Releases

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 »

Moonsicles - Bay Of Seething ()

LP with Download Edition of 350 $18 Lovely, mysteriously-canted debut LP by the new Austin-based quartet put together by Aaron Russell (ex-Cherry Blossoms, Weird Weeds, etc.). The music on Bay of Seething is instrumental, and rolls with a very cinematic feel, as though it were the soundtrack for some sort of rather sad, but highly psychedelic, movie. Sonically, if you need easy handles, the sounds are probably closer to Weird Weeds’ than to Cherry Blossoms’, perhaps because bassist Lindsey Verrill is a Weeds alum as well. But perhaps not. The blend of Aaron’s guitar — sometimes raw and heavy, sometimes more in the electro-folk mode  — with Sheila Scoville’s synth, Verrill’s bass and Carolyn Cunningham’s drums creates a dynamic and… Read more »

Ted Lee - Star Dust ()

LP. Blue Vinyl. Edition of 100. Numbered. / Signed Original Painting by T.Lee First 11 come with a booklet. Other don’t. OUT OF PRINT Soundtrack of an as yet unmade film about puppets trapped in a sofa world. If you ever dreamed of doing air-sock-muppet displays, you will thrill to the sounds trapped hereon. The storyline has to do with little gas giants who get lost and wander the lanes between the cushions until they expire like old library cards. Besides the vocal routines there also seem to be a host of electronic seam-busters who skittle around the edges of the aktion like so many pork gobblers. It’s easy to lose the thread of story when Ted starts bowing everything… Read more »

No Sod - 1:11/11:11 ()

LP Edition of 100. The First 47 of the 100 comes with 44 page book of drawings/manipulations by Ted Lee. WITH BOOKLET. OUT OF PRINT! WITHOUT BOOKLET. OUT OF PRINT! Ted Lee, drummer, noise-generator, master of all he surveys, has dropped a new solo LP under the moniker, No Sod. What exactly that means, he will not say. Nor will he exactly explain the album’s title — except to agree that it represents a ratio — so let’s skip all that stuff. What we’re left with is the actual meat of the matter, and if you have any affinity for sounds of the out, this meat will make you very happy indeed. The two sidelong pieces have rather different personalities. The… Read more »

Roger Miller - Oh. ()

LP Edition of 350 (Mystery Color Vinyl) Roger Miller, king of many roads both known and unknown, has a long and illustrious recording history. As a member of Sproton Layer, Destroy All Monsters, Mission of Burma, The Din, etc., he has made many records that are definitive statements of powerful outsider rock music in many guises. But this, his third solo LP, originally released by Forced Exposure in 1988, remains one of the great lost chords in his discography. Although he’d been focusing mostly on extended keyboard techniques for a couple of years, Roger approached us with the idea of doing a guitar-oriented record, and furthermore suggested that he’d spraypaint the back covers of all copies in his driveway, after… Read more »

Thee Arcadians -  We Have Come For Your Parents ()

LP with download Edition of 300  Cover by Gary Panter New England has a long tradition of teenagers being raised in caves. Local histories are rife with descriptions of shaggy teenaged gangs appearing in towns and hamlets, usually in late Autumn, causing massive amounts of trouble before disappearing once more into the hills. The members of Thee Arcadians count no literal cave dwellers amongst their number, but the semiotic weight of their message is as raw & subterranean as any you will hear this year. The band is young, but mos the members have been playing in various configurations since not long after ditching their diapers. We’ve been hearing rumbles from them for as long as we can remember. But… Read more »

MV & EE - Alpine Tenement ()

LP Edition of 100 / Numbered / Includes Insert Copies only available at Feeding Tube Records Store in Florence, MA Quite an amazing mono LP addendum to the recent Alpine Frequency double LP (FTR 167). Originally planned as a lathe album in an edition of 25, when our lathe cutter retired unexpectedly, the project shifted to be a “regular” LP pressed in an edition of 100. And what an album it is. There is an in-yr-face quality to the smoke filled burble of the psych bits that is joined at the lips with the incredible presence of the völkier parts, which simultaneously manifest a Folkways/Arhoolie documentary-vibe and the early gusts of St. Joans’ very special wind-control. It’s a singular record… Read more »

BULL TONGUE REVIEW - No.4 ()

A Quarterly Journal of Post-Rock Cultural Pluralism, edited by Byron Coley. Issue no. 4. In this issue: Alex Behr: Junior High Reviews; Tosh Berman: Tom Phillips IRMA the Opera; Alan Bishop: Pink Floyd Animals: Trevor Block: Rowdy Roddy Piper; Karla Borecky: Antonin Artaud: Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu; Bree: Kōbō Abe Woman of the Dunes; Benoit Chaput: Plume Latraverse; Sharon Cheslow: Stand-up Comedy; Byron Coley: Column; Karen Constance: Igor Wakhevitch Hathor; Nigel Cross: Jeff Cloves; Chris D: Humanity of Femme Fatales; Georganne Deen: Chinatown L.A. + Cathy Ward; Lili Dwight: Farscape; Erika Elizabeth: Mark Sten All Ages; Ray Farrell: Charles Bukowski; Andrea Feldman: Mix Tape Memories; Eddie Flowers: Review Column; Scott Foust: Jewel Robbery; Tom Givan: Matthew… Read more »

Farmers (Daved Hild / Roger Miller) - Aug.11, 1984 ()

LP inserts/ mp3 download code Edition of 350 Happy Baby Music Video The Fear Music Video This is listed as a Farmers LP, but it’s actually a survey of Daved Hild’s earliest work after the dissolution of Boston’s best ever band, the Girls. Chronologically, the earliest recording here is “The Fear,” recorded at Sorcerer Sound in NYC for a proposed Lust/Unlust EP called A Dog’s Prayer. Daved is joined by another ex-Girl, Robin Amos, and ex-Mission of Burma multi-tasker, Roger Miller. After that come the Farmers tracks, recorded in Cambridge. Daved had been doing solo work in NYC, dressed as a Menonite farmer, but when he was up north the Farmers were a duo with Roger, who’d add trumpet, keys… Read more »

Marianne Nowottny - Dark Souls Need Light ()

LP with MP3 Download Edition of 300 PROMO VIDEO When Jersey teen, Marianne Nowottny, arrived on the scene in the late ’90s she had the looks of a typical NJ gum-snapper, but possessed a voice that was way beyond what you’d expect to find hanging out in the parking lot of White Castle, trying to bum cigarettes. Her vocals had the rich smoky maturity of Marianne Faithfull’s late ’70s work, hauled into an off-center bedroom pop universe that was almost impossible to decode. Her subsequent studio recordings have investigated magnificent nooks of post-naif construction, but it was in a live performance that she created some of her most staggering sonic edifices. We are very pleased to finally present two sides… Read more »