AQUARIAN BLOOD - 'LAST NITE IN PARADISE'

Formats

• 134GONE - LP

  600385269919

• 134GONECD - CD

  600385269926

Details

*NEW RELEASE DATE* Aquarian Blood is a crew of six (sometimes seven) Memphis degenerates from assorted generations playing hypnotic, synth-y tracks whose main ruminations are cults, the paranormal, and other obscurities—whirlwind, weirdo punk soaked in the brain-goo pouring out of the ears of an acid freak. Led by husband and wife duo JB Horrell (Ex-Cult, Moving Finger) and Laurel Ferdon (Nots, Moving Finger), the project began as bedroom recordings that yielded two now out-of-print tapes of total trippiness on the ZAP cassette label, and one completely unhinged monster of a single on Goner. Last Nite In Paradise is their debut album.

Tracks

1. Heaven Is In My Head
2. Won?t Forget To Die
3. Eat 2 Survive
4. Sex Is Pure / Love Is Blind
5. Playboy / Playgirl
6. Funeral Moon 7. Thing
8. Blood Chant
9. Cold Foreign Adviser
10. Get Wet
11. Parasite Inside
12. Skin Suit ?Mother?s Clothes?
13. I?m Lit 14. Horns
15. Asshole In The Castle

Press

Features members of Ex-Cult, Nots, and
Moving Finger. RIYL: Black Flag

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MEATBODIES - 'ALICE'

Formats

• ITR298 - LP

  759718529814

• ITR298CD - CD

  759718529821

Details

With Alice, Meatbodies return ascending toward ground level. A “heavy-pop” concept, metal on molly. Chad Ubovich, Patrick Nolan, and Kevin Boog step out in new form, soaring through diverse stories, tones, and characters. Dancing between quiet and loud, funk and doom, pop and noise. Their message preached is celestial and deafening, a sacred scripture for today’s world: a warbling rhodes piano, a liquifying electric guitar, a ghostly synthesizer skating across the sands of a twelve-stringed acoustic. The band digs deep into the rich soils of Earth to reveal the chaotic sensual vibrations underneath the fields we walk upon. Connecting our limbs, our mouths, our consciousness to the microcosms of the grime, all while being lit by black light. Captured wriggling and alive in San Francisco by Ubovich and Eric Bauer at The Bauer Mansion, this album is a step in the right direction, a new direction, a new way of thinking. Watching the futures, watching the world burn.

Tracks

1. The Burning Fields
(CD and digital download only)
2. Kings 3. Alice
4. Creature Feature
5. Disciples
6. Scavenger 7. Touchless
8. Count Your Fears
9. Haunted History 10. Gyre
11. Fools Fold Their Hands

Press

?Ubovich intones with a spaced-out, reverb-heavy delivery
like a garage-punk Syd Barrett.? ?LA Weekly

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JIM & THE FRENCH VANILLA - 'AFRAID OF THE HOUSE'

Formats

• ZZZ148 - LP

  881970014811

Details

Jim And The French Vanilla is the solo project of Jim Blaha from The Blind Shake. This is his third album under this moniker, but the first to be made widely available — the first two came out on CDR-only and limited-to-100 vinyl, respectively. The first two albums were acoustic, one-man-band affairs, but on Afraid Of The House Jim (along with his brother/bandmate in Blind Shake Mike Blaha) expands to a full band sound, to astonishing effect. The basic songwriting retains the incredibly distinctive mystical, other-worldly atmosphere of The Blind Shake, but the instrumentation and sound are both stripped down to their essence, dialing way back on the loud-psych stamp of his main band. Raw, feral, but incredibly catchy, this album covers a wider sonic pallet than one might pick up on at first. From poppy to heavy, from atmospheric to wild, it reflects a wide range of ideas and emotion, while maintaining surprising consistence throughout.

Tracks

1. When You?re Down
2. I?m Just Sitting Here 3. Back Home
4. Take It To The Grave
5. Not Even War 6. Eye For An Eye
7. Grow Like Rabbits
8. Psychic Killer
9. I Have To Slow Down
10. Green Curtains 11. Lonely Man

Press

? Latest side project release by Jim and
Mike Blaha from The Blind Shake

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POW! - 'CRACK AN EGG'

Formats

• CF081 - LP

  814867022897

• CF081CD - CD

  814867022903

Details

POW! continue their danse macabre in the laser glow of hi-beam synthesizers, with a new batch of synth-punk candy that will rot your teeth: Crack An Egg. Vacuum-sealed, chrome gleaming, propulsion pounding, eyebrows arched and slightly pixelated, this album is like the cupie-doll face beckoning from a digital billboard outside your hovercraft window. From a none-too-distant dystopia and on to your turntable — VCFs slowly open across a smogged-out horizon as they urge you to take that “Necessary Call,” warn moodily against a “Cyberattack,” and inexplicably “Crack An Egg” in honor of the human race. Synthetic earworms squirm into and out of view like twinkling city lights through evening’s opaque air, feasting on terse punk skeletons. The neon is buffed to an aerosol sheen by Chris Woodhouse behind the blinking motherboards, with a streetlight or two of Gary Numan’s slanting through the door. The automatons know where the party’s at — follow them. 

Tracks

1. DNS
2. Back On The Grid
3. Castle Of Faith
4. Necessary Call
5. Runner
6. Crack An Egg Intro
7. Cyberattack #3
8. Color The System
9. Hello
10. The Razor
11. Energy In Motion
12. Crack An Egg

Press

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HAND HABITS - 'WILDLY IDLE (HUMBLE BEFORE THE VOID)'

Formats

• WOODSIST088 - LP

  655035048819

• WOODSIST088CD - CD

  655035048826

Details

“Singer, songwriter and guitarist from Upstate New York Meg Duffy, aka Hand Habits, has been putting in her time on the road and in the studio over the past two years with Pacific Northwest band Mega Bog, and the Kevin Morby Band, making an impression on everyone she comes across with her natural charisma and uncharted talent as a multiinstrumentalist. But let Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void) be her open invitation to the world to step inside and take a much deeper look into who Duffy actually is. “Tracked in an Upstate New York living room, then finished in her current home in Los Angeles, this album was recorded by Meg herself; she has an acute ear for detail, has touched every corner, has seen every vision ’til its end. Because of this, Wildly Idle feels incredibly intimate, like a secret between her and the listener. It hits soft, like warm water all around you, a bath, and before you know it Meg’s whisper has made its way inside you. Meg has music in her touch, and this, like many bedroom-debuts (Microphones, Jessica Pratt, Little Wings, Grouper) is only the beginning. But let us not look to the future now, and instead stand alongside her, our trust in her will, both humble before the void, with her first chorus as the mission statement: Hold you like a flower, hold you like an hour glass.” —Kevin Morby

Tracks

1. Flower Glass
2. Actress
3. Greater LA (scene)
4. In Between
5. All The While
6. Demand It
7. Cowboy (scene)
8. Sun Beholds Me
9. Book On How To Change
10. Time Hole (scene)
11. Nite Life
12. Bad Boy
13. New Bones

Press

? Debut solo album by Meg Duffy of Mega
Bog and the Kevin Morby Band
? For fans of Microphones, Jessica Pratt,
Little Wings, Grouper

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