{"title":"The Latest","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"long-hots-give-take-nickle-dime-7","title":"Long Hots - Give \u0026 Take \/ Nickle \u0026 Dime 7\"","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter Rosali’s No Medium bowled me over on release a couple of years ago, it’s been a trip seeking out her back catalogue, and Long Hots are a highlight!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Philly underground supergroup of sorts featuring Rosali alongside Eva Killinger of Spacin’ and Kathryn Lipman of Hothead, Long Hots play a brand of droning and lurching lo fi DIY garage or basement rock. One that for locals recalls classic singles from Destiny 3000 or The Friendsters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRock music at it’s best!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Mitch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 208px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3907421959\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/longhots.bandcamp.com\/album\/nickel-dime\"\u003eNickel \u0026amp; Dime by Long Hots\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38062652752054,"sku":"TMR624","price":13.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a0642564658_10.jpg?v=1613725095"},{"product_id":"hammering-the-cramps-hammering-the-cramps-lp","title":"Hammering The Cramps - Hammering The Cramps LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery few years the sole long player from Hammering The Cramps returns to my orbit of regular listening and I re-write a similar endorsement saying that the Wormwood Grasshopper Records milieu of Tasmanian music circa 2010-ish is a more budget friendly alternative to the Pin Group\/Jefferies Brothers\/Dead C\/Xpressway Records end of the 80s NZ underground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’m not surprised that HTC are yet to be canonised into underground infamy, although since I last posted about this record related acts Elli \u0026amp; Bev have been included on the ‘Volcanic Tongue (A Time-Travelling Evangelist’s Guide To Late 20th Century Underground Music)’ compilation and it’s rumoured Drunk Elk are negotiating a six album deal with Matador Records.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHave you ever enjoyed a little weird past corner of music that hasn’t got the baggage of being subculturally important? It’s actually nice. You could do that with this album for under $20. Anyway this Hammering The Cramps LP is at points grating and ugly, but also soaring and beautiful. They plagal-ly grind their way into the warm jets zone in an uncanny and magical way. We need to ensure there’s space for idiosyncrats like this in music’s future! Highly curated and vibey arts entrepreneurs, please make some space. — Nic\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Direct","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38073167904950,"sku":"WG02","price":19.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/R-3293603-1385114160-2106_jpeg.jpg?v=1613899409"},{"product_id":"sarah-hennies-the-reinvention-of-romance-2lp","title":"Sarah Hennies - The Reinvention Of Romance 2LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Just so you know… this is crazy music” – Anonymous customer. To be fair, this is not music people are used to hearing in public and they did experience its most challenging movements (side 1). But over these four sides these new compositions by Sarah Hennies, performed by Ashlee Booth (cello) \u0026amp; Adam Lion (percussion), feel immersive, intimate, and moving in a way I could not have imagined.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSarah Hennies is composer and percussionist based in upstate New York, one notch on her resume is providing the “New York Drums” on The Native Cats – John Sharp Toro album. Over these 90 minutes we have real deep tonal exploration and peculiar shifting patterns that evoke very human feelings in a manner similar to John Gibson or Ellen Fullman. A record that fits well in the Astral Spirits stable of adventurous new music.\u003cbr\u003e-Nic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39249218404534,"sku":"7.67871E+11","price":49.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a2369494205_10.jpg?v=1614156375"},{"product_id":"voice-imitator-plaza-lp","title":"Voice Imitator - Plaza LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI've noticed a recent pattern of people I had a formative youth music experience with 10-15 years ago somewhat slipping out of the music-underground micro-limelight, re-assembling their tools and re-emerging at a new creative peak.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMusic that can't succinctly be positioned as a contemporary sound, or part of some groundbreaking movement, but makes a particularly illuminating statement about *gestures vaguely at everything*. Examples include Fabulous Diamonds, Suburban Cracked Collective, The Lavender Flu and this album by Voice Imitator.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVoice Imitator features past or present members of True Radical Miracle, Zond, Bunyip Moon, Leather Towel and Exhaustion. A \"rock\" band that's members could probably all tolerate Les Rallizes Denudes, Pan Sonic, The Stooges and Godflesh on the minivan CD player if covid, domestic duties and day jobs ever allow them to tour.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn 'Plaza' members of Voice Imitator's collective youth-music experiences (punk, industrial, noise etc) are explored via a refined minimalism. It's a record for fans of Negative Approach and Robert Ashley.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNo songs about the threat of nuclear annihilation, Voice Imitator illustrate the contemporary void of 'nothing feels possible\/forgot to cancel HelloFresh before the discount period ended'. Remarkable music.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- Nic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XoHERau1Eak\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39249221484726,"sku":"","price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a0200493412_10.jpg?v=1614156387"},{"product_id":"of-habit-viable-device-lp","title":"Of Habit - Viable Device LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn album that answers the age old question: What would it sound like if Actress's remix of Wiley's 'From The Outside' and mid-to-late period Shadow Ring had a windbreaker-wearing adult son???\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOf Habit is UK resident Gary Myles of the lurking scrape and scree experimental trio Spoils \u0026amp; Relics. I don't know if Gary actively wanted to make a music that alludes to the most dimly lit corners of Grime or \"bass music\", within a post-industrial framework.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere’s no toasting or mc-ing here though, only talking. Talking over organised bursts of electronic percussion, static and general sound-atmosphere.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLike Malvern Brume and Red Wine and Sugar, Of Habit works a real production-craft into the 21st century domestic concrete style. A personal favourite of recent history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Nic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover art by Kieron Piercy. Mastered by Joe Talia. 12\" regular weight black vinyl. Limited edition of 100 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Direct","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39269957664950,"sku":"","price":24.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a3896254385_10.jpg?v=1614500147"},{"product_id":"various-abstracte-barcelona-avantgarde-industrial-1981-1986-lp","title":"Various - Abstracte: Barcelona Avantgarde \u0026 Industrial 1981 - 1986 LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's been four years of hard work, with lots of surprises, drawbacks, hours of research and people involved. We can say now that this record is one of the most complex and ambitious projects we have released so far. Today we are pleased to announce the release of 'Abstracte: Barcelona Avantgarde \u0026amp; Industrial 1981-1986'. 'Abstracte' is a retrospective, a contemporary vision towards the past, a glimpse into a historical, artistic and musical moment in time, a spontaneous movement, disjointed and groundbreaking, wholly counter-culture and out of the mainstream circuits, which Barcelona lived in the late 70s\/ early 80s, hardly remembered today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was the time, now mythical, before the '92 Olympics, in the ancient capital of the Western Mediterranean turned into an industrial-revolution melting-pot in the previous century and ruled since then by enriched local upper-middle classes always looking up to Europe while of a strictly local mindset. Theirs were the architects, painters and city planners whose work tourists admire today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the long summers, one could go downtown from any of the outer areas -some still nominally independent- find parking space within half a mile from the cathedral or the Rambles, and go joyously record hunting in the convoluted streets of the old quarter without feeling part of a theme park. This petty bourgeois pleasure fell into oblivion long ago. Not that there were many records to be bought, anyway. Imports were scarce and expensive, distribution of local labels was terrible and the whole cultural scene looked fragmented and contradictory. But, after forty years of political dictatorship -which collapsed amid bloody ridicule in 1975-1980- the air was full with promise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn fact, the city was late, as usual, for the musical revolution of 1976, but no one seemed to notice or care. Labels, bands, venues and trends were even more ephemeral than today, and the most dedicated collectors missed a great deal of product. Those were the times, and this is a cross-section of the underground scene of these days and it is also a sample, a recognition and a selection of pioneering artists, musicians who showed the path to many that followed. These projects enjoyed very little, if any, visibility. Most of them never got their work released, although their musical output was large and some acts did perform with remarkable success in the area of Barcelona. Others did not take the chance to get signed by a major, remaining stubbornly faithful to their musical ethos. Even others were self-produced and self promoted affairs, with the means available at the time, merely aiming at spreading their work in a notably hostile scene, with some producing their music at home, for themselves, without much conscience of what they were doing.\u003cbr\u003e More than thirty years on, our perception of what this revolution in the Barcelona music scene meant has mutated and evolved. We firmly believe it our responsibility to shed some light on this little-known and enigmatic instant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guerssen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39281945673910,"sku":"8m1-3806l","price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a2391635894_10.jpg?v=1614668439"},{"product_id":"various-pas-de-deux-lp","title":"Various - Pas De Deux LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe are in 1985, a hectic year for the emerging independent record label Auxilio de Cientos. The company offices are in full performance. There are several projects going on, and the first one at international level is no less than a compilation which meets up electronic music groups formed by a couple, a very common tendency these days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA nearly conceptual Project in which electronic groups from such distant countries as USA or Germany take part; however, they have a common denominator: all of them are emerging groups in which experimentation and resounding risk is an essential premise in their recordings. Nevertheless, there is a clear homogeneity in their sound. The synth-pop, dark ambient, minimal synth, industrial, techno amongst other musical classifications which later on would become very popular, are revealed in the grooves of Pas de Deux.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe selection of artists has been a hard and complex workÉ internet does not exist, Facebook, soundclouds, Instagram, Napster, and many other means which will emerge a few years after that, and which will facilitate the distribution and communication between people are science fiction in 1985. Those young artists and musicians communicate basically through fanzines, 'circles' of friends, independent radio stations, the well-known postcard art and epistolary post! However, there are no barriers to communicate and, eventually, they manage to compile an excellent selection, with themes specially recorded for that occasion. Some of the groups are, at the same time, pioneer in their original countries. That is the case of the Belgian Bene Gesserit (with their recording seal Insane Music) o Deux Pingouins (Illusion Production). Both 'labels' will be very active in the following years and they will relatively manage to succeed in their respective countries. We can also talk about the American group Algebra Suicide (formed by a journalist from the Rolling Stone and a radio commenter), the Californian Psyclones, who sometimes remind us of The Residents, Lied and Die Freude, a German duet whose theme is the music of one of their video-performance, or the very young Enhanta Bodlar or the naif sound of the Italian Influenza Prods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePas de Deux led to Auxilio de Cientos international taking off as well as a great step forward in the consolidation of an alternative to the official one music prevailing in Spain. Other groups and recording seals were working at a similar level in other cities of the country, and all together brought in a different view, a new sound. That was our little contribution to a sound which was mainly led by the Anglo-saxon groups, and which eventually managed to write its own chapter in music history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Javier Mar’n 2015\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guerssen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39281946525878,"sku":"Dom24-L","price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a0472477685_10.jpg?v=1614668452"},{"product_id":"bomis-prendin-clear-memory-lp","title":"Bomis Prendin - Clear Memory LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormed in 1978, Bomis Prendin is a collective of experimental \"noisicians\" from Washington DC, pioneers within the DIY, Industrial, cassette culture and experimental electronics scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsing cassette recorders, mutated musical toys, electric guitars, bass, rewired circuitry, analog pedal effects \u0026amp; cheap keyboards, they recorded and released in the late 70s a couple of astounding flexi-discs (Test and Phantom Limb) which led to them being included on the infamous Nurse With Wound list.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Clear Memory' was originally released in 1984 only on cassette (50 copies) and it's an incredible example of DIY mutant psychedelic pop and homemade electronic weirdness which sounds years ahead of its time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere's the first ever reissue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guerssen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39281947902134,"sku":"Ment030","price":24.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a3025504717_10.jpg?v=1614668474"},{"product_id":"alex-chilton-take-me-home-and-make-me-like-it-lp","title":"Alex Chilton- Take Me Home And Make Me Like It LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1975 Alex Chilton went into the Ardent Recording Studios with producer Jon Tiven and out of some tumultuous recording sessions came a number of loose and unpolished gems which would ultimately become the Singer Not The Song EP and Bach's Bottom album. 'Take Me Home And Make Me Like It' is a raw document of one of the pivotal moments in Alex Chilton's career. It features previously unreleased rehearsals and alternate takes that tell the story of a troubled recording process that nevertheless produced intensely unique music.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guerssen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39281949638838,"sku":"","price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a4213794978_10.jpg?v=1614668504"},{"product_id":"voigt-465-slights-still-unspoken-1978-1979-lp","title":"Voigt\/465 - Slights Still Unspoken (1978-1979) LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI remember buying this Voigt\/465 comp when it first floated through the shop back in 2017(?) in the midst of a frenzy of archival Australian post-punk\/private press reissues that were coming out at the time. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI got it home, gave it a few listens, and admittedly filed it into the ‘too hard’ pile. Something about proficient musicians playing angular and arty post-punk didn’t immediately click with me (perhaps I was suffering from a particularly strong case of Dolewave fever at the time?).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut returning to it sometime in the past week has reaped its rewards! Before it’s time in melding punk approach with kraut drive, sharp-edged disjointedness, and arty experimentation. An approach that aligns itself with groups like Pere Ubu, This Heat, or Faust or as a forebear to groups like Essendon Airport and Tsk Tsk Tsk, or more recently Constant Mongrel, Diat, and even Exek. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Mitch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guerssen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39281949868214,"sku":"","price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/square.jpg?v=1619442706"},{"product_id":"cube-drug-of-choice-lp","title":"Cube - Drug Of Choice LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eMy strange addiction? Cube's new album 'Drug Of Choice'. Like I said in the last attempt to contextualise this project, the rhythmic\/industrial studio experiments of DOME (the place to go after the first 3 Wire albums) is a close mode of operation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCube has a pluralistic approach that folds together decades of different underground music dialects in a way that feels remarkably cohesive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn album that reminds me of the 2000s supreme post-punk minimalists A-Frames, but also features more than one amen break(?!). The kind of damaged circuitry sounds you'd hear on Wolf Eye's Slicer meets Cheveu's electro-punk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSits well next to the YL Hooi LP that just arrived in the mail (we'll tell ya bout that one later!). Pretty fantastic stuff to be freakin' honest!\u003cbr\u003e - Nic\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39298703753398,"sku":"alt63","price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a4073958906_10.jpg?v=1614902042"},{"product_id":"nick-klein-no-shortage-of-rope-lp","title":"Nick Klein - No Shortage Of Rope LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat happens when you arrive to a party and everyone is leaving as you are walking in? If a bass drum booms in the woods but no one is around to hear it, does it even boom at all? Can you build a mansion with playing cards?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNick Klein returns to ALTER with the cryptically biographical ‘No Shortage of Rope’, his third release for the label and significantly, potentially his first full length album. Consisting of 7 tracks, ‘No Shortage of Rope’ is a consolidated collection of recordings Klein made after leaving his long-term base of NYC to become a full-time resident of Den Haag, Netherlands. Using some newfound free time post-move, Klein wanted to approach his working process in the studio a little differently to create something long form, something that felt more like an album as opposed to being built with the club music paradigm as a given. Describing his time in the studio, Klein says it was “the most hermetic studio endeavour I have ever undertaken”. It certainly seems that Klein harnessed this period of productivity to make the most of what his music could offer as ‘No Shortage of Rope’ is the man in his most pointedly pure form.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 373px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2428753658\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nickklein-alter.bandcamp.com\/album\/no-shortage-of-rope\"\u003eNo Shortage Of Rope by Nick Klein\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39298703884470,"sku":"alt58","price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a1803632665_10.jpg?v=1614902045"},{"product_id":"hook-up-hook-up-cs","title":"HooK\/\/Up - HooK\/\/Up CS","description":"\u003cp\u003eA better time than now to release a tape recorded in 2014? I think not. HooK\/\/Up was a literal hookup between Sam Karmel and Timothy D. 2 friends who have (for various reasons) deeply inspired me over the years. Sam Karmel is probably most known for his current duo CS+Kreme (with Conrad Standish) maybe even F Ingers BUT for me the real magic was his part in the absurd meandering of the late Bum Creek. Much from the same strange tap of Canberran improvisational water is Timothy D. An audio visual artist with one of the most powerful, singular and unique voices in the Australian underground. To me the magic in both Tim and Sam is their response to environment ~ live and improvised ~ and thats exactly what we get with HooK\/\/Up. A suite of 4 tracks that burn hot and heavy. A loose ride jam dance in 4 parts. It's good and I have found it to get better with each listen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Moontown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39298704048310,"sku":"","price":8.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a3260455101_10.jpg?v=1614902046"},{"product_id":"mope-city-rocket-surgery-cs","title":"Mope City - Rocket Surgery CS","description":"\u003cp\u003eRocket Surgery is taken from the upcoming Mope City album 'Within The Walls' out April 30 through Tenth Court.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tenth Court","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39298704113846,"sku":"TC052","price":8.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a1744216686_10.jpg?v=1614902047"},{"product_id":"roy-montgomery-island-of-lost-souls-cd","title":"Roy Montgomery - Island Of Lost Souls CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eIsland Of Lost Souls is the first of four new albums by Roy Montgomery coming out in 2021 to commemorate Montgomery's forty years in music. His debut release was also Flying Nun's first, the Pin Group 7-inch from 1981.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Roy Montgomery, a pioneer of the NZ underground, believes there is always new sonic terrain to investigate. His latest album for Grapefruit marks forty years of rigorous exploration in which he's managed to navigate disparate genres, scenes, and atmospheres, always at the forefront of experimental independent music.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Island Of Lost Souls follows his acclaimed 2018 LP Suffuse—a novel departure in which he consigned all vocal duties to ambient \/ experimental peers Liz Harris (of Grouper), Julianna Barwick, Purple Pilgrims, Haley Fohr (of Circuit des Yeux), Katie von Schleicher, and She Keeps Bees. But the veteran evolves again. On this release Montgomery creates resounding, aerial compositions for guitar. Where some might be inclined to relax and lean into their legacy at this stage in a sprawling career, Montgomery's new music continues to seek and challenge, moving like the eye of a storm.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This latest album cries out like a chorus, though there are no vocals on the record. It's tracklist instead builds upon the lonesome and polyphonic dimensions of guitar in order to express universal feelings of communion and isolation, resisting conclusion but never resorting to fatalism. Life is all about navigating these contradictions and everyone is with Montgomery on this island whether they'd like to admit it or not. Here, the artist has created a work of wisdom and grit, a searing beauty, a new masterpiece for an uncertain and restless time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39298705522870,"sku":"6.00198E+11","price":18.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a0018606512_10_210d6fe8-947a-4516-a1b0-a32d237eee0c.jpg?v=1616633740"},{"product_id":"lina-tullgren-visiting-cs","title":"Lina Tullgren - Visiting CS","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor the inaugural release of our new series where artists make music completely unlike anything they’ve previously released, we present Lina Tullgren’s Visiting. Tullgren’s main occupation as singer-songwriter - with two albums released on Captured Tracks - does not set proper expectations for this new release, which is comprised of violin-based drone best suited for Appalachian Deep Listening. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 241px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2363969316\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/linatullgren.bandcamp.com\/album\/visiting\"\u003eVISITING by Lina Tullgren\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39298709422262,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a0206247390_10.jpg?v=1614902091"},{"product_id":"john-sharkey-iii-shoot-out-the-cameras-lp","title":"John Sharkey III - Shoot Out The Cameras LP","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDebut solo album from Canberra-based Philly mainstay John Sharkey III. Best known for his work in noise rock group Clockcleaner and the melodic indie rock of Dark Blue, this LP is a drummer-less affair that still continues on the distinctive voice of the previous projects.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn album of brooding tracks in the singer songwriter vein but also staying connected to some sort of (post-)punk root, like acoustic Husker Du or Rowland S. Howard doing Townes Van Zandt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Mitch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Inertia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39298710438070,"sku":"MIST094V","price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/John-Sharkey-III-album-cover-1024x1024.jpg?v=1614902098"},{"product_id":"matthew-hayes-charlei-perry-barricade-lp","title":"Matthew Hayes \u0026 Charlie Perry - Barricade LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eMatthew Hayes and Charlie Perry come together to present Barricade, a record that instills hope and softness with a delicate balance of intricate bass guitar, electronic ambience and spoken word. The fusing of these elements imbues a sense of vulnerability, introspection and hopefulness throughout the entirety of the record, inspiring a calmness and beauty that emerges from amongst the ceaseless din of the world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHayes approached fellow musician and spoken word artist Charlie Perry at the beginning of 2020, to collaborate on some recordings originally written while on tour in Europe. The pair instantly hit it off and the idea to complete a record together was formed, not to be set back by the shutdown of the world almost immediately after. Hayes, caught in Europe mid-tour, based himself in the south of France, while Perry retreated to Australia's southern coastline in the small beachside town of Fairhaven. This cross continental collaboration continued over many months as the world around them reeled from the results of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album features other notable collaborations, such as the guest appearance of renowned saxophonist and JK Group bandleader Joshua Kelly on 'Introduction'; the one and only Allysha Joy delivers her unique talent with a soft yet powerful performance on 'I Can Hear You', and the versatile brilliance of Aarti Jadu shines in 'You Care I Know'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a whole, this record is a document of the power of creativity, community and hopefulness in a world that stands disjointed. It is a record that embraces rawness and vulnerability, and is executed with a sophisticated nuance and ease.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bedroom Suck","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39298711814326,"sku":"BSR - 093","price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a0117495154_10.jpg?v=1614902114"},{"product_id":"the-red-engine-group-2-cs","title":"The Red Engine Group - 2 CS","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Red Engine Group cassette is a soapy piece of work, slipping between slightly sinful Faustian guitar music and near-lush meadows of mind and melody.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe whole album is imbued with a feeling like there is something bubbling below the surface ready to erupt into something more chaotic but manages to restrain whatever aggression lies beneath into a steady affair of pondering percussion, vibrating chords and milk and honey. Flowers of poppy Krautrock and bulbs of Velvet Underground grow in the fertile ground of 90s alt rock fields, then you open your eyes and realise you've been invited into Tristan's house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNaming a favourite track is like naming your favourite colour; it really depends when you're asked. It isn't quite sad and it isn't quite mean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRemember, it's only a dream.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lulu's","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39298712699062,"sku":"","price":14.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a4267972466_10.jpg?v=1614902125"},{"product_id":"mahne-frame-mad-world-lp","title":"Mahne Frame - Mad World LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn MAD WORLD, the second EP by Sydney-born, Tokyo-based producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mahne Frame, lines blur: order slides into chaos, good transmutes into bad, and sanity becomes pure, noxious madness. Written as Australia was ravaged by bushfires in early 2020, MAD WORLD is a record that reflects the dreamlike entropy of its environments, a melange of industrial electronics and pop sensibility that plays like a set beamed in from a post-apocalyptic outback club. Surreal and twisted, it's an EP that lives by the logic of its guiding theme, a quote taken from Akira Kurosawa's 1985 film Ran: 'In a mad world, only the mad are sane.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lulu's","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39298712764598,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a2394482640_10.jpg?v=1614902126"},{"product_id":"gravel-samwidge-complaints-lp","title":"Gravel Samwidge - Complaints LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eComplaints is the fourth full-length Gravel Samwidge LP and the second to be released on Brisbane’s Swashbuckling Hobo Records. It follows on from 2013’s critically acclaimed Medicinal Requirements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGravel Sandwidge have carved out a distinct niche in the Australian rock landscape, always purposefully on the outside of but making the kind of noise that makes the right people pay attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescribed as anything from Gutter Rock, Sleaze Rock, Outsider Rock, Punk, Post Punk, Experimental, Progressive and Downer Rock, Gravel Samwidge have been active in one way or another since 1989. In their long lifetime have shared the stage with peers and legends including Lubricated Goat, Tex Perkins, Venom P Stinger, The Beasts, Adalita, Feedtime and Mudhoney.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Direct","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39298712928438,"sku":"","price":24.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a3750337187_10.jpg?v=1614902128"},{"product_id":"city-band-city-band-lp","title":"City Band - City Band LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote type=\"cite\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExpanding the grounds of the “jangle underground Internationale”™, City Band hail from the big smoke of Paris. Taking cues from The Feelies, but not as tightly wound or mid-era Go-Betweens but not as baroque, there’s also the familiar interwoven guitar interplay of more contemporary Australian groups like Twerps or The Ocean Party.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI don’t speak French but I get the sense that City Band’s lyrics don’t come off as breezy and lackadaisical as their Antipodean counterparts. There’s something darker and more existential or introspective here: vocals are lower down in the mix and the recording doesn’t have the pop sheen of so many other groups who play in this vein. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMaybe I’m just projecting some Francophile idea of what I imagine what DIY\/underground music is like in Paris, but it seems that City Band are one of the more intriguing groups chipping away at the edges of the chiming guitar thing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Mitch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt by Hendrik Hegray.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Direct","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39298713125046,"sku":"","price":32.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/Br-d-34-City-Band-Front-scaled.jpg?v=1614902132"},{"product_id":"kenji-kariu-d-sekai-lp","title":"Kenji Kariu - Sekai LP","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile unaware of Kenji Kariu before hearing this record I've become a disciple of all things Bruit Direct Disques. The Paris provides a home for contemporary songcraft, stimulating soundwerks and on this occasion, delightful outsider-pop. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKenji Kariu has a distantly new take on fragile-but-friendly Japanese guitar pop with rickety rhythm box and op-shop Casio keyboard embellishments. Sekai may well be the only album with both City Pop and Sound Collage in the 'Style' section of its discogs entry. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSekai could be seen as a contemporary expansion on the recent 'Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop Electronic Minimalism \u0026amp; Shadow Sounds Of Japan 1980-1988' compilation, but also sits somewhere near the realms of Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Yuzo Iwata's Daylight Moon and Love Chants. Extremely intimate and nice!\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e - Nic\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/938736547\u0026amp;color=ff5500\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/bruit-direct-disques\" title=\"bruit direct disques\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\"\u003ebruit direct disques\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/bruit-direct-disques\/kenji-kariu-star-signs\" title=\"Kenji Kariu - Star Signs\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eKenji Kariu - Star Signs\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Direct","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39298713321654,"sku":"","price":39.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/br-d-36-Kenji-Kariu-Front-scaled.jpg?v=1614902133"},{"product_id":"gavil-n-rayna-russom-secret-passage-2lp","title":"Gavilan Rayna Russom - Secret Passage 2LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Rayna's words...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"I grew up in Providence, Rhode Island in the 1970’s and 80’s.  The booming jewelry and textile industries of the previous decades had pulled out by that point. The Italian mob ran most details of the day to day operations of the city. As kids coming up in that  environment, before the internet, me and the people I hung out with didn’t know anything else and we worked with what we had to entertain ourselves. We found places that had been forgotten by market interests and made them spaces of creative community building. One of the most special of these places was the East Side Rail Tunnel.  Running for almost exactly one mile beneath the city’s streets, the tunnel and nearby Crook Point Bridge were unsupervised autonomous zones where I tasted the possibilities of a world without surveilance. The tunnel was particularly important in my creative development because not only was it a marginal zone apart from monetized\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003espaces of creative consumption, but it also had specific experiential properties. It had a bend in it which meant that when you got to the middle of it you were in complete darkness, and I learned quickly that when you spend enough time in complete darkness you start to hallucinate, which I liked.  The acoustics were also remarkable; long natural delays and harmonic-reinforcing reverberances. Making any sound in there added layers of acoustic effects which made noises physical and fluid and, combined with the complete darkness, absolutely dissolved boundaries between internal and external experience. I started hanging out there when I was 14 and continued to return there regularly until development, gentrification and policing eventually made it inaccessible. By the mid ‘90s it was sealed off with progressively more impenetrable barriers. Nowadays it looks very different. This music is about some of the significant experiences I had in this beautifully neglected place and the people I had them with.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39298713780406,"sku":"","price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/W25-14_web_1024x1024_0d211cc4-f959-449c-8ccc-ad52ff505172.jpg?v=1614902135"},{"product_id":"arthur-russell-love-is-overtaking-me-2lp","title":"Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me 2LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCompiled from over eight hours of material, Love Is Overtaking Me reaches back further to ARTHUR RUSSELL’s first compositions from the early ‘70s, the most rare and, at the same time, arguably the most accessible part comprising 21 demos and home recordings of unreleased pop, folk and country songs selected by Audika’s STEVE KNUTSON, ERNIE BROOKS and Russell’s companion, TOM LEE. A number of the songs feature prominently in the film Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 472px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=842268346\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/arthurrussell.bandcamp.com\/album\/love-is-overtaking-me\"\u003eLove Is Overtaking Me by Arthur Russell\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39317052948662,"sku":"AU-1010-1","price":59.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a0259834094_10.jpg?v=1615181058"},{"product_id":"the-mudguards-on-guard-lp","title":"(The) Mudguards - On Guard LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe MUDGUARDS play bonkers UK homespun avant-electronics\/industrial\/semi-rhymic-noise\/post-punk(?) somewhere near the realm of Robert Rental, Cabaret Voltaire and Nick Blinko's Outer Himalayan Records. In my musical mind this record fills the timeframe between Alternative TV’s ‘Vibing’ LP and The Shadow Ring’s ‘Lighthouse’ nicely. A real favourite! -Nic\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 373px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1241732560\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/horn-of-plenty.bandcamp.com\/album\/on-guard\"\u003eOn Guard by (The) Mudguards\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Central Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39337864265910,"sku":"hop1","price":24.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a1404168777_10.jpg?v=1615432394"},{"product_id":"total-defeat-dreg-7","title":"Total Defeat - Dreg 7”","description":"\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 340px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2538134757\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/televisedsuicide.bandcamp.com\/album\/ts39-dreg-7\"\u003eTS39 - Dreg 7\" by Total Defeat\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Televised Suicide","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39338552950966,"sku":"TS39","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a0743471863_10.jpg?v=1615437966"},{"product_id":"doronco-gumo-old-punks-lp","title":"Doronco Gumo - Old Punks LP","description":"\u003cspan\u003eDoronco Gumo has played with Suishou no Fune, Keiji Haino and Les Rallizes Denudes (he's not the former bass player that hi-jacked a plane). On 'Old Punks' he's backed by members Maher Shalal Hash Baz to execute a great collection of loose and sentimental rock numbers that join the dots between John Cale, Alex Chilton, The Only Ones and the intimate airiness of Yuzo Iwata's Daylight Moon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFar from a new release, not old enough to be eulogised, but who cares, this record is hitting the spot today like nothing else!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Nic\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39346700353718,"sku":"HOLY738109","price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/71Dl3gUWpML._SS500.jpg?v=1615505070"},{"product_id":"75-dollar-bill-little-big-band-live-at-tubbys-2lp","title":"75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band - Live At Tubby's 2LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eNYC's 75 Dollar Bill began its prolific career in 2012, after percussionist Rick Brown a veteran of the indie underground (Fish \u0026amp; Roses, Run On, V-Effect) and noise scene guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Che Chen-connected via MySpace. Since that initial jam session, when Brown began experimenting with his signature plywood crate drum rhythms, they have released three LPs and a clutch of self-released cassette and digital releases. Last year's double album I Was Real received serious critical acclaim, The Wire calling it 2019's Album of the Year.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e On their first live album, Live At Tubby's, 75 Dollar Bill assembled a unique 'little big band' [Sue Garner on bass, Cheryl Kingan on sax, Steve Maing on guitar, Jim Pugliese on percussion and Karen Waltuch on viola] for the small Kingston, NY club show. Recorded on the last day of their spring tour, the record puts a new perspective on themes from their body of work: a little more intimacy, a little more freedom, a little more controlled chaos. Brown's idiosyncratic rhythms are all the more hypnotizing in Tubby's cozy setting, and Chen's furious guitar work cuts and hums with sounds seemingly only attainable on stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's an album both challenging and immediate. The expanded 75 Dollar Bill's affinity for improvisation and the avant-garde even leads to a rousing take on the Ornette Coleman classic, 'Friends And Neighbors' that feels right at home in their own repertoire. The listener can't help but feel present and part of the communal joy and catharsis being shared here in this room. This performance at Tubby's turned out not only to be the last show of their tour, but the last show possible as the pandemic hit. Originally offered as a digital-only release on 75 Dollar Bill's Bandcamp, Live At Tubby's now documents a highlight and closure of sorts; this kind of musical improvisation and community interaction being on hold for the foreseeable future. This double album on Grapefruit will have to tide everyone over until it can all happen again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39346702254262,"sku":"600197610312","price":49.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/714xbsPjnjL._AC_SL1200.jpg?v=1615505114"},{"product_id":"gas-chamber-black-iron-prison-public-humiliation-ii-lp","title":"Gas Chamber \/ Black Iron Prison - Public Humiliation II LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Iron Lung Records hosted a weekend of shows to celebrate our 10 years of being a label we secretly recorded a bunch of the sets hoping to catch some magic. We knew that the two bands were collaborating with the intention of doing a one-time performance especially for us which is a beautiful thing on it's own and a true testament to that group of people being 10 steps ahead of most bands anyway. We knew it would be intense but holy shit... to say that GAS CHAMBER and BLACK IRON PRISON are merely \"intense\" is a gross understatement. They are relentlessly and deeply immersed in their own musical world of mental, spiritual and physical annihilation. This would prove to be GAS CHAMBER's final performance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39346703040694,"sku":"733102719920","price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a0014167643_10.jpg?v=1615505140"},{"product_id":"collector-prosthetic-cs","title":"Collector - Prosthetic CS","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter several stunning releases to date on Night People, Beat Concern, Clan Destine and Altered States Tapes, Nice Music presents six new pieces from Newcastle's arcane auteur of heated synthesis, Collector aka Jason Campbell. 'Prosthetic' easily affords us Campbell's greatest production achievements to date, a gleaming chasm of sounds in crystalline focus - as the listener descends steadily into this space, faceted jewels of exquisitely austere sound design convolute with synth drama and urgent techno. Most importantly; although tension and visceral rhythmic intent colours this music profoundly, Campbell's obviously autodidactic creative process is the palpable spine of this music, balancing the mechanics or presentation of any clear genre references at every turn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 340px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=431739332\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicemusiclabel.bandcamp.com\/album\/032-prosthetic\"\u003e032 'Prosthetic' by Collector\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nice Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39361144160438,"sku":"nicemusic032c","price":9.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a0313156540_10.jpg?v=1615769972"},{"product_id":"simon-j-karis-piovve-cs","title":"Simon J. Karis - Piovve CS","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSimon J Karis returns to Nice Music with Piovve, his first release for the label since 2017’s Madrugada. Following from recent releases for Altered States and Vienna Press, Piovve offers up six tracks demonstrating the development and deepening of Karis’ obliquely emotive approach to electronic murk. Floating on clouds of tape hiss in smeared VHS fidelity, Karis explores a range of formal approaches, from the burbling monophonic synth lines and spoken text of opener ‘Infinite July’ to the four-on-the-floor kickdrum and wistful music-box melodies of half-remembered rave closer ‘Shale Pardon’. In between we’re treated to the drumless motorik propulsion of ‘To Think of You’, which calls to mind Moebius and Beerbohm’s Double Cut in its woozy rhythmic insistence before the mood is hijacked by a distorted devotional vocal sample that abruptly reroutes proceedings from the morose to the ecstatic. The opposite path is travelled in ‘On Ardour’ where jittering synth pads toy with euphoria before descending into pensive gloom. Across these six miniatures – each of which concludes with an abrupt cut to silence – Karis mines a vein where sonic experimentation and emotional reflection meet, crafting something uneasy but ultimately celebratory. -Francis Plagne\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 340px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4178277211\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/simonjkaris.bandcamp.com\/album\/039-piovve\"\u003e039 'Piovve' by Simon J Karis\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nice Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39361217855670,"sku":"NM039C","price":9.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a4205072594_10.jpg?v=1615770725"},{"product_id":"clinton-green-relativity-only-lp","title":"Clinton Green - Relativity\/Only LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelativity\/Only' is Green's clearest refinement of the dutiful and curious work he has cultivated over several years in recording his gently automated percussion experiments. Green conjures a celestial zoom view of a very private cosmos, using turntables as a source of movement and various static or suspended instruments and repurposed objects, captured in a softly endless world of binaural ambience. Unable to repeat a single step or rhythm given the mostly hands off methods Green employs within simple physics and gravitational axioms, this pointillist approach to automatic composition almost relegates time or duration to redundancy. Encouraging the listener to either take in the view as a moment's glimpse or to become deeply engrossed in its crevices, Green's work offers as much or as little as the senses care to seek. Perhaps akin to watching a fireplace at night or witnessing ants marching through the grass. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePercussion ephemera recorded this quietly could indeed pass experientially as 'ambient music' at this point, but a rare\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e kind in its strict absence of any electronic signal or sustained tones. And is ambient music dictated by how little it distracts the ear? Surely a misnomer if so. Green's loving supervision of these quietly magical instant compositions splays his work bewitchingly over many worlds of compositional reference; a spectral wonder given only the most skeletal elements do all the talking. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 274px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1454960376\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicemusiclabel.bandcamp.com\/album\/033-relativity-only\"\u003e033 'Relativity\/Only' by Clinton Green\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nice Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39361314029750,"sku":"NM033V","price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a3998346074_10.jpg?v=1615771503"},{"product_id":"spiritual-mafia-alfresco-lp","title":"Spiritual Mafia - Alfresco LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlfresco is the debut album from Spiritual Mafia. The band played a handful of shows a few years ago, but found it near impossible to continue due to members spread across the far reaches of Australia. Try organising practice when some live in Victoria, another in Queensland, and another in the Northern Territory. Somehow Spiritual Mafia managed to record an album, and look forward to re- establishing their existence in a much-craved post-lockdown world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eValidating the band’s semi-ridiculous name, there is something ‘spiritual’ about this \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ealbum. Alfresco breaks things down to their basic elements. Lyrics focus on themes of water, food, and the human body. Primitive, yet timeless stuff. The themes are complimented by music as equally unpretentious. The riffs neglect any grandiose changes and keep hammering down upon the listener like a violent \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMafioso collecting the interest and the principle. It’s a different kind of spirituality that one wouldn’t find in the background of a yoga class. But it does have a Zen aspect.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThink Stooges or Brainbombs for no-brainer c\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eomparisons. But on top of the standard rock band instrumentation, add some cosmic synths, and healthy amounts of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eturntablism littered throughout the jams.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003eAlfresco tries to remind the listener that if we forget our troubles for a moment and go for a swim (20 minutes after eating), then the world would be a happier place. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anti Fade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39371979915446,"sku":"","price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a1683639226_10.jpg?v=1615869933"},{"product_id":"copy-of-flyying-colours-fantasy-country-lp","title":"Mere Women - Romantic Notions LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eRomantic Notions is the new studio album from Sydney's \u003cem\u003eMERE WOMEN\u003c\/em\u003e, the follow up to their critically acclaimed '\u003cem\u003eBig Skies\u003c\/em\u003e' album.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLed by the title track 'Romantic Notions', Mere Women's latest long player is pensive, profound and at once ostensibly urgent and unnerving, ‘Romantic Notions’ captures the overwhelming intensity of obsessive love and control while sharing often-uncomfortable truths relating to women’s lived experiences; a ubiquitous theme throughout the Mere Women catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Romantic Notions' was written and rehearsed in a riverside cottage in Sydney and later recorded with Tim G Carr at One Flight Up studios in March, on the cusp of lockdown. The foreboding threat of lockdown left a peculiar feeling throughout the recording process, filling the air with a tremendous sense of uncertainty and giving the overall process an unusual edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 400px; height: 472px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3135170448\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/merewomen.bandcamp.com\/album\/romantic-notions-2\"\u003eRomantic Notions by Mere Women\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Poison City Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39395741466806,"sku":"PCR174LP","price":24.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a0386788494_10.jpg?v=1616114097"},{"product_id":"michael-beach-dream-violence-lp","title":"Michael Beach - Dream Violence LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe new album by Michael Beach, 'Dream Violence' displays real, considered songcraft but also embraces the raucous and spontaneous results of collaboration in a way that reminds me of Neil Young's 'After The Goldrush'.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMichael and collaborators Matthew Ford, Innez Tulloch (both of Thigh Master) and Peter Warden fold together decades of  \"classic\" and \"esoteric\" rock, with little nods to Iggy Pop \u0026amp; James Williamson's Kill City, The Stones in the 70s, Velvet Underground, The Feelies, Glenn Branca, but within the framework of a humble, regular-guy songwriter (as opposed to a larger-than-life countercultural figure).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere's a helluva lot to like about this record. Yes it ticks some record-store-cool musical comparisons but beyond that there's a real dedication to creating something deeply expressive. A record that should appeal to fans of something as universal as the aforementioned Neil Young, or as niche as Jim Shepard.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- Nic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 472px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2206439087\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/license_id=1634\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/michaelbeach.bandcamp.com\/album\/dream-violence\"\u003eDream Violence by Michael Beach\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Poison City Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39395745824950,"sku":"PCR175LP","price":32.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a0469647952_10.jpg?v=1616114271"},{"product_id":"benny-sings-mac-demarco-rolled-up-7","title":"Benny Sings \u0026 Mac DeMarco - Rolled Up 7\"","description":"Limited edition \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7” features the original version of ‘Rolled Up’ on the A-side and an exclusive instrumental version on the flip.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Inertia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39413906407606,"sku":"STH7076","price":19.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a1490727369_10.jpg?v=1616472410"},{"product_id":"oso-el-roto-pop-de-cuchillo-lp","title":"Oso El Roto – Pop De Cuchillo LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis record is a collaborative experience with musicians of the independent Chilean scene. During several sessions of live streaming recordings, more than twenty participants sent me audio files or left voice messages by chat (tracks for melodies, noises, songs or insults). Others wrote lyrics for me. And with all this material I made my songs, live. These are more than a dozen songs full of experimental collages, raps as well as a few nods to Latin American folklore and pop. This album tells of the bitterness produced by the comic absurdity to want to be a rock singer in poverty and capitalist horror of the Chilean reality.– Oso El Roto\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VNSphWzf4gY\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Direct","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39453268279478,"sku":"BRD32","price":19.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a0782424781_10.jpg?v=1616899590"},{"product_id":"femme-ruderal-exotique-lp","title":"Femme – Ruderal Exotique LP","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter their critically acclaimed “Chroma” LP (2017), Femme – Arno Bruil (France Sauvage, Descendeur) and Jo Tanz (Opéra Mort, Fusiller) – release “Ruderal exotique” augmenting their psychedelic electronics explorations in reconceived territories, this time an artificial growth of urban decay on irradiated nature as experienced within Ken Russel’s intoxicated and prodigious mind directing “Altered states”. Best experienced in an isolation tank, an airport capsule hotel or on a silent electric car chase buzzing thru Tim Buckley’s snapshot of smogged out L.A., “Ruderal exotique” is a flourish of slow burning synapses, the tiny magnetic connections that desperately cling and look for each other when your mind expects the hammer to finally realize the ordeal while your body languishes on a stone in the bright sun of Midsommar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Ruderal exotique” is lounge music for Bob, or Bruce, or Fred, growing Mors Ontologica on the farm, in Dick’s “A scanner darkly”, a New-Path laid out by Throbbing Gristle’s Chris Carter now twisted and tangled even further, branching out from the future of technology back into the present of Zelazny’s “24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai”. Growing new species as a result of destroying older species, life emerges from the industrial rubble that looks like scar tissue and smells like steel laced with lichen. To the biotech DIY apprentices of Femme, immersing in this cesspool of environmental data is a joy and their music glows in the dark of globalized waste as a symphony of gleaming flora and strident fauna.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt is as reassuring as Virginia Astley’s gardens, as vibrant as Steve Reich’s big city collages and as evocative as the Gerogerigegege’s “Uguisudani apocalypse”. It is a world of its own, yet it is also our world as it is today, AI machines advancing thru genetically modified corn fields, shredding up cicadas and worms, planting steel shards in their place that will rust and give way to the new machine, documented by Stephen Mallinder and Richard H. Kirk. Long live the new flesh of the Femme realist resistance!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e– Guy Mercier\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/762649948\u0026amp;color=ff5500\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/bruit-direct-disques\" title=\"bruit direct disques\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\"\u003ebruit direct disques\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/bruit-direct-disques\/femme-a6-v5\" title=\"Femme - A6\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eFemme - A6\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Direct","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39453291577526,"sku":"BRD33","price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a3729632514_10.jpg?v=1616899879"},{"product_id":"various-oz-echoes-diy-cassettes-and-archives-1980-1989-lp","title":"Various - Oz Echoes: DIY Cassettes and Archives 1980-1989 LP","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFollowing 2017’s fantastic Oz Waves, Steele Bonus is back to compile another collection of oddities from the 1980s Oz underground drawing upon small run cassette networks, oft overlooked tracks from Fast Forward, and community radio archives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA range of names and sounds familiar to the Efficient Space world, from M-Squared\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eadjacent acts (two tracks featuring the late Patrick Gibson), another minimal industrial-adjacent track from The Horse, He’s Sick, tracks featuring connections to Karen Marks (always a sign of quality!) and sleeper hits like Shanghai Au Go-Go’s ‘I Cried All Winter’ (which I could almost imagine Orion covering with requisite crowd singalong) which are worth the cost of the LP itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eIt’s easy to look back on this era with more than a hint of nostalgia; for a time that seems to have been thriving with underground activity. But really what comps like Oz Echoes provide are a fruitful look back on local histories of DIY culture and modes of production that can still be traced through to labels like Chemical Imbalance, Moontown, Altered States, etc.\u003cbr\u003e-Mitch (Repressed Records)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Efficient Space","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39464123105462,"sku":"ES018","price":39.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/unnamed_321fc299-0e11-46da-9aaf-4b1b36d92277.jpg?v=1617069351"},{"product_id":"sleep-d-x-ad-lib-collective-cavern-7","title":"Sleep D x Ad Lib Collective - Cavern 7\"","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Cavern' is a collaboration between electronic duo and Butter Session label heads Sleep D and Ad Lib Collective, a classical mixed chamber ensemble. The inaugural release for Melbourne based classical\/electronic music event series Play On, Sleep D x Ad Lib Collective's recorded work is the culmination of a two-year project borne out of a live performance in an underground carpark. The first taste of the collaboration's forthcoming album, 'Cavern's glorious orchestral ambient techno is backed with a wicked slo-mo 10 tonne dub. Limited to 300 copies!\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Direct","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39470600093878,"sku":"POR001","price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/5f9883ab-aeeb-41f1-8c16-410573ef5743.jpg?v=1617135375"},{"product_id":"all-ords-sources-and-methods-cs","title":"All Ords - Sources and Methods CS","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll Ords is Mark Groves and Joanna Nilson. Sources and Methods consists of domestic voice and sound works generated during 2020. Pieces from this release have appeared previously as a part of Colour Out of Space at a Distance International Festival of Experimental Sound and Art, and Dylan Nyoukis’ Fae Ma Bit Tae Ur Bit on Resonance Extra.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt explores the collision of labour, wealth disparity, domestic life and the subconscious, as told through book readings, dreams, and the sounds of a temporarily cloistered, claustrophobic home life and a vacated, virus-ridden inner city business district.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe background of ambient dread and government surveillance associated with the piece’s production is pushed further by the title itself- Sources and Methods referring to the mode of intelligence collection and analysis deployed by the CIA. This is also reflected in the artwork, which draws directly from William Friedkin’s Sorcerer (1977), a favourite of the duo which also mirrors, in a figurative sense, the male-female binary nature of the recording itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 400px; height: 307px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3116208004\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/all-ords.bandcamp.com\/album\/sources-and-methods\"\u003eSources and Methods by All Ords\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Direct","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39470639153334,"sku":"IC-017","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a3089398150_10.jpg?v=1617136037"},{"product_id":"absoluten-calfeutrail-pixies-parasol-cs","title":"Absoluten Calfeutrail - Pixie's Parasol CS","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Pixie's Parasol' is the final recording (slowly) made under the name Absoluten Calfeutrail between 2008-14. Originally titled 'Ovens', its been a prospective release for three different labels over the years, none of which are currently active. It sits alone with 'Braybrook' (Sabbatical, 2009) as a fitting articulation of the project, which was misused for years as an all-encompassing depository. - Mark Groves\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"lightweightBreak\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e18 minutes per side. Super Ferro Normal-bias music grade tape.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 340px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1093813832\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/absolutencalfeutrail.bandcamp.com\/album\/pixies-parasol\"\u003ePixie's Parasol by Absoluten Calfeutrail\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Direct","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39470736539830,"sku":"IC-008","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a2214528618_10.jpg?v=1617136665"},{"product_id":"black-twig-pickers-friends-peace-lp","title":"Black Twig Pickers - Friend's Peace LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFollowing a series of records with Thrill Jockey (including the sensational Seasonal Hire with Steve Gunn), the Black Twigs return to the VHF mothership to continue their charming and original take on Old Time and Appalachian-inspired string band sounds. Together since 2001, and a continuous presence in the music’s true home of Southwest Virginia, the Twigs represent the actively working evolution of the traditions – learning songs from other locals, playing dances at the Floyd Country Store, etc – without retro-artifice or nostalgia. The ragged-but-right performances and recording (and Sally Ann Morgan’s perfect cover design) sit at the ideal intersection of DIY\/”underground” and local string sound values. On Friend’s Peace, the band travels a range of styles, from the lovely harmony on the trad-classic “Moonshiner” to the racing fiddle\/guitar\/banjo on the “Money Musk” medley. Mixed in with the traditional songs are several perfectly-placed original tunes, including Mike Gangloff’s keening “Cara’s Waltz” and Isak Howell’s solo guitar spotlight on “Barnswallow.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 472px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1470721414\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/blacktwigpickers-vhf.bandcamp.com\/album\/friends-peace\"\u003eFriend's Peace by Black Twig Pickers (VHF)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39481002950838,"sku":"Vhf153","price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a0601355087_10.jpg?v=1617249603"},{"product_id":"exek-biased-advice-lp","title":"Exek - Biased Advice LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExek’s most recent LP Some Beautiful Species Left has got a flogging on the shop turntable since 2019, so it’s nice of Castle Face to reissue their out of print first LP so that we don’t drive everyone mad with the 517th play of SBSL.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDubby post punk that’s unafraid to flick the trigger on the old spring reverb, tracks waver and ripple with the occasional snare or vocal skipping across the surface. Something about this one is a little less abrasive than the other Exek albums I’ve listened to, more subdued and melancholic yet just as ambitious (see: the 15 min epic Baby Giant Squid).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-Mitch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 208px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=336781296\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/track=2752330216\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u0026amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=\"https:\/\/exek.bandcamp.com\/album\/biased-advice\"\u0026amp;amp;amp;gt;Biased Advice by EXEK\u0026amp;amp;amp;lt;\/a\u0026amp;amp;amp;gt;\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39481047220406,"sku":"Cf128","price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a3819725816_10.jpg?v=1617251332"},{"product_id":"trifixion-crucificados-lp","title":"Trifixion - Crucificados LP","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExisting for a brief period in the mid 1990s, Trifixion of Venezuela harnessed the sound and spirit of their more renowned Brazilian neighbors far to the southeast. Their two demos, Crucificados (1995) and Demo 1996, are a snapshot of a truly obscure and forgotten scene, now unearthed for a new audience. These off-the-rails recordings of Venezuelan deathcore are certain to please fans of the mighty Sarcófago, Necrófago, and Death Yell. Nuclear War Now! proudly presents the first-ever reissues of both demos on 12-inch vinyl format.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39481288163510,"sku":"Anti-Goth496","price":39.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a1726807108_10.jpg?v=1617250813"},{"product_id":"dsknt-vacuum-y-noise-transition-lp","title":"DSKNT -  Vacuum y-Noise Transition LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSwiss black metal void sculptors DSKNT are back with their immense sophomore LP \"Vacuum γ-Noise Transition\", a devouring nightmare of omnipotent sonic annihilation conceived at the most liminal edges of sanity. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe reality-destroying album takes shape as a dark and multidimensional hallucination deep into reality's most cryptic and terrifying truths, a place where entropy and chaos assume near-corporeal and hyper-realist forms, becoming empirical laws and axioms of all manifestations therein, with the music serving as the abhorrent mathematical key that allows the listener to unlock this realm beyond and \"see\" the horrors that populate reality beyond the reach of the five senses and of the terrestrial dimension. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHarrowingly evocative and devastating beyond comprehension, \"Vacuum γ-Noise Transition\" assumes its hideous form through a ravaging maze of managed guitar fractals, eviscerating compositional deconstructionism and an inhuman event horizon of decaying soundscapes and oppressive atmospheres that dismantle the listener piece by piece, forcing mind and soul apart to disintegrate in each other's reflection. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSomewhat claiming the torch of absolute avant-garde violence and abhorrence from bands like Deathspell Omega and Portal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, the devastating album is an all-encompassing and sensorially annihilating masterpiece that transitions this heritage of aural abominations into its most unavoidable future and inevitable conclusions, reshaping the DNA of surrealistic extreme metal as we know it and pulverizing all its known thresholds through a hideous out of body experience ritualized through total aural abandon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 400px; height: 373px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=358642953\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sentientruin.bandcamp.com\/album\/vacuum-noise-transition\"\u003eVacuum γ-Noise Transition by DSKNT\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39481297567926,"sku":"Sruin123","price":37.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a1317294155_10.jpg?v=1617251057"},{"product_id":"copy-of-j-mcfarlane-s-reality-guest-ta-da-lp","title":"The Fall -  Live At St. Helens Technical College '81 LP+7”","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe've had our ups and downs but it's safe to say I’m a fan of The Fall. Still, I can't say I wasn't a little sceptical about this one. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEven though it's a prime-period document, what on Earth could it reveal about a band I've already spent so much time listening, reading and thinking about?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWell, a fair bit actually. This neutral, but not sterile, live recording has got my mind cogs spinning, considering new angles as to why The Fall are one in a million. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis recording demonstrates the fun contradiction of this self-sabotaging group performing here with a real focus and regiment. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn anti-art school band that also shuns rock orthodoxy, links working class existence with deeply imaginative literary traditions, all while sounding like one of Northern England's top rockabilly bands!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- Nic\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39482394804406,"sku":"Cf133","price":64.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/thefalll.jpg?v=1618294511"},{"product_id":"dead-moon-stranded-in-the-mystery-lp","title":"Dead Moon - Stranded In The Mystery Zone LP","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMaybe the hardest to find DEAD MOON LP. All kinds of killer songs. Another stone cold classic by the worlds greatest rock band. Some call them the thinking man's AC\/DC and some call them the working man's Roky Erickson, but really there is nothing that compares to Dead Moon. They live in a world of their own—D.I.Y on every imaginable level, brilliant song writing, perfect elemental stripped down playing, honest and intense vocals. It's all here.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Total Punk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39482483671222,"sku":"Mrp042","price":38.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a0675315585_10.jpg?v=1617408005"},{"product_id":"dead-moon-strange-pray-tell-lp","title":"The Mountain Goats - Songs For Pierre Chuvin LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSO THIS TAPE STARTED while the entire band was decamped at an undisclosed location working on the next Mountain Goats album, and I had brought books with me to read, and one of them was Pierre Chuvin’s A Chronicle of the Last Pagans, which I was reading as research material for another thing I’m working on; and it’s been a long time since I sat around playing music and thinking about antiquity, but I used to do it all the time, and several of you know that because the old tapes are all littered with stories about Ajax and Agamemnon and the cult of Cybele, stories which, when I was learning them, got me so fired up that as soon as I got out of class I’d drive home in my yellow 1969 Superbeetle and write songs about them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt our undisclosed location, one morning, immersed day and night in our work but also beginning to get the feeling that the increasingly febrile pitch of the newsfeed would continue to rise until it reached registers not seen in a while, I had a thought—what if the next Mountain Goats album was just songs about these pagans? And I wrote down the title “Aulon Raid.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI GOT HOME about seven days later and the world was\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ea very different place by then, and I took my old boombox down from the shelf where it sits flanked by brass deities from a former period of my life, and I got a wild idea to stand it on its end to reduce the unpleasant clicking that made it unusable—the hum \u0026amp; grind are one thing, basically ambient noise that adds to the pleasure of the sound if you’re into it, but the clicking I’m talking about developed sometime in the early 2000s and is not a conscriptable effect, it renders the Panasonic unusable.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUnless you stand it on its end, I learned, by accident, one day during the early weeks of the new days.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAS THESE DAYS WERE DEVELOPING, I realized, as I’d feared a week before, that the work schedule my band and I had planned for spring probably wouldn’t be panning out. The four members of the band split up our touring income equally, nightly pay \u0026amp; sales of merchandise; before we split up that income, we pay several people from gross receipts: Brandon, our soundman and tour manager of over a decade; Trudy, who works the merch table with style and flair; and Avel, who manages the stage no matter how unmanageable I become. I can’t do what I do without these people and I take great pleasure in trying to make their job a fun place to work. All seven of us rely on the Mountain Goats for our paycheck.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe boombox and I knew we had to do something. Back in the early nineties, when I’d first met Peter Hughes, I wanted to make a tape to be on his label, Sonic Enemy. It was Christmas break and I was on a hot streak, so I decided to try to make a full tape over the course of the break. That tape became Transmissions to Horace, which consisted entirely of work done on a daily basis during that span. I haven’t tried anything like that in a while.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI WROTE A SONG EVERY DAY for the next ten days while reading A Chronicle of the Last Pagans, starting with “Aulon Raid” and working in exactly the style I used to work in: read until something jumps out at me; play guitar and ad-lib out loud until I get a phrase I like; write the lyrics, get the song together, record immediately. Those original lyrics, exactly as written on the cardstock I save from comic books I buy, with corrections and everything, will be randomly inserted into orders; each is one of a kind, an original first draft of the lyrics to the first all-boombox Mountain Goats album since All Hail West Texas. It seems unlikely that I will ever again offer original drafts of lyrics for sale or otherwise, but pandemics call for wild measures.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI dedicate this tape to everybody who’s waited a long time for the wheels to sound their joyous grind: may they grind us into a safe future where we gather once again in rooms to sing songs about pagan priests \u0026amp; hidden shelters, and where we see each other face to face.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHail the Panasonic! Hail the inscrutable engines of chance! Hail Cybele!\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—John Darnielle, Durham, NC, March 2020\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 472px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1498564527\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/themountaingoats.bandcamp.com\/album\/songs-for-pierre-chuvin\"\u003eSongs for Pierre Chuvin by The Mountain Goats\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39482492584118,"sku":"Mrg744","price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a3565109622_10.jpg?v=1617405234"}],"url":"https:\/\/repressedrecords.com\/collections\/just-in.oembed?page=69","provider":"Repressed Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}