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Artist:
PUMICE
Title:
Pebbles
Label:
SOFT ABUSE
Format:
LP
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
SAB 022LP
"Remastered vinyl reissue in limited edition of 300 includes gratis download. Pumice excavate the mutant rock of Simply Saucer and the idiosyncratic, rhythmic compositions of Moondog (at his most playfully abstract), and re-contextualizes those touchstones via the pages of a mid-70s Incredible Hulk comic book. Featuring some of Pumice's best makeshift pop songs to date,
Pebbles
even manages a few excellently fractured instrumentals that harkens to The Clean circa
Oddities
."
Artist:
ULAAN KHOL
Title:
I
Label:
SOFT ABUSE
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
SAB 026CD
"Steven R. Smith has had a hand in creating some of the most compelling & singular instrumental psychedelic music of the past ten years. As Ulaan Khol, Smith digs in deep with a palette of drums/guitar/organ to craft a monolithic & expansive freeform, feedback-heavy atmospheric din that bonds the disparate realms of Fushitsusha & High Rise with Popul Vuh & Flying Saucer Attack. Smith has planned a maximalist three-part suite,
Ceremony
. In this first installment of the trilogy, the tone is overwhelmingly bleak as the pieces (all untitled) caterwaul, moan & crumble."
Artist:
ULAAN KHOL
Title:
III
Label:
SOFT ABUSE
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
SAB 038CD
"'
III
is as immediate as a truck with failed brakes crashing through your living room wall. The third and final installment of a trilogy entitled
Ceremony
, its opening moments rage and wail, with distorted guitars pulling out in front of the drums like hellhounds that have slipped their master's leash. But this isn't a mono-dimensional freak-out. Smith paces himself, pulling back into brooding drones and pensive picking before lashing out once more. As befits a journey that's taken three discs to unfold, it ends with a grand gesture; the final melody is as epic as Roy Montgomery's mid-'90s work, and it unfurls over a landscape of blasted wah-wah licks & feedback that somehow reconcile The Stooges and Popul Vuh." --
Signal To Noise
Artist:
PIGEONS
Title:
Visions Of The Valley
Label:
SOFT ABUSE
Format:
7"
Price:
$10.00
Catalog #:
SAB 043EP
"Limited edition of 200!! This 2 song platter find Pigeons pushing farther into tripped out pop songwriting, narrowly clinging to their inner art rock leanings. Dusty, west coast, flowery psyche pop & placid, melancholy blues mysticism fill these grooves. Recorded by Clark & Wednesday in the Bronx & Paris & comes in a hand printed sleeve."
Artist:
PIGEONS
Title:
Liasons
Label:
SOFT ABUSE
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
SAB 045CD
"Bronx duo Pigeons wade closer to the edge of ambitious pop provocations with their third LP,
Liasons
. Here we find the band in the midst of an enormous creative leap; the psychedelic chanson moves of previous releases now cohabit with spacious west coast artblues & wistful cosmic folk tunes, invoking Catherine Ribeiro, Brigitte Fontaine, & Opal. Pigeons singular approach to structure, arrangements & production techniques -- mirrored by the willful license in spelling
Liasons
-- culminate with Wednesday Knudsen & Clark Griffin lacing their songs with flute, saxophone, echo, drum machines & languid guitar lines. Includes two songs in French, one of which is a take on 'Laisse Tomber les Filles' by Serge Gainsbourg."
Artist:
PIGEONS
Title:
Liasons
Label:
SOFT ABUSE
Format:
LP
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
SAB 045LP
LP version, limited to 500 copies. "Bronx duo Pigeons wade closer to the edge of ambitious pop provocations with their third LP,
Liasons
. Here we find the band in the midst of an enormous creative leap; the psychedelic chanson moves of previous releases now cohabit with spacious west coast artblues & wistful cosmic folk tunes, invoking Catherine Ribeiro, Brigitte Fontaine, & Opal. Pigeons singular approach to structure, arrangements & production techniques -- mirrored by the willful license in spelling
Liasons
-- culminate with Wednesday Knudsen & Clark Griffin lacing their songs with flute, saxophone, echo, drum machines & languid guitar lines. Includes two songs in French, one of which is a take on 'Laisse Tomber les Filles' by Serge Gainsbourg."
Artist:
LYNCH, JULIAN
Title:
Music For How Mata Hari Lost Her Head And Found Her Body
Label:
SOFT ABUSE
Format:
7"
Price:
$8.00
Catalog #:
SAB 049EP
"Filmmaker Amy Ruhl was beginning work on her first film, an allegorical biography of the courtesan, dancer and spy Mata Hari. Spurred from talks about a using gamelan to score the film, Ruhl asked Julian Lynch to contribute songs to the film & he delivered five new instrumentals. Drawing on both Indonesian music and his own bedroom psychedelia proclivities and casually evoking 1970s Pharaoh Sanders, Lynch's songs came to anchor key scenes in the film. Vinyl includes gratis download."
Artist:
PUMICE
Title:
PUNY
Label:
SOFT ABUSE
Format:
CD
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
SAB 050CD
"
Deep into a genius career, Pumice still surprises with his subtle mastery of broke-down sounds, slowed-down Magic Band rhythms, crumbling chord organ hymns & tragic ballads that reach deep into the very soul of Flying Nun/Xpressway/Root Don Lonie For Cash anti-pop pop music.
PUNY
is as difficult to fathom & as easy to love as all his best work
." - Glenn Donaldson.
"Another wistful & unique -- yet familiar -- offering from this modern Kiwi noise-pop auteur."
Artist:
PIGEONS
Title:
They Sweetheartstammers
Label:
SOFT ABUSE
Format:
LP
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
SAB 053LP
"Pigeons have shifted into more dense, heady modes for their new record,
They Sweetheartstammers
. Heavy doses of melody and dissonance dip into Broadcast &
Meddle
-era Pink Floyd territory, as well as more straightforward nods to Opal's
Happy Nightmare Baby
, Galaxie 500 and Brigitte Fontaine. Pigeons are also now a four piece featuring Jason Meagher (No Neck Blues Band) on bass and Nathan Bowles (Black Twig Pickers, Pelt) on drums."
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