The Thread is a tribute album to Matt Nigro. You can pre-order the album at www.freshhatstightbeats.com or click the logo at the top. All proceeds from this album will be donated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
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Arius Blaze — Meditations In Jazz
Meditations in Jazz is an exploration of a memory. Blaze creates a minimal composition rooted in tape loops, reflecting on a free jazz experience that still exists and unfolds in an abandoned warehouse somewhere in the old slums of a vacant city. Each of the four parts is an atmospheric contemplation, expressing different aspects of the same experience.
2xLP vinyl in TIp-On jacket is available from Folktek Records.
Truck Stop Love: Can’t Hear It 1991-1994
Twenty-five years ago Truck Stop Love made their first recordings. These previously unreleased demo tracks and never-before-heard recordings capture the band’s wheels-about-to-come-off-the-rails Midwest rock twang at its most formative – when the songs were fresh, raw, and LOUD!
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Every vinyl purchase comes with a free digital download of the entire album plus the bonus track – The Way / Amphetamine / Fried – the legendary Trilogy from the 1992 “A Quiet Time At Last.”
The Cordial Sins
The Cordial Sins are an alternative rock group hailing from Columbus, Ohio. The group’s fronted by powerful vocalist and classically trained-violinist, Liz Fisher, whose musical expertise is further empowered by a profound lyrical imagination. Lead guitarist, Corey Dickerson, grounds the band’s rock roots with shimmering guitar licks heavily influenced by Radiohead, Real Estate, and Nels Cline.
The result is a sonically bold blend of alt-rock, shoegaze, and pop. The Cordial Sins released debut EP Only Human in October 2017 and have since, received continued live show support and airplay from tastemaker Alternative station CD102.5 FM. The Sins have supported notable acts including Genevieve (of Company of Thieves) and Wolf Alice.
Gloria Barnes — Uptown
Insanely raw soul from 1971! Extremely rare and being reissued for the first time here. Gloria Barnes teams up with The Ohio Players and Lee Moses to create her only LP, Uptown, that would become highly desirable in the deep soul/funk market and is just now seeing the light of day again in 2017. This is one of those records that all you have to do is drop the needle and you know it’s for real.
Low Lumens — The Distant, Everyday
The Distant, Everyday is the first full-length album by Low Lumens, the recording alias of visual artist and musician Danny Bracken.
The sound of ringing church bells mix with swelling synthesizers in the expansive opening track, “Santa Clara.” In many ways, the meditative song sets the tone for the ten track album, a record that is simultaneously complex and spacious. There is an undeniable sense of upbeat repetition, something reminiscent of dance or electronic music. Yet, with bits of voice and acoustic instruments, the compositions retain a sense of humanness. Throughout, a subtle tension weaves: there’s a crackle in the woodwinds, slight feedback in a synthesizer, and a confused auto-tuned brass ensemble lying just below the polished surface.
Available now from Burnt Toast Vinyl.
Robert Crotty with Me: Loren’s Collection (1979-1987)
In the years 1978 to 1981, Robert Crotty would show up on Loren Connors’ doorstep in New Haven, Connecticut with his tiny, almost toy guitar. The two would then spend hours playing acoustic blues, the likes of which was absolutely staggering in its truthfulness.
Robert Crotty with Me: Loren’s Collection (1979-1987) is the first anthology of the late bluesman’s work, as selected by his former playing partner. These are the unheard tapes of Crotty and Connors communing with the spirits of Delta and County Blues through their own revisions of standards and tingle-inducing improvisations. These also some of the legendary Connors’ earliest available recordings showing the development of iconoclast guitar style and vocal moan.
Crotty was a New Haven lifer and linchpin of the region’s blues scene yet, he never achieved much recognition outside local bars and house parties — until now. The album features never before heard recordings, unseen photos, liner notes by Connors and Crotty’s brother plus a bonus CD: the first-time reissue of Crotty’s ultra rare sole LP Robert Crotty Blues and Prove It! 7-inch — both released on Connors’ private St. Joan imprint in the late 1980s.
LP limited to 500 copies worldwide, includes a full-color inner sleeve and download coupon. Preorder now.
Transference — Marmoset Music
Transference unearths and re-examines a diverse collection of honored, distinguished musical artifacts, each from the public domain — blowing the proverbial dust off of them and transferring the life, feelings, and ideas into something completely different.
Marmoset’s team of producers collaborated with a diverse swath of artists from our community — including The Helio Sequence, Ural Thomas and the Pain, Dear Nora, Bouquet and more — to take the timeless design of classic public domain songs and reimagine them into something new, whether it be intimate folk, electropop, or soul revival and funk (just to name a few).
Available December 1 — stay tuned to marmosetmusic.com.
TRØN & DVD — Afraid Of The Dark
Available from Kiam Records – Limited to 300 copies. First 100 sold are red, the rest black.
TRØN & DVD (brothers Norvin and Darian Van Dunk) have been making mixtapes, EPs, and solo albums since 2009. They’ve played the Bamboozle,Vans Warped Tour and CMJ Music Festivals as well as numerous shows alongside a diverse assortment of hip-hop and rock acts – from Pusha T to K. Flay to Twenty One Pilots.
Afraid of the Dark is an ambitious and furiously creative coming of age story about two brothers. And it’s a true story, one that keeps a keen focus on family life, the importance of being an individual, and the pursuit of a dream. It explores the struggle to navigate and balance it all, seen through the specific lens of being young black men in America.
Musically, the album sets the average bounce meter in the area of 95 bpm, with heavy kick drums and gurgling, fuzzy synths pushed straight into the foreground. Lyrically, hints of formation, revitalization, and new life bubble up through every verse. The duo’s focus is often somewhere in the distance, with a hard look at the challenges in front of them; other times it drifts to the pull of old habits as well the minutiae of everyday challenges such as how to keep your writing light on without waking the baby. This attention to detail is an important part of what makes Afraid of the Dark so compelling. It’s one of the rare albums that reveal lyrical layers with every listen.
Sylmar – Transaturated Tunes
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Soul Step Records are back in the LP game with label veterans Sylmar. They first announced Sylmar to the world with their Cincinnati Brewers Series 7″. The reception was so strong and copies moved so quickly that once Sylmar went back into the studio to rework some older songs and write new ones, SSR wanted to release the LP.
Already out digitally, Sylmar continues to bring in new fans with their unique brand of complex indie rock. This LP will move quickly, and the SSR limited edition will be 100 random color vinyl. Each one will be unique. Act fast and don’t be left behind!