***The first official CD release from chaotic, distorto-rock noise freaks and sci-fi junkies the FUTURIANS. Twelve tracks rocked with primitive drum wallops, blurts of distorted synthesizers, blankets of white noise, otherworldly guitar, and immediate, megaphoned in vocals. Features CLAYTON NOONE (CJA, ARMPIT, STRANGE GIRLS, CLAYPIPE) on massive guitar.
CD $12.00
01/08/2001
***California kosmiche from producer and multi-instrumentalist Edmund Xavier (Horrid Red, Der Teenage Panzerkorps, etc.). San Gabriel is the seventh FWY! release, and by far the most sophisticated to date. San Gabriel features contributions from Clay Ruby (Burial Hex), Sandra Selig (Primitive Motion), and the mysterious William P., and collects the digital releases San Gabriel and Arcadia EP along with a new & exclusive track.
MC $7.75
01/08/2001
***The third album from STEVEN R. SMITH (THUJA, MIRZA, JEWELLED ANTLER COLLECTIVE) under his HALA STRANA banner. A further culmination of Smith's interest in Eastern European folk, These Villages features original instrumental compositions peppered with interpretations of traditional songs. Eleven tracks built upon layers of sustained drone and delicately plucked and bowed strings that create a seamless, almost raga-like environment with plenty of quiet-loud dynamics.
CD $12.00
01/08/2001
***The debut release from this Gainesville combo led by ex-WEREWOLVES singer/guitarist BILLY DOWNING. A juicy mix of pop sounds, performed with clever use of melody, minimalism, repetition and simplicity. Reference points include New Order, Felt, Smiths, Josef K, Wedding Present, and early R.E.M.
CD $6.00
01/08/2001
***A new album from Tallahassee-based multi-instrumentalist PATRICK McKINNEY (IRON & WINE) recorded under his LANGTRY moniker. Steeped in American traditional music, As Upon the Road Thereto is a song cycle with selections that range from the somber to the frantic, performed on guitar in a loose yet insanely technical style. For fans of the Takoma label, Jack Rose, Alan Bishop, and the like.
CD $12.00
01/08/2001
"Primitive Motion, a.k.a. caveman rumba a.k.a. neanderthal pulsewave... By Arc or Chord is crude music & virtuoso magic, lazy mood pieces with stratospheric trajectory. I'm grasping at scratchy Thick Pigeon singles & lost Here & Now sessions for some kind of reference point, but it's already all there in the band name. Male & female vocals careen haphazardly over cyclopean beats, drenched casio & emotive euphonium at the fertile intersection of post-punk, kraut-communal & art-school stoned. Debut cassette." - Glenn Donaldson
MC $7.75
01/08/2001
Brisbane's The Scrapes make howling mechanical dirges with fiddle (Adam Cadell) and guitar (Ryan Potter) & other F/X, with plenty of nods to Henry Flynt, Tony Conrad and The Dirty Three. With a few under-the-radar releases in Australia the duo present their first US release & definitive statement: The Songs of Baron Samedi. The ritualistic moans and eerie bellows they've honed over the years soar and creak and spit on this set of songs.
MC $7.75
01/08/2001
New York guitarist Carter Thornton has manipulated sound in mysterious underground corners for decades – his contributions to No Neck Blues Band satellites, doom/drone metal ensemble Gnaw (with Alan Dubin of Khanate), avant-pop group Pigeons, and the mostly-solo endeavor Zashiki-Warashi are sufficiently divergent for even the most atuned seeker. Releases under his given name are scant but very heavy; Ten Fingers for Forefathers remains one of the more adventurous solo guitar statements of the past decade. His latest work, several years in the making, is conceived as a series called Mapping the Ghost. Thornton returned to his given name for this highly personal, though not expressly confessional music, which unfolds via a series of hints constructed by Thornton alone, using traditional instrumentation, found sounds, field recordings, F/X and more. Volume One tramples through a host of environments, from (fairly) straightforward string pieces to uncompromising collage fever dreams and various points in-between. Volume Two will be released early in 2016.
MC $7.75
01/08/2001
La Catacomb, purloined from a great abyss of uncertainty, is finally among us. The fourth album proper from Steven R. Smith’s blisteringly psychedelic “power trio” guise, La Catacomb languished for a few years awaiting release from this label & that before landing at Soft Abuse HQ. La Catacomb is the perfect follow-up to Ulaan Khol’s Ceremony trilogy, offering more smoulder than flame, more rumination than provocation. Smith's meticulously-crafted heavy drones & dirges have rarely sounded this harmonic. Once again, he's pushed further out. Edition of 200, with gratis download.
MC $7.75
01/08/2001