HAUNTED HEARTS - 'SOMETHING THAT FEELS BAD IS SOMETHING THAT FEELS GOOD'

Formats

• ZM013 - 7"

  N/A

Details

After releasing records on Sub Pop, Fat Possum, French Kiss, Souterrain, Captured Tracks, HoZac and Slumberland, Zoo Music label heads Dee Dee from the Dum Dum Girls and Brandon Welchez from Crocodiles return home for their new project. Haunted Hearts is sure to please fans of both members' other bands as well as anyone who appreciates solid song writing and atmosphere. Recorded in San Diego at Electric Orange Studio, Something That Feels Bad Is Something That Feels Good is their debut single. ? Debut single from new band comprised of the lead members of Dum Dum Girls and Crocodiles ? "It sounds like a 50/50 split between our [two] bands" -Brandon Welchez

Tracks

1. Something That Feels Bad Is
Something That Feels Good
2. House of Lords

Press

N/A

Audio & Video

THE ASPHODELLS - 'RULED BY PASSION, DESTROYED BY LUST'

Formats

• RGCCD019 - CD

  809651401927

Details

THE ASPHODELLS (ANDREW J WEATHERALL & TIMOTHY J FAIRPLAY): On this album Andrew Weatherall has partnered with Timothy J. Fairplay as The Asphodells. Their friendship goes back to Tim's time with Battant in the latter part of the 2000s with Andrew helping out on production. Tim has been responsible for a number of independent tracks variously on Astro Lab Recordings, World Unknown, Bird Scarer, Emotional Response and Magic Feet. He has played live across Europe including at Fabric in London and Robert Johnson in Germany and DJs at regular Glasgow night Crimes of the Future with Scott Fraser. Musically the album's yet another game changer. Andrew has left behind the rock and roll leanings of Wrong Meeting and A Pox on the Pioneers and looks back over his shoulder to the purer electronics of the Kraftwerk-inflected Two Lone Swordsmen but without the sparse introspection that characterised those times. Now the music is saturated in repetitive beats overlaid with sinuous melodies played out over whole tracks. Songs still feature but sound haunted, guitars still ground the tracks but are more resonant. John Betjeman's 'Late Flowering Lust' sits surprisingly comfortably alongside A.R. Kane's 'A Love from Outer Space' but ultimately it's Weatherall and Fairplay that imbue the album with it's own sense of a journey through a time and space that only dimly reflects our own. CD in digipak / Limited 2LP comes with two bonus tracks on side 4: Zone, and Dub Minute's Silence.

Tracks

1. Beglammered
2. Never There
3. Skwatch
4. Another Lonely City
5. Late Flowering Lust
6. Late Flowering Dub
7. We Are The Axis
8. One Minute?s Silence
9. The Quiet Dignity (Of Unwitnessed Lives)
10. A Love From Outer Space (Version 2)

Press

Full Press campaign underway.

Audio & Video

KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS - 'THE HUNCHBACK'

Formats

• RR/TT21 - LP & DL

  655035067117

Details

The timeless record of 2009 is back in an expanded version for 2013. Fans of Kurt Vile's previous work cried into their pillows and accused him of selling out the bedroom rock scene, while the initiated few knew he'd been doing it for years? plugging in with a full-on rock band called The Violators and gigging in all corners of Philly. With baritone guitar / bassist Adam Granduciel, rodeo slide and fuzz guitar from Jesse Turbo, and perfect percussion from Mike Zeng, The Violators are Vile's Crazy Horse, slugging it out with him when he feels like playing with a full band. Oddly pleasant singing, in-the-red fingerpicking, twisting swells of feedback, totally pounding drums, and Kraut-like zen fill both sides of this record. Loud and proud, The Hunchback looks right filed next to one's Neil, Faust and Spacemen 3 records. This special 2013 pressing comes with a digital download coupon that features bonus live material. "... 'The Hunchback' [is] a dirgelike, dour crash of gales of half-regarded, stately jangle into a pile of shakers and tambourines. It's a three-chord wander, topping out the monochord raga of 'Good Lookin Out,' and it could also pass for a lost shoegaze classic of '92." -Still Single ? Six-track EP from Philadelphia's Constant Hitmaker backed by a full-on rock band ? Special 2013 issue comes with a digital download coupon featuring bonus live material

Tracks

1. The Hunchback
2. Damn You
3. Losing It
4. Hunchy?s Back
5. Good Lookin Out
6. Slick Licks

Press

Audio & Video

THE TRADITIONAL FOOLS - 'S/T'

Formats

• ITR230 - LP

  759718523010

• ITR230CD - CD

  759718523027

Details

In The Red is proud to announce the re-release of the selftitled album by The Traditional Fools, a garage-punkthrash- surf trio consisting of Ty Segall, Andrew Luttrell and David Fox. They recorded and released their lone fulllength back in 2008-it sold out quickly and has never been re-pressed until now. Recorded live in the studio, The Traditional Fools is low on fidelity and high in energy. The band's sound is a perfect combination of '60s garage, vintage surf reverb and early LA punk performed with trashy, reckless abandon. Covers by Redd Kross and Thee Headcoats give an idea where these guys were coming from, and songs about bikini babes and shredsticks tell where they were at. Grab a bike, tank top, sunglasses and every beer you can find, and enjoy surf-punk done right. ? Reissue of sole album from surf-garagepunk band featuring Ty Segall ? First time on CD; vinyl includes digital download coupon

Tracks

1. Davey Crockett
2. Snot Rag
3. T.L. Defender
4. Please
5. Layback!!!
6. Get Off My Back
7. Shredstick
8. Kill Someone You Hate
9. Valley (of the Jams)
10. Party at My House
11. Milkman
12. All-Right

Press

N/A

Audio & Video

TY SEGALL & MIKAL CRONIN - 'REVERSE SHARK ATTACK'

Formats

• ITR229 - LP & DL

  759718522914

• ITR229CD - CD

  759718522921

Details

Originally released in 2009 as a vinyl-only title on the Kill Shaman label, Reverse Shark Attack is a collaboration by Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin, two longtime chums who grew up together in Laguna Beach. Both turned out to be hyper-prolific singer / songwriter / musicians who recorded as solo artists as well as performing in bands such as the Sic Alps, Moonhearts, Epsilons, Traditional Fools and Okie Dokie. Equal parts danceable garage rock and effects-ridden psychedelia, Reverse Shark Attack is a mind-blowing explosion of loud guitars, pounding rhythms and signature vocal harmonies, and these eight shambolic, psychedelic jams are sure to please the most scrutinizing rocker. The centerpiece of the album is the title track, a side-long epic that goes from Beatlesesque melody to psych / folk weirdness before exploding into a Ventures-induced headache of smashed drums and wildly vibrant surf guitars. It's a must-have release for fans of these two artists, and nothing like either of them have done on their own. ? Reissue of out-of-print 2009 collaboration, now highly sought-after ? First time on CD; vinyl includes digital download coupon

Tracks

1. I Wear Black
2. Drop Dead Baby
3. High School
4. Ramona
5. Doctor Doctor
6. Bikini Babes
7. Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk
8. Reverse Shark Attack

Press

TY SEGALL / MIKAL CRONIN.... you do read the press right?

Audio & Video