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Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #

RIP VAN WINKLE	Blasphemy	CD	SPLENDID RESEARCH	SPLENDID 004CD
$16.00 IN STOCK "The new Rip Van Winkle album is rad. Blasphemy is a performance by Rip Van Winkle: concept, script and lyrics by Robert Pollard."

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
RIP VAN WINKLE	Blasphemy	LP	SPLENDID RESEARCH	SPLENDID 004LP
$24.00 IN STOCK LP version. "The new Rip Van Winkle album is rad. Blasphemy is a performance by Rip Van Winkle: concept, script and lyrics by Robert Pollard."

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
MOLES, THE	Composition Book	CD	SPLENDID RESEARCH	SPLENDID 003CD
$16.00 IN STOCK "Australian mad scientist Richard Davies has long flown under the popular radar with his groups The Moles and Cardinal, but his ten albums are loved and championed by indie rock royalty. The Flaming Lips, for example, have recorded a Davies song and backed him up on a Moles tour in 1995. A scholar of the songwriting of The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Dylan et al., Davies spins off subtle, catchy indie rock melodies, sometimes reassembled in bizarre Frankenstein arrangements and deconstructed sonic derangements. On Composition Book, The Moles have evolved with emphasis on acoustic guitar and divine female voices. Davies' lyrical non sequiturs and caustic wit sting, surprise and delight. "The Australian-bred, New England-based Richard Davies has long been a secret-handshake artist for indie diehards; his songs suggest self-contained pop hits from a crooked dimension." --The New Yorker "The greatest differentiator between the work of the Moles and that of their contemporaries, though, is Davies himself. As a presence, there is something deeply and beguilingly inscrutable about him, a purposeful blankness that betrays an enormous amount of weight and depth behind it, and oozes both vulnerability and vitriol when it breaks and cracks." --Pitchfork

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
MOLES, THE	Composition Book	LP	SPLENDID RESEARCH	SPLENDID 003LP
$25.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL LP version. "Australian mad scientist Richard Davies has long flown under the popular radar with his groups The Moles and Cardinal, but his ten albums are loved and championed by indie rock royalty. The Flaming Lips, for example, have recorded a Davies song and backed him up on a Moles tour in 1995. A scholar of the songwriting of The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Dylan et al., Davies spins off subtle, catchy indie rock melodies, sometimes reassembled in bizarre Frankenstein arrangements and deconstructed sonic derangements. On Composition Book, The Moles have evolved with emphasis on acoustic guitar and divine female voices. Davies' lyrical non sequiturs and caustic wit sting, surprise and delight. "The Australian-bred, New England-based Richard Davies has long been a secret-handshake artist for indie diehards; his songs suggest self-contained pop hits from a crooked dimension." --The New Yorker "The greatest differentiator between the work of the Moles and that of their contemporaries, though, is Davies himself. As a presence, there is something deeply and beguilingly inscrutable about him, a purposeful blankness that betrays an enormous amount of weight and depth behind it, and oozes both vulnerability and vitriol when it breaks and cracks." --Pitchfork

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
CHILDREN'S CRUSADE	A Duty-Dance With Death	CD	SPLENDID RESEARCH	SPLENDID 002CD
$16.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL "Second release on Robert Pollard's new Splendid Research label is a reissue of a 1984 demo cassette by Children's Crusade, post-punk teenage band of Guided By Voices' Doug Gillard. The Cleveland guitarist went on to record for Scat, Homestead and Restless Records with the bands Death of Samantha, Cobra Verde, My Dad Is Dead, and Gem, before joining GBV (1996-2004), then Nada Surf (2010-2016), then rejoining GBV (2016-present), as well as playing on albums by Richard Buckner, Neko Case, and others. 1980s Cleveland was a hotbed for indie rock, following in the Northern Ohio footsteps of Pere Ubu, The Dead Boys, The Styrenes, Mirrors, and Devo. Children's Crusade was a fleeting blotch on the wild, mid-'80s Cleveland underground music scene, slowly seeping through like a drop of oil on the uniformly black jeans of that era -- noticeable only after it settles, spreads, and you realize it won't come out in the wash."

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
CHILDREN'S CRUSADE	A Duty-Dance With Death	LP	SPLENDID RESEARCH	SPLENDID 002LP
$24.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL LP version. "Second release on Robert Pollard's new Splendid Research label is a reissue of a 1984 demo cassette by Children's Crusade, post-punk teenage band of Guided By Voices' Doug Gillard. The Cleveland guitarist went on to record for Scat, Homestead and Restless Records with the bands Death of Samantha, Cobra Verde, My Dad Is Dead, and Gem, before joining GBV (1996-2004), then Nada Surf (2010-2016), then rejoining GBV (2016-present), as well as playing on albums by Richard Buckner, Neko Case, and others. 1980s Cleveland was a hotbed for indie rock, following in the Northern Ohio footsteps of Pere Ubu, The Dead Boys, The Styrenes, Mirrors, and Devo. Children's Crusade was a fleeting blotch on the wild, mid-'80s Cleveland underground music scene, slowly seeping through like a drop of oil on the uniformly black jeans of that era -- noticeable only after it settles, spreads, and you realize it won't come out in the wash."