich in detail. Listeners familiar with the oeuvres of Raglani and Pollard will find much to love here. As the pillow-soft, analog tone-clouds that characterize the latter’s work as Pale Blue Sky find themselves wed to the highly structured, dynamic arrangements that one associates with the former’s solo output.”Two Lenses” is rich and cinematic, rife with evocative motifs which ebb and flow from one piece to the next creating, over the course of the album, a masterfully composed, unified whole.

Recorded live and meticulously arranged by Raglani at his home studio, and mastered by Greg Davis to supreme effect, Two Lenses (released by Students of Decay) builds upon and extends the qualities established on the pair’s 2009 cassette release “Imprinted Season” in every way. Their work here runs the gamut from maudlin and picturesque to profoundly hopeful always with an eye towards the beautiful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Record Highlight — King Dude

King Dude‘s Love LP is dark pagan-fueled folk wrapped tight with outsider Americana, steeped in themes of love, death and redemption. …an atmosphere filled with hope and salvation, drawing sound influence akin to Death In June & Sol Invictus but sewing together a hybrid of true folk tradition alongside Woody Guthrie and Johnny Cash. Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. The records come in thick die-cut cardstock sleeves revealing beautiful inner sleeve printed artwork beneath. Designed by T.J. Cowgill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Record Highlight — The Graduate

The Graduate‘s Horror Show is their first EP, and first release ever.  The record was written and recorded in just 3 short months, and it features the first 6 songs the band ever wrote including early versions of “Sit & Sink” and “Justified” (which later appeared on Anhedonia). After much demand, the record is finally available on vinyl for the first time!

This pressing was limited to 250, and is available directly from the band now through January 15, 2012!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Record Highlight — Kimono Draggin’

Kimono Draggin’ is an American avant-garde Indie Rock band formed in 2003 from New Haven, Connecticut. The lineup consisted of Joseph Nolan (Guitar,vocals), Yossi Hatton (Bass,vocals), and Chris Swirski (Drums,vocals). Their version of progressive rock is strongly influenced by bands of the 1970s and 1980s including The Stooges, The Mothers of Invention, Talking Heads and Minutemen. We just finished pressing their Kimono Gold LP on gold wax, and you can pre-order it now!

The band is currently in the final Top 30 of the Verbicide Magazine Unsigned Band Contest, so if you get a minute, feel free to give them a vote!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Record Highlight — The Black Swans / Fishermen Three

The Black Swans are Jerry DeCicca, Canaan Faulkner, Chris Forbes, Keith Hanlon, and Noel Sayre (R.I.P).  They reside in Columbus, Ohio.

The Fishermen Three is the music of Simon Beins (Brooklyn, NY) and Raphi Gottesman (Berkeley, CA) and a revolving case of other characters.

Their new split 7” —  Knives b/w Up Here is now available through Shelved Records.  The Black Swans and The Fishermen Three will be going on a short west coast tour in January to celebrate. Check out their dates!

 

 

 

 

 

Record Highlight — Paper & Plastick New Releases

Paper + Plastick released seven new records on vinyl on Black Friday this past weekend – Thanks to P&P for hooking up with us to press them all!

If you missed it, today (11.29.11) is the final day on an incredible deal from P&P — you can grab any three LP’s for $15Hit them up before they are all gone (each pressing was limited to short runs of various colors).

Farewell Continental‘s Hey, Hey Pioneers!, Junior BattlesIdle Ages, Riverboat GamblersSmash/Grab EP, Reverse the Curse‘s Hither & Yon, a split from Red City Radio and The Gamits, the Are You With the Band? female-fronted pop-punk compilation, Plow United Sleepwalk: A Retrospective collection, and Make Do And Mend‘s Part And Parcel – a one side 12 inch record that boasts a silk screened B side and die cut cover and features three acoustic versions of songs from MDAM’s breakthrough debut full-length End Measured Mile are all now available on vinyl for the first time, along with other sales in the P&P webstore.

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