More Joy
(Siltbreeze) LP $20.00
Singalongs, sob-alones, and tra-la-las by the Oamaru band that matters.Twenty-two tracks of devastating South Island pop crunch roaring off the grooves.
Rippelpics & Rippelsounds
(Chocolate Monk) Magazine + CDR $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Up at dawn, sweating like a dog, all senses afire, Dan Melchior wails into the void and uses his best crayons to make you some pix. The struggle is real, disappointment is not an option. Enter the puce room of his illusions at your own leisure. Edition of 50
Forever 12
(Chocolate Monk) Cassette $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Brian Ruryk, the harmless guitar bully, whose bark is worse than his bite. Andrew No C Zukerman, the sound effect collector, audio pathfinder, maker of fine quilts (also known as Fleshtone Aura). When attempting to conjure the entity that is Cuddles, perhaps think big, loopy Baby Huey type cartoon character, or perhaps the sound of a male voice being sloooooowwwwwwed waaaaaaaayyyy the fuck doooooowwwnn. Each artists’ trademarks survive: broad moves; botched clots; supra precision; magic kingdom; asterisks; ellipses. Yes, it’s all here, my friends! Edition of 50
At the Buttock End
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $7.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Hi, me again, no reception. Soft estrangement, isn’t it. White-chested laughing thrush? Somewhere between the Donisthorpe Colliery winding wheel, some chalk banks and Maghera beach’s open lagoon and delayed cliff echoes. Strung out, desperately cupping. Alfred got caught at the buttock end, RIP. Well, anyway. I’ll be thick for you here so you can go along now smarting, right? I’d say raise your head a bit and get breath in the pipes, maybe clout the keeper. And the field crisps up, mind you. Fol de rol, tora lie day. Edition of 50
Live at Bar Isshee
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $7.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. In these times of tit-imposed tariffs, Uncle Shonky and Little Big Man step up with an ear tax that is guaranteed to leave the more sensitive listener bow brained. This tête à tête of shop-bought and home-brewed electronics might have given ol’ Dave Tudor cavities but you respiring dweebs can wallow in the electrode slurp, drill, pitter and crunkle while feeling all the more peepy for it. Almost 80 minutes blissfully free of the curse of music. Cover art by Bill “The Face” Nace. Edition of 60
K/S/R / Nihilist Spasm Band
(Gilgongo) split LP $25.00
This intergenerational, wide-minded split LP blurs the hedges of national borders and the traditions of composition, marking a niche interzone inhabited solely by the uncles of punk and their experimental stepchildren. Canadian noise pioneers Nihilist Spasm Band deliver a ripping side-long opus rife with their singular blend of hi-octane kazoo, invented instruments and propulsive, arrhythmic drumming. This deep cut is likely to be the final NSB recording released featuring the late great vocalist Bill Exley, who passed away in 2025 after performing as a Nihilist for exactly 60 years. On the flipside, K/S/R screw the tempo down to their patented desert crawl pulse and lock the door behind them. Departing from the interstellar density of the trio’s Already in Heaven, the side-long treatise of An American Sonnet brandishes the group’s minimalist approach heard during recent performances across the United States. A plein air structure of ascetic interplay locates K/S/R carving terrain from the space between notes, where each gesture is ascertained both as an individual voice and a building block of the collective. 180-gram mixed color vinyl, edition of 245.