***Paris, France’s CHEVEU’s newest release 1000 shows a much more polished and slicker sound than their previous releases, portraying the bands growth and adventurous, other-worldly style. That’s not to say it doesn’t sound like a Cheveu album, which is usually pretty damned difficult to pinpoint anyhow. Expect a whole new foray of sounds that include full horn arrangements, crazy RUN DMC-style beats, and the usual flurry of noisy electronics and Rolling Stones-type blues riffs. Limited to only 1,000 copies on black vinyl in the US and Canada, co-released by Kill Shaman in the US/Canada and Born Bad in Europe. Amazing cover art made out of fruit stickers and other fun stuff. Love it.
LP $17.25
01/25/2011
***Calgary, Canada’s SHARP ENDS have released their first LP on Kill Shaman. After two amazing 7-inches that moved at light speed on Hozac and Mammoth Cave, Sharp Ends spent the next 9 months writing and recording the ten tracks that have been lovingly smashed into wax for this fine release. The LP contains some of the finest post-punk weirdness ever heard, channelling bits of ‘80s British No Wave and colliding it with a Dischord-like agressive aesthetic, Sharp Ends have a real winner here. Recordeed by RYAN SADLER, mixed by the band, and mastered by GABE DUDES; these ten tracks will blow out your eardrums. Limited to 500 copies on black vinyl only, 45 RPM.
LP $15.50
11/16/2010
***The follow up to last year’s Death Control CD that garnered such praise, Life Control is an experiment further into the forays of the disjunct and fractured pop music that CHRISTOPHER CURTIS SMITH is so akin to producing. Life Control sees NIGHT CONTROL venturing further into the dark depths of sonic experimentation and ambience, circling back around to Derrida’s deconstruction theory and applying it to pop music. Sounds are manipulated, affected and tortured into loosely structured pop gems covered in organic acoustic guitars, blown out guitars and some of the most interested mixes of live and programmed drums. Expect to see this CD all over the place once again as Night Control has brought their signature sound to the next level of weird and interesting. This is the perfect soundtrack or city walking.
CD $14.00
01/26/2010