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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…
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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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Boy+Girl “Cavity Orbit Sword” CD-R
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Limited to 60
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Don’t Move Play Dead “Live at the George 2nd Pub” CD-R
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Limited to 60
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EXTRA SEXES “Spiral Mirror” LP
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edition of 300 LPs, cyan & magenta screenprinted sleeve, artwork by Tessa Deceuninck
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HYENA “Commyn Straet” CS
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first edition of 100 tapes, screenprinted in black & pink
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Hyena “Outside, The Great Drought” LP
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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.
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Hyena “Outside, The Great Drought” CD
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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.
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JONAS RUCHENHEVER “Maze/Haze” CS
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edition of 50 tapes, screenprinted sleeve
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Nate Wooley “Trumpet/Amplifier” LP
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Edition of 496, heavy-weight vinyl with screenprinted open sleeve. Liner notes by Ben Hall.
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“Trumpet/Amplifier: three pieces of unrelenting pressure, from choking bursts of muteness to firestorms of sound. Trumpeter becoming trumpet. Brass ventriloquism.” —ttt
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Panicsville “A Dragonfly For Each Corpse” LP+7″
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Edition of 400, heavy-weight vinyl with screenprinted open sleeve.
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“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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