Releases

Rusalnaia - Rusalnaia ()

LP Edition of 400 STREAMING Originally issued on CD by the late Tony Dale’s superb Camera Obscura label, the debut album by Rusalnaia is one of the lost classics of contemporary folk music. This is Rusalnaia‘s first appearance on vinyl, and we believe it will spin a lot of heads who missed out on it the first time around. The duo is made up of two formidable solo performers — England’s Sharron Kraus and Philadelphia’s Gillian Chadwick, both of whom have unleashed massive solo recordings over the years. Neither of them has ever sounded quite as weirdly rural and psychedelic as they do here, however. Something about the way their voices and instruments combine with Greg Weeks’ production (and occasional… Read more »

Exhaustion / Wanders - II ()

LP Edition of 400 STREAMING Melbourne’s Exhaustion have been producing some of the coolest records on the Australian scene for the last few years. I mean, there’s no lack of great OZ noise these days, but Exhaustion have managed to create a sort of post-scum/prog hybrid that hearkens back to those long gone bands — like the early (Mick Turner era) Moodists –who emerged from the Vegemite-stinking ashes of the Little Band scene. They generate a certain kind of noise, yeah, but it doesn’t feel like anything anyone else is doing. It has a spatial quality and language of gestures that only recalls complete anomalies like Mars. Exhaustion put out a couple of great album in Australia, then made the… Read more »

Buck Gooter - Stainless Steel Mirrors ()

LP Edition of 200 OUT OF PRINT STAINLESS STEEL MIRRORS MUSIC VIDEO The last AIDS Wolf tour with Unicorn Hard On we came through Virginia. I looked in the tour book and it said, support: BUCK GOOTER. Buck what? Valerie said, “you never heard of Buck Gooter? Man, you’re in for a treat.” It was a bleak time for the music in general and the pattern was that each opening band was more horrible than the last and each promoter along the way seemed to give less and less of a fuck.  Somehow, underneath this Ethiopian restaurant in Harrisonburg Virginia, I met the two gentlefolk known as Buck Gooter: Lightening Hands Billy and Terry Turtle and I’ve never been the… Read more »

Jurt Banch - Jurt Banch ( / )

Jurt Banch, 128pp, 2016, 2nd Pressing (Edition of 100) with 20CS (Edition of 15) OUT OF PRINT The perennial tradition of Western Massachusetts-based art collectives continues with Jurt Banch. Never intended for public consumption, the original limited print run of this book became known by outside parties and a second edition has been made available due to popular demand. Consisting of more than 100 pages of poetry and portraiture, Jurt Banch pushes the limits of the “Exquisite Corpse” technique into various methods of artistic expression. A true collaborative effort, this book will enter you into a dreamscape of characters living undecipherable lives of their own, smiling back at you from the pale pulp of the future. What are YOU doing… Read more »

Bruce Russell - Howling And Instability At High Volume Settings ()

LP Edition of 400 $20 If ever there was an album by NZ’s great Bruce Russell whose title carried the essence of his genius, this is it. The words comes from the manual of the amp that Bruce uses to create his special brand of guitar havoc, and its wording could not be clearer. Naturally, Mr. Russell takes great delight in pushing the poor thing beyond its stated limits as often as possible. The results almost always possess a strange majesty. And so it is here. Originally issued as two-thirds of a CD included in the mythical No More Driver Call Me box (a never commercially available collection of Bruce’s solo music, video work and writing), one of the things… Read more »

The Lentils Brattleboro Is Flooding

The Lentils - Brattleboro Is Flooding ()

LP / Download Slip Edition of 300 Co-Released with BUFU OUT OF PRINT Luke Cehak sounds like a man who has had some troubles. But like the weird alchemy that made Todd Rudgren’s early ’70s sides so crucial, this new Lentils album manages to work as a damn-near-joyful explosion of (or maybe from) pent-up emotion. And it sounds beautiful. As he demonstrated to ably with his former band, Happy Jawbone, Luke’s creative engine is a weirdly canted turbine of distemper. His best songs are always moving along and falling apart at the same time, and so it is here. Like all top-rated generators of skew-assed roots-pop, the Lentils never neglect hooks no matter how wiggly the music gets. Just when… Read more »

Saralee - Dogs ()

CS Edition of 150 Sara and Lee from Allston, MA bring you ten blissful songs that shoot out of your speakers and enter your head space. Crank this lo-fi gem and forget your worries. Cheers!

Body/Head - Live Hassle ()

LP Edition of 100 / Numbered / Insert. Will be available at LA ART BOOK FAIR at the Gagosian Gallery Booth. Any not sold will be available at our store location 221 pine st room 141 florence ma 01062          

Burnt Envelope - Alien Nation: Collected Singles Thus Far ()

LP Edition of 300, Numbered. (First 50 burnt) FOUND THE LAST BOX OF THEM! Vinylization of the first cassette released by Tony Pasquaros’a incredible scuzz-punk project, Burnt Envelope. Tony is well known for his multifarious guises (Crystalline Roses, World Domination, Gluebag, etc.) and membership Frozen Corn, Aerosols and so whatever else might have happened this past week. Alien Nation documents the first imaginary seven singles by the “band,” ranging from garage-spew in the proto-punk vein to brutalist groin thunder. Version Sound’s Bob Moore has compared Burnt Envelope to Electric Eels at their snarliest. Regardless of labels, the music here is a brilliant mock-trio throb that ranges from neolithic suburban psych pulse of a Lazy Smoke cover, right on through to… Read more »