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Artist: ABE VIGODA Title: Skelaton Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Shit is cliché, but ya cant fight the fact that time changes EVERYTHING (or wait, maybe its money?). Either way: were pretty old but not so old weve forgotten the cradle days of early Abe Vigoda shows when they only liked Smashing Pumpkins, short shorts, and boating shoes, and their sets were short spiky blasts of post-Unwound lo-fi outsider-punk (a la the Sky Route/Star Roof LP). That was a long time ago. But like all good bands the Vigodans have re-invented themselves a half dozen times over since then, and its been a totally rad ride to witness the evolution/transformation, especially since their journeys culminated in the total sparkling tropic magic sunbath of Skeleton, the best AV record ever. Years of fiddling with delay pedal settings and intricate bass/drums equations somehow resulted in a weird, bright, upbeat island punk sound thats as catchy and life-affirming as it is tripped-out and overwhelming. Who knew? Catch these die-hards at a show in yr neck of the woods any day now; they are now on PERMA-TOUR. Pro-dubbed cassettes in a ⿿Columbia Records-style super legit J-card. Edition of 200. This album is also available on CD and LP from our friends at Post Present Medium." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: BELLY BOAT Title: Dear Robert Hanoy Format: CD Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Outsider piano/accordion warped-pop ramblings. Debut album, 14 songs. In hand-decorated slipcases. Edition of 500." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: BIRDS OF DELAY/DREAMCATCHER Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "UK wastoids Birds of Delay wing flighty electronics into a burbling ball of purple snarling sound. Montreals Dreamcatcher weave a chaos quilt out of turntables, voice, and collective unconsciousness." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: BLANK REALM Title: Heatless Ark Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Vinyl debut by this consistently impressive Australian psych collective with 2 previous cassette albums on NNF. This one finds them moving into weird-punk song terrain, almost a fried improv no-wave vibe in places. Beautifully silkscreened sleeves." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: BLANK REALM Title: Heatless Ark Format: LP/Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| overdue vinyl debut by this consistently killer Brisbane crew finds them more form-destroying and ambitious than ever before. outsider psych rabble burned through an art-punk eyeball. comes alone OR with a fantastic companion cassette album, DIRTY ARK." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: BURMESE/16 BITCH PILE UP Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Bay Area face-off gets ugly. SF brawlers Burmese unleash a blinding grindcore assault of death metal hysterics and rhythm section vivisection. Meanwhile, Oaklands loveliest ladies 16BPU keep the violence implied, with lurker loops and broken glass noise ebbing in a black warehouse trance. Psychotic/hypnotic." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: CHANGELING Title: Into Great Peace Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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Artist: CLOUDLAND CANYON/MYTHICAL BEAST Title: Split Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Fresh off a new killer Kranky full-length, bi-continental teutonic duo Cloudland Canyon grease the gears on a piston-pumping motorik ramp into futurist motion, gliding drones & mechanic rhythm. Seamless & dreamless. On the B NNF extended family M Beast drop 2 perfect soul caravan wanderlust blues drifters. real gorgeous, and a great teaser for their in-the-works full-length for Drag City subsidiary Language of Stone. with art by Crops + Rawber best friend Diva Dompe." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: EARL, JEREMY Title: Skull Format: Book Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "after a series of printing doldrums we finally sorted matters & layouts OUT and pulled off production of Not Not Funs first ever art book, and were fucking proud of it, to be honest. weve loved jeremys art for ages, and this 40 page collection gleams with strange runic figures and bleeding serpents spanning a couple years of focused FUCK IT TAPES labor. glossy and glorious, this thing is everything we were hoping itd be. NNF100, dogs. future art books in the works by shawn reed and diva dompe." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: EMACIATOR Title: Coveting Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Misery wears many masks, but Tulare, California fatalist Jon Borges has etched his mark on most of them. For at least half a decade, hes pursued increasingly suicidal tendencies under his Pedestrian Deposit guise (which is currently on hiatus), splicing subdued loops of morbid beauty against savage canyons of harsh noise histrionics. Lately, though, hes been straying more and more from this aggressive exercise in contrasts in favor of his Emaciator alias, which draws from the same dark wellspring of bitter memories and bipolar rage but, instead of unleashing it in grand frenzies, bottles everything up inside until it seeps out of the pores. Early efforts/cassettes retained a strain of buzzing nausea reminiscent of his PD days, but the last 12 months have witnessed a complete abandonment of any ties to the past. Times are still bleak, sure, but the grey prisms of brooding ambience Borges now conjures and slowly collapses convey a depth of mood and subtlety far surpassing simple signifiers like indifference, resentment, or remorse. Coveting collects together five exquisite Emaciator compositions (including two particularly riveting songs that were debuted live at Echo Curio) for a harrowing 40 minutes of troubled solace, crisscrossing suicide guitar lines, and entranced self-reflection. Meditation is a myth; desire does not sleep. Black vinyl LPs in shrinkwrapped jackets with photography and layout by Borges. Mastered by Pete Swanson, edition of 430."-Not Not Fun |
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Artist: ETERNAL TAPESTRY Title: Invisible Landscape Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "A brand new full-length from Portland, Oregon based psych trio ETERNAL TAPESTRY. Edition of 500, lets do this thing." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: ETTINGER , DYLAN & THE HEAT Title: Smokin Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Sick vinyl debut by this Bloomington taper finds him teaming up with a backing band (The Heat) to soundtrack some sleazy Miami law enforcement noir via key motifs, smoky sax, and midnight vibes. Awesome. Edition of 380." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: ETTINGER. DYLAN Title: Bringin The Heat Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Companion piece to the ⿿Smokin 7 that rules equally. Two more pieces to the neon police chase puzzle. Material repeats on both sides to save you flipping time." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: ETTRICK Title: Feeders of Ravens Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Prepare for sudden death. San Francisco brutalizers Ettrick finally deliver the full-length destruction theyve been threatening for so long now. Feeders of Ravens is definitely the most potent collection of harsh jazz violence the duos ever laid to tape, showcasing all their classic kill-moves: slaughtering saxophone dialogues, jittery percussive fits, raging horn/drum self-annihilation, etc. What escalates their improv attacks above just blind frenzy is the warped telepathy Jacob Heule and Jay Korber exhibit in their playing, wordlessly intuiting one anothers energy upswings and downturns. And nowhere is this psychic connection more apparent (and demonic) than on "Raven Harvest, the LPs final onslaught. Searing sax blasts burn through the ear drum, giving way to splatter paint percussion flailings and scraping metal, which then slowly take shape, coagulating into a dense, aggressive avalanche of pummeling, white-hot drum rapture. Life into death into life. Black LPs in pro-printed jackets with majestically sinuous, Haida-style cover art (and memento mori raven back art). Limited to 350." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: EX-COCAINE/YELLOW SWANS Title: Split Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Total monster by these 2 old-tymey duos. EX-C give you a home where the ragged riffs roam (including a sick Meat Puppets cover!), and PDX colossus Y SWANS lay down a 10-dimensional lava lamp of frying wires and poignant dissolution. housed in a jacket with perhaps the boldest pair of Maya Miller art-damage compositions shes ever dreamed up. leave this one on the turntable forever." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: EXPENSIVE SHIT Title: Powwow With Chopper Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Wild brain-pillaging from this xxxtremely fried destructo unit from Austin, TX. Beyond in-the-red, in some other color, physical mayhem streaked with patches of junked space rock. In radical double-sided full-color J-card artwork by main man Spencer Longo. Edition of 128." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: EXPLORERS Title: Bermuda Telepaths Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Bermuda Telepaths is the latest title lifted out of the fruit-and-photocopy-strewn Outer Limits Recordings archive and into the ears of the world at large. Recorded under the never-again-used Explorers moniker and first edited into album form about a year ago, this hallucinatory patchwork trip into the ether synthesizes all of OLRs deepest loves -- boombox fidelity, quick cuts, keyboard loop sorcery, underwater pop, general mind surfing -- into a humbly hypnotic whirlpool of energies. Apparently there was a concept/thesis behind the albums genesis somehow involving psychic powers, lizard people, and the Bermuda Triangle, but the details are hazy. Which befits the audio in question. Read your palm. Take a walk in your thoughts. Explore away. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork designed by the artist, plus a copy shop poem insert. Edition of 330." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: FAMILY UNDERGROUND Title: Riven Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "crushing new full-length by this legendary Danish drone squad. 2 massive side-long black holes, mastered by Pete Swanson of Yellow Swans." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: FOXY BABY Title: Smoke Opera Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Another hazy Sam Meringue (Explorers, Matrix Metals) project. This is probably a vinyl reissue of the Smoke Opera cassette released in 2008 by Outer Limits Recordings.... but these are uncertain times were living in. Bright pink neon sign vinyl housed in a printed inner sleeve." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: GOLIATH BIRD EATER Title: Blood Venus Format: CD Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Crushing instrumental stoner-metal from this black-clad LA duo. With squid-witch blood art by the band. Edition of 500." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: GOLIATH BIRD EATER / SASQROTCH Title: Split Format: 10" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Document of 2 of L.A.s more esoteric basement metal crews. GBE is a one-note highway to hell, with Eagle Rock expat Nels Cline stepping in to rip an absurd guitar solo. Sasqrotch go for a scummier and rawer approach, amp haze, low-end lurking, and hairy drums. Hand-numbered edition of 400." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: GOSLINGS, THE Title: Ocassion Format: CD Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "brand new skull-soldering full-length from this unbelievable florida family. 8 dream/death moss metal tracks dug out of the rotting earth. mastered by james plotkin. in a metallic gold 6-panel wallet pak."- Not Not Fun |
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Artist: HEATSICK Title: Perpendicular Rain Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "steven warwick is a wonderful character on the alien electronics landscape, and the vast bulk of his Heatsick tapes are spools worth hording. this one lands high on his heap, freaked out innerspace vision trances that blow a lot of comparable types outta the water. pro-dubbed tapes in double-sided full-color j-cards w/handcut labels and a stenciled case." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: HEAVY WINGED & INCA ORE Title: Ring Mining Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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Artist: HIGH WOLF Title: Ascension Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Pyramidal meditationist High Wolf has been highly active since last summers Animal Totem tape dropped on NNF: hes released three full-length CDRs, started his own record label (Winged Sun), begun a mail-collab with Astral Social Club (as Iibiis Rooge), embarked on two UK/Euro tours (one with heavyweights Gnod), plus trekked out on a month-long solo journey through India to collect field recordings and get deep. Whoa! Makes you feel lazy right? Well actually thats not all, as he also spent a few months somewhere in there recording, mixing, and re-recording the five multifaceted ethno-flux odysseys that comprise Ascension, his debut vinyl full-length. Utilizing his usual toolbag of looped tablas, fuzz guitar leads, chiming white light guitar, synth swells, and cloud-climbing electronics, the album safaris through a host of ecstatic ritual landscapes with more focus and magic than any other High Wolf hunt to date. A beautiful album for dissolving, dreaming, dancing (in a certain way). Been spinning this one weekly, share the flight. Black vinyl LPs mastered by Pete Swanson and housed in jackets with artwork by Kaugummi Magazine captain Bartolome Sanson. Edition of 400." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: HOLY STRAYS Title: Hyperion Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "French newcomer blends a spectrum of post-kraut elements into a fresh private hypnosis. been spinning this one a ton." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: INCA ORE Title: Silver Sea Surfer School Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "EVA SAELENS life quest has taken her from Michigan to Oregon to Oakland back to Portland and back again, with several overseas explorations and inner journey road trips thrown in for good measure. Whatever path shes on is long and winding and hidden in the shadow of overhanging cherimoya trees. Fortunately she maps her migrations with haunted, exotic breath-and-electricity sphinxes ranging from 2006s Brute Nature Vs. Wild Magic to last years brainwashing Birthday Of Bless You LP. 2009 finds her offering up another psychic harvest unto the world, Silver Sea Surfer School, a new nine-song pipeline ride that floats through a whole new web of voice orbs and tape hiss and keyboard balladry. If anything, Silver Sea is Saelens weirdest hour, layered in abstract environments, whispers, distant poetry, free percussion loops, with sudden passages of heart-dissolving ghost-piano beauty ("Shine On From The Heaven Above," "Adventure In Light"). Heavily impressive, and a brave pearl-dive into even more personal waters for the INCA ORE lifeforce. LPs come in jackets with art by Saelens, plus a full-color insert. Edition of 500 (40 on clear ocean-water vinyl, 180 on marbled blue/white, 280 on black)." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: LA VAMPIRES & ZOLA JESUS Title: LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Virtual reality trans-time zone collab between So-Cal sample sister LA Vampires and Madison, WI (though soon to be LA!) neo-Siouxsie Zola Jesus. Despite the distance the respective vibes vibe beautifully. Cold dub rhythms echo down grimy corridors while heartbroken tag-team femme howls come bleeding out of the horizon drenched in spectral delay. Theres a few bangers (Bone Is Bloodstone, Looking In), a few ballads (In The Desert, Vous), and a couple quasi-covers (Searching, No No No), so every mood is given its due. Local photographer (and drummer) extraordinaire Caitlin C. Mitchell even lays down some smoky trumpet on one track. Additional deep space Moog and production duties were handled by City Terrace studio wizard M. Geddes Gengras. A dark, gleaming gem of a 12", and cool step sideways for both artists. 45 RPM black vinyl LPs in disco-hole sleeves with artwork and layout by Manda Beth Brown. Edition of 600." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: LITTLE CLAW Title: Human Taste Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Brand new LP by this fiery Portland, Oregon art-garage trio. This is the LP edition of the CD released on Ecstatic Peace! Records. Comes with a double-sided 11"x17" poster." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: MAGIC LANTERN Title: Platoon Format: CD Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Its been a while since The Lantern shined its High Beams out into the world but lifes a maze of alternate paths (marriage, children, Portland Oregon, etc) and thats just the way it goes/went. Fortunately for all lovers of heavy male psych brotherhoods, the ML gang convened back in 2009 before parting ways temporarily to track their second full-length, Platoon, and here it is. As oughta be expected, its a monstrous hot-rod cruise into screaming dual wah distortions powered by the poker faced Gavin/Chip rhythm section and splattered with jazzy freak-out organ and the occasional Stallones echo yelp. Featuring most of their live classics from the pre-hiatus era (Dark Cicadas, Friendship, etc) and tracked/mixed by Best Coaster Bobb Bruno, this fills the hole in yr heart left by High Beams." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: MAGIC LANTERN Title: Platoon Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Its been a while since The Lantern shined its High Beams out into the world but lifes a maze of alternate paths (marriage, children, Portland Oregon, etc) and thats just the way it goes/went. Fortunately for all lovers of heavy male psych brotherhoods, the ML gang convened back in 2009 before parting ways temporarily to track their second full-length, Platoon, and here it is. As oughta be expected, its a monstrous hot-rod cruise into screaming dual wah distortions powered by the poker faced Gavin/Chip rhythm section and splattered with jazzy freak-out organ and the occasional Stallones echo yelp. Featuring most of their live classics from the pre-hiatus era (Dark Cicadas, Friendship, etc) and tracked/mixed by Best Coaster Bobb Bruno, this fills the hole in yr heart left by High Beams." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: MAGIC LANTERN Title: Showstopper/ Cypress Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Companion banger to the Platoon LP, this 33 RPM single finds the Lanterns firmly in retro motor city rave-up rockist terrain, covering the cult classic Showstopper on the A, backed with their own James Brown soul revue funk-rock shaker Cypress on the flip. Recorded during the Platoon sessions and mastered by James Plotkin. Black vinyl 7 inches in cosmic boogie collage jackets designed by Cameron Stallones. Edition of 500." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: MURRAY, HEATHER LEIGH Title: Devil If You Can Hear Me Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Debut vinyl full length by this long-time H-town expat/pedalsteel visionary. Past CDRs on her and Dave Keenans VOLCANIC TONGUE imprint have sketched out the breadth of her possessed solitary vigils, but her three pieces here are even more untamed and unique. Voice, electric strings, song tendrils blowing in the souls breeze. Edition of 500." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: MURRAY, HEATHER LEIGH Title: Jailhouse Rock Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Its been a while since Scorces sorceress, Jandek collaborator, and Volcanic Tongue branch manager Heather Leigh has ventured out on vinyl under her own name. And it may be a while longer, as Jailhouse Rock is in fact a wax reissue of a long OOP 2006 cassette classic on Michigan crud factory Fag Tapes. It was a fave of ours that year (and every year), so it feels extra celebratory to be able to offer up a freshly remastered (by Pete Swanson) LP edition of the album for global re-appreciation. Sprawling, long-form descent/ascents into mythic electric disorientation, powered by her trademark recipe of FX-soaked pedal steel and voice. Jailhouse feels loosely more aligned with a mid-aughts drone/noise aesthetic than the outsider dirt road Americana of her Devil If You Can Hear Me LP (also on NNF), but the distinction is a slight one. Side A swims in swooping sheets of vox and tempestuous wind tunnel dynamics before slowly dying away to wheezing disembodied harmonica. The B piece begins in a more overtly beautiful mode, a trinity of crystalline notes picked and stretched until theyre transformed into a rapturous sky of textural distortion. Sensual and vertigo-inducing in equal measure. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with brand new paint/collage artwork by Heath Moerland (of Sick Llama, Slither, Odd Clouds, etc). Edition of 400." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: MYTHICAL BEAST Title: Scales Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Yellow/black-speckled vinyl. Vinyl edition of this nomadic psych-soul trios beloved 2008 studio debut, released on CD on Greg Weeks (of Espers) Language of Stone label. This edition has swank glossy jackets, plus an 11x11 pro-printed insert, on colored vinyl. One time pressing of 500." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: ODD CLOUDS Title: Deceiving Illusion Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "A thousand years ago, in 2006, Michigan moonlighters Odd Clouds drizzled down their LP opus, The Cavernous End. Within the sphere of open-eyed freeform organized psych-jazz sprawl, nothing compared. Years later that album still kills, but not much has followed in its wake (there have been some loose tapes but those are more in the crude basement fuckaround vein). So we are personally xxtremely pleased to be able to finally offer up the bands latest album-length affair, Deceiving Illusion. A six-song spelunk into the deranged group brain responsible for noise scene mainstays like Fag Tapes and Tasty Soil Records, Illusion rumbles through a hall of mirrors of zones/styles, from freaky garbage punk to robot throat games to motorik brass meditations to unhinged 70s German commune beardo psych-blazers. The journey is the destination and all that. Abuse yr Illusion. Black vinyl LPs in 3-color pro-silkscreened jackets with artwork by Chris Pottinger and Jamie Easter, plus a double-sided photocopied insert. Edition of 400." |
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Artist: PINK LUMINOUS INVOCATION Title: Sings The Blues Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "one of our favorite danish crews dig deep into their dark side for a gripping four-tet of heavy soul dirges. chaingang sorrow and FX sorcery make this PLIs best album to date, worthy of repeat visitations. pro-dubbed & imprinted tapes in swank silkscreened, spraypainted, and handcut rebel portrait cardstock cases." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: POCAHAUNTED Title: Make It Real Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "After a six-month hiatus, a complete line-up overhaul, a trip to SXSW, a UK/EURO tour, and a full year-plus of only playing shows and writing songs and amassing totemic objects, finally Pocahaunted return to the recorded realm with their first album since 2008. Time flies when yr having not not fun and all that. Make It Real collects seven of the bands 2009 live staples for a 40-minute-ish collage of basement body music, garage dub damage, outsider funkadelic sprawl, voodoo rhythm workouts, duo femme soul vocal dynamics, dripping gold sweat, and dream fulfillment. Recorded barefoot and shirtless and direct to tape at Green Machine Studio in summer 09 by M. Geddes Gengras and featuring guest bamboo sax by jazzmaster Alex Gray (of Dreamcolour/Deep Magic) and mastered by James Plotkin. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with warped LA post-Parliament utopia artwork by vision wizard Spencer Longo. Edition of 500." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: POCAHAUNTED Title: Make It Real Format: CD Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "After a six-month hiatus, a complete line-up overhaul, a trip to SXSW, a UK/EURO tour, and a full year-plus of only playing shows and writing songs and amassing totemic objects, finally Pocahaunted return to the recorded realm with their first album since 2008. Time flies when yr having not not fun and all that. Make It Real collects seven of the bands 2009 live staples for a 40-minute-ish collage of basement body music, garage dub damage, outsider funkadelic sprawl, voodoo rhythm workouts, duo femme soul vocal dynamics, dripping gold sweat, and dream fulfillment. Recorded barefoot and shirtless and direct to tape at Green Machine Studio in summer 09 by M. Geddes Gengras and featuring guest bamboo sax by jazzmaster Alex Gray (of Dreamcolour/Deep Magic) and mastered by James Plotkin." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: PSYCHIC REALITY/LA VAMPIRES Title: Split Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Every days as new as you want it to be so take up the torch and light something unlit. Definite off-the-grid mentalities prevail on this genre-dissolving split 12" between San Fran anima soul voyager Leyna Noel aka Psychic Reality and So-Cal acid-jazz crate-digger LA Vampires. Noels toured the states coast-to-coast and dropped a couple potent tape/CDR effigies, but this is her vinyl debut and it captures everything searing and singular about her live alchemy in glowing, glorious detail. Four inter-flowing songs of tone-float piano keys, bedroom drum machines, and white light amplifier vox. Trance-damaged and truth-seeking. LA Vampires side madlibs through a more mercurial matrix, using slowed/screwed tapes, boombox Casio FX, low end theories, and bleached voice patterns to conjure a reverb chambers worth of dance floor mirages. Future collabs with Zola Jesus and Sun Araw should expound her rhythm method mission. Abuse yr illusion. Black vinyl LPs in glossy jackets with a boldly disrobed duo cover portrait by Caitlin C. Mitchell. Edition of 450." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: RACCOO-OO-OON Title: Raccoo-oo-oon Format: Double LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "All things must come to pass, if you love something set it free, its better to burn out than fade away, blah blah blah. No platitude can mask the permanent bummer of a favorite band breaking up in their prime, and such is the case with Iowa Citys most untamed civic treasure, feral-psych foursome Raccoo-oo-oon, who decided to dissolve this year after nearly half a decade of radical and galvanizing activity (tapes, tours, t-shirts, etc). Fortunately theyre generous sorts, so their parting gift to the fans/haters/planet is a vicious, thorny wilderness of endless, nameless songs heaved across four fried sides of black vinyl. Crawl a mile in their shoes. As far as R.I.P. band statements go, this self-titled monster is tough to beat, by far the most ambitious slabs of sounds the RAC pack has ever put together. Doomed, desperate prog-rock flailings decay into hollow purgatories of dimly pulsing ambience, only to re-erupt into pissed percussion firestorms and experimental electricity. There are a few moments of Behold Secret Kingdom-style focus, but for the most part the mood remains raw and acidic, four souls on edge, backs to the crowd, channeling everything they have left inside. Its deconstruction time again. Nearly 80 minutes of music, mastered by Pete Swanson, housed in reinforced double LP jackets with Andy/Daren in repose photo artwork, plus a pro-printed 11x11 insert. Edition of 500." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: ROBEDOOR Title: Raiders Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Following their 2008 East Coast tour with Woods and Pocahaunted the Robedoor agenda has mainly been: hibernating in the City Terrace zone above east LA, adding a drummer/modular synth dealer, and letting the smoke rise. Raiders is the first RBDR LP since 2008s Endlessly Blazing and is the result of almost six months of slow-burn transformative tape machine meditation helmed by Mr. Ged Gengras. Bummed guitars, loner drone tones, low caverns of reverbed drums and rumble, echo dislocation, and dead voices cascade down into the isolated highways. Song modes are carved out and then left to rot. Features early trio live set staples like Indo Shadow and The Downcast Eye. You cant stick your hand in the same black river twice. Change or be changed. LPs in jackets with cover photo by Caitlin C. Mitchell. Edition of 500." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: SCORCES Title: I Turn Into You Format: Double LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "NNFs first double lp and its a doozy. The carter/leigh murray duo digs up 4 deep sides from the vault and theyre as impressive as any weve heard. Severe quiet, lost moods, strange strings, etc. with fancy embossed jackets (designed by Marcia Bassett) plus an insert." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: SECRET ABUSE Title: Violent Narcissus Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Secret Abuser Jeff Witscher is an enigma wrapped in a riddle rolled in cassette tape and plugged into a battered pair of towering PA speakers. Hes lived everywhere, met everyone, and inspired legions through his lifestyle, utopian fashions (refugee chic), and spellbindingly intense music. Up from Rainbow Blanket, through to Impregnable, and across the arid plains of Roman Torment and Deep Jew, Witschers maintained a singularity of vision and total commitment to execution that has wrecked us, personally, to the point of speechlessness at least a dozen times. But, despite his restlessly shapeshifting spirit, the past year plus has seen him settling slightly deeper into his Secret Abuse sinkhole style, and heres hoping he lingers a while longer, cause its a fucking winner. Brutal, pensive, blown-out tones crossfade into tortured minor key guitar laments before being slowly subsumed in a droning ocean of choked vocals and sulking, selfish electronics. Repressed, burning, and emotional like a young man pushing away everything, Violent Narcissus is as definitive a document as has thus far yet emerged from the SA canon (and lord knows theres been a grip of gems). Look long and hard; the mirror is a bitter mistress. Black LPs, mastered by Bill Hutson, housed in jackets designed by Witscher. Edition of 445." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: SEX WORKER Title: The Labor of Love Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Still waters run deep but wild waters run deeper. Both when fronting San Fran free-punk body-music trio Mi Ami or performing angst-dance psycho-dramas under his solo alias, Sex Worker, Daniel Martin-McCormick always succeeds in generating total motion (and emotion) and breaking the fourth wall. His vision of tranced/anguished rhythm questing hits an apex on The Labor Of Love, his LP debut under the Sex Worker guise, and weve been soaking in its dark arts for months. Pulsing, lo-fi kraut electronics bubble and sputter under hazy arcs of weirdo vocal smear. Escapist disco drum machines cruise into the horizon under a canopy of dubby accents and FX percussion, sometimes peaking in harsh frenzies of echo-scream meltdowns. All three pieces function as anthems or elegies or protest songs articulating Daniels heavy anti-sex trafficking/enslaved bodies activist agenda but you dont have to know the depths of the ethical framework to grasp the vibe. An intensely unique and hyper-personal statement from one of our favorite West Coast music-dreamers. Black vinyl LPs in jackets designed by the artist. Edition of 450." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: SHEPHERDS w/SHAWN REED Title: Eyes Of The World Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "a handful of our favorite figures (J Earl, Xtian, Shawn, Lucas N-Horse) all dog-piling on top of another into a blind ball of bewildering psych regression. havent heard LOCO HILLS yet, but these are some of the greatest tunes outta the (extended) SHEP camp weve heard in this lifetime. totally pro-manufactured/mastered tapes with awesome full-color collab-artwork/textwork J-cards by the whole crew. limited to 200." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: SHEPHERDS/IGNATZ Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER Title: Taste The Blood Of The Deceiver Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Weve only had the good/loud fortune to witness Matthew Bower perform live on one solitary occasion, but the infinite incineration he managed to detonate out of a single electric guitar and knee-high practice amp was convincing enough to last several lives. In the meantime, theres the gallons of celestial skree he bombards the listening universe with via his cavalry of audio aliases (Skullflower, Total, Hototogisu, Sunroof!, Mirag), all of which radiates with Bowers iconic, influential, two-decades-deep quest to fuse the bruised with the blissed in a single white-light fist held up high. And although his specific mission for each project seems to have crossfaded a bit in recent years, its still huge news to us to be able offer up Taste The Blood Of The Deceiver, the first full-length Skullflower album to be pressed on vinyl since forever (at least the early 90s). Taste The Blood Of The Deceiver finds Bower in the more blackened, doom-damaged terrains like those stripmined on the recent Desire For A Holy War or Pure Imperial Reform -- abrupt vertical baths of blinding distortion and harmonic override spiked with cavernous cultish riffs and deeply bleak ritual moods. The blood is fresh, but the bodys unrecognizable. Charred and forgotten, this is another stepping stone on the path to the upturned altar. Black vinyl LPs in fucked-up-and-photocopied matte jackets. Edition of 500." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: SOCIAL JUNK Title: Concussion Summer Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Masterpiece vinyl debut by this badass Kentucky crew, after a billion tapes and cdrs. Wanders around a ton of different aggro/hypno zones, intensely unique and uncompromising. On tour NOW, go see them!!." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: SUN ARAW Title: On Patrol Format: Double LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
| "A brand new double-album from CAMERON STALLONES of MAGIC LANTERN under his SUN ARAW moniker. Drawing equally upon 70s kraut-psych rock, Spacemen 3-style drug blues, and woozy tropical world music, Sun Araws universe is a rapidly expanding one." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: SUN ARAW Title: On Patrol Format: CD Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "If a tree falls in a forest and no ones around, shit still gets crushed. If Cameron Stallones holes up solo-style in a suburban cave and wah-riffs over canned bongos for five straight months, double LPs still get dropped. These are basic life laws. The latest from Mr. Araw is easily his least compromising audio self-portrait to date. Three minute rhythm sketches are stretched into ten minute loop pedal odysseys. Organ solos last for entire vinyl sides. Ambiguous law enforcement themes are toyed with then abandoned in a haze of hypnagogic sleaze. Gone is the sweaty orchestration and funk of Heavy Deeds, extra long gone is the sun-kissed pop smoke shuffles of Beach Head. In its place is a heavily casual, zoned, patient 85 minute drum machine burro-ride accented by phasered organ gasoline, echo guitar sparkles, funny flute trills, tried/true Stallones vocal exclamations (Whaaaah Ohhh), and oddball FX. Magic Lantern cornerstone William Giacchi drops by to jam on one track but it doesnt much upset the overarching On Patrol thesis: Ride It Out. The sound of one mans conga mind soaking in its own juices, refracted down a hall of mirrors, and allowed to ferment. Two black vinyl LPs in a thick gatefold jacket with Knight Rider-y photo collage artwork by Stallones featuring plenty of his trademark triangles and yellow fontmanship. Mastered by James Plotkin." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: TEETH MOUNTAIN Title: Live On Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Follow-up to last years well-received full-length of collaged live performances released on SHDWPLY. This is another half hour-plus of the Baltimore drum/drone collective at their most zoned and loose-limbed." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: TOPAZ RAGS Title: Capricorn Born Again Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Debut full-length by this sour times lurker trio. Recorded across four months in a time consuming 4-track/boombox assemblage style, this one leaks shadows and rainy piano riffs and faded heartbreak. Edition of 400." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: TOPAZ RAGS Title: Crown Center Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "West Coast ghost squad TOPAZ RAGS stalk back into the deadlights with a fresh vinyl single, their first new material since the Capricorn Born Again LP. Recorded in the heart of winter in a room with one blue light bulb, "The Crown Center" is pure nightprowler music: quaking bass, grime-jazz keys, dusty drums, witch choirs floating through the smog and into sleeping homes with the power lines cut. The sound of crime to come. The flip ("You Go On") slips deeper into the psych-psycho psyche, a bleached-brain riff-rhythm grinding away endlessly while voices and electric piano stabs arc across the stereo field, raining ash. A grimmer twist on the Topaz formula, the dreamers dream turned dark. 33 RPM 7-inch pressed on various colored vinyl in hand-silkscreened cardstock sleeves. Edition of 345." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: TOPAZ RAGS Title: Tarot Harem Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: TOPPING BOTTOMS Title: Towers Of Spines Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "killer weirdo tokyo crew drop a block of PSF-damaged warehouse guitar strobe light sludge. in insane art-packing by Create Evil chief Ryo." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: TRACEY TRANCE Title: Mummy Fingers Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Moonrock-eating keyboard madcap T TRANCE lays down one of his best outings yet, 30 minutes of warped drug circus pop disasters. or something?" -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: U.S. GIRLS Title: Me & Yoko Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "There⿿s no disputing the truth that certain formats befit certain artists. Think about it: where⿿s the logic in Tangerine Dream rocking a 3-way split 3 CDR? Those fools need room to roam. Conversely, why would Orthrelm drop a 4xLP? Who needs 160 minutes of 8-second spazz songs? The medium is a message, man. And for Megan Remy⿿s brief, brave re-imaginings of guitar/voice pop rapture done under the U.S. Girls flag, the 45 RPM 7 inch single is the absolute dream medium for transporting said sounds to the interested earhole. Short and sweet (and chemical) like a sugar rush, Me + Yoko is her latest reverb-gaze drug nugget in a string of strong singles (following releases on Hardscrabble Amateurs and Cherry Burger), and it⿿s another keeper. Whistling to life with a scrap of found sound/dialogue, the song then wings into a vague, hazed-out stone-toss between 2 tired notes (a dead ringer for that famous Les Rallizes Denudes bass riff), ebbing and flowing beneath smeary streaks of white-washed vocal blur. A Top 40 single for a universe of ghosts. The B, ⿿Rise + Go, might actually be the more aching of the two, a broke-down bedroom ballad, awash in sad seas of reverb, lapping at the shores of isolated islands, gently sailing into heartbreak. Sounds lo-fi but lush, like it was recorded high on a cloud on a cheap 80s boombox. Imagine that. Black vinyl 45 RPM singles, mastered by Pete Swanson, in photocopied sleeves with art by Remy. Edition of 380." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: V/A Title: My Estrogeneration Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Over-a-year-in-the-assembling 12 comp of all femme musical energies. Spans the spectrum of modes and moods. Includes NNF friends/fam like Zola Jesus, Tickley Feather, Inca Ore, Pocahaunted, Talk Normal, Valet, etc. In a beautiful art-jacket designed by diva dompe plus comes with a full-color double-sided insert. Edition of 500." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: VIBES Title: Psychic Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Every family has a freak (or two). Every decks got a wild card. Weve got VIBES. Ante up. NNFs loosest cannons return to the recording fray with, Psychic, a blown-out briar patch of basement garage fantasy masquerading as obscurist protest funk-and the bands first vinyl statement. Recorded in Eagle Rock on a last legs-style 4-track, the EPs four songs are jacked deep in the red, with fuzz bass, wah shrapnel, vocal sloganeering, and drum racket all fighting for tape room. Competition is fierce. Recent live faves like Dead Horses and Night Court appear in particularly revved-up form, as do the first two Vibes songs ever written, Psychic and Prisms Of Fame. All bases are covered. All soul trains are derailed. Here comes the judge. Black vinyl 33 RPM singles in full-color fold-over sleeves with collage artwork and lettering by CAMERON STALLONES, photographs by CAITLIN C. MITHCELL, plus a rant-y revolution scrapbook insert. Edition of 400."-NNF |
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Artist: WAGON TONGUES Title: Shadowrock Destroyer Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "You can live in LA/Southern Cali for 40 years and still not traverse all the fucked up fringe boroughs and forgotten neighborhoods sprawling outwards in every direction, no matter how hard you hit the highways. And as long as weve been rooted out here, weve only had reason to venture into the sun-dead desert no mans land of Beaumont on one occasion, but the place speaks volumes about the weird water which hometown garbage-folk-chaos ensemble Wagon Tongues have clearly been drinkin their whole life. A creepy meeting ground of olde-tymey Wild West relics and trashy meth-dealing truckstop culture, its an ideal breeding ground for drifters, criminals, and creative youth with singular visions. Which is pretty much the name of the game on Shadowrock Destroyer, the Tongues most recent EP of deranged collective chemistry. The A, ⿿Fire In The Hole, is a raw free ritual of stomping drums, loops, teen screams, guitar noise, and pots and pans, conducted in a crappy basement with cavernous reverb and black mold on the walls. Confusion is king. The B rises up in a similar cloud of clatter but swings with a folkier gait, sunlight brain-fry chords, dusty horns, and possessed babble bubbling over into an ecstatic tumbleweed hayride into the sunset. Squint yr eyes, raise your hand, seek the shadows. Pro-dubbed yellow cassettes with hand-brushed tape labels in cases with hand-numbered full-color masked band photo cover artwork, and wrapped with a hand-cut patch of brown picnic cloth stickering. Edition of 100." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: WET HAIR Title: Dream Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "When Iowa City freak-out free-rockers Raccoo-oo-oon called it quits last year it left a bummer scar in the Midwest underground scene. But time is a great healer, and so are new bands. So out of the ashes of the RAC pack comes Wet Hair, a synth-punk-trance duo composed of keyboardist/vocalizer Shawn Reed and keyboardist/drummer Ryan Garbes, and Dream is the bands debut vinyl full-length after a series of increasingly shredding limited-edition cassettes on their own Night People label. Piling together an unlikely trash heap of Suicide-style drum machine beat-bops, zone-droned Krautrock keys, and fucked up outsider crooning, the LPs four tracks careen across a spectrum of moods and mangled melodies. Recorded at Flat Black Studios by Luke Tweedy and mastered by Pete Swanson, Wet Hairs cult electric annihilation has never gleamed with such razor-edged weirdness; this is their dream made real. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork by Reed and Garbes, plus a pro-printed full-color 11x11 insert." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: WET HAIR Title: Glass Fountain Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Welcome back. One of NNFs total favorite active bands return with a second full-length (most of which was recorded during the same sessions that birthed their debut LP, Dream) and we are pleased as spiked fruit punch. The Reed/Garbes duo mainly sticks to their guns, mining the same post-Suicide art-trance vein they perfected on Dream, but with Glass Fountain theres an added emphasis on the disembodied, oscillator pop mode that Wet Hair often toy with. Fountains five tracks include some of the bands simplest but catchiest songs (Crucifix In The Waves, When The Right Time Comes, etc), mesmerizing organ melodies over plink-plonky vintage drum machines with weirdo soulful singing and outer space electronics, like an outsider-punk Silver Apples or something. Hard to say exactly what universe Wet Hair are operating in and thats probably part of why we love it so much. A killer record that gets better each spin. In jackets with art drawn and designed by the band, plus a pro-printed 11x11 insert." - Not Not Fun. On opaque lavender-colored vinyl. |