{"title":"All Vinyl","description":"All the vinyl records in our shop, new and used.","products":[{"product_id":"200-years-holyoke-lp","title":"200 Years - Holyoke LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"half black\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"gold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGRAPEFRUIT YEAR ONE SERIES, RECORD FOUR (2011, GY1-4)\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBen Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) and Elisa Ambrogio (Magik Markers) – together as 200 Years -are a meeting of raw talents so flammable that it’s hard to even guess at what will result from their work together. Following proper release of their official record on Drag City this Spring, the duo will present this album which they describe as “late night blues jams hoping to capture the mood of Ed Sanders giving a back massage to Loren Mazzacane Connors, while a scratched Jacobites LP plays and Anne Briggs sings in the shower.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"description\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eURL:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"theMagikMarkers.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themagikmarkers.com\/\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.themagikmarkers.com\/\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"SixOrgans.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sixorgans.com\/\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.sixorgans.com\/\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"half black\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"purple\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTRACKLIST\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003col data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003col data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eForms Are The Oil\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTo Remember\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eErred\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePretty Thing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHe\/Not He\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRented Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRemedy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePartial Light\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJennifer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Grapefruit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320185962704,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/200yearsholyoke.jpg?v=1616091510"},{"product_id":"75-dollar-bill-little-big-band-live-at-tubbys-2xlp","title":"75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band - Live At Tubby's 2xLP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e75 Dollar Bill (Little Big Band): Live at Tubby's (Grapefruit)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNYC’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e75 Dollar Bill\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e began its prolific career in 2012, after percussionist Rick Brown – a veteran of the indie underground (Fish \u0026amp; Roses, Run On, V-Effect) – and noise scene guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Che Chen – connected via MySpace. Since that initial jam session, when Brown began experimenting with his signature plywood crate drum rhythms, they have released\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e3 LPs and a clutch of self-released cassette and digital releases.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLast year’s 2xLP \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI Was Real\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e received serious critical acclaim – \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Wire \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecalling it 2019’s Album of the Year. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn their first live album, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLive at Tubby’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 75 Dollar Bill assembled a unique “little big band” [Sue Garner on bass, Cheryl Kingan on sax, Steve Maing on guitar, Jim Pugliese on percussion and Karen Waltuch on viola] for the small Kingston, NY club show\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRecorded on the last day of their spring tour, the record puts a new perspective on themes from their body of work: a little more intimacy, a little more freedom, a little more controlled chaos. Brown’s idiosyncratic rhythms are all the more hypnotizing in Tubby’s cozy setting, and Chen’s furious guitar work cuts and hums with sounds seemingly only attainable on stage. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt's an album both challenging and immediate. The expanded 75 Dollar Bill's affinity for improvisation and the avant-garde even leads to a rousing take on the Ornette Coleman classic, 'Friends and Neighbors' that feels right at home in their own repertoire. The listener can't help but feel present and part of the communal joy and catharsis being shared here in this room. This performance at Tubby’s turned out not only to be the last show of their tour, but the last show possible as the pandemic hit. Originally offered as a digital-only release on 75 Dollar Bill’s Bandcamp, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLive at Tubby’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e now documents a highlight and closure of sorts; this kind of musical improvisation and community interaction being on hold for the foreseeable future. The double LP on Grapefruit will have to tide us over until it can all happen again. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Rick Brown:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e75 Dollar Bill has always been a duo of Che Chen and myself, but many of our most satisfying and just plain \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efun\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e experiences have involved some (or almost all) of our great crew of friend musicians who've worked with us for years and who play on our studio recordings, like 2019's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI Was Real \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Thin Wrist\/Glitterbeat).  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLive at Tubby's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epresents a couple of sets recorded just as Spring and the coronavirus were arriving on the scene.  We didn't plan for this as a “Little Big Band” concert, but we took advantage of timing and geography - as well as the fact that “everybody knows how to play WZN #3” - and sent out a call for any who could make it to come to Kingston, NY for the night's blowout, the last gig of a short tour we'd done as a duo.  The material comes from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI Was Real \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand its predecessor \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWood, Metal, Plastic, Pattern, Rhythm, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRock\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e plus a cover of the great and inspiring Ornette Coleman's song “Friends and Neighbors.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cspan\u003eHopefully, you'll agree it turned out pretty good – at the very least, it should be obvious that we had a good time!  We sure do miss playing music with our friends and for our neighbors.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grapefruit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320231117008,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/75db1.jpg?v=1616092835"},{"product_id":"marisa-anderson-traditional-public-domain-songs-lp","title":"Marisa Anderson - Traditional \u0026 Public Domain Songs LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"gold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGRAPEFRUIT YEAR THREE SERIES, RECORD FOUR (2013, GY3-4)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChanneling the history of the guitar and stretching the boundaries of traditional genres, Portland based guitarist, composer and improviser Marisa Anderson possesses a unique and distinctive musical voice. Her playing is fluid, emotional, dexterous and original. Anderson’s recent solo records, The Golden Hour (Mississippi Records 2011), and Mercury (Mississippi records 2013) feature improvisations inspired by Delta blues, West African guitar, Appalachian mountain music, vintage country and western, gospel, noise, rhythms, cycles, mortality, and praise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Her approach to playing her instrument hovers somewhere between extreme confidence and a kind of poetic tentativeness, coupled with an eager sense of the microtonal exploits you can uncover when a slide meets six strings. Her melodic sense is rustic, earthen, and deep, as though she has been playing these tunes for the better part of her life…” Jon Dale (Signal to Noise)\u003cbr\u003eBefore going solo in 2009, Anderson played guitar in the Dolly Ranchers and the Evolutionary Jass Band. In the past two years, Anderson’s music has landed her festival appearances in Europe and the United States and opening slots for artists including Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Devil Makes 3 and Sharon Van Etten. In August 2013, KBOO Community Radio released a split 7″ featuring Anderson and Elizabeth Cotton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnderson’s music has been featured on NPR and on soundtracks including ‘Smokin’ Fish’, ‘For the Love of Dolly’, ‘Girls Rock’, and ‘Gift To Winter’. Recent festival appearances include Le Guess Who, Creative Music Guild Improvisation Summit, Portland Experimental Film Festival, Sound \u0026amp; Music Festival, NOFest, Electrogals, Festival of Endless Gratitude, Pickathon, and PICA’s TBA Festival. Her writings on music and activism  have appeared in Bitch Magazine, Leaf Litter, and in Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls, the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe is KBOO Community Radio’s 2013 Artist in Residence. In 2012 Anderson was one of six artists selected for Signal Fire’s Afloat Residency. Anderson’s debut solo recording ‘Holiday Motel’ was a 2006 Outmusic nominee for Best Female Debut Recording. Anderson spent 2003-2011 working at the Rock’n’Roll Camp for Girls in Portland.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grapefruit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320299569360,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/marisaandersontrad.jpg?v=1616096300"},{"product_id":"amps-for-christ-canyons-cars-crows-lp","title":"Amps For Christ - Canyons, Cars \u0026 Crows LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eComing seven years after the release of the previous full-length record, Every Eleven Seconds (5 Rue Christine), and two since the their split LP with Woods (Shrimper), Canyons Cars and Crows is a proper resurrection for Amps for Christ. Recorded at Equation Road in the beautiful Pomona Valley, the record upholds the band’s traditions of mixing folk with hardcore and noise with music—known as folkcore and musnik, respectively—and covers familiar sonic territories from ragas and Basho folk to dirges and jigs. The songs, dire but hopeful, examine man’s relationship to nature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"break\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHenry Barnes, the force behind Amps for Christ, was a founding member of Man Is the Bastard. The group’s first release was the cassette-only album The Plains of Alluvial, released by Shrimper in 1997; since then there have been many full-length and split albums on a number of labels. Outside of Amps for Christ, Barnes has collaborated recently with Man Is the Bastard’s Eric Wood on a Bastard Noise \/ Brutal Truth split LP on Relapse Records, a split with Bizarre Uproar, and a pair of splits with Japanese artists Outermost and Government Alpha. Look for live shows across one or two oceans following the release of Canyons Cars and Crows.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Shrimper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320304779472,"sku":"","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/ampsforchristcanyons.jpg?v=1616096470"},{"product_id":"copy-of-anmlplnet-fall-asleep-lp","title":"ANMLPLNET - Fall Asleep LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNobody is more surprised about having created a full ANMLPLNET album\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethan the group itself: Slothrust leader Leah Wellbaum and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edrummer\/singer Mickey Vershbow. The two met while they were both\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eimmersed in the Boston music scene, and then went on to pursue\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eseparate musical careers on opposite coasts. The project and debut LP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etruly displays their magnetic musical bond, even while withstanding\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ephysical distance and hectic schedules. The band was formed originally\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eon four disparate rules:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. Always drink absinthe while rehearsing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. Write lyrics that are antonymic translations, meaning nouns,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eadjectives and verbs were replaced with their antonyms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. Play songs straight through as one giant piece, no breaks.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. Accept mostly unusual gigs, like their performances at a Dorchester\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003erave and in a wooden shack on the tiny Star Island off New Hampshire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYeah, sure, so many bands have used these same precepts for vast\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esuccess, so what? Even while seeking to create a dream-like\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esoundscape, ANMLPLNET is surprisingly gimmick-free music being, both\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eepochal in scope and surprisingly melodic. Their goal is to explore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe space between songwriting and improvisation, and the result is an\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003euncontrived melding of their personal styles and technical mastery of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etheir instruments. Wellbaum and Vershbow basically plan, dig, then\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eembark on a fresh road towards rock brilliance. Fall Asleep is their\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edebut album and the first 500 copies are pressed on unique gold marble\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003evinyl.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll tracks engineered and mixed by Andy Petr at Dangerbird Studios,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eexcept “I Was Fucked By A Cloud” and “20,000 Leagues Underneath The\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSerpent,” which were engineered and mixed by Carlos Hernandez at\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGravesend Recordings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMastered by Joseph Saliba.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSongs by Leah Wellbaum and Mickey Vershbow, except “Ride,” written by\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLana del Rey and Justin Parker.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCover art: “A Horse Listens To The Forest… Birds, Crickets, Frogs.” by\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBenjamin Styer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320319590608,"sku":"600197014110","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/anmlplnetfall_9b4db3fb-2fd4-4550-a328-e13776dfbfe4.jpg?v=1616097468"},{"product_id":"aquarelle-august-undone-lp","title":"Aquarelle - August Undone LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the very first seconds of “Within\/Without,” listeners familiar with the output of Aquarelle, the nom-de-plume of Madison, WI-based sound artist Ryan Potts, will find themselves in territory that is at once familiar and new. This opening salvo explodes into being with the surging, analog fuzz blooms and preternatural sense of rhythm that endeared many to “Sung in Broken Symmetry,” his prior Students of Decay full-length as well as his sterling contribution to the split LP with Alex Cobb issued via Low Point. Nestled deep within these writhing guitar drones we hear plaintive piano notes being struck and layered sine waves, an early hint of the notable development of the Aquarelle sound that is put forward on “August Undone.” Potts’ compositions are strikingly rich in detail (indeed Ryan disclosed to me that a few of the mixes on this record made use of all 64 tracks on his DAW). However, these are compositions that never become muddy or unfocused, remaining instead truly effervescent, full of nuance and subtlety. “This Is No Monument” recalls the halcyon days of C\/Psi\/P-era Birchville Cat Motel, with a massive wall of guitar distortion and distant chimes slowly dissolving into cascading chords and radiant, microtonal drones. “Clockless Hours,” the stunning closer, features a welcome appearance by cellist Brandon Wiarda and brings the album to a lovely and apt dénouement. In the end, “August Undone” is a brave step forward by a musician who is never content to rest upon his laurels.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Students Of Decay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320332042448,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/aquarelleaugust.jpg?v=1616098194"},{"product_id":"arc-iris-icon-of-ego-lp","title":"Arc Iris - Icon Of Ego LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" id=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-m_-220184780700284575m_1035272070386822945gmail-m_-8811004078571537400m_7709079268390476382docs-internal-guid-07dff511-79bc-b630-6702-e234da49fb22\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis fall, \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-il\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"il\"\u003eArc\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-il\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"il\"\u003eIris\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e releases \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIcon of Ego\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, its third groundbreaking album, as a trio that packs the heft of a far bigger band with fully realized sonic and visual intensity. Overcoming \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003erebuffs and rejections, \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-il\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"il\"\u003eArc\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-il\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"il\"\u003eIris\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e has become an unstoppable force out of necessity. On\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Icon of Ego\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, vocalist\/guitarist Jocie Adams, keyboardist\/sample artist Zach Tenorio-Miller and drummer Ray Belli\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e have crafted a vividly expressionistic new album that reflects both the group’s protean talents as well as its journey of survival.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-Apple-interchange-newline\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSoon after its self-named 2014 debut on the ANTI- label, \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-il\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"il\"\u003eArc\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-il\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"il\"\u003eIris\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e faced considerable adversity. Critical acclaim, tours with St. Vincent and Jeff Tweedy and festivals like Bonnaroo followed, all creating for \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-il\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"il\"\u003eArc\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-il\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"il\"\u003eIris\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e the belief that they had beat the long music industry odds. However, the group lost its manager, followed by its booking agent, then was dropped from the label. Band members departed. Opportunities evaporated. \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-m_-220184780700284575m_1035272070386822945gmail-aBn\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-m_-220184780700284575m_1035272070386822945gmail-aQJ\"\u003eWithin two years\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-il\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"il\"\u003eArc\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-il\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"il\"\u003eIris\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e self-released \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMoon Saloon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, in the US while British independent record label Bella Union released the album in Europe. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-il\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"il\"\u003eArc\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-il\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"il\"\u003eIris\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e assembled its own promotions team and booked its own shows. Notable is what \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-il\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"il\"\u003eArc\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-il\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"il\"\u003eIris\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e has achieved completely by itself: tours supporting Kimbra, Gene Ween, a complete re-imagination of Joni Mitchell’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlue\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e performed at Washington’s \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-m_-220184780700284575m_1035272070386822945gmail-il\"\u003eKennedy\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-m_-220184780700284575m_1035272070386822945gmail-il\"\u003eCenter\u003c\/span\u003e, and a growing, international fan base that has remained dedicated throughout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIcon of Ego\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e finds a happy middle with a smaller label, a more focused support team, and a stronger, more experienced band. Recording at Providence’s Columbus Theater, home to silent movies and vaudeville during the 20s, the band has evolved into a concentrated pop-prog explosion, mixing styles with disparate elements that captivate and surprise.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith heavy synthesizer work by Tenorio and Adams, and seemingly impossible transitions executed effortlessly by Belli, the songs on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIcon of Ego\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e carry a thick, analog electronic sound that harks back to the 70s. Presiding over these are Adams’ powerful vocals that house the energy under pop forms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-il\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"il\"\u003eArc\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-il\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"il\"\u003eIris\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e is never more self-defined than when faced with difficulty. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIcon of Ego\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is about \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-il\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"il\"\u003eArc\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"m_-3211323588206342817gmail-il\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"il\"\u003eIris\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e overcoming adversity and ultimately coming out leaner, sharper, and more vibrant.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320340398288,"sku":"600197014417","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/arcirisego_86be5914-6b35-476d-8f8f-5492b21353f8.jpg?v=1616098495"},{"product_id":"astute-palate-s-t-lp","title":"Astute Palate - S\/T LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTwelve inches of evidence of a whirlwind Philadelphia weekend.. They wrote \u0026amp; recorded the record and played a gig and consumed a few dozen burritos \u0026amp; a pile of beer and shipped a fella back to Omaha.. The audacious ad-hoc 4 piece ragged combo put in the sleepless 48 hours and this is what we get: 2 raw sides of electric rock action jammed with all the humbucked girth, single-coil screech \u0026amp; low down thud a Tascam 388 can handle. Today’s necessary palate cleanser. Recorded \u0026amp; mixed by Emily Robb, mastered by Mikey Young. This is the European pressing on Stoned to Death records.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAstute Palate = Emily Robb, David Nance, Daniel Provenzano, \u0026amp; Richie Charles\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grapefruit Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320343773392,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/files\/astutepalate.jpg?v=1683070901"},{"product_id":"baird-sisters-until-you-find-your-green-lp","title":"Baird Sisters - Until You Find Your Green LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConsidering they've collaborated ever since they were kids living\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eunder the same roof, The Baird Sisters arguably could have made an\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ealbum like Until You Find Your Green years ago. They released two live\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003erecordings (the first recorded by their dad) and made plenty of demos,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebut this marks the first time Laura and Meg Baird decided to gradually\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewrite and record a full-length on their own terms. The songs, recorded\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ein Laura’s house, result in a familial intimacy joined by skillful\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edepth, the ideal blend for a folk record, an equal mix of comfort and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etalent.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGrowing up surrounded by music, the sisters have traveled separate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epaths while remaining close. Laura studied piano and trombone in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eschool and has collaborated with Glenn Jones on his recent releases.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMeg has played in Espers, Watery Love, and currently drums\/sings in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHeron Oblivion. She’s also released a few solo albums on Drag\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCity--fear not, as Laura's first solo record will be released by us\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eearly next year!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThrough this independent experience, their work has evolved as The\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBaird Sisters, reaching its apex with Until You Find Your Green. These\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003erecordings capture the complexity of seventies progressive folk rock,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eemphasizing acoustic instrumentation with a lack of self-consciousness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethat can only come from a private domestic environment. Meg plays\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eguitar, Laura banjo, singing in harmony, and ornamenting their songs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewith flute, cello, fiddle, mandolin, upright bass, percussion and a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecricket chorus.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGreen's recordings have as much in common with Molly Drake and Emahoy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTsegué-Mariam Guebrù as with Pentangle and Shirley Collins.  They seem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etraditional, but that’s deceptive, as they unfold in greater depths\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe deeper attention you pay them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOriginally released exclusively to members of Grapefruit Record Club,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUntil You Find Your Green has been repressed with new artwork and is\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eavailable for the first time on CD and Digital. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320354357456,"sku":"600197011713","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/bairdsis_eb880967-dbcf-4677-8a64-301752ba854f.jpg?v=1616099759"},{"product_id":"baird-sisters-until-you-find-your-green-lp-sold-out","title":"Baird Sisters - Until You Find Your Green LP (Original Grapefruit Edition, SOLD OUT)","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"gold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGRAPEFRUIT YEAR TWO SERIES, RECORD TWO (2012, GY2-2)\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"infoBox light\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"half black\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUntil You Find Your Green was recorded at Laura’s farm house home over the course of a few weeks in April 2012. In a departure from the live performance approach of their previous two albums, At Home (2003) and Lonely Town (2008), Until You Find Your Green makes use of multi-track recording, allowing the sisters to experiment and embellish their music with additional instrumentation and the occasional field recording. Around a base of guitar and banjo, they’ve added currents of flute, cello, fiddle, mandolin, upright bass, drums, vocalise, electric guitar, mockingbird and a chorus of crickets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll songs by Laura and Meg Baird except for “A Soldier Being Tired” (Traditional.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Tracks\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLaura \u0026amp; Meg Baird: While making this record, we felt taken back to our earliest recordings in the early 90’s—when we would hole up with a Tascam 4-track cassette recorder (Portastudio 246, R.I.P.), and had an assortment of homemade cassettes-only releases available at open mics scattered through central New Jersey. We’d really like to thank the Grapefruit label for inviting us to work together on something that brought us both so close to that time and process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Grapefruit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320360190160,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/bairdsisoriginal.jpg?v=1616100218"},{"product_id":"laura-baird-i-wish-i-was-a-sparrow-lp","title":"Laura Baird - I Wish I Was A Sparrow LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith a musical timeline dating back to her early childhood, Laura\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBaird is an exceptionally talented multi-instrumentalist and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esinger-songwriter, best known for her projects with her sister, Meg,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eas The Baird Sisters, and guitarist Glenn Jones. Baird’s own sound\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003estems from the Appalachian folk tradition, and she connects to it via\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efamily lineage--her great-great uncle I.G. Greer’s folk recordings for\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe Library of Congress are a large influence. Also woven into her\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esonic influences are classical composers like Bach and Satie, and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emodern day musicians such as Opal and Yo La Tengo.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor her upcoming debut solo album, I Wish I Were A Sparrow, Baird\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eplays odes to the tradition from which she learned to play, combining\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAppalachian balladry, the roughness of old field recordings, and a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edose of dreaminess and solitude that captures the distinct environment\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eof sleepy central New Jersey. This is where Baird departs from\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etradition, leaving the communal origins of folk music and capturing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe singular self. An amalgam of old and new can be found in the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eoverall sound, as well as the lyrics, with half of the songs on\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSparrow, including \"Dreadful Wind and Rain\" and \"Pretty Polly\", being\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epassed down from the folk tradition, and the other half, including\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Wind Wind \"and \"Love Song From The Earth To The Moon\" coming from\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBaird’s own hand. While the most salient part of her last Baird\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSisters project was the melding of familial voices and various\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003einstruments, Baird’s solo effort is centered around the combination of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eher virtuosic banjo playing and prominent but airy vocals.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320367726800,"sku":"600197011614","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/laurabaird_df8f903f-353a-45bd-87b8-6b63926d34a0.jpg?v=1616100429"},{"product_id":"darryl-baser-raw-selfie-lp","title":"Darryl Baser - Raw Selfie LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDunedin-based musician Darryl Baser moved to New Zealand’s independent music capital in March 1993 and promptly began organising gigs for himself and a host of his peers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSmart phones are gradually taking over the world and the word “Selfie” is added to the dictionary.Becoming a single person in late May, to solve his communication issues he purchases an LG Optima, and rapidly discovers it can record sound.For a laugh and a bit of self-reference records a song, then another, and another.Around that time old friend and long-time fan of New Zealand music Arno Loffler visits his second home of Dunedin, the two get talking at the Queens music venue, and the idea of recording an entire album on a smart phone was born.From a hazy recollection during a busy period the title \"RAW SELFIE\" was thrown about at the meeting at Queens.Baser says the title reflects both the modern ‘selfie’ obsessed generation who seem driven by a need to take pictures of themselves and their friends on their phones and promptly posting them online.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Consign Zelle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320392007888,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/darrylbaser.jpg?v=1616101422"},{"product_id":"bingo-trappers-elizabethan-lp","title":"Bingo Trappers - Elizabethan LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExtremely limited vinyl-only new album from our Dutch classic rock heroes, the Bingo Trappers. The duo of Waldemar Noë and Wim Elzinga have been otherwise known as the Bingo Trappers since their debut in 1995 and have released music on every format known to indie rock DYI culture in the intervening years. Only three of their albums have made it to vinyl, unfortunately, so this release is cause for real celebration. Elizabethan is their eleventh full-length (\u0026amp; their first album in six years) and it's yet another countrified pop masterpiece. There will only be 100 copies to circulate in the United States.  Comes in screen-printed jackets with download code in a limited run of 275.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom Waldemar:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLately, a friend asked me: tell me, what are Elizabethan eyes? And I answered: oh, I don’t know.  Really? Yeah, really. Oh, okay. But behind every truth there lies a lie – some big, some small, but they’re always there. Or a story. On our new album Elizabethan there’s a song called ‘Don’t steal my line’, and in that song there’s the line ‘when I see your Elizabethan eyes’. What I had in mind while writing that song was the movie Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The mere power of speech – a fighting couple, killing each other with words (I grew up with a fighting couple, they happened to be my parents). Yes, Elizabethan eyes could also involve the infinite gaze of William Shakespeare…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnd here’s a very short story. We had these plays on high school, and I had a scene with this classmate who was so nervous at showtime that she started saying my lines – as well as her lines, of course. So I had nothing to say. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnyhow, the Bingo trappers are very proud to present their new album Elizabethan (a co-production of Morc Records, Almost Halloween Time, Unread and Grapefruit Records – thank you again, Wim, Luigi, Chris and Simon). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalog numbers: Grapefruit (GY8-4), Morc Tapes (Morc 76), Unread (#240), Almost Halloween Time (AHT 069)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor fans of: Muswell Hillbillies era Kinks, 60's pop, hooks and riffs, literary lyrics, great music!\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Simon Joyner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320449319120,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/bingotrapperselizabethen.jpg?v=1616103293"},{"product_id":"bingo-trappers-giddy-wishes-lp","title":"Bingo Trappers - Giddy Wishes LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout Giddy Wishes, the new Bingo Trappers album....\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt’s been almost two years since the release of predecessor \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eElizabethan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. A stretch that seems much longer, due to pandemic circumstances. These were hard to ignore when I drove at the beginning of April through eerie empty streets to Wim’s house to record the last two songs of our new album \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGiddy Wishes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, ‘What’s the Score’ and ‘Signature Style’ – what a surrealistic biking trip that was. The latter with a seemingly prophetic last line: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewe gotta stay here for a while\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, while the other song was originally called ‘2020 Sessions,’ about the confusing struggle with the ever-consuming ways of communication on the internet. We changed the title of the song and skipped the mention of this weird year, somehow this order of digits didn’t feel right… When we finished recording we talked about a proper album title and somehow came upon the idea of an old-fashioned postcard: some giddy wishes from a confined place – mind and heart are free to travel from A to B. Straight on. That’s exactly what we try to achieve with the Bingo Trappers: sixties\/seventies-based songs with a twang and a poppy stamp. To reach you plain and pure. So here are ten brand new songs, this is our score. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Waldemar Noë\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Amsterdam-based \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBingo Trappers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is the moniker of the prolific bond between songwriter Waldemar Noë and allround-musician and arranger\/producer Wim Elzinga. Since their first release in 1995 – the cassette \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMore Soul\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e on the legendary Shrimper label – they have released a steady stream of would-be classic albums on a number of independent labels.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGiddy Wishes is vinyl-only and limited to 330, with screen-printed jackets and lyric inserts. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon Joyner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320450531536,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/bingotrappersgiddy.jpg?v=1616103486"},{"product_id":"bingo-trappers-sierra-nevada-lp","title":"Bingo Trappers - Sierra Nevada LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCoors offered them tons of dough to change the name of the record and have a banner put up behind them for their appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel show. They refused all offers.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Shrimper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320459739344,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/bingotrapperssierra.jpg?v=1616103746"},{"product_id":"bitter-funeral-beer-band-w-don-cherry-live-in-frankfurt-82-lp","title":"Bitter Funeral Beer Band w\/ Don Cherry  - Live In Frankfurt '82 LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e2021 restock. First of all, Bengt Berger -- a pioneer of the Swedish underground of the '70s and historical member of bands such as Archimedes Badkar and Arbete Och Fritid -- is a versatile drummer-percussionist and well-educated ethnomusicologist with several research sojourns in India and Ghana. Deeply influenced by Hindustani, Carnatic, and West Africa music, he founded the Bitter Funeral Beer Band in 1980, an ensemble of 12 elements, basing his ideas on the traditional funeral music of the people of LoBirifor, in the northern region of Ghana. The sound material reinterprets the spirit of the funeral ritual, when the dance and its songs become a moment of catharsis, releasing a sense of joy in the trance for the liberation from pain. The marriage between this Afro-polyrhythmic roots, with the spiritual jazz of the eternal Don Cherry, and the Ondian sarod of K. Sridhar, it is in the direction to a pan-internationalism of profound spirituality, which blends different geographical traditions in a single contemplative gaze. It is the convergence towards a music without boundaries, where every instrumental voice shines and is well fermented and integrated.","brand":"Forced Exposure","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320464851152,"sku":"","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/bitterfuneral.jpg?v=1616104179"},{"product_id":"kath-bloom-bye-bye-these-are-the-days-lp","title":"Kath Bloom - Bye Bye These Are The Days LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Bye Bye These Are The Days” is the latest release by luminary songwriter Kath Bloom. Born to a musical family, Kath moved through an early life absorbed and in love with the 60s sea change of musical expression, into a development of her own singular voice that would age to cast a wide net of influence. Her prolific relationship with Loren Mazzacane Connors in the 80s produced a body of work held sacrosanct by generations of avant-folk luminaries. In 2007 Chapter Music released a tribute album to her songs from that time recorded by Bill Callahan, Meg Baird, Devendra Banhart and others, and her song “Come Here” was featured memorably in Richard Linklater’s 1995 film “Before Sunrise”, in a scene which Ethan Hawke claims was “my favorite scene I ever filmed”. Two lovers listen hanging on the edge of a kiss, tense and present for a moment just out of reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlthough performing this strange and yearning body of work at the time made her nervous and withdrawn, she continued to write and perform quietly all the while. She developed happy careers in music therapy for children and horse training, learning new forms of connection that channeled back into her music and healed her relationship with performing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn recent years she has toured regionally from her home in Connecticut and has been invited several times to tour internationally, honing her current musical partnerships with David Shapiro (guitar, vocals) and Flow Ness (percussion, vocals). While she has been encouraged to release new music for her new generation of fans, “Bye Bye These Are the Days” is the first to document her current band’s sound, which harkens back to the avant leanings of her work with Mazzacane, but the tension now is joyful and expert. This is the sound of a practiced life, learned in all stages of love and loss, and resolute to keep going, like a locomotive deep into the night. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eALL SONGS BY KATH BLOOM (BMI)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKATH BLOOM - VOCALS, HARMONICA, GUITAR\u003cbr\u003eDAVID SHAPIRO - LEAD GUITAR, VOCALS\u003cbr\u003eFLOW NESS - PERCUSSION, VOCALS\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTRACKS 2, 4, AND 5 RECORDED BY HENRY BIRDSEY AT KATH BLOOM'S HOUSE\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eALL OTHER TRACKS RECORDED BY JOHN MILLER\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMIXED BY HENRY BIRDSEY\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMASTERED BY MIKE DITRIO\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWATERCOLOR PAINTING BY KATH BLOOM\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDESIGN BY JON SAMUELS \u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"Dear Life","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320484446416,"sku":"","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/kathbloom.jpg?v=1616105414"},{"product_id":"brother-ah-sound-awareness-lp","title":"Brother Ah - Sound Awareness LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"The renowned French horn player known as Brother Ah (aka Robert Northern) is one of the most prolific and respected musicians in the history of jazz music, with a recorded output spanning more than 30 years. Born in 1934 and raised in the south Bronx, Brother Ah was playing jazz trumpet as early as fifteen years of age. Following a classical French horn education at Austria's Vienna State Academy, he emerged in the late '50s and established himself as a skilled and consistent session musician, playing with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, and numerous Broadway theater orchestras. Brother Ah recorded well into the '60s with some of the most illustrious names in the genre, including Donald Byrd, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Gil Evans and, perhaps most influentially, Sun Ra. In 1969, Ah formed his own group, the Musical Sound Awareness Ensemble, and released several works under his own name from 1974 onward. In the late '60s, his interest in non-western music developed, and his '70s recordings, incorporated elements of Eastern and 'Third World' music, fusing them with jazz structures. His first solo recording, Sound Awareness was released on the Strata East label in 1972. By this time, Ah had recorded extensively with the Sun Ra Arkestra and his solo work continued the boundary-pushing approaches he explored with that ensemble. Consisting of two side-length tracks, 'Beyond Yourself (The Midnight Confession)', and 'Love Piece', the album features notable appearances by percussionist Max Roach and the M'Boom Re:percussion Ensemble, as well as a 90-piece vocal choir. The 22-minute 'Beyond Yourself' is billed as 'a sound journey' in seven parts, outlining a man's struggle to either give up drugs or become a monk.\"\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Forced Exposure","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320500699344,"sku":"","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/brotherahsound.jpg?v=1616106743"},{"product_id":"bruces-thieves-in-the-wick-songs-of-simon-joyner-lp","title":"Bruces - Thieves In The Wick (Songs Of Simon Joyner) LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlex McManus, veteran guitarist for Lambchop and Vic Chesnutt released a series of scarce singer-songwriter indie rock albums under the name The Bruces in the 90’s and early 2000’s before taking an extended hiatus from music to migrate to Canada and raise a family. Known primarily for his song, “I Woke Up With This Song In My Head This Morning,” which was covered by Bright Eyes on their \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLua\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e EP in 2004, his albums on Sing, Eunuchs! and Misra are gorgeous testaments to wholly personal pop songwriting which undoubtedly influenced the younger Conor Oberst as well as other songwriters lucky enough to stumble upon his difficult to find albums.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMcManus’ first new album in fourteen years is an infectious collection of cover songs by close friend and fellow underground songwriter, Simon Joyner, lovingly reinterpreted and rearranged to sound like would-be hits in another universe. You may recognize the titles on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThieves in the Wick\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e as old Joyner songs but they sound entirely new in the hands of the unmistakable, unsinkable Bruces. Limited edition vinyl-only pressing of 300 in screen-printed jackets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNOTE:\u003c\/strong\u003e We strongly encourage you to add The Bruces: Family Day (lp or cd reissues) and\/or Hialeah Pink (cd reissue) to your order for some classic Bruces. We stock both of these first two releases from the 90's. You won't regret it!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor fans of: Lambchop, Simon Joyner, Vic Chesnutt, Neutral Milk Hotel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalog numbers: Grapefruit GY8-3, Unread 230, Kerchow 045, JSB1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon Joyner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320513347792,"sku":"","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/brucesthieves.jpg?v=1616107808"},{"product_id":"copy-of-bruces-family-day-cd","title":"Bruces - Family Day LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Re-issue of old Sing, Eunuchs! cassette (#3) in all its brilliance. This collection of songs sings through the ages and pushes away the harsh winter, or welcomes it, just as it did on the day it was forged. one hell of an important album.\" - CHRIS FISCHER\/Unread Records \u0026amp; Tapes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExtensive \"The Legend of The Bruces\" liner notes by Simon Joyner.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Consign Alex McManus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320514330832,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/brucesfamilyday_23997669-8981-4c73-ad61-a1cabbb1d935.jpg?v=1616108013"},{"product_id":"buildermash-measly-7-ep-bill-direen-simon-joyner-david-nance-et-al","title":"Buildermash - Measly 7\" EP (Bill Direen, Simon Joyner, David Nance, et al)","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCollaborative recording project featuring the songs of Bill Direen with Simon Joyner, David Nance, Steve Cournane, Chris Deden, Stu Page, Andy McCully, and Pete Scott.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Grapefruit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320590680272,"sku":"","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/buildermashmeaslu.jpg?v=1616109127"},{"product_id":"builders-beatin-hearts-lp","title":"Builders - Beatin Hearts LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBill Direen is a legend of the New Zealand underground. We're not overstating this. He has given us poetry, novels and a slew of recorded material. Weaned on a garage band youth in the late 60's, Direen started producing 7\" records in the early 80's, all of them stunners These releases - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSix Impossible Things\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDie Bilder\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSoloman's Ball\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHigh Thirties Piano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e - were self-financed and distributed though Flying Nun (and recently reissued by the benevolent Unwucht label). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeatin Hearts \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis his ultimate, unforgettable debut album, not to mention Flying Nun's first full-length album release. Seventeen tracks, all brilliant short pieces of energy, harmony and spite. Anyone with an appreciation for Flying Nun's early recordings can find its genesis here, the dawning of one of the greatest music scenes to ever exist.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Grapefruit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320597889232,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/buildersbeatin.jpg?v=1616109453"},{"product_id":"copy-of-julie-byrne-not-even-happiness-cd","title":"Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSometimes it can take years to find your calling. Not so for Julie Byrne, whose power of lyrical expression and musical nous seems inborn. Her second album, Not Even Happiness, has evolved at its own pace. It spans recollections of bustling roadside diners, the stars over the high desert, the aching weariness of change, the wildflowers of the California coast, and the irresolvable mysteries of love. Teaching herself guitar, having picked it up when her father became ill and could no longer play, Byrne also admits she can’t read music and doesn’t even listen to it all that much—her own vinyl was the first in her possession. “Without possessing the right words, I’d describe to [producer] Eric Littman (Phantom Posse) and Jake Falby (who contributed strings) the feeling I wanted a song to evoke, or I would take a shot at singing what was in my head. Though over all, their contributions to the record are entirely their own vision and their own power.” The follow-up to 2014’s critically lauded Rooms With Walls And Windows, this latest offers a bigger picture through a wider exploration of instruments and atmospherics, revealing an artist who has grown in confidence over time. Whether witnessing the Pacific Northwest for the first time (“Melting Grid”), the morning sky in the mountains of Boulder (“Natural Blue”), or a journey fragrant with rose water or reading Frank O’Hara aloud from the passenger seat during a drive through the Utah desert into the rainforest of Washington State (“The Sea As It Glides”), Not Even Happiness is Byrne’s beguiling ode to the fringes of life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320604377296,"sku":"600197013014","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/juliebyrnenoteven_d1b69a1d-2b3f-4724-b01c-8af0b30c80c4.jpg?v=1616109758"},{"product_id":"dennis-callaci-a-bed-of-light-lp","title":"Dennis Callaci - A Bed of Light LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOver the course of 25+ years, Dennis Callaci has written and performed in the band Refrigerator, while also recording solo under such aliases as Paste, Puffy and other even poorer name choices. Callaci has also collaborated on records with John Davis, Simon Joyner, and others, but A Bed of Light is his first true solo album.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSix of these nine tracks were recorded by Jarvis Taveniere (Woods and producer of Woods, Sunflower Bean, Martin Courtney), who also plays drums, bass and guitar. A Bed Of Light also features Simon Joyner and his current band, with recordings and overdubs done in Omaha by Mike Friedman and Joyner. Many of these tracks were recorded months after Callaci’s brother Allen, lead singer of Refrigerator, had a sudden harrowing sickness followed by a successful heart \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etransplant.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe record is equal parts pastoral and primitive stomp. Autoharp, lap steel, cello and violin are complemented by cranky electric guitars pinned to ten in the mix, primitive drum machines and phantom saxophones. This is not a solo auteur album, though Callaci did pull a half-Prince by writing, singing and playing on every song as well as doing the cover art and writing a piss take essay on the insert!\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklist:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. Theresa Russell\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. Birthday Poems\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. SOS\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. Keychain Trophy\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5. Unlanding\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6. Arc Of A Diver\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7. Faultline\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8. Houdini\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9. In Wait\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shrimper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320755142864,"sku":"","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/bedoflight_8e6e5142-2d58-4a8c-b877-293c66e9945c.jpg?v=1616114297"},{"product_id":"copy-of-sarah-mary-chadwick-me-and-ennui-are-friends-baby-lp","title":"Sarah Mary Chadwick - Me and Ennui are Friends, Baby LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eTHE VINYL EDITION OF\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eME \u0026amp; ENNUI ARE FRIENDS, BABY\u003c\/i\u003e COMES IN: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBLACK VINYL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cspan color=\"#e79c9c\" style=\"color: #e79c9c;\"\u003eLIMITED EDITION BABY PINK VINYL\u003cb\u003e (150 COPIES OUTSIDE AUSTRALIA)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e - LAST COPIES\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cspan color=\"#ce0000\" style=\"color: #ce0000;\"\u003eLIMITED EDITION BABY PINK VINYL WITH A HAND-PAINTED COVER BY SARAH MARY CHADWICK HERSELF\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eSOLD OUT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eYOU CAN CHOOSE WHICH YOU WANT FROM THE DROP-DOWN MENU WHEN ORDERING\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMe And Ennui Are Friends, Baby\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is the latest full-length from New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based singer-songwriter, Sarah Mary Chadwick, whose brutally honest songwriting has cast her contrary to the gentleness of most current music. Comprised entirely of minimal solo piano arrangements, the album is despondently clear-eyed and smirkingly self-deprecating, completing a trilogy of records that started with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Queen Who Stole The Sky\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e recorded on Melbourne Town Hall’s grand organ, and her only outing to date featuring a full band, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePlease Daddy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. Each record has followed Chadwick’s internal processing after a traumatic event, with Chadwick’s zeal for psychoanalysis front and center. On \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEnnui\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Chadwick presents an exacting intensity with her choice to pare back to piano and vocals. It's in this stark setting that she focuses on the attempt she made on her life in 2019.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe methods Chadwick employed on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEnnui \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003econtrast those of her previous full-band record, which thrust her into a very different world of rehearsal, planning, restraint and control as a functional tool. The result, 2020’s critically acclaimed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePlease Daddy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, was her most aching and engaging achievement to date: “a raw, often unnerving experience,” which “delivers compelling and uplifting catharsis” (Mojo). Recording \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEnnui \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eshortly after the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePlease Daddy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e sessions, Chadwick concludes her trilogy by returning to the most immediate compositional process she can muster, doing it alone, with less between her and the microphone than ever before. On \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEnnui\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Chadwick is free, there is nowhere for her or us to run from the need to very presently and repeatedly articulate her trauma until it is simply, “articulated out.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2019 saw Chadwick endure the breakup of a long term relationship and attempt her own life just weeks before the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEnnui\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e recordings. These events followed the deaths of her father and a close friend, and it’s from this weighty internal mire that Chadwick emerges throughout the trilogy. Imaginably, the result is staggeringly abject. But the incandescent nature of her will, knack for reportage and searing dark humor sets fire to the world she describes over these 12 songs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJoined by long time production collaborators, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMe And Ennui \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewas mastered by David Walker at Stepford Audio and mixed \u0026amp; recorded by Geoff O’Connor at Vanity Lair - both expertly bringing scale, subtlety and intangible ascendence to this recording. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing","offers":[{"title":"Black","offer_id":39320771002576,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Pink","offer_id":39320771035344,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/chadwickblack.jpg?v=1616116622"},{"product_id":"ben-chatwin-heat-entropy-lp","title":"Ben Chatwin - Heat \u0026 Entropy LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBen Chatwin begins his new album with an instrument you’d least expect—a dulcitone. Created in the late 19th century, the keyboard hits tuning forks with felt hammers, sounding like an ornate music box. It serves as the perfect lead in to Heat \u0026amp; Entropy, whose title refers to how introducing heat (energy) and entropy (chaos) into any given system can create life, exploring the blurring lines between man and machine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"break\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe first Chatwin album to be recorded domestically, Heat \u0026amp; Entropy starts a new chapter for the Queensferry, Scotland-based musician. Under the name Talvihorros, Chatwin is known for his innovative combination of electronic experimentation and modern classical composition. However, last year’s The Sleeper Awakes took a left turn and exchanged vanguard minimalism for enhanced melodics. Heat \u0026amp; Entropy delves further into this world. The result is an ornate exploration into future possibilities.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"break\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn Heat \u0026amp; Entropy, Chatwin originally intended to use only strings, forcing him to explore lesser-known instruments. For “Standing Waves,” he attached pieces of metal, rubber and tape to the piano strings. “The Kraken” uses Terry Riley’s repetition as a starting point, but leads to distorted vocals and an intense, hammered dulcimer climax. “Euclidean Plane” incorporates a bowed mandolin and a three-stringed didley-bow, along with acoustic guitar and metallophone by Ben’s brother, Jordan Chatwin, who has had no formal training and learned guitar by ear, playing with unconventional tunings and chords.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"break\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDespite the unique sounds and textures Chatwin found among the strings, the lure of electronics proved too great. “The album then became about the tensions between the acoustic, or natural world, and the electronic world” he explains. “For me this is where the excitement lies…. It creates a unique world of contrasts and conflicting relationships.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"break\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChatwin calls Heat \u0026amp; Entropy “an album of contrast, conflict and chaos, but also of complex relationships.” Melody rises above the maelstrom in these compositions. It’s an album of experimentation, of delicately contrasting the organic with the artificial, and ultimately of great beauty and sophistication. Heat \u0026amp; Entropy marks the emergence of an incredibly exciting and visionary Scots composer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338079092944,"sku":"600197011515","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/benchatwin_3da755c6-63b4-4c84-8b55-bfe0b32499d0.jpg?v=1616551547"},{"product_id":"eric-chenaux-radwan-ghazi-moumneh-the-sentimental-moves-lp","title":"Eric Chenaux \u0026 Radwan Ghazi Moumneh - The Sentimental Moves LP","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"gold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGRAPEFRUIT YEAR TWO SERIES, RECORD TWO (2012, GY2-2)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEric Chenaux experiments with ballads, songs, tunes, improvisations, guitars, very small speakers, The Reveries, The Draperies, Drumheller, Nightjars, The Guayaveras, The Allison Cameron Band, Eloïse Decazes, John Oswald, Michelle McAdorey, Aimée Dawn Robinson, Marla Hlady and the curation of the Toronto based recording label, Rat-drifting, co- founded with Martin Arnold in 2002. In the 1980’s and 1990’s Chenaux played in the hoary post-punk band Phleg Camp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout Chenaux’s guitar playing, Carl Wilson writes, “Ornette Coleman might call it harmolodic. Chenaux might call it an amazing background. His strings chime with all those thoughts at once. I adore the way he teases out a melody, never beginn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRadwan Ghazi Moumneh is a Lebanese musician, audio engineer\/producer, and co-owner of the Hotel2Tango recording studio in Montréal, where he also resides. He also is the founder of Jerusalem In My Heart, a contemporary Arabic music and multiple 16mm film projector performance project on Constellation Records.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grapefruit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338085351632,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/chenauxmoumneh.jpg?v=1616551932"},{"product_id":"stefan-christensen-the-upcoming-flame-lp","title":"Stefan Christensen - The Upcoming Flame LP","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStefan Christensen swamps delicate threads of melody in a muted squall of distortion. Waves of agitated noise, tamped down but still fractious, roll over the structures of his songs, so that it’s hard to tell whether the song or the dissonant scree of sound is the main thing. A current member of Headroom and frequent collaborator with members of Mountain Movers, Alexander and Nagual, Christensen layers haunted sung imagery over slow looped constructions of guitar and percussion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHere on The Upcoming Flame, the melodic fire flickers amid smoke, haze and hum. The pretty folk strumming of “Arrows” provides a sharp contrast to the blistering roar of “Unkempt Power (This City’s Hold),” whose wild guitar distortion edges close to Dinosaur Jr. territory. The stark, minimal power of “G. Roberts,” where a single electric guitar line carves through echo-shrouded hiss and hum is quite unlike the dystopian hypnotics of “Like Factories” a wavery chant weaving through mechanical assembly-line stomp.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChristensen draws inspiration from a wide array of musicians, particularly artists on the Siltbreeze, Xpressway and Twisted Village labels. Loren Connors, who got started in New Haven, was a key influence for The Upcoming Flame. Both “Ode to Roberts of Daggett” and “G. Roberts” pay tribute to Connors, who founded and ran Daggett Records in the 1970s and who sometimes recorded as Guitar Roberts. “Ode to Roberts of Daggett” also commemorates the Daggett Street Lofts, where Connors lived and made music and supported an emerging experimental New Haven music scene. In addition to Connors, Christensen was influenced by Alastair Galbraith’s writing and guitar playing and by Jim Shepard’s collaging of styles and tape manipulation techniques.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBefore he began recording as a solo artist, Christensen spent nearly a decade heading the lo-fi garage band, Estrogen Highs, channeling a fuzzy, New Zealand pop vibe reminiscent of the Clean and the Bats. Then starting in 2015, he headed off into a more experimental, guitar-centered direction in the vein of Bill Orcutt, Scott Tuma and the Dead C. Over the last several years, he has recorded a stream of cassettes, solo albums and collaborations with New Haven-area artists. For The Upcoming Flame, he worked alone, writing, arranging and playing all the instruments himself. He recorded them primarily on an eight-track cassette recorder with a few tracks laid down on a mono reel-to-reel recorder he has been using lately for both recording and live presentation.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"C\/Site","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338131226832,"sku":"","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/stefanupcoming.jpg?v=1616552588"},{"product_id":"jay-clarkson-spur-lp","title":"Jay Clarkson - Spur LP","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eComposer and musician JAY CLARKSON has had albums released in NZ through Flying Nun, Arch Hill and Arclife over a period spanning the 80s and up to 2008.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOriginally a member of Christchurch band THE PLAYTHINGS (1980-1982), Jay went on to form THEY WERE EXPENDABLE in 1983, out of whom grew THE EXPENDABLES and later BREATHING CAGE who survived until 1993.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSince then Jay has performed solo and in duo mode.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJay’s new album “SPUR\" showcases her most recent collection of recorded songs, all songs written in the time frame of 2010-2013, “Walking Boots” being the exception, this song having been penned around 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJay’s style has been described as “alternative rock”, “character sketches full of vivid images”, “intimate”, “a rainbow of colours”, “sitting uncomfortably in the South Island indie continuum”, and “refraining from playing over-eager folk pop card or thumping the fan-ish garage rock drum.” Even though Jay Clarkson is widely known and liked by many for her distinctive voice, her initial focus in her musical life was guitar-playing and this still forms the often intricate but always strong basis of her work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Consign Zelle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338151968976,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/jayclarkson.jpg?v=1616552985"},{"product_id":"closet-mix-12-ep-great-plains-log-ohio","title":"Closet Mix 12\" EP (Great Plains, Log, Ohio)","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCloset Mix (Great Plains, Log, etc.) make their debut with this extremely limited (200 qty) EP at 45 RPM. Fred Mills of BlurtOnline says: “This 12” EP comprises five songs, and while the level of song-craft on display here precludes easily selecting the proverbial pick-to-click, the interstellar surf-rock instrumental “Hugh Are You?” is an unexpected delight, cueing up as it does between the elegant pop chime of “It’s Better My Way” and the woozy balladry of “Won’t Be Lonely After All.” Throughout the record, subtle interweaving of Chris \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNini\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e’s keys and Keith Novicki’s guitar lends a textural richness, while bassist Paul \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNini\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e’s upper register vocals skate atop the sonic bed with a delicate grace.” For fans of indie-rock of the Midwest variety.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Consign Paul Nini","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338181689552,"sku":"","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/closetmix.jpg?v=1616553328"},{"product_id":"closet-mix-van-echo-split-7-clear-vinyl","title":"Closet Mix \/ Van Echo - Split 7\" (Clear Vinyl)","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn extremely limited (200 qty) single on clear-vinyl with translucent-vellum sleeves, where Ohio stalwarts Van Echo (Ass Ponys, Ready Stance, etc.) and Closet Mix (Great Plains, Log, etc.) each contribute catchy, tunes. For fans of indie-rock of the Midwest variety. 2019 release.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Consign Paul Nini","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338199285968,"sku":"","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/closetmix7.jpg?v=1616553556"},{"product_id":"alex-cobb-chantepleure-lp","title":"Alex Cobb - Chantepleure LP","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe trajectory of Alex Cobb’s music over the course of the last decade could be viewed as a distillation of tone and atmosphere to arrive at “Chantepleure,” his most optimistic and sanguine musical statement to date. The album, however, was created at a time of heartache, isolation and emotional upheaval and acts as a balm of tender tones where abstract guitar lines circle and suspend in a kind of refined elegance. Noise, once a hallmark of Cobb’s music, has not been entirely removed, but manifests here in a different form. A delicate dissonance shades the edges of the these four tracks, providing textural color and gorgeously offsetting the lush nature of the music. Even in short spans, this approach yields substantial results. At three and a half minutes, “Disporting with a Shadow” pulls back the curtain just enough to let flecks of natural guitar notes and traces of alluring melody seep into the mix. The album closes with the side-long “Path of Appearance,” a cathartic composition that is best described as a poem of overtones which, like the rest of the album, is sourced from electric guitar and minimal effects but feels more akin to the sun stretching to fill all corners of a darkened room. A testament to sonic refinement, a way of coping, an exciting step forward for an established artist—the minimalist “Chantepleure” is all of these things.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Students Of Decay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338222977232,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/alexcobb.jpg?v=1616553694"},{"product_id":"colossal-yes-charlemagnes-big-thaw-lp","title":"Colossal Yes - Charlemagne's Big Thaw LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter Comets on Fire played Auckland, Utrillo Kushner met one of his idols, the legendary DIY producer and songwriter Chris Knox. The following day Knox invited Kushner and his bandmates over to his house for conversation and beers. The afternoon was spent in the kitchen (Knox was baking a cake for The Clean's Bangers and Mash anniversary tour) drinking while Knox spun stories of the New Zealand music underground of yore. From this experience, Kushner conceived of the initial idea for the second Colossal Yes album.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInspired by the Kiwi indie-pop formulas of Tall Dwarfs, The Clean, and The Verlaines, Kushner set out to write his own songs using piano as the main instrument. It was a reawakening of the pop aesthetic done Piano Man style. Recording of the basic tracks started in the summer of 2007 with Kelley Stoltz producing and Kevin Ink engineering. Songs were then fine-tuned over a series of nighttime and weekend sessions with Matt Waters in early 2008. Finally, they were mixed with Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) and Waters almost a year from the starting point.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe end result is unique yet similar to the epic pop bands of the past. Charlemagne's Big Thaw combines simple melodies and basic structures with lyrical territories such as expired youth, grand betrayals, overdrawn faculties, and dissolving empires. In this regard, Kushner pays respect to songwriters like Robyn Hitchcock, Dan Bejar of Destroyer, and Alex Chilton while also incorporating the honesty of Graham Nash's Songs for Beginners, the romanticism of Nikki Sudden's Waiting on Egypt, and the sonic merriment of Thunderclap Newman's Hollywood Dream.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338246996176,"sku":"660197006416","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/colossalyescharlemagne_662e40cc-83f3-42b6-989c-418afa0cd1f2.jpg?v=1616554251"},{"product_id":"comets-on-fire-field-recordings-from-the-sun-lp","title":"Comets On Fire - Field Recordings From The Sun LP","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eField Recordings From the Sun is the second album from West Coast skull-peelers and daisy-wilting psychedelic stormtroopers Comets On Fire. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJoined by an armada of friends and hangers-on—including Tim Green of the Fucking Champs (who also produced) and Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance (soon to be a permanent member)—the band erects towering tombs of natural ethereal beauty and pure sonic destruction set above a cosmic freight train of unhinged riffs and jagged grooves. And their drummer is more than happy to perform naked, you don’t even have to ask.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338264985808,"sku":"600197003411","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/cometsonfirefield_c1208bbb-2d53-436b-9d20-5d07640bf807.jpg?v=1616554629"},{"product_id":"cousins-the-halls-of-wickwire-lp","title":"Cousins - The Halls Of Wickwire LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCOUSINS, the big and booming duo of Aaron Mangle and Leigh Dotey are releasing their new album, Halls of Wickwire, on May 13th. It will be a co-release with Ba Da Bing and Hand Drawn Dracula. After several years of skin shedding metamorphosis, near-endless north American touring, two full length albums, and a string of limited edition releases on various formats and labels, they’ve grown up, they sound refreshed and unencumbered by the weight of the region, or their own history.  The reverb-drenched rock and jangle is on overdrive throughout Wickwire, and it’s a recording that finally matches their powerful live shows.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338270392528,"sku":"600197009512","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/cousinshalls_7900e027-eb0a-4f1d-842a-b955c1e2978c.jpg?v=1616554829"},{"product_id":"claire-cronin-came-down-a-storm-lp","title":"Claire Cronin - Came Down A Storm LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCame Down a Storm is an album that creates a world. Through Claire Cronin’s deep, intimate voice come songs of wreckage and redemption. A published poet and English Ph.D. student as well as a musician, Cronin uses images and symbols to craft songs that reach beyond the personal. She sings of death in a field, death at sea, dreams of dying, and a vision of a future where death is no longer allowed. Yet the music is not depressing; even in its darkest lines, these songs aim to float. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"break\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe album is a collaboration between Cronin and Deerhoof guitarist John Dieterich, who met by chance at a Los Angeles show and began writing songs together long-distance. After sending recordings and ideas back and forth over email for a year, Cronin joined Dieterich at his house in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to record Came Down a Storm. It was mixed with Jay Pellici at New, Improved Recordings in Oakland, California, where the full instrumentation was put in place. The album features Pellici and Chris Vatalaro on drums and Ezra Buchla and Heather Trost on strings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"break\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe spare, melancholy style of Cronin’s previous self-released work is evident in this album, but the music created with Dieterich takes Came Down a Storm beyond the folk genre. Cronin’s voice recalls Karen Dalton or Jason Molina in its sincerity and ache—plaintive and burnished with a kind of dark gold throughout. The instruments build around her singing: breaking to crescendos, driving emotional currents, or providing lively counterpoint to the lyric’s funereal themes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338277404880,"sku":"600197011119","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/cronincamedown_86f1f708-ac59-4c66-90b4-17f1b3544fdd.jpg?v=1616555046"},{"product_id":"brian-crook-the-renderers-this-world-just-eats-me-up-alive-lp","title":"Brian Crook \u0026 The Renderers - This World Just Eats Me Up Alive LP","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 300;\"\u003eThis album has been a slow build over the past eight years, and it is Brian’s first solo release in close to twenty years. The years in between have included a move to the other side of the world (\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChristchurch\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e to \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJoshua Tree\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e), and the loss of his brother, who was close in age. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis World Just Eats Me Up Alive \u003c\/em\u003econfronts these topics within Brian’s maelstroms of noise, with his scratchy vocals conveying stories of protagonists living in the gutters of society. It’s a shockingly honest release, featuring recording sessions done with both The Renderers and The Terminals, unifying in a satisfying and poetic display. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 300;\"\u003eBlending stark emotion with surrealist narratives, the lyrics open windows into a psychic gloaming: this is Brian. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 300;\"\u003eThis World Just Eats Me Up Alive is a gem of rough beauty, and any fans of releases on \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eXpressway\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSiltbreeze\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e will feel warmly at home in the chaos. We are making a limited 300 copy run of this edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338288021712,"sku":"600197015117","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/crookrenderers.jpg?v=1616555313"},{"product_id":"cross-record-be-good-lp","title":"Cross Record - Be Good LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBetween melody and discord, Cross Record’s first full-length LP Be Good forges a quiet path through a myriad of sounds. The record follows a string of self- released recordings by this enterprising 25-year-old. Strings, clarinet, flute, steel drum, bells, tape distortion, and other instrumentation, support Emily Cross’ enchanting vocals while allowing for silences to build like black holes. Cross’ lyrics conjure a dark beauty that leaves an effect long after the album has \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem id=\"__mceDel\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecompleted.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338293493968,"sku":"600197009017","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/crossrecordbegood_234ba416-3580-42dc-a1c4-a6e238ada22f.jpg?v=1616555467"},{"product_id":"cross-record-s-t-lp","title":"Cross Record - S\/T LP","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“What is your wish? What do you expect?” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCross Record’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e self-titled third album begins with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEmily Cross’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e disembodied voice intoning from an otherworldly vacuum. In the three years since her last album, Cross has divorced, quit drinking, become a death doula, started the observational podcast “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat I’m Looking At\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e,” and toured and recorded with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSub Pop’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLoma\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, the trio she formed with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDan Duszynsk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ei on drums and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJonathan Meiburg\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (Shearwater) on guitar\/vocals. On \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCross Record\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, she guides the listener like a sonic Virgil, delivering a textured soundscape of meditative curiosity, akin to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLow’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDouble Negative\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBroadcast’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Noise Made By People\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRadiohead’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKid A\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHaving recorded 2016’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWabi Sabi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e at home between work and sleep hours, Cross did the opposite for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCross Record\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, writing the album while living on a secluded part of Mexico’s coast. The collaborative atmosphere of Loma challenged Cross to experiment with her sound, detuning her voice and obstructing its clarity in specific moments. As such, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCross Record\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is primarily a showcase for Cross’s singing, as she pushes her range and engages with a multitude of approaches at every turn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFollowing her time in Mexico, Cross returned to the states with vocal-heavy demos in hand and finished the record with musician \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAndrew Hulett\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and producer \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTheo Karon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. Karon assisted with production and arrangements throughout the creation of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCross Record\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, and the songs realized their ultimate forms at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHotel Earth, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehis studio in Los Angeles. Though her voice is always central, Cross’s songs developed with percussion, string arrangements and expanded production. The instrumentation is as nuanced and experimental as her voice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn her songs, Cross reconciles her present state of being with her experiences of the past few years. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“PYSOL My Castle” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewas inspired by a visit to an overstimulating Mexican street market teeming with people, and describes Cross’s search for an unencumbered mindspace. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“An Angel, a Dove”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e frames death as spiritual departure; a haunting synthetic soundscape gradually gives way to increasingly dissonant, urgent melodies as Cross envisions herself alight on a dove she suspects may be an angel carrying her from life. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The Fly,”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e which envelops the listener in filtered drum loops and synthesizers, considers the fragility and the resilience of the mind. On “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFace Smashed, Drooling,” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCross mourns her alcohol dependence. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere was a sort of grieving process to quitting drinking\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e,” she says. “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI associated it with comfort, fun in the evening time and fond memories\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The song slips in and out of consciousness before resolving \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ein a place of clarity. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“I Release You”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e lives in the same sonic chamber as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003elate-stage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTalk Talk,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and explores the acceptance of change.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCross Record’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethemes of departure and separation were inspired by changes Cross made in her career. After years of work as a nanny and in customer service, Cross recently embarked on studies to become a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edeath doula\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. Similar to the services provided by birth doulas, a death doula \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehelps clients navigate decisions and hardships at the end of life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. In her new role, Cross has created a three hour ceremony called a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiving Funeral\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, which guides participants through the rituals of their own deaths. Cross’s work in helping others face their greatest fears inhabits the same space as her art, which has always explored the metaphysical in the everyday. The eerie experience of listening to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCross Record\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and the unsettling sense of songs slipping from coherent grasp share these same sensibilities. The oddness of these songs is nonetheless honest and truthful, and to understand them requires acknowledging notions of alienation in ourselves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“What is your wish? What do you expect?” Cross doesn’t know what your expectations are, and she is still figuring out her own. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCross Record\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e attempts to examine these questions with a lucidity that sometimes blurs into the realm of the unreal. The trip is extensive and finishes where it started, but the foundation has changed, clarified; while no closer to an answer, we have a greater sense of the question.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338303586512,"sku":"600197015018","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/crossrecord_9b5a14af-a598-4868-91c9-2e0761c4b4de.jpg?v=1616555732"},{"product_id":"cross-record-wabi-sabi-lp","title":"Cross Record - Wabi-Sabi LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 2013, Emily Cross decamped from Chicago to the remote, idyllic town of Dripping Springs, TX, with her husband Dan Duszynski. They rented a ranch that covers eighteen acres, has a chicken coop and is located next to a bird sanctuary. During 60-hour workweeks, split between restaurants, supermarkets and nannying, she absorbed these workaday commonalities and shaped them into her smoky, atmospheric and gripping second album, Wabi-Sabi.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"break\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRecording together as Cross Record throughout 2014 and into 2015 at the couple’s own Moon Phase Ranch, Wabi-Sabi is a crystallization of Cross’s past music and her passion for art (she studied at the Burren College of Art in Ireland). For example, the scorpions depicted on the cover were found in her bathtub (something she definitely had not experienced before living in Texas) and photographed by her, and she regularly draws and paints in a nook above the studio.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"break\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe way we interact with and adapt to different and strange environments is a theme that permeates the album. Most recording was done in the early and late hours of the day, with loons cawing in the distance thanks to that bird sanctuary. The ambiance of twilight evenings and orange dawns formed its heart and soul. Cross’s wispy, silvery singing and minimal presentation contrast with the dark intensity of booming drums, thick guitar and destabilized electronics. It can be loud, stirring and unsettling, but also quietly still and serene. Dusynski produced and engineered the record, alongside production from one of Cross’s close friends Theo Karon, while Austin-based musician Thor Harris (Swans, Bill Callahan) also contributed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338313580752,"sku":"600197010914","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/crossrecordwabi_3097c8a5-b05b-4830-a897-be464b130329.jpg?v=1616555945"},{"product_id":"adrian-crowley-the-watchful-eye-of-the-stars-lp-pre-order","title":"Adrian Crowley - The Watchful Eye Of The Stars LP","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLimited edition black vinyl.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne stormy night in Ireland, Adrian Crowley’s brother brought home a wounded crow.  After taking care of it for a time, the crow flew away on its own, leaving an impression behind: Crowley wrote a story, which would later become the aptly titled “Crow Song” on this, his brand new record \u0026amp; ninth studio album The Watchful Eye of the Stars. He sings, “And I was joyous for you, but shattered none-the-less.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSuffused with a hazy and surreal quality, Crowley describes Watchful Eye’s poignant narratives as those which insisted themselves upon him. After the fact, it seemed these songs came to him more or less fully formed. “It’s a beautiful and mysterious thing,” he says. Perhaps it is a tendency to hold onto memories (“It’s taken me so long to write to you \/ Well I just couldn’t find a pen,” he laments in “Bread and Wine”), that allows him to unleash them lyrically in completion. For Crowley, the creative process is an organic event rather than a practice he feels compelled to regulate or control. He approaches lyrics much like he does short story writing. “The songs straddle the conscious and subconscious world and some are even psychedelic in my mind, but to me they are all at once true stories and born of another place,” he shares.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn making the album, Crowley moved between studio and at home recording, while John Parish (Aldous Harding, PJ Harvey) produced. The pair worked from tracks made initially by Crowley on a charity shop ¾ size nylon string guitar or Mellotron: “In this way, John wanted to keep some of the magic of that first take”, says Crowley. Contradictions and complexities are left intact, initial recordings were limited to one or two takes, and the songs feel more like a dream recounted upon waking. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese raw beginnings were then fleshed out more in the studio with Parish and additional musicians. Jim Barr of Portishead contributed double bass and was brought in to engineer parts of Watchful Eye in Bristol. Parish himself contributed instrumentation as well, his signature sense of drama lending Crowley’s work a new edge overall without disrupting its minimalism. Having members of Crash Ensemble in Dublin to record for only a few days’ time, Crowley recalls staying up all night to write string parts for “Northbound Stowaway,” which was recorded the following morning. While an ominous and steady drumbeat carries the track, Crowley laments, “And it’s drowsy work \/ When you’re staying invisible.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn ethereal escapism shines through Crowley’s lyrical imagery (“Underwater Song”), detailing his tortured return to a flooded, old neighbourhood where an unnamed acquaintance resides: “Last night in the throes of a fever \/ I went floating over your house.” Crowley’s voice serves as the central instrument, his deep and conversational baritone anchoring the tone on the album’s more effervescent tracks “Ships on the Water” and “The Colours of the Night”. His presence permeates the sonic and lyrical content of Watchful Eye, carrying the sorrow of the string instruments (violin, viola, viola d'amore and cello) and adding dimension to the clarinet and keyboard. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFinal track “Take Me Driving” opens with an arpeggiation, then unfolds into a swaying, melancholy outro. It highlights Crowley's skill at transforming a quiet, repeated phrase into something magnificent, mysterious, and wholly captivating – a story. Crowley leaves us here in his world, driving in a car with a flighty companion, unsure of where we’re going, but continuing nonetheless as he steps out the passenger side. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338323837136,"sku":"600197016510","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/adriancrowley.jpg?v=1616556293"},{"product_id":"maxwell-august-croy-sean-mccann-i-lp","title":"Maxwell August Croy \u0026 Sean McCann - I LP","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eComposed and recorded in Los Angeles and San Francisco, “I” is the debut full-length album by Maxwell August Croy and Sean McCann. Croy is best known for his work in Bay Area duo EN, wherein he processes koto, voice, and other instrumentation into ecstatic and nuanced drone-based recordings. McCann is a solo artist whose work continues to undergo seismic evolutions, manifested most recently on the justly lauded “Music for Private Ensemble,” an album of autodidactic modern composition that defies easy categorization. Working as a duo, Croy and McCann have successfully synthesized compositional and aesthetic tropes from their respective discographies in order to produce something extraordinary. “Parting Light (Suite)” opens the album with a flurry of koto, cello, and violin lines masterfully woven together; a complex movement that dissembles to reveal a more spacious environment in which each gesture takes on a heightened significance. Croy’s koto lends the piece an Eastern aura that is complicated by McCann’s playing which is equal parts idiosyncratic and grandiose. Elsewhere, “Alexandria” finds the duo operating at their most celestial, working their instruments into a harrowing, beautiful dirge comprised of clarion tones and wide-eyed string arrangements. Ultimately, the sensibility cultivated by Croy and McCann on “I” proves to be utterly unique, perhaps situated best somewhere among the soundworlds of Gavin Bryars, Taj Mahal Travellers and Richard Skelton. The LP was mastered by Rashad Becker and the jacket features exclusive monotypes by Andrew Chalk.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Students Of Decay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338330718416,"sku":"","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/croymccann.jpg?v=1616556513"},{"product_id":"dadamah-this-is-not-a-dream-complete-recordings-2xlp-out-of-print","title":"Dadamah - This Is Not A Dream (Complete Recordings) 2xLP Out Of Print!","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 300;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"The idea of of a band being unlike any other is by now a concept so shopworn it's almost meaningless, but in Dadamah's case it was really kind of true.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e- James Lien,  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCMJ New Music Report\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e,  Nov. 14, 1994\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 300;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis Is Not a Dream\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a double album gatefold collection of every song released by the legendary Dunedin, New Zealand quartet Dadamah, including the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e This is Not a Dream\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e LP, and their three 7” singles and one unique compilation track. Grapefruit’s release is a thirteen song collection with the full album on one LP and all the 7” and compilation tracks on the other. Inspired by the Kranky label’s CD compilation of Dadamah’s existing catalog in 1994, this vinyl version includes two additional songs from a posthumously released 7” and it’s been sequenced and designed by the band. Before Dadamah, Peter Stapleton played in The Terminals, Vacuum and The Victor Dimisich Band as well as The Pin Group with guitarist Roy Montgomery. Singer Kim Pieters and organ\/synth player Janine Stagg had never been in a band before Dadamah.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 300;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDadamah only played live three times, devoting their efforts to four-track recording. Nevertheless, word managed to get out about the band and they were asked to contribute to the 1991 Ajax single “I Hear the Devil Calling Me” which featured twelve songs hovering around one minute each by a who’s who of the then current New Zealand underground music scene. They released their only album in 1992. Jay Hinman (currently of Dynamite Hemorrhage) noted Dadamah's solitary place in the NZ underground in his Superdope fanzine:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 300;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Dead C. might blare and scrape, the Terminals might twist and wind, but Dadamah positively shimmer with beautifully earthy lo-fi Velvets\/Ubu sound.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 300;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLimited edition singles on the Seattle-based Majora label followed the LP, earning Dadamah praise as \"one of the most overwhelmingly great exponents of layer-shifting drone-on master-rock\" in the Forced Exposure catalog.  Roy Montgomery's soaring droning guitars were offset by Janine Stagg's stabbing organ and gurgling moog synths, and Kim Pieter's vocals ebbed and flowed, somehow evoking Patti Smith, Ian Curtis, and David Thomas simultaneously.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 300;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Synth woosh, organ-wheez, possessed femme voice over, cavernous man-voice under, guitar and drums punch through... into where?  Your dreams friend, if you let 'em.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e- Bill Meyer,  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePop Watch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 300;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAfter Dadamah, Roy Montgomery went on to form Dissolve and Hash Jar Tempo as well as maintaining his eclectic solo career which continues to feature intense collaborations like those found in Dadamah (find other Roy Montgomery titles on Grapefruit). Peter Stapleton and Kim Pieters formed Flies Inside the Sun and Peter continued his work with The Terminals and his independent label Metonymic which released tons of experimental and underground New Zealand music through 2009. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grapefruit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338340876496,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/dadamah.jpg?v=1616556683"},{"product_id":"dana-gavanski-yesterday-is-gone-lp","title":"Dana Gavanski - Yesterday Is Gone LP","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 300;\"\u003e‘I’m learning how to say goodbye \/ to let you go and face the tide \/ to wrap my feelings in a song,’ sings Dana Gavanski on the title track of her debut LP, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYesterday Is Gone\u003c\/em\u003e. To wrap her feelings in a song: this is the task Dana has dedicated herself to with this record. It’s a goal common to many songwriters, but few approach it with such aplomb. By turns break-up album, project of curiosity, and, as Dana puts it, ‘a reckoning with myself’, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYesterday Is Gone\u003c\/em\u003e is her attempt to ‘learn to say what I feel and feel what I say’: an album of longing and devotion to longing, and of the uncertainty that arises from learning about oneself, of pushing boundaries, falling hard, and getting back up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 300;\"\u003eBorn in Vancouver to a Serbian family, Dana has always harbored a desire to sing. In her final year of university in Montreal, she picked up the guitar left by her ex-partner and decided to re-learn. But with a father in film and a painter mother, other art-forms clamored for her attention. She spent a summer as her producer father’s assistant in the Laurentians, in a derelict hotel-turned-office that looked like something out of The Shining. The long days behind a computer cemented her desire to make music, ‘because it was so impossible to play that I needed to, in order to feel like it was real.’ The income she saved that summer funded a year of writing religiously, leading to EP \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSpring Demos\u003c\/em\u003e in September 2017, which Dana describes as ‘whatever was coming out of me. A flood.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 300;\"\u003eFollowing \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSpring Demos, Yesterday Is Gone\u003c\/em\u003e reflects Dana’s aim ‘to make something bigger, more thought through’. Steeped in determination and uncertainty in equal measure – ‘I just wanted to write a good song’ – the album took shape after she returned from a writing residency in Banff, Alberta. She left the residency resolved not to worry about her songs being ‘too obvious’. She’d begun to learn the art of empty time, of being alone with her emotions, losing herself in a landscape. She thought of Vashti Bunyan, riding for hours and writing, writing, writing. She considered how she might use writing to make sense of her life after the tumults of a break-up and a new city. Adrift in Toronto, Dana struggled to feel at home and connected to people, but the solitude also allowed her to ground herself in writing. She kept office-style hours at her bedroom desk every day until she started to understand the writing process, to see that ‘transforming a burning desire into something clear and tangible is a vulnerable and delicate act. You have to be able to let things happen, to accept losing control.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 300;\"\u003eThe record is a co-production between Dana, Toronto-based musician Sam Gleason, and Mike Lindsay of Tunng and LUMP. While Sam helped Dana bring out the tunes, Mike’s input marked ‘the beginning of developing a sound that was closer to what I had in my head’. Though excited by the other elements of a song introduced during production, Dana and Mike were keen on ‘finding essential things, not overblowing, keeping things bare and letting the elements speak for themselves’. Not that the sheer variety of sounds and instruments didn’t overwhelm. ‘But you have that feeling,’ Dana says, ‘then you just pick up an instrument. At the base, you do know what you want. It’s about how to chip away at what you don’t want.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 300;\"\u003eThe album shapeshifted as it passed through the hands of Dana, Sam, and Mike, taking on different tastes, feelings, and visions. When Dana performed the songs with a band, they found new form again. She was intrigued by performers like David Bowie and Aldous Harding, who inhabit different personalities on stage, physically tuning themselves to their music. ‘Watching these kinds of performances,’ Dana says, ‘I feel my body longing to express myself in exaggerations … to leave behind self-consciousness and become this energy.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 300;\"\u003eBut a three-month trip to Serbia in autumn 2018 really pushed performance to the forefront of Dana’s mind. She took singing lessons to learn how to sing with the resonance that defines traditional Serbian song. Stirred by the bombast of fifties, sixties, and seventies music, including the high-energy \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ekafana\u003c\/em\u003e, or café music, as rooted in expressive pouts as it is vocal resonance, the trip incited a yearning to completely inhabit herself on stage. ‘I often feel we’re all just these controlled bodies,’ she says. ‘Sometimes I just want to make a snarl with my lip and keep it there.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 300;\"\u003eWhile on a crowded train last spring, Dana sang the Macedonian song \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJano Mome\u003c\/em\u003e to a cheering group of commuters. The moment, brief but beautiful, lays bare Dana’s craving for live spontaneity. But it also reflects her injection of stylish drama and vivid emotion into the folk landscape that inspires her, from contemporary singers H Hawkline and Julia Holter, to stalwarts Fairport Convention, Anne Briggs, Connie Converse, and Judee Sill. Expressive urges run all through \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYesterday Is Gone\u003c\/em\u003e. Moments of beguilement splinter a backdrop of tenderly picked guitar, bass, synth, and poppier elements, which commune to produce her own kind of wall of sound. Each component is meticulously placed, yielding a deeply sincere response to the chaos of human emotion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 300;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 300;\"\u003e‘Often we have to go a little far in one direction to learn something about ourselves,’ Dana says. The months of solitary writing and self-doubt testify to this, but they’ve led to \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYesterday Is Gone\u003c\/em\u003e: an optimistic, steely-eyed gaze into the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338348150992,"sku":"600197015711","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/gavanskiyesterday_3970e50b-7dba-4c68-8422-5284209196b5.jpg?v=1616556900"},{"product_id":"das-torpedoes-the-madness-inspiration-lp","title":"Das Torpedoes - The Madness Inspiration LP","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDas Torpedoes brilliant forgotten works comes to light again, my friends! Re-issued vinyl of a cassette only release, originally on the Animal Disguise label, this is an important slice of warble drone via empty room score.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Gertrude","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338366009552,"sku":"","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/dastorpedoesmadness.jpg?v=1616557320"},{"product_id":"sarah-davachi-gave-in-rest-ltd-ed-marbled-red-vinyl-lp","title":"Sarah Davachi - Gave In Rest (LTD ED Marbled Red Vinyl) LP","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSarah Davachi presents her masterpiece, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest. \u003c\/i\u003eHer most fully studio-recorded album ever, she collaborates with Montreal heavyweights to create an album that uses both modern minimalism and early church music as departure points. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest \u003c\/i\u003ehas been mastered, cut and pressed for audiophile quality by Sean McCann, Paul Gold at Salt Mastering and Record Industry in The Netherlands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarah Davachi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e has quickly risen in prominence since her first release five years ago, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e represents her highest artistic achievement. By infusing her compositional style within a predilection for medieval and Renaissance music, Davachi unearths a new realm of musical reverence, creating works both contemplative and beatific, eerie yet essentially human. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a modern reading of early music, reforming sacred and secular sentiments to fit her purview and provide an exciting new way to hear the sounds that exist around us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBetween January and September of 2017, Sarah Davachi lived in flux; storing her belongings in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVancouver\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, she spent the summer in Europe, occasionally performing in churches and lapidariums and seeking respite from her transitional state while surrounded by such storied history. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e echoes that emotional state of solitude and ephemerality, reaching towards familiar musical landscapes but from oblique perspectives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“I’ve always been a pretty solitary person, but that summer I discovered quiet moments to be increasingly valuable,” says Davachi. “I became engaged in private practices of rest and rumination, almost to the point of ritual.” Though not religious, she sought ecclesiastic environments, compelled by “the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003equietude\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, the air of reverence, the openness of the physical space, the stillness of the altars.” She sat for hours in muted spaces and listened to how church instruments augmented them – \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etheir pipe organs, their bells, their choral voices\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e – and resolved to, “tap into that way of listening.” She set a goal to musically embody this secular mysticism, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is the result.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavachi went deeper into studying early music over that summer, considering how Renaissance musicians experimented with new instruments, forms, and texture. For example, meantone temperament and just intonation, which sound unusual by twentieth-century standards, appear first during this period and continue to foster a sense of mystery and awe in the manipulation of harmony and polyphony. Her reflections led her to the duality of stillness and rest, and upon entering \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMontréal’s hotel2tango\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHoward Bilerman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, she adapted her modern style to standard approaches of a recording studio’s function. She composed the majority of the record alone at the piano to find specific harmonic colors and movements, then brought in an ensemble of musicians to interact and extrapolate organically with those tones. With these sessions recorded, Davachi manipulated the resulting sounds through \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etape delays and chorusing effects\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e that could be played in real time, thereby engaging these evolved sounds as instruments themselves. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“I named each track after a particular time of day as a way of expressing my experiencing different moments of quietude, how morning and night are both independent and interconnected entities in this regard,” she says. Her titles evoke \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecanonical phrases\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e referring to morning or evening prayers, as well as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLatin and German phrasings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e for metaphors about the time of day. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e opens and ends at its most unornamented moments: the first track, “Auster”, being played entirely on a recorder and then, “slowed down and opened up so you can hear the innards of the sound,” and the final track, “Waking”, one long take of Davachi on a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHammond organ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. The latter is a solitary departure of concrete simplicity and is allegorical in its inclusion at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e end, with harmonic structures of a Baroque style materializing and wavering in long, textural passages of consonance and dissonance. The overdubbed, chant-like singing on “Evensong” was treated through an EMT 140 plate reverb, the very same unit \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStevie Nicks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e used for “Rhiannon”. On “Gilded” and “Gloaming”, one hears piano that has been manipulated by being run through an Echoplex many times over, adjusting the speed in subtle increments to produce a slight phasing effect.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“From my perspective, there is a lot of loneliness on this record, and I think it is as much about beginnings as endings,” she says. “In a way, it’s about the prospect of the unknown as it manifests alongside a very inward form of grieving – really the essence of what constitutes a period of transition. I remember reading recently that in the Middle Ages, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efuneral rite\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e was not just an expression of mourning, but that it also carried a sort of ontological vehemence insofar as it symbolized life.” Such tension resides within the tracks, a dynamic between the privations of change and the fruitful revival that lingers as a next step.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e was completed after this period of suspension in Davachi’s life, and she finished the record while establishing herself in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLos Angeles\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. Her new home is a radical departure from her previous Northern surroundings, with its vast reach, otherworldly terrain, and bizarre, isolating nature; “It is easy to remain anonymous in Los Angeles,” says Davachi. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e was mixed over a period of two months while she adjusted to this new lifestyle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavachi has mined a bottomless landscape where listeners can witness music’s participation in their solitudes. Gave In Rest lends a voice to her personal exploration with a firm, intuitive stance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338405462224,"sku":"600197013724","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/davachigaveinrest.jpg?v=1616557871"},{"product_id":"sarah-davachi-gave-in-rest-lp","title":"Sarah Davachi - Gave In Rest LP","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSarah Davachi presents her masterpiece, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest. \u003c\/i\u003eHer most fully studio-recorded album ever, she collaborates with Montreal heavyweights to create an album that uses both modern minimalism and early church music as departure points. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest \u003c\/i\u003ehas been mastered, cut and pressed for audiophile quality by Sean McCann, Paul Gold at Salt Mastering and Record Industry in The Netherlands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarah Davachi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e has quickly risen in prominence since her first release five years ago, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e represents her highest artistic achievement. By infusing her compositional style within a predilection for medieval and Renaissance music, Davachi unearths a new realm of musical reverence, creating works both contemplative and beatific, eerie yet essentially human. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a modern reading of early music, reforming sacred and secular sentiments to fit her purview and provide an exciting new way to hear the sounds that exist around us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBetween January and September of 2017, Sarah Davachi lived in flux; storing her belongings in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVancouver\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, she spent the summer in Europe, occasionally performing in churches and lapidariums and seeking respite from her transitional state while surrounded by such storied history. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e echoes that emotional state of solitude and ephemerality, reaching towards familiar musical landscapes but from oblique perspectives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“I’ve always been a pretty solitary person, but that summer I discovered quiet moments to be increasingly valuable,” says Davachi. “I became engaged in private practices of rest and rumination, almost to the point of ritual.” Though not religious, she sought ecclesiastic environments, compelled by “the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003equietude\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, the air of reverence, the openness of the physical space, the stillness of the altars.” She sat for hours in muted spaces and listened to how church instruments augmented them – \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etheir pipe organs, their bells, their choral voices\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e – and resolved to, “tap into that way of listening.” She set a goal to musically embody this secular mysticism, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is the result.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavachi went deeper into studying early music over that summer, considering how Renaissance musicians experimented with new instruments, forms, and texture. For example, meantone temperament and just intonation, which sound unusual by twentieth-century standards, appear first during this period and continue to foster a sense of mystery and awe in the manipulation of harmony and polyphony. Her reflections led her to the duality of stillness and rest, and upon entering \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMontréal’s hotel2tango\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHoward Bilerman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, she adapted her modern style to standard approaches of a recording studio’s function. She composed the majority of the record alone at the piano to find specific harmonic colors and movements, then brought in an ensemble of musicians to interact and extrapolate organically with those tones. With these sessions recorded, Davachi manipulated the resulting sounds through \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etape delays and chorusing effects\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e that could be played in real time, thereby engaging these evolved sounds as instruments themselves. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“I named each track after a particular time of day as a way of expressing my experiencing different moments of quietude, how morning and night are both independent and interconnected entities in this regard,” she says. Her titles evoke \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecanonical phrases\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e referring to morning or evening prayers, as well as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLatin and German phrasings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e for metaphors about the time of day. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e opens and ends at its most unornamented moments: the first track, “Auster”, being played entirely on a recorder and then, “slowed down and opened up so you can hear the innards of the sound,” and the final track, “Waking”, one long take of Davachi on a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHammond organ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. The latter is a solitary departure of concrete simplicity and is allegorical in its inclusion at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e end, with harmonic structures of a Baroque style materializing and wavering in long, textural passages of consonance and dissonance. The overdubbed, chant-like singing on “Evensong” was treated through an EMT 140 plate reverb, the very same unit \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStevie Nicks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e used for “Rhiannon”. On “Gilded” and “Gloaming”, one hears piano that has been manipulated by being run through an Echoplex many times over, adjusting the speed in subtle increments to produce a slight phasing effect.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“From my perspective, there is a lot of loneliness on this record, and I think it is as much about beginnings as endings,” she says. “In a way, it’s about the prospect of the unknown as it manifests alongside a very inward form of grieving – really the essence of what constitutes a period of transition. I remember reading recently that in the Middle Ages, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efuneral rite\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e was not just an expression of mourning, but that it also carried a sort of ontological vehemence insofar as it symbolized life.” Such tension resides within the tracks, a dynamic between the privations of change and the fruitful revival that lingers as a next step.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e was completed after this period of suspension in Davachi’s life, and she finished the record while establishing herself in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLos Angeles\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. Her new home is a radical departure from her previous Northern surroundings, with its vast reach, otherworldly terrain, and bizarre, isolating nature; “It is easy to remain anonymous in Los Angeles,” says Davachi. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGave In Rest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e was mixed over a period of two months while she adjusted to this new lifestyle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavachi has mined a bottomless landscape where listeners can witness music’s participation in their solitudes. Gave In Rest lends a voice to her personal exploration with a firm, intuitive stance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338409230544,"sku":"600197013717","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/davachigaveinrest_c5f5b9fc-d154-4639-9d3c-e62ccd67b5eb.jpg?v=1616557975"},{"product_id":"david-nance-group-peaced-and-slightly-pulverized-lp","title":"David Nance Group - Peaced And Slightly Pulverized LP","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOur pal and top-five humans on the planet is also one of our favorite songwriters. This album showcased the Cortez the Killer style heavy jam chemistry of his misfit crew of traveling rock salesmen. Every track a deep cut. Dig it. We also have his new follow-up \"Staunch Honey\" in stock, he hits it out of the park there too. In addition to these on Trouble in Mind, we of course carry his two fantastic albums on Ba Da Bing, \"More Than Enough\" and \"Negative Boogie.\" A few scant copies remain of his debut album, \"Actor's Diary,\" too, it's one of Grapefruit's proudest releases! So, you can order nearly the whole Nance discography right here. Do it, you won't regret it.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"David Nance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338419126480,"sku":"","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/nancepeaced.jpg?v=1616558214"},{"product_id":"john-davis-dennis-callaci-arches-pathways-lp-w-deluxe-option","title":"John Davis \u0026 Dennis Callaci - Arches \u0026 Pathways LP (w\/Deluxe Option!)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNOTE: There are two versions of this record being offered. Black vinyl with download card and insert, limited to 200 copies, and a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDeluxe version\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e on Orange\/Red splattered vinyl with two one-of-a-kind poems (one by John Davis and one by Dennis Callaci), signed and numbered and suitable for framing, as well as a download link to all 200 poems written for this project. Also includes a download card for the digital of the album and album insert. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1995, John Davis \u0026amp; Dennis Callaci improvised an LP of songs together live to one track.  Not an ambient, instrumental meander of a record, but songs complete with them there lyrics, melodies and hiccups.  In the time since that record was recorded John went on to record a follow up record with The Folk Implosion and a number of solo records.  Callaci continued recording records with Refrigerator as well as solo records.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver three days in July of last year, the two songwriters improvised this record, “Arches \u0026amp; Pathways” in the same manner, excepting that there was an engineer on hand and the thing was recorded in Hi-fi.  Songs were recorded, layered, overdubbed, scratched in real time, with the two of them sharing vocal \u0026amp; guitar duties.  Additionally, John’s drumming add that left bank swing to the stands, and the Callaci piano dust is shaken from the ivories.  The result is an expansive record that is equal parts pop melody and avant-en-garde living inside one another, not side-stepping for a bit of this or that between the dead wax grooves.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLate spring tour?  Hey 19, maybe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shrimper","offers":[{"title":"Standard (Black Vinyl)","offer_id":39338449535184,"sku":"","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Deluxe (Colored Vinyl + 2 Poem Prints +more!)","offer_id":39338449567952,"sku":"","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/arches1.jpg?v=1616558812"},{"product_id":"john-davis-ask-the-dust-lp","title":"John Davis - Ask The Dust LP","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHailing from Northern California, John Davis is a sound artist, composer and filmmaker who has released music on labels such as Root Strata and Digitalis. With “Ask the Dust,” he offers up a moving suite of compositions made using a plethora of instrumentation including guitar, piano, tape loops, Max\/MSP, field recordings and the newest addition to his arsenal, a complex assortment of Blacet synthesizer modules. Davis uses the synth not as the crux of his recordings but as a tool among many in his kit, weaving oscillations and mangled or rhythmic tones through pastoral webs of processed guitar and field recordings. To this end, the richness of his palette cannot be denied, nor can his prowess as a masterful arranger of abstract sound. “Superpartner” opens the record, a jittery array of pure sound that refuses to sit still, developing slowly and accruing detail and a sparring partner in the form of delicately treated acoustic guitar. Perhaps the record’s defining movement, “Synecdoche,” begins with a contemplative, and even romantic, piano arrangement, sparse and beautiful - a moving miniature that is abruptly broken apart and replaced by a bed of layered sine waves and guitar haze which somehow matches the radiance of what preceded it. Striking in its attention to detail and compositional deftness, “Ask the Dust” is easily Davis’ most refined set of recordings to date, a deep album that rewards focused and repeated listening.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Students Of Decay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338484170960,"sku":"","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/products\/johndavisaskthe.jpg?v=1616559377"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/4201\/4416\/collections\/vinylrecords.jpg?v=1617899956","url":"https:\/\/www.grapefruitrecordclub.com\/collections\/all-vinyl\/alexander-skip-spence.oembed","provider":"Grapefruit Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}