SHARDS - 'FIND SOUND'

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• ERATP124CD - CD

  4050486115169

• ERATP124LP - LP

  4050486115152

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Find Sound is the debut record from Shards, a London based vocal group led by singer, composer and producer Kieran Brunt. Combining voices, synths and percussion, Find Sound is an astonishing exploration of the human voice; using the concepts of sound and light as simple metaphors for gaining understanding. The album’s pieces are intended to be miniature sonic paintings, with each adding to an overall picture of the emotional confusion of early adulthood: the uncertainty, the excitement, the terror and relief. After collaborating with Terry Riley in 2016, Brunt was asked by the Barbican to form a choral group for Nils Frahm’s Possibly Colliding festival that summer. Following the success of the shows, Frahm invited Brunt to join him in Berlin to collaborate on choral arrangements for his recent album All Melody. Shards have since gone on to collaborate with other notable artists, including Michael Price on his recent LP Tender Symmetry. Brunt details how he put Shards together: “I decided to go for 12 singers, capable of creating a good amount of noise but also small enough to get to know each other intimately. I also knew that I wanted to work with not just great voices, but singers with lots of personality and open minds when it comes to experimenting and trying things out. The group ended up consisting almost entirely of friends and friends-of-friends. I also tried my best to ask people who weren’t just singers, but who do have other projects and musical interests. As such, we have people in the group who are also composers, instrumentalists, folk musicians and teachers. It’s a vibrant mix, and I’m constantly discovering new things about them the more we make music together.” Each of the singers in Shards brings a very distinctive musical personality to the group, something which Brunt was eager to emphasise on their debut record. Rather than aiming for a seamless blend or absolute precision when recording, the differences between voices has been intentionally highlighted — celebrating their unique textures and inviting the listener to hear their minutest details up-close. The album was recorded in Italy at Palazzo Stabile, a tranquil house and studio in the hills of the Piedmontese countryside. During a two-week residency, the group lived and recorded together under one roof, giving them the opportunity to play with recording techniques and experiment with different spaces. Most of the final record was recorded in a converted barn used primarily as a painting studio, and underneath the house in a 200 year-old wine cellar. The album was written and produced by Kieran Brunt with additional production from Paul Corley (Sigur Ros, Oneohtrix Point Never, Yves Tumor). Lyrically based around a haiku-like poem, album opener and title-track Find Sound feels both fresh and naive; perhaps symbolising some kind of birth or new life. Summer Sickness explores feeling anxious and depressed whilst everyone around you is seemingly happy and smiling. Take the unrelenting arpeggiated synth line, it seems upbeat and positive on the surface, but becomes unsettling and jarring on closer inspection. Dissect is a more abstract moment early on, a mini psychodrama taking place in the listeners mind. It segues perfectly into Thoughts, itself a pean to the existential, reflecting how something that starts out small - private even - can become epic. Beams replicates that moment of feeling the warmth of the sun on you for the first time. This is the most distant the choir sound on the record, as voices are fed through a guitar amp and reverb pedals to distort them into new shapes. On Lost the voices sound isolated and desperate. Nebulous is moody and brooding, like dark clouds gathering before a storm; and from this growing tension Unrest acts as its release. One of the boldest, most dynamic compositions on the record, this track sees Shards channel the dual feelings of anger and excitement. Inner Counterpoint is a calming nod to a moment of reflection in the opera Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten, whose music continues to be a huge inspiration to Brunt. Album closer I Needed the Sun is a simple and poignant moment filled with sadness and hope.

Tracks

1. Find Sound
2. Summer Sickness
3. Dissect
4. Thoughts
5. Beams
6. Lost
7. Nebulous
8. Unrest
9. Inner Counterpoint
10. I Needed The Sun

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Daily plays on BBC6 music & Scala, Dummy feature FULL Press and radio campaign underway.

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MIKEY YOUNG - 'YOU FEELIN' ME?'

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• CF117 - LP

  767870658112

• CF117CD - CD

  767870658129

• CF117X - LP (COLOURED)

  767870658112

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AVAILABLE ON BLACK & COLOURED VINYL On vinyl and CD for the first time; previously available only on cassette The path is finally revealed by a splash of light, and it is dazzling. You cover your eye bones with a claw and can make out a reflection of the perfect being There is a whiff of you in there. There is a bit of everyone in there. There are cars and bells and birds and fruits and water and night skies and laughter and heavy woe…motioning for you to dive in All things are in this ethos swirling in its core This album is the armored nucleus of sound and vision It carries you along on its lumbering back, it tosses you through space and pulls you down a hole A trip indeed Mikey Young can do no wrong in our eyes and he has held the door open for you again (a gentleman, as always) Listen up, the higher power music hour has cracked their mighty knuckles and laid down some deep trips for you to view the city swaying and swarming like a field of grass flecked with insect transport. FOR FANS OF: Popul Vuh, A.R. & Machines , Vangelis , The Residents Sci-Fictitious working man’s factory songs Sweat-flicked neon-bending warehouses opening a box of light 

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1. You Feelin' Me?
2. This ↑
3. Billions of Tears
4. Life On The Perimeter
5. Raga for Vacuum and Dishes
6. It?s Walkable!
7. Parker
8. Back to the Centre
9. Spectrum View
10. Freedom ?13

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First time on vinyl for Mikey Young (Total Control / Eddy Current Suppression Ring) solo project.

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HOWLIN RAIN - 'UNDER THE WHEELS: LIVE FROM THE COASTS VOL: 1'

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• SC40C - LP (COLOURED)

  767870657412

• SC40 - LP

  767870657313

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COLOURED VINYL FOR INDIES ONLY>> WE ARE NOT GETTING MANY. Under The Wheels Vol 1 is the first in a new series of limited edition Howlin Rain live albums, intended to be a direct exchange / conversation with fans. A no-rules, anything goes series culled from multi-track live recordings made on the road. Volume 1, Live From The Coasts, leans heavily to the bands more expansive and improvisational side and is the first of a two-part curation of the band’s personal favorites of East Coast and West Coast performances in 2018-19 (Volume 2 and second Live From The Coasts LP due out in Fall 2019.)“My intention with the live series is to open a spigot be-tween the fans and these captured live adventures and to leave it open as an ongoing conversation about our spiritual dance together.” —Ethan Miller 

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1. To The Wind 2. Missouri 3. Death Prayer In Heaven?s Orchard 4. Goodbye Ruby 5. Coming Down

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Live album of jam-tastic hard rock band captures all their glory burning down the Coasts.
Limited pressing includes a color version with tints across the bone and blood spectrum.
Band led by Ethan Miller of Comets On Fire, Feral Ohms and Heron Oblivion fame

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ACID KING - 'BUSSE WOODS'

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• EZRDR104B - LP (180G)

  603111732497

• EZRDR104C - LP (COLOURED)

  603111732497

• EZRDR104CD - CD

  603111732428

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Every small town encompasses that one long stretch of forest where kids run to get high, jam out, and just escape. For San Francisco-based stoner metal trio, Acid King vocalist, guitarist, frontwoman, and mastermind Lori Woods, Busse Woods offered such a retreat in her native Illinois as a teenager in the ’70s. This 3,700-acre section of the Cook County Forest Preserve system beckoned her during high school with its buffet of dope, frisbee challenges, and Black Sabbath blaring from numerous trunks well past sundown. Those days left such an imprint on Lori she titled Acid King’s second full-length released in 1999 Busse Woods. Celebrating its 20th year with a special reissue on Riding Easy Records and tour in 2019, it represents the heart and soul of the band.The album still exudes the same sense of mysticism it did upon release in 1999. As the story goes, Lori and bandmates Joey Osbourne(drums) and Brian Hill (bass) entered a practice space to write the full-length follow-up to their debut Down With The Crown. Organically, they jammed out five originals and a take on “39 Lashes” from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar.As everything gelled, they recorded with legendary engineer Billy Anderson. Prominent Bay Area artist Frank Kozik initially released the CD on his Man’s Ruin record label. Then “everything fell apart.” Behind the scenes, personal and professional relationships crumbled. Marriages ended. Lineups shifted. In the face of such tumult, the music of Busse Woods rarely got its due on stage in the aftermath, even though the aesthetic would prove influential.In the middle of various reissues and re-releases, Acid King kept touring internationally throughout Europe and Japan from 2005-2015. In between this time they jammed on riffs and started to craft songs but ultimately didn’t kick it into high gear to finish the release until 2015. They reawakened in the studio with the 2015 opus, Middle Of Nowhere, Center Of Everywhere. While the new music caught critical acclaim and fan approval, a funny thing happened, and Busse Woodsalso came back to life. Its songs would generate the most streams on Spotify. They’d generate loud responses in concert and became their most critically acclaimed release to date. The stars aligned. Twenty years down the line, it felt only right for Lori and Co. to revisit this landmark and give it the proper tour it deserves.

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1. Electric Machine 2. Silent Circle 3. Drive Fast, Take Chances 4. 39 Lashes 5. Carve The 5 6. Busse Woods

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Reissue of cult doom classic, originally on Man?s Ruin in 1999. Remastered and now a gatefold with liner notes, lyrics and unseen photos!

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ROBERT POLLARD - 'KID MARINE'

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• GBVI92 - LP

  767870659218

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Guided By Voices brings you 20th anniversary vinyl reissues of two early gems from the Fading Captain Series. Originally issued as small vinyl pressings (1000 copies) in 1999, used copies of these Guided By Voices “side-projects” have regularly re-sold for hundreds of dollars each. Both have been remastered from the original analog tapes. Kid Marine, the first-ever release of the Fading Captain Series and Robert Pollard’s third solo album, features “Far-Out Crops,” “Submarine Teams,” and the sublime “White Gloves Come Off.” Pollard handles all guitar and keyboard duties as well as vocals, joined by GBV’s Greg Demos (bass) and Tobin Sprout (piano) and The Breeders’ Jim MacPherson (drums), soon to join GBV for Do The Collapse.

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1. Submarine Teams 2. Flings Of The Waistcoat Crowd 3. The Big Make-Over 4. Men Who Create Fright 5. Television Prison 6. Strictly Comedy 7. Far-Out Crops 8. Living Upside Down 9. Snatch Candy 10. White Gloves Come Off 11. Enjoy Jerusalem! 12. You Can?t Hold Your Women 13. Town Of Mirrors 14. Powerblessings 15. Island Crimes

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Repress of rare third solo album from 1999, featuring Greg Demos, Tobin Sprout, and Jim MacPherson (Breeders)

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ROBERT POLLARD WITH DOUG GILLARD - 'SPEAK KINDLY OF YOUR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT'

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• GBVI93 - LP

  767870659317

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Guided By Voices brings you 20th anniversary vinyl reissues of two early gems from the Fading Captain Series. Originally issued as small vinyl pressings (1000 copies) in 1999, used copies of these Guided By Voices “side-projects” have regularly re-sold for hundreds of dollars each. Both have been remastered from the original analog tapes. Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department is the first album of Robert Pollard’s fruitful collaboration with long-time guitarist Doug Gillard (later to be known as Lifeguards). Gillard recorded all the instruments on Tascam 4-track cassette in Cleveland, then sent them via US Postal Service to Pollard who added vocals in a studio in Dayton. Eleven Pollard compositions followed, along with four songs which Pollard wrote and recorded melodies over Gillard-penned instrumentals, starting an unusual songwriting process that Pollard pursued for several years with various long-distance collaborators. Nearly half the songs on the album became staples of the GBV live set for several years, including “Pop Zeus,” “Tight Globes,” “Frequent Weaver Who Burns” and “Do Something Real,” which was featured in the Stephen Soderbergh film, Full Frontal.

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1. Frequent Weaver Who Burns 2. Soul Train College Policeman 3. Pop Zeus 4. Slick As Snails 5. Do Something Real 6. Port Authority 7. Soft Smoke 8. Same Things 9. And I Don?t (So Now I Do)10. Tight Globes 11. I Get Rid Of You 12. Life Is Beautiful 13. Messiahs 14. Larger Massachusetts 15. And My Unit Moves

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Reissue of highly collectible first collaboration between GBV frontman and Doug Gillard from 1999

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DEAD SOUND - 'S/T'

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• GO75 - LP

  767870658624

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The self-titled debut album by Dead Sound is out now on 1-2-3-4 Go! Records. The guitar-driven power pop quartet—whose sound is reminiscent of bands such as The Replacements, Hold Steady, Dinosaur Jr., Husker Du, and Teenage Fanclub—was produced and mixed by Grammy Award winning engineer Chris Dugan at O2 Oakland. Dead Sound’s release follows the band’s first year performing throughout the west coast including supporting several sold out shows for bands such as Billie Joe Armstrong’s side project The Longshot and other beloved Bay Area bands.Formed in the fall of 2017, Dead Sound is: Mark W. Lynn (Dear County, Uranium 9 Volt, The Devil’s Own, Monsula), Bill Schneider (Pinhead Gunpowder, The Influents, Monsula), Mike Goshert (Fifteen, Harvest Theory, Monsula), and Mack Narragon (Melba Cults). Energized by Monsula’s run of shows including supporting Jawbreaker’s first two reunion performances and headlining the Lookout Records / 924 Gilman thirty-year anniversary festival, Schneider, Lynn, and Goshert began writing new material. Through a stroke of luck Lynn met Narragon, bonding over a conversation about George Jones. New songs were fleshed out with the rest of the band and thus Dead Sound was formed.1-2-3-4 GO!

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