THE NIGHT TERRORS - 'SPIRAL VORTEX'

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• HOMELESS13 - LP

  0 934334 401656

• HOMELESS13CD - 2xCDs

  5060174959851

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***WAREHOUSE FIND - PRICE REDUCTION ON CD RIYL: S U R V I V E or  STRANGER THINGS OST***Melbourne’s The Night Terrors offer a mind-melting mix of dark synth magic, thunderous dreamscapes and other-worldly electronica. An interstellar horror-synth fantasy featuring an orgy of vintage electronics, SPIRAL VORTEX sees the band build upon their post-prog roots to explore a broader universe of warped psychedelia, thunderous dreamscapes and dark cosmic dance. Featuring the haunting theremin melodies of Miles Brown (student of Russian theremin queen Lydia Kavina), vintage horror synths, and the powerhouse drumming of Damian Coward (Heirs, High Tension) The Night Terrors have earned a reputation as one of Australia’s most unusual and original acts. The Night Terrors have toured with Hawkwind (UK), Black Mountain (CAN), Melt-Banana (JPN), Serena Maneesh (NOR) Nick Oliveri (USA), and shared the stage with Lou Reed (USA), Goblin (IT), Laurie Anderson (USA), Boris (JPN), Bardo Pond (USA), Marc Ribot (USA), Electric Electric (FR), Midnight Juggernauts (AUS), HTRK (AUS) and more. The band has toured Europe extensively and appeared at international festivals such as VIVID Live (AUS), Polyhymnia (DE), Bracara Extreme (PORT), Denovali Swingfest (DE), For All the Cows Fest (AU) & Incubate (NL). Following the release of two stellar EPs “The Night Terrors” and “Lightless” through Unstable Ape Records, The Night Terrors’ debut full length album Back To Zero was released in April 2009 through Australian label EXO Records. Back To Zero was reissued for release in Europe/USA/Japan through TRENDKILL Recordings (France) in September 2010, and then reissued on double 12″ coloured vinyl through Homeless Records (AUS). In March 2014 The Night Terrors unleash their long awaited follow-up to 2009′s Back To Zero with the release of SPIRAL VORTEX – available for preorder now as a deluxe, 180gm transparent red with Halloween orange splatter colour vinyl edition and gatefold sleeve through Homeless Records. Available via Forte as an exclusive 2CD that adds Back To Zero to Spiral Vortex, housed in a deluxe digi-wallet and unique to European customers. "Folks you should check out this incredible record by The Night Terrors. It is pretty awesome, it's like Bruno Nicolai meets MBV jamming with a gigantic theremin." (Death Waltz Recording Company)

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BILL MACKAY & RYLEY WALKER - 'LAND OF PLENTY'

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• WSLR022CD - CD

  845121089813

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BACK IN STOCK! Instrumental collaboration between Chicago-based guitarists falls somewhere between WALKER's acclaimed new album, Primrose Green (Dead Oceans), & MACKAY's highly melodic work in DARTS & ARROWS. Songs run the gamut from fingerstyle ballads to psychedelic waltzes & raga-inspired blues. Recorded live during the last two shows of a January 2015 residency at The Whistler 

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SVVAMP - 'S/T'

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• EZRDR068X - LP (COLOURED)

  N/A

• EZRDR068 - LP

  603111715018

• EZRDR068CD - CD

  603111715025

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Swedish trio Svvamp is the real deal. Countless bands today strive to sound genuine -- whether faking their way through a ProTools pastiche of carefully assembled takes, painstakingly tarnishing tracks to give them a “live feel” or simply copying the style of their favorite band. And, usually, their posturing is entirely transparent. Every once in a while though, you find a band without self-conscious pretense that truly echoes the mood and vibe of an era when the rulebooks were burned with the draft cards and the act of playing rock’n’roll was simultaneously defiant and inherently casual. Svvamp is just that type of primordial beauty captured on a perfect 11-song debut. Svvamp was created by three friends - Adam Johansson, Henrik Bjorklund and Erik Stahlgren - drawn together for the sake of jamming and a love of rock, folk and blues. Their resulting heavy psych sound is immediately gripping in its homespun feel and hints of Cream, Eric Bell-era Thin Lizzy, CCR and Crazy Horse. “Serpent in the Sky” kicks things off with a syncopated bluesy riff romp, while “Burning Down” echoes the stomping freeform feel of the New Yardbirds’ “How Many More Times.” Once things settle in to the laid back shuffle of “Free At Last”, Svvamp really finds its groove and lets loose like Axis: Bold As Love Jimi Hendrix . “Time” sounds almost like Ziggy Stardust era Bowie with a boogie swagger and cheeky vocals. “Set My Foot and Leave” sounds as earnest and unpretentious as The Faces (and at times like Rod Stewart’s “Maggie May”, without all that shaggy, smug Rodness). Elsewhere, “Blue In the Face” slips into a heavy groove while “Oh, Girl” bashes out stop ’n’ go riffs with the Marshall stack dramatics of Blue Cheer . Chiming mandolin and acoustic guitars lead the charming closing anthem, “Down By The River" (not the Neil Young song).

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1: Serpent In The Sky
2: Fresh Cream
3: Burning Down
4: Free At Last
5: Time
6: Bug Rest
7: Set My Foot And Leave
8: Golden Crown
9: Blue In The Face
10: Oh Girl
11: Down By The River

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DANNY & THE DARLEANS - 'BUG OUT'

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• ITR299 - LP

  759718529913

• ITR299CD - CD

  759718529920

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As one-third of The Gories, singer/guitarist Danny Kroha cemented himself in rock history for his contributions to a groundbreaking and influential band. In between the Gories’ 1992 breakup and their soft return in 2009, Kroha fronted Danny & the Darleans (amongst other projects), centering around his feral howls and masterful guitar clanging. Bug Out, their sophomore album refines some of the savage bombast of the Gories while ditching almost all of the glam camp of Kroha’s other long-running act, the Demolition Doll Rods. Backed by fireball drummer Richie Wohlfeil (Detroit Cobras, Mother Whale, Saturday Looks Good to Me, and many others) and bassist Colleen Burke (once keyboardist for Chicago art-punks We Regazzi), they’re something of a party band. The tunes are often lighthearted, fun, and rowdy, but there is also an undercurrent of science fiction dread. Apocalyptic party rock makes sense from a trio of Detroit shadow dwellers, and the good times are never too far from the hard times over the course of this mono masterpiece.

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1. Bug Out Bag
2. I?m Right Here
3. Outta My Way
4. Girl
5. Let?s Stomp
6. Leaving Here
7. Who Dat?
8. Soul On Ice
9. Cat Squirrel
10. Dr. Finger
11. Wild About My Lovin?
12. Little Black Egg

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EX-CULT - 'NEGATIVE GROWTH'

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• ITR294 - LP

  759718529418

• ITR294CD - CD

  759718529425

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“In the year of the snitch, there are forces beyond your control that keep you up at night. Ghost notions that swirl around your room while you sleep. Your own pillow laughing right in your face while you fight for an hour of rest. Voices whisper from the corner, telling you everything you never wanted to hear. Negative Growth, our third album, is dedicated to fear and deception. “This collection of songs was conceived in Memphis and finalized in Los Angeles, with the help of our family doctor Ty Segall. It was created in February 2016, when we traded Memphis misery for a week of California sunshine. Negative Growth is a nine-track nightmare, a death trip in the crystal ship. The institution known as In The Red Records will do the honors. The Hollywood Heat Seeker takes ten years off your life.” —Chris Shaw of Ex-Cult

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1. Mr. Investigator
2. Attention Ritual
3. Let You In
4. Government Birdcage
5. Dogs Roll In
6. Panic In Pig Park
7. Hollywood Heatseeker
8. Nightmare Zone
9. New Face On

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KANDODO / MCBAIN - 'LOST CHANTS / LAST CHANCE'

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• ROOSTER24CD - 2xCDs

  5060446120934

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A meeting of like minds surfing the sonic highways to tonal oblivion. These four castaways on Sonic Island (this may be too much) have delivered an album that evokes the long lost and revered genre “Drug-Rock” a true mind melt of acid abandonment! Tab-era Monster Magnet, Sessions Era- The Heads… purely visceral and pummelling workouts of a krautrock and pschedelische (surely the most overused term of now..but finally in its right place) from these masters of the art. Lets not beat about the burning bush here, this is an original Monster Magnet member and three of the Heads… this is pedigree not to be overlooked. Tune in, Turn on, droned out!! Mutually appreciated riffs, drones and tones floated across the oceans (via the internet). Conceived by Simon Price, Wayne Maskell, and Hugo Morgan and their US conspirator John McBain. They’ve created a modern masterpiece, straight from the off, the album feels like it has been hurled from riff valley, laden with trips aplenty.. catch a sonic wave here fellow psychonauts!!! (Liquid aural lava, it will encase your brain with a sike glazed crust.) Mastered by John Mcbain for full sonic immersion, and cut at 45rpm to enable a further immersion into the molassess when sped down to 33rm… this works so well, that the CD comes as a double with CD one a 45rpm (normal) master and CD 2 the treacle trap murk of it slowed to 33rpm.. the come down stretched further… a psychedelic morass..all encased in a sike glazed crust of quality packaging. Wig out and get your oblivion set, strap this on and soar into space. DIVE DEEP AND FLAME ON! 500 BLACK VINYL COMES WITH DL CARD THAT HAS FLAC DL CODE AND MP3 DL CODE 1000 First pressing 2cd in deluxe spot varnish thick card gatefold sleeve. Recommended for fans of: Monster Magnet – Tab, The Heads – Sessions, Hawkwind, Brainticket, NEU, Sand, and so forth…. 

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CD DISC ONE (or |LPs at 45rpm)

1 Blowed Out (45 rpm)
2 Holy Syke (45 rpm)
3 Megladon't (45 rpm)
4 Chant of The Ever Circling (Last Vulture) (45 rpm)
5 Pelagic Blue Haze (45 rpm)

CD DISC TWO (LPS at 33rpm)

6 Really Blown Out (33 rpm)
7 Holiest Syke (33 rpm)
8 Megladon't Ever (33 rpm)
9 Chant Of The Ever So Slowly Circling (Last Vulture)(33 rpm)
10 Pelagic Deep Blue Haze (33 rpm)

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"It feels more like Prometheus, Hermes, Perseus and a crack team of Argonaut veterans embarked on a decades-long odyssey to the summit of Mount Olympus in order to milk the purest, fullest-fat psychedelic fluid directly from the godly teat of Apollo himself"
The Quietus

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JACK ROSE - 'OPIUM MUSICK'

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• VHF142 - LP

  783881014211

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Part of a collaboration with Jack Rose’s estate and Three Lobed Records to restore all of his LPs to print, VHF presents new vinyl editions of the celebrated guitarist’s first three solo albums, newly cut by John Golden Mastering from the original source material. Originally issued on LP by Eclipse Records between 2002-04, these releases chart an eclectic, more experimental approach left behind as his technique and compositions became more refined and deliberate on later works like Kensington Blues. Recorded and originally released in 2003, Opium Musick is an eclectic collection with pieces for 12-string (the percussive and dark “Black Pearls”), 6-string, and lap guitar. The lovely raga-ish “Yaman Blues” features Mike Gangloff (Pelt, Black Twig Pickers) on tanpura, and echoes the extended modal work on Pelt’s contemporaneous Pearls From The River. The near ragtime of “Linden Ave Stomp” showcases Glenn Jones on his vintage Gibson in a jumping duet with Rose’s lap steel. “Linden Ave” charted a path that Rose would determinedly pursue—short ragtime and old-time influenced pieces (originals and classics), with all phrasing worked out to a perfectionist standard. The lovely “Mountaintop Lamento” was memorably used in Catherine Pancake’s film about coal mining in Appalachia, Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal and the Fight for Coalfield Justice. “In the year and half between Red Horse, White Mule and Opium Musick Mr. Rose spent the majority of his time honing his Ragtime and Jass skills. He met Dr. Chattanooga Red soon after recording his first LP and he revealed the secrets of Ragtime and Jass to Jack in ancient ceremony. Red came down with the jake in Philadelphia and died shortly after their tour. On his deathbed he told Jack not to let the ragtime die and to bring it into the 21st century. And now we have Opium Musick as a result of Jack’s studies and travels, a lovely tribute to Jack’s beloved teacher.” —Joe R. Sack, blues scholar, on Red Horse, White Mule

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1. Yaman Blues
2. Linden Ave Stomp
3. Mountaintop Lamento
4. Black Pearls

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JACK ROSE - 'RED HORSE, WHITE MULE'

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• VHF141 - LP

  783881014112

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Part of a collaboration with Jack Rose’s estate and Three Lobed Records to restore all of his LPs to print, VHF presents new vinyl editions of the celebrated guitarist’s first three solo albums, newly cut by John Golden Mastering from the original source material. Originally issued on LP by Eclipse Records between 2002-04, these releases chart an eclectic, more experimental approach left behind as his technique and compositions became more refined and deliberate on later works like Kensington Blues. Rose’s 2002 solo debut Red Horse, White Mule was a bit of an outlier in the underground gestalt at the time, coming just before the wave of releases from the new generation of Takoma- / Fahey-inspired players. Strictly a solo affair, Red Horse balances the epic, side-long raga of “Red Horse” against a second side of shorter pieces, including the ragged slide style of “The Colonel’s Blues.” The compositions and performances incorporate the new and the classic with a rough-hewn charm. “Rose’s personalized and disparate criteria awaken feelings of both rapture and tragedy on the scale of that which must have been felt by the newly-wed anthropologist who drove Kiowa Indian guests out of his Oklahoma residence with Victrola discs of Amelita Galli-Curci in order to go to bed with his bride or the child who, on hearing Bugs Bunny sing Queen Liluokalani’s dirge “Aloha Oe,” quarantined himself in the clothes hamper until such time that the United States withdraws from Hawai’i.” —Kisan Nagai, blues scholar, on Red Horse, White Mule

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1. Red Horse
2. Dark Was The Night,
Cold Was The Ground
3. White Mule Part 1
4. White Mule Part 2
5. Hide The Whiskey

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JACK ROSE - 'RAAG MANIFESTOS'

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• VHF85LP - LP

  783881008517

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Part of a collaboration with Jack Rose’s estate and Three Lobed Records to restore all of his LPs to print, VHF presents new vinyl editions of the celebrated guitarist’s first three solo albums, newly cut by John Golden Mastering from the original source material. Originally issued on LP by Eclipse Records between 2002-04, these releases chart an eclectic, more experimental approach left behind as his technique and compositions became more refined and deliberate on later works like Kensington Blues. Originally compiled from a variety of sources as a limited-edition CD to sell on tour in 2004 (released by VHF, later released on vinyl by Eclipse), Raag Manifestos presents much of Rose’s rawest and most experimental music, cutting across various acoustic styles, but with a much more jagged and aggressive attack than later music. “Black Pearls from the River” and “Hart Crane’s Old Boyfriends” are dense, serious assaults on the 12-string, with the intensity of the latter enhanced by Ian Nagoski’s roaring electronic backdrop. With subtle tabla accompaniment by Eric Carbonara, “Crossing The Great Waters” is another epic modal journey in the style of Pelt’s “Road To Catawba” and Rose’s own “Red Horse.” The traditional “Blessed Be the Name of the Lord” finishes off the LP on a calming note.

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1. Black Pearls From The River
2. Tower Of Babel
3. Hart Crane?s Old Boyfriends
4. Tex
5. Crossing The Great Waters
6. Road
7. Blessed Be The Name Of The Lord

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JACK ROSE - 'KENSINGTON BLUES'

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• VHR92 - LP

  783881009217

• VHR92CD - CD

  783881009224

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Kensington Blues is the fourth full-length release from Jack Rose and his most diverse outing by far. The album is an inspired mix of styles and sounds, with straight ragtime, heavy 12-string, and that sweet, sweet Weissenborn lap guitar all checking in. Honed during endless touring in 2004, the repertoire here is delivered with maximum authority in a series of first-take performances recorded in early 2005. “Cathedral et Chartres” and “Calais to Dover” are dense, brooding 12-string numbers, recalling the key tracks on 2004’s Raag Manifestos; “Rappahanock River Rag” and “Flirtin’ with the Undertaker” are pure syncopated ragtime; the epic “Now That I’m a Man Full Grown” was the signature piece of many live shows, a display of mind-boggling slide invention that straddles the line of East and West à la “Yaman Blues” from the Opium Musick LP. In something of a surprise inclusion, Rose’s take on John Fahey’s “Sunflower River Blues” (long a staple of Pelt and solo gigs but never included on a record) is subtle and expressive, with a wonderful rise and fall that perfectly accentuates Fahey’s beautiful melody. “While the new century’s novel folk has already seen significant definition, Rose is largely alone in talking new century ideas with the old language.... Kensington Blues is derivative and at the same time nearly brilliant. 8.0.” —Pitchfork

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1. Kensington Blues
2. Cross the North Fork
3. Cathedral et Chartres
4. Rappahanock River Rag
(for William Moore)
5. Sunflower River Blues
6. Now That I?m a Man Full Grown II
7. Flirtin? with the Undertaker
8. Calais to Dover

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IAN SWEET - 'SHAPESHIFTER'

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• HAR098 - LP

  098787309812

• HAR098CD - CD

  098787309829

• HARCS098 - MC

  098787309843

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“IAN SWEET’s indie pop packs the personality that [Hardly Art] is known for, spinning conventional rock band setups into output that is unconventional.” -- Consequence of Sound “They’ve relocated across the USA, gone on three tours, eaten a lot of donuts, climbed rocks and worn crocs.” -- Noisey "The unmistakable voice of singer Jillian Medford is a force that stands all on its own." -- Boston Hassle “I have a way of loving too many things to take on just one shape,” Jilian Medford sings over and over again on the title track of the Brooklyn-based band IAN SWEET’s debut album, Shapeshifter, repeating it like a mantra. This is Medford’s thesis statement, a narrator to carry us through Shapeshifter, which is above all else a meditation on loneliness and displacement. It’s about losing love and your sense of self in the process, about grabbing at the little things in life that bring joy when nothing else is going according to plan. It’s also an ode to the bandmates, and the friends, that see you through. IAN SWEET started in 2014 with a string of text messages. Medford was a few days away from embarking on her first tour when the driver and drummer she recruited cancelled. Medford sent IAN SWEET drummer Tim Cheney -- whom she barely knew -- a series of desperate messages, asking if he knew how to drum and whether or not he would be willing to take two weeks off of life to go on tour. Cheney responded soon after with a simple: “Yes.” Accompanied by Cheney and bassist Damien Scalise’s playful instrumentation, Shapeshifter becomes a celebratory purging, an album that finds humor in self-deprecation and vice. IAN SWEET’s debut interrogates capital-e Existence through a candy-coated lens, their mathy precision scaffolding the chaos of Medford’s personal neurosis and turning those anxieties into something hook-laden and relatable. And though the narrative of Shapeshifter clings to an ex-lover, the yearning felt on this album isn’t directed at a particular individual so much as it’s turned inward. “You know the feeling. When you really like someone, you forget to do anything for yourself, you forget all of the things that gave you your shape,” Medford says. “The things that form your absolute.” FIRST PRESSING OF THE VINYL IS A COLOUR VINYL PRESSING / W/ DL CODE, mc is strictly to order only

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01. Pink Marker
02. Slime Time Live
03. #23
04. 2soft2chew
05. Cactus Couch
06. Shapeshifter
07. All Skaters Go to Heaven
08. Knife Knowing You
09. Quietly Streaming
10. Pink Marker 2

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