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Darren and I talk about a guy selling his store on ebay, the third man records turkey seven inch giveaway, Gemini is still up for sale at some mail order in England (cancelled -ed), Mogwai has a new album on Subpop with a bonus single (we love this trend).
My pick this week is the Sebadoh bonus single from Joyful Noise. Darren picks 2 (cheater) The Goodbye Boozy Warm soda tour single and The Polyvinyl Records compilation "I Need You Bad" curated by Sonny and The Sunsets.

Modern Vinyl is in the middle of a Velocity of Sound giveaway, a signed copy of the smoke pressing of The Lees of Memory. Enter by the 24th.

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the Errors - Toes

I'm trying to figure out why I like this so much.... it's taking all of those bands on touch and go, chicago, math/prog rock and building on it.
It has all the influences of Don Cabellero, Tortoise...really clean, high note, kind of all treble no effects guitar, loops and loops of little equations playing out, repeating. But other tracks are almost completely electronic....then I find out they are on Rock Action records which is that label started by Mogwai, and it's all coming together. They have a couple other singles still available as well, and I'm going to have to track this down here because it's all sounding great I need more of this in my life, especially when it's done like this. Solid instrumental complicated rock, that leans towards Ratatat sounding electronics.
So it's Don Cab and the whole math jazz thing, but just when you think it's more of the same they throw in some really serious synth/electronics that brings it into a completely different place I'm really getting into.

Can't find it domestically anywhere...I'm going to email them.

It looks like Rock Action has a singles club also , but you can't subscribe to it, they say just keep checking back on the site and buy the 7"'s when they come out....interesting. It's really great that Mogwai started this, but tell me you have a US distributor please...

Norman recs says: (I'm surprised their so lukewarm about this, It's really amazing)
It seems like ages since I heard anything by Errors. In between eating deep fried cream eggs this Glaswegian bunch are back on the case with a 7" called 'Toes' which precedes the forthcoming debut LP for Rock Action. I seem to remember the last 7" was a bit more electronic sounding. There's a bit of a kraut rock thing happening in the repetition and they get a bit of a groove going as the track builds from gentle guitar into a stomping thing that makes me think of a Mogwai dancing with Battles with electronics. The track shifts around a fair bit and all. It doesn't blow me away but it's worth a punt.

CONTEST! fuck buttons picture disc!

Here's another contest, and you should even maybe get it in time for Christmas if you email me at jdean99 at gmail. The winner will be notified by this coming Sunday, December 16th.

This latest 7" giveaway is a Fuck Buttons picture disc. Featuring two tracks: Bright Tomorrow/Little Bloody Shoulder

Fuck buttons is Andrew Hung & Benjamin John Power, who started collaborating in 2004 in bristol, UK. This picture disc is in advance of their coming release Street Horrrsing that should be out in February on ATP recordings.

It was recorded by John Cummings of Mogwai and that should give you a little clue as to where this is headed. Hunched over laptops they have been known live to play at body shaking volume... full of electronically manipulated sounds, build on steady rhythms, Bright Tomorrow starts innocently enough, with a single kick drum and a looped static sample. Slowly a little melody develops. But it's not until the two minute mark that they reveal their true intentions with this track. Waves of guitars obliterate the underlying dance track and Benjamin screams unintelligible distorted lyrics and the real fun begins.

'Little Bloody Shoulder' is built on a similar simple percussion rhythm, with more massively distorted guitar. It's the kind of repetition that keeps revealing new elements and textures as it goes on. It's hypnotizing...are the samples changing or I'm hearing them differently as it becomes familiar? More ring phased distorted guitars, chords and string scratching, building on top of the primitive beat. Half tribal, half electronic meltdown.

They seem to be straddling the line of the recent dirty electro movement along the lines of health or dan deacon, but combined with something more industrial or thematic, like...well it fits....Mogwai. From the live reviews I've read they specialize in delivering this audio assault at full volume, you are going to feel it. I'll be looking forward to the full length to hear what other trance rock they have in store.

To top it all off, you have Bob Weston from Shellac master both of these tracks and every painful note is meant to played LOUD. A real needle skipper.

If you don't win it's available from parasol mail order.