***Mythology has a recurring theme: creating ambiguity by rearranging worlds and creatures that normally don’t belong together. Centaurs, Minotaurs, Hydras and so on: mockery and mystery intertwine into entities that are in equal parts magnificent and ridiculous. Referencing this idea in the present, Loris S. Sarid conjures 12 compositions simultaneously showing traits of dreamlike trap, candy-flavoured New Age and Spoken Word. The lines between spiritual and mundane, drama and parody are bent and questioned, used as raw material and treated with the same importance. Binding the work together is the sense of feeling peacefully lost inside a shuffling iPod, buried in a quiet zen garden inside a noisy shopping mall or vice versa. What connects Ambient music, which often anonymously swims into endless sleeping playlists with monthly subscriptions to well-being, to the mainstream output of commercial music? Ambient $ doesn’t explore the social aspect of this question, but rather celebrates the beauty of its paradoxes. This album is the morning choir of forgotten NFTs, brewing lyrics in their binary exile. The television homily of a wrestler turned priest, turned influencer chef, then hermit and then rapper. Randomness is reclaimed as a human quality, and the aesthetics of mass music consumption are repurposed into a rather inexpensive guide to streaming-service-enlightenment.
LP $24.35
11/07/2025
***I Made My House is the new album by composer and songwriter Eliot Krimsky, a journey through grief, memory, and time. Sparked by the unexpected passing of his father in 2022, the album evokes a liminal space of loss where dreams, memories and the afterlife drift in and out of focus. Known as the lead singer and co-founder of the art-pop band Glass Ghost, Krimsky brings a deeply personal sonic palette to this work: intimate harp-like piano, tape-styled manipulations, layered trumpet & sax improvisations and his distinctive falsetto. At the heart of the album is an archival cassette tape; a conversation between Krimsky and his father from the 1980s. This fragile recording pulses and weaves throughout the album, grounding songs that tell a story of emotions through love, impermanence, and the passage of time. Using techniques like re-amping his father’s voice in the house he grew up in, tape delays, and recording his childhood piano from three floors above, Krimsky creates sonic spaces that stretch across time. What began as a way to process profound loss became a house built from sound, memory, and the transformative power of music.
LP $23.95
08/28/2025
Moon Glyph is pleased to present a compilation of new, unreleased tunes from established veterans of the label and newcomers alike. Staying true to Moon Glyph’s transportive aesthetic, Amethyst spans across abstract genres from ambient, psychedelia, jazz, electronic, fourth world percussion and more.Across its 17 tracks, you’ll hear Cole Pulice’s hypnotic overlapping saxophones, Vic Bang’s intricate arrangements of micro samples, IE’s patient desert landscapes and Starbirthed’s shimmering celestial guitars. Opening the compilation, Iceblink’s playful and adventurous melodicism morphs into Omni Gardens’ fuzzy synth and vibraphone. SiP expands his songwriting with loose and ecstatic textures and more organic tones. Tracks from Lee Noble, Pulse Emitter and Electric Sound Bath dive deep into all manners of synthesized sounds with abstract, ambient and otherworldly timbres. Nicholas Gaunin’s jungle field recordings and percussion sit comfortably nestled into fourth world zones. Songs from Noah Klein and Mark Tester create ambience with a casual sophistication, melding acoustic instrumentation alongside the electronic. Nuke Watch continues with their unclassifiable jazz with oddball percussion and freeform keyboards. There’s Landon Caldwell’s airy flute, sax, marimbas and wind chimes. And the cascading wash of synth and guitars from Grapefruit. And the trippy full band weirdo psychedelia of American Cream Band.
CD $11.25
06/06/2025
MC $14.50
06/06/2025
***Moon Glyph is thrilled to share Emerald, a new collection of unreleased works from both established artists and newcomers to the label. True to the label’s transportive aesthetic, the collection spans the sonic landscapes of ambient, jazz, experimental, electronic, psychedelia, minimalism and more.Over the course of 13 tracks, the compilation weaves together sounds like Anagrams’ delicate interplay of guitar and saxophone, Oval Angle’s plucky, playful electronics and Lia Kohl’s improvisational blend of electronics and field recordings. Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice craft airy, ambient jazz while Omni Gardens dreamy, sun-warmed synth tones. Britton Judd’s organic soundscapes fade into shimmering resonance, and Masahiro Takahashi & Karen Ng intertwine saxophone and electronics with a light, expressive touch. Roy Werner’s hypnotic minimalism contrasts with Loris S. Sarid’s expansive ambient landscapes, while Memotone constructs ghostly, otherworldly sonic sculptures. Felbm infuses elegant melodies with rich timbres, while Turn On The Sunlight and M. Sage & Zander Raymond shape a hazy, billowing composition of eclectic textures and deep melodicism.
CD $11.25
06/06/2025
MC $14.50
06/06/2025
***Phantasy & Reality is the latest from Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice, following 2022’s To Live & Die In Space & Time. After years of living in the same city (both Minneapolis & Oakland), where the duo were regularly performing, improvising, writing, and recording together, Lynn and Cole have been geographically separated on opposite coasts since the fall of 2022, forcing them to find new ways to explore how they collaborate. Consequently, the production on Phantasy & Reality became more of a collage effort; a mixture of work recorded together in-person, along with layers of overdubs/production/processing completed individually, which they incessantly workshopped and traded back and forth. Despite the physical distance, the pair wanted to preserve the intimacy and immediacy of their collaborative language as much as possible. This new workflow was something that straddled improvisation and composition, mixing material from studio sessions with home and field recordings taken on their phones and portable recording devices. The record also has a very special guest feature from Bay Area trumpet player and composer Ambrose Akinmusire on “A Mote of Frozen Eternity”, whom Lynn and Cole have long adored, becoming friends with while living in the East Bay. The resulting album is spacious, patient and gorgeous, equal parts delicate and expansive. The textural quality of the work is at the forefront as well, with field recordings and the physicality of the instruments they play providing a grounding force for these floating compositions. Like the title implies, Lynn & Cole’s sound and vision...
MC $14.50
11/15/2024
***The ironically titled Structurally Sound is the fourth and final release by Baltimore/Australian band Smoke Bellow via Portland's Moon Glyph Records. This release traverses a period of personal upheaval and destruction for the band, as well as the breakdown of the central creative relationship at its core. Written over 2022 and 2023 at home in Baltimore, this record was born of the collaboration between founding members Christian Best and Meredith McHugh. This release saw the duo partner with Baltimore percussionist Jen Kirby (Strange Times People Band) who had joined the band on many tours to promote 2021's Open for Business (Trouble in Mind). Structurally Sound is the self-assured melding of post-punk, disco and modern minimalist composition, with lyrical themes spanning desire, personal anguish as well as the celebration of community and resilience. It represents something entirely new, however, distinct sonic lines can be traced to previous iterations of the band. Sonically, influences range from modern minimalist composers such as Philip Glass, Terry Riley and Steve Reich, to the elemental bass/drum/guitar conversation of ESG, The Raincoats, Pylon, Au Pairs and Essential Logic. At its core Structurally Sound is a celebration of the buoyancy found in the bonds of community. It is a fitting closing chapter to the band's omnipresent exploration of rhythm and repetition, at once serious and playful. This release sees an increased focus on arrangement as a key conveyor of musical ideas and a sonic palette expanded by their collaborators’ horns, strings, percussion and prose.
LP $23.75
10/11/2024
***It’s not difficult to find beauty in the sounds of nature – ocean waves, birdsong, rainfall – but it's easy to overlook the charm and wonder of everyday anthropogenic sounds. Equal parts reverent and playful, Normal Sounds is built around field recordings of human-made, non-musical sounds: fridge drones, grocery store beeps, car horns. Lia Kohl alternately hallows and mimics them, offering them to the listener in a new light. Using a textural cloud of cello and synthesizers, with a few notable contributions from wind players Ka Baird and Patrick Shiroishi, Kohl brings out beauty in the world’s inane noise. This interest in the mundane is not new to Kohl. Normal Sounds follows a series of pieces – The Ceiling Reposes, Untitled Radio, Variations on a Topography – which use field recordings of AM/FM radio as centerpieces. Her work hones in on unnoticed or under-documented sounds: the things we tend to tune out or hear passively. Many of the field recordings on Normal Sounds are functional, indicating danger (tornado siren, car alarms), fun (ice cream truck) or change (“the seatbelt sign is on”, “please take your receipt”). Others are simply byproducts of machine function: the drone of a fridge or airplane. While they’re sometimes intended to be heard, they’re not intended to be listened to. For Kohl, her treatment of these sounds acts as a practice of attention, or in her words “a practice of trying to be more alive.” Often this practice takes the form of mimicry: harmonizing the already-present...
LP $23.65
08/30/2024
***Nicolas Gaunin, the moniker of Italian experimental electronic musician Nicola Sanguin, returns with his latest full-length “Wormhole”. This record bridges the gap between naturalistic polyrhythms and more expansive, cosmic technologies. Contrasted to his previous rain-soaked “Hulahula Kāne” LP, “Wormhole” has even more emphasis on unusual rhythms; propulsive and abstracted yet immediate. The sonic palette is diversified as well, incorporating synthetic real-world timbres alongside crisp and more contemporary textures. The warped and weirdo experience of “Wormhole” is singularly Gaunin, like teleporting between an untouched rain forest and the inside of a super computer.
LP $23.65
08/09/2024
***Leaving is the left-of-centre, electronics project of Rupert Thomas (Erasers), based in Perth, Western Australia. With a focus on hardware electronics, Thomas conjures immersive worlds of mood-driven synthesizer compositions that range from deep, slow moving ambience, to dense rhythms and hypnotic melodies. Forming over a decade ago as a home recording project on Whadjuk boodja (Perth, Western Australia), Thomas documented his early sound through a steady flow of CD-R’s and tapes before releasing his debut self-titled LP in 2020 via Good Company Records, a culmination of songs recorded between 2013-2017. In 2021 he contributed slow burner ‘Detached Lines’ to Deep Water Greenhouse ‘Greenhouse Vol. 1’ LP. In the live realm, Leaving has shared the stage with the likes of Actress, Oneohtrix Point Never and Outer Space (Emeralds), sculpting a mesmeric sonic experience through deep drones, atmospheric synth and echoed drum machine interplay. 2024 sees Leaving return with his second full length ‘Hidden View’ via Moon Glyph and Pouring Dream. Recorded and mixed at home throughout 2023 using a limited palette of synths, ‘Hidden View’ creates a sound world that is simultaneously moody, emotive and meditative, offering both careful focus and a dreamy escape for the mind. Through this collection of sounds, Thomas seeks to evoke the surrounding landscape in which it was made, with its wide-open spaces, dense bushland and expansive coastline.
MC $14.50
08/09/2024
***Oval Angle is the moniker of Geran Knol, a Dutch multidisciplinary visual artist and musician based in Antwerp, Belgium. His instrumental electronic music blends mellow and playful tones, characterized by plucky, offbeat sound design and wavering, askew melodies. Geran’s composition process is akin to a sketch on paper, slowly evolving and mutating as elements are added, subtracted, and altered. His debut LP for Moon Glyph, “Figures of Speech”, utilizes circular, melodic repetition found in minimalist compositions and avant-pop songforms. Like Geran’s visual art, it masterfully captures a sense of child-like wonder and wide-eyed naiveté.
LP $23.65
08/09/2024
***We live in places and they live in us. Sometimes we’re in the same place, linked together by the elements and our immediate surroundings. Other times, we push off into farther flung spaces, but stay connected as though telepathically, treasuring the closeness that once was and will someday be again. Most of the humble music that comprises ‘Canoga to Haʻikū’ was recorded in a single sitting by Carlos and Jesse in Carlos’ studio in California. A little later, Jesse departed for Maui, where an acquaintance named Russ kindly lent him a Casio CZ-1000 for the summer. With that instrument and the surrounding sounds of children, birds, insects, lizards, frogs, goats, wind and rain, the finishing touches were added to these songs. The ocean a glimmer in the distance through the palms, a portal was opened across the Pacific to Carlos’ studio, where friendship dances in all its forms. A rainbow beckoned and invited everyone to dive into the water and share in its universal embrace.
MC $14.50
08/09/2024
***Previously known as G.S. Sultan, Imagine My Surprise is the first album released under his given name, Roy Werner. The moniker shift marks a methodological transition as well, bringing in collaborators to realize Roy’s hazy and offbeat electronic delirium. The sonic palette is as eclectic as ever; incorporating vibraphone, bells, flute, alto & tenor saxophone amongst his stretched and mutating electronics. There is a flurry of sonic exploration across the album’s two sides, embracing the surreal, the mellow and the peculiar. From Roy— “Based around the concept of a ‘trickster noir’ - an attempt to sonically render a handful of half-remembered dreamscapes—sunburnt tiki haze sequence. Imagine My Surprise is the first recorded work released under my own name and the first to heavily feature contributions from fellow artists working in contemporary electronic music. Months and years worth of iterations on some of these pieces, then in a frenzy of late night sessions they collectively come into focus, mutating into these “freaky little ditties”… Some incredibly choice performers were kind enough to add their touches on here, improvising over early drafts of their respective pieces, recordings eventually pulled to bits, rearranged and played back in duos & trios of themselves—it wasn’t so clear where these things were going until they had landed. Still in orbit of similar worlds as earlier G.S. Sultan work but slightly pared, braided more tightly around rhythmic center points, the putty’s form more clearly molded in the hand. At the fringe of consciousness, spin around to the...
LP $23.65
12/01/2023
***Honestly Same is an amplified acoustic and synthetic quintet from Chicago. They improvise patient, contemplative and distinctly contemporary music harnessing the sounds of cello, clarinet, electronics, piano, bass, recorder, percussion, synths and accordion. The group is Zachary Good, Lia Kohl, Mabel Kwan, Zach Moore and Sam Scranton. On their second album (and first LP), Hot Plate Only, the quintet finds a balance between airy and organic ambience alongside insistent rhythms and dynamic explorations. It’s a sound world that breathes, loops, iterates and layers. The skillful performances and inherent understanding among the players ensure that every voice finds its clear place, culminating in the creation of something entirely unique to Honestly Same.
LP $23.65
10/27/2023
***Moon Glyph Records head Steve Rosborough returns as Omni Gardens with a brand new album entitled Golden Pear. The fuzzy, warm and buoyant moog timbres of Moss King return but Golden Pear is a dreamier and more lush affair; incorporating a wider palette including mellotron flutes, vibraphones, marimbas and self-captured field recordings. A tranquil, pop atmosphere permeates the album as the songs flutter between bleary, unhurried tunes, warbly soundscapes and odes to lazy afternoons. Created for relaxed home listening, this is Golden Pear.
LP $23.65
10/27/2023
MC $12.75
12/01/2023
***Parayellowgram is a collaboration between M. Sage & Zander Raymond. Raymond is a visual artist & synthesist based out of Chicago and Sage is a musician & educator in Colorado. Their duo work is dewy and lush; trickling modular synths dance among piano, clarinet, field recordings, violin, percussion and baritone guitar. Exhibiting patience and measured thinking, 'Parayellowgram' adeptly crafts pastoral environments through intricate details and skillful variations, enhancing the repetition with a refined touch. The ideal soundtrack for slowing down and observing the natural world.
CD $11.25
10/20/2023
MC $14.25
10/20/2023
***ICEBLINK is a homespun, intimate project conjured by Oakland's LYNN AVERY. As a trans woman, everything she creates is about her experience and Lynn describes Carpet Cocoon as her comfort album, music to retreat to in the winter. Informed by her passion for mixtapes, oddities and crate digging blogs, the album is eclectic yet cohesively spun around the aesthetic of a bedroom new age album. Sonically, it has a fuzzy and rounded vibe incorporating nylon string guitars through vocoders, textural Prophet synthesizers, flutes and filtered saxophone. The effect of Carpet Cocoon is stunning and personal, melancholic yet idyllic, a spiritual ritual of baths for lying on your bedroom floor. "In Lynn Avery’s hands, the cosmos feels like it could fit in your pocket. The Oakland artist’s homespun style of ambient music delicately balances the tactile with the mystical, weaving freeform jazz and lo-fi collage together into playfully diffuse semblances of songs."—Pitchfork, 7.4
LP $23.65
11/18/2022
***NOW AVAILABLE ON CASSETTE!!! LORIS S. SARID is an ambient composer and artist born in Rome but now resides in Glasgow. His previous release, Music for Tomato Plants, was a quiet exploration of kalimba, glockenspiel and plucky synths. On his debut LP, Seabed-Sunbath, Loris submerges into aquatic terrain with an expanded palette of virtual pianos, soft horns, kalimba, strings, synthesized voices, textural field recordings and a wide array of soothing electronic tones. On “Oats with Sarah” and “Lobster Island,” he also incorporates live performance with collaborators on cello and voice. Many try to use computers to write human sounding compositions but Loris works in the inverse, emulating computer generated songs via his personal touch. The final results are mesmerizing, peaceful, distinctive and varied. Seabed-Sunbath is the sound of contemporary electronics bubbling underwater, flowing between ecosystems and settling into a quiet oceanic basin.
LP $26.95
06/24/2022
MC $14.50
09/20/2024
***Vic Bang is the artist, composer and sound designer Victoria Barca from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her work captures the micro-sounds of the world, simultaneously crystalline and organic, carefully composed into unique and distinctive sound sculptures. On her latest album, “Burung”, the songs are increasingly airy and colorful, playfully bopping around one moment and releasing a digital exhale the next. Barca’s handling of percussion, texture and melody is sophisticated while always retaining the light-hearted exuberance of a fresh experimentalist. “Burung” is the sound of precise, beautiful computer music crafted with the fallible human touch.
MC $12.75
06/17/2022
***Nicolas Gaunin is the moniker of Nicola Sanguin, a musician from Padua, Italy known for his fourth world electronics, rain-soaked tropical sounds and his woody, experimental polyrhythms. After two cassettes and a compilation LP, Hulahula Kāne is Gaunin’s first full length is a fully-realized trek into bizarre, uninhabited terrain. Gaunin’s palette ranges from kalimbas, hand drums, miniature gongs, flutes, bass, all manners of field recordings, distinctive synthesizers and natural sounds stretched and warped until they’re alien. The rhythmic compositions and sonic world-building is thrilling and peculiar. Gaunin’s approach to music making is all his own and sculpts a hallucinatory headspace; transporting the listener into his imaginary far-off land.
LP $26.95
02/18/2022
***If LORD DOG BIRD’s The Trinity Knot gives the impression of a remote, rustic, and earthen existence, it comes from COLIN MCCANN’s life as a carpenter and musician in the Trinity Mountains of Northern California. The second LP from the former guitarist of Baltimore’s WILDERNESS was written in the woods, off the grid, utilizing only the shimmering, droning tones of an old pump organ and the human voice. It is a powerful, dark, spiritual music; a mantric prayer sung in the face of the increasing, psychic warfare of our time; a refuge in an age of total surveillance. Honing themes from the Lord Dog Bird’s self titled debut on Jagjaguwar, McCann has made a record that is as succint and disciplined as it is urgent. The Trinity Knot of sounds like a sonic glyph harvested from deep within the rocks. A heralding of the ancient secrets that are found there.
LP $14.00
11/05/2013
MP3 $5.94
11/05/2013
***The spiritual & synthetic omniverses of FOOD PYRAMID & ROY ORB D.MT. unite to form their majestic statement with Arp Navigators. The album calls to mind a great escapist wandering; one of rising mountains, luxuriant aquatic-life & surreal terrain all sought after in the name of inner-tranquility. Beginning side A is “Windsong” consisting of airy undulations & breathy new age atmospherics, staying true to its namesake. Within their wide-eyed vision is the ascending groove of “Visualizer,” the fuzzy astral traveling of “Summit Expedition” and the deep effervescence of “Corealis.” This LP of transportive tunes present a vibrant array of healing tones, bubbling motorik and celestial gazing.
LP $14.00
12/18/2012
MP3 $5.94
12/18/2012
***"From a heavenly body appears Globe Master, the second full-length from Minneapolis sci-fi garage quartet LEISURE BIRDS. Executed as a concept record Globe Master follows the journey of an unknown entity from the outermost dimensions of the galaxy to its eventual fall and transcendence to Earth. Enter the "Silver Runner," the namesake of the entity's mode of transport, which begins the pilgrimage with a propulsion of synthetic loops, skyward keys & slinking bass lines. Expansive in scope, we encounter the deep-distant desert jam of "Egyptian Ring," the sublime, harkening call of "Osiris" and the powerfully cosmic, heady whirl of the finale, "Globe Master." "Sonvs Universvm," the 7-inch epilogue, presents an array of planetary tones in remembrance of our being's journey. On our 45th release Moon Glyph is ecstatic to unveil Leisure Bird's grand evolution. ‘Ceres Fall. Saturn Shatter. Fall To Earth. Rise Globe Master.’"
LP+7" $14.00
08/28/2012
MP3 $8.91
08/28/2012
"Xander Harris and Dylan Ettinger carve up a killer 7" on this moonlight rogue mission for Minneapolis-based Moon Glyph Recordings. For his best outing since last year's acclaimed 'Urban Gothic' LP episode, Harris is evidently amped up for 'The Driver' with pedal-to-the-metal NRG disco rhythm outlined by frightfully effective synth stabs and cruising-at-100mph chords. Flipside Dylan Ettinger's 'Tipoff' is a more insidious minimal wave gem. Throbbing, distorted, stoic bass anchors intense synthline modulations while a tormented voice yelps like he means it, making for an ominous, uneasy piece of synthesized drama."--Boomkat
MP3 $1.98
04/10/2012
***Following a split 7" and a trilogy of defining cassettes, FOOD PYRAMID emerges with their debut full-length LP, Mango Sunrise. A tireless Minneapolis trio, the three members collaborate to materialize synthesized monoliths; ranging from percolating, ambient rivers to various weirdo strains of dancehall jams. Mango Sunrise is an eclectic and spanning look into their overall aesthetic headspace. It conjures movements of kosmische-propelled euphoria, deep-space house and even their style of affected future-dub. On tunes like "Orange Alert" and "Oh Mercy," we find the trio drifting into druggy long-form dance grooves alongside rippling psych guitar and a bewildering saxophone. As much of a refined culmination as it is a hard step forward for their ever-evolving sonics, Mango Sunrise has arrived with all the majestic grandeur its title evokes.
LP $14.00
03/13/2012
CD $10.50
03/13/2012
MP3 $7.99
03/06/2012
Bringing their trilogy to completion, Food Pyramid's latest cassette for Moon Glyph, "III" captures the trio at their most sweeping - inviting fourth and fifth members into the mix and adding an array of sensations to their palette of kosmische-inspired compositions. Having played out consistently for a year or so, "III" is a recorded portrait of the group performing at an invigorated level of adventurousness. Note the arpeggiated guitars on "Last Light" and "Last Shuttle to the Red Planet," "Cycloscope"'s synth-euphorics and the unbridled sax- and piano-playing in the album's final moments. On display is a duality that owes much to the group's improvisational core: this collection of tracks serves not only as a summation of the first two records, but also as a gaze into Food Pyramid's future.
MP3 $5.94
10/18/2011
***Amidst pilfering of collective bargaining rights, the storming of public buildings in union protests, and subsequent recalls of elected officials, a bubbling of proletariat discontent in Madison, WI has shed light on a region of the country often overlooked. Emerging from this unrest comes DEAD LUKE’s second full-length and first Moon Glyph release, Meanwhile… In The Midwest, which takes the portentously hazy half-songs contained within his debut LP and solidifies them into a raw, lysergic-crystalline acid cocoon. In the album’s final moments we are greeted to the triumphant drifting of “Endless High,” a fuzzed-out call to arms for the No Coast. On “God Of Nothing” Luke conjures a hymnal drone of weaving elements peaking into a self-contained nihilist jam. While harkening back to the nebulous "American Haircut," Luke now unleashes his vexed voice in parallel with a movement currently percolating to a once apathetic surface.
LP $17.50
10/11/2011
MP3 $7.92
10/11/2011
"Entitled simply “II”, Food Pyramid’s second release for Moon Glyph might be viewed as an extenuation of their debut cassette, which the release both is and isn’t. Having introduced the listener to their long-form template and insistent beat, Food Pyramid find themselves in a place to experiment. Jettisoning any “live” touches from their sound this time around (i.e. the saxophone and guitar), “II” is a pure expression of the band’s electronic angle. Preserving the propulsion they established on their previous record, Food Pyramid commingles its strength for drawn-out melody lines with a more spirited handling of the repeater and delay dials.” —Moon Glyph
MP3 $5.94
11/30/2010
***Warmy Girls, VELVET DAVENPORT’s third release with Moon Glyph, locates the band’s sonic architect and chief songwriter PARKER SPROUT displaying a rainbow of talents. Recorded in Sprout’s apartment studio last winter, the album is an effervescent brew of guitar and organ character sketches. Named after a feeling of affection and love, Warmy Girls is populated with men and women in a manner reminiscent of Ray Davies’ best Kink songs. Layered on a four-tracker, the sounds gambol and flit, trip and shimmer beneath a melange of bright-eyed vocal harmonies. Previous release on Shdwply. “The band has been creating some of the very best lo-fi 60s pop in the last year or so and from the first sound of Warmy Girls, this may be their best material yet.”—Reviler
LP $14.50
11/23/2010
MP3 $9.90
11/23/2010
“Regolith” is a term used by lunar scientists to describe the loose scree of stones covering the solid rock of the moon. From the scrappy fuzzabilly of the Leisure Birds’ “Burn the Beach” to Moonstone’s pontificate-n-jam, Moon Glyph have found an apt title for their first compilation of local bands. Regolith Vol.1 is a wide sampling of songs scattershot across a solid foundation of rock by artists committed to the exploration of new vibrations and frequencies. The listener will find all forms of psychedelia on this record: laid back odes to laid-back women from Magic Castles and Velvet Davenport (with a little help from Ariel Pink and Gary War), a rave-up from Vampire Hands, a spaced out war-drum workout from the Daughters of the Sun, and a pair of face-melters courtesy of The Blind Shake and Skoal Kodiak amongst others.
MP3 $9.90
11/23/2010
"Food Pyramid’s debut "I" is an operation of sublime dilation. Over an ostinato beat, the Minneapolis trio introduces motifs that expand, refine and clarify in the course of a song. Each composition is a practice of subtle initiation: the swells are foreshadowed by stray airs that repeat, a rarified saxophone dances around the jam’s heart, impressionist synth lines lead the listener deeper into the Food Pyramid experience, an album that is as cerebral as it is intuitive. Here, there are earphone moments and party moments and highway moments in a way that never panders. Taken as a whole, "I" is an insistently joyful and cohesive introduction to a band that would like to introduce the listener to an array of alluring concepts." —Moon Glyph
MP3 $5.94
09/15/2010
The man behind Camden is Cole Weiland of Daughters of the Sun notoriety, but knowing who created "Life of Devotion" makes it no less mysterious. Described by its creator as a meditation on betrayal, it is an album of shrouds: synths veiled in noise and echo; vocals cloaked in reverb. It is a record that requires devotion in its listener - a pulsing, simmering, crackling piece of work that reveals itself only in layers and only to those who listen with intent. Art by Suzanne Pfutzenreuter
MP3 $4.95
01/27/2010
“For Moon Glyph's eighth release, the label offers up Dante & the Lobster's "Wonders". Appropriately titled, this selection seems to bounce along on a sense of wonderment. Aurally, any of these songs would not sound out of place on a Nuggets compilation, each featuring boyish harmonies and the jangling guitars so prominent in the mid-Sixties. There are moments on this record that might remind listeners almost simultaneously of the Troggs, Comus, the Yardbirds, the 13th Floor Elevators and the Chocolate Watch Band - an impressive feat of psychedelic pop amalgamation.” —Moon Glyph
MP3 $8.91
01/14/2010
“The peaceful side of the word 'primordial' is not often mentioned when discussing music, but it does exist and if it didn't exist before, it will with the release of Daughters of the Sun's Ancient of the Ancients. Texturally, the two swathes of music splitting this album evoke an antediluvian pre-dawn, when wildness and stillness were on in the same. The Daughters begin and end Ancient with passages constructed with flutes, chimes and ostensible field recordings that tend to teem and effervesce around the throbbing tribal eruptions at the heart of the cassette.” —Moon Glyph
MP3 $5.98
11/01/2009
"Songs of the Forest, the Castles' first release on the Moon Glyph imprint, is a study in delicate psychedelia. Throughout the album, the group harnesses sounds that harken to the mid-Sixties experimentalism. From beginning to end, it is a collection that houses surprises, such as the killer organ riff buried deep in "The Mole People" and the unexpected trombone in "Songs of the Forest" to name only a few. Recorded between the witching hour and three a.m. over the course of several months, this autumnal record is a revivalist showcase that straddles audacity and restraint with aplomb. Play it and float along.” —Moon Glyph
MP3 $5.94
10/23/2009
“Moon Glyph's sonic template will expand with the release of Velvet Davenport's "Lemon Drop Square Box". Kaleidoscopically so. The Minneapolis group cherry picks elements from an idyll when psychedelia was beginning to burgeon mid-1960s. In fourteen paisley minutes, "Lemon Drop Square Box" tells the story of someone opening a box of candy to find baby venus inside and then this fortunate soul must take care of the goddess. The tale is enhanced by the baroque soundings of a group who've clearly mastered a blend of record collector homage and a sense of forward-looking fun. The record is in turns jaunty and ruminative, experimental and comforting. The band employs a palatable production showcasing its jangling guitars and cartwheeling organs. Wherever he is, Syd Barrett is smiling.” —Moon Glyph
MP3 $5.94
09/30/2009