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NP099 Broken Water- Whet LP This is the debut LP by Olympia Washington 3 piece Broken Water. Consisting of former Sisters (Parts Unknown Records) and Congradulations members, Broken Water's sound seems to resound in the rainy coastal woodlands that they are surrounded by. Dense walls of slow swirling distortion breath out into moments of cold syrupy magma and reverb drenched beauty. Droning post punk bass grooves build foundations for constantly evolving guitar riffing and somber vocal passages, a subtle psychedelic sound as heavy as it is lite, as dark as it is colorful, and as deep as it is wide. Broken Water's dreamy take on hazy pastoral sonic exploration is as unique as it is nostalgic and provides endless amounts of killer listening. Silkscreened artwork by Shawn Reed. LISTEN |
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NP080 Tyvek- Blunt Insturmental EP 1 sided 12" (silkscreened picture disc.) Tyvek don't need much introduction, Detroit area art punk garage rockers, who have a bunch of killer prior material on labels like Siltbreeze, Subpop, M'Ladys, X, Whats Your Rupture etc. Absolutely killer stuff here on this delux arted out vinyl reissue of a limited tour cassette. Blunt Intsturmental isn't all insturmental but there is a focus on letting the rythms and noise play out a bit. Whats interesting is that while the sound and insturmentation jam out a bit more it feels even more raw and stripped down then the recent full length LP. A sort of step forward into a more groove oreinted, noisy jammy territory while simultaniously returning to the sound of the early singles. A real raw art punk feel like early Swell Maps or The Fall etc. One of the great bands of these times.
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NP081 Yves/Son/Ace- Parade of Thoughts/Can't Sleep LP Yves/Son/Ace is a solo outlet from the Factums/Love Tan camp out of Seattle. Less an experiment in synth noise and drone then the"Cold Showers" Night-People cassette, Parade of Thoughts/Can't Sleep evokes a sort of deconstructed synth pop aesthetic. Druggy, hushed vocals float over vintage rhythm machines, synth noise goop, and lost world music radio tones. Minimal, isolated, deranged, and savage, Yves/Son/Ace is junk pop music for a disconnected world full of detritus and longing. A subtle sound that grows in your skull like fungus on rotting wood. LISTEN |
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NP059 Peaking Lights - Imaginary Falcons LP (OUT OF PRINT DO NOT ORDER BACK IN PRINT EVENTUALLY!) This
is the debut full length LP by Madison Wisconsin's Peaking Lights.
Members Indra Dunis (Numbers/Rah Dunes) and Aaron Coyes (Rah Dunes)
created a stunner that's full of hypnotic analog electronics, pulsing
drum sounds, perfectly somber pop layered keys, blown psych guitar, and
Indra's warm drifting vocals. This record is all its own, everything it
needs to be, and it won't disappoint any expectations of its harmony
and beauty. Groovy, spacey, heartfelt music for a new age. Art work and
silkscreen by Shawn Reed.
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NP112 DuneBuggy - "Live: White Paint/High Jinx and the Perfume Tuxedo" C20 Dune Buggy Live from from a warehouse gig in Iowa City, sounds surprisingly good for being recorded on handheld cassette, maybe as suspected more Denudes pysch style vibe here then the post Seeds/Troggs sort of rock n' roll they sometimes swim around in pretty slimey as usual with some real downer jammers thrown in to make the girls and boys sad about not liking each other anymore. Pretty killer indeed.
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NP110 Sleep Over - "s/t" C20 This Austin three piece comprised of members: Christa Palazzolo, Sarah Brown, and Stefanie Franciotti is as fresh of a new band as they come. Featured recently on the sold out Bathetic tape comp "Dark as Night". Sleep Over has a dreamy psychedelic pop/ druggie elctro pop sound that eludes to a sort of ethereal but dynamic minimalism that is as deep and heavy as it is lite and airy. Something beautiful and haunting runs through these four tracks to create a stunner of a first release by this great new band.
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NP109 Lazer Zeppelin - "Pyramid Echo" C40 The name doesn't really describe it for this one. Lazer Zeppelin is a weirdo ensemble of ladies and gents from Olympia Washington who bring some serious new moves. Hard driving psychedelic country that fits right inbetween The Cherry Blossoms and Parable of Arable Land era Red Krayola, that kind of loose tight sound that so many classic rippers from the 60's could only seem to pull off. Really catchy, upbeat stuff with tons of variety and instrumentation. Like the Carter Family meeting up and jaming with the Elevators or Velvets, pretty weird but it works. I can see nods to the Uke of Spaces folks too. Totally fresh style for what is going on right now and they have a killer live feel. The new LP is great too, will have some copies in the distro soon.
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NP108 Rene Hell - "Baroque Arcade" C20 Will anyone ever fully catch on, be able to keep track of, or catch up with Jeff Witscher’s mysterious output? like trying to understand alien technology, like feeling space and time itself like a drug, this cassette of new Rene Hell material falls easily amongst Witscher's best offerings and falls like a prelude to his upcoming LP on Type. An intense abyss of ambiguous voices, decaying rhythm tracks, synth ambience, super hi fi production and panning techniques, Baroque Arcade endlessly stretches out from the speakers like some new world being born.
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NP107 Pageants - "s/t" C20 Pageants hail from Melbourne Australia and take up some of the same scene space as bands like Super Wild Horses, the Twerps, the Ancients etc. Surfing on a kind of upbeat but droney reverb soaked guitar pop sensibility, they ride out with catchy somewhat melancholy vocal verses that remind us a bit of the best of the 90's Byrds influenced bands from the USA, the UK and NZ. Pageants totally has the epic jangly guitar pop sound down but do it in there own way that has the same sort of fresh feel and brightness of the recent Twerps tape. Perfect summertime jams.
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NP106 The Savage Young Taterbug - "Syrupy Evenings" C20 Fresh off an epic US tour with Tracey Trance and Sci Fi Sam, this new tour tape of lost wandering and hazy abandon delves further into Taterbug's obsession with burnt American musical detritus. Recorded pre tour in loner isolation in his mom's Des Moines basement, Syrupy Evenings falls further into dreamy gospel stompers, loner bluesy piano ballads, AM radio fuzz and funky drug jams. Taterbug's quirky karaoke style got even weirder for this one.
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NP105 Dirty Beaches - "Night City" C32 This all instrumental Dirty Beaches cassette has us really excited about the kind of depth and space that is created in the approach to this project, with a Debut LP coming out on Night People later this year the amount of variety being showcased in recent recordings and demos leads us to think that something truly great is coming together. Night City stretches out like an endless shimmering world of cinematic movement and light, layers of synth and organ jamming glide over a steady backdrop of analogue rhythm machines and textural ambience. This cassette is as good as anything released on Night-People and is the kind of music that could complete any moment or movement in travel to the extent of just simply listening to this while getting from any point A to point B.
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NP104 Broken Water - "s/t" C26 With a fresh new debut LP on Night-People catching some attention, we follow up with a limited cassette of Broken Waters early demo material. Recorded just a few months before the songs for the album these six tracks of killer drumming, shimmering wall of noise guitars, dreamy vocals, and psychedelic shoegaze showcase how killer Broken Water was right out of the gate.
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NP102 EMA - "Little Sketches On Tape" C32 EMA is Erika Anderson of the recently broken up long running west coast band Gowns. Despite being recorded when Gowns was still active this cassette seems the perfect moving on of sorts for Erika's vast creative potential. This release of solo guitar, piano, voice, and tape collage couldn't be blessed with more heartfelt beauty, it seems almost impossible as is, the amount of intimate feeling that resounds in the tape. The tape itself taking on properties of the composition used as an instrument in and of itself to accompany Erika's amazing voice and lyrics. This release took a long time to fully come together and actually come out, it was well worth the wait, it doesn't get any better then this.
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