***"'They are always different, They are always the same'—TRAUMA HARNESS are secret Heads. I grew up with these three boys and they have had a huge impact on my life. JOSH, ANDY and JOHNNY were all playing awesome Rock n Roll back in 2007 when I met them in Belleville, IL. It was a legendary time for DIY gigs there—kids would turn out in droves and dance for every band and then after we’d all end up in a parking lot somewhere acting like idiots all night. It’s wild to think we’ve been friends for 15 years now. By 2011 each of their respective bands from before had ended and Trauma Harness was born. Over the past decade they’ve proven themselves year after year as talented songcrafters, committed hardworkers and fanatics of rock n roll. It’s rare that a band survives this long and stays interesting but somehow they’ve done it; they’ve cracked open a solid cohesive sound unconfined by the parameters of genre. For me, John Peel’s above quote about The Fall is just as applicable to Trauma Harness as it feels reductive to call them a post punk band, a synth pop band, a power pop band, etc. Much like The Fall, Trauma Harness has created a whole world of their own. They’ve been a constant pulse in the Lumpy Records catalog since the very beginning with four tapes, two 45s, and two lps released on the label since 2012. And thus I couldn’t think of a higher...
LP $19.35
08/19/2022
MP3 $9.90
07/31/2022
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07/31/2022
***"Feeling Lower than the Dow Jones Industrial Average? Me too, but this record is helping. When I heard it I finally believed that one guy with long hair and a green shirt who told me 'Those Cats Can Really Play!' Rik and his deplorable Pigs imploded in 2018 but not before recording two final sessions in California—one with Mike Kriebel (The Beat Sessions guy), another with Tony Santos. They skipped town before paying the bill, but we’ve stepped in to pick up the tab because we think it’s a great value. The Pigs, man…those guys are the laziest delinquent sort of pig slobs ever born, but at least they’re well rehearsed. They’re salty from marinating in the degenerate RNR Dick Manitoba, Cheetah Chrome and Dave E gave us long ago and it shows. Ricky the cunning wordsmith delivers with weasel verve, as one with an actual Venus in Taurus would. There’s a rawness and honesty here that has more to do with 80s hardcore than the modern garage rock scene that has embraced them. 'Lifes A Bust' is the hit—a scorching groove that lasts 7 minutes 26 seconds and still somehow feels too short. Play it at the bar and the people over 40 will be tapping their toes. The Last Laugh is probably a great gift for your father or father’s father, get it while it’s hot!"
LP $19.25
12/17/2021
MP3 $7.99
12/17/2021
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12/17/2021
Rejoice, the most feverish expression from Japan's top group is finally available on vinyl record! Pogo for the people in the back, 9 raucous wave punk songs snaked straight to the dome. True political and societal dissent often postured by today's bands, laid out in cool fashion over smart, tense guitar and bass interplay-- but undeniably fun! Bombs away music, pacing panther through the circus bars music-- Eriko's vocals might remind one of Plastics' Chica Sato, but sung with more deranged intent. Punks slamming to the disco beat. Tatsuya's slick guitar parts chime like bells at the plant, driving the songs like a blistering flash from the sun. Urgent songs by shiny people in the new style, great music for no future. (Ian Teeple)
LP $17.75
04/16/2021
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04/16/2021
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03/30/2021
***The second LP from Cleveland’s THE MIND who make noise in a Bizarre dimension where Cocteau Twins were on Ralph Records and The Space Lady scored David Lynch films. Noisy Dream Pop / Post Punk strangeness straight from the ether. Features Steve Peffer (Nine Shocks Terror) and Jordan Darby (Dry Rot). "My favorite time of day is the millisecond around 5:08am when a glitch causes gravity's suspension just long enough to reset your tiny toxic prejudices, your color palette, your misaligned spine. The cause of your death - some distant past, now - revealed by screeching tires as you walk to the store for a Nutter Butter, or intuited by the metronomical drip of your faucet as you lay down to "sleep." You get just the faintest phantom odor of a plane you've been to before and will visit again. And yet you go on, day in and day out, heading towards something in this world, trying to get somewhere. The simulation has programmed it as Free Will™ in the shiny-marble flesh-computer at your top, but Artificial Intelligence has been infiltrating the Arts for a minute now - like a video game designer making their game more difficult. Just look at Scriabin's Mysterium. People were flipping! Babies recited Paradise Lost and Himalayan farmers contracted to wave Mountain Fishtails at the ether were plucking their toenails out in uncanny jubilee! This is how humans evolve, after all. A sentient grain of sand from somewhere far, far away enmeshes itself...
LP $17.75
04/16/2021
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04/16/2021
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03/30/2021
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11/20/2020
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11/20/2020
Fortysomething years after it crawled oozing and spitting out of the social turmoil of the mid-70s, punk has mutated in countless ways, sonically, aesthetically, politically, but on Fried E/M’s Modern World they drag it back into place as brute expression of ugly feelings crammed into short catchy punk bursts, sneering at conciliatory ideals on Peace and Love with the same energy as the Clash singing Hate and War, squealing with the nihilistic urge for oblivion on Lobotomy just as the Ramones did. Four decades later, we’re still struggling with ourselves, with society, and still ready to revel in the nihilistic teenage id that splays itself out on these eleven tracks of disaffected snot. Punk as its fundamental core, panicked snaps of self-loathing and anti-social rage blasted out raw and unfiltered, bricks and voids and violence, no second thoughts, no tricky questions, sounding like the point where the initial wave of punk was being ramped up into the inchoate hardcore of Circle Jerks’s Group Sex, The Middle Class, or like the Ramones did an entire album of songs like Warthog. (Joe Briggs) Fried E/M hail from Missouri and are made up of many familiar faces on the Lumpy Family including the Lumpy himself on drums.
LP $17.00
07/31/2020
MP3 $9.90
02/28/2020
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02/28/2020
***LR is thrilled to present a 45 from Tucson, AZs THE INHUMAN. These two tracks are complete lo fi degenerate punk, recorded in a bedroom in Tucson sometime in 1983, plucked from forgotten demo tapes and pressed for the first time ! Another testament to the genius of the '80s Tucson scene, which wouldn't have sounded out of place on the Red Snerts or Cleveland Confidential comps. FFO Bobby Soxx, Mr Science, Jimmy Smack, KBD Punk.
7" $8.05
01/03/2020
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01/03/2020
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01/03/2020
***"To celebrate LR's 100th release we decided to do a special 10th anniversary pressing of the SWEET TOOTH Sugar Rush demo from 2009, which all members of the band agree is the best recording any of us have ever been on. We are all very proud of it and to that end I've gone all out on the packaging: Hand stamped records, Obi strip and a 12-page zine with essays by key players, pictures, flyers, zine interviews and a list of all 62 shows we played—all stapled to a double sided cardstock sleeve, all Riso'd in house."—Lumpy Here's the writeup my brother Rik did for it: "You have here in your hands the posthumous vinyl release of the debut “Sugar Rush” demo tape by Sweet Tooth, a band that was cultivated for several years in basements of suburban Southwestern Illinois by a bunch of bored teenagers who only wanted to play faster and harder than everyone else in the then-dwindling St Louis hardcore scene. The cassette was originally recorded circa November 2009 in our parents basement located less than 100 feet away from acres of corn fields in O’Fallon, Illinois by local engineer Mikey Crotty. Now it all seems like a blur, and it probably did back then too, but the music and performances were always unapologetically earnest and the energy was undeniable, which generally resulted in nothing less than chaos when the band would play live. It was always a mixed bag, you never knew what you were...
7" $8.50
01/03/2020
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01/03/2020
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01/03/2020
***Sarcastic Casio Fall worship poised to annoy you with two note songs that last 6 minutes. What else are you gonna talk shit on the internet to? Contrary to the entire 2 cent neo drum machine punk genre, this is something genuine and interesting. and for the same reason this is a 10”, each record comes with it’s own crap cardboard pet. FFO The Fall, Half Man Half Biscuit, Pere Ubu, The Residents, Brian Eno.
10" $16.35
07/19/2019
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07/19/2019
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07/19/2019
***Seven Kansas City mavericks deliver a transcendent rock record for the working class. It’s a brew of punk, new wave, the chili peppers and thanks to the professional sax player even krautrock and jazz. The band is DIALED IN. Rock solid performance throughout, take the Iron Maiden harmonizing in “The Hammer” or the spectacular psychedelic sax noodling on “Holes in the Crust” as a couple bits in a pile of nuggets. Black Randy and Big Boys taught us to love Upbeat Danceable Hard Hat Rock and now Nat Man is respectably holding that torch very high. They’ve checked all the boxes - great sound, great songs, great lyrics, great artwork. LR is thrilled to bring you this truly incredible record.
LP $16.35
07/19/2019
MP3 $7.92
07/19/2019
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07/19/2019
***Finally more from THE WORLD. The group that revived Groovy Post Punk a few years back and inspired a few dozen other Rough Trade sounding acts. Rhythm in the front seat, which would make the guitar the giant eyelashes above the headlights. That's right they're from Cali not Kingston. If you're addicted to ESG or Delta 5 maybe you can ween off with The World. "The sound of yesterday, today, and tomorrow"—paraphrasing someone important.
LP $16.35
04/26/2019
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04/26/2019
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04/26/2019
***Japan's MAZE debut 12" gives a dewey feeling. It's Rainy post punk nice for a walk or a drive on a bleak sunned day. It's real hands in pocket music, like that mellow Big in Japan material. But also sounds like Altered Images. An upper and a downer at the same time. aMAZEing.
LP $16.35
04/26/2019
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04/26/2019
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04/26/2019
***Dirty Feral HC from DC informed by chaotic '80s HC greats like Void, Neos, and Sodom’s ADK omnibus tracks. An amazing six songs in five minutes, all played by one chapped millennial (who went on to do the Hologram EP on LVEUM if you’re a members of type of wank). Definitely barking up the same tree as Nosferatu—young men trapped in the 21st century playing crazy hardcore that could as well be from the '80s.
7" $7.25
11/30/2018
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11/30/2018
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11/30/2018
***It’s a goer. Snarling speed fed hardcore from Zagreb, Croatia tapped into Gang Greens early raw energy—on and off recording (sniff sniff). An exercise in timeless pure punk to smash and to sneer and to hate and to die to. Cherish alongside your School Jerks and Culo EPs. LR certified gasm.
7" $7.25
11/30/2018
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11/30/2018
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11/30/2018
***St. Louis, Missouri’s crown jewel of HC finally squeezes out a follow up record. Since their 2015 EP they have all finished high school but their appetite for destruction still has not been satiated. Crushing hardcore alternating between the DBeat and the breakdown with plenty of that modern day half step riffing (a la Glue, Gag, etc). What will they break next ?
7" $7.75
11/30/2018
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11/30/2018
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11/30/2018
***CRUELSTER's new record really is Against All Authority. Donnie got elected people thought the silver lining would be better punk? Hope you’re happy ! Here’s the one we’ve all been waiting in the mud for. Fourteen Tracks of seemingly dumb hardcore arranged to roast right wing daytime radio talking points. No flag remains unstood for here. “Crisis in Local Government Part III,” “The Pipeline could Work,” “Gold Studded Citizen” are only a taste of the ridicule. Join the Riot Boys and laugh at the system like never before.
LP $15.50
07/13/2018
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07/13/2018
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07/13/2018
***"Clevos DBs have created a bizarro left field masterpiece. Strange, mystical, mysterious—I just can’t remember the last time I was so debilitated by music. Some songs bring to mind the best late 00s drum machine punk bands such as Spider/Catatonic Youth, others move into industrial territory a la Monte Cazazza (especially 'The ABCs of Lust'). And a peppering of dub to boot! There are Multiple personalities behind the mic—a regular vocalist, a Russian woman, Kate Bush, a cheese loving northerner. The vocals really shine, some of the most confident lyrics I’ve heard. Definitely an unrestrained feel to the entire album (feedback as an instrument???) a la the Residents—the first time I heard it reminded me of the first time I head Duck Stab, completely mind bending. One of the best records I have ever put out."—Lumpy
LP $15.50
07/13/2018
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07/13/2018
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07/13/2018
***Debut EP from this fresh St Louis act. Feels like upbeat jangley sax punk a la Kleenex Essential Logic with a mystical swampy twist. Here is A statement from the band: “STL’s friskiest get revenge on a Christian graffiti artist by way of crisp dada pop.”
7" $7.75
06/01/2018
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06/01/2018
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06/01/2018
***Saint Louis's champion New Wave/Post Punk group returns with their best record yet. Gushing synth pop on the A side and a flip side Dragon Ball Z cover that sounds like Pet Shop Boys. No posturing here.
7" $7.75
06/01/2018
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05/15/2018
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05/15/2018
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Debut LP by this most precious Minneapolis supergroup and it’s a real cobra. We’re talking hot meat moist spuds whiplash punk AND a hefty dollop of sauerkraut (that’s vocals in German, BENCH). They’ve tapped the unhinged energy of Hans-A-Plast and Crap Detectors but ditched the nostalgia. No tears for these salty schnitzels, not like the other punkies of the late 2010s who were born 40 years to late. Featuring the frantic rhythms of the world renowned STAG BITCH BABY (LEMONADE, URIANIUM CLUB) Pressed to 45 rpm 12” the greatest format of all time.
LP $14.75
03/16/2018
MP3 $7.99
02/27/2018
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02/27/2018
***BACK IN PRINT!!!! Received a 7.7 rating from Pitchfork. Two years deep and finally these beloved KC wingdings have blessed us with a debut album. WARM BODIES are quintessentially the Rush of late 2010s punk. Each member gets their due time to flex in almost every song and at their gigs you’ll get a headache if you try to figure out what they’re all doing. But damn it’s good. A real question mark band who can sure pen a tune. Electric.
LP $14.75
03/16/2018
MP3 $7.99
02/27/2018
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02/27/2018
***Nevermind the darkwave, the latest tape of CHI’s moodiest trio gets the treatment just in time for winter. This is a fine synth record that stands out amid all this horrid post-coneheads hogwash and dull goth/postpunk. They know how to space out maybe it’s the cynicism that keeps them from being a grateful dead tribute band. A recommended listen for solitude in the dark.
LP $14.50
12/22/2017
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12/22/2017
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12/22/2017
***BACK IN STOCK!!! “Since emerging five years ago LUMPY AND THE DUMPERS have gone from being aberrant oddballs to key figures in a whole scene of weirdo punk. Through Lumpy Records and its influence a grubby morrass of freak punk has bubbled to the surface in their slimy wake. Those Pickled Fuckers is the sound of a band distinguishing themselves from a sound they inspired, not falling into the easiness of a sound, finding new ways to express their grubby vision while retaining the essential muck that made people take notice in the first place. Over seven tracks of gritty discomfort punk, bulging with bodyhorror blues and puerile manic imprecations, Lumpy and the Dumpers revel and writhe in the effluvia of life and the rude pangs and oozings of flesh. Revivifying the dead metaphor of the earworm, these songs burrow snugly into your brain, distorted sing-song playground melodies, like hell dimension children's show theme songs, exploding with weird turns and twists, from the blaring horns of Someone's In The House's paranoiac stomp, to the wild malfunctioning chiptune screams cutting through Attention and the sinister whoops and crashes of the oddly mellow Clatter Song, Those Pickled Fuckers is an album only Lumpy and the Dumpers could've made.”—Joe Briggs
LP $14.50
11/10/2017
***A ballsy record outta Cleveland. Driving upbeat charm of The Ramones backed with the vile grit of Amdi Petersons Arme. Plenty of half stepping all over the fretboard. The whole rhythm section on this album makes me shake my head, unbelievable. Lives up to the legacy of their city.
LP $14.25
10/20/2017
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10/20/2017
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10/20/2017
MP3 $7.92
07/01/2017
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07/01/2017
***Sixteen no name new wave bands from the minds of many celebrated cretins across america and beyond, such as Joe Suss (Nancy, Muff Divers), Rik (Pigs, Mongoloid), Jake Robertson (Ausmuteants, Leather Towel), Arielle McCuaig (Janitor Scum, Glitter), Andy Peterson (Gibbous, Trauma Harness), Cody Phifer (HairLong n Freeky, Nosferatu), BB Eye and many many more! Curated by yours truly, with screen printed jackets, art by Janitor Scum.
LP $14.75
06/30/2017
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06/30/2017
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06/30/2017
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Snotty and demented punk from St. Louis. Take the sinister energy of KBD (a la The Mad, Nubs) and 70s/80s cleveland rnr/punk (Electric Eels, Easter Monkeys) add some toe jam and a dried bat and stomp on it with a boot. Wa la, the debut Dumpers LP. DIY to the core—written, recorded, drawn, pressed, assembled by one person—the inimitable L man. 9 songs at 45 rpm with screen printed jackets and an 11x17 poster.
LP $14.25
06/02/2017
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Outrageous calypso new wave super group consisting of OLIVIA GIBB (WARM BODIES) and MARTY (DUMPERS, CAL AND THE CALORIES). Xylophone/keyboard punk for all the kiwis to bounce around to. Think BOB, Units, Devo blended into a pink jelly and poured into a coconut shell covered in flies.
7" $7.00
05/19/2017
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05/19/2017
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05/19/2017
***A delightful EP by this critically acclaimed group from Northwest Indiana. Galloping, quirky new wave/punk that channels the zany swagger and sound of Suburban Lawns and warps 'em into some of the catchiest and tightest songs released thus far in the 21st century. Highly highly recommended.
7" $7.00
05/19/2017
MP3 $3.96
05/19/2017
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05/19/2017
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Fried Emu Mind = Ripping new St. Louis band. Snotty balls-to-the-wall punk with a HC edge in vein of late '70s/early '80s California greats like Los Plugz and Modern Warfare. Would also fit nicely on mixtape of modern pogo bands like Patsy or Crazy Spirit. Cover drawn by the singer BUGMAN's 15 year old sister.
7" $7.00
05/19/2017
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05/19/2017
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05/19/2017
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Upbeat noisy new wave from this genius one woman group outta Calgary. Scratchy guitars and abrasive pouting vocals tracked over a thudding drum machine makes for a punk/wave mess to remember. Nine tracks with an incredible and infectious closing number “Vacuum Rebuilder.”
LP $14.25
05/19/2017
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05/19/2017
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05/19/2017
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Vinyl treatment of two demos by this STL/Minneapolis concoction. ANTUAN (WILD CHILD) snarls in his native language over some demented computer virus punk/HC from the mind of BO (RUZ, DUMPERS). Annoying synth punk covered in spikes.
7" $7.00
05/19/2017
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05/19/2017
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05/19/2017
***Chicago group’s debut LP. 10 songs of catchy drum machine Glam with a hearty reverence for KISS and the Ramones. Some high voltage pogo speed punk rock n roll! Mastered by GEZA X.
LP $14.25
05/19/2017
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05/19/2017
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05/19/2017
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Fresh out of high school and ready to kill. Q consists of four young men from St. Louis playing chaotic and hateful Hardcore. Notorious for bringing objects to their gigs and breaking them during the entire set (washing machine, a table, a bag of glass, a giant block of ice with a shoe in it), every time they play. I’d say it’s one part Gag/Hoax mosh, one part Discharge, two parts suburban boredom/angst. Winner.
7" $7.00
05/19/2017
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05/19/2017
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05/19/2017
***Three-song 7” from St. Louis’s most celebrated post punk band. Astral pop on the A side with some drum machine new wave/synth pop tracks on the flip. “Ghost of a Flea” sounds like what you’d want to hear in a dream on an elevator in a space station.
7" $7.00
05/19/2017
***BACK IN STOCK!!! A collection of three Halloween-themed tapes released between 2012 and 2015 by this beloved long running St. Louis band. Channeling elements of post-punk, synthpop, and '80s horror movie music, TRAUMA HARNESS provide a delightful and ominous soundtrack for autumn. It’s tin can punk blended with a pop nightmare; if you’re waiting for October this should hold you over. Includes covers of John Carpenter, Alice Cooper, and Seige!
LP $14.25
05/19/2017
MP3 $9.90
05/19/2017
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05/19/2017