LOVE CULT - 'KNOW EP'

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• LSSN022 - 12"

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Edition of 300 in Lithograph Recycled Manilla Sleeve. We will only have 150 for UK distro on this title. Beginning with tape experimentation, noise excursions and long-form drift and drone musics, Love Cult have steadily built up a discography based on decomposing and deconstructing. <> is the first vinyl statement that sees the Russian duo dive headlong into beat-forms and movement music. Following their fog-covered debut LP on Public Information, Anya Kuts and Ivan Zoloto have swerved the spread-out spaciousness and primitive rhythm debris and reached for crucial, crude dub and techno templates. Ghostly remnants still pervade Know – Kuts’ heavily-processed vocals are still in evidence – but with the adoption of distorted kick drums, off-kilter sub-basslines and compressed melodic strands, this Love Cult is more vital, more transformative. Recently the Karelian duo have coined the apt term «no tech», which stands for «northern technology».Terrifying opener Mise En Abyme is the bridge between older Love Cult and the new forms – massive, trawling chords barely contained by a rolling beat and cut-up vocals, like Sunn O))) lost in a lightless nightclub. My Boy breaks into an alternate-universe Garage rhythm, perverting the groove with ecclesiastical reverb drones and stabbing bass. The push and pull of Lust Undone, like a possessed drum machine transmitting the death rattle of the recently deceased, gives way to the closing, epic It’s True. Perhaps the most straight-forward offering and undoubtedly one of Love Cult’s strongest moments, It’s True uses bass-bin shattering tones, quick-fire high hats and end-of-the-world noise injections to truly shatter the perceptions of the listener. “Know” EP operates between the dreamy and the urban, strangling human kindness with the bare hands of violent underdeveloped urges.

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COLD WAR KIDS - 'LIVE AT THIRD MAN RECORDS'

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• TMR081 - LP

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Previously unavailable VIA Forte, now available to order! Cold War Kids' performance on a snowy, icy December night in 2010 thawed the hearts of many a fan and goes down as one of our favorite performances yet in the Blue Room. Given the winter-wonderland of a week we've had here in Nashville, it seemed the ideal time to call attention back to this wonderful record.

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Royal Blue / 2. Audience / 3. Louder Than Ever / 4. I?ve Seen Enough / 5. Cold Toes on the Cold Floor / 6. Skip the Charades / 7. Hospital Beds / 8. Bulldozer / 9. Santa Ana Winds / 10. We Used to Vacation / 11. Goodnight Tennessee

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D.A. HUNT - 'LONESOME OLD JAIL B/W GREYHOUND BLUES'

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• TMR224 - 7"

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Daniel Augusta Hunt, better known as Junior Hunt, was born in Munford, AL in 1929. On or around March 11th, 1953, Hunt recorded these two songs at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis and they were released in June of that year. For over 50 years, these songs were believed to only exist in 78 rpm form, until a copy pressed as a 45 rpm 7” single turned up in Minnesota. This only known copy was sold on eBay in 2010 for $10,323. This marks the first legitimate release of Hunt's material on a 7" record, and both songs are outstanding examples of the heartbreaking, desolate nature of the solo bluesman accompanying himself on guitar and borrow heavily from the template set by Lightnin' Hopkins. Hunt was arrested in Memphis in 1958 for stealing a saxophone and died in May 1962 in Phoenix, AZ

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ROY ORBISON & THE TEEN KINGS - 'ROCKHOUSE B/W YOU'RE MY BABY'

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• TMR225 - 7"

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Most likely recorded in June of 1956, "Rockhouse" is a prime example of quintessential, undiluted rockabilly. While Roy and the Teen Kings' stint with Sun would be brief, the sheer power unleashed on these tracks is palpable. Most folks are only familiar with Orbison's perfected pop orchestrations recorded for Monument Records in the '60s, but his roots were firmly planted in the dusty West Texas sound, were influenced heavily by Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley, and remain equally important as the work of both.

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JERRY LEE LEWIS - 'GREAT BALLS OF FIRE B/W YOU WIN AGAIN'

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• TMR226 - 7"

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Like the Golden Gate Bridge, hot dogs, Wrigley Field, Converse All-Stars, and Jack Daniels, "Great Balls of Fire" is of the uppermost echelon of cultural exports America has ever produced. If you don't already know this, it's okay…you can buy this single now and no one will be the wiser. The Killer at his finest.

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