BLUEFLINT - 'HIGH BRIGHT MORNING'

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• JOROCK010 - CD

  880992141659

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'High Bright Morning' is the debut album release from Blueflint, a Scottish-based band that have built a reputation for atmospheric and striking roots music with haunting close vocal harmonies. The CD opens with the intimate and soulful ballad 'Takes More Than a Little Time' which sets the scene for an album of unique, beautifully crafted songs that transcend standard Bluegrass/Old-time norms, such as the joyous ' Skippin Skattin' and the eerie 'Bony Johnston'. The dark murder ballad 'What Lies Beneath' tips its hat to older folk traditions. The wistful 'Black Horse' is imbued with a delightfully ramshackle honky tonk feel, while the luscious fiddle weaving through the poignant title track brings a Celtic flavour to the mix. This album delivers a set of story songs that promises to raise the profile of Blueflint and bring their sound to a wider audience.

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Press

Reviews are confirmed for:Maverick, R2 (Rock N Reel)fROOTS, Songlines, Q, Taplas, Stirrings:
"...beautiful ballads of love and revenge with fantastic harmonies...what's not to love?" Scotland on Sunday

"Deborah Arnott and Clare-Louise Neilson (a)ren't afraid to play around with the genre, exceptional harmonizing? The Scotsman

"A female banjo bluegrass duo you just have to hear...Deborah Arnott and Clare-Louise Neilson are sublime as they sing ballads of love and loss. Blueflint deserve your attention." Daily Record

"Blueflint play haunting bluegrass shot through with a yearning sadness and soothing harmonies" The List

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BLUE SABBATH BLACK CHEER - 'DEAD DEATH, DEATH DEAD'

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• GF28 - LP

  N/A

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***Side A features two live tracks originally released on the Dead C-20 on Scumbag Tapes, a live version of "Borre Fen" recorded at the Baltic Room in Seattle Washington on September 26th, 2006 and "Black Acid" recorded live at the Funhouse in Seattle Washington on October 22nd, 2006. Side B features "Victim" recorded live at the Rebar in Seattle Washington on December 23rd, 2006, originally released on the Feral Debris Vol. 2 CDR compilation and a previously unreleased track recorded and mixed back in 2007. Black vinyl, black hand-stamped labels comes housed in a pro-printed jacket with a gruesome spot varnished photograph by STAN REED on the front. Includes an 11"x11" insert. A split release with Troubleman Unlimited pressed in an edition of 500 copies.

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WOUNDED LION - 'FRIENDLY'

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• ITR177 - 7"

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Named after a Spanish fairy tale, Wounded Lion are the latest addition to the In The Red stable of artists. Hailing from the East Side of Los Angeles, this quintet administers the perfect prescription for your raw pop addiction. This new 7-inch features three heavily contagious songs-one original, "Friendly?," and two twisted covers, Wild Man Fischer's "Big Boots" and Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising." Imagine a hybrid of the Velvets, Cramps, Kiwi-pop, '70s punk and '80s postpunk and you start to get the picture...kinda. With songwriting and playing this effective, influences are secondary. Watch for Wounded Lion's debut LP on In The Red in 2010. "Wounded Lion's brand of charmingly timeless, lo-fi pop would fit nicely on a bill with Columbus bands like the Guinea Worms and Times New Viking.... [T]he band embodies the city's marvelously ass-backwards musical ideology, rejecting conventionally accepted aesthetics and approaches to revel in an ecstatic indifference toward time, place, trend, and fashion. Wounded Lion's formula is relatively simple. The band writes shambling, alternately silly and poignant songs that bend and twist timeless pop hooks from the sixties onward." -Anomalous L.A. Blog

Tracks

1. Friendly?
2. Big Boots
3. Bad Moon Rising

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CHRISTMAS ISLAND - 'BLACKOUT SUMMER'

Formats

• ITR170 - LP

  759718517019

• ITR170CD - CD

  759718517026

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There are actually three Christmas Islands: one off the coast of Australia, one in the Pacific Ocean (which also goes by the name Kiritimati), and one whose incredible self-titled debut album is on In The Red. Hailing from sunny San Diego, California, Christmas Island plays music that on the surface is happy and poppy. There is a dark undercurrent to their brand of lo-fi pop punk-it is joyous and almost twee while secretly depressed and deeply disturbed. Citing Tronics, Urinals, Television Personalities, The Clean, Versatile Newts, and The Fall as influences, Christmas Island is Beach Boys-style, sunny Southern Californian pop by way of the late-'70s / early-'80s UK DIY scene.

Tracks

1. Pre-Apocalyptic
2. Black Cloud
3. I Don?t Care
4. Anxiety Attack
5. Egypt
6. Bed Island
7. Dinosaurs
8. It?s True
9. Weird You Out
10. Doin? Swell
11. My Baby
12. Blackout Summer

Press

?... the band has a subtle charm that mixes sunny California
harmonies with a nod toward the garage in the vein of Kiwi
poppers like The Clean.? ?Raven Sings the Blues

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