FRESH & ONLYS - 'IMPENDING DOOM / TROUBLING VISION'

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• IMSO002 - 7"

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Another total winner from the Agitated stable, and two blasts of wild pop from San Francisco's finest purveyors of said genre The Fresh & Onlys.... its their first UK release, it ties in with UK shows, ATP etc... a New album is due out over the summer on In The Red, 2009 was chock full of killer sides from this lot, 2010 is catching up real fast: Both tracks highlight the bands abilities in creating pop music thats skewed yet perfect. They blend in many sounds / influences, immediate "recommended if you like pointers" include Violent Femmes / 13th Floor Elevators / early 80s British indie-pop / Australian underground singles from the 80s. Both tracks exclusive to this release. You will dance to this, and so will Matt Groening at ATP in May.

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PUFFY AREOLAS - 'IN THE ARMY 1981'

Formats

• SB121 - LP & DL

  655030112119

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MY WORD: this album totally shhattered our speakers, incredible...fans of the much missed Hunches, and the likes of Francis Harold And the Holograms will lap this up>>>>one of our albums of the year....For the past few years, Puffy Areolas have been fritzing synapses and scorching the landscape with their corroded psych / hardcore scree. Enlightened by the most unhinged charters of Acid Archives and Killed by Death alumnus, the Puffies' sound might best be described as embodying the Stooges' Raw Power if your pretty face had gone to hell. There, it would have encountered (among others) White Boy and The Average Rat Band, Tampax, Opus and Mag Amplitude for an eternal damnation of scarred depravity, the excesses of which would be legendary even by Hades standards. In the Army 1981 is its own sadistic brand of plastic surgery, heavy on the anesthetic, short any bedside manner. Rude and ready for action, Puffy Areolas will forever be the bull in the china shop. And if that's China White you're talkin' about-well, friend, meet your new Daddy. Debut vinyl album from Ohio psych / punk Band, Other releases on Columbus Discount Records, Fuckit Tapes, HoZac, Includes coupon for free digital download

Tracks

1. Noble Rot
2. Deathcraze
3. 1981
4. Get Me Out of Houston
5. Puking in Piss
6. Heart Attack
7. Escape from Guyana
8. Fuck Your Pretzel

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MIKE REP & THE QUOTAS - 'STUPOR HIATUS'

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• SB113/114 - 2xLPs

  655030111310

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Stupor Hiatus culls the complete recorded works of the original Mike Rep and the Quotas, dating back to 1974 and moving forward into the early 1990s. Essentially a reworking of the Stupor Hiatus Vol. 2 LP released by Siltbreeze in 1992 (minus the questionable original artwork and mysterious French-language insert), this definitive collection is that record in its entirety plus six additional tracks, four of which have never before been released. This double-LP includes the legendary "Rocket to Nowhere," a lovely instrumental interpretation of the 13th Floor Elevators' "She Lives in a Time of Her Own," a cover of Roky Erickson's "Creature with the Atom Brain," a shout-out to the Strapping Fieldhands ("In the Pineys") and fifteen other immortal tracks. Those who already know, know. But if you're only familiar with the name Mike Rep as a producer for such acts as Guided By Voices, Strapping Fieldhands and Times New Viking, here's your chance to get caught up with a back catalog of extraordinary capacity. Before there were peckerwoods buzzing about lo-fi, Mike Rep-fed by a love for B-grade horror flicks, (the aforementioned) 13 Floor Elevators, Velvet Undergound, Kim Fowley and (blech!) The Doors-was concocting a mash of home-recorded punk, pop and psychedelia for a few fortunate ears. This isn't the Sunset Strip or Lower East Side, folks, it's Grove City, Ohio, a scene ruled by codeine, cannabis and Carling. So be prepared to hunker down with a fuzzy, furry and fried collection of 20-plus years of sound from the vaults of one of America's most important legends in the flesh. The Creeping Flesh, that is. Definitive collection of Ohio lo-fi pioneer's 1974-1992 material, One-time vinyl edition of 1000, includes download card

Tracks

1. Rocket to Nowhere
2. War of the Worlds
3. I Resign
4. Mama Was a Schitzo
5. Sister Ray
6. Excavation of Tremper Mound
7. She Lives
8. Creature with the Atom Brain
9. Addictions of Choice
10. Out
11. Fade Away
12. Steppin? Fetchit Is Dead
13. This Island Earth
14. Basket of Flowers
15. H.M. My Mind
16. Windows
17. One for My Baby
18. Who Knows
19. In the Pineys

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HAUNTED GEORGE - 'AMERICAN CROW'

Formats

• ITR173 - LP

  759718517316

• ITR173CD - CD

  759718517323

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Weird George. Uncle Ya Ya. Skullface George. Graverobber Steven. He's known by many aliases. Haunted George, under his Christian name Steve Pallow, was a member of The Beguiled, Satan's Cheerleaders and The Necessary Evils in the '90s. Around the turn of the century, he retired from society to the Mojave Desert, where he spends his time building caskets, collecting exotic roadkill, making podcasts that have to be heard to be believed and creating nightmarish music. Exploring the one-man band format out of sheer necessity, he has recorded dozens of songs (many of which are abstract/ noise recordings under the name Snuff Maximus) on a 1970s-era mono cassette recorder with a condenser mic. His compositions are creepy dirges that call to mind bits of American folklore, the extraterrestrial, the supernatural and murder. In other words, a bad trip. To date he has put out two albums of home recordings, Panther Howl and Pile o' Meat, on the Hook or Crook label, as well a handful of singles. About two years ago, Haunted George added ex-Necessary Evil Jimmy Hole to the "band" and started making more regular live appearances. His music remains sinister and unsettling, though it now has more swing and rocks harder. The decision was made to enter a real studio to put down his latest batch of songs with his new, expanded line-up. The result is American Crow: Fifteen tracks dealing with witches, decomposition, murder, death, donkeys, buzzards and roosters. In the hands of lesser talents, such subject matter would come off as kitchy or contrived, but Haunted George is the real deal. His music is a paranoid, altogether disturbed aural hallucination-each drum thud the lockstep of a weary fella who's lost himself in the twilight of the uninhabited desert, every space between beats a sparse landscape devoid of humanity, rife with fear and exaggerated panic. This is the only horror rock that matters. Latest full-length album from former member of The Beguiled, Satan's Cheerleaders and The Necessary Evils, Proper studio recording with new twopiece line-up...

Tracks

1. Theme from Dark Shadows
2. Shed of Doom
3. Weeks in a Casket
4. American Crow
5. Big Chief Woodenhead
6. Hit You with My Hammer
7. Buzzards Ate His Flesh
8. Black Rooster Squall
9. The Aliases of Haunted George
10. Mad Witch
11. Spanish Donkey
12. Witch Girl from the North
13. The Tomb
14. Then You Die
15. Ghoul Doll

Press

?Haunted George?s music rings with a doggerel atmosphere, a recording
value that rivals an old beaten transistor and a mood where getting your soul
sucked out of your eye sockets by a roadkill coyote under the spell of a poltergeist
might be a good time.? ?Victim of Time
?Considering the other-worldly, dramatically sinister persona... you really
want to believe there?s a grizzled Jim Thompson protagonist toiling away as
a shut-in one-man band somewhere out in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
And in fact, that?s mostly actually the case.? ?All Music Guide

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