Browse by Label: NOT NOT FUN

Artist:	SOCIAL JUNK
Title:	Concussion Summer
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	NNF 130LP

"The greater Midwest 'hood is responsible for so much of the U.S.'s most living music it seems like lately. Out here on the West we tend to get a bit blissed and burnt and, conversely, Eastern sea-boarders can fall into a condensed consciousness that sometimes doesn't translate well to those outside their bubble. But in the middle country, there's often a rawness that's honest and real and really clears the ears/mind, and for our tastes Ashland, Kentucky's Social Junk are champs of this direct, red-blooded approach. Somewhere between the Bible Belt brutality of Sword Heaven and Tusco Terror and the sticky southern electronics of Pax Titania or even recent Wet Hair, SJ navigate an interesting interzone, boiling together ominous loops, mangled sax, heavy riffs, various vocal moods (pissed, lost, aggro, angelic), militant tribal drumming, and a mess of electric atmospheres into something genuinely gripping and wholly their own. And right on the eve of both a behemoth bi-coastal tour (six weeks long!) and a brave re-location to CA's Bay Area, we are amped-as-shit to announce their vinyl debut after a million killer limited tapes and splits. Concussion Summer rumbles through noisy drum circles, hypnotic thrash, and even a couple creepy ballads, with Noah Anthony and Heather Young's co-dependent chemistry channeled into eight concise hybrid pieces of perfect/classic JUNK. High-time, and fully worth the wait. See them soon. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork by Hair Police's Robert Beatty. Edition of 435."

Artist:	EMACIATOR
Title:	Coveting
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	NNF 131LP

"Misery wears many masks, but Tulare, California fatalist Jon Borges has etched his mark on most of them. For at least half a decade, he's 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, he's 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." Last copies.

Artist:	SECRET ABUSE
Title:	Violent Narcissus
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	NNF 135LP

"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. He's 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, Witscher's 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 here's hoping he lingers a while longer, cause it's 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 there's 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."

Artist:	ODD CLOUDS
Title:	Deceiving Illusion
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 143LP

"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 band's 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."

Artist:	VA
Title:	My Estrogeneration
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 150LP

"First ever NNF vinyl compilation (more in the future hopefully?) finds the spotlight landing fairly on the fairer sex, and the glare is glorious. 11 diverse femme musical energies corralled across 12 inches of black vinyl, all exclusive contributions, and the breadth of zones and interzones traversed is a beautiful thing to hear. Carry on my wayward non-sons. LPs in jackets with artwork by Pocahaunted bassist/scholar Diva Dompe, plus a full-color double-sided insert. Edition of 500. This year's Estrogeneration includes: Zola Jesus, Tickley Feather, Pocahaunted (vintage unused track from Gold Miner's Daughters sessions), Inca Ore, Topaz Rags, HNY, Talk Normal, Islaja (featuring Samara Lubelski and Blevin Blectum), L.A. Vampires, U.S. Girls and Valet."

Artist:	MURRAY, HEATHER LEIGH
Title:	Jailhouse Rock
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 153LP

"It's 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 they're 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."

Artist:	ETERNAL TAPESTRY
Title:	The Invisible Landscape
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	NNF 165LP

"Last year's Mystic Induction LP captured PDX wah junkies Eternal Tapestry at their hairiest hour, awash in color trails and nightshade flashbacks. Since then they've reverted back to their original power trio line-up, circled the tube amps, and written a fresh, flooring set of brand new electric rippers. And The Invisible Landscape is the fruit of this from-bliss-to-blistering evolution/revolution. It's packed deep with six kraut-punk psych-shredders, huffing fumes from the twin guitar hero dogfighting of Dewey Mahood and Nick Bindeman while drum demon Jed Bindeman does barrel rolls and nosedives into the eye of the storm. There's also a rawness and warmth to the production that helps the songs bleed into the ear with more electricity than before, and the riff/vocals interplay is streamlined for optimum mainlining. A fiery high point for a fiery high band. Hit it or quit it. Randomly colored LPs (hues range from silt grey to swamp green and beyond) in pro-printed jackets with art by the band plus a photocopied insert. Edition of 500."

Artist:	ROBEDOOR
Title:	Raiders
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 167LP

""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 2008's 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 can't 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."

Artist:	SUN ARAW
Title:	Heavy Deeds
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 169LP

2010 repress. One of The Wire's top albums of 2009. LP version, with full color glossy insert. "Long Beach psych-journeyman Cameron Stallones follows up last year's Beach Head LP with a whole new universe of Sun Araw action. Heavy Deeds finds him ditching the coast and roaming inland. The grooves are hairier, heatstroked, howling. Still soaked in wah and farfisa mirage but closer in spirit to some of the wild electricity stomps of The Phynx. 5 tracks, all hits. Mastered by James Plotkin."

Artist:	WET HAIR
Title:	Glass Fountain
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	NNF 172LP

"Welcome back. One of NNF's 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 there's an added emphasis on the disembodied, oscillator pop mode that Wet Hair often toy with. Fountain's five tracks include some of the band's 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 that's 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." On opaque lavender-colored vinyl.

Artist:	LITTLE CLAW
Title:	Human Taste
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	NNF 174LP

"Portland, OR-by-way-of-Michigan garage gang Little Claw first tripped our radar with their self-released Why Not 7 inch, which was/is raw and physical and swingin' in all the ways you want a 7" to be. Their LA live shows proved even more ripping and charged; we were sold. So we sprung at the offer to enshrine their latest (and best) album, Human Taste, on vinyl for the world's turntables to adore. Packed with classic, cracked anthems ('Frozen In The Future,' 'Colors You Drown'), basement weirdo stompers ('Modern Vampire,' 'Breathing Tape,') and naked art-punk riddles ('Lay To Waste,' 'Summerphile'), the LP's two sides are slyly sequenced to seduce, blind, and devour, demonstrating a rad range of attacks, escapes, claws, tongues. It's a great late summer record: between styles, beyond genres, and aggressively alive. Taste theTaste. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with art designed by the band, plus a pro-printed, double-sided 11x17 poster/insert. Edition of 600. CD edition available on Ecstatic Peace."

Artist:	INCA ORE
Title:	Silver Sea Surfer School
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	NNF 175LP

"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 she's 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 2006's Brute Nature Vs. Wild Magic to 2008's 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." Copies are on white-colored vinyl or blue/white swirl-colored vinyl or just regular black vinyl; no matter what color you get, you'll still feel pretty baked by the end of side 2.

Artist:	ETTINGER & THE HEAT, DYLAN
Title:	Smokin'
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	7"
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	NNF 177EP

"We had heard a couple cassette outings by this Bloomington young-bloomer over the last 4-6 months and each one hit us better than the last but nothing had prepped us for Ettinger's most recent evolution into neon skyline chase scene soundtracker and that's part of what makes it so amazing. For Smokin' he wrangled together a small posse of close comrades (enter The Heat) and tracked a sick session of smoky synth themes, Corvette noir moods, echo dystopia, faded voices, and sleazy Miami sax. The A, 'Smokin,'' is the more ballad-y of the pair, sad and smooth, just fired-from-the-force, midnight cruising on the strip, no one to call. The B, 'Miami Heat (The Stakeout),' amps the tension, camera zooming in over palm trees and blue-lit swimming pools, a deco mansion on the coast, the place is surrounded, the heat is on, all that. A cool sleaze-psych vision, sickly executed, by a rad fresh energy from the underground. Fingers are crossed there's more where this came from. Black-vinyl 7 inches, plus a photocopied insert, in full-color sleeves with art by NNF. Edition of 380."

Artist:	TOPAZ RAGS
Title:	Capricorn Born Again
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 179LP

"Grey clouds stay grey. Low light situations birth low-lit moods. It's all bummer clockwork. West Coast lurk-jazz triad Topaz Rags return to vinyl with their debut long player, Capricorn Born Again, an eight-song comedown recorded/mixed from spring-to-fall of '09 via a complex 4-track/boombox assemblage method. Everything creaks and hisses, there's smoke in the air, players at the end of their ropes, lyrics washing over faded raga ballads, slinky electric piano bar depressions, shadow gauze cavern pop. The bell jar is half empty, obviously. Slow dive and sink in. Black vinyl LPs (mastered by Pete Swanson) in jackets designed by Amanda. Edition of 400."

Artist:	POCAHAUNTED
Title:	Make It Real
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	NNF 188CD

"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 band's 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."

Artist:	HIGH WOLF
Title:	Ascension
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 189LP

"Pyramidal meditationist High Wolf has been highly active since last summer's Animal Totem tape dropped on NNF: he's 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 that's 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."

Artist:	MAGIC LANTERN
Title:	Platoon
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	NNF 190CD

"It's been a while since The Lantern shined its High Beams out into the world but life's a maze of alternate paths (marriage, children, Portland Oregon, etc) and that's 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, it's 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."

Artist:	LA VAMPIRES & ZOLA JESUS
Title:	LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 195LP

"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. There's 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."

Artist:	TOPAZ RAGS
Title:	The Crown Center
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	7"
Price:	$6.00
Catalog #:	NNF 198EP

"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 dreamer's dream turned dark. 33 RPM 7 inches of variously colored vinyl in hand-silkscreened cardstock sleeves. Edition of 345."

Artist:	ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE
Title:	Psychical
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 206LP

Repressed, 2010 release. "Brian Pyle is well-known for his enterprising shamanism as one half of Nor Cal improv gurus Starving Weirdos but when off-roading in his Ensemble Economique buggy he seems to stumble onto even weirder psychogenic artifacts. Psychical is Pyle's freshest full-length and easily his most drugged and dense. Thick, humid banks of synth-fog descend over looped cult hand-drum patterns, strangely panned waves of brainwash tones, and snippets of third world voices mumbling about blood and marijuana. As the name half-jokingly implies, EE is 100% Pyle's creation instrument-wise, although his wife Phoenix does intone some possessed doom poetry over the crushing war drums of 'Forever Eyes' and Tom Carter (of Charalambides) cameos with some searing white light guitar shrapnel on the creep-out raga of 'Real Things.' All the pieces dissolve into one another, giving Psychical a dark-trip soundtrack mood, an upriver lost soul convoy into hostile off-radar territories, a thousand spectral voices misting down like blackening monsoon clouds. A total haunter, and an LP we've been spinning many midnights around NNF HQ. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with occult VHS artwork by Manda Beth Brown."

Artist:	ROBEDOOR
Title:	Pacific Drift
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	7"
Price:	$6.00
Catalog #:	NNF 207EP

"Way too much is made these days of looking back, memory, social network fantasias. What a bummer, cause reality's a bad experience and 2012 is on deck; we deserve whatever we get. Evolve or erode, dudes. LA visigoths Robedoor slip into another sinkhole of voidist shadow-rock with Pacific Drift, three new tracks recorded across the last greylight winter. The A side stirs into a jazzy apocalypto depression with flute-keys and an overdriven OM groove that spirals in a web of distortion before drifting out to sea/silence. The flip finds a pair of deeply mutated RBDR genetic codes, one a mantric death-punk protest song cloaked in smoke and speed, the other a 3 AM slow-motion soul implosion set to upright piano, descending bass, tear garden guitar, and acid rain. The coast is a ghost, the city seethes. Mixed and mastered by M. Geddes Gengras at Green Machine in east LA. Black vinyl 7 inches in sleeves with corpse-diver artwork and a band photo by Caitlin C. Mitchell. Edition of 500."

Artist:	ETTINGER, DYLAN
Title:	New Age Outlaws
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 208LP

2011 repress. "Back in March (of 2010) we released Dr. Ettinger's New Age Outlaws album on cassette and it was great. But artists -- in case you didn't know -- ain't easily satisfied, and so Dylan felt compelled to return to the master tapes and further articulate the new age sci-fi ambient drift jazz vision of those pieces into something even grander and more elegant. Sounded like a worthwhile cause to us, so here's New Age Outlaws: The Director's Cut, mastered fresh for vinyl and bedazzled with new layers of robot noir synth lines, back alley cyber sax, and insomniac drum machine heartbeats. Dylan even architected a new track sequence and re-named a couple songs. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with stunning alien vista artwork by Dan McPharlin, plus a photocopied insert."

Artist:	DAUGHTERS OF THE SUN
Title:	Ghost With Chains
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 210LP

"Long-running Twin Cities horsepower trio Daughters Of The Sun have been subtly chugging out their faded-tattoo spirit-in-the-sky psych exhaust for at least half a decade now but we didn't catch the drift till March '09, when we got to witness a packed post-midnight smoke-soaked Minneapolis loft set and waved our lighter with the masses. Ghost With Chains is their third official full-length (not including some EPs and a killer split) and it's as beautifully moon-burnt and highway-swept as anything they've done. Recorded in August of '09 at Nicollet Park, the LP's seven songs swerve from spectral Sturgis road-burners ('Hexagram,' 'Bell Of The Barrier') to lower-keyed percussion meditationals ('Busted Realm,' 'Ghost With Chains'), spiced with the occasional earth-toned ghost drone piece or floating flower acoustic mantra-ballad. The magic is, it all works. The D.O.T.S. gang co-run a tape label, Never Ender, and each helm their own exile-consciousness solo project (Camden, Elven Thief, Wavepool), so roots run deep. Unbreak the Chains and scope 'em on tour next time they pass through yr local badlands. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork by Oakley Tapioca, plus a full-color pro-printed insert. Edition of 490."

Artist:	UMBERTO
Title:	Prophecy Of The Black Widow
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	NNF 212CD

"Goblin-worshipping classic gets reissued on CD digipak. Prophecy Of The Black Widow is Umberto's sophomore album and while the badass evil Italo goth-synth horror-score blueprint of Grave remains, the main variation is subtle vibe-shift from '70s Argento/Carpenter-isms into more early/mid-80s new wave creep-scapes. There's still plenty of eerie nightmare keyboard riffs and vintage witch-disco breakouts but the synths squelch with more of a neon retrofuturist bent and there's even one brazenly feel good soaring-into-the-sunset closing credits anthem (the literally-titled 'Everything Is Going To Be Okay'). Whatever prophecy Prophecy is foretelling, we're on board."

Artist:	UMBERTO
Title:	Prophecy Of The Black Widow
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 212LP

Repressed! "The one Umberto performance we had the rad fortune to bear witness to involved at least a dozen dudes, dads, and ladies all on stage wearing sunglasses at night and shredding keyboards/keytars bathed in a sea of fog machinery and strobe lights and extraterrestrially-costumed interpretive dancers. Shit was BEYOND. Umberto mastermind Matt Hill allegedly went to legit music school back in the day and used to play bass for Expo 70 (Justin/Expo released the debut Umberto tape/CDR, From The Grave, on his Sonic Meditations label) before splintering into his current electro-satanic Goblin worship guise -- and we for one can't get enough. Prophecy Of The Black Widow is his sophomore LP and though the badass evil Italo goth-synth horror-score blueprint of Grave remains, the main variation is subtle vibe-shift from 70s Argento/Carpenter-isms into more early/mid-80s new wave creep-scapes. There's still plenty of eerie nightmare keyboard riffs and vintage witch-disco breakouts but the synths squelch with more of a neon retrofuturist bent and there's even one brazenly feel good soaring-into-the-sunset closing credits anthem (the literally-titled 'Everything Is Going To Be Okay'). Whatever prophecy Prophecy is foretelling, we're on board. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with sick fake-3D lettering and art by Seth Johnson. Edition of 485."

Artist:	SEX WORKER
Title:	Waving Goodbye
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 213LP

"In a weird case of life imitating art imitating life, Daniel Martin-McCormick's sophomore Sex Worker full length, Waving Goodbye, coincidentally gets released on the very day he embarks on his transamerican relocation road trip from the Bay to Brooklyn. Waving goodbye indeed. Sad times for California, but at least his parting gift/LP is as haunting and poignant and vivid as these six dance-damaged life/love/loss anthems. A huge evolutionary pole-vault upwards from 2009's The Labor Of Love, here the SW art-pulse echo-anguish aesthetic has been refined and reborn into fresh neon-smeared street grime crooner ballads ('Cool Boy,' 'Tough Love'), sprawling forlorn trancefloor fantasias ('Next To You,' 'Honeymoon Babylon'), plus a killer loner-ized Corona cover. Recorded over several months in SF and mastered in Berlin, WG is clearly his peak achievement to date and we've been jamming the shit out of it. Live, he brings a bizarro entertainer/MC vibe to the proceedings so for sure go see him when he's passing through yr zip code. Black vinyl LPs in jackets designed by Mr. DMM himself. Edition of 500." Last copies...

Artist:	PSYCHIC REALITY
Title:	Vibrant New Age
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 216LP

"Sadly (for us left coasters), in November 2010 Ms. Leyna Noel aka Psychic Reality decamped from SF to NYC, but before packing up her every worldly possession and road-tripping trans-America she eked out a sliver of precious time to hole up in the studio with Phil Manley (Trans Am, Jonas Reinhardt, etc) and recorded her long-awaited debut full-length on thick 2 inch tape. Vibrant New Age is the result. The name says it all. But Noel's New Age is not the '80s redux fad of healing crystals, pastel fades, dolphin consciousness, etc, but a living, electrified awakening. From the high drama drum machinery of 'Fruit' and 'Expla' to the naked, airy avant-pop of 'Hi High' and 'Fanta' through to the stuttery, mechanized power ballad finale, 'Soft Script,' this is Noel at her most majestic and fully realized and it's a wild life-force to behold. Vibe the Vibrant. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with art/design by Ms Reality. Edition of 600."

Artist:	PEAKING LIGHTS
Title:	936
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	NNF 217CD

"Sometimes it feels so simple: two of our favorite people in one of our favorite bands release one of our favorite records of all time. 2009's Imaginary Falcons was its own genius slushpile of tape-hissy drift-dub haze anthems, no question, but 936 takes every facet of the Peaking Lights mighty diamond and shines it to fluorescent perfection. The songwriting is insane; 'All The Sun That Shines,' 'Amazing & Wonderful,' 'Tiger Eyes (Laid Back),' etc, all seep into yr mindstream and float there like melodic gold dust. Indra Dunis' silky soul-jazz keys and tranced vocals have never sounded so exquisite, and Aaron Coyes busts out the best bass/drum loops and sneaky dub guitar of his musical lifetime. Recorded by Luke Tweedy at Flat Black Studios in Iowa City (where both the NNF Wet Hair LPs were tracked) and mastered in Berlin, 936 retains the cool crate-digger grit of their earlier highlights, but within a much more vivid spectrum of sound. Could not be more jazzed and honored to unveil this total groove-wave classic. CD version includes two bonus tracks from the same recording sessions not chosen for inclusion on the LP. CD digipaks with vintage art by the band, plus some stills from their 'All The Sun That Shines' video. Edition of 500."

Artist:	PEAKING LIGHTS
Title:	936
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 217LP

Repressed; LP version. "936 takes every facet of the Peaking Lights mighty diamond and shines it to fluorescent perfection. The songwriting is insane; 'All The Sun That Shines,' 'Amazing & Wonderful,' 'Tiger Eyes (Laid Back),' etc, all seep into yr mindstream and float there like melodic gold dust. Indra Dunis' silky soul-jazz keys and tranced vocals have never sounded so exquisite, and Aaron Coyes busts out the best bass/drum loops and sneaky dub guitar of his musical lifetime. Recorded by Luke Tweedy at Flat Black Studios in Iowa City (where both the NNF Wet Hair LPs were tracked) and mastered in Berlin, 936 retains the cool crate-digger grit of their earlier highlights, but within a much more vivid spectrum of sound. Could not be more jazzed and honored to unveil this total groove-wave classic."

Artist:	WEYES BLOOD AND THE DARK JUICES
Title:	The Outside Room
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 218LP

"Natalie Weyes Blood (originally Weyes Bluhd) has existed in the grime-ghost fringe-music catacombs since at least 2006, though originally it was in more of a crouched/hieroglyphic FX pedals style, culminating in a European tour with Axolotl. After two seasons of hibernation and a relocation to Baltimore, she materialized her 'Blood In Bluhd Out' transformation and began writing/playing the darkly haunted narcotic drifter ballads that make up The Outside Room, her first official full-length. Recorded and mixed by good friend Graham Lambkin, the record has shadows of The Shadow Ring in the oddly creaking ambient sounds and stark, nuanced production, which lend the eerily beautiful neo-Nico death-folk laments a more modern, art-skewed sheen. There's still echoes of her old drone/tape-ghost-clouds moods on tracks like 'In The Isle Of Agnitio' and the long, bells-laden outro to 'Romneydale,' but the bulk of the LP is swooning and sweeping, with Natalie's gorgeous, quasi-Teutonic vox leading the way. A subtly mesmerizing long-player, very 'out of time,' and strangely untouched by contempo influences. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with cool screengrab/photocopied artwork by the artist, plus an 11x17 lyric sheet/mini poster. Edition of 480."

Artist:	UMBERTO
Title:	Freeze!
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	7"
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	NNF 227EP

"After 2 full-lengths mining vintage horror scores and Italo/Goblin-isms for inspiration, Kansas City riddler and composition whiz Umberto slow-pans his focus out of the graveyards and black widow cobwebs into the celluloid-stained artificial streets of Beverly Hills police beats and pop culture ghost-busting. Freeze! is an inscrutable but impressively legit reinvention of Jan Hammer-style '80s soundtrack cheese: soaring keyboard lines, fast-tappin' piano, locked-in bass grooves, goofy canned drums, baroque purple haze soloing, etc. 'Put An APB On Those Bastards' kicks things off with a tension-ramping Corvette cruise into the heat of the night, while 'Illegal Entry With Intent To Zuul' is a pitch-perfect rooftop chase scene that ends with somebody falling fifty stories into a posh private pool (and is apparently also somehow about that horned dog demon that possesses Sigourney Weaver in G-Busters?). A bizarre and thoroughly enjoyable curveball from one of our fave current music-makers. Black vinyl 45s in pro-printed jackets with hilarious/hijacked Eddie Murphy artwork by Derek Goon. Edition of 500."

Artist:	REINHARDT, JONAS
Title:	Music For The Tactile Dome
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 230LP

"The hermetic kosmische lexicon of San Fran-based synth synthesist/composer Jesse Reiner (Jonas Reinhardt's founder and principal architect) has been simmering and swelling at a steady clip the past few years (2010's Powers Of Audition was def a highlight), but the added talents of drummer Damon Palermo (Mi Ami), bassist Diego Gonzalez (Citay, 3 Leafs), and guitarist Phil Manley (Trans Am, more) has levitated the JR Experience to a whole new head-music hall o' fame. Recorded in Berlin, mixed in SF, then mastered/cut back in Berlin at Dubplates, Music For The Tactile Dome is easily the most deep-trip micro-focus Jonas odyssey to date, nine technicolor fractals of glittering synthesizer skyways and master-crafted pulsing kraut terrariums. A handful of tracks ('Smokey Jotus,' 'Hander Zader,' etc) invoke more of the classic live JR vibe, with propulsive cold-grooved rhythm sectioning, but by and large Dome is designed for heavy headphone communion, an expanding magic eye tapestry of brainwave activity constellations. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with beautiful spectrum-assemblage cover art by Sean Patrick. Edition of 650."

Artist:	KWJAZ
Title:	Kwjaz
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 238LP

"San Franciscan Peter Berend's mystery mixtape unit, KWJAZ, flashed forth this debut self-titled slab of 'post-plastic sublime decomposed luxury grooves' on cassette via his own rarified Brunch Groupe imprint early in 2011 and the 120 listeners lucky enough to grip a copy know who they are. It only took half a listen before we green-lit this tape-degraded gem for vinyl treatment and we are dee-lighted to present it thusly. Comprised of two side-long suites, 'Once In Babylon' and the oddly monikered 'Frighteous Wane,' KWJAZ nimbly ebbs and flows the proceedings through airy cloud-jazz passages (complete with smoky crystal vibes keys and narcotic hiss-hazed horn sections), bouncy weirdo dub-funk vignettes, stretched-out syrupy synth stews, and smooth faux-Steely D soft-rock abstractions, all without ever sounding schizo or style-hoppy. A major feat, and a real riddle of an LP that deepens and ripens with each spin. Hopefully you were savvy enough to catch him on his recent coast-to-coast summer tour with Swanox and Sudden Oak; if not, tune in to this. Black vinyl LPs (mastered at Dubplates in Berlin) in jackets with cosmic floral artwork by Austin Cho/Casey Grr. Edition of 700."

Artist:	MINERVA, MARIA
Title:	Cabaret Cixous
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 240LP

LP version. "Estonian Euro-beat enchantress Maria Juur aka Maria Minerva has had a lively 2011 already -- releasing a chic suite of glamour-pop abstractions via her debut, Tallinn At Dawn, as well as a sultry, sideways bedroom disco EP (Noble Savage) on 100% Silk. But time is money and money talks (or something) so rather than let a hot streak go cold Ms. Maria has crafted a fresh 11-song dream ride down fascination street, which we're pumped and proud to unveil: Cabaret Cixous. Apparently there's a tradition/inside joke amongst a fringe strain of Estonian bands where you have to name yr album something with 'cabaret' in the title, but regardless of one's knowledge of this micro-custom, Cab Cixous is a gorgeous, gauzy thrill, slip-streaming from cracked-crystal karaoke pop singles ('These Days,' 'Ruff Trade,' 'Soo High') to slow-motion synth-washed ballads ('Lovecool,' 'Spiral') to radical miscellzanies (the alien soundsystem banger, 'Laulan Paikse Kaes,' a cellphone-fidelity Abba cover, etc) and beyond. A beautiful, bizarre record, full of the weird vision and hazed-out soulfulness that's everything we love about music." Includes glossy one-sided color insert.

Artist:	RANGERS
Title:	Pan Am Stories
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	NNF 245CD

"Tape-warped phantom band Rangers finally unleash the lush, soaring, expansive prog-pop opus we always knew was floating inside the fretboard (and imagination) of multi-instrumentalist mystery maestro Joe Knight. The north Dallas-raised, San Fran-residing head Ranger grew up taking classical guitar lessons from a dude who claimed to have 'toured with the Dead,' and some of that brain-wonked jam agenda obviously seeped into the young Knight, who began recording his own loose, lo-fi jangle sprawls in 2005. But whereas last year's critically lauded Suburban Tours LP found him condensing his cassette-crushed alien pop into 3 minute radio nuggets, Pan Am Stories uses the reverse strategy, letting each blurry strum pattern coast away and ride the breeze a bit before steering it into a fresh counter-melody or flanged-out guitar comedown. The extra breath and space gives the 13 songs a real sense of freedom and lightness and flight, layered in gentle blankets of fuzz, silky reverb, and audio collage riddles. A total saga, and a summit achievement of next-level invention for Knight as a musician (it's insane he played/recorded every instrument on this thing!) and artist. Have been soaking in these tracks non-stop since we first heard 'em this summer and are thrilled to get to share Stories with the world."

Artist:	RANGERS
Title:	Pan Am Stories
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	2LP
Price:	$28.00
Catalog #:	NNF 245LP

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Artist:	GOLIATH BIRD EATER/SASQROTCH
Title:	Goliath Bird Eater/Sasqrotch
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	10"
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 128LP

Artist:	MYTHICAL BEAST
Title:	Scales
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	NNF 151LP

Artist:	HEAVY WINGED & INCA ORE
Title:	Ring Mining
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	NNF 160LP

Artist:	TEETH MOUNTAIN
Title:	Live On
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	NNF 162LP

Artist:	FOXY BABY
Title:	Smoke Opera
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 193LP

Artist:	WET HAIR/PEAKING LIGHTS
Title:	Bored Fortress
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	7"
Price:	$6.00
Catalog #:	NNF 200EP

Artist:	HARRIS, XANDER
Title:	Urban Gothic
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 223LP

Artist:	LA VAMPIRES GOES ITAL
Title:	Streetwise
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	12"
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 235EP

Artist:	SAPPHIRE SLOWS
Title:	True Breath
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	12"
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 241EP

Artist:	CRUISE FAMILY
Title:	We're In Heaven
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	12"
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 247EP

Artist:	CUTICLE
Title:	Mother Rhythm Earth Memory
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	12"
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 251EP