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Negative Growth

In The Red

“In the year of the snitch, there are forces beyond your control that keep you up at night. Ghost notions that swirl around your room while you sleep. Your own pillow laughing right in your face while you fight for an hour of rest. Voices whisper from the corner, telling you everything you never wanted to hear. Negative Growth, our third album, is dedicated to fear and deception.“This collection of songs was conceived in Memphis and finalized in Los Angeles, with the help of our family doctor Ty Segall. It was created in February 2016, when we traded Memphis misery for a week of California sunshine. Negative Growth is a nine-track nightmare, a death trip in the crystal ship. The institution known as In The Red Records will do the honors. The Hollywood Heat Seeker takes ten years off your life.”—Chris Shaw of Ex-Cult

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Summer of Fear / 1906

Famous Class

***EX-CULT return with a new cut "Summer of Fear," backed by a killer version of The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band's 'downer, post-apocalyptic vibe' song "1906." Packaged in die-cut jackets with printed inner sleeves. Upcoming Negative Growth full-length on In The Red to be released 9/23/2016. (STREET DATE - 8/12/2016)

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Stick The Knife In / Dogs Roll In / New Crawl

In The Red

Stick The Knife In features three brand new blazing tracks from Memphis's Ex-Cult, whose previous releases on Goner and Castle Face are must-haves. Watch for a new album on In The Red in 2016.

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Cigarette Machine

Castle Face

***BACK IN PRINT ON VINYL!!! On the tail of their breakout second LP Midnight Passenger, Memphis-based punk cyclone Ex-Cult delivers a brand new batch of bruisers. Chris Shaw lends a sneering, spitting toughness to the proceedings while the band flays riffs in loose, hairy, mosh-inducing menace behind him, touching on post-punk, psych sprawl and early-’80s hardcore while remaining beholden to none. They have the power to convert even the most jaded and bored concertgoer into a sweaty mess in the pit. Punks, skate rats, scenesters, skinheads, hardcore kids, druggies—so many disparate groups dig this band it’s like an MRR cartoon waiting to happen.  The adrenal-enhancers on Cigarette Machine are road warriors already, having been honed on the band’s recent tour that no doubt laid waste to a town nearby. The only problem with this sterling batch of sluggers is that it’s over too quick.

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Midnight Passenger

Goner

Received a 7.0 rating from Pitchfork. Ex-Cult’s Midnight Passenger is the result of a never-ending obsession with the open road. It’s the sound of five people spending the last year in countless dive bars and disgusting motel rooms, sleeping on dozens of dirty floors. Since recording with Ty Segall in 2012 the band hasn’t come up for air, putting under their belt four US tours and tons of weekend trips with the likes of Segall, OBN III’s and Captive. In these sanme dive bars across the USA Ex-Cult truly found their sound. While some of the songs were played for audiences as early as January 2013, it wasn’t until a West Coast tour in June that the blueprint for Midnight Passenger really started to form. Taking pieces of every tour back home with them, the band honed a sound that captures the desperation of the first record while integrating new techniques of negative noise. Recorded by Doug Easley in January 2014, Midnight Passenger delivers ten songs meant to be heard together, each one following a different, damaged storyline. The buzz-saw guitars, krautrock rhythms and sneering vocals are all still present, but with Midnight Passenger, Ex-Cult adds a few layers of psychedelic slime to their sound.

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Ties You Up

Goner

A special Record Store Day 2014 release, the Ties You Up single was recorded in Los Angeles, California, by Ty Segall at his house in Glassell Park.  A-side “Ties You Up” is featured on the new Ex-Cult album Midnight Passenger (out April 29th), but this is a different version featuring Zumi Rosow of the K-Holes on saxophone. Both songs were recorded one afternoon in early 2013, before Segall drove to Santa Monica to play with his band Fuzz. Ty Segall + Ex-Cult = Psychedelic Brutality.

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Mister Fantasy / Through The Blinds

Goner

***Newly recorded music from Memphis road warriors EX-CULT. These songs recorded by legendary local producer DOUG EASLEY (Cat Power, Oblivians, Pavement, Guided By Voices) at his studio, all sounds honed for for maximum cut and slice. The next sonic step in Ex-Cult's mastery of their uniquely vicious, spinning attack.   "... frothing-at-the-mouth fury and warped, pinballing melodies." - Spin.com  

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S/t

Goner

Hey bro, check it out: In Memphis in early 2011, five people joined forces to start a punk rock band. They each came from different scenes—hardcore, psychedelic, and various flavors of indie pop. Things gelled. I mean, really came together, man! Following the release of two killer singles under the name Sex Cult, they were faced with a lawsuit from a similarly named and very aggressive techno label in New York City. So Sex Cult became Ex-Cult.  Playing a series of house parties and gigs in dive bars, Ex-Cult honed their sound—a punk rock sweet spot that incorporates angular post-punk, flying saucer fuzz guitar, snotty vocals and bash-your-head-in energy. A real stone groove! Killer linear punk à la Wire, Urinals, Australia’s X or something, man!  A show at SXSW caught the attention of indie wonderkind Ty Segall, and the two began making plans to record in San Francisco. This is the end result—a debut album that takes the living energy of their show and crams it onto the grooves of an LP. Wild, man! Wild!

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M.p.d.

Goner

Rising Memphis stars with members from many various outfits, Ex-Cult (formerly Sex Cult) crams catchy punk rock through the “we can do anything” mindset of pioneers like the Urinals, Australia’s X or Wire.  “M.P.D.” is a track off the upcoming self-titled debut album due November 13 on Goner Records. The B-side, an ace cover of “No Fun on the Beaches” by Aussie punkers The Chosen Few, is exclusive to this release.