MELT BANANA - 'CHARLIE'

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• AZ01CD - CD

  650035200120

• AZ01 - LP

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Another all-out spazztak of scream-and-careen mathified skree core from Tokyo’s most tightly wound springs. Fourteen tracks of mind altering, brain boggling, and spine crushing shrapnel punk with vocals that hit your head like high-pitched knives and music that bores through your flesh like some kind of new super drill. Sure they look nice enough, but don’t get your ears too close, these yaros bite. Like getting stabbed in the face and bragging about the conquest later. Embarking right this second on a trans-continental tour that will bring them perilously close to each and every one of you. Our advice, go see them you obviously haven’t been using those ears for any good purpose anyhow. Guest appearances from MR. BUNGLE, the THREE DOCTORS BAND, THE WINTERMITTENS, and members of DIESELHED. Posters and promotional match books are yours for the asking, go ahead, ask...

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On tour in UK now

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VARIOUS - 'OST: CRUMB'

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• CPR002PD - LP (PICTURE DISC)

  780742216708

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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of the documentary Crumb, Cinema Paradiso Recordings are proud to announce that they will be releasing the soundtrack to the film for the first time ever on vinyl. Featuring the film’s director, Terry Zwigoff’s selection of tracks from the 1994 film, the vinyl opens with Robert Crumb’s musings on music, “When I listen to old music it’s one of the few times I actually have kind of a love of humanity. You hear the best part of the soul of the common people you know, their way of expressing their connection to eternity or whatever you want to call it. Modern music doesn’t have that and it’s a calamitous loss that people can’t express themselves that way any more you know.” The soundtrack features jazz and ragtime pieces mostly performed by David Boeddinghaus on Piano with Craig Ventresco on guitar. To launch the release Cinema Paradiso Recordings are presenting an immersive screening of the documentary film Crumb and Ghost World – also directed by Terry Zwigoff. Both Robert Crumb and Terry Zwigoff will be doing a joint Q&A at The Troxy on September 28th, and will also be playing live as part of "R. Crumb's Hollywood Four” alongside Craig Ventresco and David Boeddinghaus. "R. Crumb's Hollywood Four” features Robert Crumb on Mandolin, Terry Zwigoff on Cello, Craig Ventresco on guitar and David Boeddinghaus on piano. ‘Crumb’ was named ‘Best Documentary’ at Sundance in January 1995 

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SIDE A
? 1. Crumb - Robert Crumb
? 2. Ragtime Nightingale - David Boeddinghaus, Craig Ventresco
? 3. Sensation Rag - Craig Ventresco
? 4. Harlem Strut - David Boeddinghaus
? 5. Abraham Jefferson Washington Lee - Craig Ventresco
? 6. Last Kind Word Blues - Geechie Wiley
? 7. Radiator Cap Blues - Craig Ventresco
? 8. Frog-I-More Rag - David Boeddinghaus

SIDE B
? 9. Cocaine - Craig Ventresco
? 10. Pass The Jug - David Boeddinghaus
? 11. Skinny Leg Blues - Geechie Wiley
? 12. 35th Street Blues - David Boeddinghaus
? 13. Mabel's Dream - David Boeddinghaus
? 14. Hateful Blues - Craig Ventresco
? 15. A Real Slow Drag - David Boeddinghaus
? 16. Comic Montage Stomp - David Boeddinghaus, Craig Ventresco
? 17. Ragtime Nightingale - Craig Ventresco

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HOLY SERPENT - 'ENDLESS'

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• EZRDR112 - LP

  603111735412

• EZRDR112CD - CD

  603111735429

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The forthcoming third album by Melbourne, Australia’s Holy Serpent could likely be its defining moment. Seemingly bottomless in its relentless heft, with billowing and suffocating riffs leading glistening melodies, it’s the sound of a band that has locked on to something unique. Endless is fully conceptualized throughout, encapsulating an oceanic theme from the lyrics and art, even to the very structure of the sounds themselves. “Lyrically, it’s heavily influenced by the ocean,” explains vocalist/guitarist Scott Penberthy. “Lots of ocean metaphors and imagery was used. Also the title of the album Endless, is an homage to the ocean: Its mystery, power and its ability to give and take life.” The album loosely follows the lyrical theme of two lovers, oceans apart, waiting for each other on the shores of eternity. Their love is so strong, they eventually walk into the water, ending their lives to be together in the afterlife. Fitting to these themes, the band experiments with sound throughout the album, such as layering in a wobbly synth sound reminiscent of tape push and pull, mixed just loud enough to blend with the instruments. “It’s sort of a haunting sound which gives the album an ebb and flow, much like an ocean’s current or tide,” Penberthy says. The 6-song, 40-minute album finds Penberthy, guitarist Nick Donoughue, bassist Dave Bartlett and drummer Lance Leembruggen expanding their melodic hooks while simultaneously taking listeners on a rigorous journey. It was written over the course of 2 months, then recorded in seclusion at Beveridge Road Recording Studios near Australia’s beautiful Dandenong Ranges with head engineer Marc Russo and mixed by Mike Deslandes. Surrounding themselves with nature and no distractions allowed the band to focus on every detail of the album as a coherent whole. In the time since their self-titled RidingEasy debut in mid-2015, Melbourne, Australia’s Holy Serpent have gained a lot of attention for their rather punk version of heavy psych and metal. Their 2016 skate-metal leaning album Temples further defined their more experimental blend of early Soundgarden, Saint Vitus and Kyuss that eschews simplistic 70s-worship in favor of shimmering sonics and uncommon production techniques. Nonetheless, Endless is like all of the band’s earliest visions fully realized and honed into an album beyond easy classification. Starting with the slow, exaggeratedly compressed 4/4 drum lead in to “Lord Deceptor” — something of a hi-dive anticipation before we plunge headlong into the ensuing depths — crushing and crackling guitars burst in as Penberthy sings in low baritone, “ocean grave, carry me upon a wave / I'm hypnotized in prophecy, what Is left for you and me?” Harmonies drift in and out of the main motif as it sways along into the tempest of “Into The Fire.” Here, a churning riff gathers intensity as the rhythm section builds to a lurching 3/4 time. Reverb-soaked vocals sing, “where the ocean meets the sand, I'll be waiting, I'll be waiting there.” Elsewhere, on “For No One,” impossibly low droptuned guitars slink along as the music swells with space rock abandon. Album closer, “Marijuana Trench” is a play on the Mariana trench, the deepest place on earth. Appropriately, the song plunges from gently strummed acoustic guitar into a tsunami crest that pulls the listener under the dark and enveloping weight of sound as Penberthy’s soothing vocals seem to ease us into the end, subsumed in the album’s powerful allure. Endless will be available everywhere on LP, CD and download on October 18th, 2019 via RidingEasy Records. 

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1. Lord Deceptor
2. Into the Fire
3. Daughter of The Light
4. Hourglass
5. For No One
3. Marijuana Trench

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NEGATIVLAND - 'TRUE FALSE'

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• SEELAND033 - 2xLPs

  753762003313

• SEELAND033CD - CD

  753762003320

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What is True False? True False is Negativland’s full length return to all original music that could be mistaken for actual songs, albeit ones sung by dozens of sampled vocalists who have never met. The first of two interconnected double albums, 2019’s True False tackles concerns that will be familiar to any surviving fans of the band: our nervous systems, our realities, and the evolving forms of media that inevitably insert themselves between us. Shootings, bees, the right’s rules for radicals, dogs pretending to be children, climate control, the oil we eat, and the right of every American to believe whatever they want to believe are all explored—it’s never the content, always the edit. This album is one’s own inescapable subjectivity made catchy as witness to the entrenched political beliefs of the left and right cleanly switching sides in under one generation, and it’s the first Negativland album to come with a lyric sheet. Juxtaposing Occupy mic-checks with US militia rallies, FOX news hosts and ecoterrorists, and the listener’s sanity with the home-viewing habits of Negativland’s lead vocalist, the Weatherman, when the word “true” is put next to the word “false,” a broader reality come into focus. Who’s even in Negativland these days? Didn’t half of them die a few years ago? For this album, the band consists of Mark Hosler, David Wills, Peter Conheim, Jon Leidecker, as well as our dearly departed Don Joyce, Richard Lyons and Ian Allen. Containing tapes from the earliest years of the band (including dozens of samples that will be very familiar to regular listeners of their radio program Over The Edge), the team began work in earnest in 2012, folding the decades on top of each other until they finally resembled all the feelings that tomorrow has for today.

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1. Either Or 2. Limbo 3. Discernment 4. Certain Men 5. Melt The North Pole 6. Fourth Of July 7. Mounting The Puppy 8. One Bee At A Time 9. Secret Win 10. Destroying Anything 11. Cadillac 12. This Is Not Normal 13. Yesterday Hates Today 14. True False Bonus tracks (LP only): 15. Melt The North Pole (flat version) 16. This Is Not Normal (normal version)

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First new studio album in five years by cult experimental band

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