TWIN SISTER - 'COLOR YOUR LIFE'

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• BEST003 - LP

  600197550311

• BEST003CD - CD

  600197550328

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Color Your Life is the proper debut release from New York's Twin Sister, following the digital-only Vampires with Dreaming Kids EP from 2008. "The Other Side of Your Face" opens with a whip of grey wind and a throbbing hum. Drums count off and shimmering guitar chords gently descend; vocalist Andrea Estella's voice comes in and things hush up real quick. Oh man, she's basically whispering right in your ear, red lipstick and everything. Jesus. She's gone again just as quickly, and the music rises up, up, up, building layer after layer. "Lady Daydream" introduces herself with Eric Cardona's guitar glimmer, the melody beckoning cool and soft and sure before "Milk and Honey" initiates total pandemonium-all of a sudden it's a packed house-party in the clouds. "All Around and Away We Go" continues with Gabe D'Amico's insistent bass lines bouncing along orange-lava synths and barking vocals-pure uninhibited bliss. By now it's dark outside, and the silver heavens reflect down on "Galaxy Plateau." Udbhav Gupta's keys and drum machines come into bright focus and "Phenomenons" scores the tranquil descent into the landscape of a pink morning sky. Was it all a dream? Start your ambulances, we guarantee by end of the Summer, this lot will be on a major / mindie label>

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Masses of blog action, going to be huge:
?Twin Sister is no average pop band. I first saw these guys
opening for Megafaun at the Silent Barn last spring. Since
then, my support for them has been unwavering, my praise
of them hyperbolic to the extreme ... the Weezer of the 21st
century.? ?The Ampeater Review

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SPITS, THE - 's/t (FOURTH ALBUM)'

Formats

• ITR189 - LP

  759718518917

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In The Red is proud to announce the vinyl (re)issue of The Spits' latest (and fourth) self-titled full-length LP. Originally released by the band late last year on their own Thriftstore Records, the album carries on in the psychedelic skate-punk band's grand tradition of anarchy, chaos, stupidity and destruction-all delivered with an artisan's skill that proves these guys are the real deal. This is the precursor to the brand new Spits album, currently in the works, that will be out on In The Red later this year. The Spits show no sign of slowing down with their latest effort, mixing equal parts Devo and Misfits into an aurally addictive, synth-inflected stew. Describing the music they play as "punk for the people," these prophets of the proletariat have a message for the masses: The Spits are the soundtrack to the apocalypse. The band has never shied away from esoteric subject matter. Previous records have contained themes of escaped Nazi war criminals, nuclear winters, commie spies and terrorist attacks, coupled with back alley booze-fests, brainbruising bong rips, skateboards and fisticuffs. With songs about constable evasion ("Police"), Huxley-esque visions of metropolitan horror ("Eyesore City") and alien abduction ("Alienize"), The Spits' fourth should prove to be just as desperately disparate and sonically sordid as previous salvos. It's their strongest to date, showcasing a band that is only beginning to approach the zenith of its power, as the world dips entropically past its own, toward obliteration. Buy the record, take the ride. ? Reissue of Seattle-based punk band's fourth album makes it widely available for the first time ? Ten aurally addictive, synth-inflected tracks mixing equal parts Devo and The Misfits ? Upcoming new Spits album due out on In The Red in late 2010

Tracks

1. Tonight
2. Rip Up the Streets
3. Live in a Van
4. Police
5. Eyesore
6. School?s Out
7. Life of Crime
8. Wouldn?t Wanna Be Ya
9. Alienize
10. Flags

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KING LEE (FEAT QUINTRON) - 'TIRE SHOP'

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• 61GONE - 7"

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Some might have known King Lee (R.I.P.) from one of his late-night appearances at the Spellcaster Lodge in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. Or from his back-up vocals on the 2006 Quintron slow jam "Dream Captains." Or he may have fixed your tire at the St. Claude Tire Shop. If you are an old-school cop, he might have fixed it at Danny's Service Station way back in the day. This single is a late-night ode to the St. Claude Tire Shop, recorded by Quintron and King Lee just blocks away at the Spellcaster. Familiar with much-talked-about blurry connection between Caribbean rhythms and inner-city New Orleans? It's all over this incredibly slow drum-machine / echo-organ jam. All the extra clanky sounds are samples from the actual tire shop. Lee's vocal is comprised solely of him going off on all his friends and relatives who work at the shop. The list of nicknames is impressive, to say the least-so much so that the song can't be contained on one side! The original take was about fifteen minutes, and it was edited down to the essential three-and-ahalf minutes per side. This 45 is truly the sound of the streets without drama and gunfire-a tire-shop army of love and beer and tires and air compressors and echo and organs and tires! A note on the St. Claude Tire shop: This is the only Orleans Parish business that did not close during the you-know-what. They fixed tires for the National Guard, Presidential limos, road warrior bike punks, everyone. The owner, Joe Pete, who Lee references several times in the song, sits on an actual throne of tires to keep an eye on his employees every day. Oh, and check that sign on the cover real close....

Tracks

1. Tire Shop (Part 1)
2. Tire Shop (Part 2)

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