FLORE LAURENTIENNE - 'VOLUME 1'

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• COSTLP015 - LP

  619061284351

• COSTCD015 - CD

  619061284320

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Imagine taking a Living Strings Collection vinyl or a vintage Technicolor film soundtrack and adding the imagery of a Spring in full bloom with the softest, most pastel paint. The marriage between his score-like string orchestrations along with analog synthesizers is an ingenious mix of the 50’s and 60’s familiar sounds. The eight pieces take you through seaside gardens and hills, pit-stopping into the window of his 1990’s gloomy living room. Mathieu’s very pure and certainly unique fugues Segway you into the sequences of repetitive streetlights and underground tunnels of road travel into the refreshing and familiar countryside. Mathieu David Gagnon’s music is an awakening of true beauty all around us. He closes gracefully with a slightly more grandiose version of the opening theme bringing complete closure. The beauty of nature and life is eloquently displayed through Mathieu David Gagnon’s learnings and works. Flore Laurentienne Vol. 1 is timeless, omni and minimalist; a real work of art

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1. Fleuve no 1
2. Petit piano
3. Soir
4. 1991
5. Fugue
6. Route
7. Cendrillon
8. Fleuve no 3

Press

?The undeniably cinematic sounds here evoke all of the magic and overwhelming wonder of nature; lush, sweeping, modern classical that swells and ebbs, feeling epic at times and delicate at others, like a vivid and transportive score to an imaginary film.?
? Gorilla Vs Bear

Gorilla Vs Bear's Top 50 Albums of 2019 (#24)

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THE ARCHAEAS - 'S/T'

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• 168GONE - LP

  767870662614

• 168GONECD - CD

  767870662621

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“Tension, anxiety, ominous energy, and the release that comes from vanquishing those mental foes. Specifically, vanquishing them with rock and roll.” That’s how Violet Archaea, guitarist, singer, and leader of Louisville’s The Archaeas describes the themes of their new self-titled album on Goner Records. Beginning as a one-witch band, they now perform as a perfectlybalanced rock trio with frightening power, reflecting punk rock ’n’ roll from the last fifty years—AC/DC, Johnny Thunders’ Heartbreakers and The Dead Boys through The Reatards and Carbonas, even early Ty Segall—but The Archaeas are young enough to soak up sounds, attitudes, riffs and turnarounds from other bands and songs and still push them into their own Battle Royale. The Archaeas’ roots make sense: the bombastic Japanese trio Guitar Wolf and Mark Sultan “I began working on the first set of Archaeas songs after seeing Wild Zero for the first time,” Violet explains. “Back then I had the drums on my feet Mark Sultan-style. We projected it on a wall and had the audio blasting through a huge PA system. I’m hugely inspired by Seiji.” That Wild Zero, a story where rock and roll superheroes Guitar Wolf come to help a trans heroine save the Earth from an influx of alien zombies, resonated with Violet might not be so surprising, as she was coming to terms with being a badass trans musician in Kentucky. As in the film, gender politics don’t dominate the Archaeas message—it’s more the anxiety and pressure of living in today’s world that creates such intense music and feelings. The result is one of the most explosive debut albums in recent memory. In the midst of the mud and blood and the riffs, a rhythm starts up. Then guitar and bass blast as one thick bulldozing wall of distortion. The drums kick ass, and the vocals express a yearning, an anguish, and hopefully a release, with all the parts racing until the song is over… quickly. Violet can really play some guitar, but don’t look for solos long enough to get the lighter out for. Some razor cuts and she’s done with it. The Archaeas are the real deal. GONER

Tracks

1. Trapped
2. Reality Commander
3. Lip Gloss
4. Last Cigarette
5. Absent Mind
6. TV Scream
7. Faces
8. Witch
9. Cosmic Unknown
10. Archaea

Press

Inspired by all sorts of rock: AC/DC,
Johnny Thunders? Heartbreakers, The Dead
Boys, The Reatards, Carbonas, early Ty
Segall, but most especially Guitar Wolf?s
Wild Zero and Mark Sultan

Audio & Video

IVAN THE TOLERABLE & HIS ELASTIC BAND - 'OUT OF SEASON (FT MIKE WATT)'

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• SBR075 - LP

  5059435828852

• SBR075CD - CD

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*SHIPS SEPT*  Orange Foam Edition* If you ask Oli Heffernan – aka Ivan The Tolerable – how many releases he’s made under that name, he has to check and cross reference. Let’s call it 42-ish including Out Of Season, his seventh release as Ivan this year. (This is to exclude his work as Year Of Birds and Detective Instinct and as a member of Houseplants and King Champion Sounds). For a man as restlessly, constantly creative as Heffernan, the lockdown is a blessing and a curse. His trusty Tascam 8-track recorder recently collapsed under the pressure after fifteen years and countless albums but there’s no sign of Heffernan joining it. For Out Of Season, his first full band project since last year’s Rations, Heffernan says he wanted to make something that was ‘somewhere between Faust and Sun Ra, but still sound like me’. He asked regular collaborator Karen Schoemer to provide the words and then asked another regular Mike Watt (yeh, that Mike Watt) to provide the voice (‘I relly needed an American voice for the words and Watt has the best American voice’, Heffernan points out.) Heffernan recorded most of it himself at home, with contributions from Mees Siderius (King Champion Sounds, drums) and Elsa Van Der Linden (sax). Ajay Saggar (KCS, Deutsche Ashram and Bhajan Bhoy) mixed it and mastering ninja Anthony Chapman worked his magic. Out Of Season covers a lot of ground, from cleansing skronk to jittery post punk to unsettling soundscapes. Watt’s spoken vocals ride above the often anxious settings, intoning a series of unnerving and surreal stories full of nightmare logic and dream-noir atmosphere. It’s a long way from Rations but then it seems the Ivan The Terrible modus operandi is that there is no Ivan The Terrible modus operandi.

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