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Record Highlight — Gypsy

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This record was a long time in the making. Finally seeing the light of day is the debut full length from GYPSY.  Giant's Despair is 10 tracks that have been well worth the wait. Sounding even more now like Knapsack, Jawbeaker and Dinosaur Jr than on their previous 7" (now only available as a download), the LP features top notch production from Will Yip (Blacklisted, Mother Of Mercy, War Hungry). Oh and they feature members of Cold World, Mother Of Mercy, Stick Together, and the dude who books United Blood, if you're into that sort of thing.

The LP is available for pre-order now from Six Feet Under, and was pressed on three limited edition colors which are sold on a first-come-first-served basis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Record Highlight — The Anchor Windlass

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The Anchor Windlass formed in Minneapolis in the fall of 2009 with Anton, Danger, Gabe, and Max Peters.  In the summer of 2010 Max left the band and Minneapolis to live in a town with a much worse music scene, but better lakes and school systems.  Shortly thereafter, Nick Johnson was recruited to play lead guitar and tell us on what gear to buy.  Since then The Anchor Windlass has played a whole slew of gigs around the Twin Cities with a whole host of really rad local bands.

Thanks to the guys for hiring GGR to press the band's debut LP, Fair Winds and Following Seas -- we just shipped them out this week, so be sure to stay tuned to the band to grab a copy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Record Highlight — Delay

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Delay are midwest rockers from Cleveland, Ohio.  We were pumped when Shout Out Loud Prints and Ryan Eilbeck from the band contacted us about pressing their new LP, Rushing Ceremony.

The official release party is January 21, and you can catch their release show at Carabar in Columbus, Ohio with Annabel, The Dopamines, and Tin Armor.  But, be sure to pre-order the LP from Shout Out Loud Prints now -- pre-orders begin shipping January 18!

 

Record Highlight — Andy The Doorbum

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Andy the Doorbum has been making music for over ten years, as well as making visual art, writing zines, working at the World Famous Milestone Club for six years, touring extensively, making his own merchandise, and preparing for the apocalypse. He has recorded four EPs and four full-lengths that have never seen the light of day; and has released three splits, one EP, a cassette tape, and three full length albums. He also contributed to several compilations including Another Merrie Kinnikinnik, the Shuffle Magazine Valentine’s Comp, and Piedmont Hellstompers.  His tour history has consisted of playing anywhere possible: from dance recitals to library openings, barns, baby showers, basements, skate parks, Italian Heritage Festivals, and events as small as house shows, to a World Music Festival attended by 3000+ people (performing as a member of Etran Finatwa from Nigeria). He has also toured with and also been a member of Cryptorchid Chipmunk, The Emotron, PPR, 2013 Wolves, Morbid Toothbrush, FleshHouse, IYF PoRK, Pangolin Wasser, and Appalucia; and recently collaborated on a recording with Mack Johansson (from Sweden) of the group Hyacinth House. Alongside these endeavors, he has been actively recording his own projects, including this new double LP - The Man Killed The Bird, And With The Bird He Killed The Song, And With The Song, Himself – available now, only on vinyl.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Record Highlight — The Strange Attractors

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Austin psych-rock luminaries The Strange Attractors are back with their boldest release on Past/Futures Records to date.  Midnight at Xochil’s is the third full length for the Austin, Texas based quartet, which includes former and current members of the Riverboat Gamblers and the Ugly Beats, among others.

After 6 years of searing psych rock nihilism, band founder Jeremy Diaz’s vision to streamline the sound is realized with Xochil’s — a group of beautifully written songs, simplistic in their sophistication. From raging psych rock tension ala Spacemen 3 to soft Jesus and Mary Chain-inspired lullaby/dirges, the album is  delivered with a maturity and confidence not yet seen from the band, and in turn proves to be the most honest.

Producer Che Arthur was on hand in Austin with Engineer Michael Landon (Okkervil River, Neil Michael Hagerty) for the fiendishly paced 4 day recording session. Afterwards the record was taken to Chicago for mixing and mastering. Theres something for everyone here – the lineage of old Texas psych rock is still prevelant, and new fans are sure to enjoy the evolution of a group that is constantly breaking new ground.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Record Highlight — The Soil & The Sun

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the Soil & the Sun is corn-fed, Michigan-made New Mexican Space Music, or Experiential Spiritual Folk. Originating in 2008 as two-piece, the band has grown and matured into an eight-piece community of friends and musicians. Oboe, violin, cello, guitars, accordion, percussion, piano, and vocals, cooperate to create complex harmonies, layered melodies, and driving rhythms. The careful orchestration and intentional instrumentation will speak to your soul.

You can now grab Wake Up Child on limited edition vinyl, which features revamped and re-recorded versions of songs by the group from the past three years, all wrapped up as a cohesive new LP.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Record Highlight — Apples In Stereo

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Fun Trick Noisemaker was the first full-length installment in the ongoing musical journey that has grown out of Apples In Stereo frontman Robert Schneider's infatuation with recording techniques; ranging from four-track bedroom recordings to 100-track studio experiments, to creating new musical scales and mind-controlled synthesizers. Not to mention his ongoing obsession with writing the perfect pop song, a song "that even little kids or your grandparents can sing along with," as Schneider put it at the time. That creative journey continues until this day. But more than just a starting point, Fun Trick Noisemaker stands on its own today as a masterpiece in the indie rock canon, featuring some of the band's most loved and indelible tracks such as: "Green Machine"; "Glow Worm" and "Tidal Wave" (featuring one of the most rip roaring lead guitar lines ever put to wax.)

 

Sleepless Issue #0 – Out Now

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GGR is proud to be a sponsor of the new Sleepless zine!  Sleepless focuses on heavy underground music from the Rust Belt, and is made by people who play in bands and who have been involved in the creative arts all their lives. This is a place to document, share, and collaborate: send articles, show and record reviews, photos, and comics to us and we'll try and get it into the print zine and also onto the online version of it (coming soon!).

Sleepless does take subscriptions, which are $20 per year or $6 per issue. You'll get a hard copy of the zine plus a free tape comp in the mail.  You can also grab it at various regional record stores and venues.  If you are a fan of heavy underground music, we highly recommend checking out this new publication!

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Record Highlight — Bryter Layter

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Comprised of Joseph Raglani (Kranky) and Mike Pollard (Arbor), Bryter Layter is a collaborative unit that focuses on the lyrical faculties of analog synthesis. For the most part, these recordings find the pair eschewing the at-times unfocused, long-form drone techniques that have become fixtures in the scene in favor of short, melodic compositions that are strikingly rich in detail. Listeners familiar with the oeuvres of Raglani and Pollard will find much to love here. As the pillow-soft, analog tone-clouds that characterize the latter’s work as Pale Blue Sky find themselves wed to the highly structured, dynamic arrangements that one associates with the former’s solo output.”Two Lenses” is rich and cinematic, rife with evocative motifs which ebb and flow from one piece to the next creating, over the course of the album, a masterfully composed, unified whole.

Recorded live and meticulously arranged by Raglani at his home studio, and mastered by Greg Davis to supreme effect, Two Lenses (released by Students of Decay) builds upon and extends the qualities established on the pair’s 2009 cassette release “Imprinted Season” in every way. Their work here runs the gamut from maudlin and picturesque to profoundly hopeful always with an eye towards the beautiful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Holidays!

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Merry Christmas from all of the Gotta Groovies!