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MAMMATUS - 'THE COAST EXPLODES'
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HOLY8516 - CD
HOLY8516LP - LP
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**Back in print on vinyl**, Mammatus’s second album The Coast Explodes straddles the line between psychedelia and hard rock while introducing more progressive aspects. The music is heavily influenced by both the power and complexity of the natural world and the ongoing battles of light and darkness. “Excellent Swordfight” continues the same story told on their debut’s “Dragon of the Deep.” “Pierce the Darkness” explores being a light in a dark world. “The Changing Wind” is a pipe-led psychedelic folk tune that could have been cited by Ghost’s Second Time Around and the shanga vibes of the forest in the Autumn. It unfurls into the title track which encapsulates the massive fury of the ocean. “The same heavy, spastic psych as Acid Mothers Temple, Psychic Paramount, Comets on Fire and Green Milk from the Planet Orange.” —Dusted “… draws heavily on the cornerstones of mind warping, heavy music—Hawkwind, Sleep, Floyd, Sabbath…. It’s both heavy, soothing, and altogether engrossing. Bottom line, if you want your head caved in and you want to feel really good about it, get this….” —StonerRock.com
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1. DRAGON OF THE DEEP PT. 3 (EXCELLENT SWORDFIGHT)
2. PIERCE THE DARKNESS
3. THE CHANGING WIND
4. THE COAST EXPLODES
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THE SPACE LADY - 'MAJOR TOM / RADAR LOVE'
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LSSN018 - 7"
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** REPRESS ON SILVER VINYL 300 copies only!!. A cult icon, The Space Lady has been performing her delicate, celestial songs for over 30 years, and yet 2nd September 2013 marks the day of her very first 'official' release, 'Major Tom / Radar Love', released on limited 7" with download, via Night School Records. Listen below... http://soundcloud.com/nightschool/major-tom-from-lssn018-1/s-6Cg8V The Space Lady began her odyssey on the streets of Boston in the late 70s, then San Francisco ten years later, playing versions of contemporary pop music with an accordion and dressed flamboyantly, transmitting messages of peace and harmony. Following the theft and destruction of her accordion , The Space Lady invested in a then-new Casio keyboard, complete with a phase shifter and headset mic, birthing an otherworldly new dimension to popular song that has captured the imaginations of the underground and its leading exponents ever since. The legend of The Space Lady has continued to grow in the 21st century. Originally featured on Irwin Chusid’s landmark 'outsider' compilation Songs In The Key Of Z, then on mixes by Erol Alkan and John Maus, this music has transcended genre, style and fashion, opening up hearts and minds along the way. 14 years ago The Space Lady packed away her Casio synth and silenced her distinctive voice, retiring from the streets of San Francisco. Now, more than 30 years after her initial forays on Haight-Ashbury Harvard Square and Haight Ashbury, she has surfaced with the first ever official release of her timeless, startling, haunting music and, even more remarkably, has re-started her live career. Now in Colorado, The Space Lady continues to spread her message of peace, harmony and love.
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HOWLIN RAIN - 'LIVE RAIN'
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AGIT027 - 2xLPs
5060174959073AGIT027CD - CD
5060174959080
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LIVE RAIN is the first-ever official live album by Howlin Rain, will be released on 28th April via Agitated Records in UK/EU. "A great rock guitarist needs a signature affectation. Ethan Miller's happens to be an abrupt upstrum that, combined with a backward stagger, probably makes him something of an onstage hazard to his bandmates. When he really gets into it, as he does with elemental regularity, the Howlin Rain leader resembles a spasmodic marionette under the influence of a power greater than himself - call it the power of rawk. With his long thinning hair and big black beard, Miller also sometimes resembles a defrocked rabbi on the run. And when he opens his mouth, the history of classic arena-rock vocals passes before your ears in a full-throated wail, embracing the combined spirits of Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart, Leslie West, Greg Rolie and the ghost of Freddy Mercury." - the Village Voice Recorded live in various locations on the 2012 worldwide tour for The Russian Wilds, the live 2XLP features vintage Howlin Rain originals including "Roll On The Rusted Days," "Dancers At The End Of Time" and "Hung Out In The Rain" plus The Russian Wilds' "Phantom In The Valley" and an 11-minute plus version of "Self Made Man." Live Rain features the most honed and bombastic Howlin Rain line-up to date; songwriter Ethan Miller (lead vocals / guitars), Earthless' Isaiah Mitchell (guitars / backing vocals), Drunk Horse's Cyrus Comiskey (bass/ backing vocals) and Raj Ojha (drums). Live Rain was recorded by David Streit, mixed by Tim Green and produced by Ethan P. Miller. In addition to the 2XLP, a CD package and digital download is also available. FIRST 500 LPS COME WITH 4 ASSORTED POSTER REPROS FROM THAT howlin rain tour. 6 different posters replicated in all, by the Likes of Arik Roper, Alan Forbes etc. Printed on a4 / 3oo gsm matt card…full colour! LP comes with DL card also
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Side 1
Phantom In The Valley (8:45)
Self Made Man (11:04)
Side 2
Can't Satisfy Me Now (6:34)
Beneath Wild Wings (4:19)
Lord Have Mercy (7:50)
Side 3
Hung Out In The Rain (6:07)
Calling Lightning Pt 2 (8:16)
Dancers At The End Of Time (5:53)
Side 4
Roll On The Rusted Days (7:49)
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Praise for 'Russian Wilds'
?Howlin Rain themselves, takes more hidden turns than you?d think possible. If only all records were as rapturous as this.? Classic Rock
?This doesn?t simply essay classic rock, it breathes exhilarating new life into familiar forms, ambitious, soulful and joyous? 4/5 Mojo
?San Fran quintet attain classic rock nirvana on sumptuous third? 8/10 Uncut
"A psychedelic cocktail of Crosby, Stills and Nash, the Faces, the Damned and author Raymond Carver" Rolling Stone Magazine
?a cascading and rewarding listen? Quietus
?a levitating rethink of 1970s roots rock. Imagine Credence Clearwater Revival or Lynyrd Skynyrd given a cosmic dimension and you are close to understanding Howlin? Rain?s rumbustious charm. These are horny-handed and exhilarating rock songs, punctuated by unhinged guitar freak-outs.? The Times
".. indebted to the past and utterly timeless, wild but controlled, chin-stroking clever and head-shaking dumb, referential without being reverential. But above all, it?s a lot of fun.? Uncut
?This is rock at its most ragged, performance at its most thrilling?? Classic Rock
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BED RUGS - '8TH CLOUD'
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AMPLACD080 - CD
5065001652233
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Bed Rugs: take their name from the much discussed mat in The Big Lebowski. After the highly praised release of last year’s mini-LP ‘Rapids’, we are pleased to go backwards and present ‘8th Cloud’, their 1st ever recording album, showing that even then they punched well above their weight. Like Tame Impala and MGMT the sounds are heavy weight and the melodies ambitious - classic rock from Beatles to Nirvana. Les ZAZA’s French magazine recently summed them up as ‘the illegitimate children of McCartney and Cobain.’ James Endeacott who has seen them a good few times describes them as ‘off the scale’. Their spectacular London shows were the best antidote to anti-European feelings we have seen for a long time.
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MAXWELL AUGUST CROY AND SEAN MCCANN - 'I'
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SOD106 - LP
655035070612
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Composed and recorded in Los Angeles and San Francisco, I is the debut full-length album by Maxwell August Croy and Sean McCann. Croy is best known for his work in Bay Area duo En, wherein he processes koto, voice and other instrumentation into ecstatic and nuanced drone-based recordings; McCann is a solo artist whose work continues to undergo seismic evolutions, manifested most recently on the justly lauded Music for Private Ensemble, an album of autodidactic modern composition that defies easy categorization. Working as a duo, Croy and McCann synthesize compositional and aesthetic tropes from their respective discographies to produce something extraordinary. “Parting Light (Suite)” opens the album with a flurry of koto, cello and violin lines masterfully woven together; a complex movement that dissembles to reveal a more spacious environment in which each gesture takes on a heightened significance. Croy’s koto lends the piece an Eastern aura complimented by McCann’s playing, equal parts idiosyncratic and grandiose. Elsewhere, “Alexandria” finds the duo operating at their most celestial, working their instruments into a harrowing, beautiful dirge comprised of clarion tones and wide-eyed string arrangements. Ultimately, Croy and McCann cultivate an utterly unique sensibility on I, perhaps situated best somewhere among the soundworlds of Gavin Bryars, Taj Mahal Travellers and Richard Skelton. The LP was mastered by Rashad Becker and the jacket features exclusive monotypes by Andrew Chalk.
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EX-CULT - 'MIDNIGHT PASSENGER'
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107GONE - LP
600385244619107GONECD - CD
600385244626
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Ex-Cult’s Midnight Passenger is the result of a neverending obsession with the open road. It’s the sound of five people spending the last year in countless dive bars and disgusting motel rooms, sleeping on dozens of dirty floors. Since recording with Ty Segall in 2012 the band hasn’t come up for air, putting under their belt four US tours and tons of weekend trips with the likes of Segall, OBN III’s and Captive. In these sanme dive bars across the USA Ex-Cult truly found their sound. While some of the songs were played for audiences as early as January 2013, it wasn’t until a West Coast tour in June that the blueprint for Midnight Passenger really started to form. Taking pieces of every tour back home with them, the band honed a sound that captures the desperation of the first record while integrating new techniques of negative noise. Recorded by Doug Easley in January 2014, Midnight Passenger delivers ten songs meant to be heard together, each one following a different, damaged storyline. The buzz-saw guitars, krautrock rhythms and sneering vocals are all still present, but with Midnight Passenger, Ex- Cult adds a few layers of psychedelic slime to their sound.
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1. Shattered Circle
2. Ties You Up
3. Midnight Passenger
4. Confusion Hill
5. Catholic Entries
6. Flickering Eyes
7. Venice Illusion
8. Sid Visions
9. Not a Threat
10. Lights Out Club
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REIGNING SOUND - 'LIVE AT GONER RECORDS'
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21GONE - LP
65503507211121GONECD - CD
880270271023
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It all happened on a rainy afternoon in June, 2005, at the Goner Shop. Following a sweaty Saturday night gig at Memphis’ favorite dive bar, The Buccaneer, Reigning Sound sets up in front of a roomful of hungover heathens and blazes through fifteen-and-a-half pounders, including covers of The Sham’s “Black Sheep,” The Swingin’ Yo- Yo’s’ “Do Something,” and of course, Carl Perkins ’ “Tennessee.” Scream with shock and delight as Greg Cartwright gets electrocuted during a Compulsive Gamblers song! Originally released as a limited-edition CDR to raise funds for Katrina victims in late ’05, and nationally on vinyl the next year, the LP has been out of print for over half a decade. This new pressing includes a complimentary digital download. It’s a document of an amazing band and an amazing show, in glorious full fidelity. It’s Reigning Sound:Live at Goner Records!
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1. Time Bomb High School
2.Bad Man
3.Reptile Style
4.What Could I Do?
5.Black Sheep
6.Tennessee
7.Straight Shooter
8.Carol
9.Do Something
10.Girl
11.New Romance
12.Two Thieves
(Cut Short)
13.We Repel (Each Other)
14.I?m So Thankful
15.I?m Holding Out
16.Drowning
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THE GOASTT - 'MIDNIGHT SUN'
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CHIM18 - LP
616892192145CHIM18CD - CD
616892192244
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On April 28th 2014, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger (The GOASTT) will release Midnight Sun, a guided tour of bold, shape-shifting sonic murals and evocative lyrical panoramas. Plucking musical ingredients from all over the map, the album has a highly imaginative and distinct feel. It celebrates the unusual and the grandiose but fundamentally just rocks hard and feels good. Like the hero in the album’s melancholy “Don’t Look Back Orpheus” who takes a journey into a dreamlike underworld, the listener embarks on an auditory voyage of soaring whimsical keyboards and crunching space-age guitars that blends original melodies with kaleidoscopic freakouts. Midnight Sun injects a surreal landscape with colorful, classic hooks. With an infectious sense of adventure akin to Beck and Flaming Lips, and several years of touring and recording under their belt, the GOASTT takes their creative and savvy approach to psychedelia to new extremes. The ambitious songs flow cleverly together with unexpected ease to tell a vivid and provocative story. Familiar yet compelling, visceral and vital, Midnight Sun is at once a response to the bizarre world we've inherited and helped to create, and a refreshing escapist daydream that, if not hopeful, is keenly insightful. The GOASTT has given us a record that is poised to be a postmodern-psychedelic classic. The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger has been busy since their debut. The band toured with The Flaming Lips and Tame Impala, performed at the Hollywood Bowl with Jean-Claude Vannier and released a Record Store Day vinyl EP entitled La Carotte Bleue. Muhl released an EP with her teenage folk duo Kemp & Eden, who also performed in the film Greetings From Tim Buckley. Lennon, meanwhile, released a record by his experimental duo Mystical Weapons with Deerhoof's Greg Saunier, a film score to the indie comedy Alter Egos and produced the new album by Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band.
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1. Too Deep
2. Xanadu
3. Animals
4. Johannesburg
5. Midnight Sun
6. Last Call
7. Devil You Know
8. Golden Earrings
9. Great Expectations
10. Poor Paul Getty
11. Don't Look Back Orpheus
12. Moth to a Flame