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MOONDOGGIES - 'TIDELANDS'
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HAR019 - LP
098787301915HAR019CD - CD
098787301922
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There is something inherently calming about large bodies of water. In times of emotional duress, standing at the edge of an ocean watching the waves roll in and out, centers the spirit in a way that standing on terra firma cannot. Kevin Murphy (lead vocals, guitar) chose to title the Moondoggies’ new album Tidelands in part because of a remote area outside his old stomping grounds of Ketchikan, Alaska where he used to go to escape from civilization. More importantly, as the sly recurring themes of water throughout the Seattle quartet’s second full-length underscore, these are songs crafted to provide solace, sense, and cause for celebration in a world fraught with turmoil. …
Tracks
1. It's a Shame, It's a Pity
2. Tidelands
3. What Took So Long
4. Uncertain
5. Empress of the North
6. Lead Me On
7. Down the Well
8. Can't Be in the Middle
9. We Can't All Be Blessed
10. A Lot of People On My Mind
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FERGUS & GERONIMO - 'UNLEARN'
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HAR028 - LP
098787302813HAR028CD - CD
098787302820
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Unlearn—an 11-track doo-wop spiked salute to the anti-establishment—is the first-ever of all time full-length from the duo Fergus & Geronimo.
Tracks
1. Girls With English Accents
2. Wanna Know What I Would Do?
3. Powerful Lovin'
4. Baby Boomer/Could You Deliver
5. Michael Kelly
6. Baby Don't You Cry
7. Where The Walls Are Made of Grass
8. The World Never Stops
9. Forced Aloha
10. Could You Deliver
11. Unlearn
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LA SERA - 'LA SERA'
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HAR030 - LP
098787303018HAR030CD - CD
098787303025
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Debut full-length LP from La Sera!
Tracks
1. Beating Heart
2. Never Come Around
3. You're Going To Cry
4. Sleeptalking
5. I Promise You
6. Left This World
7. Hold
8. Under the Trees
9. Devils Hearts Grows Gold
10. Dove Into Love
11. Been Here Before
12. Lift Off
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HUNX AND HIS PUNX - 'TOO YOUNG TO BE IN LOVE'
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HAR034CD - CD
098787303421
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Too Young To Be In Love is the first fully-realized Hunx and His Punx album, and the group’s first for Hardly Art. It was recorded in New York City by Ivan Julian—one of the founding members of inimitable NYC punk legends Richard Hell and the Voidoids. This record was made in the same studio that one of Hunx’s idols, Ronnie Spector, once recorded in. While it is preceded by the Gay Singles LP (True Panther Sounds/Matador Records, 2009), a collection of hard-to-find and out-of-print 7" singles, Too Young To Be In Love is the first proper studio record from Hunx and His Punx.
Tracks
1. Lovers Lane
2. He's Coming Back
3. Keep Away From Johnny
4. The Curse of Being Young
5. Too Young To Be In Love
6. If You're Not Here (I Don't Know Where You Are)
7. Bad Boy
8. Tonite Tonite
9. Can We Get Together?
10. Blow Me Away
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SEAPONY - 'GO WITH ME'
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HAR036 - LP
098787303612HAR036CD - CD
098787303629
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Go With Me is the debut LP from Seapony.
Tracks
1. Dreaming
2. I Never Would
3. Blue Star
4. Into the Sea
5. I Really Do
6. Go Away
7. Always
8. So Low
9. What You See
10. Nobody Knows
11. Where We Go
12. With You
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GEM CLUB - 'BREAKERS'
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HAR039 - LP
098787303919HAR039CD - CD
098787303926
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Gem Club is music, made by Christopher Barnes and his collaborators, cellist Kristen Drymala, and vocalist Ieva Berberian; Breakers is their masterful debut LP.
Tracks
1. Twins
2. Breakers
3. Lands
4. Red Arrow (John)
5. I Heard the Party
6. Black Ships
7. Tanager
8. 252
9. In Wavelengths
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UNNATURAL HELPERS - 'LAND GRAB'
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HAR040 - LP
098787304015HAR040CD - CD
098787304022
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Unnatural Helpers churn out hit songs like allergic sneezes, but they also are culled from the ditches of modern society, stolen from the ranks of working class yahoos. Pain, Doubt, Fear, Hate, Anger, Guilt, Regret, ad nauseum: it’s all here. Recorded in Seattle with Kurt Bloch and Eric Randall.
Tracks
1. Medication
2. Stiff Wind
3. Mexican Borders
4. I Trust It Hurts
5. Toil
6. Hate Your Teachers
7. Over You
8. Devil Is a Liar
9. When It Can Only Go Right
10. Walk
11. Waiting Girl
12. You're Right
13. Julie Jewel
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LA SERA - 'SEES THE LIGHT'
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HAR051CD - CD
098787305128
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The second album from La Sera is ten new tracks of peppy break-up pop brimming with defiance and bitter sweetness, recorded with Rob Barbato (The Fall, Darker My Love) in California. Where the first La Sera album was super-dreamy in its layered vocals, Sees The Light is more direct, more aggressive; almost a soundtrack to a lost drive-in movie classic. This is not an album for half-hearted partakers in the heartache scene: just an all-consuming love for punk as pop and pop as punk.
Tracks
1. Love That's Gone
2. Please Be My Third Eye
3. I Can't Keep You in My Mind
4. Break My Heart
5. It's Over Now
6. I'm Alone
7. Break My Heart
8. Drive On
9. How Far We've Come Now
10. Don't Stay
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HUNX AND HIS PUNX - 'HAIRDRESSER BLUES'
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HAR052 - LP
098787305210HAR052CD - CD
098787305227
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Hairdresser Blues is the first solo record from front man Hunx, and features all Hunx, all the time (minus drums, played by Daniel Pitout). Listen in as Hunx sings on about love, hairspray, and rollers, all backed by contagious pop melodies with streaks of glam, garage, and the Dunedin Sound in its hair. Recorded with Ivan Julian (Richard Hell & the Voidoids) in NY.
Tracks
1. Your Love Is Here to Stay
2. Private Room
3. Let Me In
4. Always Forever
5. Hairdresser Blues
6. Do You Remember Being a Roller?
7. I'm Not the One You Were Looking For
8. Set Them Free
9. Say Goodbye Before You Leave
10. When You're Gone
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MAGIC TRICK - 'RULER OF THE NIGHT'
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HAR053 - LP
098787305319HAR053CD - CD
098787305326
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Ruler of the Night is acclaimed songwriter Tim Cohen’s second LP under the Magic Trick portmanteau. Together with vocalists Noelle Cahill and Alicia Vanden Heuvel (Aislers Set), and James Kim (Kelly Stoltz’s band), Cohen has crafted a lush, absorbing, and alternately uplifting and devastating pop tapestry.
Tracks
1. Ruler of the Night
2. Torture
3. Invisible at Midnight
4. Sunny
5. Next to Nothing
6. Melodies
7. Angel Dust
8. Ruby
9. Same People
10. Weird Memory
11. I Say Your Name
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FERGUS & GERONIMO - 'FUNKY WAS THE STATE OF AFFAIRS'
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HAR057CD - CD
098787305722
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Fergus & Geronimo return with Funky Was the State of Affairs, a sixteen-track weirdo-opus about aliens, mind-control, conspiracy theories, and intergalactic courtship. Also: numbers, symbols, parties, Heather Strange, and LSD. Get with it, clone drone!
Tracks
1. Planet Earth is Pregnant for the 5th Time
2. No Parties
3. The Strange One Speaketh
4. Roman Tick
5. "My Phone's Been Tapped, Baby"
6. Roman Nvmerals / Wiretapping Muzak I
7. Spies
8. Earthling Men
9. The Uncanny Valley
10. Earthling Women
11. Drones
12. Wiretapping Muzak II
13. Off the Map
14. "The Roman Stuff is Where it's At"
15. Markey Move
16. Funky Was the State of Affairs
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K-HOLES - 'DISMANIA'
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HAR059 - LP
098787305913HAR059CD - CD
098787305920
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NY’s K-Holes have returned with Dismania, the group’s second full-length and first for Hardly Art. Dismania comes packed with the same kind of sinister, feverish punk skronk the New York quintet (featuring former members of Golden Triangle and the Black Lips) is known for. It’s a dark, brutal, menacing trip; the sound of escape with the sheen of redemption, fueled by the low, thundering beat of tribal divination.
Tracks
1. Child
2. Rats
3. Frozen Stiff
4. Acid
5. Window in the Wall
6. Nightshifter
7. Mosquito
8. Dirty Hax
9. Numb
10. Nothing New
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BROKEN WATER - 'TEMPEST'
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HAR060 - CD
098787306026
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The Olympia three-piece Broken Water— a sometimes noisy, sometimes droning, often pretty and subtly poppy band—is very much a product of its hometown. After a number of shape-shifting releases, the band has managed the rare feat of evolution in the service of a signature sound, wild experimentation that ultimately works as a harness, locking down the music’s unique and idiosyncratic internal logic. Tempest is their second full-length album and first for Hardly Art. Recorded at Buzz or Howl studios with Stan Wright.
Tracks
1. Drown
2. Coming Down
3. Orange Blossom Stains
4. Yanka Dyagileva
5. Underground
6. Thread to Connect
7. Paranoid
8. River Under the River
9. Chantal Seder
10. When You Said
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DEEP TIME - 'DEEP TIME'
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HAR061CD - CD
098787306125
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Austin’s Jennifer Moore and Adam Jones are truly one-of-a-kind. For years you’ve known them as YellowFever, but now, know them as Deep Time. The same singular brand of oddball art-pop is still here, striking as ever, with a new name and renewed energy. Listen in and join their psychedelic coccoon.
Tracks
1. Bermuda Triangle
2. Sgt. Sierra
3. Coleman
4. Clouds
5. Homebody
6. Gilligan
7. Gold Rush
8. Marathon
9. Horse
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SEAPONY - 'FALLING'
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HAR062 - LP
098787306217HAR062CD - CD
098787306224
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Recorded at Olympia’s Dub Narcotic Studios, Falling is the second full-length LP from Seapony, and an album primed for autumnal enjoyment, handily conjuring the placid atmosphere of a Northwest summer’s twilight days. While remaining a record of disarming grace, Falling injects palpable rock energy into Seapony’s patented sun-kissed sound.
Tracks
1. Outside
2. Tell Me So
3. What You Wanted
4. Follow
5. Be Alone
6. No One Will
7. Never Be
8. Sunlight
9. Prove to Me
10. Fall Apart
11. See Me Cry
12. Nothing Left
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COLLEEN GREEN - 'SOCK IT TO ME'
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HAR064CD - CD
098787306422
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Colleen Green always wears sunglasses onstage. Colleen Green is long hair and getting high. Colleen Green’s first full-length for Hardly Art, Sock it to Me, is grounded in pure pop. Colleen Green’s multi-tracked, emotive vocals take an enormous leap forward, evoking all-time heroes such as Rose Melberg and Tina Weymouth, with every drum-machine-tracked song awash in the dreamy slacker romanticism of California.
Tracks
1. Only One
2. Time in the World
3. You're So Cool
4. Close to You
5. Sock it to Me
6. Darkest Eyes
7. Heavy Shit
8. Every Boy Wants a Normal Girl
9. Taxi Driver
10. Number One
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LOST ANIMAL - 'EX TROPICAL'
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HAR066 - LP
098787306613HAR066CD - CD
098787306620
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Lost Animal’s music comes at you in layers: familiar, then mysterious; catchy, then saturated and atmospheric. Lost Animal finds Jarrod Quarrell (pictured on the cover there) using his keyboard to explore new sounds and evoke distant locations. Ex Tropical is the debut LP from Lost Animal.
Tracks
1. (Intro) Beat Goes On
2. Say No to Thugs
3. Buai Raskol
4. Don't Litter
5. Cold Cut Nature
6. Ex Tropical
7. Lose the Baby
8. Greylands
9. Old Lovers
10. Sundown
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GRAVE BABIES - 'CRUSHER'
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HAR067 - LP
098787306712HAR067CD - CD
098787306729
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Grave Babies are a band whose sound might suggest the need for drugs that stabilize mood, while also creating a desire for ones that enhance them. The center of Grave Babies’ sound is the sonic equivalent of thwarted desire – and on Crusher, their first LP for Hardly Art, Grave Babies take the harder approach: doing what they’ve always done, but doing it better.
Tracks
1. I
2. Over and Under Ground
3. Skulls
4. Slaughter
5. Count Cuts
6. Breeding
7. Pain Cycle
8. II
9. III
10. No Fear
11. Blood on the Face
12. Death March
13. Haunted
14. Hate Repeats
15. IV
16. Prostitution
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WE ARE LOUD WHISPERS - 'SUCHNESS'
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HAR068 - LP
098787306811HAR068CD - CD
098787306828
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We Are Loud Whispers is a dreamy duo featuring Sonya Westcott (Arthur & Yu) and Ayumu Haitani (4 Bonjour’s Parties). Suchness, their debut LP, displays intricate electronic orchestration, loops, and effects, while relaying an organic ease. Assembled over emails sent between Seattle and Japan, Suchness transcended geographical and language barriers – and traditional ideas of what a “band” is – in its making.
Tracks
1. Orange Blossom
2. This Time
3. You Surround
4. Western Town
5. Glossolalia
6. Starcrossed
7. Modern World
8. Rewind
9. I Hate Goodbyes
10. My Love Song
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HATSU - 'TOTAL'
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HAR070 - LP
098787307016HAR070CD - CD
098787307023
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The beauty of rock-music lies in the expanse of terrain that it encompasses as a definition. Total aims to acknowledge that freedom; it is at times melodious and at others dissonant, all in all, a finished product, a totality. With this in mind: Total is the debut album from Portland’s Hausu, and the band’s first for Hardly Art.
Tracks
1. Chrysanthemum
2. Leaning Mass
3. 1991 - 2091
4. Gardenia
5. Recovery
6. Tetsuo
7. John Codeine
8. Vasari Joust
9. Kool Off
10. Bleak
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MOONDOGGIES - 'ADIOS I'M A GHOST'
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HAR071CD - CD
098787307122HAR071 - LP
098787307115
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Adios I’m a Ghost is a quintessentially Northwest record. Musically and lyrically, it balances light and dark, marrying the boisterous blues of The Moondoggies’ debut album Don’t Be a Stranger, the symphonic sadness of Tidelands, and a temperamental timbre previously unheard from the band. Recorded at Bear Creek Studios, Adios I’m a Ghost is The Moondoggies’ third full-length for Hardly Art.
Tracks
1. I'm a Ghost
2. Red Eye
3. Annie Turn Out the Lights
4. Midnight Owl
5. Pride
6. A Lot to Give
7. Stop Signs
8. Start Me Over
9. One More Chance
10. Back to the Beginning
11. Don't Ask Why
12. Adios I'm A Ghost
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HUNX AND HIS PUNX - 'STREET PUNK'
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HAR073 - LP (COLOURED)
098787307313HAR073CD - CD
098787307320
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**ON YELLOW / WHITE MARBLE COLOURED VINYL** HUNX AND HIS PUNX have returned with Street Punk—a new album filled with the catchiest and most hateful punk songs heard in eons. Street Punk is an unrelenting tour de force, echoing early 80s hardcore, 90s grrl sounds, Darby Crash on helium, and the female answer to The Misfits.
Tracks
1. Bad Skin
2. Everyone's A Pussy (Fuck You Dude)
3. You Think You're Tough
4. Born Blonde
5. I'm Coming Back
6. Mud in Your Eyes
7. Street Punk
8. Don't Call Me Fabulous
9. Rat Bag
10. Egg Raid on Mojo
11. Kill Elaine
12. It's Not Easy
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GEM CLUB - 'IN ROSES'
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HAR077 - 2xLPs
098787307719HAR077CD - CD
098787307726
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There are times when beauty and sadness are inextricably linked. Massachusetts- based Gem Club understands this fragile symmetry. In Roses, recorded in analog at Tiny Telephone with The Magik*Magik Orchestra, is the second full-length release from Gem Club.
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1. [Nowhere]
2. First Weeks
3. Michael
4. Hypericum
5. Idea for Strings
6. Soft Season
7. QY2
8. Speech of Foxes
9. Braid
10. Marathon (In Roses)
11. Polly
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TACOCAT - 'NVM'
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HAR079 - LP
098787307917HAR079CD - CD
098787307924
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Like a fluorescent-lit snack-aisle oasis in some desolate interstate road stop, brimming with Skittles and limited-edition Sno Balls, Tacocat’s Easter-egg-hued pop-punk-pop is bubblegum-sticky with hooks, bound to brighten up the most drab stretch of bummer backroad. Recorded at Egg Studios in Seattle, NVM is the whippet-smart latest album from the world’s favorite palindromic band. Text a friend.
Tracks
1. You Never Came Back
2. Bridge to Hawaii
3. Crimson Wave
4. Stereogram
5. Pocket Full of Primrose
6. Psychedelic Quincea?era
7. Time Pirate
8. This is Anarchy
9. Hey Girl
10. Party Trap
11. F.U. #8
12. Alien Girl
13. Snow Day