SIXTOES - 'FOUR LEAVED CLOVER'

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• TOE001 - 7"

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Following hot on the heels of SixToes' critically acclaimed debut album 'Trick Of The Night', Toe Music in conjunction with Forte Distribution announce the release of a limited edition of 300 hand numbered 7" single featuring album highlight, 'Four Leaved Clover'. BREAKING NEWS: SixToes have just remixed the track 'Jezebel' from Depeche Mode's forthcoming new album 'Sounds Of The Universe'! FILE NEXT TO: Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Antony and the Johnsons, Beirut and Bonnie Prince Billy's 'I See A Darkness'.

Tracks

A. Four Leaved Clover
AA. Reggae Song

Press

?Genuinely strange and original. SixToes possess an intricate, idiosyncratic beauty? 4/5 UNCUT
?Highly Recommended? 4/5 TELEGRAPH
?SixToes Conjure up some misty midnight magic that should banish any ghostly doubts? WORD
?SixToes have their own distinctive tone of shadowed melancholy? MOJO
?The result has a sinister quality, vocalist Ben Rogers voice Leaps between Nick Cave-style growl and an eerie falsetto that recalls Anthony Hegarty? 3/5 Q
?A heart-stopping and strangely uplifting ride? 4/5 DAILY MIRROR
?Something like Antony singing the scariest words of Aleister Crowley. In hell? NME
?A slice of edgy, scaffold-side folk? TIME OUT (PICK OF THE WEEK)

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WOODS - 'SONGS OF SHAME'

Formats

• SHR156 - CD

  759718115628

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The fourth full-length by Woods, Songs of Shame, veers away from the lo-fi guerillas-in-the-mist sound of their previous Shrimper long-player, At Rear House, and presents both 90-second and ten-minute forays into skeletal psychedelia. The idiosyncratic songwriting style and vocalizing of Jeremy Earl is still present in spades on the album. Woods have toured incessantly as a trio over the last 12 months, and the songs on Shame have had their mettle tested. Check out the straight-ahead pop of "To Clean" or the "Neil Jung" push/pull of "Rain On." Elsewhere, an expansive side of the band hinted at on their Woods Family Creeps LP finds full flight on the subtle ten-minute stretch "September With Pete" (that features Peter Nolan of Magik Markers guesting). Vinyl version will be on Woods' own label Woodsist, we'll presell that in as soon as we get info...

Tracks

1. To Clean
2. The Hold
3. The Number
4. September with Pete
5. Down This Road
6. Military Madness
7. Born to Lose
8. Echo Lake
9. Rain On
10. Gypsy Hand
11. Where and What Are You?

Press

Killer Pitchfork review...hopefully the UK catches up: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12837-songs-of-shame/

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EAT SKULL - 'WILD AND INSIDE'

Formats

• SB124 - LP

• SB124CD - CD

  655030112423

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Steady on, April is gearing up to be the Heavy Hitting month of the year so far: A new lp from Eat Skull?? oh yes...one of our fave LPs from last year was their record on Siltbreeze...Eat Skull's Sick to Death received worldwide accolades for its frantic pacing, unimpeachable lyric quality, and nugget after nugget of pop hooks buried under a gob of lo-fi muzz. On this follow-up, fans and critics will find a cleaner, more inimitable Eat Skull at work. Frontman Rob Enbom has outdone himself with both lyrics and structure on Wild and Inside, and the band as a whole rises to the challenge of nixing the lo-fi tag for a sound that's less... antecedent. Gone is the wall of crud that prevents discerning listeners from identifying the instrumental play-by-play; in its stead, a set of crafted songs recall the paisley punk of The Last and the rural-delica of Great Plains, as well as nodding to the sanguine pop of early Flying Nun bands such as The Double Happys. Wild and Inside is a grower for the ages. It breathes deep and exhales perfectly. Look for Eat Skull at this year's SXSW and trekking the world over throughout 2009. This is primo scuzz of the highest order, none of that limpwristed NME favoured crud, this does the job. Lo-fi wall-of-crud sound replaced by a set of crafted tunes that take influence from the Paisley Underground, Midwestern psychedelica, and the early Flying Nun roster.

Tracks

1. Stick to the Formula
2. Cooking a Way To Be Happy
3. Heaven?s Stranger
4. You?re with a Thing
5. Nuke Mecca
6. Who?s in Control?
7. Killed by Rooms
8. Happy Submarine
9. Talkin? Bro in the Wall Blues
10. Surfing the Stairs
11. Dawn in the Face
12. Oregon Dreaming

Press

?On their first album Sick to Death, the Portland, Ore.,
band Eat Skull mashes together almost everything that?s
great about trashy art-punk, weirdo fuzz-garage, skuzzy
punk-pop, Kiwi garage-rock and off-kilter bedroom-strum.
...once your ears adjust, you realize that it?s all killer, no
filler.? ?Pitchfork (8.3 rating)

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WOODS - 'SONGS OF SHAME'

Formats

• WOODSIST025 - LP

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And yes, the vinyl version....Fourth full length rips deeper with both 90 second & 10 minute forays into skeletal psychedelia. This is not to say the idiosyncratic songwriting style & vocalizing of Jeremy Earl is not present in spades but expanded, colored, & twisted into a tie-dye of soundscapes. Having toured incessantly over the last 12 months as a four piece (Jarvis Taveniere, G. Lucas Crane & Kevin Morby round out the band), many of the songs on "Shame" benefit from having been road worn, windblown, & deeply grooved.

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