Rosemary Krust on dull knife records

I really missed these guys and their anti-genre aesthetic, there's some no-fi songs like Early Fire Song, and then really quiet heartbreakers like 'Blank Stare' where Katherine is just singing, really beautifully, a catchy melody about her heart being a blank stare...
They're calling themselves free twee, which actually was coined by DJ Rick himself...and I'm thinking this is the Yips, her voice with guitar, at least when they get minimal. I guess the Yips fit into that twee thing too, I just never thought of them that way. Twee has such terrible connotations, all I can think of is Kimya Dawson and I want to barf. I'm not saying I don't love it sometimes more than anything but the bad things of twee heavily outweigh the good sometimes.

I'm all behind all the experimentation from RK in that pop way, or with those pop instruments...and I never miss the drums, it's kind of weird to all of a sudden remember I haven't heard a single beat of any kind. They're just working with that droning melody sometimes, it doesn't need anything else. They didn't pick an easy road, but you can't help it, this is it. I love it. The melody with insanity, always minimal, searching for that new sound, or at least an exciting one, the mistakes, the ungrounded cable, the un-preciousness.

I don't know what tracks are on this single, but like I've been saying, it's going to be a consistent inconsistency of guitar and vocals. Can't wait.

KDVS has a great show 'Phoning it in' where they played over the phone a whole set, I love that idea, it even sounds great, check it out.

KNIFE013 Rosemary Krust - Bernt Anker 7"
4 songs of noisy, delicate, barely there pop songs--all hanging together by a thread. The Baltimore duo of Katherine Plummer and William Hardy have a sound that harkens back to a time when twee wasn't a bad word and lo-fi wasn't marketing jargon. Rosemary Krust seemlesly blend the fuzz and fumble of Charalambides with the naive pop of Beat Happening, finding their own charming niche. They've even been referenced as an American version Garbage & The Flowers, which certainly isn't a bad thing. 300 hand-numbered copies.

Get it from Dull Knife Records.

Kurt Vile on Skulltones!

Saw this listed the other day on Volcanic Tongue:

Kurt Vile
Fall Demons
Skulltones SKT-010
7"
£6.99

Hand-numbered edition of 375 copies five-track EP from Vile, who channels the ghost forms of Roky Erickson, Skip Spence, Alan Vega and David Johansen across the space of a buncha minimal bedroom nuggets. A mix of home recordings and studio work with a final track recorded by Sore Eros in 2002.

I mention it because dull knife had it for a few hours, and haven't seen it anywhere else yet, they might be the only place to get it, which means that single is traveling some serious distance. I'm going to probably miss this one, and God dam I get mad just thinking about it. I'm surely listening to constant hitmaker right now and crying.

Skulltones says:

$5.50 ppd usa $8.50 ppd world

Trippin' the riffs between some catchy freedom rock and Fripptronics, Kurt is back with brand new songs on this single. Last year's CD on Gulcher was a year end favorite and his recent west coast tour showed that the riffbag runs deep. New record out later this year on Matador... looks like he's growing up fast.

Available from Volcanic Tongue, Revolver, Fusetron, Dull Knife, Armageddon Shop, and others soon.

400 copies, including 25 test presses for West Coast tour.

RTFO bandwagon on dull knife

I missed this one from dull knife directly and it seems fusetron and Volcanic Tongue have the last few copies on the planet.
It's not as low-fi as the rest of Columbus, OH apparently...more like a bunch of friends getting together and recording some foot stompers on the back porches...not exactly folksy, but...let's say raw. I like the chorus guy/girl vocals, all recorded at different volumes. It's got that ensemble feel, like a real group of musicians all contributing. Sounds like it could have been recorded easily anywhere from 1990 on. Lot's of tracks of vocals from all different distances from the mic and handclaps, kind of like Eric's Trip or something. A welcome relief from the stereotyped columbus sound (Gimme a break). There's a connection there with the Horseshits Matt on drums. A decidely clear, homespun honest sound.

They are making their way to NYC in early september and I will track them down for a live review.

From Fusetron locally or:

from Volcanic Tongue:
RTFO Bandwagon
New Jack EP
Dull Knife Records No Cat
7”
£5.99

Limited edition of 300 hand-numbered copies, already sold out at source, from this Columbus, Ohio unit featuring Rich from Psychedelic Horseshit on drums. Seen comparisons to these guys that would situate em downwind of the kinda folk-punk moves associated with The Mekons and even Camper Van Beethoven, though you might wanna throw in a heartbroken K Records aesthetic (The Few?) and maybe even some Modern Lovers-style clap and stomp.