Phylums

Phylums

ii

Dusty Medical

***Free Wheeling and rolicking joyride from Milwaukee's garage pop melody masters. Phylums second full length offering "ii" isn't afraid to go off the rails at times and lean into the fuzz. Phylums manage to mature their sound and deconstruct it simultaneously. Built on witty lyricism, A proclivity for mid 60's warm echoey pop music, and buoyed by the all analog production of the soon-famous MotorCo studios in Madison WI, Phylums "ii" is a must-own from the DMR archive series. Mastered by Justin Perkins on black vinyl with archive library insert. For fans of the Monks, 13th Floor Elevators, Reigning Sound, Craig Brown band, Head on Electric, and The Goodnight Loving.

Phylums

Phylum Phyloid

Dirtnap

***Like a spore in a petri dish, PHYLUMS slowly cultivated in the dank basements of Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2011. With a common goal of creating stripped-down, primitive rock n' roll, members of Wisconsin acts GOODNIGHT LOVING, HEAD ON ELECTRIC and HOLY SHIT! started banging out three-chord homages to the Sonics, Creedence, the Monks...any band with a simple message and no-frills attack. Phylums took this primitive drive into KYLE MOTOR’s recording studio in Madison Wisconsin in summer 2014. It took the band under 24 hours to record their complete debut album on reel-to-reel eight track. Surfy guitar leads and wandering fuzz combined with a rhythm section of driving toms and bass make up the core instrumentation, but a shades of organ, piano, and even a vacuum cleaner add to the sonic palette. The songs, ranging from party rave-ups to off-kilter introspections, eschew the traditional boy/girl tropes of most three chord songs and instead focus on, amongst other things, alienation, the afterlife, speech impediments, and the frustrating beauty and monotony of modern life.