Wednesday, August 10, 2011

NUDE SUNRISE - "Should Be" C62


4 spacemen on an earth mission: Chicago's Nude Sunrise spins psych-kraut jammers that wrap around the globe and off to the moon. Jeff says:

As D. Boon once put it, “American trash can really ruin a good time,” but it’s just the opposite with Nude Sunrise. Here we have two dudes playing absolutely disgusting-sounding junk guitar juke-joint riffs/wah-wah jah-jah/100% fucked noise solos; a guy described by his own bandmates as “not really a drummer” bashing out lurching, drooling-dumb rhythms on a pretty awful kit; a skinny nerd playing “My Girl” on keyboard bass. Pretty much my favorite new band, Nude Sunrise play classic American trash and it is a really, really good time. The Chicago quartet cut to the chase of rock n’ roll and steal with shameless impunity, ripping off Neil Young lyrics and Motown basslines. The spoils of their thievery are merely templates though: they take the money and run with it as it were, building 6+ minute trash jams on the pilfered property. Everything’s pretty blurry and scuzzy, but it’s high time bands started milking Chrome again, and I’m all for it. Pat Steadman, the Shaggy Doo-looking guitar player, lets his glasses slip all the way down the bridge of his nose and contributes some kool-stoner vocals that really put the whole thing over the top. ... This band makes me feel stoked and gross at the same time.

Edition of 200, $5+shipping.







Monday, April 18, 2011

GHOST ANIMAL - "A Ceremony" 7" EP


After a long list of blog-smashing singles, Portland's dark shoegaze duo Ghost Animal finally presents its vinyl debut. In A Ceremony, Michael and Marisa unveil five reverb-drenched pop songs that cover a wide emotional range--from dreamy introspection to furious angsty joy. Misfits-esque power chord progressions and cymbal-smashing drums. Howling, heartfelt vocals. Beautiful lo-fi production. Raw spooky feeling. Edition of 600 (first 300 with special spraypaint labels), $6+shipping.





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GHOST ANIMAL - Golden Boy by SPKY TWN

Friday, January 14, 2011

HAPPY JAWBONE FAMILY BAND - "Return of Hotel Double Tragedy"



Vermont's unstoppable faux-pop Family follows up their amazing Feeding Tube LP Hotel Double Tragedy with this amazing sequel tape! The Return of Hotel Double Tragedy gives you more of what you know you need. Brilliant, bleak, inspired songwriting; deep layers of messy grooviness; tape loop meditations; and actual real rock n roll vibes! 14 songs for soul-searching or for wildfooting or for lucid dreaming, on really shiny gold tapes! Edition of 200, C44, $5+shipping.
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Friday, November 26, 2010

THE GREAT VALLEY - "In the Silver Dream" LP




Spooky Town's pretend pop duo The Great Valley are back with their first full-length since 2008. In the Silver Dream has the same dedication to spookiness and twisted pop grooves, but spins it more towards the carnival than the haunted barn. Wow! These songs tilt and spin like a too-scary trapeze clown and hypnotize you unreal like a night at the circus. Recorded by the band on 80s equipment in an abandoned house. Synthesizers and pitch-bent guitars. Mysterious, puzzling lyrics about the silver screen, UFO abductions, and some mystic misty waterfall. Dense, layered pop confusion on brains-pink vinyl (plus free digital download). Edition of 250, $13 + shipping.





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Sunday, October 10, 2010

PRINCE RAMA OF AYODHYA & THE GREAT VALLEY - "Divine / Journey"


Sonic-utopian synth mystics and pretend pop make-believers don't always sound so good side by side as Prince Rama of Ayodhya and The Great Valley do. Prince Rama's twelve-minute earth-shaker "Aeolian Divine" winds its way to eternity, from the floating island Atlantis, through some kind of cosmic dancehall, and into an infinite-space ecstatic-calm of heartbeat drums and swimming synth lines. Then the Great Valley descends with ukuleles and guitars down from space, through a tree in the forest, and into their underground home. SPLIT LP with home-made recycled covers, $13 + shipping, ltd. 300.
BACK IN STOCK! FINAL 30 COPIES: TOTALLY LAST CHANCE!

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Saturday, September 11, 2010

WISDOM TOOTH - "Baby Neptune"


Lo-fi arena rock anthems for the Neverland generation and dream pop lullabies to put you to sleep for a hundred years, pieced together with piano and guitar and organ and saw and Johnny Wisdom Tooth's inimitable cartoon crooning. All over an eerie bunch of tape-collage elements. (Betty Boop's maniacal laughter at the end of the track "Be Human" will send you into a state of euphoria.) This is Wisdom Tooth's most complete and intricate release to date. You gotta check it out. C42, edition of 99, $5+shipping.






Tuesday, August 10, 2010

MANNERS - "Look Into Look Unto" 7"


The MANNERS 7" is just right for seriously deep chilling out. Slow panoramic folk songs so light they're heavy. Layers and layers of delicate guitars, blown-out drums, reverby voices, sweet and moody. Clear vinyl with digital download and hand-letterpressed cover, $6 + shipping.






<a href="http://manners.bandcamp.com/album/look-into-look-unto">Wood & Copper by M A N N E R S</a>

Monday, August 9, 2010

HAPPY JAWBONE FAMILY BAND - "Hotel Double Tragedy"

I grabbed a stack of Happy Jawbone's vinyl debut from Feeding Tube Records. It's a monumental record (a monument to Pop Music burning down). Like the Family says,
The Hotel Double Tragedy is constantly burning. You will be too with these new
hits from the family! Simply listen to the album at a decent volume and watch your
life fall apart. We were thinking of releasing this album under the pretense that it
was found under the bed of a dead priest who was the grandfather of a couple of
members of the Vaselines, but we thought better of it. You deserve the TRUTH!
You deserve magic in POP ATTITUDE! You deserve ONE ANCIENT JANGLE!
In ten seconds FLAT! You deserve HOTEL DOUBLE TRAGEDY! Get one today
for yourself or for someone you care about.
On gold vinyl with a CD and an insert and everything! Edition of 250, LP+CD, $13 + shipping.

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Saturday, July 17, 2010

The Great Valley - "Holiday, Holinight EP" (FREE DOWNLOAD!)


The Great Valley put their new spooky beach pop record up for free downloading thru Bandcamp. Just right for summer haunting or a vacation in the Bermuda Triangle.
<a href="http://thegreatvalley.bandcamp.com/album/holiday-holinight-ep">Born Again by The Great Valley</a>

Thursday, June 17, 2010

HAPPY JAWBONE FAMILY BAND - "Family Matters"

Brattelboro Vermont's Jawbone Family make the jukebox hits of a forgotten generation, or maybe the jukebox hits of a far-off planet. "Family Matters" is 76 minutes of surrealistic nostalgia-pop embedded in a web of electric noise freakouts like diamonds in a mineshaft. Minimal drums and twanging guitars and driving bass lines somehow come together into kind of miraculously well-crafted pop songs, only to be blown to bits by a sloppy-as-fuck guitar solo or Luke and Francis's atonal wailing. This is punk rock like Indiana Jones would make it, bounced off the moon and received in a tin bowl. edition of 100, C76, $5 + shipping.

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[CD-R reissue out now from SPIRIT OF ORR!]