BEAR IN HEAVEN - 'BEAST REST FORTH MOUTH'

Formats

• HT034-2 - CD

  736211000927

• HT034-1 - LP & DL

  736211000613

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NOW WITH CHEAPER PRICE FROM 21ST JUNE ONWARDS: In preparation for a summer of Bear In Heaven takeover, and a remix album due in August./// we cannot recommend this record highly enough..Bear in Heaven have trapped echos, tremors, winds, and fading light. They've redefined time, and folded it. They've unbuttoned sound, and realigned it. Within four walls in Brooklyn, Jon Philpot, Adam Wills, Sadek Bazaara, and Joe Stickney mined the democracy of their collaboration, plus the endless hours of stream-ofconsciousness recorded documentation of rehearsals over the past years, to conceive the crystalline form of Beast Rest Forth Mouth, their second album, their exaltation. A seed planted in the Southern US years ago (all members hail from Georgia or Alabama), Bear In Heaven began as the musical arm of Jon Philpot in 1998. Time eventually brought in a slew of players, like rickety scaffolding, that grew the sound and guided the group to morph from a 6-to-5-to-4-piece. As a four-headed organism, Bear In Heaven has now found a sonic stride unlike any in their history. Freely acknowledging the importance of the number four, the album Beast Rest Forth Mouth (think "East West North South") was a conscious product of the four compass points, of the four makers, and of the inevitable confusion that manifests from that crossroad mentality: four directions could lead you anywhere and everywhere. It's the acknowledgement of what can go down at that convergence, at that dusty center, that drives Bear In Heaven and imbues the songs of Beast Rest Forth Mouth with something akin to both eternal peace and nervous urgency. The packaging and visuals for Beast Rest Forth Mouth continue in this tradition, the band collaborating with artist Laura Brothers to create the tactile doorway into the sonic swirl of the album. Feeding the Bear In Heaven process further is a collection of extracurricular activities. Jon Philpot recently collaborated with Roberto Lange on his Helado Negro project (Roberto also had a hand in the final mix of Beast Rest Forth Mouth), as well as performed live with neighbors and labelmates Stars Like Fleas. Adam Wills has played and toured with Jonathan Kane's February, Rhys Chatham's Guitar Trio, and started a new band with Joe Stickney called Garlok. Joe Stickney was one of the drummers in the Boredoms-led 88 Boadrum last summer. Jon, Sadek, and Adam were three of the two hundred guitarists in Rhys Chatham's Crimson Grail. Deluxe vinyl, comes with Download..non returnable...like 70s pink floyd revisited by atlas sound!!

Preceding Beast Rest Forth Mouth is 2007's Red Bloom of the Boom, a 7-track, 43-minute exploration that crosses the streams of psychedelia and prog. Pitchfork called it "a true cohesive work in an era when the album-as-art form appears to be slowly dying" (7.8), and The Onion found it "a powerful, functional mix of This Heat, '70s soft rock, early Genesis, and oddly, later Pink Floyd." The album was further informed by a collection of remarkable music videos by the band and their collaborators, providing a mirror into both the creative scope of the Bear In Heaven consciousness, not to mention the day jobs they keep as editors, filmmakers, and designers.

Tracks

01. BEAST IN PEACE
02. WHOLEHEARTED MESS
03. YOU DO YOU
04. LOVESICK TEENAGERS
05. ULTIMATE SATISFACTION
06. DUST CLOUD
07. DRUG A WHEEL
08. DEAFENING LOVE
09. FAKE OUT
10. CASUAL GOODBYE

Press

UK press campaign by INHOUSE PR: tours/ festivals and remixes due in AUGUST

Audio & Video

VARIOUS - 'SMOOTH SOUNDS: THE FUTURE HITS OF WCKR SPGT'

Formats

• SHR158 - 2xCDs

  759718115826

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"All of them sparkling clean digital hand-jobs (of late) got me to thinking about the years I spent renting a room above a former farmer's garage, dubbing tapes when my better-minded friends were going to college and/or fucking with crystal meth. Time flies (except when you are constantly typing in 0s and 1s to get someone's laptop to cum) and certainly somewhere, a 16-year-old kid is online awaiting some hilarious critiques of the 20th anniversary Shrimper compilation Smooth Sounds: The Future Hits of Wckr Spgt double-CD: 36 exclusive songs specifically written for this project by Wckr Spgt and then given out blindly to the artists participating. With close to 200 releases under our belt and hundreds of artists that have recorded for the label, it was near impossible to choose bands for this project, so blindly into the depths of the third circle went we. "Smooth Sounds features key Shrimper acts (Soul-Junk, Sentridoh, Joy, The Mountain Goats, Simon Joyner, Jad Fair), recordings by artists from the surrounding environs that influenced the label (Norma Tanega, Kurt Ross, John Harrelson) and over a dozen new bands to keep intact the spirit of what a Shrimper compilation is supposed to be. The first pressing features covers lovingly hand-decorated by artists who have recorded for the Shrimper label, as well as extensive liner notes by Franklin Bruno. There are a number of festivals set to take place on July 24th, the official 20th anniversary of Shrimper, in Southern California, Virginia, England and New York, with all proceeds to benefit local art collectives. Keep your eyes peeled for more guerilla events that correspond with this release." - Dennis Callaci ? Covers hand-decorated by artists ? 20th anniversary compilation features exclusive songs written by Wckr Spgt and recorded by various Shrimper groups and other related artists ? Tracks by Sentridoh, The Mountain Goats, Jad Fair, Simon Joyner, Amps for Christ, and many, many more

Tracks

CD1:
1. Peephole Circus ? I?m Dressing Myself
2. Golden Boots ? She Is Electric
3. The Perfect Failures ? Robot Vampires
4. Tinyfolk ? Transitional Objective
5. Falcon Eddy ? The Ganzfeld Effect
6. Sentridoh ? Smooth Sounds for Your Fucking Face
7. Soul-Junk ? A Better Line
8. Joy ? Pullman Heights
9. Phil Yates ? The Gift of Love
10. Ashley Reaks ? Actor?s Raingear
11. Toby Goodshank ? No Cheese For Porthos (feat. Los Debutantes)
12. The Mountain Goats ? Predator Eyes
13. Miniature and Presidential ? Fits and Starts
14. Peter Peter Hughes ? Track Devices
15. Alan Smithee ? Kurt Cobain Will Have His Revenge on the City of Los Angeles
16. Refrigerator ? Boom Boom (Thumb Rights)
17. Dude Mirror ? Chest Pain
18. Charlie McAlister ? Fruitbat Waltz
19. Unitard ? Fire on the Lemon (feat. Jeremy S. Goff & David Scott Ewers)
CD2:
1. The Uncalled For ? Really Long Fall
2. Primordial Undermind ? God, Waking Up
3. Jad Fair ? Cigarettes and Sunshine
4. So Many Wizards ? Flag Pin (written for Wckr Spgt by Franklin Bruno)
5. The Human Hearts (Franklin Bruno) ? Terrible Criminal
6. Mark Szabo ? More or Less Alive
7. Simon Joyner and Chris Deden ? Long Beach
8. The Kurt Ross Band ? Memorandum of Understanding
9. The Bingo Trappers ? Cause and Effect
10. Amps For Christ ? Starcrossed Teen
11. John Harrelson ? Landers
12. Adam Lipman and Leon Reid ? My Secret Prison
13. Baboonz ? Okayz Coral (feat. Norma Tanega)
14. The Ah Club ? We Were Warned About Factionalism
15. Kukunuku ? Princess Cat (feat. Joel of Man Is the Bastard)
16. Desperation Squad ? Look Forward to Dying (Alone)
17. Breathilizor ? Robot Vampires of Reprise

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