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MEX 254CD
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"A mutant offspring of diverse stylings, unlikely convergences, unfixed constellations, ZEBRA, Alexis Georgopoulos, aka Arp, fifth full-length album, is a post-everything symbiosis of ancient to future psychotropics, emphasizing points of connectivity between far-flung traditions. ZEBRA is as naturalistic as it is alien, disrupting outdated boundaries between musical traditions, hierarchies and genre politics. Using forward-looking production techniques and an idiosyncratic instrumental palette -- analog synthesizers, double bass, Fender Rhodes, electronic and acoustic drums, flute, vintage harmonizers and tape delay -- Georgopoulos proposes a vast, shimmering prospect, floralizing an array of styles and smiles -- Fourth World tremors, vibey cosmic jazz, 80s Japanese production, floating kosmische drum atmospherics. Emphasizing 'points of connectivity' in a time when reactive and fractious isolationism threaten in divisive ways, ZEBRA is the sound of interaction. ZEBRA seeks something beyond definition of singularity perspective and division. It is constructive instead of flippant: ecstatic instead of wallowing; clear-eyed instead of opiated, romantic instead of cynical. Like the zebra, Georgopoulos' latest album revels in contrast/duality -- Naturalistic + alien. Urban + rural. Calm + unsettling. Lucid + mysterious. Bold simplicity + fiendish complexity. The result is a portal to a more curious world that compels repeat visits."
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"Liberation! is the title of Peter Matthew Bauer's debut solo album, a poignant and anthemic blend of soulful balladry, folk-tinged meditations, and full-bore rock & roll, crafted with an oblique nod towards the explosion of art, rock, and attitude that emerged from NYC in the '70s. Formerly a member of beloved NYC group The Walkmen, Bauer uses Liberation! as an opportunity to welcome the rest of the world into his personal history of a childhood spent living in ashrams, and a life shaped by the constant presence of religion and mythology amidst uncertainty. It's a bold, bracing collection of songs for the mind, body and spirit with the power to grab you and shake you out of your environment. Leveraging traces of Eastern arrangements in a solidly Western rock experience, Liberation! is the soundtrack of one man's journey inside himself, in preparation for the rest of the world to follow." Gatefold sleeve; numbered edition of 1500 with download card.
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"Held in Splendor is an audacious pop-rock record with cascading harmonies and billowing textures, punchy rhythms and snarled guitars, wonderful depth and resplendent peaks. 'Mary Mountain' takes hazy summer-of-love memories on a road trip in its gleaming muscle car. 'Tired & Buttered' invites Booker T over for an energy-addled jam in the garage. 'The Hollow' twinkles like Fleetwood Mac and Galaxie 500, with sweet singing backed by the lap steel sighs of young acoustic guitar star and longtime Quilt pal Daniel Bachman. Held in Splendor is an album of personal poetry and public questions, confessions and aspirations -- really, these 13 tracks are their own playground, brimming with the sort of unapologetic energy and wonder that turns simple songs into absolute anthems. LP includes download code."
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MEX 175BK
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"Fall 2013 marks the five-year anniversary of Mexican Summer, and with this milestone comes Mexican Summer: Five Years, a 256-page, 11″x11" hard-cover book limited to a one-time edition of 1,000 copies. The book includes unique and unseen art and ephemera, photos, and written contributions from a host of Mexican Summer artists. Designed by longtime collaborator Dan Schechter, Mexican Summer: Five Years features an embossed cloth cover, craft paper wrap, three interior paper stocks and an integrated 10" sleeve. The sleeve houses a 10″ record of unique collaborations from Bay of Pigs (Spiritualized, Soldiers of Fortune, and Neil Hagerty), Jorge Elbrose (Jorge Elbrecht and Ariel Pink), Autre Ne Veut and Fennesz, Bobb Trimble and Quilt, and The Lonely Sailor and Renée Mendoza Haran (members of Total Control, Lace Curtain, and Ashrae Fax)."
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MEX 176EP
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"Montreal's No Joy follow up their sophomore LP, Wait to Pleasure, with Pastel and Pass Out, a 12" to coincide with their European tour. Engineered by Jorge Elbrecht, the EP finds the trio shredding through a similar soundscape: striking a balance between the blistering walls of noise they're renowned for, with airy, expansive atmospherics that allow the songs to breathe and the melodies to seep through. Opener 'Last Boss' showcases this dynamic, with Jasamine White-Gluz's airy vocals dancing around the clear space of the verses, before the chorus' wall of pummeling guitars fill all voids. 'Starchild is Dead's' buzz-saw guitars ascend to a druggy, blissed-out peak, whilst 'Second Spine' might be the band's poppiest song yet: comparatively stripped back, allowing for the gorgeous melody and backing vocal coos to properly shine. 12" includes download code."
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"Freewheeling Brattleboro, VT rock/folk wonderments the Happy Jawbone Family Band bring their latest full-length to Mexican Summer. What they've entrusted us to give to you represents their finest and most directly fulfilling effort to date. The energy and humor of early releases remains; that band you may have loved before has grown even stronger and more potent, its songs now monuments to individualism, to longing, to happier endings resulting from imperfect circumstances. Binding folk, indie rock and pop forms together is easy enough; it's what this band does with them, how it builds its sentiments and bursts preconceptions, that put them in a place where these musicians can rest, comfortably above and apart from almost every band working in this same terrain today. We're hearing the trippiest moments of the Beatles, Lindsey Buckingham at the peaks he reached on Tusk, and both poles of American post-punk songwriting royalty, Camper Van Beethoven at one end and Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 at the other."
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"Static Crash is magic, one of the most gorgeous collections of gothic ethereal pop/noise of its kind to rise from the American underground in decades. One could easily believe its origin to be from 1983, or 1993, or even 2013. But its 2003 release found few takers, outside of a small but dedicated local following. At a time when rock and roll was obnoxiously forcing its way back from the morass of pre-millennial digital aimlessness and DJ culture -- and at the same time was being fought on the other side by the glitzy shallowness of electroclash -- Ashrae Fax was finding ways to inject warmth and confidence into a mothballed musical form. Its eight songs take chances that most all had forgotten about, delving into the solitary power of Kate Bush, the esoteric directions of groups like Dif Juz, the Durutti Column, and the brash iconoclasm of prime-era Siouxsie & The Banshees, ballasted by stretches of ambient interlude and ear-damaging chaos. Limited numbered edition of 1,000 silk screened jackets. Vinyl includes download code."
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"The debut album from this Atlanta-based five-piece is certainly not easy to pigeonhole. Shifting seamlessly from taut post-punk to lush '60s balladry, and starry-eyed guitar pop to moody guitar squall, VPI Harmony is the sound of a band meticulously studied in their influences, and unafraid to expand, combine and re-imagine the sounds of their musical loves into their own signature package. Limited numbered edition of 1,000 textured jackets. Vinyl includes download code."
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"Lace Curtain is a new project from Australian wizards Mikey Young, Dave West, and James Vinciguerra. The trio, who are involved in a myriad of punk and garage bands including Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Total Control, and Rat Columns, veer in an entirely new direction on this 12" for Mexican Summer. Each side shows the band approaching electronic music with a diverse interpretation that encompasses elements of disco, krautrock, and synth pop. From the outset those drum machine patterns are locked in tight, boosted by deep, pummeling synths and basslines that could seemingly play out for eternity. Young's vocals drift in and out of each track, cloaked in a foggy club ambience that only further enhances this release's air of nonchalant cool. Limited numbered edition of 1,000 silk screened jackets. Vinyl includes download code."
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"Turning away from the suspense and dread of their other band Grails, Emil Amos and Alex Hall pursue a different angle of playfulness and perversion with their newer project Lilacs & Champagne. Their self-titled debut of 2012 warped samples from around the world to build a new kind of psychotic mood music, and their secnd record Danish & Blue manages to be even grander and more ambitious, yet somehow more damaged and bugged-out. Alternately beautiful and deviant, Danish & Blue showcases a unique sense of humor and digging understanding that escapes the car-commercial-ification of the sample-based styles that have been left for dead or un-updated. Lilacs & Champagne take the classic crate-digging methodology that built instrumental hip-hop and direct it back into darker unexplored creases of cult music history. From an alternate dimension where 'behind the curve' and 'ahead of the curve' conjoin to make music actually fun to listen to again and mysterious, we give you Danish & Blue."
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MEX 135EP
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"This is the lead single from Atlanta-based Mood Rings' debut album on Mexican Summer; a moody, sexy pop song cloaked in an air of mystery, but loaded with enough reverberant guitar hooks to soar the track skywards. Produced with a rich, glossy lacquer, and painted with Will Fussell's breathy, whispering vocals, this is pop at its most intense and arresting. They switch up the tone on B-side '333'; barbed, catchy guitar pop with psychedelic flourishes and a crunchy, fuzzed-out finish. Limited edition of 350."
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"The company has a diverse body of work which consists of forays into music, video, sculpture, drawing and writing. Originally self-released, and later released digitally and on CD between 2004 and 2006 through Kemado Records, these three records have been re-mastered, expanded and pressed to vinyl for the very first time. A Sectioned Beam, an EP originally released in 2004 has been expanded with a previously unreleased, swirling 15 minute track called 'Seaside.' The mysterious, oblique nature surrounding Lansing-Dreiden has not only earned them critical acclaim but an appropriately cult-like fanbase. As the company has stated, 'all projects are fragmentary, mere stones in a path whose end lies in a space where the very definition of "path" paths.' These reissues seek to illuminate these paths for original and new listeners alike." Includes download code. Numbered limited edition of 500 copies.
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"The final reissue is 2006's dense and ambitious The Dividing Island which was lauded by Pitchfork for morphing from 'nighttime neon new-wave, replete with spitting drums, Caucasoid-funk breakdowns' into 'mellow soul... and watery drone.' The mysterious, oblique nature surrounding Lansing-Dreiden has not only earned them critical acclaim but an appropriately cult-like fanbase. As the company has stated, 'all projects are fragmentary, mere stones in a path whose end lies in a space where the very definition of 'path' paths.' These reissues seek to illuminate these paths for original and new listeners alike." Numbered edition of 500 copies.
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"The company has a diverse body of work which consists of forays into music, video, sculpture, drawing and writing. Originally self-released, and later released digitally and on CD between 2004 and 2006 through Kemado Records, these three records have been re-mastered, expanded and pressed to vinyl for the very first time. The company's 2003 The Incomplete Triangle LP, which was described as 'dreamy space rock... with a psychedelic metal twist" by Spin Magazine, has been expanded with a previously unreleased ambient section. The mysterious, oblique nature surrounding Lansing-Dreiden has not only earned them critical acclaim but an appropriately cult-like fanbase. As the company has stated, 'all projects are fragmentary, mere stones in a path whose end lies in a space where the very definition of "path" paths.' These reissues seek to illuminate these paths for original and new listeners alike."
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MEX 128LP
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Gatefold double LP version with download code.
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MEX 128CD
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"Vietnam marks their long-awaited return with a new full-length album, An A.merican D.ream. Michael Gerner, the creative force behind Vietnam, is back for the first time in five years with a new six-piece lineup laying down their renowned signature cocktail of apocalyptic street blues. After taking a long break to explore his interest in ambient analog synth soundscapes on the West Coast (scoring films and recording with his project D.A.), Gerner has now made a bold comeback to both New York City and rock and roll with his best record to date - adding a new dimension to the instrumentation with a moog player and a violinist. An AD is a cinematic dark concrete ride that revs through demons and detours with greasy grace. Throughout the 2000's, vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Gerner and his revolving lineups spent years tirelessly burning up America's moonlit highways and releasing memorable records that include the critically-acclaimed self-titled debut LP on Kemado Records in 2007, three prior EP's on The Social Registry, and their debut, The Concrete's Always Grayer on the Other Side of the Street, on Vice Records in 2003. When the work, hopes, and dreams finally culminated in a crescendo of across-the-board success, Michael Gerner and Vietnam disappeared without a trace, until now."
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MEX 131EP
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"Vietnam marks their long-awaited return with a new single 'Kitchen Kongas' from their forthcoming album, An A.merican D.ream. Michael Gerner, the creative force behind Vietnam, is back with a new six-piece lineup laying down their renowned signature cocktail of apocalyptic street blues, and adding a new dimension to the instrumentation with a moog player and a violinist."
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"Truth comes today from France's Gregory Raimo, once again taking up the mantle of the performance moniker GR. Raimo has been shredding with ingenious ferocity for a number of years now, both alone and as guitarist/vocalist for Gunslingers, a power trio fortified by his relentless barrage of guitar noise and rhythmic imperative. A Reverse Age is Raimo's third and most intense solo album, following a collaborative EP with Michael Yonkers. Those of you in the know will hear Yonkers' late '60s period influence, whether it be myth or reality (only the artist is telling), as you might also find the strange, hissing atmosphere of Alien Soundtracks-era Chrome or the psychic limbering-up of The Magic Band evident in GR's music. Real, productive damage comes from within, however, and that's where A Reverse Age performs its miracles. It figures that you would need to go back 30 to 40 years in the history of underground or fringe music to find any sort of precedent to its eight songs. Its restless nature highlights Raimo's frantic compositional structures and explosive playing across guitar, bass and drums alike, the product of one guy with real vision and the skills to pull off a work of virtuosic hostility such as this one. Riffs sizzle and burn up, pushed through effects that somehow cheapen lesser works yet bolster this one. Things you know -- eldritch forest folk, roadhouse blues, aggressive jazz-style drumming -- are distended near to the point where they become part of GR's own musical syllabus, grounded by GR's street-corner vocal hustle, sounding like Armand Schaubroeck rapping into a CB radio in a stolen car, out joyriding and knocking off side view mirrors."
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MEX 126LP
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"The Soft Pack are back with Strapped, an adventurous album that finds the Los Angeles-based foursome breaking with expectations and exploring the possibilities of how they can push their sound. The group also took their time while making Strapped, making it over the course of two years. This pace allowed them to integrate new ideas and approaches into their existing sound, not just outright cop them. The Soft Pack's pop rock foundations are undeniably still present - nine of the songs don't break three minutes and from the first seconds of glorious album opener 'Saratoga' it's obvious they haven't abandoned the fuzz. That said, they've also spent a lot of time listening to Denim, Momus, The Church, YAZ, Grace Jones, INXS, Carole King, Lee Hazlewood, The Byrds, and Elton John."
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Long Slow Dance is The Fresh & Onlys' fourth album. Previous releases on labels like In The Red, Woodsist, Castle Face, Captured Tracks, and Sacred Bones. Limited, numbered first edition of 2000; includes download code.
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"Six more tracks by the coolest band in the Tri-State area. Daniel DiMaggio is living in the big city now and as the driving force behind Home Blitz, he keeps the rhythms crazier and the feelings more nervous than ever, having fully adopted the restless jangle of Hoboken '81, the working class anger of London's East End in the mid '70s and the starry-eyed wonder of the Sunset Strip in '78. You can choose which lens you want to view them through, though there's only one right answer: that which is the most sincere, because Home Blitz is nothing if not real. If they align most closely with the sort of bespectacled guitar pop-in-the-wake-of-punk that gave rock critics the chills way back when, it's because that's where the heart of this music resides, the thrill of excavation and discovery of an era before one's own, the one that speaks to you the most clearly. There is real love in these songs, five new originals and a reverent cover of Game Theory's 'Rolling with the Moody Girls.' What a great time you're gonna have with this one." Includes mp3 download; hand-numbered edition of 1000 copies.
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"Montreal's No Joy returns to Mexican Summer with Negaverse. Here is the moment in which the group's roots and influences grow inward, pushing Jasamine White, Laura Lloyd and Garland Hastings further back into the studio for five brand new songs which challenge the traditional rock band dynamic of their previous releases. Electronic drums and rhythmic loops accompany the live drums in a way that accentuates the presence of both roles, the soundtrack of life from indoors and on the road, riddled with heat and anxiety. From the blast of gnarled collage in opening track 'Junior' to the fortified wall of fuzz on closer 'Smiley Face,' it's abundantly clear that they are traveling back to a moment in music where things weren't as well-defined, before the label of 'shoegaze' was grafted onto the kind of punk-rooted noise that was intent on little more than making red glitter run out of your ears." Hand-numbered edition of 750 copies with download code.
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"The Fresh & Onlys are four supremely talented (if a bit shaggy-looking) San Franciscans. The band is so comfortable with mixing and matching seemingly disparate genre elements that each song is its own mini-musical movement. Really! (Not really). 'Yes or No' and 'Take Back The Night' serve as a teaser for Long Slow Dance."
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"The Only Place is the follow-up to Best Coast's 2010 acclaimed Crazy For You and finds the proudly Southern Californian duo of Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno maturing in both their sound and perspective. While Crazy For You was a nostalgic tribute to teenage feelings, this new album finds front woman Cosentino transitioning into adulthood, with the feeling of uncertainty and self-doubt at the emotional center of the album. The album also features a love song to her home state of California in the title track. All encompassed in the memorable album cover, derived from a 1913 sheet music illustration paying homage to the golden state." Includes download code.
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MEX 115LP
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"Following the limited edition pressing of Pop-Up Pyramid LP -- designed by acclaimed visual artist Tauba Auerbach & Alps member Alexis Georgopoulos aka ARP (RVNG Intl/Smalltown Supersound), Mexican Summer is happy to present a special second edition of the group's Easy Action LP. Easy Action is the group's third studio album, following III and Le Voyage-- both released by Type (UK). Though, in fact, Easy Action stands apart from those two albums in that the group combined studio recordings with home recordings and further processing to put together the album. Taking a cue from Faust's legendary Faust Tapes sessions, which combined jams in a rather obtuse, sometimes jarring way, the group wanted to showcase a different side of things." Housed in a gatefold sleeve; includes download card.
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