VARIOUS - 'BROWN ACID: THE TWENTIETH TRIP'

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• EZRDR209 - LP

  788362909277

• EZRDR209CD - CD

  788362909284

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*MYSTERY COLOUR VINYL*Here you are in 2025 about to take the Twentieth Trip! The ten vintage early local hard rock eruptions here will swarm around you like fear and loathing bats, zapping you from unexpected angles, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt proof that the inevitable collapse of the American Psychedelic ’60s Utopian Dream into hard guitar low ball self absorbed human nature endures. These killer tracks may be a half century in the rear-view mirror now but...since We Can’t Work It Out… we gotta mess it up! A vibe that resonates timelessly, real life ripped out of the haze by real people, fresh and unfiltered right out of the gate. Getting it while they can. These are no mere historic sound recordings, they are life itself! If you’re looking for trouble, you just found it!

Tracks

1. Afterflash ? Cookbook
2. Polvo ? Have You Ever Been There? (Has Estado Ah?)
3. Hot Candy ? Darkened Passage
4. Banana Bros ? Suck You In
5. The Jordan Brothers ? Thank You For The Ride
6. Osage Lute ? Watch Em Shine
7. Sandy Torano And The Nimo Spliff ? A Year Ago Today
8. Lazy Day ? Don?t Dance In My Song
9. Flavor ? Hot And Tot Woman
10. Frozen Sun ? Jamm Pt. 1

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CHRIS BROKAW - 'GHOST SHIP'

Formats

• 12XU158-1 - LP

  5061041821202

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***Four years after his rock juggernaut Puritan, Chris Brokaw delivers Ghost Ship, a landscape meditation (at sea) for vocals and electric guitars. "I set out to make an 8 song statement like Desert Shore or Raw Power, but it became a 9 song... something else. I've described it to friends as Twin Peaks-ish but that feels only part right. The songs were written on a 60's Teisco Del Rey electric guitar, set up by the Belgian luthier Flip Scipio with heavy gauge flat wound strings and an .80 gauge low E string tuned down to a low A, which reframes how you play the instrument. I wrote them all quickly in a kind of fever."—Brokaw

Tracks

1.Over My Body
2.Ghost Ship
3.Anything Anymore
4.Palatine Light
5.Vampire Of Rathmines
6.Paloma
7.8 Or 9 Things
8.Profile
9.Away From Me

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BLANK HELLSCAPE - 'HELL 2'

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• 12XU147-1 - 2xLPs

  5061041821219

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***Hell 2 is not the first album from Austin’s Blank Hellscape, but it’s certainly the most fully-realized. OK, at least it’s the LONGEST. The three-piece nightmare band knocked around the claustrophobic end of the house show circuit for a longish spell but right around pre-‘dermic times, the trio of Ethan Billips, Max Deems and Andrew Nogay morphed into a multi-dimensional synapse-snapper with little regard for genre nor their own self-preservation. On that front, Hell 2 was echelons in the making; it would not be an exaggeration to say the writing / recording / editing process was arduous and lengthy enough it nearly took Blank Hellscape out of the game for good. But before you declare, “better luck next time”, strap yourself in to your favorite listening chair / apparatus and bask in this sprawling double album, to these ears, an uncanny musical & lyrical representation of the confusing, scary and thoroughly oppressive state we currently find ourselves in (not specifically Texas, but yes, Texas, too). I could not be more proud to dub this their long-awaited MAGNUM OPUS, and not simply because doing so will totally fuck shit up for whoever puts out their next album.

Tracks

1.Hell 2
2.Shot In The Head
3.Dying In America
4.I Am Experiencing The Wrath Of God
5.The Blue
6.Into The Sea
7.Inside
8.Gap In My Brain
9.I've Never Felt More Alive
10. ...
11.The River Is Dying
12.Sound Of God
13.Rocks Against The Wall
14.Wish You Were Here
15.Wires
16.Ghosts
17.No Name

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