GUIDED BY VOICES - 'TREMBLERS AND GOGGLES BY RANK'

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• GBVI115LP - LP

  733102725815

• GBVI115CD - CD

  733102725822

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Tremblers And Goggles By Rank marks a new phase in Robert Pollard’s songwriting evolution. His songs have always included non-traditional approaches to form and song structure, but with this album, he has pushed it further than ever. While the familiar Guided By Voices pop-craft and melodic virtuosity always occupies center stage, the first-time listener will never be able to predict what’s coming next in a song. “Alex Bell” and “Focus On The Flock” are the two anchors, each one expansive and filled with rock grandeur, and both exemplifying the complex wordplay, melodies, and structures that are hallmarks of the album. GBV’s latest batch of brilliant songs ride on colorful psychedelic flourishes and brash post-punk textures that make this ten-song album a one-of-a-kind head trip. While there are hooks and earworms aplenty within, this album is a complex and kaleidoscopic journey, representing a new echelon in the Guided By Voices universe. It represents another level of songwriting and performance from the group. It plays out like an intricate and powerful collage, in a very multicolored and multi-faceted fashion; a work grand in scale and undertaking. There are triumphant and glorious choruses, deep and dark wormholes, sinewy twists and turns, bold and theatrical bravados, massive cliffs, plateaus, peaks, and valleys—these emotional landscapes reach new and unexpected heights along the way.

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#1 Lizard On The Red Brick Wall
#2 Alex Bell
#3 Unproductive Funk
#4 Roosevelt's Marching Band
#5 Goggles By Rank
#6 Cartoon Fashion (Bongo Lake)
#7 Boomerang
#8 Focus On The Flock
#9 Puzzle Two
#10 Who Wants to Go Hunting?

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TERROR COSMICO - 'MIASMA'

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• SBR093 - 2xLP (COLOURED)

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Stolen Body Records is thrilled to announce the release of Mexican Doom Metal band Terror Cósmico’s first album in 4 years - Miasma. Miasma is the fourth album from Mexico City based duo, Terror Cósmico. The record takes a different turn in production from past albums, having a more aggressive tone, having drums and guitar recorded separately in the studio, being able to create an intense and surrounding sound. Miasma is made up of 8 tracks which deliver a great range of emotions, going through desperation, anguish and desolation mixed with an air of nostalgic mystery. Recorded in January of 2021 in Testa Studio in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. The sessions held a vibe of doubt and fear to what the pandemic could bring. The album is charged with all the emotions of a very strange moment in our timeline. The artwork was a commissioned task by Portland artist Jason Barnett.

Tracks

1. Necromorfo
2. En un lugar fr?o y desolado
3. Carbunco
4. Alguien vendr? desde el fondo del mar
5. Cepa mortal
6. Las m?quinas colapsan
7. Tonalpohualli
8. Se mueren

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Cepa Mortal Limited Edition Double Gatefold Vinyl

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DOUG MCKECHNIE - 'SAN FRANCISCO MOOG: 1968-72 VOL: 1'

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• VG004 - LP

  733102727758

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San Francisco Moog: 1968-72 documents a missing link in the history of electronic music, as well as the little-known moment when psychedelic music went electronic. In 1968, Bay Area native Doug McKechnie got hold of one the very first modular Moog synthesizers ever made and began finding his own way to play it. Soon, he was hauling the finicky instrument around to perform improvised concerts at colleges and ballrooms, as well as an ill-fated appearance on the bill at Altamont. Many of the performances were recorded, and the surviving tapes—never before released— capture a free-flowing, transportive sound that fills in the gap between the austere mid-century academic avant garde and the expansive cosmic suites of Tangerine Dream and the rest of the Berlin School in the ’70s. This is not another corny old Moog record. San Francisco Moog sounds as fresh as anything by today’s analogsynth heads while bringing to life a lost moment in the development of the music. “Astonishing stuff, pure early Moog electronics . . . vibrating with the joy taken in the discovery of the new sounds this machine was capable of.” —Electronic Sound “Presages both Tangerine Dream’s soundtracks and, in its most grimy moments, ‘Acid Tracks.” —The Wire

Tracks

1. The First Exploration @ SF Radical Laboratories, 1968
2. Meditation Moog
3. Baseline
4. Berkeley Art Museum
5. Crazy Ray

Press

Astonishing stuff, pure early Moog electronics . . . vibrating
with the joy taken in the discovery of the new sounds
this machine was capable of.' Electronic Sound
'Presages both Tangerine Dream's soundtracks and, in its
most grimy moments, 'Acid Tracks.' - The Wire

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SLIFT - 'SPACE IS THE KEY + LA PLANETE INEXPLOREE'

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• SITK4 - 2xLPs

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Double gatefold album including Slift’s first 2 albums on Black vinyl!  Space Is The Key: Recorded and mixed by Lo Spider at Swampland, Toulouse. Art by Pierre Ferrero. Jean F./ guitar, vox Rémi F./ bassVI, vox Canek F./ drum Originally out on Howlin Banana Records and Exag Records / June 2017.  La Planete Inexploree:  Originally out September 2018 via Howlin Banana Rds / Stolen Body Rds / Exag' Rds/ Six Tonnes de Chairs Rds and Rockerill Rds. Tape edition on Ya Ya Yeah. SLIFT // Jean Fossat - Guitar, Synth, Vox Rémi Fossat - Bass, Vox Canek Flores - Drums, Percussions and Farfisa Additionnal musicians // Ornella Mesple Somps - Vox Lucie Lelaurain - Flûte Yann Favier - Congas and Percussions Lo Spider - RE 201 and Percussions Recorded and mixed by Lo Spider at Swampland, Toulouse. Mastered by Jim Diamond

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