SEAN LENNON - 'ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE UNDEAD'

Formats

• CHIM02 - LP

  616892046868

• CHIM02CD - CD

  616892050360

Details

Second release on the CHIMERA MUSIC label, and the right album to follow up the widely lauded Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band album: Sean Lennon's instrumental (except for the song "Desire") score to an idiosyncratic low-budget vampire flick, composed on Lennon's bedroom computer, Undead is dramatic and wild, sounding like the son of Ennio Morricone or Bruno Nicolai circa early '70s. Featuring Kool Keith and Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto) on the song 'Desire'. The film Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Undead will have an Autumn indie theatre (UK/EU dates to be released) engagement, followed by DVD release. Two wave press campaign for record and film. Compact disc is deluxe tip on board gatefold: And the Vinyl is limited 1000 worldwide only. and non returnable. COntact your sales rep for a listening stream.

Tracks

Press

MOJO review runs this issue, Uncut, DIS, Pitchfork, Quietus, Rocksound, NME (tbc), MOre tbc.

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COCOCOMA - 'THINGS ARE NOT ALL RIGHT'

Formats

• 50GONECD - CD

  880270303021

• 50GONE - LP & DL

  880270304615

Details

Things Are Not All Right is the second album on Goner from the Chicago bash-and-crash pop trio CoCoComa. Comprised of husband-and-wife Bill and Lisa Roe on drums and guitar, respectively, plus Mike Fitzpatrick on bass and organ, the band is part garage, part psych pop, and all pure punk energy. Things Are Not All Right takes the catchy, spazzy push of their first album and adds depth and more realized production values without slowing down in the least. "CoCoComa's songs sound rowdy and loose-the band's reckless, infectious enthusiasm makes them feel like they could run off the rails at any time, even on a recording." -Miles Raymer, Chicago Reader "If the carnival had a carousel that had vibrating rockets instead of bobbing ponies, Rumplemintz and PBR instead of Icees, and roller coasters that rattled more than the Cyclone in a hurricane, then the music wouldn't just be a pipe organ wheezing calliope music-it'd be the fucked-up, off-the-rails, fast-as-you-can pumping of CoCoComa. Start with the guitar / drum spazzing of Bill and Lisa Roe, whirl in a mad dash of Mike Fitzpatrick's organ anchor, coat with Bill's shredding lead vocals, sprinkle with the "whoah-oh-oh"s and group shouting that only comes with the unabashed embracing of being sweaty and dirty for the sake of a good time, and you've got CoCoComa." -RCRDLBL.com "CoCoComa is a record begging to be run to, climbed to, moved to, destroyed to." -Coke Machine Glow

Tracks

1. You Better Beware
2. Enemies
3. The Right Side
4. Lie to Me
5. Suspicious
6. It Won?t Be Long
7. Never Be True
8. Water into Wine
9. It?s Too Hard
10. Alright, Alright, Alright

Press

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THE DEXATEENS - 'SINGLEWIDE'

Formats

• SB025 - LP

  N/A

• SB025CD - CD

  61689200736

Details

Skybucket Records joins forte for distro, and the first release is the new album from Forte favourites The Dexateens, their last album Hardwire Healing got some killer UK press: Each successive Dexateens release has seen the group mellowing, and SINGLEWIDE is as easygoing as can be. In many ways it seems more like California surfer folk rock than the roustabout Alabama southern rock for which the band is known. That's not to say that twang isn't still a big part of the vocals and the guitars, but the thrashing stomp of old has been replaced by mostly acoustic guitars, shuffled drums, and relaxing introspection. McPherson still delivers each line with some nasal drawl, but the guitars fuzzy gently or ring with texture rather than blitz away as they once did. Opener "Down Low" sees the lead guitar matching McPherson's delicate, mellow vocals note for note. The slow picked banjo of "New Boy" adds optimism while McPherson somberly asserts he doesn't want to be "standin' here in Mobile writin' someone else's songs." Only the closer "Can You Whoop It" rocks out with epic blues of the past and even has its slow-burning moments tempered with humorous cliches about southern life. SINGLEWIDE is a cool thirty-eight minutes of alt country with appeal for both the southern rock crowd and laid-back summer slackers. Vinyl is deluxe, limited, and quite possibly going to be a few weeks later than the CD. you will hum these songs, and shake your booty!!

recorded at the Beech House by Mark Nevers in Nashville, TN produced by the Dexateens and Mark Nevers JOHN SMITH | GUITAR, VOCALS ELLIOTT MCPHERSON | GUITAR, VOCALS MATT PATTON | BASS LEE BAINS III | GUITAR, VOCALS BRIAN GOSDIN | DRUMS Behind the record: The band is equally skilled in writing story songs in the best of the Southern oral tradition, gorgeously exemplified in ?Charlemagne? and ?The Ballad of Souls Departed.? The latter reminds us of the band?s considerable musical range as it moves from discordant banjos to tastefully blazing guitars. The entire album possesses a sense of spiritual questioning, if not actual questing. In McPherson?s vocals, especially, there is an ever-present hound dog whine of tragic resignation. Certainly, there is an added quiver of disappointment in ?Granddaddy?s Mouth,? but also hope for a future yet to be prophesied in ?Spark? and ?Hang On.? Overall, Singlewide feels like sunrise after a long, dark night rockin? in the garage, the bar, the bowery, or the stadium. The title track ?Singlewide? illustrates that all of us may be stuck in the trailer park, but some of us are looking up at the stars. The final track on the album ?Can You Whoop It?? is an assertion posing as a question. With the assistance of Dave Berman of the Silver Jews, who provides the robotic ?yes? to the backwoods version of the question Can You Dig It?, the song is sonic ego affirmation for all us small-town, good old boys, who feel condescended to and emotionally outgunned. There is not a little lo-fi irony at work here with the lyrical persona who claims to like both ?Ronnie Dio? and ?Vaseline,? but, all that aside, the band?s fierce guitars return fire for those of us who feel like we have just had our porch lights shot out. Rest assured, there are answers to the dim, hazy questions raised by Singlewide. And the Dexateens are just the band to sing the sun awake.

Tracks

1. Down Low
2. Caption
3. Missionary Blues
4. Spark
5. New Boy
6. Hang On
7. Trail
8. Same As It Used To Be
9. Charlemagne
10. Grandaddy?s Mouth
11. The Ballad of Souls Departed
12. Singlewide
13. Can You Whoop It

Press

press tbc, but expect reviews in MOJO, Uncut, etc

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