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Hyena
“Outside, The Great Drought” LP

NY-based multi-instrumentalist Colby Nathan delivers a debut that contains a jumpy and highly neurotic form of outsiderpop combining bebopdrenched rants and surrealistic torchsongs with lush arrangements that constantly test the limits of self-control and good reason. “Outside, The Great Drought” offers baroque exuberance and teenage angst through sixties inspired craftsmanship that keeps spiraling out of this worldly realm. Think Jonathan Richman, Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks.

Vinyl edition of 500, with two-colour screenprinted open sleeve.

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Alex Monk
The Safety Machine 2xLP

Drenched in a frozen, hypnotic melancholy, The Safety Machine is a double-LP tour de force by London-based musician and producer Alex Monk. Incorporating seventies kraut-synth psychedelic, cosmic ambient drones and haunting melodies into an ambitious framework of multi-layered sonic bleakness with hints of early Eno, Klaus Schultze, Robert Wyatt and Moondog, Monk creates a haunting world that’s filled with loss, loneliness and ethereal beauty — staring into the abyss while the icecaps are hugging your skull…

The Safety Machine double-LP comes in a hand-numbered edition of 310, with a screenprinted open sleeve. Also includes MP3 download voucher.

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Peeesseye + Talibam!
2xLP

A collaboration made in fudge, this brings together 2 tribes of cannibals that cook up a gumbo stew of Kraut infused jams and over the top arm wrestling organ-freakouts to conjure up bleeding walls of feedback. Result? A serious contender for the scariest psych fest this town has ever seen. The CD version of this is coming out on the lovely Invada Records.

Limited to 600 copies, artwork by Rachel Lowther.

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Nate Wooley
Trumpet/Amplifier LP

A firestorm of grinding sound that emerges one into a highly personal sonic hellhole; Trumpet/Amplifier is a definitive statement by Wooley and is probably his most drastic and complete album to date. A marriage of noise and freejazz plagued by shadows and fog. Comes with extensive liner notes by Ben Hall (Graveyards). —w

Limited to 496 copies, with screenprinted art, designed by Levi Seeldraeyers.

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Panicsville
A Dragonfly For Each Corpse LP+7″

“A Dragonfly For Each Corpse is a record that stands no daylight. A feverish nightmare of an album, dragging us into a brown paper bag —ferocious cannibal jungle ambience seeping through— till we’re cast down some stairs into a cellar made out of spit. A twirling folkballad sung by a ghost made out of chewing gum turns into a symphony of typing fingers, ticking clocks and slamming car doors, like a noirish soundtrack to the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, accompanied by squeaking stuffed animals as eyewitnesses. A record that feels like a horror franchise turning into understated drama, where mourners and killers change places in unexpected and drastic fashion. With the collaboration of John Wiese, Josephine Foster, MV Carbon, Thymme Jones.” —w

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Alex Monk
Kit Mikaya CD-R

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Blue Shift
Pressure Corner CD-R

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Don’t Move, Play Dead!
Live at the George 2nd Pub CD-R

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Boy+Girl
Cavity Orbit Sword CD-R

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Alex Monk
Exchanging Chairs CD-R

…This colossal 6 track 41 minute set from London based musician Alex Monk should by rights appeal to fans of not only Brian Eno, Pimmon, Stockhausen and EAR (especially on the mind melting ‘Soyuz 1′) but Moondog, Roy Montgomery and other fringe psychedelicists operating in outer realms of concrete ambience… (courtesy: Losing Today)

http://www.myspace.com/alexmonk

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Jewell.Radding.Wooley
Rift CD-R
(sold out)

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