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Artist:	SKULLFLOWER
Title:	Fucked On A Pile Of Corpses
Label:	COLD SPRING RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	CSR 151CD

The most remorseless, brutal Skullflower ever. Alternating between granular lo-fi primitive rock and granular lo-fi primitive power electronics, this taut disc is a chain mail glove of hate to any lazy minds who've tainted the air with describing Skullflower as "psychedelic." But that's not to say this is an all-out total assault. There are also moments of tender acoustic balladry, it's just that they don't exist. The remorseless brutal sound is primitive, but as detailed and rich as a blood-soaked medieval canvas, somewhere betwixt The Rita and Clandestine Blaze, but more brutal! Long live the New Flesh! Kether is in Malkuth, Malkuth is in Kether, but in a different way.

Artist:	SKULLFLOWER
Title:	Desire for a Holy War
Label:	UTECH RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	UR 015CD

"Desire for a Holy War is mayhem piled on top of mayhem piled on top of squalls of caustic feedback. Furies spitting oaths of shrouded vengeance from ancient tongues. Plague riders dealing death on mounts of venomous ether, hooves pounding the wild earth. Matthew Bower may have reached a watershed with last year's Abyssic Lowland Hiss (Heavy Blossom), but it is with Desire... that he has come to conquer. Never has Skullflower sounded so severe or remorseless. Utech Records has invoked a connate soul in visual artist Stephen Kasner to develop a second fine art series of CD releases for the label. The series will comprise nine volumes of 750 copies each over the course of 2008 beginning in April. Kasner has committed the bulk of his next outputs to painting original and exclusive canvases. His subject matter has yet to be disclosed, but the artist has spoken in general terms of a new direction he wants to explore in his work. A package unique to the series has been designed to highlight Kasner's residuum and the accompanying music. The foundation of the series is the belief that a visual device can bind a disparate body of music in a meaningful way. The genesis of this idea was first explored with photographer Max Aguilera-Hellweg in 2007 and the result was Utech Record's acclaimed Arc Series. Fruit borne from that venture has led to this stab at further examination. Kasner immediately saw value in the theory and agreed to help cultivate and refine it." Last copies, deleted edition.

Artist:	SKULLFLOWER
Title:	This Is Skullflower
Label:	VHF
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	VHF 023CD

2010 repress of this all-time classic, originally released in 1996. "Evolving out of Pure and then Total, Skullflower coalesced in 1987 and debuted in 1988 with the self-titled EP on Broken Flag. Over the next decade, a large assortment of characters (including guitarist Matthew Bower and drummer Stuart Dennison, the only members to appear on all their releases) would generate a truly amazing amount of loud noise masquerading as music (or vice versa) before going on indefinite hiatus after 1996's This Is Skullflower, a release that confounded expectation by taking a quieter tack (not necessarily more minimal), away from the extreme noise for which Skullflower was known. 'Lounge' balances steady feedback with throbbing rhythm. On 'Glider,' piano provides steadiness while swirling guitar offers a strong contrast. 'Creaky Rigging,' with an entrancing, soft psych-jam guitar line, makes its way over an increasingly discordant drone arrangement as Dennison's viola adds an unearthly element. The final song, with Richard Youngs in on guitar, is the monster: 'The Pirate Ship of Reality Is Moving Out,' a nearly-40-minute piece recorded at a live club date in 1995. The sheets of white noise and feedback on top of feedback return with a vengeance as the song progresses -- by 12 minutes in, the damage level is near indescribable, yet a strong undercurrent of soft melancholy strips back to almost nothing -- a balance of abuse and restraint carefully performed."

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