PERSONALITY CULT - 'NEW ARROWS'

Formats

• ZZZ162 - LP

  881970016211

Details

Please welcome Personality Cult to the Dirtnap Records roster! What started as a solo project for North Carolina’s Ben Carr has evolved into a full-band supergroup of sorts, featuring past and present members of Paint Fumes, Last Year’s Men, Natural Causes, Bass Drum Of Death, Missing Pages, Mind Spiders, Sweet Talk, Sweet Knives, and probably a bunch more! Dirtnap was tipped off to this monster of an album by Jeff Burke (Radioactivity / Marked Men) as he was recording it a few months back in NYC. Soon after the sessions, Carr and Burke began trading the earliest mixes of the album with Carr recording all of the overdubs during and after his shifts at Wilmington, North Carolina’s flagship record shop, Gravity Records. After a single listen to the finished product, Dirtnap was tripping over themselves to immediately get a hold of the band and offer to put the record out. Seriously, it’s that good! Fast propulsive punk with hooks for days, and dark undercurrents swirling underneath—while sonically this doesn’t fall too far from what one associates with many beloved Dirtnap bands of the past, these guys really nail the delicate balance of taking a familiar sound and putting their own unique spin on it, in the end sounding like nothing but themselves.

Tracks

1. Nothing To Do With It 2. Weigh Down 3. Pressure Point 4. Circles 5. Figure 6. Sharp Edges 7. Telephone 8. Dissolve You 9. 5:30

Press

North Carolina punk rock supergroup featuring members of Paint Fumes, Last Year?s Men, Natural Causes, Bass Drum Of Death, Missing Pages, Mind Spiders, Sweet Talk, Sweet Knives, and more

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WASTED SHIRT - 'FUNGUS II'

Formats

• FC050X - LP (COLOURED)

  767870659713

• FC050 - LP

  767870659713

• FC050CD - CD

  767870659720

Details

Ty Segall and Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt) are Wasted Shirt. Their debut, collaborative album, Fungus II, is out February 28th on Famous Class Records. Read below for Henry Rollins’ words on the project. “Ty's 2019 album, First Taste, and the new Lighting Bolt album, Sonic Citadel, are easily some of the best material either entity has ever released so if these two happened to find themselves in the same recording studio, a fan just might entertain elevated expectation levels. In fact, some might actually show signs of enthusiasm, even excitement at the fact that from July 5 -13, 2018, in the air-conditioning free environs of Ty's home studio, the duo, eventually calling themselves Wasted Shirt, wrecked the joint as thoroughly as you hoped they would. The album is exploding euphoria from start to finish. The more you play it, the better it kabongs you upside your head. Hectic doesn't even begin to describe it. Brian and Ty, two mere particles in the grand scheme, collide at high speed, the technicians dive for cover, the reaction is recorded. Mutation is achieved. This is Freedom Rock. Turn up the volume. Hasten your emancipation. Sonic joy awaits.”

Tracks

1 All is Lost
2 Zeppelin 5
3 Fist is my Ward
4 Harsho
5 Double the Dream
6 The Purple One
7 Fungus 2
8 Eagle Slaughters Graduation
9 Four Strangers Enter the Cement at Dusk

Press

**** - MOJO. Both LP formats come with a 8 page Risograph lyric zine by Brian Chippendale

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VARIOUS - 'EURONOIZE'

Formats

• EU19 - LP & DL

Details

EuroNoize was a live music event modelled on the Eurovision song contest, but featuring a bizarre cast of DiY, alternative and underground subpop bands. Taking place on May 23rd 2019 at the Scala in London, it featured musicians from across Europe performing one new song in front of a live audience. Like pop music, the idea of Europe belongs to everyone and no one. Via colonialism this idea has been universalized and exported as a unified fantasy that collapses together Alexander the Great, Marco Polo, Picasso, Napoleon and Heidi. If EuroNoize is a celebration of any kind of Europe, it is not the fortress that we live in today, but the infinitely expanded freedom of movement, collaboration and cultural exchange that it allows us to imagine. Now on gatefold vinyl, the songs from EuroNoize are a celebration of the obscure, the niche and the uncategorizable, music that runs deeper than national borders. It represents the secret international fellowship of punx and weirdos stretching from Russia to Ireland. Curators: Pil and Galia Kollectiv http://kollectiv.co.uk/

Tracks

Asian Women on the Telephone
(Russia)
https://asianwomenonthetelephone.ban
dcamp.com/
Sissy (Ireland)
https://sissydublin.bandcamp.com/
Hassan k (France)
https://hassank.bandcamp.com/
Golden Core (Norway)
https://goldencore.bandcamp.com/
The Callas (Greece)
http://thecallas.com/
Winny Puhh (Estonia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winny_Pu
hh
Tab Ularasa (Italy)
https://tab-ularasa.bandcamp.com/
Felix Kubin (Germany)
http://www.felixkubin.com/
E.P.P.! (Serbia)
https://eppepp.bandcamp.com/
Maraudeur (Switzerland)
https://maraudeur.bandcamp.com/
Johnny the Horse (Czech Republic)
https://johnnythehorse.bandcamp.com/

Press

Fact, Wire, The Quietus, Electronic Sound

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LAVENDER FLU - 'BARBARIAN DUST'

Formats

• ITR344 - LP

  819283013467

Details

“In contrast to their prior mobile-unit hole-ups and home-taped fryers, Barbarian Dust, the third album from Lavender Flu, marks the band’s first raid of a proper studio. Extending the formalities further, the conceptual impetus for the sessions stems from a collective meditation on cosmic biker rock. Smokey, sure—and that peculiar, chunky ether seeps into the resulting collection—but it all ultimately serves to a liquid frame, a set of parameters imposed purely to burst through. Compositionally and thematically, Barbarian Dust alternates between hope and anger, each idealized, a sway thoughtfully achieved through an oftensoaring, occasionally busted version of rock heaviness (without ever approaching ‘Heavy Rock’, thank heaven / hell). In every sense of the word, it’s their most aggressive work to date. “Barbarian Dust collects songs that move in and out of wobble and explosion, each pushing forever forward, just as the composers themselves do. Galaxies past cool-butcopyist trips, Lavender Flu—brothers Chris and Lucas Gunn, Scott Simmons and Ben Spencer—slaughter the trivial in favor of a newer, deeper, more meaningful sound, indifferent to any path other than their own. Time to transform, yet again.” —Mitch Cardwell

Tracks

1. Hair Lord (Messenger Of Beauty)
2. Mow The Glass
3. No One Remembers Your Name
4. Barbarian Dust
5 Letters To Tiptree
6. Toward Acid
7. Keyboard Christ
8. In A League With Satan
9. James Bay

Press

Cosmic biker rock from Chris Gunn
(Hunches, Hospitals)

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DADAMAH - 'THIS IS NOT A DREAM'

Formats

• GY10-1 - 2xLPs

  600197610114

Details

This Is Not a Dream is a double album collection of every song released by the legendary Dunedin, New Zealand quartet Dadamah, including the This Is Not A Dream LP, and their three 7-inch singles and one unique compilation track. Grapefruit’s release is a thirteen song collection with the full album on one LP and all the 7-inch and compilation tracks on the other. Inspired by the Kranky label’s CD compilation of Dadamah’s existing catalog in 1994, this vinyl version includes two additional songs from a posthumously released 7-inch and it’s been sequenced and designed by the band. Before Dadamah, Peter Stapleton played in The Terminals, Vacuum and The Victor Dimisich Band as well as The Pin Group with guitarist Roy Montgomery. Singer Kim Pieters and organ / synth player Janine Stagg had never been in a band before Dadamah. Dadamah only played live three times, devoting their efforts to four-track recording. Nevertheless, word managed to get out about the band and they were asked to contribute to the 1991 Drag City single “I Hear the Devil Calling Me” which featured twelve songs hovering around one minute each by a who’s who of the then current New Zealand underground music scene. They released their only album in 1992. Jay Hinman (currently of Dynamite Hemorrhage) noted Dadamah’s solitary place in the NZ underground in his Superdope fanzine: “Dead C. might blare and scrape, the Terminals might twist and wind, but Dadamah positively shimmer with beautifully earthy lo-fi Velvets / Ubu sound.” Limited edition singles on the Seattle-based Majora label followed the LP, earning Dadamah praise as “one of the most overwhelmingly great exponents of layer-shifting drone-on master-rock” in the Forced Exposure catalog. Roy Montgomery’s soaring droning guitars were offset by Janine Stagg’s stabbing organ and gurgling moog synths, and Kim Pieter’s vocals ebbed and flowed, somehow evoking Patti Smith, Ian Curtis, and David Thomas simultaneously. After Dadamah, Roy Montgomery went on to form Dissolve and Hash Jar Tempo as well as maintaining his eclectic solo career which continues to feature intense collaborations like those found in Dadamah (find other Roy Montgomery titles on Grapefruit). Peter Stapleton and Kim Pieters formed Flies Inside The Sun and Stapleton continued his work with The Terminals and his independent label Metonymic which released tons of experimental and underground New Zealand music through 2009. 

Tracks

1. Limbo Swing 2. Papa Doc 3. Too Hot To Dry 4. Prove 5. Brian?s Children 6. High Tension House 7. Replicant Emotions 8. Nicotine 9. High Time 10. Scratch Sun 11. Radio Brain 12. Absent And Erotic Lives 13. Violet Stains Red

Press

Complete recordings of Dadamah collected on vinyl for the first time. Massively influential early 90s Dunedin band with VU / Stooges chugs via Xpressway label sound which featured Roy Montgomery, Kim Pieters and Peter Stapleton

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ELLEN FULLMAN - 'IN THE SEA'

Formats

• SV174 - 2xLPs

  857661008742

Details

Ellen Fullman began developing The Long String Instrument in her St. Paul, Minnesota studio in 1980 and moved to Brooklyn the following year. Inspired by composer and instrument builder Harry Partch, Fullman’s large-scale work creates droning, organ-like overtones that are as unique in the world of sound as her vision of the instrument itself. Along with her 1985 debut album—appropriately titled The Long String Instrument—Fullman’s only output in the 1980s would be two self-released cassettes, In The Sea and Work For Four Players And 90 Strings, recorded in 1987 at an unfinished office tower in Austin, Texas. This double LP collection features music from both cassettes as well as a previously unreleased piece from 1988 at De Fabriek in Den Bosch, Holland. Ethereal and exquisitely paced, these rare recordings capture minimalism’s quiet radiance. Within a musical landscape that has seen the rise of contemporary drone practitioners like Ellen Arkbro and Kali Malone, Fullman is sure to find a legion of fans. Superior Viaduct is honored to present this long overdue archival release that marks a particularly vibrant period of Fullman’s pioneering and timeless work.

Tracks

1. In The Sea
2. Staggered Stasis
3. Work For Four Players And 90 Strings
(excerpt)
4. Work For Two (excerpt)

Press

Archival release of drone recordings from
1987 and 1988
? Featuring the composer?s self-built
instrument of long strings
? Recommended for fans of Arnold Dreyblatt,
Ellen Arkbro and Kali Malone

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JON GIBSON - 'SONGS & MELODIES'

Formats

• SV173 - 2xLPs

  857661008735

Details

Since the mid-1960s, Jon Gibson has played a key role in the development of American avant-garde music. As a versatile reed player, he has performed with everyone from Steve Reich and Philip Glass to Terry Riley and La Monte Young. In the 1970s, Gibson would emerge as a minimalist composer in his own right and release two exceptional albums, Visitations and Two Solo Pieces, on Glass’ Chatham Square imprint. Songs & Melodies brings together recordings from 1973 to 1977 (mostly previously unreleased), featuring prominent figures in New York’s scene including Arthur Russell, Barbara Benary and Julius Eastman. This double LP collection showcases the breadth of Gibson’s expressive range—from introspective piano meditations to cerebral ensemble works—and the subtlety of his radical compositional techniques. The front cover artwork, a hand-drawn diagram by Gibson, originally appeared in the program for a March 1974 concert at Washington Square Church in Greenwich Village. While this concert was not the first to feature the composer exclusively, it would be a pivotal event in Gibson’s early career as a composer. Superior Viaduct is honored to present this long overdue archival release that not only documents Gibson’s important work, but also a crucial period in NYC musical history.

Tracks

1. Song I
2. Song II
3. Melody
4. Solo For Saxophone
5. Melody IV
6. Melody III
6. Equal Distribution

Press

Archival release of modern classical
recordings from 1973 to 1977. Featuring Arthur Russell, Barbara Benary
and Julius Eastman.

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