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Discover Worlds Of Wonder by Little Wings

Little Wings

Discover Worlds Of Wonder
Group Tightener

***REISSUED ON VINYL!!! "Formed on the west coast of California, Kyle Field's group Little Wings has seen endless revisions in lineup, approach and endeavor since 1998. Lauded by acts such as Feist, Real Estate and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy for being an important pillar, Little Wings low key presence has stood the test of time by embracing the timelessness of the human spirit and the struggle to maintain balance and certainty in an uncertain world. The catalogue continues to grow and ripen, and these songs are foundational in the blueprint of this ongoing institution. "Discover Worlds Of Wonder" is the second Little Wings album in the catalog and produced the classic songs "Sand Canyon" and "The Shredder" which set a template for the storytelling that would become signature in the Ouvre. Themes of cathartic isolation and redemption are at the backbone here as well as song buy song experimentation, dipping into subtle genre switching while maintaining a steady flow from song to song. Recorded on the eve of the Little Wings K Records years, one can hear the old Portland, OR sound through the lens of Adam Selzer's esteemed and long running (RIP) Type Foundry Studio, a 16 track analog institution. This is the first fully realized "band" recording from the group and serves as a seminal album in the 20 plus year spanning career of one of North America's esteemed wordsmiths." Limited to 500 black vinyl.

LP $23.25

06/11/2021  

GT 21 


Someone Who Isn't Me by What Moon Things

What Moon Things

Someone Who Isn't Me
Group Tightener

***BACK IN STOCK!!! Formed in the mountain town of New Paltz, NY, WHAT MOON THINGS is a rock-'n'-droll band that considers itself more of a duo, or production team. Its two permanent members, JOHN MORISI and JAKE HARMS, co-write all the group’s songs in addition to performing and recording every part on record. They released their eponymous first record in mid-2014, via Hot Grits (based out of Athens, GA), and while riding the wave of the “emo revival” created something all their own—a blend of romantic goth imagery, machine gun-like snare fills and howling guitar noise, all contextualized by the stark landscape of upstate New York. The record picked up a 7.3 album rating from Pitchfork and mentions in outlets such as Noisey, Ad Hoc and Impose. Their latest release is 2017’s Someone Who Isn't Me (via Group Tightener). Edition of 500.

LP $15.50

06/02/2017  

GT 20 


Camera Trouble by Roses

Roses

Camera Trouble
Group Tightener

***Camera Trouble is the lush first full-length record from L.A. dream-pop trio ROSES. Across 10 brooding songs, the drum-machined trio makes something fresh using familiar pop sounds from decades past. The reference points—from The Cure and Cocteau Twins to Adore-era Smashing Pumpkins and what feels like a million other things in between—are never hidden or obscured. And the record is stronger because of it. Roses are JUAN VELASQUEZ (ABE VIGODA), VICTOR HERRERA and MARC STEINBERG. Produced by Zola Jesus cohort ALEX DEGROOT. Edition of 500 on white vinyl.

LP $15.50

11/18/2016  

GT 19 


***Dream pop trio ROSES bloomed from the recesses of Los Angeles in early 2013. While guitarist JUAN VELASQUEZ was on hiatus from L.A. darkwavers ABE VIGODA, he met singer/keyboardist MARC STEINBERG at a local gay bar, trading mix tapes and finding they shared a love for alt heroines like Yoko Ono, Julee Cruise and Marianne Faithful. Meanwhile, Velasquez knew bassist VICTOR HERRERA after meeting him eight years ago at L.A. punk venue The Smell during its legendary run in the 2000s, bonding over female-fronted jangle pop bands like 10,000 Maniacs, The Sundays and The Cranberries. They were all looking to start a new band, so the three-piece began recording demos reflecting that love of delicate alt-rock of the ’80s and ’90s but smothering the results with industrial beats, shoegaze guitars and Steinberg’s intoning vocals. They’d go on to get their live legs while touring the West Coast and playing alongside bands like Diiv, Dum Dum Girls and Crocodiles. With the four-song Dreamlover EP recorded in L.A. by ALEX DEGROOT (engineer/keyboardist for Zola Jesus) and released on Group Tightener, the band has waxed their sound down to a fine point. They blend shimmering guitars and power chords with washes of dreamy synthesizers and new-wave basslines on “Florence Girls,” like The Wake taking off in The Go-Go’s convertible. An air of New Romanticism and the influence of the Cocteau Twins can be heard on nostalgic ballad “The Fog.” Steinberg’s lilting croon sails on woozy keys and waves of distortion on “Icicle” and...

12" $14.00

07/29/2014  

GT 16 


The Unmoved Mover by Hiro Kone

Hiro Kone

The Unmoved Mover
Group Tightener

***HIRO KONE is NICKY MAO, a New York City based musician and artist. Mao was a former member of EFFI BRIEST and UP DIED SOUND. Her background in classical training and symphonic arrangements provides a stark juxtaposition to the raw sounds of Hiro Kone's material, evoking something both familiar and disorienting. Brightly dark, softly cutting, airy and weighty, Hiro Kone brings together seemingly contradictory elements and synthesizes them to create form out of shapelessness. Her second album, The Unmoved Mover, is as an extension of her previous self-titled EP, envisioning the factions and movements in the human psyche and soul from an indivisible prime source. Co-produced and mixed by former original GANG GANG DANCE member TIM DEWIT, The Unmoved Mover, examines the break between worlds, with void in form, and irreverent breaches in thought-The Unmoved Mover is both solitary and collaborative. The intimacy is in the absence created by Hiro Kone and Dewit. Hiro Kone released the self-titled EP (Bitterroots, 2012), a live score for Cinema 16 at The International House of Philadelphia (2012), and a collaboration with David Van Tieghem x 10 Fits and Starts (RVNG Intl, 2013). Future projects include a studio recording of Migration Raga with Arp (Root Strata, 2014) and more.

12" $14.00

04/08/2014  

GT 15 


***For his new album, Days Off, MATT LAWSON aka SECRET COLORS—burned out on guitars, burned out on his improvisational methods—got a cheap Yamaha keyboard and started composing his own pieces of electronic music. While Lawson is using primitive elements to construct these pieces, there's still a sense of density and well-worn love in each of them, like they were meticulously stitched together and just a little frayed. Limited to 500.

LP $14.00

06/11/2013  

GT 14 


***ALEC FIELD grew up in New York on a steady diet of Chicago house, disco, old Motown stuff and a smattering of his parents’ psych records, as well as “trashy ’90s dance.” Dark Matters is his debut LP as EXPENSIVE LOOKS. It flows continuously across nine tracks, touching on elements of all the music he grew up on: hypnotic house, textured minimalism, and the gorgeous moment of musical epiphany that happens when a beat drops out and all that’s left is the aural equivalent of taking a deep breath and staring at the stars. It’s a dance record with the sort of scrappy, open heart that can only come from someone like Feld. Expensive Looks is all encompassing, it draws from all genres without border, pulling everything into one warped but pointed mass.

LP $14.00

01/17/2012  

GT 13 


CD $9.25

01/17/2012 881626946626 

GT 13 CD 


***SECRET COLORS is the project of Seattle’s MATT LAWSON. Water Mirror, his first vinyl full length, was pulled from various tape releases over the past couple of years and re-mastered by PETE SWANSON, formerly of D. Yellow Swans. This pressing is limited to 500 tie dyed, splattered paint vinyl records.

LP $14.00

10/11/2011  

GT 09 


***Group Tightener is proud to present the first ever physical release from EXPENSIVE LOOKS. The introductory 7-inch features two songs, with the B-side exclusive to this release. "Vanishers" is a hazy, slow-build of electronic loops and ALEC FIELD’s passionate croon, diping through the echoey peaks and valleys of a teen searcher's bedroom wail. "Simon" gets a bit more sinister with off-kilter samples. The record is just a taste of the textured dance-oriented full-length that will see release on Group Tightener this summer. Limited to 500.

7" $5.40

06/07/2011  

GT 07 


***FLUFFY LUMBERS is the project of SAMUEL FRANKLIN (BIG TROUBLES) hailing from the oddly prolific musical hub of Ridgewood, New Jersey (home to Vivian Girls, Real Estate, Titus Andronicus, Julian Lynch, etc).

7" $4.50

09/14/2010  

GTO 04 


***4 e and a is about the infinite spaces between. As a classically trained percussionist, RYAN J RAFFA has sat in front of a metronome for the majority of their life. In their mind, they would play with the spaces between those clicks. In especially challenging times, they would attempt to expand and stretch those spaces into forever. Just existing in the between. This record is about these moments (and places) living in those infinite spaces. The title "4 e and a" is a play on words, in reference to counting and subdividing rhythmic patterns. Ryan would need to play these patterns on a drum as a child. “4 e and a” is also a reference to a country or a place with a name. Like Argentina is a place, "4 e and a" (said run all together) sounds like a country. A place we all know about and sometimes go to because it's beautiful and full of spirit, but it also can be a bit unnerving, uneasy, and eerie when we explore new places there. In mathematics, we have Cantor's diagonal argument and the understanding that the infinity between each integer (such as between 1 and 2) is larger than the infinite space that every integer that exists can fill. Like, one infinity is larger than another infinity? Huh?! When you start subdividing time (like 1 e and a, 2 e and a, 3 e and a, 4 e and a), you start creating those ever-expanding spaces, one larger...

LP $32.25

TBD  

GT 22