WHITE FENCE - 'S/T'

Formats

• MAM005 - LP

  N/A

• WOODSIST042 - CD

  616822091623

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Wander into the sweltering Cali smog to find yourself transported into a lysergic pop netherworld, where White Fence carves broad strokes of color into your mind. Coming on like Love in a Lollipop Shoppe, or Chris Knox abusing a Vox, the record oscillates between a sun-dappled English meadow, a crumbling SoCal suburban bedroom, and a riotous Sunset Strip leather gang knife fight, with the kind of warped precision and purity that distinguishes the wolves from the sheep and the profound from the pretend in this instant online age. We wil lget some of the limited vinyl pressing on Make A Mess records: this one fits really well in the Woodsist lineup, truly magnificent.

Tracks

1. Mr. Adams
2. Who Feels Right?
3. Slaughter on Sunset Strip
4. I?ll Follow You
5. The Love Between
6. Sara Snow
7. Baxter Corner
8. The Gallery
9. Tildas
10. Destroy Everything
11. Ring Around a Square
12. Box Disease/Today Bond
13. Hard Finish on Mirror Mile
14. A Need You
15. Sick Doctor Blues
16. Be Right Too

Press

?White Fence is one man, Tim Presley, singer in garage-soul
band Darker My Love, player on The Fall album Reformation
Post TLC and now full-time member of The Strange
Boys. Amid all this band-hopping, he?s recorded an LP of
lysergic psychedelic songs (think: Arthur Lee without the
budget and the guns).? ?Joel Wright, Vice

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WOUNDED LION - 'S/T'

Formats

• ITR178 - LP

  759718517811

• ITR178CD - CD

  759718517828

Details

Los Angeles gets a bad rap. The city is known for shallow glitter, bru-tal cops and urban unrest-and sure, the stereotypes are sometimes accurate, but there are also lots of everyday folks, living unpretentious everyday lives. It's also true that Los Angeles is famous for a healthy underground music scene, both in the past and in the present. Take the everyday folks and drop them into an underground scene and you get something like Wounded Lion, a great no-frills pop band that sounds fresh, even when they remind one of classic American power-pop of the '70s. Inspired by The Velvets, The Cramps, The Clean and The Vaselines (as well as Credence Clearwater Revival and Kleenex), Wounded Lion is regularly seen at Los Angeles haunts such as Mr. T's Bowl, The Smell, The Scene and Spaceland. Their hum-inducing, toe-tapping tunes wiggle their way into your brain and have you singing their choruses at the grocery store or waiting in line at the DMV.The band's formula is relatively simple: shambling, alternately silly and poignant songs that bend and twist timeless pop hooks. The bass and guitars belch out raw distortion, lending the music a primi-tive quality, but a whimsical sensibility elevates the abrasiveness to a jubilant level. Wounded Lion writes pop songs that celebrate the unrefined, dispensing with ego and tapping into the primal areas of the brain. "The LA-based quintet slams down the perfect prescription for your raw pop addiction with heavily contagious songs that break down the sophisticated strut of rock 'n' roll's simplest parts. It's hard to dissect their exact frame of influence, but with severely effective songwrit-ing such as this, it really comes secondary, and you'll soon see how a bleak environment can pull the best creativity out of a sterile gutter and come out with a handful of winners." -Victim of Time. Debut album from Los Angeles band follows a handful of singles on S-S, Gilgongo, and In The Red Records ? Classic, no-frills American power-pop that blends '60s, '70s and '80s influences

Tracks

LISTING 1. Hungry? 2. Creatures in the Cave 3. Dagoba System 4. Hunan Province 5. Carol Cloud 6. Hanging Ancient Circles 7. Belt of Orion 8. Pony People 9. Black Socks 10. Silver People 11. Omar Walk 12. Crunchy Stars

Press

UK PR handled by Goldstar PR,

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NAKED ON THE VAGUE - 'HEAPS OF NOTHING'

Formats

• SB130 - LP

  655030113017

• SB130CD - CD

  655030113024

Details

For this second full-length effort, Naked on the Vague eschew their tantalizingly sparse duo attack for a quartet line-up, and the results are as sensational as they are sinister. While the rickety, no-wave splat found on previous efforts had its appeal, the heft of a "proper" rhythm section has only helped Naked on the Vague delve deeper into the landscape of post-punk murk. Bleak, unrepentant, withering and droll, Heaps of Nothing is a 21st century codification of the gallows wit and mesmerizing otherworldliness of (Dub Housing-era) Pere Ubu, Primitive Calculators and Lemon Kittens. Shuttling mutant urbanity from past to present, Naked on the Vague is only too eager to confirm that the Earth isn't flat. Because Heaps of Nothing is here to flatten it. Look for the band on tour throughout their native Australia and, later in 2010, the US and possibly Europe. ? Deeper, more sinister sound explored with expanded line-up ? LP includes free digital download

Tracks

1. Mysterious Oven
2. Wrong Room
3. Treading Water
4. Sacred Youth
5. These Days
6. The Joke
7. Black Lettuce
8. Blank Minds

Press

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HARLAN T. BOBO - 'SUCKER'

Formats

• 55GONE - LP

  600385199216

• 55GONECD - CD

  600385199223

Details

"I've been duped by my biology," 43-year old Harlan T. Bobo says of Sucker, his third album for Goner Records. If Too Much Love, Bobo's solo debut, chronicled the dissolution of a soul-wrenching relationship, and his second album, I'm Your Man, captured the fits, starts and relapse of post-breakup emotions, Sucker narrates the life of a man who is, in his own words, "settling down." Despite the new album's tongue-in-cheek title, the dark confessional style that pervades I'm Your Man is largely replaced with a lighter attitude. Anguish gives way to an almost upbeat angst, and the gloom-and-doom allure of temporary romances is overcome by true love. On "Sweet Life," the opening track, the typically enigmatic Bobo unabashedly reminisces about traveling with-and wooing- Anne Ciriani, who would ultimately become his wife and the mother of his son, Nino. "The first time she broke my nose with a rum bottle, I knew it was love," Bobo says. The break-neck "Crazy with Loneliness" and the humorously meditative "Selfish Life" document his mental shift, while "Energy," "Drank," and "Mlle. Chat" record the physical adjustments he's made as the husband of a Frenchwoman who owns her own ice cream shop in Argeles, which Bobo describes as "the white trash camping spot of Europe." Occasionally, Bobo veers away from the fairytale to serve up alternate storylines, such as the frantic, Jerry Lee Lewis-meets-Television "Errand Girl," or "Hamster in a Cage," a sordid, yet beautifully written song about his short-lived Hollywood hustle. "Having a wife and a child doesn't mean I'm finished," he says. "If anything else, I'm more desperate to make music. The songs I'm writing now are a little more charged than they were a couple of years ago, when I had nothing to do but play music." Third solo album from Memphis artist and Musician, Recorded with engineer / producer Doug Easley (Cat Power, Pavement).

Tracks

1. Sweet Life
2. Hamster in a Cage
3. Oh Boy
4. Crazy with Loneliness
5. Old Man
6. Selfish Life
7. Perfect Day
8. Bad Boyfriends
9. Energy
10. Errand Girl
11. Drank
12. Mlle. Chatte

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