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Artist:	MALL, THE
Title:	First, Before and Never Again
Label:	MT. ST. MTN.
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MTN 001LP

2006 release. "A punishing assault of beat-heavy, art-damaged hardcore, rocked with screamed vocals, catchy Casio keyboards and angular guitars. Four exclusive tracks packaged in 2-color, 3-panel silkscreened sleeves, and pressed in an edition of 300 copies." "The Mall intersperse their bass lobbery with geographically appropriate references -- a little Residents on the vocals, some Tuxedo Moon on the keys, even a touch of the Sleepers in the guitar. Mix that with murky original stutterage and you get some pretty cool results." --Byron Coley & Thurston Moore

Artist:	FURSAXA
Title:	Maidenstone EP
Label:	MT. ST. MTN.
Format:	7"
Price:	$5.50
Catalog #:	MTN 003EP

"A previous member of the band UN, Tara Burke (aka Fursaxa) is now one of the epicenters and key collaborators of the North American free-folk movement, along with such luminaries as Jack Rose, Charalambides, Ben Chasny and the Jewelled Antler Collective. With her hypnotic, echoey church bell chanting, Burke possesses a power-filled vocal sound that harkens back not only to those other polar queens of disaffected freakout psychedelia Nico and Barbara Manning, but she is also akin to and inspired by Hildegard von Bingen, the 12th century Benedictine mystical abbess. With the low drone of chord organ and farfisa, detuned ringing guitar, and endlessly looped, multiply-tracked vocals applied with heaps of delay, Fursaxa sounds like a tripped-out medievalist perched upon a poppy petal. Burke has an alchemical knack for turning folk into lo-fi, and then into sheer psych and back again, but more importantly, her music is pure humming narcosis."

Artist:	STANDARD TRIBESMEN, THE
Title:	Waiting/Young Lovers/Luv In A Car
Label:	MT. ST. MTN.
Format:	7"
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	MTN 006EP

"What started as the one-man Sores side-project of Julian Elorduy IV (MAYYORS), Standard Tribesmen solidified as a skronky, rock n' roll 5-piece (featuring MAYYORS' Chris Woodhouse on bass) that crashed about Northern California for a couple of years before imploding. Luckily Woodhouse put a smoldering handful of tracks to tape, three of which are available on this very limited slab of wax. Packaging consists of a hand-punched outer cover with a 2 color offset insert featuring artwork by Jay Howell. "

"If you plotted The Sonics, the Contortions, and Feedtime on a graph, the Standard Tribesmen are somewhere in between that triangle, shading a bit toward the Sonics' corner." -- DJ Rick

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