Captured Tracks - gaggle of 7"'s

Before I dive back into the review pile I noticed yesterday that all of a sudden Captured Tracks has another slew of releases I better let you know about before they are gone....starting with the Blank Dogs of course

This one is a no brainer, the 12" EP I haven't listened to too much, nothing stuck with enough to play the hell out of it like Two Sides but a double LP is coming out on In The Red soon, and I'll be looking out for that...so this one is ordered.


What else can I add to the cart? A couple singles caught my attention...I've been seeing the Beets mentioned playing around a lot, so I headed over to their myspace. Turns out they have a full length from Captured Tracks too, so a single should be a good place to start. It's pretty mellow acoustic, full of harmonies, shakers, and country basslines. Recorded far off sounding with plenty of echo and slowly strummed electric.


Next up a single from Little Girls...do yourself a favor and don't search for that on google. Here's the myspace. Heavy electric guitar overpowering blown out vocals and drums that sound like they were recorded pretty flat...at least in 'What we did'. Vocals are way echoed with lots of harmony yelling. Very blank dogs-like, minimal...tons of energy. One of the tracks from this single 'Youth Tunes' is amazing...flat drum machine, repeating sloppy electric melody. Pure 4-track. Layers and layers fall on top. Great song...put it in the cart.


Finally a new one by Brilliant colors, I loved their single on Make-a-mess, so this girlage rock band's new one is a must have as well. Nothing but hits from the Tracks. That makes two singles and no full length.

All of these are avaialble right from the myspace...
There's tons of other stuff, but I had to stop there...you know with the economy and all.

The H.A.N.S. on Stumparumper records

This The H.A.N.S. single was first mentioned in Stumparumper's blog, and I actually talked to Pat for an episode of the podcast about this release. H.A.N.S. was a band Pat had in high school, he played guitar and sings on the single.
This was hand cut by Peter King, so automatically it has this intimate quality, the crackles and pops, it adds another element to the sound which just sounds historic.

Side A: (No title?) (The songs on the first side are Adjust your Monitor/What You Need - ed)
This is a live recording (I can't tell if it's maybe just the effects?) It really sounds huge, it must have been recorded in an empty gym, the kick is massively booming around the space, at least this is what I imagine my high school gym would have sounded like. This one starts out pretty sensitive, all feelings and slow electric guitar, but then really ends up rocking out for a while. I'm wondering when exactly this was recorded what kind of influences these guys were listening to...I don't know if I'm hearing Teenage Fanclub? Maybe it's just me.

Side B:
'How is it?' Sounds like here Pat starts a melody, or is trying to remember it, can't hear exactly what they are saying but when he commits to the line, it takes off. The H.A.N.S had a pretty amazing drummer especially considering this was high school, he's all over the kit, playing every possible piece, like a giant fill rhythm.
I keep expecting to hear an audience come in at the end.

The Superhero song: Nice post indie guitar jangle here...kind of pop, with little hooks all over. Very catchy, I can't quite catch all the vocals here but it's the radio friendly hit out of the three....Sellouts.

I'm impressed, I would have never had my shit together to record anything of this quality. Or even rehearse enough to play anything live, or deal with anything long enough. It seamed easier to record for the day in the kitchen or literally a garage just off the street with whoever showed up, make up a new name, press record.

The sound is pretty nicely represented here, other than the treble in sections sounds blown out probably something to do with the cutting process. I'm always amazed to hold one of these in my hands and think the masters had to be shipped to New Zealand...hand cut on individual lathe cutters one or two at a time and then shipped back to the US and then to my mailbox...crazy.

I have a clear vinyl copy # 16/20, I think there might still be one available from AnimalPsi, if they update regularly....and it's a very reasonable $7 for a completely unique object. Did I mention the sleeve is made out of old homework? It can't be high school homework, it looks insanely hard.

"This is the only recording that the legendary H.A.N.S. ever made as a duo, which is slightly staggering considering the number of live shows they've played. Now both up-and-coming composers, the members of the H.A.N.S. have agreed to release part of a fantastic 2005 session on 7" as the first record for Stumparumper. One is impressed by the depth of their songwriting and musicianship, but also by their exuberance, which reminds us of how much joy can be had from making music. This 7" will be released as a limited edition of 20 on clear vinyl. Each record is hand-cut on a lathe by Peter King in New Zealand, and every record will come in a hand-numbered, homemade jacket constructed from the H.A.N.S.' old math homework."

Pat's also just released a couple of cassette's as well, get over to his myspace and check out some of the other stuff there as well. This is a one man operation that goes to fund more releases. If in the future there's room for every music fan/maker to do this....welll that sounds pretty perfect to me. We'll all buy each others records and don't have to have real jobs.

Call me a hippie.

A 7" hippie.

I'm just jealous because I need to just shut up and press something of my own already.

Scribbler on Stumparumper

Scribbler:
side a
my old lady
a girl should

side b
ocean floor
few days of storm
nothing but pain
zzzzzz

Pat sent me the first couple of singles from his Stumparumper label and I'm going to be talking about them today and tomorrow. Starting off with this single from Scribbler which I loved and have been playing straight the past couple of days.
Scribbler seems to be, according to youtube, a kind of collective of a few people, either that or their friends join them onstage regularly and in the van. I counted at least 6 members playing everything from whipping flexible plastic tubes around to samplers, electric and acoustic guitar. This lends to a multifaced recording where expectations keep getting tossed out.

This single starts out with the perfect A-Side opener, 'My Old Lady' I love this hushed home recording feel.... quiet acoustic strumming, the soft hiss of cassette noise. I'm sure it's going to be compared to something Neil Young or Chad Vangaalen, but those aren't bad things to be compared to let's face it. Maybe it's because he's singing about his old lady, but it's even more to do with the vocals that have a huge far off echo combined with the tender falsetto. There's great little moments of synth and subtle touchs of xylophone, it's easily my favorite on the disc.
It even sounds like the tracks ends with the slow disintegration warp of the stop button.

The next track on the A-Side is a live song called 'A Girl Should'. Someone in the audience says 'Who?" after they say 'Hi, ...We're scribbler', nice touch. At first it sounds like we're hearing a live direction of the previous track. Real quiet electric guitar picking, soft vocals but then blows up with a full backing band country rock style. A burst of drum and distortion just before the verse comes in. But scribbler likes the noise, and not content to just alt-country Palace style rock it out, when the solo slams in it's full of effects waving around. All phaser and delay to take the whole sound in another direction entirely.

The B-Side is where things really get interesting.
Ocean Floor, another live track, gets rocking right away with plenty of low feedback for ambiance. The vocals aren't afraid to crack and scream, we are getting a view of the stark, lonely ocean floor after all. When they get to singing the line 'It was dark!' it's punctuated by feedback and cymbal crashes at a quarter time. There's a lot of references to nature with a capital N in these tracks, but it doesn't feel like they ever end up leaning to heavily on this country staple.
'A few days of storm' finds us back to the 4-track, quiet chord strumming and barely audible vocals. Just enough to hold out for another glimmer of brilliance. The mood is there, Scribbler can change direction at any time to lead you back into the woods.
Nothing But Pain is pure Sebadoh inspired 4-track experiment. The close rumble of scraping mics, slide ukulele, fully blown out vocals, some kind of feedback melody from a tortured microphone. They want you to know they can deconstruct and push boundaries with the best of them.
'zzzzzz' is garage enough, pushing the low of the fi into Los Llamaradas territory.... total freeform garage meltdown. Complete screaming noise rock recorded on the worst device laying around. Take that listener.

The Sleeve is ink so heavy it's raised silver silkscreen, hand numbered by Pat and a great design. I'd tell you what's scratched into the gutter, but you'll have to get one to find out.

Direct from Stumparumper for $4.50...that has to be the most inexpensive single...Pat's keeping the prices down because this thing deserves to be heard.

6 songs, nearly 13 minutes of music made especially for Scribbler's extensive Canadian tour in March. One side beautiful and moving folk, the other an electrified aural thrashing of your senses. Is it really the same band? This long-playing 7" does an excellent job of evoking the excitement of seeing the band live or at work with a 4-track - the rawness of the music, the snide comments of the audience, and the emotion put forth by the band. One is able to hear the many sides of Scribbler on only 2 sides of wax.

Edition of 300 (half of which went to the band) on black vinyl with hand-silkscreened and numbered jackets and hand-drawn labels. Plus some secret messages scrawled into the wax. Most have silver drawn labels, but there are 30 with pink labels and 10 with gold labels. The first 10 direct orders get gold (SOLD OUT), then the next 15 get pink (a handful left)), and the rest silver. Please specify if you want silver instead of the other colors.

Silentist on Zum Records

I got this in a little while back for review from Zum records, home of the Zs / Child Abuse split which is part of their ongoing split single series.

Silentist is Mark Burden, formerly from Glass Candy, on drums and piano with August Alston on vocals who gives the tracks a decidedly dark, metal feel. The youtube videos of Silentist live have them playing in the dark lit by a strobe light, so the whole package is treading in some pretty dark waters.

Side A 'The Tunnel' starts out with a crash of cymbals and a low bass piano riff, a very metal sounding repeated drum roll cycles over and over. August is screaming about living in a tunnel, something he's pretty angry about, but this isn't a castrate character... some helpless trapped victim, this is more of a warning for anyone going in to the tunnel. He can't help it, he'll have to probably kill you. You've been warned.

Even more unapologetic, 'Supernatural Barriers' is 30 seconds of August in a traditional metal near growl with ever changing time stuttered thrash metal drum patterns. August seems to be matching the pitch and tone of the rhythms, unintelligibly yelling about pain, syringes, and no justice, thanks to the lyric insert. It's a calculated burst of chaos that is irreverent in length...you have no breathing room or pause to examine what's happening, they led you in the cave and just smashed you over the head. What did I tell you?

I think the thing here that just brings everything into a new area of metal/noise is Mark's piano. It's minimal, almost based on gesture over sound. A loop of tones one hand at a time can reach. A single key becomes hypnotic. I sense an almost epic quality to this direction... like The Mars Volta, that kind of energy, drawing on semi-classical influences to maybe elevate this out of the sea of anyone-can-make-noise.

The B-Side Paralytic is a little slower tempo piece that I have to say is my favorite of the three. Here they sound a little electronic, metallic guitar effects, and Augusts' vocals here being completely delayed and layered...almost quiet, a little in the background even. The piano takes over after this refrain and when August comes back in again it even gets melodic for a moment, before launches into some impressive yelling. The build up here is intense, the repeating piano scale is layered with guitar or bowed strings of some kind. Call me crazy, but this really shouldn't fade out...where did that standard start anyway, these guys feel too deliberate, too calculating to be fading out like a pop song.
Again I love the inherent...I don't know how to put it...cultured sound of the classical piano versus the rest of this unsettling world.

Overall it's a pretty diverse offering, they want you to know right away you'll never know what direction they'll be taking.

On their blog, you can hear a couple of EP's and a full length on a flash player.

Get the vinyl single directly from the Zum Online store.

All of Silentists other releases are on their own celestial gang label.

Silentist - The Tunnel 7"
3 songs
A
"The Tunnel"
"Supernatural Barriers"
B
"Paralytic"

We have been fans of Silentist since hearing the first EP, Nightingales. We also put out the solo piano music of Mark Evan Burden, but Silentist is a different natured project, although it prominently features the piano. Alaska native Burden released another CD EP, "Chariot Swing", under entirely his own design with the death metal-meets-new music sound that is built around howling vocals, complex drumming, piano and bass. By the time of House On the Hill, August Alston (Lords of Light, Pig Heart Transplant, Walls) joined on vocals and lyrics and added an exponential level of brooding creepiness and intensity. The latest album and first vinyl release, the self-titled Silentist LP, coalesces these elements and made a few top ten lists of 2008.

Ed Rodriguez (Deerhoof, Flying Luttenbachers) calls it "Nancarrow or Reich with blast beats." The Tunnel EP comes from the same recording sessions as this album and is the first Silentist release that is not on Burden's Celestial Gang imprint.
Zum025 pressing of 500.

Dead Gaze - podcast interview

Cole contacted me about a week ago about his latest project called Dead Gaze.
He's in the process of pressing a single, either self released or through a couple labels he's been talking to so he sent me his self recorded album called 'The Pride of Calling Panther Lake'. I loved it, it seemed to be incorporating everything I've been listening to lately, the dense atmospheric layering of Panda Bear, the quiet home recording vulnerability of Chad Vangaalen, and the blown out echo heavy distortion of Wavves. Recorded at his Dad's sprawling, remote instrument filled complex in Mississippi near Panther Lake, it sounded like the dream environment which you can hear across the 8 tracks.
The Pride of Calling Panther Lake is available from Cole directly by emailing him at Rcfurlow (at) gmail, or may still be available at Gritmusic.blogspot to download direct.

We talked about playing in Boyscout Knife, a hill country blues band he's been playing in the last 3 years, the challenges of recreating Dead Gaze live, and a chance meeting members of Animal Collective at a party.
Cole is a wealth of music knowledge and we ended up talking about Brian Eno, King Tubby and a million others I'm still looking in to. There are plans to tour this summer, hopefully up here in NYC, and I'll let everyone know as soon as any kind of release from Cole becomes available.

Go listen to Cole and Dead Gaze on the show for this week.... Episode 50 (30min).

Locrian / Katchmare split - self released

Locrian sent me their latest split single with Katchmare after reviewing their Plague Journal single a while back and these tracks are taking drone/experimental human (?) sounds to the brink. A kind of siren call to the experimental noise inspired.
The Locrian side, Drosscape, is the sound of hum cycles, rising and falling. Ungrounded electric hertz. This might be layered or just looped on top of itself, but a kind of hum of having a guitar line plugged into an overloaded amp is canceling itself out, and then whining back in sync. The sine waves of this hum gradually starts to cycle louder, overlaping, and breaking up. A low frequency my turntable clearly can't handle is introduced, peaking out past the rise and fall of buzzed tones. Then an amplified metallic echo crash breaks in, which sounds like a yell into a guitar pickup, and it's eerie as hell. This is one long horror movie scene I'm not finding my way out of.
A feedback sound which is pitch shifted down a few octaves is completely overpowering drowing everything else out. Half the fun of listening is trying to figure out where to even start creating something like this, I'm not even close and these descriptions are maybe some kind of beginning point, but it's generally a mystery, and I keep putting the needle back on at the beginning to try again.
All of the sounds from the very first hum are still here in the background seriously piling up, but slowly dying away in delay loop decay. The feedback becomes the primary instrument towards the end and is echoed to a wailing point. Washing in and out, delayed and terrifying. It's never overdone, they remain completely in control, the ear splitting is placed...played at just the right moment. I can hear the craftsmanship, it's really easy to just let that sound takeover completely.
Then it abruptly ends in the middle of a downward loop. I can't help but think that this can't be where they meant to end the track....the needle is running pretty close to the center and I wonder if that was the limit of sound they could fit on a 33rpm 7".
It's a happy accident though, jarring you back into silence and reflect for a second on what kind of hell Locrian just led you through.
This will test your turntable and any preconceptions of instrumental drone.
I really hope they make it to NY sometime and let me know...I won't forget my jackhammer headphones.

The Katchmare B side, a track called Scarab, is mechanical hum of a different form....something chugging away behind terrible insluation a few rooms away. It might be coming closer, because a really low cycling tone starts to rise and rumble the woofer. This isn't Music for Airports, it's music for immenent invasion.
It cuts out completely for a moment and comes back this time with an electricronic slant.
I have to think that this sound... this howling started out human, but how it's being processed is amazing...otherworldly. It must be gated to the point of all or nothing, fluttering in and out. Either entirely piercing or almost dead silent. It's a single uttered sound broken apart and reassembled into pure tone. Each frequency drawn out and replayed time after time, like the dying of robots. I have to think that mechanical buzz at the beginning started out in this place too probably, but Katchmare wasn't ready to give it away just yet. It was going to take every wavelength separted and mutated back to be be able to truly understand this. Well ...not to even understand it, just hear it in a completely new way.
Just when this processed breathy hollow tone becomes nearly deafening, not because of the volume, it cuts out. I'm left starting at the turntable wondering if it's really over, because I don't think I'll hear the same again.

It's not often two tracks like this will leave you permenantly changed. Both utilizing vocals in a truly unique way. Sound engineers take note, you could work your whole life for something like this.

The sleeve is heavy pressed embossed in foreboding bronze and gun metal grey.
Order straight from Locrain's blog:

Locrian/Katchmare split 7"
100 copies on mixed color vinyl

A. Locrian-Drosscape
B. Katchmare-Scarab

$6 PPD US
$10 PPD WORLD

Charlie McAlister on Unread / Tick Tock records

Christopher from Unread records sent me his latest release for review from Charlie McAlister. It looks like it's backed by a couple different labels, Unread being one of them. I have to admit I didn't know anything about this prolific homespun musician, until I started looking up his myspace, and that's where the ball unraveled. Apparently Charlie has released somewhere near 80 self released tapes on his own and small labels that he's seen come and go. I imagine he's the kind of guy that has been all over the country and seen every bar back room, pizza place, basement there is to play, and fought his way out of some of them.

A-Side "Carolina bi-product beach ball boogie" It sounds like we caught Charlie mid sentence talking about his feet (?) and then the track launches into spastic banjo/acoustic/washboard singing verse after verse of rapid fire lyrics in almost square dance style. It's going to take a few listens to work through even catching half the one liners in here. The percussion sounds like people working with whatever's laying around...beer boxes, trash cans, to keep up with this insane tempo folk madman.

I'm Freezing: The second track on the A-Side is mostly instrumental, Charlie creates this repetitive blues bassline with a distorted guitar soloing on top that repeats measure after measure. The song periodically cuts out and Charlie says 'I'm freezing' and 'It's cold in here'. At first I thought the tape stopped or he was messing with a loop of some kind. By the last breakdown he's groaning from the cold. And then the maddening little bassline is back, with more hooting and howling, to end Side A. I'm sure he was freezing out in some garage or barn and that's how this track started and they pressed record. I've been there, Charlie.

I don't love you anymore: The guitar has this really warm tube sound, and Charlie's yelling again either into something distorting his voice or the recording is just peaking out. There's at least 4 different strummed instruments coming together to create this carnival hootenanny. Maybe there's a Ukulele here? It's really perfect.
This has to be the best use of the trumpet sound on the SK-1, it actually works, only after repeated listens I'm realizing what that sound has to be.
As expected Charlie, as narrator, is really pissed off and gets more unrestrained as the song goes on. At the end it sounds like everyone simultaneously hitting the mic at once before the tape is stopped, and that's the homemade touch that makes me pay just a little more attention.

'Memories in the Rain' is a slow distorted drawling guitar melody that seems to get me everytime. At first Charlie's yelling off in the distance, probably at himself playing on the other 3 tracks. It's almost a sad kind of howl to just set the tone of this sincere bedroom middle of the night recording. When the main vocals start it's really up front, close to the mic. He has a kind of nasal Daniel Johnston voice, but there's some low end to his vocals here, as opposed to the typical metallic sounding distortion of the other ones. This has to be my favorite track...it's reminding me of the Mountain Goats, their home recorded feel stuff, it's spontaneous and couldn't exist any other way. It isn't too self conscious, it's not going for the obvious gag, the drums sound like cardboard boxes, it fades out with the sound of the rain.

Where does this fit into anything I've been listening to lately? Well, it really doesn't, Charlie is really out there in his own world, nearly outsider, but it seems like he's well adjusted to society enough to go on lengthy tours, and probably win over everyone he meets.

From Unread records:
Charlie Mcalister - "carolina bi-product" [seven inch] four new delicious cuts of classic mcalister strum and fuckery on pink platter.
span across and feel up some babes while square dancing on the beach. deal with the robot inside, and throw yourself out into the surf...only to drift away and rust up.
limited to 500 copies, with seven or so different hand screened covers, and co-released with : tick tock, doormat tx, borrowdeer, and carl.
A
"carolina bi-product beachball boogie"
"im freezing"
B
"i dont love you anymore"
"memories in the rain"

On Sardine colored vinyl...which is a kind of light purple. It plays at 33 and I'm pretty sure all the sleeves are hand silkscreened and different. Mine looks nothing like either of the ones pictured on Unread or Tick Tock.

It seems Unread has released several full lengths from Charlie in the past and at least one is still available, so you can get a double dose of Charlie who won't sound like anything else on your shelf.

Sonic Youth / Jay Reatard Split single - Record Store day

Just wanted to give another record store day single it's proper coverage today, this one the Jay Reatard / Sonik You*h split.

Sonic Youth' 'No Garage' is completely rehearsal space recorded. The bass notes rumble the snare. The high hat is unbalanced, the crashes flattened in the distance. But it's completely alive. The guitar leads a deep groove, that gets more minimal by the measure, until it's just bass and kick working together in time while Thurston wails. It's a roller coaster...the groove comes back and they immediately break it down again. The only vocals are Thurston just barely audibly yelling 1,2,3,4 to lead into the real disintegration, total freakout.
This is rumored to be a demo of 'Anti-orgasm' from their unreleased new album The Eternal, I'm hoping there's more of this raw sound like the 'Helen Lundeburg' track from Ripped. It's hearing them like this that I completely re-appreciate everything....like listening to a live show, to be able to spontaneously create this noise, and to hear the control they have over an amp and a guitar, looking back at their vast catalog, it just continues to get better and better.
The best part of course is in exploiting the format itself, the track spirals out into an endless loop of feedback that's easy to get lost in for a few minutes afterwords. It's a shame when eventually you have to pick up the needle. But I have to hear the new Jay Reatard after all.

Jay offers up 'Hang them all', which is right in line with Blood Visions. It's brief, the hook is over way before it should be.
A weird synth sound creeps in before it's power ballad Cars influenced. The most processed, gated guitar sounds that would sound ridiculous anywhere else.
The rhymes are obvious, it all sounds vaguely familiar, but he's a master creator of choruses, just pure genius, it's all forgotten. Harmonizing with himself, two snare hits on the beat are setting up the chords to pound it home again and I'm screaming along at the top of my lungs. He's going to make me look like a reatard listening to it utterly happy with myself. It's a small price to pay.
There is a weird break of a cappella 'oh un ah oh' which the guitar mirrors and the snare suddenly takes on a march beat. Jay shys away from the ballad, thank god, and this is as sensitive as I've heard him sound in this section.
Not to be predictable... the track ends with some kind of layered acoustic flamenco guitar.
But that's Jay's unique genius, to mix all this up and come up with the perfect power pop punk every time.

Beck / Sonic Youth split 7" - Record Store Day

So I heard about all these exclusive releases from Matador and all the email's from every record store announcing Record Store Day. I thought I might be missing out in NY...no one I checked with was a part of this except Permanent Records, thank god, where people were actually waiting outside the store for it to open. There were two boxes of brand new singles...everything I'd been hearing about, including this split single from Beck and sonic youth, or should I say Sonik You*h, covering each other.

Sonic Youth covers 'Pay No Mind', one of the classic Beck tracks from Mellow Gold. It starts out with their trademark looping distortion which changes when Kim Gordon's sultry whisper kicks in. She's backed by Thurston or Lee, I think, both giving their own melodic take on the stream of consciousness... a little out of sync and tune. The crunchy distortion changes key and then a slow tom beat finishes the chorus. Then the time signature completely changes, rounds of fast tom fills ending in piercing feedback and then they repeat the whole thing ending in a wave of reverb feedback. It's perfect Sonic Youth, their amazing take on this insanely recognizable song, that's almost impossible to separate from the original. Sonic Youth does it, and in a totally original way. Lyrically they even make complete deliberate sense. Not enough credit is given to Steve for ever providing the perfect rhythm, keeping everything always together, a little something to hold onto in Sonic Youth's world, keeping Thurston's experimentalism accessible, but unexpected as this cover illustrates perfectly.
It's amazing this was recorded 3 months ago in what must be their new digs in NJ.

Becks cover of 'Green Light' is pretty old school acoustic Beck, I don't recognize the original from EVOL, so he's doing a pretty good job making it his own as well. You can hear him sitting on a stool adjusting the acoustic, hitting it with a hollow thump. He's focused on the vocal delivery, singing it with all kinds of inflection, unlike Thurston's mumbled deadpan. He's actually got a great voice when he wants to. The melody line on an acoustic is accompanied by what I think is a harpsichord, lending a weird harmonic to the single string acoustic picks, giving it a Sonic Youth dissonance alongside beck's own slightly off stuttered strumming. I could use more of this, it's a throwback to the Pay No Mind days and brings it back around to replaying the B-side Sonic Youth cover. Actually they are both labeled B-side...even in the gutter.

These MP3's are ripped and out there already with a couple of google searches, so if you missed out, they are pretty easy to find.

This whole thing brings up something I'm torn about, all of this record store day stuff is on ebay of course, for way inflated prices...buy it now's for 29.99, 49.99. Hopefully not for sale from the record stores themselves, but they can't always on the up and up. I was tempted to pick up extra copies myself, but if I happened to be a little late and some asshole ahead of me had a stack of the same single I'd be pissed. I wasn't going to be that dick. At the same time maybe you are giving an opportunity for someone who couldn't make it to the store that day for whatever reason to get one, even if it is at an inflated price. I could imagine being sick or out of the country and being so glad to even come across a copy for sale on ebay. I just think you have to use some judgement. I just can't live with myself being such a son of a bitch opportunist. But if you are...well I can't fault that either. You went to the store, maybe waited in line, so sell it to someone who really want's it, and has no other way to get it.

It actually was briefly for sale on Becks merch site too, for about a minute.

In honor the 2nd annual Record Store Day, we’ll be releasing the following limited edition vinyl titles, only available at independent retailers taking part in RSD.

OLE-864-7 Jay Reatard “Hang Them All” 7″ b/w Sonic Youth - “No Garage”
OLE-865-7 Sonic Youth - “Pay No Mind” (Beck cover) b/w Beck - “Green Light” (Sonic Youth cover) 7″
OLE-855-1 Pavement Live In Germany LP

We’re making 2500 each of the above. After they’re gone, as the Bard Of Hookset, NH might’ve said (if he collected records), tough fuckin’ shit.

I heard there were color copies of these thrown in, I got one on black.

Coconut Coolouts on floridas dying

I remember hearing about Coconut Coolouts before I even started 7inches, I probably picked up an old single at Academy, just because I saw them mentioned everywhere.
They sound like a real party rock band...you might not go out of your way and drive two hours to see them, but if they were playing in the neighborhood, it would be a good time irregardless. In interviews they sound like great guys, they are a band that gets together outside of playing music...they aren't going to take it to the next level and quit their jobs and go tour, but in this case it would probably ruin them, and why they like music in the first place. It will insure they will be around forever releasing consistent singles like 'We drink blood.' I like the organ - guitar chord back and forth they set up to then pull out a more rocking Jacuzzi Boys sounding single...I like this direction...it's the strongest track for me on their myspace. All chorus yelling about drinking blood all night.

From Floridas Dying, so you know this is alright.

Coconut Coolouts
We Drink Blood
PS, US Seattle's biggest party starters are back w/ another single of infectious party pop. 2 songs about drinking blood & bashing nerds. And the added bonus of the COOLOUTS ode to last year's Shotgun Heard Around The World.
FloridasDying
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I'll be waking up early to head out to see who's participating in record store day and what singles should be available. Hopefully the beck/sonic youth split where they cover each other....and the jay reatard/somnic youth split, and a Pavement live in Germany LP among others.

Here's the podcast for this week Episode 49 (30min). We continue talking about music formats and then go into a Beck marathon, every single is played and scientology is discussed. Then we finish it off with the love is all bonus 7" from their latest release.

Dinowalrus - self released

Finally got around to checking out Dusted's still single and ended up at Dinowalrus' myspace a local Brooklyn band who has been playing a bunch of shows with the usual cast of characters in alternative spaces.

One track 'Numbers, I hate Numbers.' is so exactly not from 2009 it's kind of amazing. I guess there are two ways to go with dated instruments, you can twist them with effects until they don't resemble anything like the era or sounds they should be made of, and get something new or in the case of Dinowalrus, you can faithfully try to execute music in the style of when those instruments were created and their sound was heard everywhere. This is so completely channel 11 afternoon B movie soundtrack. Some piece of crap, with no name actors fighting over something in the future. God awful. But created yesterday, it's kind of genius. I can hear Ariel Pink all over this...with more mixed almost out distorted vocals.
'Duke Nuke 'em' is really great also...I was listening to the Make Up the other day, and even though I'm not remembering it as great as when it was first out, Ian Svenonius' vocals are amazing. I'm getting a little of that here with a little video game/8bit stuff, still sounding a little home recorded like the weirdo-ness of Ariel Pink. There's a lot of references here. Programmed rigid speed metal that completely makes sense. Of course those worlds would go together. Speed metal synth. But that's only a tiny bit of the picture, they went further then just hit that one note. There's a lot of different directions they bring together in a completely successful and original way.
But onto the tracks on the single...
The A-Side (?) 'Electric Car Gas Huffer' is hyper electronic clicks and whirring, but then the live drums kick in and this song is going somewhere. It's a little power chords and balls to the wall metal for my taste. But the synth/glitch stuff keeps rescuing this from just ok. Bonus points for saxophone...I can't tell if someone was actually there...or it's some kind of effect. It goes all jam psyche, reverb by the end, so now I'm just confused.
'Cage those pythons' is completely different from the other tracks mentioned above also. First of all, who needs these ridiculous track names, there's nothing that makes me click away then tracks named 'Ninja rainbow he-man'. Just pick something else...anything.
This track is mostly just rock with a lot of weird effects, and a sisters of mercy feel. I wouldn't be so jazzed about hearing this on the B-Side. I don't know what they are going for vocally, it's almost Danzig, or Blood Brothers. I can't take it seriously, but there is some definite promise here.

There are copies of this single left, email of if you're feeling lucky paypal them directly at dinowalrus (at) gmail.com.

All Night Drug Prowling Wolves / Sick Figures split 7"

I have another All Night Drug Prowling Wolves single from Rob's House, and I remember it sounding a little like a rough bar band who is probably just in it because they have to be...and since Rob's House was endorsing it, well I had to give it a try.
What can I say? his is pretty standard rock, they do it well, there's a lot of heart to it. It's like they combined Zach Galifianakis and Bruce Springsteen, and I'm only saying that because of the beard. He's got this growl hoarse vocal quality that probably sets them apart from anything else like this, and when he gets real melodic, it's pure 80's rock. Like a good John Cougar....or if Tom Waits played in a bar band really early in his career before he completely went solo.
The B-Side is from Sick Figures and I'm kind of wondering what they have to do with the label or if the name is just some kind of coincidence.
The track 'Whiskey Song' on the B-side and their myspace sounds immediately like 90's Peter Murphy. Those layered deep vocals on top of this weird carnival beat full of every kind of percussion, thin sounding player piano...I feel like I'm listening to something off the Coraline soundtrack, or Nightmare before Christmas...it feels like a musical score for some reason. OK Lou Reed writes a demented musical for children. Parents are outraged.

Stickfigure seems to me to primarily be a distro place, but they release singles every once in a while, and it's cool to see they believe in something enough to take a chance pressing 7" vinyl. It's only $4, and they basically have everything else so throw this in the cart.

“The wolf is loose indeed. All Night Drug Prowling Wolves are a pop band, a punk band and at times even Americana. With their first release on Stickfigure Records they flirt with all of the above and the result is nothing short of gorgeous. "Maybe Tomorrow" is All Night Drug Prowling Wolves attempt at being early U2, Replacements and Bruce Springsteen. After the first verse you will find yourself singing along and asking for more. We certainly hope that is the case. This is raising your glass in the air music for sure. For fans of Tom Waits, Leatherface and Nick Cave.

Sick Figures are an Atlanta-based band formed by Chris Campbell and Nick Black. In 2006 they released their first demo album with 11 songs that sound like a couple of kids raised on punk rock playing vaudevillian tunes. Since then their sound has expanded, but still reflects the Danny Elfman/ Tom Waits vibe from their original work. About a year ago Gavin (Stickfigure Recordings) introduced Sick Figures to Tom Cheshire from the All Night Drug Prowling Wolves. They hung out, played a show together then it was suggested they do a split 7'. Thus was born "The Whiskey Song". A tune that sits well on it's own and doesn't seem fit in a full album. "The Whiskey Song" branches away from Sick Figures typical sound and features Erich Netherton on percussion.”

Naked on the Vague on sacred bones

Naked on the Vague to me is repetition and sustained tones, synth and guitar fed through a rock filter. They are definitely experimental, but play with rock ideas and build a solid beat to put weird sounds on.

'Chitty Chat' opens with long grating synth notes and an opposing electric guitar melody that's off on it's own. There's a great live room sound to their recordings which I appreciate. It sounds like a session, not separate elements layered or done after the fact. It's the sound of a group that knows what they're doing and then doing the opposite. The percussion can be drum machine or far away sounding sheets of metal, adding to the mystical...it's like they are summoning something really really bad.
It's reminding me of listening to the two full length Los Llamaradas LP's over and over. When it gets into this pattern with those unintelligible vocals, and I can't explain it, but it just creates this uneasiness. It's not a fun place.
When Chitty Chat turns rhythm it's a little like early Sonic Youth but it never entirely goes rock thanks to Dear Cliche's vocals it's always sounding really aggressive and mostly disturbing.
It's a challenging kind of ritual rock.

It's the kind of thing that will remind you we're not ever three days without electricity away from violence and perversion. There's just no hope with these guys.

Get it from Sacred Bones. Regular or Limited Edition.

Format: 7"
Catalog #: SBR-020
Naked on the Vague's MySpace

Side A:
1. Chitty Chat

Side B:
1. Goodbye Dear Cliche

“Chitty Chat” b/w “Goodbye Dear Cliche” - Australia’s Naked on the Vague return for another two-sider of serious harsh downer vibes. Drum, synth, bass and vocal ferocity from this male/female duo that comes out sounding like a surprisingly more danceable version of Whitehouse. Fans of last year’s Skulltones 7-inch and Siltbreeze full-length won’t be disappointed. The band will be touring the US with Blank Dogs and will appear at this year’s Sacred Bones showcase at SXSW.

Ghost Hospital from Teen Ape records

I wasn't expecting this at all...with a name like ghost anything I've been biased into thinking this is going to be some kind of messed up glitch synth project, but maybe I'm getting confused by TV Ghost. Instead these's some jangly indie phaser guitar-ing and tight snare kind of a Nodzzz feel to this track "D+" from the A-side, and on their myspace, but I've been listening to them a lot lately...it's not as clean and catchy, it's sort of creating a mood out of being unassuming.
It's sparse a little k-recs cute even, vocally bordering on some 90's English twee, or Beck even.
Until the chorus starts and then it's a whole new world, I'm struggling to even come up with a comparasin it's so fleeting, but it's so jarringly different from the sing song direction this seemed to be going, it's a really interesting combination.
By the time that first meandering melody comes back, there's layers of feedback and noodling from the chorus on top of everything. Then it abruptly cuts out and there's another verse from the beginning that fades out with some backwards sounding guitar on top...very weird. Like nothing from Florida I would ever think of.

If the other tracks there are any judge, then D+ is by far the most produced sounding, in that they seem to be a little in love with the recording process and messing with sound texture, room sound and vocal effects. Very home recorded and spontaneous.

Get it from the Ghost Hospital's myspace or their label Teen Ape records.
I'm surprised they still have some copies left.

Ghost Hospital
Edition of 300

Side A: "D+"
Side B: "Religious Bias in Nursery Rhymes"

Health on Lovepump united

Health's self titled EP was great in that I remember sitting down to listen to it and it was really inconsistent in a great way...a surprising way, the guitar sounds, weird screams, drumming. Somewhere between the Liars and These are Powers. Bordering on experimental no rhythm.
That's also why I guess it shouldn't surprise me that this single 'Die Slow' doesn't sound anything like what I liked or remember. This sounds like they are headed in an electronic Dan Deacon way, which is fine, a lot of artists are really working this kind of electronica dance Girl Talk sound and people are eating it up. I forget I saw them open for Crystal Castles after all.

It starts out with more great guitar based weirdo gated stuff and is really heavy. To the point it can't possibly be a guitar anymore....but then the danceline rhythm starts in and some etherial vocals and it's pure lazer show. It's a much bigger full, not at all challenging sound, it's heavily produced, but for me it could just get lost in that club world of nameles producers. It's unfortunate.
The B-Side is a remix, so you get the same thing but more lazers.

You can go listen to it directly from health here.
Or get it from Lovepump United

Health Die Slow
LPU024 0036172882472 7 Lovepump United 13/04/2009
Release date: APRIL 7TH 2009

Catalog #: LPU024
Format: 7"

"DIE SLOW" b/w "DIE SLOW (PICTUREPLANE REMIX)"

Podcast, Episode 48....This week is from me and friend Dave M. hanging out, I talk about how lame I was when I was in LA and missed Wounded Lion, instead we listen to the single. We play Cheap Time, found at Amoeba, in LA then we talk about the one in San Francisco...then I play the Dodo's single from Wichita. We talk about ipods on repeat vs. 7"'s vs. full lengths vs. CD's. I think you know where I stand, but listen anyway.

The Catholic Comb on Bright Antenna records

Scott from Bright Antenna records sent this in for review a while back and it's been on the turntable for a couple days now.
Based on the myspace, they are very aware of cultivating this serious goth/vampire aesthetic and I'm using 'Goth' very broadly, it's a genre I haven't spent any time with actually, but from my foritive years of listening to the Cure and Bauhaus I can see where this is headed.

A Side: Vampire Life
We'll always be obsessed as a culture with Vampires, it might go away briefly and then resurface as a tv series like True Blood or in books/movies like Twilight, so The Catholic Comb are timely right in line again with this resurgence. An acoustic guitar sets the tone for this fog machine ballad, a slower number about..well what it's like to be a Vampire. It sucks. It's pretty much the saddest existence...except you can bite people and kill them, so there's that, but obviously you won't have any real relationships.
I'm pretty low-fi biased these days and I guess I'd like to hear a little less polish but then again it's going for something like Morrisseys solo stuff recently, vocally centric, with an orchestral arrangement. All coming together in this uber depressive downer.
It's reminding me of the Dresdon Dolls...heavy on the dramatic, with a dose of theatrical.

B Side: The Beauty of Violence
I'm definitely getting a late Cure sensibility here, it's a poppy goth feel, like their dabbling in dance with Mixed up. Throw in a little interpol brooding with the up tempo pop and you have Catholic Combs brand of goth/pop. This one to me sounds like the stronger single, they take the epic moodyness to new heights (lows?). I'm more inclined to go for this when they are playing with the contradiction between the catchy pop guitar instrumentation and the depressing content.

I can see the scene..this would end up on an ipod mix for those sad bastard self depreciating days. Those times when you want to wallow in it, when everything is terrible and there's no use lying to yourself. Catholic Comb comes on, of course it's raining and you walk home again.... alone.

This double sided depression is available from Bright Antenna records or Insound.

Nice face preorder limited on sacred bones

Still haven't listened to Nice Face's latest hozac single yet that I ordered in their 7" pack, but saw this preorder on sacred bones and figured I better mention this before they are gone. I remember them from one of their singles.... I think the first one that was just a face, kind of a red cover, I think designed by Mike Sniper. I actually tried to find it the other day to listen to these together but couldn't. A huge reorder is way past due.
Academy actually has some of thoe cardboard 7 inch boxes for $4, I need a couple more. They started creeping into the closet shelves...it's bad.
Nice face has this insanely dense distorted sound, but it's not completely blown out and all overdriven. So I wouldn't immediately lump it into kind of garage...ther are some keyboards involved and phasers on vocals...it's like a little dirtier sounding pop punk. I appreciate someone who is also trying to make something interesting and catchy, not just completely experimental, and borderline work.
This track 'Situation...' sounds even more dense than previous singles, it sounds like he's pulling out all the tricks for this one. There's layers of differently recorded vocals, great chorus hook...you know I read that description about bridging the space between synth punk and pure punk...that actually makes a lot of sense. It has elements of both, but doesn't completely rely on either.
Mnemonic Device has a distorted bassline with weird keyboard melody, but the chorus again is where it goes somewhere special, it's just solid songwriting. LIke Blank Dogs, I heard he's going live and I would definitely have to see that.

Format: 7"
Catalog #: SBR-019

Side A: Mnemonic Device
Side B: Situation is Facing Utter Annihilation

“Mnemonic Device” b/w “Situation Is Facing Utter Annihilation”
— The third single from Nice Face follows on the heels of the recent HoZac 7-inch and an appearance on the “Wild About Jenkem” compilation alongside like-minded fellow travelers Wizzard Sleeve and Livefastdie. “Mnemonic Device” is a slower plodding mid-tempo song driven by a hypnotic repeating keyboard line and fuzzed out vocals. “Situation Is Facing Utter Annihilation” on the flip is the punkest Nice Face track to date bridging the gulf between disjointed no-fi punk rock and sinister synth and drum machine derangement. Keep an eye out for forthcoming live dates from this heretofore bedroom-only project.

Ariel pink on cooler cat records

There's something so alien and amazing about Ariel Pink if you decide to get on board. I haven't heard of anyone not wholeheartedly just giving in to this and completely appreciating it. Sometimes I'm all about stuff that will even annoy the hell out of me after a while... Daniel Johnston... Jandek, but I can't even put Ariel in the same category, I don't know what it is that I completely connect with. The way he dives into this low-fi seventies aesthetic. I have no reference for how it was recorded half the time. It's impossible to pick apart....the rhythms change constantly, but it stays so accessible. But how you would sit down and come up with this is a complete mystery. I can't help but just sit in awe the entire time. There is no one doing anything like this. Gary War, who incidentally played in Ariel's live incarnation, is more atmospheric and psychedelic sounding to me. I kind of zone out and get into the repetition....but Ariel won't let me not think about what I'm listening to every second. The layers of falsetto vocals...he's completely committed in what must be an almost compulsive way. It's pure genius...everything I've heard so far. I have no idea what this sounds like but I'm confident he won't let me down.

I'll be damned if I could find this label Cooler Car records (it's cooler cat actually- still no URL - ed)...but Aquarius has it (go to this link and search for ariel pink) and from their description they won't last long.:

ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI "Flashback" (Cooler Car) 7" 8.98
Snagged these from Ariel himself on his recent swing through town. Four brand new songs that find him and his Haunted Graffiti continuing to push the boundaries of their outsider pop orbit. "Flashback" is almost like their would-be arena-pop hit somehow infusing their warped world into a Cheap Trick like anthem gone so wrong it's right, and we can't help but love the over the top hair metal feel that runs throughout. While the other song on the 'a' side also has an almost party-vibe to it the two songs on the 'b' side have much more of a melty and drugged out feel. These have been flying out of here since we got them in the store so we only have a handful left and when they are gone, we'll do our best to get more but sadly that's probably all she wrote....

Tyvek tour single on Disquessteak records

Heard about this on Termbo the other day, Tyvek's latest tour only single on Disquessteak records. Don't know if there's much chance of getting this direct or if you just have to get lucky and check the usual distro places....Goner, floridas dying etc.
I've been listening to the 'Summer Things' track on their myspace and I was forced to go back and listen to the Summer Burns 2x7" (what do they have against summer?) and the sidewalk single from M'lady... because I don't remember them sounding at all like this. This is way more polished overall. Now I haven't heard the original track, this is an alternate mix/take according to Disquessteak, but I'm sure it didn't go backwards in fidelity from here. Vocally it's really clear...up front...the guitars are tracked out....I'm still into it, it's not a complete departure... losing what make them interesting to begin with. They have a pretty wide range of material soundwise and they kind of developed a real freedom to explore a lot of sounds within the garage, low-fi structure. I don't think it's ever clear what to expect from Tyvek.
Is it inevitable that you go from home garage recording to something a little more structured? Was I just in love with that low-fi aesthetic? The slightly sloppy raw quality of 'Sidewalk' that's perfect...but it's more than just a cheap recording...they seem to be working across a bunch of different influences that can't just be summed up as 'garage'. 'Ability' is a trippy number with messed up guitar sounds and echo chanting vocals. Like Los Llamarada, who is at the end of the free form punk garage spectrum, Tyvek works their way back and forth, sounding entertaining and challenging at the same time.

I have to say also I appreciate what they choose as subjects to sing about...sidewalks, apparitions, air conditioners. It's not the usual macho punk complaining. Still I doubt I'll get a copy...oh well let me know if you do.

"Blessed" is not on the Siltbreeze album. Summer things comes here with a completely different version than the album, both rythm and mixing.

Just in time for their first Euro tour with Cheveu, beginning the 10th in Switzerland (check the dates at their www.myspace.com/tyvekmusic), les disques STEAK is releasing Tyvek's all new 7" "Blessed b/w Summer things". The 7" is 600 copies, all white vinyl.

available from your usual distros or directly from us.
still some copies of our first releases:

STEAK01: Bosom Divine
STEAK03: The Meatards
STEAK04: Hello Sunshine
STEAK05: AL Foul

disquessteak (at) gmail

Jay Reatard club - Shattered records

From Jayreatard.com

I wanted to do something special for the real superfans out there, the ones that have supported me since the beginning, and the ones who are into all my shit. With Shattered Records now running again, we decided to create a Shattered Club, and create lots of exclusive stuff just for Shattered Club members. So with each subscription, you’re gonna get this:
- my next album on Matador album, digitally and LP/CD (your choice)
- a Shattered Club exclusive brand-new 7″
- a Shattered Club exclusive live single 7”
- a Shattered Club exclusive t-shirt
- all the 2009 Shattered 7″ singles (see more info here) (mp3)
- a 25-song version of Greatest Messes, the Shattered Club Edition (mp3)
- my first album The Reatards - Teenage Hate, never available before digitally and hard to find otherwise (mp3)
- and more shit that I come up with through the year, all exclusive to Shattered Club members only So that’s three albums, two 7″s, a t-shirt, six digital singles, and a lot lot more - most of which you can ONLY get if you join the 2009 Shattered Club.

This is one of those things that is going to haunt me in my sleep if I miss it...Jay has started his own label with an insane club. (I think this label existed before? For his early releases?)
I didn't know it existed in the first place to be honest.
Blood Visions is easily one of my favorite albums. The nights spent coming home from work and just playing it over and over. Tiny... concise, I mean I can't believe how short and perfect every track is. It's easily one of my all time favorite albums...and I had to come around, I didn't love it immediately. I really didn't know where to place it at first...it was kind of punk, but really bubblegum pop...but lyrically it was serial killer dark. It always picks me up if I'm trying to push through and I'm tired...just put on Jay and it's over before I know it.
It's amazing how prolific he's been, and I'm getting into all the side projects, Final Solutions, Terror Visions...he's been rocking since he was 15...and I don't think I haven't like a single minute so far. The new album is going to be amazing. It's something I would happily line up for. But everyone has an opinion, and I swear sometimes people have nothing else to say on the message boards except to bitch. That's the internet for you, faceless bitching, and fight starting.

From Terminal Boredom (Jay responds to the haters):
And for any of you dicks that think I priced this unfairly let me enlighten you s bit
lp = $20.00
single (non ebay prices) $6.50
single 2 (non ebay prices) $6.50
t shirt $15.00
ok so this is just the physical things you "know" you are getting so that $48.00 retail add in the $15.00 it cost me in services charges for the interface to email out the mp3' process your order etc.. And that's $63.00 bucks.. So mp3s for my full length, teenage hate,and six singles is costing you $7.00 .. Which is a fraction of the money that I'm losing/gonna lose doing the vinyl versions (so far lost $150.00 on the novak single) Oh and the "extras" are gonna be much cooler than a fucking sticker or a few cassettes of shitty nose acts but yeah oh well if you don't like it don't buy it .. Or just sit around and bitch about me when the single cos $100.00 bucks on the bay cause his time it wont be my fucking fault ..

Jay seems pretty angry...I mean he's trying to do something super cool for the hardcore fans, and it's extra work, I'm sure he feels responsible not to have sucky shit. I love the dig about noise cassettes. It's funny those weird divisions in the underground.
I only wish there was more vinyl here...that's the only thing stopping me from paypaling .....for about another hour.

Just a note about the podcast...forgot it's friday and just got back from some time away...didn't have time...just in case anyone cares.

wavves - to the dregs -Post Present Medium

PPM24

a. To the Dregs
b. To the Dregs (version2)

'To the Dregs' is classic Wavves, if there is one track to play for someone who's never heard wavves it would be this track or 'So Bored' or 'Beach Demon'. I don't think To the Dregs is on the self titled release ... the one with the wheelbarrow handplant on it. I don't know if that's the same one on Fat Possum? Mine is on woodsist...I'm pretty sure. It's getting confusing. I have to say that sleeve pic pretty much won me over. It epitomizes my small town...we had those influences on MTV, 120 minutes, but we were in the middle of no where and they would get slightly changed somehow...like that game telephone. I imagine this kid kind of thinks skating is about doing handplants on everything....the way you see one skate magazine and try to emulate that in a weird, no blacktop anywhere kind of way. It's the closest thing you get to the elusive cool.
I'm shocked I figured out how to ollie one day. Or someone must have showed me...but I think I spent days and days in the street just 'practicing', hearing about someone in the next town over maybe was sponsored...so you never know. Get a piece of plywood and some bricks we'll build a ramp.
What does this have to do with wavves? It think it's the perfect soundtrack, and I don't know if it's weird I relate to this being a good ten years older than Nathan, I mean I don't know where that graphic came from on weed demon...but that is classic Thrasher magazine...Is that even still around? Or is it just he's way ahead of his time. I mean I hear a lot about what a stoner he is and he wrote these songs high playing nintendo....whatever. It's the soundtrack for this summer...I don't know why it bothers me....oh termbo.
I'm still listening to this album and every other mp3 I can find...so I know I'm going to get this...somehow.

This is supposed to come out on Post Present Medium, but I don't think it even hit the site yet, but then it's already sold out from Zum distro? I found this at Insound also...but can't think of what else to add in that order, and I've kind of sworn off doing that...after doing my taxes and adding up the record receipts I'm ashamed.
Hopefully it's still hitting PPM, and I can snag one.