Not Quite Good Enough
(Therapy Tapes) 7-inch (lathe cut) $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. One track from The Modern World (Chocolate Monk, forthcoming). Edition of 50
Succes De Scandale
(Advaita) CD $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Nihilistic clamor. Part I includes excerpts from a previously unreleased performance at Morden Tower in 1984. Sleeve notes by Toshiji Mikawa (Hijo Kaidan / Incapacitants). Each copy includes a unique “artwork.” Edition of 200
Tour’d & Flailing
(Chocolate Monk) Magazine + CDR $13.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Crude utopia blooms once again as the non-fidelity master sets foot outside. Rubber bands, found metals, a box spring, and an ancient missive. Gorge, friend. 16pp book. Edition of 50
Sewer Telepathy
(Chocolate Monk) Magazine + 3-inch CDR $13.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Raw art scrawls fresh from the claw of the crapped-out mind of Michigan’s finest low-brow outlaw, plus a slimy mini soundtrack of creep vignettes. Full-color cognitive dissonance packaged up in a handy street vendor size. They say trolls lick eyeballs. Introduction by Cary Loren. 36pp book. Edition of 50
Baited Area #9
(Baited Area) Magazine $25.00
Interviews with Longmont Potion Castle, Chino Amobi, Jordan Sullivan, Fran Ilich, Maggie Lee, S. Glass. Art and text by Graham Irvin, Joe Roberts, Bri Cene, Nick Vyssotsky, Negashi Armada, Meg McCarville, Luis Clériga, Shawn Hollins, Jeff Cook. 106 pages.
Live Inside
(Siltbreeze) LP $20.00
Lewis Carroll-meets-David Cronenberg ambience established The Stones Are Watching And They Can Be A Handful is still in play, but relegated to the corners. Much like The Raincoats’ Odyshape, or The Shadow Ring's Put The Music In Its Coffin, Live Inside exudes a higher level of mettle to match their singularity.
Weird Scene
(Minimum Table Stacks) LP $20.00
NYC comp with tracks by Adam Green, Kyp Malone, Tchotchke, Tommy Volume, Toni Lynn, Rossmondo, Whispering Matt McAuley, Headfooter, Willis Willis, Josephine Network, First Preseident of Japan, Maya Luz.
The Stones Are Watching And They Can Be A Handful
(Siltbreeze) LP $16.00
Audio levitation by Arielle McCuaig (Hairnet, Janitor Scum, Vacuum Rebuilders) and Kayla MacNeill (Singing Lawn Chair, Vacuum Rebuilders) who conjure up their extraordinary odds bodkins out of Calgary, Alberta. This fetching melange of art-damaged hoopla sounds like it might’ve taken a spin around the Amos & Sara / It’s War Boys universe and is further realized than on their debut cassette, It’s Called Punk, Are You Stupid? Includes 11 x 17 insert. Edition of 250
Son of Drib Against the Wind
(Minimum Table Stacks) LP $20.00
The twelve songs of scuzzed-out garage pop on the second LP from this trio (now expanded to a quartet) take you from Beat Happening to the Warsaw demos to the first Strokes LP, then right back home to Columbus, OH, where they hold their own with like-minded predecessors like Cheater Slicks, Times New Viking, Great Plains, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments and so on. Two songs were included in the soundtrack to Poser (which made its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival).
Poking a Hole in a Bag of Tears
(Minimum Table Stacks) LP $19.86
The dogged stomp of Columbus, Ohio, group’s drumming, the lingering melody of the guitars, the buzz and the momentum — it has to do with that faded croon, a kind of singing that makes the worst story you ever heard just kind of drift past you.
Plough Thru The Rust
(Wormwood Grasshopper) LP $20.00
DIY ramshackle energy with the group’s songwriting taking a more introspective and personal path, drawing things closer, finding the charm within the scaled back honesty and rawness.
Everything Disappears
(Siltbreeze) LP $20.00
John Howard, Martha Hamilton and Andy Fox churn out solid, hook-laden, bullseye-pop gems by the bushel. Must be something in DC’s Potomac water supply, because Everything Disappears delivers in a way that evokes the lost wryness of Tru Fax And The Insaniacs matched with the going-for-it gusto of Iridescence-era Half Japanese.
Feel I’m Slipping Away Now
(Minimum Table Stacks) LP $20.00
Together this long-running UK DIY band navigates Studio One rhythms, obvious rockabilly riffs repeated metronomically to the point of oblivion, ’60s psych covers, chopped-up tapes of previous bands, improvised chaos, and even tender ballads. A raw quartet screaming and begging to be let out of the walls of their self-imposed prison. This “most fantastic blurt,” as described by Tom Lax of Siltbreeze, heralds a “Spitfire parade across the skies above their street level hacienda,” “The shimmering roar reverberating a gleeful din, sending tremors of bewildering euphoria into the enthusiastic gaggle of lugholes below. The winsome cover of Red Krayola’s ‘Victory Garden’ alone sounds like Spacemen 3 trapped inside a funhouse mirror.” Includes 16pp zine.