KIM DEAL - 'BIKER GONE B/W BEAUTIFUL MOON'

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• DEAL05RP - 7"

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WAREHOUSE FIND!!We have a handful of the CLEAR vinyl version of this Kim Deal 7”.. please note new catalogue number. .. grab em while they are still around

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Track 9: Biker Gone
Track 10: Beautiful Moon

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KIM DEAL - 'WALKING WITH A KILLER B/W DIRTY HESSIANS'

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• DEAL01-7 - 7"

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WAREHOUSE FIND!!  Dirty Hessians' (Instrumental) Self released on Period Music Recorded All Wave Both tracks written by Kim Deal Artwork Chris Bigg

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Track 1: Walking With A Killer
Track 2: Dirty Hessians

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KIM DEAL - 'HOT SHOT B/W LIKKLE MORE'

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• DEAL02-7 - 7"

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  WAREHOUSE FIND!!  Self released on Period Music Recorded All Wave Both tracks written by Kim Deal Artwork by Chris Bigg Polaroid type insert

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Track 3: Hot Shot
Track 4: Likkle More

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KIM DEAL - 'ARE YOU MINE B/W WISH I WAS'

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• DEAL03-7 - 7"

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WAREHOUSE FIND!!  M.Ward guitar on Wish I Was Wish I Was (Instrumental) Self released on Period Music Recorded All Wave Both tracks written by Kim Deal Artwork by Vaughan Oliver Comes with insert Video to Are You Mine by Kurt Ralske

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Track 5: Are You Mine?
Track 6: Wish I Was

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KIM DEAL - 'THE ROOT B/W RANGE ON THE CASTLE'

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• DEAL04-7 - 7"

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WAREHOUSE FIND!!      Self released on Period Music Recorded All Wave Both tracks written by Kim Deal / Morgan Nagler Artwork by Vaughan Oliver

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7. The Root
8. Range On The Castle

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BIG STICK - 'SAUCED UP SANTA'

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• DRU005 - 12"

  5060446123904

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**300 only on IVY/Holly mix green/red vinyl. “may come with a festive xmas doilly if you’ve been good”** Big Stick's recordings resonate among a wide cross section of so-called "alternative," rock, pop, punk and industrial music enthusiasts - their new Christmas release proves it's still difficult to pigeonhole or categorize Big Stick down to one particular genre of the various music scenes. Big Stick's John Gill says, "I honestly never thought I'd write a Christmas song, but I felt compelled to share the story of what happened to me at the age of five. There was even a photograph taken (featured on the record cover) to prove the slightly humorous, though somewhat heart warming childhood story, of the day when my folks took me to the local shopping mall and I wound up sitting on what was a visibly 'Sauced Up Santa's' lap." Hence, the title track "SAUCED UP SANTA" that's featured in both regular and extended versions on this, Big Stick's first ever Christmas themed EP release. Gill adds, "When the photo of me sitting on an extremely inebriated shopping mall Santa's lap surfaced in my family photo album many years later in my life, I simply had to write a song about it. I activated my memory banks to recall that distant December day of my childhood and put it into song." The song isn't a derogatory diss of the intoxicated Santa, rather, it's more of a song expressing grace, forgiveness and humility, highlighting the fact that despite Santa being “sauced up,” he was still as friendly and jovial as his alcohol-affected faculties would permit. Gill explains, "It's not meant to be a judgemental song, it's more of a heartfelt, sentimental Christmas song, telling of a time when I recall the innocent joy of that day, the warmth of my family, the loving congeniality and a feeling of harmony and peace.” Big Stick's Yanna Trance and John Gill agreed that since "SAUCED UP SANTA" is reminiscent of a childhood memory, it would only be fitting to add a touch of aural authenticity by assembling a choir of children to perform on the song's choruses. Yanna is credited with conducting and coaching the children's choir. 

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1. Sauced Up Santa
2. Christmas Island
3. The Boisterous Birds Of Christmas Eve
4. Sauced Up Santa (Extended Version)
5. Christmas Island (Tremolo Violinist Mix)
6. Christmas Island (Enchanted Ethereal Mix)

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BELIEVE IT!! A CHRISTMAS SINGLE FOR THESE CURRENT TIMES!!

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DONOVAN QUINN - 'ABSALOM'

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• SAB096 - LP

  767870660214

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Absalom is the fourth full length release from Donovan Quinn (Skygreen Leopards / New Bums), and his first solo outing in seven years. Coming out of the psychedelic underground school of ’01, Quinn has slowly built an idiosyncratic catalogue that combines obsessive long-form metaphors and oblique arrangements with simple song structures. As on previous albums, there is a consistent lyrical narrative that runs through shifting sonic spaces. Sparse singer-songwriter arrangements, outsider art piano ballads, loping numbers with a folk rock combo, and baroque pop string arrangements all find their way into the brew. Reuniting with frequent collaborators Ben Chasny, who mixed the record, Elisa Ambrogio, Jessica Roberts, Jason Quever, Michael Tapscott and Eric Amerman, Quinn recorded Absalom in several home and professional studios to achieve a veritable collage effect with instrumentation and musicians changing from song to song. The idea for Absalom started with an abandoned project called “Fan Fiction,” intended to build songs based on the lore of other artists, as well as expanding on originals previously written by Quinn. Tucked away in the vaults are demos continuing the stories of characters from two Squeeze hits, Clarice Lispector’s Aqua Viva, Jozef Czapski’s lectures on Proust in a Soviet prison camp, Jackson C. Frank’s “Tumble In The Wind”, and the biblical story of Absalom. Bored by the limitations of the project, “Fan Fiction” was scraped, but the themes of familial dissolution and love in the Absalom story that provided a genesis for what became the Absalom album. Printed on the back of the LP sleeve are two quotes that provide a good starting point to the type of blues contained in therein.

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1. So Long Wild Horses 2. Deathstar Over The Dashboard 3. Satanic Summer Nights 4. Haunted Suburban Train 5. Bunny?s Girl 6. Zombie Usa 7. Dark Motel 8. 1,716 Saturday Nights 9. I Wanna Be Your Ghost 10. I Got A Trick To Make It Through The Night 11. Wintering In A Windowless Room

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Latest by psychedelic singer / songwriter from Skygreen Leopards and New Bums ? Many guest stars including Ben Chasny (Six Organs Of Admittance)

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RICHARD YOUNGS & RAUL REFREE - 'ALL HANDS AROUND THE MOMENT'

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• SAB095 - LP

  767870660115

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**BACK IN STOCK!!**For their first meeting, Richard Youngs (Glasgow) and Raül Refree (Barcelona) have created a suite of stately, circular longform songs that manage to connect Tim Buckley’s Happy Sad to Federico García Lorca to plainsong liturgy. The largely acoustic and quietly urgent All Hands Around The Moment finds Youngs in an impassioned and emotional space he’s rarely inhabited since Sapphie, elevated by lush chamber folk / jazz compositions that incorporate piano, guitar and more, performed by both Youngs and Refree. The four pieces that build the whole of All Hands Around The Moment harness transcendence in repetition, and feature gorgeous progressive minimalism in full spectrum. Dark existential themes flow into mystic uplifting expressions of humanity, without missing a beat. In its timelessness and prescience, the realities present in All Hands Around The Moment make for a powerfully engrossing listen from top to bottom. Richard Youngs & Simon Wickham-Smith 20 Years 

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1. Time Is An Avalanche 2. Nil By Mind 3. Another Language 4. Follow My Sleep

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ENHET FOR FRI MUSIK - 'DET FINNS ETT HJARTA SOM FOR DIG'

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• GY9-5 - LP

  600197679517

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Enhet För Fri Musik is a free-folk and experimental music collective formed in 2015 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The band features assorted members of the current Swedish underground from bands like Neutral, Makthaverskan, Arv & Miljö, and Blod. A local scene supergroup, the band also runs the labels Förlag För Fri Musik and the Omlott imprint to document their own releases as well as the fertile underground scene surrounding them (much like the Xpressway label founded by artists Bruce Russell, Peter Jefferies, and Alastair Galbraith showcased the early experimental music scene in Dunedin, New Zealand in the late ’80s and early ’90s). Enhet För Fri Musik is the natural extension of a rich lineage going back to legendary Swedish bands from the ’70s, such as Pärson Sound, Trad Gras Och Stenar, International Harvester, and Arbete Och Fritid, whose music pushed boundaries and chose artistic innovation over any commercial concerns. Det Finns Ett Hjärta Som För Dig is the band’s fifth release and it’s a unique masterpiece. The mysteriously hypnotic album, released in July of 2017 in an extremely limited pressing of 300, sold out quickly without receiving distribution to greater Europe or the United States. The atmospheric record features atonal guitar, organ, tape effects, saxophone, and field recordings, in experimental song constructions that defy genre, moving like a river might through different environments, taking and leaving things as it moves, and coalescing around Sofie Herner’s haunting vocals. Grapefruit is extremely proud to be reissuing this rare thing of beauty in a deluxe gatefold jacket and original artwork provided by the band. 

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1. N?r Ska Min Sj?l Finna Ro 2. Att ?lska Sin N?sta 3. Variationer Av En L?ngtan Till Gud 4. Fallen Frukt 5. Det Finns Ett Hj?rta 6. Blomster?ng 7. Brinnande ?gon 8. Bara Min Egen 9. Fadershanden 10. Skolavslutning 1987 11. Solokvist 12. Dalande Dag 13. Din Synd 14. Fragment Av En Midsommarnattsdr?m

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Reissue of this sold-out-via-mailorder Swedish classic, getting distribution for the first time. 500 gatefold LP limited edition. A part of the exciting new Gothenburg home-recording Gothenburg scene which includes Neutral, Blod, Amateur Hour, and Makthaverskan. Fans of ?80s New Zealand cassette culture take note.

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HURT VALLEY - 'GLACIAL PACE'

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• WOODSIST098 - LP

  767870659737

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During a trip to Death Valley, California in 2010, two friends decided to drive an old Saturn station wagon down a four wheel drive road into the wilderness. After a few hours of driving through the canyons, ever so slowly so not to bottom out the car, they came upon a clearing. It was filled with burned out vehicle carcasses and double wide trailers that had all been shot at, set on fire, vandalized, and finally left to become relics of the desert. It was surreal in the sunset of painted rocks and dead silence. Upon returning home to an A-frame house in Sugarloaf California, Brian Collins started Hurt Valley as a recording project. Many ideas and songs were fleshed out next to a wood burning stove and firelight. Fast forward a few more years, and with a relocation to Los Angeles in 2014, Hurt Valley became a routinely worked on project. What happened next, along with the comings and goings of many different friends and neighbors, was the recording of a series of songs over the course of a few years. Days, nights and weekends, and anytime in between, songs were crafted and recorded in a living room, in an apartment, in Los Angeles. This is what would become Glacial Pace, an album that is part memoir, part dream, part feeling—good, bad, and in between. 

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For fans of Kurt Vile, Kevin Morby, John Phillips, and Woods

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NOLAN POTTER'S NIGHTMARE BAND - 'NIGHTMARE FOREVER'

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• CF118 - LP

  767870659799

• CF118CD - CD

  767870659805

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“Nightmare in name only, the inspiration runs white-hot with this one—the wizard’s gaze cast over a distant landscape, bits of ash and motes of incinerated earth float in the air, the smell of ozone and fried metal sting the villager’s noses...“But hope’s bell rings eternal! A flower of beauty is standing up in the sole ray of sun, the clouds are withering away, retreating back to dark cloaks behind crusted-over frost-fractal windows. Darkness cannot usurp the crown, light is king and will eliminate the darkness, chase it out of the unfathomable corners and brush away the webs of evil...remnant factions will always remain but they will be hunted with pure magical riffage. “These are the peak and valleys of the mighty Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band, conceptual in feel and flow, a lovely lilting ride and then, up through the floor boards, a warrior incants into the frothing night a huge band, heavy and tumultuous like a war machine rumbling thru the ash, clearing the way for folks to continue their idyll. Dreamy and lucid keys, strings, drum corps, slippery guitar and buff bass, ripe flutes and breezy vocals. For fans of Embryo, the Mothers, Pink Floyd, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Moody Blues, the Stark Reality, and Placebo. They’re from Austin, Texas, but you’d swear it’s from 1972 Europa-Mothership. Like their vodka, it surpasses expectations and fucking crushes.” —John Dwyer

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1. Nightmare Theme 2. Caberfae Peaks 3. Elf Curse 4. Seahorse Retreat 5. Pity In The City 6. Dosing The President 7. Donny?s Trip 8. Singing A Single Song Of Satan 9. A Wizard Of The Wind 10. Nightmare Forever

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Debut of Austin, Texas magical wizard-rock band.
? For fans of Once and Future Band, King Gizzard, Embryo, The Mothers Of Invention, Pink Floyd, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Moody Blues, the Stark Reality, and Placebo.

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