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Serfs, The

Primal Matter

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***Emerging like a missile from some surreptitious silo in southwestern Ohio, The Serfs are a deliberately nebulous and incidentally industrialist gang of dance-floor hymners—perturbed and tranced-out troubadours whose sound and musical ideology seems to be a causal manifestation of their immediate environments—hard-wired and hypnotic synthesized melodies propel alongside churning and scraping percussion of every metallic tonality—with temperamental and eremitic words and voices dictating the forlorn venture. Like their Ohio predecessors, The Serfs seem askew from the art that surrounds them, and proud of it. Pressed on white vinyl.

MVTANT

Gore + Mirrorshade

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IN 2019 MVTANTS first two EPs, Gore and Mirroshade, were released by Austin Texas cassette tape label Somatic. MVTANT has now teamed up with Dream Recordings of San Diego California to reissue a remixed and remastered edition of Gore + Mirrorshade on vinyl.  Listening to MVTANT, one imagines a heathen in some future dystopian back alley hunched over a half-broken machine, forcing tape filth industrial music out of it's circuits: motorik lines pulse out of analog synthesizers, dreamy primitive digital workstations wash over the top, vhs samples of chains and screams are evoked from 12-bit machines, and then captured to ree-to-reel and dumped to mono cassettes. In addition to classic post-punk, industrial and ebm artists, MVTANT is heavily influenced by horror and science fiction films, anime, literature, and graphic novels. The sound is both familiar and new, cacophonous and melodic, uncomfortable and pleasurable, like violent colors that a dirty vcr head spews in scanlines across a tube tv, painful to stare at, but astonishingly vivid and captivating.

Heavy Hawaii

Boy Don't Drown

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At first the name “Heavy Hawaii” was meant to be taken almost literally. Slow, abrasive renditions of the tropical and surf genre. While this style has transformed over the years, Matt Bahamas has found balance in his song writing. Drawing influence from 80’s soundtracks, 60’s girl groups and alternative radio hits. Heavy Hawaii is an amalgam of all these creating a pop genre all its own. Matt along with producer Ryan Solomon (Wizard Woes), multi instrumentalist Jessie Cuevas and rotating cast of players bring these ideas to life. Always changing, always growing.  “Boy Don’t Drown” is the new album by Heavy Hawaii. A reflective piece on heartache, mistakes and missed chances. Synthesizers, warbly guitars and Matt Bahamas’ key sense of melodies take the listener on a dark yet radiant ride. A strong collection of minimal pop songs cast the listener into a crystal ball showcasing the past, present and beyond.

Topographies

Difference & Repetition

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Topographies is a band formed in San Francisco in 2018 by Justin Oronos, Jeremie Ruest, and Gray Tolhurst. Their music combines the lush, reverb-heavy guitars of shoegaze with the icy rhythms of post-punk. The band has released a 7” (Pink Thoughts/ Roman Figure), a cassette of their Part-Time Punks session as well as a single with venerable London-based dream-pop label Sonic Cathedral. Topographies has shared stages with the likes Soft Kill, Be Forest, Tennis System, and The Chills and have plans for further touring in 2020. Difference and Repetition, the band’s first release with Dream Recordings, marks a shift to a darker tonality in the band’s music. The EP’s title refers not only to the makings of a song but also to the structure of living itself, a seemingly endless procession of days broken by small joys and small sorrows. Musically, the four songs hew close to the band’s influences merging the “repetitions” of 80s coldwave and post-punk as well as the ethereality of bands like Slowdive and Pale Saints. Tolhurst’s lyrics draw on modern poetry, especially the work of the Romanian-born Jewish poet Paul Celan to craft narratives that are both oblique and sentimental, surreal yet poignant. On Difference and Repetition¸Topographies draws these disparate influences into a mesh of sound and feeling that hopes to act as a map of being, here and now.

Sigsaly

Lasting Effects

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B. West and S. Lloyd are SIGSALY. Drawing influence from Techno, Minimal-wave, and Industrial, SIGSALY weave hard hitting electronics, and powerfully dark vocals; lyrically inspired by love, loss, desire and what makes us human. SIGSALY is warehouse music for all us freaks, lovers, and strangers, bringing us together through movement and sound. As DJs, Producers, and party hosts, SIGSALY are fighting hard to change the No Fun City moto of their hometown Vancouver, B.C.Coming from a Post-Punk background with their former project, Koban, their upcoming release “Lasting Effects” has been a shift that experiments with the Acid Techno and EBM sounds of the SH101, as well as the use of sampling and high tempo beats to harken back to 90s rave experience. Lasting Effects is an inquiry into sisterhood, grief, ego and eternal return.SIGSALY is electronic music for dancingSIGSALY is rhythm for movementSIGSALY is cadence of the body

O/X

New Life EP

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O/X is the minimal synth project of Christopher Oxendine who makes electronic music inspired by cold wave and other forms of dark dance music. Employing an array of tactile, analogue equipment, Oxendine’s gradually morphing synth textures and hypnotic rhythms coalesce into arrangements both immediate & jarring - as angular as they are abstract. As these structures flow between form and chaos and back again, the listener is drawn into a blooming, collapsing zone of receptivity, of feeling, of catharsis. -Ryan Haynes

The Victoriana

Fleetingly, But Completely

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The Victoriana is the musical crafting of Riverside, CA local Derek Page. Having previously only released select tracks on various media over the past five years, Fleetingly, But Completely is The Victoriana's first legitimate release. It is a fragrant love-letter to the ephemeral: twirling, evaporating experiences of blue torment and glittering joy, their charms endowed and ever-changing with their questionable impermanence. Sparkling with ornaments of guitar and swooning fretless basses, Fleetingly, But Completely unfurls a sensuous, contemporary "gothic romance" free of the doldrums traditionally associated with "gothic" music.

U.S. Underground

Basic Instinct

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U.S. Underground is the new music project from Matty McLoughlin, co-founder and guitarist of The Soft Pack (f.k.a. The Muslims) In 2012, Matty’s band The Soft Pack broke up. After a couple of years living in New York, trying to sell weed and recording demos, Matty ended up back at home in Los Angeles. Matty began recording with old high school friend Andrew Miller to make music that would sound cool at a house party or roller rink, inspired by the loud style of 1980's Hollywood and Venice Beach.

Die Mißbildungen Des Menschen

Dmdm.1

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Some Ember

Debts Of Love

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"Debts of Love” is the fifth release by Some Ember (Dylan Travis & Nina Chase). A collection of song sketches, “Debts of Love” was self-produced in a warehouse near an airport, on the edges of a small town in California’s rural central coast. Comprised of vocal loops, digitally destroyed samples, and wavetable synthesis, “Debts of Love” contains no drums. Debts of Love contains nothing, in fact. Debts of Love is a blank tableau to be written upon. Debts of Love is an empty canvas to be painted upon. Debts of Love is an emotion to be acted upon. Debts of Love is an acidifying ocean. Debts of Love is a supreme pair of opposites. Debts of Love is an empty reservoir. Debts of Love is the Moon crashing into the Earth. Debts of Love is an empty beach strewn with jellyfish. Debts of Love is the premonition you feel before receiving a text message. Debts of Love is the rain absorbing into parched earth. Debts of Love. Debts of Love. Debts of Love.

Grem

Bedsores

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Some Ember

S/t

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Self-produced and recorded over a period of two years, the new full-length album from Calfornia duo Some Ember is the culmination of a range of experience for these two wanderers. Some Ember is rich with meaning, sonic creativity, and emotional energy, a striking evolution from previous releases Hotel of Lost Light and Asleep in the Ice Palace. Here, cold synthesizers and harsh industrial beats dominate the A-side, while swirling drone and organic percussion characterize the unique second half. The exceptional voices of Dylan Travis and Nina Chase balance the record, their melodies anchoring things firmly in the pop realm.  Thematically, Some Ember explores the emotional contours of the perilous, exhilarating era in which it resides: channeling the free, open skies of California; cataloguing the oppressive grip of technological obsession; the deep contradictions inherent in life under the shadow of a crumbling post-colonial empire.

Chasms

Riser

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Rife with themes of loss, mortality and rebirth, ‘Riser’ is the second EP from San Francisco’s Chasms. Carved out by damaged percussion and hypnotizing guitars, the duo dives deeper into a heavenly abyss, this time with haunting vocals at the forefront. ‘Riser’ wades through an expansive, ethereal haze with powerfully executed melodies that resonate as if from another realm.

Cool Angels

Slow Chase Scenes

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Tropic Of Cancer

I Feel Nothing

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I Feel Nothing is a potent collection of disparate tracks that culminate into a blissful and untimely end. Made up of all of the tender elements that have characterized Tropic Of Cancer's previous releases, I Feel Nothing sees Camella Lobo's solo project taking on a subdued approach to its normally decadent aesthetic. Fraught with spaced-out, spectral textures and hollowed vocals that tell tales of love, loss and devotion, this EP adds a beautiful but elusive narrative to Tropic Of Cancer's arsenal of releases. Originally released as a vinyl-only 12" on Belgian boutique imprint, Sleeperhold Publications, I Feel Nothing has been digitally re-mastered and released this time through Dream.

Crocodiles & Dum Dum Girls

Merry Christmas, Baby (Please Don't Die)

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"Merry Christmas, Baby (Please Don't Die)" is the infamous future classic holiday song recorded by Crocodiles and Dum Dum Girls.

Cathedral X

Child

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CHILD is a vocal/ rhythm determinant of the daily individual. Staccato noize beats bleached by the sun. Vocals weaving and waiting. Songs from a studio apartment.

Chasms

When It Comes

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Culling influences from the avant underbelly of decades past, "When It Comes" is the debut EP from the dark San Francisco duo appropriately dubbed: Chasms. Drenched in the dreaminess of early 4AD, Chasms takes familiar shoegaze affectations to biting temperatures, arriving intently at dysphoric soundscapes and swollen compositions. From whispered vocals to droning bass, and guitar that's as blistering as it is lush – all elements are commanded by a blown-out drum machine that throbs with industrial authority. Wading through a heavy haze of melancholy, the damaged ten-plus-minute-long epic 'Headwound / What's Real' drifts from brutal to blissful at once. Though not all is so bleak; radiating moments like 'Darker Outside' remind us that a cold light still shines.