Releases

Abronia - Shapes Unravel ()

LP Co-Release with Cardinal Fuzz LAST COPIES AVAILABLE AT FTR BANDCAMP Some bands make it obvious from the first few notes—a single tone, a specific push on the tempo, the way the air moves around the instruments—and you know it’s them. Abronia is one of those bands. From the first thud of their 32-inch bass drum to the coil of pedal steel winding through the haze, the sound of this Portland-based six-piece is unmistakable. Over the past decade, Abronia has been refining their singular blend of widescreen psychedelia, desert noir, Eastern drone, avant-jazz, doom, post-punk, and acid-folk—channeling something that feels at once ritualistic and cinematic. Today, the band is announcing their fourth studio album, Shapes Unravel. Sonically, this is Abronia’s… Read more »

Cunningham/Volt/Serra - Introspective Movement, Nonchalant Steps ()

LP Edition of 250. $25 First vinyl offering by this fine Barcelona improv trio featuring Mark Cunningham (trumpet), Pablo Volt (trumpet, flugelhorn) and Andreu Serra (many forms of strings). C/V/S’s two previous cassettes include 2022’s Ad Hoc (FTRC392. And the work on Introspective Movement is as brilliant as always. While there’s much utilization of  effects, pedals and delays, the music here is definitely in the jazz realm. Mark’s floating clouds of trumpet capture the futuristic Chet Baker vibe he so often explores, but Pablo’s approach to trumpet and flugelhorn puts me in mind of the more brambly work of the Italian brass master, Enrico Rava. Andreu is a multi-instrumentalist, but here he is focused on guitars and their cousins, playing… Read more »

Stare Kits - Live In NYC 1979 ()

LP Edition of 500. Co-Release with Negative Glam. $25 46 years after I first heard Stare Kits on a cassette, they finally have an LP. About time! This NYC quartet’s name often comes up in discussions of the No Wave era, which make sense.  The members — Angela Jaeger, Amy Rigby, Michael McMahon and Bob Gurevics — were all fans of the scene, and involved with various aspects of TR3, one of No Wave’s pre-eminent showcases. UT played their first gig opening for Stare Kits. Rick Brown (Blinding Headache, Information, etc.) played guest sax with them. Julia Gorton used Amy as a photo model almost as often as she used Lydia Lunch, and so on. But despite such connections they… Read more »

Self-Immolation Music - Strange Worship ()

LP Co-release with Cardinal Fuzz (UK) $24 “Strange Worship is the sound of electricity dreaming itself into fire, a fuzz-drenched ritual where repetition becomes revelation.” Leeds is burning again, and the match is called Self Immolation Music. Their new LP, ‘Strange Worship’, isn’t a record so much as a rite—forty minutes of distortion, drone, and devotion from a band who don’t so much play songs as build temples out of amplifier hum. Recorded inside an old converted police station, the walls still humming with ghosts of interrogation and authority, a low frequency vibration has been rattling the cells – that’s Self Immolation Music, summoning their new LP ‘Strange Worship’ into existence like a feedback séance. Guitars roar like collapsing stars,… Read more »

Wednesday Knudsen - Atrium ( / )

2LP / CD Co-Release with SPINSTER 2LP – 35.99  CD – 14.99 After two decades in the experimental music scenes of New York and Western Massachusetts, Wednesday Knudsen might be known equally as a sought-after improv collaborator and the vocalist and guitarist for the beloved long-running psych band Pigeons, as a member of the New England folk rock ensemble Stella Kola, or the psych kraut supergroup Weeping Bong Band. Though her forthcoming release, Atrium, is Knudsen’s fifth solo album, it is her first double LP, marking her rich recording history with a stunning masterwork. Channeling the “atmosphere of presence” alongside the legions of Éliane Radigue, Hiroshi Yoshimura, and Joanna Brouk, on Atrium, Knudsen plays it all—alto saxophone, flute, guitar, synth,… Read more »

SHUTARO NOGUCHI & the Roadhouse Band - On The Run ()

LP Co-Release with Sophomore Lounge $22 “Shutaro Noguchi didn’t set out to make a farewell album, but On the Run captures a moment of profound change. Recorded just weeks before moving back to Japan after 20 formative years in America (spent primarily Louisville, Kentucky), the album reflects a life in motion – rooted in memories, yet reaching toward the unknown. In Louisville, Noguchi had built a creative home with a tight-knit crew, crafting beloved records that ranged from the country-rock swagger of Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band to the mutant grooves of Equipment Pointed Ankh. Meanwhile, he released compelling solo work, including the full-band psych rock gem Love Super Terranean on Feeding Tube Records. With On the Run, Noguchi… Read more »

Spiral Wave Nomads - The Weightless Sea ()

LP Co-Release with Cardinal Fuzz / Twin Lakes Records $21 We are happy to announce the long-awaited fourth LP by the NY/CT duo Spiral Wave Nomads, a joint release by Twin Lakes, Feeding Tube, and Cardinal Fuzz Records. Imagine being swallowed whole by a phosphorescent jellyfish the size of a city bus, drifting half-conscious across some cosmic tidepool while a guitar gnaws at your bones and a drum kit levitates just out of reach. That’s The Weightless Sea, the new LP from Spiral Wave Nomads, a record that doesn’t give a damn about your earthly anchors, your comfort zones, or the cloying stench of polite indie rock playlists. Spiral Wave Nomads are Eric Hardiman (guitarist, psychic detonator, veteran of Albany’s… Read more »

Drazek Fuscaldo with Jörg A. Schneider - Attachments ()

LP Co-Release with Cardinal Fuzz $21 ‘Attachments isn’t background music—it’s two side-long dives into birth, death, and the mess in between – Four more pieces from the same recording date exist, but vinyl has its limits, so those show up only as digital extras. What’s on the record, though, is enough: two journeys that refuse to resolve neatly, but feel alive in the way improvised music should—raw, searching, and unwilling to settle’. Attachments featuring Jorg Schneider (LP, Feeding Tube/Cardinal Fuzz) is made up of two side-length tracks “Death Mask” and “Born in a Storm,” meditative longform journeys exploring the themes of death and birth. German drummer Jorg Schneider has been a longtime friend and collaborator of Przemyslaw Drazek and Brent… Read more »

JOMF - Give Me Shelter ()

LP Edition of 500 includes a DL slip. $22 Although it was the lead track on the Stones’s eighth studio LP, Let it Bleed, the song “Gimmie Shelter” was not released as a single. Indeed, the single “from” that album was the countrified non-LP track, “HonkyTonk Women” backed with the corny chorale sluice of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” It was as though the Stones, knowing they would soon be pilloried on the cross of Altamont, wanted to have a way to try and dodge those nails by being able to claim they weren’t even a rock band. Well, fuck them. 55 long years after the Stones’s shameful retreat from their true identity, Jackie O Motherfucker has decided… Read more »

Erica Dawn Lyle - On Fire ()

LP Co-Release with Half A Million Records $23.50 = ON FIRE, Erica Dawn Lyle’s fourth full-length solo album, began with Lyle’s inside joke challenge to herself: could she remake the 1978 Van Halen classic live opener as a trans girl anthem? <i>We’re hot, we’re all up in their head, and they want to, like, burn us at the stake!</i> Lyle soon found, however, that playing the song live seemed to open a darker kind of portal, an uncanny entryway through which the bleeding future would eerily arrive. On the day she’d intended to begin playing the song, she woke up to find the sky black with smoke from wildfires in Canada. The morning after she had stayed up until dawn,… Read more »