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The Girls - Punk-Dada Pulchritude ()

LP with Insert / MP3 Download Code  Photos by Margie Politzer Edition of 800 OUT OF PRINT Pretty much everybody you’d ever trust in such matters has, at one time or another, stated clearly that The Girls were the best band Boston ever produced. Their 1979 “Jeffrey I Hear You” single on Pere Ubu’s Hearthan label is one of the highpoints of American art-punk by any standards you can imagine. Everyone who ever saw them play live was floored by the sheer craziness of their approach. And their songs were strange, great and uniquely their own. Mark Dagley, Daved Hild, Robin Amos and George Condo came together in dribs and drabs over the course of two years. Slowly growing in… Read more »

Andrea Pensado - Without Knowing Why ()

LP with Mp3 Download Edition of 300 Exceptional solo LP from this Argentinian ex-pat, who has been based for the last decade-plus in Eastern Massachusetts. Feeding Tube previously issued the Yeppers LP with Andrea’s sometimes trio, Los Condenados, but this is a sample of her latest work — insane solo sound creations that are accompanied in live performance by some very crafty puppet work. The spectacle of this live show in astounding disorienting, but the same is true for the music shorn of the visuals. Ms. Pensado’s primary instrument is the computer, and her early work was created in academic settings in both Argentina and Poland. But since moving to the States, one senses the arc of her work is… Read more »

Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Mind Of A Brother ()

LP with Insert / Download Code Edition of 500 Out of Print Amazing archival retrieval (with extra material on the download) of the first release by long-running human zoo known as Sunburned. Forged in the heat of Kristin Anderson’s Charlestown loft, the group more or less descended straight from the corpse of Shit Spangled Banner, although they did not assume the band name until 1997 (two years after the first protean jams had started). The material on the album was recorded in 1997 & ’98, often deep in the grip of acid flashes, and it really shows. Over the course of their nearly two-decade lifetime, Sunburned has been many things, but it’s easy to forget how spacily jazzoid and proggily… Read more »

Buck Gooter - First Decade ()

LP / Insert / Download Edition of 200 OUT OF PRINT Buck Gooter‘s “First Decade” is a strange anthropological skeleton detailing how a wholly Millennial-American band became the musical and performative reflection of the dog shit smelling (chicken meat processing) small town they reside and the human shit smelling national underground music scene that they epitomize. It’s a collection of brutal jams that’s, somehow, simultaneously historic and futurist, it’s punk as fuck, but endearing and folk ridden, it’s simple and concise, yet unpredictable and psychedelic. These 10 songs, one from each year of the band’s first decade in operation, embody the off kilter cultural legacy of their Appalachia whilst somehow being flawlessly delivered on a vessel of pure, wholehearted industrial… Read more »

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The Coolies - Kaka ()

LP Insert / MP3 Download Edition of 400 KAKA MUSIC VIDEO The Coolies have been blurting out random batches of high order avant garage spew since 1997. Sjionel Timu and Tina Pihema are the core of the band. Formed in the sprawl of South Auckland while they were still teens, the Coolies were ostensibly a “punk” unit, but their sound was never doctrinaire. Through sheer weirdness and strength of vision, they created music that paralleled aspects of underground noise from the forests of Olympia Washington, the squats of West London, and the basements of Dunedin. Without resorting to formal revisionism, they’ve managed to take the basics of the early Rough Trade sound and smudge it with fingers dipped in the… Read more »

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Miaux - Above The High Rays ( / / )

12″ (Single Sided / Etching by Dennis Tyfus!) Edition of 350  (Artwork by Dennis Tyfus) SOUNDCLOUD Miaux is the operating handle of Belgium’s Mia Prce. Most of her prior recordings have been issued by Dennis Tyfus’ Ultra Eczema label, but after catching her set at last year’s Bruismelk festival, Feeding Tube had to “have” her new record. Unlike other known works, whereon Miaux is a mistress of elaborate keyboard shenanigans that border on the gothic, Above the High Rays brims with music of a very soundtrackly nature. It mixes Neo-Eastern percussion symbiography with floating swathes of parachute color, all of it presumably birthed from Mia’s hands and keys. It’s easy to imagine a Jodorowksy carnival scene, shot like the opening of… Read more »

Dredd Foole - In Quest Of Tense ()

LP with Insert / Free Mp3 Download Edition of 400 Back in ’94 there was little sense that a new scene was on the horizon, but there was. Indeed, things were beginning to break out all over. All they needed was a little push. In Quest of Tense was released on CD in ’94 and was just what a lot of people needed, even if they didn’t know it yet, or didn’t quite realize what it was when they heard it. Dredd Foole (aka Dan Ireton) had been roving through the Boston music underground since the early ’80s, with a series of bands using the name “The Din,” and then on his own. Bored, stoned and listening to naught but… Read more »

Manas - Manas ()

LP with MP3 Download / Insert by Ben Chasny Edition of 400 Adhoc OUT OF PRINT  First LP by Manas, a duo comprised of guitarist Tashi Dorji and drummer Thom Nguyen. Tashi, who’s based in Asheville NC these days, has been cutting a wide swathe through the guitar underground over the past few years. Originally focused on acoustic weaponry, he has added electric guitar to his arsenal, without giving up any of the weird angular bite of his initial work. Thom is known to have played with a couple of Asheville free rock bands, Nest Eggs and Mendocino, but this is the first exposure his excellent work will be having outside of Buncombe County. As a duo, Manas explores lots… Read more »

Bryan Gillig - Cave Trilogy ()

3xLP Edition of 200 A few years back, Bryan Gillig was the frontman of the great Turners Falls MA band, Loudville. Plans were broached for a record, but nothing ever worked out and Loudville quietly devolved into pumice. A while later, Feeding Tube’s Mr. Lee became enamored of a cassette of songs Bryan recorded in his car. Before anything could be done with that, however, Bryan reported back that he had recorded most of his repertoire under a bridge, by the banks of the Connecticut River in Turners. It was a lot of stuff, but it was fucking cool, so here ya go. Bryan’s songs are nearly open-form in spots, and sometimes push against the bounds of known völk traditions…. Read more »

Orchid Spangiafora - Flee Pasts Ape Elf - OUT OF PRINT

Orchid Spangiafora - Flee Past’s Ape Elf ()

2xLP with booklet / MP3 Download Edition of 700 OUT OF PRINT Splendid, expanded reissue of this monster album, which most people know from its placement on the NWW List. Stapleton even went so far as to name a track (“Fashioned to a Device Behind a Tree”) after a mis-hearing of one of Flee Past’s’ many memorable lines. The music has its roots in Hampshire College’s Electronic Music Studio in the early 1970s. While taking a class on Electronic Composition, Robert Carey was smitten by the potentialities lurking inside piles of reel-to-reel tape. Presented with a stack of such stuff, mostly recorded off of television, he began an epic stumble into the universe of musique concret. Carey refashioned banal spoken… Read more »