ADVENTURE - 'ADVENTURE (Showdown at the Pig Palace)'

Formats

• ASP013 - CD

  N/A

Details

A radio play written by artists Mark & Steve Beasley, with music by Nicholas Bullen of Napalm Death, Scorn and Black Galaxy. Limited - 500 copies. In Hand screened sleeves.. Rather pleasant WIRE review in Issue 302.

Tracks

1. Part One
2. Part Two
3. Radio Edit

Press

Wire review

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TYVEK - 'S/T'

Formats

• SB103 - LP

  N/A

• SB103CD - CD

  655030110320

Details

Well heres one we've been waiting for for a while: Following a gaggle of seven-inches for goose-y labels such as X!, What's Your Rupture?, S-S, and M'Lady's Records, Tyvek delivers a long-player that couldn't make Siltbreeze happier were the colonel slathered in foie gras and seared to a crisp. A few tracks on this effort are familiar to any who saw the band live in 2008; the rest, well, it's as fresh as new fallen snow when you get right down to it. Combining an uncanny channeling of The Urinals and early Mekons, Tyvek drops jaws to floors with solid acorns of repetitive punk/pop numbers that became oaks almost instantaneously. The inclusion of Damon (a.k.a. Teets of Puffy Areolas) brings in another sonic dimension and suddenly the band's set veers into a Velvet Underground-by-way-of-The Feelies stratosphere. Here yuo'll find a mixture of both, the blend of two perfect worlds. Practically a year in the making, this baby is worth every second of the wait. The band recently performed at the 2009 Siltbreeze SXSW Showcase (and elsewhere around Austin that weekend). A European tour with Cheveau is scheduled to follow.

Tracks

1. Circular Ruins
2. Summer Things
3. Sonora
4. Hey Una
5. Frustration Rock
6. Tecate
7. Stand and Fight
8. Building Burning
9. Building Burning (Re-Edit)
10 . Stop Start
11. El Centro
12. CVS Card
13. Duck Blinds
14. Mexicali
15. What to Do
16. Michael Caine

Press

yes, there will be press...PLAN B, MOJO, UNCUT..these are all good possibilities, even the WIRE, if they can dig up Lester Bangs.

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BLANK DOGS - 'UNDER AND UNDER'

Formats

• ITR168 - 2xLPs

  759718516813

• ITR168CD - CD

  759718516821

Details

For the past several years, a slew of 12-inches, 7-inches, and cassettes have been released by the mysterious Brooklyn artist known as Blank Dogs. Blank Dogs is actually singular-it's the insanely prolific one-man band of Mr. Blank Dog. Not too much is known about the guy behind the bedroom new wave / pop / punk act and he's usually covering his face with masks or bedspreads, but that's fine. The sound is Joy Division vocal lines with The Cure's synth and guitar melodies filtered through ancient, submerged keyboards and eroded recording equipment. And that voice? All the feedback in the world can't hide his knack for melody. Blank Dogs has been making plenty of rumbles in the noisier and more secretive outposts of the underground. All of their records were pressed in limited editions, sold out quickly, and, without fail, wound up fetching big bucks with collectors on eBay. Under and Under is Blank Dogs' latest and most massive release to date-a double-album housing 20 brand new songs (15 on the CD) that show off his pop chops to a greater extent than any of his previous releases. Also, for the first time, Blank Dogs has incorporated the assistance of outside musicians to lend a hand. Various artists from the Brooklyn music scene-members of the Crystal Stilts and Vivian Girls, among others-contribute this time around, though the sound remains as dusted and strange as anything Blank Dogs has done before.

Tracks

Vinyl:
1. No Compass 2. L Machine
3. Night Night 4. Open and Shut
5. Setting Your Fire to Your House
6. Around the Room 7. Blue Lights
8. You?re Out of Time 9. Falling Back
10. Finding Out Again 11. Tin Birds
12. Slowing Down 13. Face Watching
14. Second Time 15. The New Things
16. Books 17. Landmarks 18. Wrong Then
19. Nothing UGC 20. From Here
CD:
1. No Compass 2. L Machine 3. Night Night
4. Open Shut 5. Setting Fire to Your House
6. Around the Room 7. Blue Lights
8. The New Things 9. Falling Back
10. Tin Birds 11. Slowing Down
12. Face Watching 13. Books
14. Nothing UGC 15. From Here

Press

Already Album of the Month in FACT, ?For all the musicians crafting grimy, lo-fi electro-rock, the man
behind Blank Dogs takes it to another level....? ?The Wire
?The music of Blank Dogs is all mid-tempo drum beats, discarded
Cure basslines, and vocals that sound as if they were sung
through a tape recorder submerged at the bottom of a frozen
pond.? ?Fader

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