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Limited edition. Previously available only as *gone* in an instant self-released editions, Ilyas Ahmed's first two albums,'Between Two Skies' and 'Towards the Night', have now been reissued, packaged together nicely in a Stumptown gatefold sleeve. Two discs of late-night guitar meditations as only IA can play them, emphasis on the space as much as each note; close your eyes and I swear that you can almost breathe the air from the room these songs were recorded in, due in no small part to having been remastered to amazing effect by Pete Swanson. Far gone spectral ragas on the latter + organic psych/folk with more instrumentation on the former, free-flowing melodic bursts found on both. Excellent + highly recommended.

Listen to Between Two Skies/Towards the Night:
Black Midas (excerpt)
Samanjhna (excerpt)

Last copies, period. Edition of 5O tapes, packaged in handmade, hand-numbered convex sleeves accented with foil and layers of iridescent pigments (quite tricky to photograph). Deluxe vinyl reissue forthcoming on Twee Death, and soon. Absolutely stunning collaborative release from Aja Rose Bond (In Flux) & Gabriel Mindel Saloman (ex-Yellow Swans). Favourite album of last year, hands-down. Apparently the awe is not confined to the offices of TwDx, here's from a little place in San Francisco known as aQ, where the cassette was tops on Jon (also of Barn Owl and Elm)'s year-end list...

Aquarius Records Best of 2008: "As if we weren't totally blown away by their first release, Aja Rose and Gabriel Saloman have once again conjured up some of the most shimmery and gorgeous lo-fi ambience around. Two sides of live collaborations recorded last year in Portland, distant voices and guitar passages ring out, the faint sound of haunted bell towers ringing miles away, glowing horizons warm with evening's fading light. Really captivating stuff here, mysterious clanging and ominous reverbed hush, a band of ghost gypsies passing through the darkened woods. So good. Too bad it was LIMITED TO 50 COPIES. Gorgeous handmade packaging you sort of have to see to believe. Each one hand numbered ...this will be reissued on vinyl later this year, we'll relist it then and give it a bit more love and more of an extensive description."

Listen to Aja Rose & Gabriel Saloman:
Lightning/Spider/Grey (excerpt)
Green/Butterfly/Orange/Birth (excerpt)

Out of print. Vancouver-based artist and musician Aja Rose Bond's elusive first solo album from 2007. A tiny edition of fifty gold-spraypainted cassettes, packaged along with an insert inside of a gorgeous, handmade, hand-numbered and obi'd concave box. A little-heard treasure full of playful sounds enveloped by isolating drones, overall falling somewhere amidst works by such luminaries as Fursaxa, Kuupuu, Inca Ore, Lau Nau, Grouper, and U.S. Girls; one of whom you can expect to hear a collaborative release with in months to come. Currently unavailable in any format, so I've posted some extra excerpts cut from my heavily worn personal copy, complete with excessive gain. Let's hope for a reissue at some point in the near future, as it's a shame that more people haven't had a chance to hear this release.

Listen to Flying Lion:
The Flood (excerpt)
Lightningale (excerpt)
Unbalanced Load (excerpt)
Alone In My Community (excerpt)
Classic Thigh (excerpt)

Japanese psychedelic folk like nothing else out there. Songs suddenly slipping out of phase, organic lapses; blurring the lines between composition and improvisation, Aritomo's unusual pickings are accompanied by ethereal, wavering vocals, flute, violin, and analogue hum, occasionally combined in such a disorienting fashion that it seems like another Ghost of a song being playing simultaneously. Cover illustration by Aritomo.

Listen to We Become the Cloud and the Circular Flower:
We Become the Cloud (excerpt)
Circular Flower (excerpt)

Deluxe edition CD reissue with two bonus tracks and the 'Live at the Totally Intense Fractal Mind Gaze Hut' cassette tape, not to mention a fold-out poster & a button! The Not Not Fun vinyl version is sold out. Since first bearing witness to Barn Owl’s mythically desolate amplifier alchemy last year, we’ve been rabid fans/fanatics. But like lots of badass bands, BO are a rolling stone, heavy on the transformation tip, and the BO of today is an altered beast from the one that folkily fingerpicked 'Bridge To The Clouds' and their self-titled disc way back when. And in case we’re not being clear: this is a beautiful thing. 'From Our Mouths A Perpetual Light' burns with the sun-dead majesty of a Death Valley burial ground, all wasted waterless expanse and cracked earth smoke blowing in the dry wind. Heavy western drone revelations bleed into forlorn guitar drift, downcast percussion plods across the plain, a skull on its side lies in the sands. Evan Caminiti & Jon Porras have somehow flawlessly evolved Barn Owl into a blazing new universe, and this is the first mission statement from their new spectral/aesthetic outpost, a stunning and timeless eight-song suite of grim cinematic electricity. Tune in, drop dead, rot on. In swank matte jackets with ‘four-armed demon warrior-yogi’ artwork by the band.

Listen to From Our Mouths a Perpetual Light:
Live at the Totally Intense Fractal Mind Gaze Hut (excerpt)
The Stones Speak Through The Fire (excerpt)
Lotus Cloud (excerpt)

Edition of 120. Out of print. A series of somnambulant haunts on the classic American six string / open tuning form that are heavily f/x smeared into gossamer tones that kinda seem to hover overhead. Lovely. One thing the Barn Owl dudes do well is take their time, so don't except anything on this disc to move any faster than thoughts floating out of a brain on Codeine. Comes in a three panel letterpressed sleeve by the very kind Jonas Asher of Phaserprone/UW OWL.

Listen to Raft of Serpents:
Bones (excerpt)
Kiss of the Sphynx (excerpt)
Dunes (excerpt)

Belong evinces a slow-motion transformation plate tectonics, wired for sound. Aural mountains melt into seas; yet icy barrens yield to breathing jungles of detail. The single, sprawling track may evoke decay, dissolution and destruction, but underfoot are tendrils of inexplicable joy. Belong sings a lullaby of obliteration, and the paradox it embodies would make both Kevin Shields and Tony Conrad proud: crushing melancholia and shuddering euphoria, inexorably intertwined.

Listen to Same Places (Slow Version):
Same Places (Slow Version) (excerpt)

Edition of 99 copies with custom-stamped art. Sold out at source. The second solo release by Marielle Jakobsons (of Myrmyr and Date Palms) under the Darwinsbitch moniker. Quivering sound waves, tape manipulations with long, droning violin tones. Hard to pin down + extremely good.

Listen to Darwinsbitch:
Steel Hum (excerpt)
White Fog Lake (excerpt)

'Savage Summer Sun' captures two of Double Leopards' live sets from back-to-back days in March during their Spring 2005 West Coast tour. The first recording is from Il Corral in Los Angeles, and the second recording is a radio performance on KDVS in Davis, CA - one of the best live documents of the latter-day classic DL line-up: Marcia Bassett of Hototogisu, GHQ, and Purple Haze; Chris Gray of Endless Boogie, and Maya Miller & Mike Bernstein of Religious Knives. Maelstroms of distortion from the most compelling and influential drone collective to come out the American underground in the late nineties.

Listen to Savage Summer Sun:
Live at Il Coral (excerpt)
Live on KDVS (excerpt)

What does a person do when faced with a work like 'Imperial Distortion'? There are rare moments in an artist’s work where they reveal a greater truth, and Kevin Drumm had already made such a statement with his last major solo work, 'Sheer Hellish Miasma'. Where that record took noise music to a new level of near-impenetrable exactitude, Imperial Distortion is an altogether different beast. Beauty as an aesthetic can be as terrifying as horror, and on this extended long form release Drumm comes face to face with minimal drone music and confronts the genre, providing drone music at its most concentrated and ably performed, with great build and depth in its tones; although there might be the illusion of stasis the opposite is true. From the opening track, the mood of the album is laid clear. The arrangements are shadowy layers of soundtrack-like tones, possessing an almost ballad-esque sense of elegance; tone + frequency as melodic portals to nowhere. This is a work that commands intellectual and emotional commitment on the levels of the greatest works to come from this genre; when faced with an abstract work as complete as Aphex Twin’s 'Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2' or Eliane Radigue’s 'Trilogy of Death', a listener is transported not only to another place, but also the deepest layers of themselves. Kevin Drumm has, with this release, found that rare balance.

Listen to Imperial Distortion:
Guillain-Barre (excerpt)
Romantic Sores (excerpt)
Snow (excerpt)

Originally released in 2002, this reissue comes re-mastered, with revised artwork by Stephen O’Malley + an additional track, 'Impotent Hummer', a drone piece taken from the same period. Utilising guitar, tapes, mics, pedals, analogue synthesizer + computers, Drumm has concocted a sonic beast. The listener is taken on an intense journey of storming feedback, open audio onslaught + somewhat savaged sonics. The extreme end of anarchic electronics + a hint of musical violence is present throughout the much of the disc. An essential release capturing Drumm at his most ferocious and most inventive. It’s an exhilarating, visceral test of endurance, brimming with Drumm's demonic humor & ever-expanding sonic palette. For seasoned noise veterans, 'Sheer Hellish Miasma' offers a bracing soundscape filled with exquisitely abrasive textures and more than enough hidden detail to warrant repeated listening – a distinct voice in the increasingly same-sounding world of abstract electronic noise. For everyone else, Drumm’s journey through the noisy underworld is likely to inspire fear or, in an optimistic case, fearful admiration.

Listen to Sheer Hellish Miasma:
Hitting the Pavement (excerpt)
Turning Point (excerpt)
Inferno (excerpt)

40 full-color pages, professionally printed and bound, in a one-time edition of 500. Not Not Fun’s first foray into book publishing, 'Skull' compiles several years worth of work from Jeremy Earl, the man behind Fuck It Tapes/Woodsist (not to mention Woods Family Creeps, Shepherds & Meneguar). Earl began incorporating his own loosely composed symbolist/primitivist designs into the label’s aesthetic, birthing countless killer compositions; illustrations of obsessively rendered ritual serpents and bleeding, 8-fingered hands, dazed pterodactyls, radiant pyramids, possessed worms, faceless figures beneath winged specters, an recent experiments with collage + multi-media hieroglyphics. Scores of never-before-seen images + some of his most striking & iconic cassette covers.

Final restock of this gem. Two editions: 90 copies housed in grey or green covers, 100 copies in yellow covers, both sold out at the source. "Another look through the prism to see how the other half lives. Elm is the solo guise of Jon Porras, best known for his adventures as half of the magnificent Barn Owl. 'Bxogonoas' is the word used by the Muisca people of Colombia to describe the mystery of time, and Elm slows things down to a caustic crawl. These nine tracks are like golden sonic arrows dipped in black blood and shot straight into the heart of the earth; dark and cathartic, each sound hangs in the air constantly trying to balance the doom and gloom cascading underneath. Elm is organic reverie, sacred to the last drop."

Listen to Bxogonoas:
Dawn Unveils the Golden Thread (excerpt)
Blackened Horizon (excerpt)

LAST COPY. Edition of 50 numbered copies, packaged in hand-made sleeves, with photobook + insert. Last copies here. Vancouver-based Adrian Dziewanski really caught me by surprise this past fall: when meeting up to buy some records, he mentioned his work under the name Empress, and a discussion of a deep appreciation for physical media ensued. Shortly thereafter, I was handed a copy of 'Malleable Shores', beautifully packaged in painstaking hand-cut fold-and-lock sleeves + containing stark post-industrial ambient sounds, harsh materials patiently returned to terrestrial beginnings; sheet metal as uninhabited landscape + unheard atmosphere; sferics, AKR, glacial calving... lithospheric dawn choruses? Highly recommended minimalism.

Listen to Malleable Shore:
Part IV (excerpt)
Part I (excerpt)

Edition of 94. Extended play debut, packaged in foldover sleeves, hand-labelled & numbered inside. From Adrian/Empress: One 24 minute track containing a single digitized loop of analogue drone, guitar feedback, and field recordings captured in the wilderness of Merritt, British Columbia (from my one month tree planting experience,) and of downtown Vancouver. Also, of a Tram in the heart of Poznan, Poland. Skyline photo taken from a plane somewhere over the Atlantic.

Listen to Movements of the Hand:
Movements of the Hand (excerpt)

Edition of 200. Duo of Liz Harris (Grouper) and Bay Area sound sculptor Jorge Behringer. Here, Liz's spectral vocal transmissions are augmented by disorienting field recordings, bubbling electronics, meditative guitar lines, and Jorge's angelic, processed viola. Beautifully mastered by Pete Swanson, and presented in a sleeve adorned with Liz's wonderful black and white artwork.

Listen to Eckords:
Untitled I (excerpt)
Untitled II (excerpt)
Untitled III (excerpt)

Edition of 500. Limited edition vinyl repress of a long gone three inch single, originally released on the Collective JYRK imprint. Three tracks of shimmering vocals + pulsating hum drenched in reverb. Pressed on heavy black vinyl + housed in a pro-printed glossy sleeve with a photocopied insert.

Listen to He Knows, He Knows, He Knows:
He Knows I (excerpt)
He Knows II (excerpt)

Vinyl reissue on 'goldenrod'-coloured vinyl, housed in a black & gold silkscreened sleeve + self-released by the artist. Very limited edition.

Portland, Oregon based Liz Harris might have achieved a significant fan base thanks to the whispering, near ambient vocal crusades of her early work, but those with a careful ear would have heard slightly more trapped beneath her fuzzy chain of effects. ‘Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill’ marks a departure of sorts for Liz which sees her turn down the fuzz-boxes which caged (and to some degree defined) her sound, and allows her voice to ring out above everything else. Using delicate song structures which are at once both familiar and alien somehow we hear her words cry out hauntingly over stripped down guitar lines and looped environmental recordings. These are the future soundtracks to love, despair and ultimately hope.

Listen to Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill:
Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping (excerpt)
Disengaged (excerpt)
Stuck (excerpt)

Edition of 500. Final restock. Limited edition tour single commemorating Grouper's recent string of New Zealand dates, co-released by the artists themselves and Soft Abuse. One exclusive track from each artist: a nice lo-fi pop number from the appropriately named Pumice, a coarsely pretty tune calling to mind the feel of the first couple of Helium records as much as classic NZ sounds; and the blissfully morose haze of Grouper's 'Rising Height', a wonderful new song that would fit well alongside the swirling drones and underwater guitar tones of the title tracks from her 'Tried' single and the 'Cover the Windows and the Walls' LP. Very nicely done.

Listen to Grouper & Pumice:
Grouper - Rising Height (excerpt)
Pumice - Twin Neck Double Kick Bum Chin (excerpt)

Limited edition vinyl reissue of Liz Harris & Eva Inca Ore's long out of print split cassette, pressed at RTI and packaged in a lovely offset-printed sleeve.

Liz Harris on making the record: I had been hearing new solo music Eva was making and thought it was really intense and beautiful. It was this strange and eerie music about being in foreign place. I was getting these emails from her about being lost in Mexico where she had gone on a purposely unplanned trip, with fevers; feeling alternately happy and alone in an unknown place. I was up here in Portland in the winter, looking for my neighbor's cat that had disappeared mysteriously, out on its own journey. It felt really dark here. I became determined that I had a mission to find this cat for her. The music I ended up writing wasn't a straight up song about the cat in particular as this specific lost animal and me being sad about it, like a bad spell that was sweeping things around me, a part of me, the cat, Eva, off to somewhere dark, portal-like, possibly not in the same plane as everything else, someplace we'd have to find our way back from, and all the looking I might do wouldn’t help because they, it, we weren't even really here. Some sort of spirit wrangling would have to happen, something mysterious that would have to be learned. With all this weighing together, I felt like symbols were combining to make this common shape. Something dark, feminine, powerful, trying to work itself out of some hole, to fight against itself and build up to someplace new.

Listen to Grouper & Inca Ore:
Inca Ore - Churpa Champumado (excerpt)
Grouper - Poison Tree (excerpt)

Very limited edition reissue of Grouper's third full-length album (to be released on CD for the first time quite soon as well). Absolutely sublime haze with subtle melodic underpinnings, 'Cover the Windows and the Walls' marks a transition from the denser noise-based ambience of her earlier work to the more song-oriented 'Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill'. Layered to the effect of complete immersion into a phantom space, sounds simultaneously distant/close; almost like listening to Windy & Carl playing in an underwater pipeline. One of my favourite records, period. Essential.

Listen to Cover the Windows and the Walls:
Cover the Windows and the Walls (excerpt)

Edition of 500 copies on 'dishwater grey' vinyl, now out of print. Can't recommend this split highly enough! I've been listening to Grouper's 'False Horizon' for months on end, without knowing the title, after recording a performance in Vancouver last year featuring this song + some other excellent new material written around the same time as 'Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill' ...one of my absolute favourite albums of last year + 'False Horizon' is every bit as good as anything on the album. City Center's side is all bells and soft vocals with distortion, thickly layered, and to great effect.

Listen to Grouper & City Center:
City Center - This Is How We See in the Dark (excerpt)
Grouper - False Horizon (excerpt)

LP sold out. CD version on Free Porcupine Society back in stock soon. Submerged in this music a vast pasture forms near a great sea just before dawn. the early morning vapors were everywhere hovering just above the ground. Soon the sun swells up and the vapors transmogrify into a tempest of hornets... the hornets envelope the sun with impressive fervor but it melts them into haze again and the vapors migrate out to the sea. Beautiful tip-on style single pocket gatefold jackets featuring photography by Peter Harris

Listen to Wide:
They Moved Everything (excerpt)
Little Boat/Bone Dance (Audrey) (excerpt)
Shadow Rise, Drowned (excerpt)

CD version on Free Porcupine Society is temporarily sold out. LP is out of print. Vinyl debut from Portland-based experimenter Liz Harris. The sound is deceptively simple, merely layers of vocals processed again and again through looping delays and chains of effects, but the emotion Harris manages to inject into her voice and into the crackles, hums and waves of feedback is almost unfathomable. Like many of the best records this is not an instantly accessible album, yet give it time and the drifting distortion and almost ghost-like sense of melody will take you into another world entirely. One might choose to label this as an ambient record, but to do so would be doing it a great injustice - rather this is a meeting point of psychedelia, folk traditions and early electronic experimentalism. It is incredibly hard these days to stumble across music that really sounds unique or even original, but somehow Liz Harris has managed that here, and beneath the whirlpools of ambience and tape hiss there is an untouched beauty waiting to be discovered.

Listen to Way Their Crept:
Second Skin/Zombie Wind (excerpt)
Sang Their Way (excerpt)

Out of print. In a short space of time, Portland-based Liz Harris has become the name on the lips of the underground music world having captured hearts worldwide with her distinct blend of noise, ambience and a dream-pop sensibility. She submerges her songs in a shimmering haze of hiss, looping chorals and decomposed guitar feedback, but somewhere in there you can hear the ghosts of My Bloody Valentine or possibly Slowdive. This latest 7” takes her sound one step further still; ‘Tried’ is one of the most overtly dense pieces Harris has produced to date, but flip over to ‘Everyone in Turn’ and you are treated to simply vocals and piano, a piece of music which has to be one of the most affecting Grouper tracks to date.

Listen to Tried/Everyone in Turn:
Tried (excerpt)
Everything In Turn (excerpt)

Edition of 120. Laundry spirits haunting psychic ossuaries. Hyperactive sugar-buzz (positive) Suicide jams collide with 4:oo A.M. ambience + noise bursts. Total pop. Housed in woven inner sleeves and raw-cut watercolour rag outers, made from recycled coffee filters + hemp, with blood spatter + appropriated manifestos from the far reaches of the universe, side-left.

There's a handful of people making amazing music in Vancouver right now + Tom Whalen is one of our favourites, whether he's pummeling the kit for the percussion ensemble and horn driven madness of the Role Mach Electric Band, alternating instruments in no wave trio Orlando Magic, hunched over gear as half of vocal-sample/keytar/synth weirdos Haunted Beard, or generating the distorted beats + frenzied call & response breakdowns of *now* incarnation GR8-2000 live actions. His first solo album, 'Freedom', has now been re-issued by Twee Death, with bonus tracks + new artwork by GR8-2000/TwDx, and it's the raw original mix; even better than the self-released version that we fell in love with! More details here.

Listen to Freedom:
Riding the Rails/I Wanna Go Home (excerpt)
Laundry Spirit (excerpt)

Sold-out special 2-disc edition comes with a bonus CDR featuring collaborative tracks with Marcia Bassett & Tom Carter, among others, and is limited to 100 hand-stamped & hand-numbered copies.

Steve Gunn is probably best known as a key component to the mighty GHQ with Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards) & Pete Nolan (Magik Markers), but his solo efforts have been even more impressive. With a couple limited & hard-to-find CDRs under his belt and a few offerings under the moniker Moongang, Gunn is ready to step out of the shadows and into the spotlight with his first proper CD. "Sundowner" may short & sweet, but it has an epic feeling. Gunn reaches deep into the vaults to line the walls with hypnotic acoustic guitar dirges, organic drones, and banjo ditties. And unlike any of his previous work, he also unleashes his voice on three songs, showing that not only can he play with the best of them, he can sing too. When he's not wowing the listener racing around the fretboard, his simple but effective vocal hooks are sinking themselves deep into the confines of your memory.

Listen to Sundowner:
Concrete Beach (excerpt)
SG with Marcia Bassett & Tom Carter (excerpt)

Limited reissue of a long-gone Steve Gunn solo album originally released on the Onomato label. Steve Gunn is probably best known for his part in GHQ with Marcia Bassett (of Hototogisu, Double Leopards, Zaïmph & Zaika) and Pete Nolan (of the Magik Markers, among other things), but not many people have had the chance to hear these recordings, based mostly around his acoustic guitar improvisations and inspirations from travels in Morocco. The last track features some really nice vocals from Heidi Diehl (of Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, as well as Time-Life). Highly recommended.

Listen to Paradise Found In Dirt:
Young Subjects (excerpt)
Two of Ammon (excerpt)

Edition of 1OO. Sold out at source. Final restock at higher price due to increased cost of the last handful of copies. Higuma is Evan Caminiti (of Barn Owl) & Lisa McGee. Cast in a dark space in SF, Haze Valley holds rather true to its name, filling the edges with smoked out vocals, guitar delays and any number of drone layered acoustics. Very much a distant sound, with distortions burnished down to smooth horizontal planes that lift the music to higher summits. Not at all dissimilar from some of Barn Owl's recent excursions, but with the addition of Lisa's vocals, this goes somewhere else completely. Offset printed sleeve with silver on white.

Listen to Haze Valley:
The Pyramid Has Bleached the Horizon (excerpt)
Crimson Cloud Ascension (excerpt)

Over the course of several private press releases, the music and artwork of Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte has become the stuff of legend. Such is the case despite the fact that the amount of people who have actually been fortunate enough to acquire physical copies of these wondrous releases numbers in the mere low hundreds. 'The Snowbringer Cult' then, in all of its epic glory, is what you might call an entirely necessary and long overdue coming out release by France's mighty Natural Snow Buildings. The album is composed of two jam-packed discs of brand new material recorded in the final months of 2007, the first being a split between the duo's solo projects: Isengrind and Twinsistermoon. For the album's colossal third installment, MA+SG join forces under the Natural Snow Buildings moniker for the entirety of disc two. It is here that all of the diversity and compositional prowess evidenced by the pair's solo recordings coheres into the remarkably refined and singular NSB sound. 'The Snowbringer Cult' is packaged in a gorgeous 4 panel sleeve printed by the renowned Stumptown Printers, artwork by Solange.

Listen to The Snowbringer Cult:
Natural Snow Buildings - Inuk's Song (excerpt)
Twinsistermoon - The Spears of the Wolfe (excerpt)
Isengrind - Wooden False Face (excerpt)

The 1978 release of Corwood Industries #0739, “Ready For the House”, began one of the most compelling, disturbed, and singular legacies in musical history. Beyond stark, beyond oblique, beyond outsider even, the first Jandek LP explores musical territories no one even knew existed, with just a hollowed-out voice and a lonely, detuned guitar. This exact repress, heavyweight-vinyl edition is the first time “Ready For the House” has been available on vinyl for nearly 20 years, finally giving collectors and fans the opportunity to own one of the most peculiar, solitary, and strangely magnetic records of all time.

Listen to Ready for the House:
Naked in the Afternoon (excerpt)
They Told Me I Was A Fool (excerpt)
European Jewel (excerpt)

One-time pressing of 1000 LPs, compiling many of the best cuts from Jay's out of print self-released vinyl. From David Keenan, in The Wire: "Abner Jay was a travelling one-man band and revenant folk spirit who performed lugubrious versions of original blues & traditional American spirituals alongside his own material, in a baritone several leagues below Johnny Cash. By slowing his source material to a laggard, awkward lollop, Jay rescued it from decades of blacked-up virtuoso mimicry, refocusing attention on its ragged edges, emotional depth and complex humanity. Jay died in 1993 and since then his LPs have become almost impossible to track down. Anthony Braxton described him as an "American master", his banjo, guitar & harmonica playing every bit as idiosyncratic and unmediated by the tyranny of 'correct' technique as Braxton's own. And the tongues given voice to here are drawn from deep within the murk of centuries."

Listen to True Story Of Abner Jay:
I'm So Depressed (excerpt)
The Reason Young People Use Drugs (excerpt)
St. James Infirmary Blues (excerpt)
Cocaine (excerpt)

Limited edition of 500 copies. With the right colors splattered over each other, criss-crossing in layers upon layers, a cardboard LP sleeve can look bottomless. An intricate painting of swirling, high-contrast clouds of nerve-endings and brain folds plays out in glasslike clarity on the glossy cover of Leslie Keffer’s first release on Ecstatic Peace, disparate shapes and colors spinning end over end and typography that flops across the cover like deflated balloons. It’s a fine matching — Adriane Schramm’s vast canvasses provide a thoughtful framework for Keffer’s style of wide-lense noise landscapes that spread out like a beach, all uniform from beginning to end with tiny variations for anyone reaching down to sift through a bit here and there. When Leslie Keffer lived in Athens, Ohio, she was asked about the noise scene there. “You’re looking at it”, she responded. Indeed. Leslie is one of the more fascinating proponents of homegrown Middle America noise music. A single girl drawn to the more ravaged and magical aspects of noise as source music, art and lifestyle. She has since moved to Nashville where she has been developing and progressing her personal take on what is basically a highly marginal genre of music. Her inputs are radio transmission wave-noise, the living aura of Lindsay Lohan, punk, pop, Madonna, her amazing girlfriends and defiltering the terror of male-centric Power Electronic depravity and goon-ism.

Listen to Feels Like Frenching:
Untitled I (excerpt)
Untitled II (excerpt)
Untitled III (excerpt)

Edition of 500. Nine subdued folk songs from Keijo Virtanen, organic psychedelic ambience augmented with throat-singing + occasional electronics. Easily my favourite album from this Finnish veteran's extensive back catalogue of consistently amazing releases.

Listen to Palla, Blown from Here:
Palla, with the Cattle (excerpt)
On the Sea of the Eye of the Sky (excerpt)

LAST 5 COPIES. Two colour silkscreen on deluxe felt-finish paper.

LOCAL $20
LP     US/CAN $28
WORLD €28

Limited vinyl edition. So many bands have forgotten how to make a song in a traditional format sound dangerous, and for those who need some sense of everlasting rebellion in their sonics, 'Boss' has everything they’ve been wishing for in spades… one of the very few pop records in recent memory to engage its audience in something profound and challenging.

Listen to the Magik Markers:
Axis Mundi (excerpt)
Body Rot (excerpt)
Taste (excerpt)

Temporarily sold out, final restock soon. Artist edition of 45 hand-numbered copies on CD-R, in screenprinted gatefold sleeves. Only have a couple of these + should have the regular Hydra Head CD version in soon, as well as the forthcoming vinyl reissue. Layers upon layers of guitar, tape noise, wordless vocals; all centred around Faith Coloccia (ex-Everlovely Lightningheart)'s melodic piano phrases ...Rachel's enveloped by Corrupted; a funeral march to lay Dubya's term to rest once and for all. Impossibly dense, foreboding, heavy ...and very beautiful.

Listen to Hirror Enniffer:
Black Running Water (excerpt)
Annwn (excerpt)

Limited edition vinyl. 'Lost Wisdom' represents an intersection of Eric Trip's Julie Doiron and Phil Eleverum's distinct sensibilities and their resulting voices: his tone often hesitant & sorrowful; her singing reassuringly direct & familiar. Indeed, it's this presence of a second voice that distinguishes 'Lost Wisdom' amid the abundance of post-Microphones material, bringing earthly color to songs which, under the Mount Eerie banner alone, might emerge cold and gray. Fred Squire's electric guitar is notably unobtrusive as it complements the two voices and the steady rumble of Phil's acoustic. The result is a collection of songs so taut and concisely resonant as to be psalms. But psalms to be sung, perhaps, in secret. The album was recorded during a brief touring respite, forcing Elverum to forgo the intricate (if still lo-fi) ornamentation that typically adorns his output. It is instead, in his words, a "documentary of a session." In a way we're made to feel as though we've been eavesdropping all the while, but even so, seldom has an act of auditory voyeurism been so rewarding.

Listen to Lost Wisdom:
Lost Wisdom (excerpt)
You Swan, Go On (excerpt)

White vinyl with a CD version included. Found a couple of extra copies of this out of print gem, so I thought that I'd offer them here. First proper album under this name, after the transitional Microphones 'Mount Eerie' LP. As for descriptions, the meaning of the album is described in much greater (and much better) detail in No Flashlight's huge foldout artwork (5 ft. x 3.5 ft), with track explanations, lyrics, photos, and excerpts from other sources.

Listen to No Flashlight:
The Universe Is Shown (excerpt)
I Hold Nothing (excerpt)
No Flashlight (excerpt)

Edition of 1OO. Sold out at source. Total Midwest bleakness from Brad Rose. Don't expect any clarity from this one. Two long form tracks bathed in the sorta distortion crunch that completely fills up a room. Hints of melody for sure hidden in here, you just gotta go deep. Letterpressed black on chipboard Arigato Pak.

Listen to Gated Community:
Gated Community (excerpt)
Glowering (excerpt)

Limited edition one-time pressing. On "Take Pills", the lead off single from 'Person Pitch', tambourine and a twangy guitar line repeat while industrial samples fill in the vast spaces. The field recordings take an aquatic turn on the track's second half, as Panda Bear picks up his acoustic guitar and moves the party to the beach, singing "I don't want for us to take pills anymore" to the kind of effortlessly melodic line that once expressed thoughts like "da doo ron ron". The exclusive flipside, "Bonfire of the Vanities", is a piano-led beauty recorded live at his home in Lisbon.

Listen to Take Pills:
Take Pills (excerpt)
Bonfire of the Vanities (excerpt)

Late-night downer-psych debut from Kevin de Broux, six emotionally stark & well-crafted songs (three years in the making), with the arrangements sounding deceptively sparse despite the varied instrumentation, creeping synths, broken drum machines, and banjo, to name a few. Hard not to draw comparisms to early Royal Trux, or Jandek, as 'Cleaning the Mirror' really shares not only a production quality, but a psychic space which few other artists enter. When it comes to the music, the self-described Robitussin Blues, the material really stands on its own. An instant classic, one of the best (and bleakest) records released in the past couple of years.

Listen to Cleaning the Mirror:
Motherfucker (excerpt)
Storming Heaven (excerpt)
Thrush (excerpt)

Second edition of 500 on transparent red vinyl. During a show with hardcore punks Hatefuck, DeBroux and company traveled to Winona, Minnesota. After a five-hour drive to the town, wasted locals, angry punks and gnarled three-legged dogs greeted them by leading them into a commandeered park. Inside the park, DeBroux found "the ultimate punk rock experience" with townies huffing rubber glue and mohawk-brandishing kids starting fights with crusties. The show ended and the locals gave the band three dollars for their troubles. A few kids asked DeBroux and company to chip in the three dollars on a keg. Soon, the crowd dispersed and left the band with no money or place to stay. The band wound up sleeping on an island between Minnesota and Wisconsin and breaking up soon thereafter. He wrote the first Pink Reason song, 'Winona', about this experience.

Listen to Winona:
Winona (excerpt)

Edition of 200. Last copies here. Side A features two new studio tracks, side B features a live recording.

Listen to Gold Miner's Daughters:
Hideous (excerpt)
Sun (excerpt)
Demon (excerpt)

Edition of 5OO. Sold out at source. The ladies’ longstanding studio union with Eagle Rock guru Bobb Bruno has explored an array of terrains in the past, but their partnership on Diamonds transforms Pocahaunted into a way weirder, doper, and dancier creature than ever before, inspired in equal parts by Manda’s obsession with Max Romeo tropical soul and bad acid jazz and Bethany’s abiding love of mainstream rap and the Cocteau Twins (that sounds like it’d be a nightmare, right?). Naturally, the results don’t really resemble any of the influences they may have attempted to channel during these sessions, but so what? Low-lidded drum machine beats, sparse guitar chimes, and the occasional air raid siren cycle beneath a night sky of cooing, crying, and caterwauling in the classic PHAUNT mode/model. This CD digipak edition is a repress of the sold out LP on Arbor, with all new collage-portrait artwork by the band, plus two bonus tracks added on and a freaky digital music video for 'Ashes Is White'.

Listen to Island Diamonds:
Ashes Is White (excerpt)
Riddim Queen (excerpt)
Time Fist (excerpt)

Edition of 500 in gatefold sleeves. Hot off the heels of opening for Sonic Youth, dirt worshippers Robedoor and their native sisters Pocahaunted have unleashed 'Hunted Gathering'. Drones painted with black holes collapse under their own weight while the archangelic voices of Pocahaunted birth a brand new world of spirit decay. Each band offers up their own malfeasance while collaborating on the epic final eponymous track. The union of these two groups is a natural combination, Robedoor's subsonic doom is washed down with a smooth chaser of Pocahaunted's reverberating soul sounds. Recorded by Bobb Bruno at the NNF/Bored Fortress studio space and mastered by Yellow Swans' Pete Swanson.

Listen to Hunted Gathering:
Pocahaunted - Crow Scout (excerpt)
Robedoor - Plague Of Settlers (excerpt)
Pocahaunted & Robedoor - Hunted Gathering (excerpt)

Edition of 1OO copies on yellow vinyl. Sold out at source. Pocahaunted offer up two side long siren excursions into the otherworldy plains. On 'One Another' our enchanted twosome ride a cindering tapestry of guitar string propelled by other-worldly beats of oblivion. And 'Sister Calypso'... a hauting ode to the lovestruck daughter of Atlas or uncanny caribbean sea breeze lullabye that transmogrifies into full blown tropical thunder? Who can say? Extra skronk and skree provided by Andy Spore and Bobb Bruno.

Listen to Mirror Mics:
One Another (excerpt)
Sister Calypso (excerpt)

Sold out at source. The Pocahaunted track was recorded what seems like a million years ago (aka summer 07), right around the 'Tear For Every Grain of Sand' sessions. The Orphan Fairytale track is the most overtly wacky thing in her discog, total tyfus bonkers goof-trooping. Silkscreened art, full color labels.

Listen to Pocahaunted & Orphan Fairytale:
Orphan Fairytale - Made By Mermaids (excerpt)
Pocahaunted - War Paint (excerpt)

Out of print. This Los Angeles based duo needs no introduction, emails have been flowing in about this tape before Night People even had them assembled. Psychedelic sisters of an ancient Californian apocalypse, Pocahuanted call out some hazy echoes over the valley on this tape of blown out guitar jamming, pre-american vocal serenity, and saxophone wash and skronk (provided by Andy Spore). Another killer outing from this prolific left coast institution.

Listen to Beast That You Are:
Side A (excerpt)
Side B (excerpt)

CD-R-only release from Robedoor + it's a total creeper; four of the blackest drone pieces, shifting and creaking string tones with utterly buried vocals, unrecognizable as such, and occasional percussive elements, like bells to warn of the inevitable immersion in an all-consuming abyss should the listener proceed. "Voices, confusion, poison ...like a mouthful of black strawberries."

Listen to Christ's Vipers:
Ruined Raptures (excerpt)
Scared Sacred (excerpt)

New reissue of Royal Trux's classic second album, available on vinyl for the first time since 1990! Remastered, with a full-color spread on the inner gatefold instead of the black & white of the original release. Disjointed rock deconstructions; bewitching rambling vocals, fractured guitar lines & broken laser-beats; deceptively shambolic. Despite the increasing prevalence/creeping influence of experimental music in mainstream society over the past several years, 'Twin Infinitives' still holds firm as one of the most challenging and rewarding records out there, sounding every bit as skewed, as dangerous, as it did twenty years ago.

Listen to Twin Infinitives:
Chances are the Comets in Our Future (excerpt)
NY Avenue Bridge (excerpt)
Osiris (excerpt)

This is the first vinyl pressing of the band's self-released LP since 1988. An introduction to a world of completely alien noise-take on rock, pop and blues, created by two fucked-up kids, ex-Pussy Galore guitarist Neil Hagerty and his then sixteen year old girlfriend, Jennifer Herrema. A psychic nightmare-vision of American music history.

Listen to Royal Trux:
Zero Dok (excerpt)
Strawberry Soda (excerpt)
Jesse James (excerpt)

Second edition of 5O cassettes packaged in oversized gold envelopes, housing the tape, insert, and a different African tarot card with each copy. Stripped-down duo recordings from John Twells of Xela/Type Records & Brad Rose of The North Sea/Ajilvsga/Digitalis Industries. Grim, decaying horrorscapes. Long ambient pieces infused with synth, organ, waves of distortion + ominous sermons delivered in foreign tongues. Highly recommended.

Listen to It Died In Africa:
Beginning of Wisdom (excerpt)

The duo of Mike Donovan and Matt Hartman outdo themselves here and it is the most fully realized Sic Alps release to date. U.S. EZ knows perfectly well what it means to be high and inside, the virtual brick of Berlin / Big Sur hash we’ve all been waiting to break into. The ominous death’s head fez has now been ensconced in a witchy naugahyde bonnet, levelling the playing field for both the psychedelically challenged and the itinerant avant garde.

Listen to US EZ:
Sing Song Waitress (excerpt)
Gelly Roll Gum Drop (excerpt)
Massive Place (excerpt)

Return to Zero. Six sides of vinyl, containing a wealth of Six Organs rarities and unreleased material, most laid to 4-track in utmost isolation, hence the title reference. This set includes the SOOA side to the 'Songs from the Entoptic Garden' split with Charalambides, the ultra-rare lathe-cut 33 & limited vinyl LP masterpiece 'Nightly Trembling', two pieces found only on very limited run CDs ('Warm Earth, Which I've Been Told' and 'You Can Always See the Sun'), and one massive early suite, 'Punish the Chasms with Wings'. Essential listening if you missed out the first time around; or unheard material, new artwork & a welcome respite from worn Time-Lag vinyl for those long in the know.

Listen to RTZ:
Redefinition of Being (excerpt)
Warm Earth, Which I've Been Told (excerpt)
Resurrection (excerpt)

Limited one time pressing. Uncalculated unconscious expectations within an involuntary interception (system) of detached fantasy detached provided the fantasy is born of ingredients outside of the body but determined by the unpenetrated unconsciousness this in combination with the minds ability to sight illusions creates a world in which the consciousness can travel in and out of realisation of the event arising as with the tangible actions of the ceremony ascending and descending within the spectators consciousness manifest exchanged illusions. The unknowing of levels of consciousness as the procession of the ceremony transforms the imagination from inner and outer experience to one a whole motion of physical and mental interaction. Physicalities of the sensibilities of ingrediential strairways. Recorded in Universal City, Mexico by Spencer Clark and James Ferraro.

Listen to Physicalities of the Sensibilities of Ingrediential Strairways:
Untitled (excerpt)
Untitled (excerpt)

Edition of 1OO. Sold out at source. If you take side A of this cassette as a re-imagining of 70's American & European jazz skronk, but run through cannons of reverb and acid tinged FX, then you're somewhere close to the vibe here. That's a sound the Weirdos have always hinted at, but seem to really let loose on 'Spirit Activity Suite'. Eventually things sink into the waste deep layers of electronic echoes shot from outer space that you would expect to hear. Offset printed covers & pro cassettes.

Listen to Spirit Activity:
Spirit Activity Suite (excerpt)
Van Duzer/Pagan As Fuck (excerpt)

Edition of 100. New split featuring Vancouver's finest, Shearing Pinx, paired with one of our favourite SF collectives. though there's some fine locals on that side as well. The A-side is nice tape edit of many hours of jams by the Starving Weirdos, featuring guest musicians Gabriel Mindel Saloman, Aja Rose Bond and Ora Cogan (though only GMS is credited in the liner notes). The B-side features one ten-minute track from the Pinx.

Listen to Starving Weirdos & Shearing Pinx:
Starving Weirdos - The Other Minds of Fucked-Up Times (excerpt)
Shearing Pinx - Lackadaisical Charm (excerpt)

LOCAL   $7
1-SIDED C60     US/CAN $10
WORLD €10

Edition of 26. The first offering from Vancouver based b'm's. Single sided concoction of foreboding drone, industrial squall and white noise. Sourced entirely from a thrift store Christmas LP and radio static with the results being anything but merry. Wrapped in a single page from the dictionary accompanied by paper insert. A copy for each letter of the alphabet. From Mark at Thee Expressway blog: "Anyone who heard either of the Empress CDRs should expect the same tidal drone cycles. Blake "Mother" Strukof, the newly adopted pseudonym of Empress, takes the slow encroaching drone rumbles of his previous project and litters the mix with a tide of scrap yard debris. The velocity is eventually increased, creating a menacing feel that I've never really heard in his music before. Perhaps that is what prompted the new recording name for this project, a way to distance Empress from this harsher end of his musical landscapes."

Listen to Abide/Zither:
Abide I (excerpt)
Abide II (excerpt)
Zither (excerpt)

Luckyhorse Industries reissue of Tiny Vipers' debut album, packaged in a letterpressed gatefold sleeve with insert artwork by Jesy Fortino. Seven early songs, only one of which is available elsewhere (a re-recorded 'Shipwreck' can be found on her Sub Pop full-length, 'Hands Across the Void'). Inhabiting the space carved out by minimal guitar, gentle textures and stark, immediate vocals, Tiny Vipers’ music evokes the contrast and quiet, empty beauty of a grey northwest landscape. Jesy has spent the past two and a half years exploring these landscapes, releasing a few artfully-packaged CDRs and playing shows all over the Northwest.

Listen to Tiny Vipers I:
They Might Follow You (excerpt)
Fell In A Well (excerpt)
Shipwreck (excerpt)

Luckyhorse Industries reissue of the second and third Tiny Vipers self-released CD-Rs, packaged in a letterpressed gatefold sleeve, with insert artwork by Jesy Fortino. Two very long experimental songs, quite different from the music on her Sub Pop full-length + highly recommended.

Listen to Empire Prism:
Can I Use Magic to Stop the World from Dying? (excerpt)
My Shadow (excerpt)

Edition of 5OO in full-color 6-panel gatefold jackets. Natural Snow Buildings made a huge splash with their self-released masterwork, "The Dance of the Moon and the Sun". Last year, one half of the group, Mehdi Amaziane, released a solo album as Twinsistermoon. It was every bit as enchanting as Natural Snow Buildings. The initial run was highly limited and sold-out immediately (though reissue plans for that album are in the works with Time-Lag Records & Digitalis). This year continued with the release of "Levels & Crossings". With a first edition of 36 copies, those lucky enough to hear it were awestruck. We're extremely proud to offer "Levels & Crossings", reissued in its full, exquisite glory. At times reminiscent of '60s folk music, but with passages where Amaziane unleashes walls of organic, shimmering drones. The intermingling of songs and immense sheets of sound is perfect. A force to be reckoned with.

Listen to Levels and Crossings:
Levels and Crossings (excerpt)
The Black Under (excerpt)

Edition of 500. Vinyl-only release. Dusted review: There is something intensely isolating about U.S. Girls. Like a missive from some underground bunker, the songs come encoded. No liner notes beyond the simplest credits. No color press photos. No CD release. The songs themselves are at times impenetrable, repetitive and abrasive. Unappealing as this description might seem, Introducing... U.S. Girls doesn’t actually traffic in the glee-less distortion of the past eight years. Instead, Megan Remy, the U.S. Girl, performs music that is reverent to popular music – albeit the most raucous parts – without ever resorting to pantomime or sacrificing innovation for tribute. Each song on Introducing… is both aloof and grounded, thanks to Remy’s hazy guitar loops.

Listen to Introducing... U.S. Girls:
Prove It All Night (excerpt)
Don't Understand That Man (excerpt)

UK import. Nine exclusive tracks, every bit as essential as the 'Introducing...' LP, though definitely less polished, and somewhat more immediate + pop-oriented than the full-length. Worth it for the Dave Clark Five cover alone. Dylan Nyoukis' strangely appropriate description: "Meghan Remy continues her one woman crusade to drain all humankind of bad blood and garbage, refilling our boots with hissed out affection while dousing us in white thunder. Hear the sound of a skull full of quartz being pounded by tiny yet powerful hands and listen to her inveigling vocals, the kind of thing Phil Spector hears in his pill popping nightmares."

Listen to Gravel Days:
Bits and Pieces (excerpt)
You Know It Makes Me Blue (excerpt)
I Bradley (excerpt)

Two new and exclusive U.S. Girls tracks, totally raw + presented in the borderline-obsolete cassette single format, complete with screen-printed wrap-around sleeve. Tiny edition + already sold out at the source.

Listen to St. Jude Boys Choir:
Found on the Ground (excerpt)
St. Jude Boys Choir (excerpt)

Second installment in the limited edition Whitehouse Vinyl Collection Series, pressed on HQ-180 vinyl. Classic debut album, recorded in 1980 using only an effects pedal, two synthesizers, and a tone generator. Absolutely essential listening for anyone with an interest in the roots of contemporary noise music.

Listen to Birthdeath Experience:
The Second Coming (excerpt)
Rock and Roll (excerpt)
Mindphaser (excerpt)

Debut LP by the influential Portland punk band, released in 1980. This is the first time "Is This Real?" has been available on vinyl in the U.S. since its initial release. Remastered from original tapes as provided by Greg Sage himself, pressed on audiophile grade vinyl, and housed in a deluxe tip-on sleeve complete with a printed insert replicating the original innersleeve. A lavish tribute to one of the greatest records of the last 30 years.

Listen to Is This Real?:
Is This Real? (excerpt)
Return of the Rat (excerpt)
Mystery (excerpt)
D-7 (excerpt)

Simply obliterating any conception of the Wipers as a mere punk band, Greg Sage released this follow-up to 'Is This Real?' in 1981 - a sophisticated, overwhelming response to the evil times marked by the turn of the decade. Broken up into six long songs, “Youth of America” is a much colder, harrowing experience than the teen angst of their debut. Vocally, Sage comes off as sleep-deprived and forsaken, snarling not only at his own predicament, but at the predicament of the entire world. Jackpot Records have kept to the high standards set by our previous reissues, and “Youth of America” is pressed on high-quality vinyl at RTI, and packaged in an old-fashioned tip-on sleeve. The tracks have been mastered from original tapes by Greg Sage himself.

Listen to Youth of America:
Youth of America (excerpt)
Taking Too Long (excerpt)
No Fair (excerpt)

Originally released in 1983, the bleak, hard-driven third LP by the Wipers offers Greg Sage at his most chased and breathless, lashing out with sharp staccato notes as if melody were his only defense. While their debut LP provided the blueprint for grunge, and their second album recast the band as one of America’s premier postpunk bands, it’s Over The Edge that best exemplifies the Wipers’ sound. The jagged, effortless guitar lines, the paranoid lyrics and raw-throated vocals and the taut, unified rhythms that define their sound bleed together most clearly on this LP, and it stands as both the best entry point for new fans and the most prevalent favorite of diehards. Since Jackpot Records began our Wipers vinyl reissues in 2006, we’ve been inundated with requests for a reissue of Over The Edge. After two years of labor, including an immaculate remaster from the original tapes by Greg Sage, we are proud to present 'Over the Edge', pressed on audiophile grade vinyl and packaged in a deluxe, tip-on sleeve.

Listen to Over the Edge:
Doom Town (excerpt)
No Generation Gap (excerpt)
No One Wants An Alien (excerpt)
Messenger (excerpt)
What Is? (excerpt)

'Black Wing Over The Sand' is one long session that lays bare the roots of Wolf Eyes: here is an evident presence of the industrial music of the early 1980s with bands such as Throbbing Gristle, Maurizio Bianchi, and the cassette label Broken Flag. Instead of the harsh dissonances and compact walls of noise Wolf Eyes are well known for, the wholly instrumental piece moves slowly forward over a basis of silence, with oscillating movements, short bursts of noise, screaming high pitched tones + deep, molasses-paced bass rythyms. 'Black Wing...' is one of the more accessible pieces of music in their body of work, and an excellent introduction to the dark cosmos of Wolf Eyes.

Listen to Black Wing Over the Sand:
Side A (excerpt)
Side B (excerpt)

After a year of non-stop touring in support of 2004’s Burned Mind, Wolf Eyes were ready, seasoned to travel through horrible new areas of sound. This new slab is the first with Mike Connelly of Hair Police replacing Aaron Dilloway. Though he no longer tours with the band, Dilloway remains involved and helped to mix the new record. These songs are rotten with metal, reeds, consciousness-erasing islands of black doom; bass-heavy rippers, late-night free-terror jams, afflicted dog-hearts, underwater crabs: pure mayhem. The new double bass attack is showcased on “Human Animal” and “Rusted Mange” with scraping strings and a full terror-shriek workout re-organized by Dilloway. New directions are countered by “Rationed Rot,” which revisits the eerie Throbbing Gristle-esque vocal deployment that dates from Wolf Eyes’ Dread LP. The album also features the band’s first ever cover song: a dead-on rendering of No Fucker’s rotten hXc anthem, “Noise Not Music”.

Listen to Human Animal:
A Million Years (excerpt)
Rusted Mange (excerpt)
Noise Not Music (excerpt)

"Live at Camp Blood, a psychic seance of toxic neon junk, collaborative retch and wrangle. The is the new sound of vomit crunk, a heaving mess of strangled feedback & black mood confusion, death grasp electronics, mangled guitar and mutilated voices congealing into an unpleasant future. Just who could have survived and what was left of them? NO ONE / NOTHING. Not recommended for fans of music. Mastered by Pete Swanson to be as uncomfortable as possible."

Listen to Yellow Swans & The Cherry Point:
Live at Camp Blood (excerpt)

Curated by Gabriel Mindel Saloman. Volume One: Bedroom Resolution. A collection of four-track recordings by GMS, featuring one solo track by him, as well as eight others, including Tara Jane O'Neil, Au, Sarah Winchester, and Nick Bindeman (of Jackie-O Motherfucker/Eternal Tapestry).

Listen to A Free Cascadia Folk Anthology, Volume One:
Tara Jane O'Neil - Untitled Work In Progress (excerpt)
Sarah Winchester - Oh, the Herons (excerpt)
GMS - Hollow and Full (excerpt)