WAND - 'GOLEM'

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• ITR276 - LP

  759718527612

• ITR276CD - CD

  759718527629

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**REPRESSED ON WHITE VINYL !**Following up their debut full-length on Ty Segall’s God? label, Wand presents their second album, Golem, on In The Red. Recording with Chris Woodhouse at his Hanger studio in Sacramento, Wand summons the dark and heavy power of the riff. Back in September 2013, Wand was quietly dismembered and ritually eaten in the hills near Dodger Stadium. Wand was reborn as “Wand”—an obese organ falsely organized as four overjoyous nerds. Four flesh balloons betting on a few aging amplifiers. Rumor has it they listen to Here Come the Warm Jets on loop all day and plot mail fraud. What’s more, they allegedely stole Dale Crover’s car and sacrificed it to the weather near the Los Angeles County Line. A few things, at least, are certain: Wand hears ghosts. Wand prefers serpents. The Sun is the mother of every fiction. All phenomena will be consumed in alphabetical order, but desire will recirculate ad infinitum. If all else fails, Wand will just devour more hands. Wand is coming your way soon. • Sophomore full-length from California four-piece with connections to Ty Segall, Chad and the Meatbodies, etc. • Debut album Ganglion Reef (God?) scored a 7.4 Pitchfork rating • Vinyl includes digital download card

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1. The Unexplored Map
2. Self Hypnosis in 3 Days
3. Reaper Invert
4. Melted Rope
5. Cave In
6. Flesh Tour
7. Floating Head
8. Planet Golem
9. The Drift

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VARIOUS - 'BROWN ACID: THE SEVENTEENTH TRIP'

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• EZRDR156 - LP (COLOURED)

  603111759111

• EZRDR156CD - CD

  603111759128

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Lucky number 17? You better believe it. We here at Brown Acid have been scouring the highways and byways of America for even more hidden stashes of psych/garage/proto-punk madness from the so-called Aquarian Age. There’s no flower power here, though—just acid casualties, rock stompers and major freakouts. As always, the songs have been officially licensed, and all the artists get paid. Kicking off this trip, Grapple’s “Ethereal Genesis” is a heavy psych gem from 1969 written by J. Bruce Svoboda, a.k.a. Jay Bruce, formerly of The Hangmen and The Five Canadians (who were actually the same San Antonio band). The latter’s 1966 garage favorite “Writing on the Wall” has been endlessly covered, but Grapple were never heard from again. With a guitar riff that blatantly rips off Sabbath’s “Black Sabbath,” Image’s mostly instrumental lysergic obscurity “Witchcraft ’71” (originally unveiled that very year) also boasts a horror-movie organ intro, a voodoo drum break and some championship chanting. Private press heads might recall late Image drummer John Beke from his ’80s reemergence with country rockers Crossfyre. Stone Hedge were a seven-piece rock band out of Michigan with a penchant for Creedence and anthropomorphism. “Smokey Bear” is their 1972 tribute to the official mascot of the U.S. Forest Services—not to mention the A side of their sole single—and it recalls the kind of organ-drenched swamp jam that soundtracked many a Burt Reynolds flick back in the day. If you think being a Southern rock band from Milwaukee doesn’t make much sense, that’s probably why Crossfire changed their sound along with their name—to Bad Boy—after signing with United Artists. Bad Boy’s severely underappreciated second album, Back To Back, is a 1978 hard rock jewel, but you can hear their boogie-woogie roots on this rare 1975 single. With a band name like Primevil and song title like “Too Dead To Live,” you probably expect some gnarly proto-metal riffage. Instead, you a get a harmonica-drenched, soul-infused rock rave-up from 1972. Primevil would release their sole LP two years later: Entitled Smokin’ Bats at Campton’s, it’s a reference to their trusty singer, harp player (and bat smoker?), Dave Campton. Brown Acid regulars already know Pegasus from their appearance with “The Sorcerer” on our Seventh Trip. “Ready to Rave” is the flipside to that 1972 single, in which they explain how they like their whiskey cold and their women hot. It’s another killer glimpse of what might have been if these one-and-done Baltimore hard rockers had been able to keep it together. One of two obscure singles released by Texas musician Bobby Mabe in 1969 (the other appears under the name The Outcasts), “I’m Lonely” delivers a heavy dose of vocal soul to the otherwise psych-garage presentation. Fans of fellow Houstonians the Moving Sidewalks—whom Bobby and his Outcasts may well have gigged with—will especially dig this one. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, may not be known as a cultural mecca, but they did give us Truth & Janey. This deadly hard rock trio delivered their holy grail full-length, No Rest for the Wicked, back in 1976. “Around and Around” is a Chuck Berry cover that originally appeared on a 1973 single the band released under the earlier name Truth. Originally released in 1973, “High School Letter” is the debut single from San Diego rock squad Glory. This infectious bonehead cruncher features future Beat Farmer Jerry Raney and the original rhythm section of Iron Butterfly in bassist Greg Willis and drummer Jack Pinney. Glory is what they got up to after their former bandmates left for L.A.’s garden of Eden. “Jack the Ripper” is a mercilessly bootlegged Cleveland classic from 1978 with a serrated punk edge and vocals that recall Mick Blood of Aussie savages the Lime Spiders. Or maybe it’s the other way around—the Lime Spiders formed the year after Strychnine carved off this lethal paean to the infamous Whitechapel slasher of olde.

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Side A
Grapple "Ethereal Genesis"
San Antonio, Texas 1969

Image "Witchcraft 71"
Illinois 1971

Stone Hedge "Smokey Bear"
Battle Creek, MI 1972

Crossfire "I Gotta Move"
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1975

Primevil "Too Dead To Live"
Hancock County, Indiana 1972

Side B
Pegasus "Ready To Rave"
Baltimore, Maryland 1972

Bob Mabe & the Outcast "I'm Lonely"
Galveston, Texas 1969

Truth & Janey "Around and Around"
Ames, Iowa 1973

Glory "High School Letter"
San Diego, California 1973

Strychnine "Jack The Ripper"
Cleveland, Ohio 1978

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DIVINE HORSEMEN - 'BITTER END OF A SWEET NIGHT'

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• ITR381LP - LP

  759718538113

• ITR381CD - CD

  759718538120

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The renaissance of Divine Horsemen—which began in 2021 with In The Red’s release of Hot Rise Of An Ice Cream Phoenix, the legendary Los Angeles punk band’s first release in 33 years—continues with a thrilling and unexpected new album, Bitter End Of A Sweet Night. The new sixteen-track collection again features the band’s cofounding members, singers-songwriters Chris Desjardins (better known as Chris D.) and Julie Christensen, and the core members of the ferocious Hot Rise band—guitarist / co-writer Peter Andrus (a member of the group’s late ’80s lineup), bassist Bobby Permanent and X’s nonpareil drummer DJ Bonebrake. The sound is filled out by Green On Red and Dream Syndicate keyboardist Chris Cacavas (who appeared on the 1984 Chris D. / Divine Horsemen album Time Stands Still) and classically trained violinist Elizabeth Wilson. Desjardins produced the album. Divine Horsemen’s dramatic In The Red bow and a 2020 archival set of club performances from 1985 and 1987, issued by Feeding Tube Records, reacquainted listeners with their stormy power and eclectic roots-punk musicianship, which diversified the searing approach taken by Desjardins’ previous band, foundational L.A. punk unit the Flesh Eaters. (Christiansen had previously regrouped with her former husband and musical partner Desjardins on I Used to Be Pretty, the 2018 album that reunited the 1980 “all-star” Flesh Eaters lineup.) Reaction to the group’s rebirth was rapturous. Jaime Pina of Punk Globe called Hot Rise Of An Ice Cream Phoenix “brilliant,” adding, “The music is lush with both acoustic and electric guitars and the songs pull influences from all over, including country, rock, traditional ethnic folk music and blues.” Michael Toland wrote in The Big Takeover, “Reclaiming its classic sound of sweat- and grime-stained Americana, Divine Horsemen is reborn like the mythical creature in the title.” John Apice of Americana Highways raved, “Like the Rolling Stones, [Divine Horsemen] continue to thrill. They have grit, muscle and potency….Divine indeed.” 

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1. Memory Fails
2. Talking In Your Sleep Again
3. You Knew No Other Way
4. Vanina Vanini
5. Bitter End
6. No Mercy
7. The Next Man That I See
8. Dirty Like An Angel
9. On The Wane
10. Murder Of Courage
11. These Evils
12. Coffee Shop Blues
13. Notorious
14. Garden Of Night
15. Footprints On The Moon
16. It?s Still Nowhere

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'80s Los Angeles punk band follows up 2021?s rapturously received resurrection album

Features the original band?s co-founding members, including Chris D. of Flesh Eaters fame

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ROSTRO DEL SOL - 'BLUE STORM'

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• SBR099 - LP (COLOURED)

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Blue storm is an Ep that consists of 4 songs, 2 long singles like Blue storm and Kinich Ahau and 2 short ones like Ritual and Dark metamorphosis. They were recorded and mixed at Rec-On Studios between 2022 and 2023 by Jorge Trejo and mastered by Juan Puget. The cover was in charge of Elena Ibáñez, liminal_light_experience and back cover by Miguel Isidoro. Limited edition of 300 yellow and blue marble vinyl with download code. (PLEASE NOTE VINYL HAVE COME OUT LOOKING DIFFERENT TO THE MOCK UP BUT INCREDIBLE!)

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ROSTRO DEL SOL - 'S/T'

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• SBR098 - LP (COLOURED)

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Limited edition of 300 yellow and red marble vinyl with download code.The debut Album from Mexico City's Rostro del Sol is finally being re released with a bonus track on Stolen Body Records! A musical collage of Blues, Jazz, Funk, Progressive and Psychedelic rock from the golden eras of the 60s and 70s, which offers unexpected moments developed through different sonic intensities inside the songs, each one composed to tell a story on its own. Just listen and let the music take you on the first journey by this young band. This debut Album was recorded between 2019 and 2020 at Rec On studios in Mexico City by Jorge Trejo and mixed by Juan Puget. Saxophone by Daniel Samhain. The insane artwork comes from the Spanish illustrator Elena Ibañez.

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1. EFFECT OF CREATION

2. SOLARFLARE

3. BACKYARDS BLUES

4. BOP C SKETCHES

5. TALES...

8. CYNICAL MINDS (Bonus Track)

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CIRCUS DEVILS - 'SQUEEZE THE NEEDLE'

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• GBVI119LP - LP

  795154142019

• GBVI119CD - CD

  795154142026

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Formed in 2001, the psychedelic rock trio Circus Devils features vocalist Robert Pollard, backed by brothers Todd Tobias and Tim Tobias. In their first album in six years, and their fifteenth overall, Circus Devils is back with Squeeze The Needle, a funhouse romp full of rock and roll swagger and childlike glee. The pounding psychedelia of the single “The Owl Presents…” harkens back to The Doors. Mixed into the twenty-track song collage are heavy rock thumpers (“Street Toughs,” “Mama’s Got A Brand New Snake”), cryptic interludes (“Age Of Transfusion”), and pretty acoustic pieces (“Difficult Dreamer,” “The Joke is Over”).

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THE EXBATS - 'SONG MACHINE'

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• 192GONE - LP

  795154140787

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In a just world, Song Machine, the fifth full-length album from The Exbats, which arrives via Goner Records, would become one of the most-loved and most-listened to albums of the 2020s. With the thirteen-track album, the Bisbee, Arizona-based band further their analog back-to-the-future combination of the Shangri-Las and preVelvet Underground doo-wop wannabe Lou Reed, churning out catchy tunes laden with buoyant choruses that rank alongside the best A-sides recorded in the shadow of the Brill Building or with the Wrecking Crew in tow. The Exbats are effortless time travelers—this time, they’ve set the dial for the early 1970s, incorporating the sonic magic of The Partridge Family, Muswell Hillbillies-era Kinks, and Brian Wilson into the crux of their musical ethos, evident on tracks like the propulsive “Riding With Paul” and “The Happy Castaway,” which bookend the album. “What I remember about that era is going to record stores and seeing a wall of 45s that somebody was tasked with moving around [in concordance with] the Billboard charts,” says Kenny McLain, who, alongside daughter Inez, is the driving force behind The Exbats. “With our band we’re kinda moving things around on that towering wall of singles, as if it were from some sort of ancient tomb, and we’re trying to crack a code and make it to number one. So, I suppose, some magic door will open. And we’ll all be free? Or something like that.” Inez McLain, namesake of the Monkees’ wool-capped guitarist Mike Nesmith, has played drums and sung for The Exbats since she was just ten years old. Surveying the band’s back catalog in relation to Song Machine, she adds, “I always felt like our progression is similar to that of the Kinks–starting off garage and punk and then becoming more deliberate about everything.” On this latest release, time stops altogether when Inez masterfully—and wholly unselfconsciously— evokes the remarkable harmonizing of Cher or Karen Carpenter at the height of their careers on two songs that unveil the raison d’être for The Exbats, and, thus, music lovers in general: “Singalong Tonight” and “What Can A Song Do,” which, together, anchor Song Machine while poignantly and audaciously celebrating the very act of singing itself with a sentimentality worthy of Muppets Movie-era Paul Williams. In a different world, either might inspire a viral revolution

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1. Riding With Paul
2. To All the Mothers That I?d
Like To Forgive
3. Easy To Be Sorry
4. Himbo
5. Like It Like I Do
6. Singalong Tonight
7. What Can A Song Do
8. You Got My Heart Hot
9. Food Fight
10. Better At Love
11. Cry About Me
12. If I Knew
13. The Happy Castaway

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SECRET PYRAMID - 'A VANISHING TOUCH'

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• BING202 - LP

  600197020210

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While possibly not the first ambient record to be inspired by J Dilla’s Donuts, Secret Pyramid’s A Vanishing Touch is in rarified company. The two seem antithetical—with Donuts a now classic collection of short beats compiled together and A Vanishing Touch being a forty-minute suite consisting of fourteen pieces. However, like any genre, ambient music has a lot more going on beneath the surface than might be initially gleaned. From the start, Amir Abbey dropped his usual songwriting process of long contemplation and careful sculpting. “I let the pieces live and breathe, and I spent a lot less time tweaking and editing. Doing this brought an energy and mystery to the music that was missing from what I’ve made in the past.” This allowed the record to come together quickly”, with Abbey working on it nightly after his work day had ended. “Each album is a snapshot of where I am at that point in time. With this album, I have been thinking about shifting memory, how a moment in time does not need to be thought of as endless, but rather part of a cycle. Every beginning is as important and salient as the ending that follows.” Working at home, as he always has, Abbey embeds synths, tape loops and processing, horns, ondes martenot, guitar, bass, and organ within the multi-tiered composition of A Vanishing Touch. Sounds morph, bleed, fade, and permeate with moments where a listener is able to make out what is being played at that moment. “I’ve intentionally blurred some of the instrumentation and it can’t be easily made out, so even if you pay attention to the sound, there’s something ephemeral about it.” Each measure feels deep, singular, mysterious, and unconfined. It’s a new approach to ambience—the magic of the moment as a moment, not stretched beyond its point in time. “A Vanishing Touch is about impermanence and the beauty that can result from it.”

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1. Whim 2. Slow Softly 3. Broken Wing 4. Kiss The Hold 5. So So 6. Out Of The Sky Into The Ground 7. Valerian 8. Bloom Nightly 9. One Twelve (feat. Ilyas Ahmed) 10. Blush 11. Hands To 12. First Rotation 13. Turning Into Air 14. Cradle

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TITANIC - 'VIDRIO'

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• UOH009 - LP (COLOURED)

  5052442023555

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Titanic debut album Vidrio is the collaboration between composer I la Cat6Iica (Hector Tosta) and Guatemalan experimentalist Mabe Fratti. One could call Vitrio a jazz hybrid record, though once upon a time this music would have been called postmodern; an answer to pop's pre-packaged form, adopting maybe more classical structures to tell a story. In that, this record is reminiscent of Derek Jarman's "1980s contemporaries, The Blue Nile, who made widescreen post-pop that ached with longing for resolutions that seemed to be just over the horizon. And for all the deconstructions, the deliberate raucousness of the sax and the rhythms of the percussion (like waves riding up a shingle beach outside Jarman's cottage), this is still a music that can thread a line back to classical opera whilst nodding along the way to the likes of Terry Riley, or bebop. Over time, and by dint of working closely together, Fratti and Tosta have reached a state of grace that only comes rarely to artists. In this space they can do no wrong: the touch, the decision-making, the clarity of the instrumentation, the knowledge where to apply the emotional press, is nothing short of breathtaking. They need to remember these moments.

Tracks

1. Anonima
2. Mister Popo
3. Cielo Falso
4. Hotel Elizabeth
5. En Paralelo
6. Te evite
7. Palacio
8. Balanza

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#4 L0UD & QUIET AOTY 2023
Global album of the month - The Guardian

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CRACK CLOUD - 'CRACKIN UP - LIVE IN LONDON'

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• MM009 - 2xLPs

  5052442023562

• MM009CD - CD

  5052442023579

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- Crackin Up - Live In London will be limited to 1000 copies (no re-press) and available as a heavyweight double LP, Gatefold sleeve & featuring photographs, handwritten texts and a special edition OBI-Strip. - Also available on CD with a 16 page photo book documenting the live performance "Half multimedia art studio, half experimental musical group- the Vancouver-based collective better known as Crack Cloud took over Evolutionary Arts Hackney with their massive genre-bending sound in October 2022. Fresh from the September 16th release of their sophomore record Tough Baby, this performance with six piece choir and strings (the band totalled seventeen on stage), for one night only was recorded and documented on film and presented here as Crack Cloud - Crackin Up Live in London. A legendary band at a legendary venue"

Tracks

1. The Politician
2. Costly Engineered Illusion
3. Please Yourself
4. Virtuous Industry
5. Empty Cell
6. Image Craft
7. Philosopher?s Calling
8. Post Truth
9. Tunnel Vision
10. Criminal
11. Drab Measure
12. Crackin Up

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MOTORPSYCHO - 'ROCK BOTTOM / SILVER DOLLAR FORGER'

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• IMSO074W - 7"

• IMSO074R - 7"

  5060446128039

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Norwegian legends Motorpsycho pay tribute to a couple of British Hard ROCK classics from 1974..Namely one of the staples of their current live set, UFO’s “Rockbottom” and a stellar version of Nazereth’s “Silver Dollar Forger”.. wrapped in a tongue in cheek cover that riffs on the originals, this single is a long time goal of Motorpsycho fans Agitated Records. Initially conceived to coincide with their June UK tour dates, but as they didn’t end up happening, here we are with a delicious slice of rock action to keep you going!! As you might expect, Motorpsycho have perfected their take on these two songs from 1974! Red or White vinyl, a big heap of fun to be had amongst the grooves! Recorded and Mixed By / Jo Ranheim at Øra Studio December 2022 Mastered At – Audio Virus Lab by – Helge Sten 33 RPM

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ALEX KOZOBOLIS - 'THE SEASONS ARE NOT FOUR'

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• ALT001LP - 2xLP (COLOURED)

  5060450000000

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A collection of structured piano improvisations and their surrounding sonic environments, an album in four parts: Songs From a Distant Summer | From November For Snow | Together Recorded between 2011-2013, the album was never intended to be a direct response to the seasons. The coincidence of the recordings having been made at points within the seasons was only pointed out at a later date by a friend. Alongside wishing to avoid any parallels or associations being drawn with Vivaldi’s masterpiece, the title - “The Seasons Are Not Four” - a line from a poem by Syrian poet Adonis , appeared to fit perfectly - recognising our relationship to time but also alluding to the impossibility of truly categorising it. Due to label arrangements and complications the majority of these recordings have remained unreleased for a decade. One notable exception being the piece “I Promise”, that went on to amass in excess of 24 million streams - an unfathomable prospect for a piano-less pianist recording a reunion between himself and a piano at a point of not having played one for several months. The Seasons Are Not Four serves as a sonic record of real-time responses to the character of a piano, to transient states of being and to disparate, fleeting moments in time - some will hear Summer in Winter, others- Autumn in Spring; distant conversation beyond the sounds of a hesitant human shuffling fingers against wooden keys, the ticking of a grandfather clock or the song of birds outside masking passing traffic. - ‘The Seasons Are Not Four, a week is not seven days, a year is more than it is, and less’ Adonis

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'Dares to be genuinely impressionistic? Authentic, without submitting to niceness or repetition' David Sheppard (The Observer, Q, Mojo)

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