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HIGH LLAMAS, THE	Hey Panda	CD	DRAG CITY	DC 901CD
$13.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2024 "High Llamas present Hey Panda -- a modern pop music/deep listening experience that could only issue forth from their personal quadrant of the galaxy. Hey Panda projects soulfully through an enervating abstract of today's popular music; the sound of the Llamas' stately melodies and expressive ditties laid open -- blissfully shattered -- with drums and vocals hitting different, burning sounds and contemporary production twists pulling the ear at every turn. For the past few decades, High Llamas have trafficked in contemporary pop sounds directed toward the avant end of the spectrum as much as not. But here the message was clear. Llamas' composer-in-residence Sean O'Hagan was determined to let go. Hey Panda does just that, with a set of tunes reflecting on multiple levels how definitions change over the course of a lifetime, radiating an optimism derived from the diverse conundrums of today. Hey Panda's wide reach is aided by two co-writes from Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, (who bonded with Sean over a shared love of gospel soul during writing sessions), guest vocals from Rae Morris and Sean's daughter Livvy, production twists from Fryars and the stalwart, flexible presence of High Llamas. For all of its sense of departure, Hey Panda is a movement in the High Llamas oeuvre that's been a long time in development. Aspects of soul music were addressed at the time of Can Cladders; similarly, aspects of electronic dance music were in the mix in the late '90s, around the time of Cold and Bouncy. But nothing up to now has refocused the music of High Llamas so completely. Sharing the impulse of late-period Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, with further inspiration from Steve Lacy, SZA, Sault, No Name, and Ezra Collective, among many others, Sean O'Hagan and High Llamas are living joyfully in the new and the now, with Hey Panda!"

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
HIGH LLAMAS, THE	Hey Panda	LP	DRAG CITY	DC 901LP
$23.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2024 LP version.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
COUSIN KULA	Vitamin D	LP	RHYTHM SECTION INTERNATIONAL	RS 059LP
$26.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/15/2024 Feeling like the first shot of sunshine after a long winter, Cousin Kula sound instantly recognizable yet gloriously renewed on their second album Vitamin D. If their debut album Double Dinners (RS 046LP, 2022) was the soundtrack to your heartbreak then this is the sound of falling back in love again. Even the titles of the tracklist -- "Clothes Off," "Staying With You," "Good Feeling" -- boldly set the coordinates for this new body of work. From the opening wash of searing synth chords, bouncing bass, wailing guitar lines and flutters of flute, it's abundantly clear this is a feel-good album. Label boss, Bradley Zero exclaims "I think it's fair to say that the band have shaken off the collective cobwebs and are ready for a summer of love!" Vitamin D is for the lovers, but also for the dancers. Cousin Kula have expanded their vocabulary but also learnt when to just sit back in the groove. Funk and disco have permeated their psychedelic indie-soul sound and it's all the better for it. A quintet of virtuosic musicians, flexing when necessary but more often than not stripping it right back and reveling in the pocket. It's a rare case of perfect thematic and musical synergy.

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BANANARAMA	Glorious - The Ultimate Collection	2CD	LONDON RECORDS	LMS 1725063
$21.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/8/2024 Bananarama celebrate over 40 years at the top with the release of Glorious - The Ultimate Collection. With 40 tracks selected by Sara and Keren themselves, the double CD album revisits every decade of the band's career, with hits including "Cruel Summer," "Venus," "Love in the First Degree," "Only Your Love," "Preacher Man," "Move in My Direction," and more, along with two new singles, "Feel The Love" and "Supernova." The LP edition features 16 tracks: singles and new remixes of classic hits, and "Feel the Love" and "Supernova" for the first time on vinyl. Bananarama are the original girl group. They're featured in Guinness World of Records for the most internationally charted hits by an all-female band, with in excess of 30+ million sales worldwide.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
SILL, JUDEE	Heart Food	2LP	INTERVENTION RECORDS	IR 017LP
$73.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/8/2024 2024 repress. "The astonishing Judee Sill was the first artist signed to David Geffen's Asylum Records, and Judee Sill the first album released on the label. Sill's music is intensely spiritual, redolent of both mysticism and divine imagery, yet grounded by great songwriting and a pure but powerful singing talent. Her songs impart incredible intimacy that is enhanced and not diminished by her sometimes complex string/orchestral arrangements (remarkably Sill arranged and conducted the strings/orchestra on her albums!). Sill's life was tragic personally and professionally. Her father and brother were killed when Sill was young, and her tempestuous relationship with her alcoholic (and remarried) mother resulted in her leaving home at 15. She committed robberies and began a battle she was destined to lose against drug addiction. When stardom didn't follow the critical acclaim of these two albums her career never recovered. Sill was dead in 1979 at just 35. The brevity of Judee's musical legacy is vastly outweighed by the emotional power in these two extraordinary albums. Heart Food is 100% Analog Mastered directly from the original analog master tapes by Kevin Gray at CoHEARent Audio. The master tapes are in fine shape, and listeners will be blown away by the increased inner detail and three-dimensionality of these achingly gorgeous recordings. This Intervention reissue represents the definitive listening experience for this classic LP. 180gram double 45s pressed at Gotta Groove. Old-style 'tip-on' gatefold jacket printed by Stoughton on heavy stock."

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
BANANARAMA	Glorious - The Ultimate Collection	LP	LONDON RECORDS	LMS 1725097
$34.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/8/2024 LP version. Bananarama celebrate over 40 years at the top with the release of Glorious - The Ultimate Collection. With tracks selected by Sara and Keren themselves, album revisits every decade of the band's caree. The LP edition features 16 tracks: singles and new remixes of classic hits, and "Feel the Love" and "Supernova" for the first time on vinyl. Bananarama are the original girl group. They're featured in Guinness World of Records for the most internationally charted hits by an all-female band, with in excess of 30+ million sales worldwide.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
SADIER, LAETITIA	Rooting For Love	LP	DRAG CITY	DC 874LP
$24.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/23/2024 LP version. "Over the course of her career, spanning three-plus decades, Laetitia Sadier has never shied away from the hard topics, or stopped advocating for the possibility of self-determination and emancipation in the face of the powers that be, conscious or unconscious. This is an essential part of the foundation she co-built with Stereolab, showcasing her spiritual, scientific and sociopolitical inquiries. She's continued this process with Monade and under her own name and as a writer/singer/musician whose every album acts as a report on her journey of the self through time, space and the collective. On Rooting For Love, the report is set alight by the heat of a turbulent world, collapsing institutions and Laetitia's fully engaged process of expression as well as orchestration. The musical arrangements help to embody the layers of the issue, as with 'Who + What''s combination of organ, synths, guitar, bass, trombone, drum programming, vibraphone and zither, all working along intricate paths of chord and tempo changes. Leading from the inside is the implacable presence of Laetitia Sadier, herself interacting with a vocal assembly of men and women billed as The Choir. The regular reappearance of The Choir throughout Rooting For Love is a reminder of this music being one of a people in critical mass, in addition to an evolution that continues to deepen the rich harmonic fields in which Laetitia plays. The melodic funk of bassist Xavi Muñoz leads a Chic-adjacent slink to the occasional dance floor vibes and no-wave rockouts, while Hannes Plattemier and Emma Mario take turns in mixing the tracks and informing the far reaches of the material, with vibes, additional drum programming and synths alongside a talented cast of players and singers from Laetita's Source Ensemble and beyond. As with the cover image of the winter tree mirrored by the word patterns of Rooting For Love, Laetitia maintains that how we heal the world that's coming, and what we make of it, will be a co-creation. Alongside her collaboration with Modern Cosmology, last year's incredible What Will You Grow Now?, as well as her continued tours with a reformed Stereolab, Rooting For Love finds Laetitia back in the world, once again urging all our grounded inner alignment and heart power to make us better equipped for creating what's to come."

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
PETTIBON, OLIVER AUGST, RAYMOND	Nature Boy	7"	SQUAMA	SQMX 003EP
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/23/2024 "I'm not anti-hippie. I'm anti-unrealistic utopianism. Hell, I'm basically an anarchist." The realm of the hippies extends from "Nature Boy," Eden Ahbez's international hit song from 1948, to Charles Manson's "Trial Testimony" from 1970. Nature Boy by Raymond Pettibon and Oliver Augst is a romantic-anarchistic search for the sources of punk. A must-have for all Pettibon fans.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
TORAL, RAFAEL	Spectral Evolution	CD	MOIKAI	M14 CD
$13.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/23/2024 "After a two-decade interlude, Jim O'Rourke's Moikai returns with Spectral Evolution, a major new work by Rafael Toral. Making his name in the mid-1990s with influential guitar drone platters like Sound Mind Sound Body and Wave Field, Toral has never been one to rest on his laurels repeating his past glories. Since 2017, Toral's work has been entering a new phase, often still centered around the arsenal of self-built instruments developed in the Space Program, but with a renewed interest in the long tones and almost static textures of his earlier work; he has also, after more than a decade, returned to the electric guitar. Spectral Evolution is undoubtedly Toral's most sophisticated work to date, bringing together seemingly incompatible threads from his entire career into a powerful new synthesis, both wildly experimental and emotionally affecting. Toral manages the almost miraculous feat of having his self-built electronic instruments (which in the past he had seen as 'inadequate to play any music based on the Western system') play in tune. In an unexpected sidestep away from any of his previous work, the chord changes that underpin many of the episodes on Spectral Evolution are derived from classic jazz harmony, including takes on the archetypal Gershwin 'Rhythm changes' and Ellington?Strayhorn's 'Take the ʻA' Train,' albeit slowed to such an extent that each chord becomes a kind of environment in its own right. Threading together twelve distinct episodes into a flowing whole, Spectral Evolution alternates moments of airy instrumental interplay with dense sonic mass, breaking up the pieces based on chord changes with ambient 'Spaces.' At points reduced to almost a whisper, at other moments Toral's electronics wail, squelch, and squeak like David Tudor's live-electronic rainforest. Similarly, his use of the guitar encompasses an enormous dynamic and textural range, from chiming chords to expansive drones, from crystal clarity to fuzzy grit: on the beautiful 'Your Goodbye,' his filtered, distorted soloing recalls Loren Connors in its emotive depth and wandering melodic sensibility. The product of three years of experimentation and recording, and synthesizing the insights of more than thirty years of musical research, Spectral Evolution is the quintessential album of guitar music from Rafael Toral."

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
SADIER, LAETITIA	Rooting For Love	CD	DRAG CITY	DC 874CD
$13.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/23/2024 "Over the course of her career, spanning three-plus decades, Laetitia Sadier has never shied away from the hard topics, or stopped advocating for the possibility of self-determination and emancipation in the face of the powers that be, conscious or unconscious. This is an essential part of the foundation she co-built with Stereolab, showcasing her spiritual, scientific and sociopolitical inquiries. She's continued this process with Monade and under her own name and as a writer/singer/musician whose every album acts as a report on her journey of the self through time, space and the collective. On Rooting For Love, the report is set alight by the heat of a turbulent world, collapsing institutions and Laetitia's fully engaged process of expression as well as orchestration. The musical arrangements help to embody the layers of the issue, as with 'Who + What''s combination of organ, synths, guitar, bass, trombone, drum programming, vibraphone and zither, all working along intricate paths of chord and tempo changes. Leading from the inside is the implacable presence of Laetitia Sadier, herself interacting with a vocal assembly of men and women billed as The Choir. The regular reappearance of The Choir throughout Rooting For Love is a reminder of this music being one of a people in critical mass, in addition to an evolution that continues to deepen the rich harmonic fields in which Laetitia plays. The melodic funk of bassist Xavi Muñoz leads a Chic-adjacent slink to the occasional dance floor vibes and no-wave rockouts, while Hannes Plattemier and Emma Mario take turns in mixing the tracks and informing the far reaches of the material, with vibes, additional drum programming and synths alongside a talented cast of players and singers from Laetita's Source Ensemble and beyond. As with the cover image of the winter tree mirrored by the word patterns of Rooting For Love, Laetitia maintains that how we heal the world that's coming, and what we make of it, will be a co-creation. Alongside her collaboration with Modern Cosmology, last year's incredible What Will You Grow Now?, as well as her continued tours with a reformed Stereolab, Rooting For Love finds Laetitia back in the world, once again urging all our grounded inner alignment and heart power to make us better equipped for creating what's to come."

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
SHIZUKA	III	LP	CONCENTRIC CIRCLES	CC 007LP
$30.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/16/2024 2024 repress. "During the 1990s, Shizuka self-released a series of four cassettes, barely heard by anyone outside of their inner circle. Culling together live recordings and home demos, these served as companions to the scant amount of proper Shizuka releases at the time (including the recently reissued Heavenly Persona). Concentric Circles is now presents the third and most anomalous cassette from Shizuka, simply titled III, on vinyl for the first time in an edition of 500 copies. Formed by guitarist and singer Shizuka Miura, alongside husband Maki Miura, who'd previously played with both Les Rallizes Dénudés and Fushitsusha, the group known as Shizuka started in the early '90s with Jun Kosugi (also of Fushitsusha) on drums, and a revolving cast of bass players, including J.J. Junko, whose sole recorded appearance with the band is here on III. Devoid of any of their trademark noise and bombast, III feel distinct from their studio and live albums of the era, largely due to its fragility; haunted and spare, the songs revolve around Shizuka Miura's gentle, unforced sighs, and Maki's flickering, flinty guitar. The first side of the album features four songs which will be well-known to Shizuka fans from previous recordings, but the drastically understated renditions here are particularly moving for their quietude and intimacy. The second half of III consists of a side-long duo session, just Shizuka and Maki Miura together at home, circling around the simplest two-chord motif for twenty minutes, Shizuka singing the most heavenly melody, strung through the sky of this lengthy improvisation. It's an astonishingly beautiful performance, one that stills time through its becalmed repetition, pointing towards the endless forever. In this respect, it feels like an ultimate extension of Opal's early recordings, Big Star's third or even Galaxie 500's quietest moments. III lifts the darkness away, allowing for a softer, more-gentle Shizuka to shine through, bringing with it a side to the band that most never knew existed. A lovely discovery if there ever was one."

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
SLOWER	Slower	LP	HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS	HPS 288LP
$22.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/2/2024 LP version. "Bob Balch from Fu Manchu here. The idea for the Slower project started around four years ago. I was teaching a student how to play 'South Of Heaven' by Slayer but she was a beginner so we slowed it down. I thought that sounded cool so I tuned down to B standard and tried it. I added some drums and thought 'someone in the doom community should do this and name it Slower.' A few years later I befriended Steven 'Thee Slayer Hippy' Hanford, best known for his work as the drummer in the influential Oregon punk band Poison Idea... [D]uring Covid I told him about my Slower idea. He asked me to send him tracks. I waited too long because the day I sent the tracks he passed away. Totally tragic. I'm glad I got to know him even for a few years... One day Esben from Monolord posted about musical collaborations... I sent him some tracks and he killed it on drums... Shortly after that we started reaching out other musicians to get them involved. That's how we ended up with this lineup. Everyone that contributed completely knocked it out of the park and I can't thank them enough. This project has been a long time coming and I'm beyond stoked on how it turned out. Without all of the players involved, Steven Hanford, and my baritone Reverend guitar it wouldn't have happened. Thanks to everyone involved and I hope you dig it!"

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
OLIVERI, NICK	N.O. Hits At All vol. 8 (Green Vinyl)	LP	HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS	HPS 291LTD-LP
$29.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/2/2024 LP version. Green color vinyl. Nick Oliveri's N.O. Hits at All Vol. 8 is heavy, dark, fast, slow, in control yet totally falling apart and stoner punk as fuck. Seven tracks full of fire.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
SLOWER	Slower (Neon Green Vinyl)	LP	HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS	HPS 288LTD-LP
$29.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/2/2024 LP version. Neon green color vinyl. "Bob Balch from Fu Manchu here. The idea for the Slower project started around four years ago. I was teaching a student how to play 'South Of Heaven' by Slayer but she was a beginner so we slowed it down. I thought that sounded cool so I tuned down to B standard and tried it. I added some drums and thought 'someone in the doom community should do this and name it Slower.' A few years later I befriended Steven 'Thee Slayer Hippy' Hanford, best known for his work as the drummer in the influential Oregon punk band Poison Idea... [D]uring Covid I told him about my Slower idea. He asked me to send him tracks. I waited too long because the day I sent the tracks he passed away. Totally tragic. I'm glad I got to know him even for a few years... One day Esben from Monolord posted about musical collaborations... I sent him some tracks and he killed it on drums... Shortly after that we started reaching out other musicians to get them involved. That's how we ended up with this lineup. Everyone that contributed completely knocked it out of the park and I can't thank them enough. This project has been a long time coming and I'm beyond stoked on how it turned out. Without all of the players involved, Steven Hanford, and my baritone Reverend guitar it wouldn't have happened. Thanks to everyone involved and I hope you dig it!"

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
TOMKINS, KEVIN	Her Favourite Distance Was That Between A Cough And A Dying Horse	CD	KLANGGALERIE	GG 459CD
$19.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/2/2024 "Kevin Tomkins is best known for his work in Whitehouse and his own group Sutcliffe Jugend, now called Sutcliffe No More. He also worked with Bodychoke, Inertia, and Patient K. Most of his music has its background in the power electronics scene that evolved in Great Britain around the label Come Organisation and the group Whitehouse. Power electronics is a style of noise music that typically consists of static, screeching waves of feedback, analogue synthesizers making sub-bass pulses or high frequency squealing sounds; with screamed and distorted vocals. The genre is noted for its influence from industrial. It is generally atonal, like most noise music and also features a lack of conventional melodies or rhythms. To match its sonic excess, power electronics relies heavily upon extreme thematic and visual content: whether in lyrics, album art, or live performance actions. For his solo work, Kevin sometimes uses a very different style to his group work. An autoharp or chord zither is a string instrument belonging to the zither family. It uses a series of bars individually configured to mute all strings other than those needed for the intended chord. In summer 2023, Kevin played a rare solo show in Vienna at Klanggalerie's 30th birthday bash. It was based on his autoharp album using that very instrument plus voice and an arrangement of gimmicks and tools. A week later, he created an album based on the performance and his time in Vienna."

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
TAYLOR, PAUL	Submerged	CD	KLANGGALERIE	GG 453CD
$19.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/2/2024 "Paul Taylor is one half of Sutcliffe No More, formerly Sutcliffe Jugend. He is and was also a member of Inertia, Bodychoke, and Slaves No More. Most of his music has its background in the power electronics scene that evolved in Great Britain around the label Come Organisation and the group Whitehouse. Power electronics is a style of noise music that typically consists of static, screeching waves of feedback, analogue synthesizers making sub-bass pulses or high frequency squealing sounds; with screamed and distorted vocals. The genre is noted for its influence from industrial. It is generally atonal, like most noise music and also features a lack of conventional melodies or rhythms. To match its sonic excess, power electronics relies heavily upon extreme thematic and visual content: whether in lyrics, album art, or live performance actions. For Submerged, a very private and introspective album, Paul lets the psyche dive deep into the depths of the ocean. The music is dark, droney and meditative."

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
HAWKWIND	The Iron Dream: Live 1977 (Clear Vinyl)	LP	ATOMHENGE	ATOM 1051LP
$33.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/2/2024 "Clear vinyl. In September 1977, Hawkwind undertook a UK tour to promote the album Quark, Strangeness & Charm. The shows were some of the finest of this era of the band, featuring Robert Calvert as a dynamic frontman. This release features all previously unreleased recordings newly mixed from the original multi-track tapes. Mixed from the original eight-track master tapes by Ben Wiseman with Mark Powell at Broadlake Studios, Hertfordshire in July 2022."

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
TOECHTER	Epic Wonder	LP	MORR MUSIC	MORR 203LP
$30.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/2/2024 LP version. toechter is an all-female trio operating from Berlin. toechter's second full-length album Epic Wonder sees its classically trained members blend elaborate string arrangements with ethereal indie pop and delicate rhythms. Katrine Grarup Elbo, Lisa Marie Vogel, and Marie-Claire Schlameus exclusively use analogue sound sources (such as violin, viola, cello, and their voices), which were then electronically processed. Epic Wonder was created in the spring and summer of 2023. Playing with forms and contours, the music sounds like the awakening of something new. One seems to be listening to an ongoing conversation, an exchange about what music could be, where it wants to go and how it contributes to our view of life. It all rests on a simple premise: "Every sound you hear in our universe comes from us. The string trio is the core of toechter, the starting point of all our work." Those looking for new worlds of sound can find them in the work of this classically- trained musicians. Whether they add voices or percussive instruments, sample the sounds, or manipulate them electronically; ultimately, they are exploring the string trio's place in a world shaped by the digital. Sometimes dwelling on subtle, yet marveling phenomena like the evening fog covering a valley on Midsummer, sometimes on grandiose splendors like the genesis of mountains or the birth of a child -- letting interactions and encounters with other beings float through the musical universe as drips of emotional perceptivity. For the visual manifestation of Epic Wonder, toechter has engaged with Finish up-and-coming lens-based artist Aino Kontinen.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
OLIVERI, NICK	N.O. Hits At All vol. 8	LP	HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS	HPS 291LP
$22.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/2/2024 LP version. Nick Oliveri's N.O. Hits at All Vol. 8 is heavy, dark, fast, slow, in control yet totally falling apart and stoner punk as fuck. Seven tracks full of fire.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
SLOWER	Slower (Black/Red Splatter Vinyl)	LP	HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS	HPS 288SLTD-LP
$37.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/2/2024 LP version. Black and red splatter vinyl. "Bob Balch from Fu Manchu here. The idea for the Slower project started around four years ago. I was teaching a student how to play 'South Of Heaven' by Slayer but she was a beginner so we slowed it down. I thought that sounded cool so I tuned down to B standard and tried it. I added some drums and thought 'someone in the doom community should do this and name it Slower.' A few years later I befriended Steven 'Thee Slayer Hippy' Hanford, best known for his work as the drummer in the influential Oregon punk band Poison Idea... [D]uring Covid I told him about my Slower idea. He asked me to send him tracks. I waited too long because the day I sent the tracks he passed away. Totally tragic. I'm glad I got to know him even for a few years... One day Esben from Monolord posted about musical collaborations... I sent him some tracks and he killed it on drums... Shortly after that we started reaching out other musicians to get them involved. That's how we ended up with this lineup. Everyone that contributed completely knocked it out of the park and I can't thank them enough. This project has been a long time coming and I'm beyond stoked on how it turned out. Without all of the players involved, Steven Hanford, and my baritone Reverend guitar it wouldn't have happened. Thanks to everyone involved and I hope you dig it!"

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
RESIDENTS, THE	Our Finest Flowers	LP	CRYPTIC CORPORATION	NRT 020LP
$26.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/2/2024 "Black vinyl. The classic 1992 20th Anniversary album, which saw The Residents rework lyrics, melodies and themes from their entire back catalog into an album of new tracks, on vinyl for the first time. Includes an insightful new essay by Jim Knipfel. Celebrating twenty long dreary years of obscure stardom. In 1992, The Residents pondered their 20th Anniversary. A best-of collection had been proposed, and the group gathered together to draw up a potential tracklist. All was well until one of the Eyeballed Entities, unconsciously expressing something none of them had been able to verbalize, threw up on that tracklist. Once the dust had settled, somewhere in there, amongst the resulting soggy mess of vomit, paper and ink, The Residents noticed the proposed best-of song titles had congealed into a collage of new, never before heard tunes. 'Kick A Cat' and 'Picnic In The Jungle' had become 'Kick A Picnic', whilst 'Amber' and 'Six Things To A Cycle' had become 'Six Amber Things'. This was it! Inspired by the rather repulsive mess that sat before them, the group chose to take the entire episode as a sign, and began recording collages of select tracks from their back catalogue as instructed by those soggy scraps. What better way to celebrate twenty long dreary years of obscure stardom and sacrifice a few of their own sacred cows at the same time? Never before released on vinyl, The Residents now present Our Finest Flowers."

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
SLOWER	Slower	CD	HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS	HPS 288CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/2/2024 "Bob Balch from Fu Manchu here. The idea for the Slower project started around four years ago. I was teaching a student how to play 'South Of Heaven' by Slayer but she was a beginner so we slowed it down. I thought that sounded cool so I tuned down to B standard and tried it. I added some drums and thought 'someone in the doom community should do this and name it Slower.' A few years later I befriended Steven 'Thee Slayer Hippy' Hanford, best known for his work as the drummer in the influential Oregon punk band Poison Idea... [D]uring Covid I told him about my Slower idea. He asked me to send him tracks. I waited too long because the day I sent the tracks he passed away. Totally tragic. I'm glad I got to know him even for a few years... One day Esben from Monolord posted about musical collaborations... I sent him some tracks and he killed it on drums... Shortly after that we started reaching out other musicians to get them involved. That's how we ended up with this lineup. Everyone that contributed completely knocked it out of the park and I can't thank them enough. This project has been a long time coming and I'm beyond stoked on how it turned out. Without all of the players involved, Steven Hanford, and my baritone Reverend guitar it wouldn't have happened. Thanks to everyone involved and I hope you dig it!"

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
TOECHTER	Epic Wonder	CD	MORR MUSIC	MORR 203CD
$17.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/2/2024 toechter is an all-female trio operating from Berlin. toechter's second full-length album Epic Wonder sees its classically trained members blend elaborate string arrangements with ethereal indie pop and delicate rhythms. Katrine Grarup Elbo, Lisa Marie Vogel, and Marie-Claire Schlameus exclusively use analogue sound sources (such as violin, viola, cello, and their voices), which were then electronically processed. Epic Wonder was created in the spring and summer of 2023. Playing with forms and contours, the music sounds like the awakening of something new. One seems to be listening to an ongoing conversation, an exchange about what music could be, where it wants to go and how it contributes to our view of life. It all rests on a simple premise: "Every sound you hear in our universe comes from us. The string trio is the core of toechter, the starting point of all our work." Those looking for new worlds of sound can find them in the work of this classically- trained musicians. Whether they add voices or percussive instruments, sample the sounds, or manipulate them electronically; ultimately, they are exploring the string trio's place in a world shaped by the digital. Sometimes dwelling on subtle, yet marveling phenomena like the evening fog covering a valley on Midsummer, sometimes on grandiose splendors like the genesis of mountains or the birth of a child -- letting interactions and encounters with other beings float through the musical universe as drips of emotional perceptivity. For the visual manifestation of Epic Wonder, toechter has engaged with Finish up-and-coming lens-based artist Aino Kontinen.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
OLIVERI, NICK	N.O. Hits At All vol. 8	CD	HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS	HPS 291CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/2/2024 Nick Oliveri's N.O. Hits at All Vol. 8 is heavy, dark, fast, slow, in control yet totally falling apart and stoner punk as fuck. Seven tracks full of fire.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
OLIVERI, NICK	N.O. Hits At All vol. 8 (Red/Yellow Splatter Vinyl)	LP	HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS	HPS 291SLTD-LP
$37.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/2/2024 LP version. Red/yellow splatter color vinyl. Nick Oliveri's N.O. Hits at All Vol. 8 is heavy, dark, fast, slow, in control yet totally falling apart and stoner punk as fuck. Seven tracks full of fire.

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