VARIOUS - 'BROWN ACID: THE FIFTH TRIP'

Formats

• EZRDR085 - LP

  603111720210

• EZRDR085CD - CD

  603111720227

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The hits just keep coming—for this fifth lysergic journey, Riding Easy assembles ten heavy slabs of obscure rock the likes of which have never been seen before… not in this form, anyhow. And as usual, the tracks from these impossibly rare records have all been fully cleared through the artists themselves. Great lengths were gone to in order to get the best possible master sources, the worst case scenario being an original 45. The legendary Captain Foam kicks off this trip like an anvil to your skull with a rollicking stomper sounding like The Who with Matt Pike’s thunderous guitar tone. “No Reason” wasn’t easy to find, but lo and behold, the super sleuths located him and got his blessing to include the A-side of his sole single. Good luck finding an original copy of the record. It’s rarer than raw beef—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The other nine tracks continue the onslaught in typical Brown Acid form: George Brigman’s charmingly disjointed bedroom-fi production of “Blowin’ Smoke,” Finch’s way out of time and place grungeadelic anthem “Nothing In The Sun,” Cybernaut’s heavy prog, Fargo’s hallucinogenic BBQ-sauce soaked “Abaddon,” Mammoth’s fittingly beefy eponymous riff-monger, Flasher’s “Icky Bicky” boogie, Ohio-based screamers Lance, Zebra’s gritty rendition of “Helter Skelter” and finally, the mysterious and previously unheard Thor appears here exclusively and for the first time ever with their unknown 45 track “Lick It.” 

Tracks

1. Captain Foam - No Reason
2. George Brigman And Split -Blowin? Smoke
3. Finch - Nothing In The Sun
4. Cybernaut - Clockwork
5. Fargo - Abaddon
6. Mammoth - Mammoth
7. Flasher - Icky Bicky
8. Lance - Fireball
9. Zebra - Helter Skelter
10. Thor - Lick It

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LAURA BAIRD - 'I WISH I WERE A SPARROW'

Formats

• BING116 - LP

  600197011614

• BING116CD - CD

  600197011621

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With a musical timeline dating back to her early childhood, Laura Baird is an exceptionally talented multiinstrumentalist and singer-songwriter, best known for her projects with her sister, Meg, as The Baird Sisters, and guitarist Glenn Jones. Baird’s own sound stems from the Appalachian folk tradition, and she connects to it via family lineage—her great-great uncle I.G. Greer’s folk recordings for the Library of Congress are a large influence. Also woven in are classical composers like Bach and Satie, and modern day musicians such as Opal and Yo La Tengo. With this debut solo album, I Wish I Were A Sparrow, Baird plays odes to the traditions from which she learned, combining Appalachian balladry and the roughness of old field recordings, but there is also a dose of dreaminess and solitude that captures sleepy central New Jersey. This is where she departs from tradition, leaving the communal origins of folk music to capture the singular self. The lyrics also present an amalgam of old and new, with half of the songs, including “Dreadful Wind and Rain” and “Pretty Polly,” being passed down from the folk tradition, and the other half, including “Wind Wind “and “Love Song From The Earth To The Moon,” coming from Baird’s own hand. While the most salient part of her previous Baird Sisters project was the melding of familial voices and various instruments, Baird’s solo effort is centered around the combination of her virtuosic banjo playing and prominent but airy vocals. Baird Sisters Until You Find Your Green 

Tracks

1. Wind, Wind 2. Dreadful Wind And Rain 3. Cuckoo 4. Love Song From The Earth To The Moon 5. Pretty Saro 6. Bats 7. Did You Come Here Alone? 8. Pretty Polly 9. Hay In The Wagon 10. Home Is Were You Are 11. Poor Orphan Child 12. Twin Sisters

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MOS GENERATOR - 'NOMADS'

Formats

• PSYCHOBABBLE094LP - LP

  4046661526714

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Originally released in 2012, Mos Generator’s “Nomads” immediately became a fan favorite for its refreshing, no-bullshit take on the state of rock n’ roll in the new millennium. Five years later, Stickman is bringing back this modern classic, remastered and chock full of bonus material for the fans. Mos Generator has been setting the standard in excellent rock music for the better part of the last twenty years, never letting trends or paradigm shifts get in the way. Tony Reed, guitarist and vocalist of the band, heads up the project as well as writing and producing the band‘s material. When the band released Nomads in 2012, their first record in 7 years, they had already established themselves as masters of their craft, not just able to write airtight songs but to do so with the same knack for originality as their famous progenitors. The record‘s nine songs span a wide swath of classic rock territory, beginning with the heavy lumber of the space-themed “Cosmic Ark”, moving through mid-paced headbangers like the single “Lonely One Kenobi” and even giving a nod to the 80’s with a cover of Judas Priest’s “Solar Angels”. Reed has the natural conviction of a man with music in his DNA and the chops to back it up, but Nomads is a testament to the band’s pop sensibilities as much as their ability to rock. Once these riffs get in your head, they definitely won’t be leaving any time soon. “The return of Mos Generator strikes a chord with its straightforwardness, its lack of bullshit and its engaging songwriting,” writes JJ Koczan of The Obelisk. “Hooks for miles and grooves for longer than that, Nomads is a heavy rocker’s chorus-loaded paradise.” Stickman Records is re-releasing Nomads album on colored 180gr. Vinyl including a download of the album, that also features 8 unreleased bonus tracks from the Nomads recording sessiom. 

Tracks

Cosmic Ark
Lonely One Kenobi
Torches
Step Up
Solar Angels
For Your Blood
Can't Get Where I Belong
Nomads
This Is The Gift Of Nature

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WORLD OF POOH - 'THE LAND OF THIRST'

Formats

• STARLIGHT29 - LP

  655035302911

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During their three-year existence in the mid-’80s “San Francisco’s World Of Pooh manifested all kinds of reverent beauty-moves … interwoven with darker mutterings and visual clews that seemed designed to confound and obfuscate. It wasn’t until much later that … listeners … would discover how bipolar the band’s actual wobble was…. The music of World Of Pooh is some of the definitive American underground pop bastardization created in the latter half of the Twentieth Century…. [M]aybe [the vocal and instrumental glisten] isn’t quite as pleasant as you’d originally thought. Indeed, their whole gestalt is pretty goddamn twisted…, in such an empathetic and human way that it can’t but help draw you in…. Because their ending was as rife with public commotion as their birth had been with the private variety, it always seemed highly unlikely that the exquisitely balanced songs … would ever reappear in graspable form. But time is a universal salve. And we should be glad of it. Because hearing this music, using ears that have been bored stupid by endless gushes of null-minded pap, it is possible, finally, perhaps, to appreciate the indelicate tension and unholy stylistic alliances that made World of Pooh so special….” —Byron Coley “[W]hile never abrasive [The Land Of Thirst is] at times shrewdly edgy … with a strong grip on instrumental spacing and texture…. [N]icely ragged … dual-voiced guitarpop constructions [with] nervy, choppy moodiness.” —Joseph Neff, Vinyl District

Tracks

1. Playing One?s Own Piano
2. Mr. Coffee-Nerves
3. Laughing At The Ground
4. Scissors 5. Zorch 6. Bone Happy
7. I?m On The Wrong Side
8. Mogra 9. On, On & One
10. Cake Flotilla 11. Somewhere Soon
12. Drunkard?s Dream

Press

? Reissue of sole LP by ?80s San Francisco trio who merged beguiling songcraft with
coarse, claustrophobic pop
? Remastered from original analog tapes
? Featuring Barbara Manning (S.F. Seals, 28th Day), Brandan Kearney (Caroliner,
Faxed Head, Heavenly Ten Stems), and Jay Paget (Thinking Fellers Union Local
282, Glorious Din)

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