GUIDED BY VOICES - 'MIRRORED AZTEC'

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• GBVI100 - LP

  767870666018

• GBVI100CD - CD

  767870666025

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When we last heard from Guided By Voices, they had released an astonishing four albums in just over 12 months. Each has a distinctive creative identity: Zeppelin Over China was a meat-and-potatoes double album, Warp And Woof was a return to the band’s low-fidelity roots and under-two-minute earworms, Sweating The Plague was a slice of moody stadium rock, and Surrender Your Poppy Field was an unpredictable grab-bag of all of the above. After venturing through the tangled brambles of Plague and Poppy Field, here is a sunny summer reprieve, a relentless barrage of hooks—Mirrored Aztec is the latest stop on this runaway train. Like its immediate predecessors, Mirrored Aztec is both its own entity and unmistakably GBV. It’s also their most immediately welcoming and inviting offering in years—there’s nothing a fan of The Who, Big Star, or Wire, wouldn’t love. For the GBV uninitiated, the clean, confident hooks of highlights “Bunco Men,” “Haircut Sphinx,” “A Whale Is Top Notch,” “Party Rages On” and the strummy “To Keep An Area” will resonate immediately. It also contains some unprecedented GBV moments, too, like “Math Rock,” an apparent tribute to the titular subgenre featuring classroom instruments and a children’s choir, “Please Don’t Be Honest,” a dreamy reversal of the band’s 2016 song and album Please Be Honest, and “Thank You Jane,” perhaps the most open-hearted, guileless power-pop song from Pollard’s pen in ages. If Pollard’s discography—107 albums and counting—seems intimidating, do not fear! With a brand-new, high-quality, all-the-waythere album every several months, it’s abundantly clear that no band’s fanbase has more fun. FMD carries a cornucopia of other GBV / Robert Pollard related releases; ask your salesperson for details.

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1. I Think I Had It.
I Think I Have It Again
2. Bunco Men 3. Citizen?s Blitz
4. To Keep An Area
5. Easier Not Charming
6. Please Don?t Be Honest
7. Show Of Hands
8. Lip Curlers 9. Math Rock
10. Transfusion 11. Biker?s Nest
12. A Whale Is Top Notch
13. I Touch Down 14. Haircut Sphinx
15. Screaming The Night Away
16. Thank You Jane
17. The Best Foot Forwards
18. Party Rages

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The GBV train shows no signs of slowing
with their most welcome offering in years,
so get on board!

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THE HEADS - 'VERTIGO SWILL'

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• CFUL182 - LP

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Cardinal Fuzz / Rooster are pleased to bring to you for your listening pleasure – The Heads ‘Vertigo Swill’. Previously available as a CDr release via The Heads own archives and compiled by Paul A. Allen from recordings The Heads made between 1994-2002 (rehearsal room, live and a remix). What we have here are is a maelstrom of Heads music that feels like the bastard child of that mix tape you made of long forgotten freaky Krautrock and 60s garage music, cut up and feed through a Chrome like blender. Over two heavy sides of vinyl be ready for a disorientating blast of these Heady Heads at play as Paul Allen runs his fingers down you spine to access your melting plastic brain as full on wah meltdowns segue into experimental tone generators all intercut with words of wisdom from H.O.Morgan & Simon Price. Not for the faint of heart. 500 Pressing. Heavy Black Vinyl. Gloss Laminated Outer Sleeve.

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THE HEADS - 'REVERBERATIONS VOL: 2'

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• CFULROOSTER002 - LP

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Cardinal Fuzz / Rooster are pleased to bring to you the latest volume in the Reverberations series – 'The Heads – Reverberations Volume 2'. This time we dive into The Heads archives for the Reverberations Series to bring you The Heads recorded live at the Thekla (6th December 2001) as part of the ‘The Gnostic Bash: A Tribute to Kenneth Anger'. This was part of a tribute programme (which included a performance of John Zorn and others playing to Anger’s ‘Magick Lantern Cycle at the Anthology Film Archives in New York) to help raise money for Anger’s long- cherished ambition to make a film of Aleister Crowley's Gnostic Mass, and documentary film-maker Jon Ausbrooks' then work in progress documentary about Anger, ‘Inside the Eye of Scorpio Rising’. Sean Cook was tasked with putting a bill of artists together in which bands played to a partial recreation of Anger’s ‘Equinox of the Gods’ a live film of The Magick Powerhouse Of Oz band who featured Bobby Beausoleil (later imprisoned for life for the Manson Family-related murder of Gary Hinman). The energy captured within these grooves here is extraordinary; for over 40 minutes (with no breaks to catch your breath and get your head together) you are treated to primo Heads in full flight. This two track performance starts with an utterly mind destroying version of k.r.t that lasts for near on 30 minutes. Playing to a back drop of Anger screenings and a barrage of strobes and smoke The Heads create an effect akin to your head been sucked through time and space and turned inside out – and that is before we even get to the grande finale of ‘Spliff Riff’ – a relentless onslaught that has you picking your head off the floor only for it to be sucked straight back down again. Take a deep breath, dive in and grin. Reverberations Volume 2 is presented in a Mirri Board Sleeve and pressed on Heavy Black Vinyl.

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WHITE MANNA - 'ARC'

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• CFUL166 - LP

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Cardinal Fuzz (in conjunction with Centripetal Force for North America) presents the seventh full length album from veteran psychonauts White Manna. Long recognized as one of the leaders of the modern psychedelic movement, White Manna's ARC builds upon an already impressive discography and further develops the band's always evolving approach to sound and songwriting. This nine song journey sees the band exploring new directions that are more meditative in nature, a welcome development in light of the current state of world affairs. The song "Mythic Salon" certainly demonstrates such intent, as well as growth. ARC, the band’s first release since last year's Ape on Sunday, was recorded at guitarist Anthony Taibi's 3D Light Studios in Humboldt County, California. The songwriting this time around took on more of an inward process, both musically and thematically.This shift allowed for more spontaneity and improvisation than their previous efforts. This was especially true when it came to translating musical passages that had already become part of the band's live repertoire. ARC is not a concept album per se, but its focus on such an omnipresent icon certainly leaves the listener a variety of avenues for interpretation, making this the most daring and unique album in the White Manna discography.

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