***In 1986, guitarist Marlene Marder published a German-language diary documenting her time in Kleenex/LiLiPUT, Zurich’s first all-female band. Thrilling Living is proud to offer a lavishly illustrated English-language edition, featuring over 200 images, including fanzines, interviews, flyers, and photographs, and updated with a new introduction and afterword by editor Grace Ambrose and translator Jen Calleja in addition to the original foreword by Greil Marcus. This is the most extensive document of this influential group, unparalleled in its depth and candor. Neither memoir nor scrapbook, but something defiantly in the middle, Kleenex/LiLiPUT is a compelling example of what it looks like to document one’s own life, and all the insights and messiness that entails. This project is an interpretation, a translation, a republication, an attempt to expand and enhance Marlene’s unruly original. First released by Nachbar der Welt Verlag, the publishing imprint that preceded Edition Patrick Frey, Thrilling Living is proud to make this important story accessible in English for the first time. Designed by Conor Lumsden and produced in a one-time edition of 2000 copies, this 288 page, 8.25” x 11.25” book is beautifully offset printed in Belgium by Die Keure
BK $42.50
10/27/2023
***The second LP from the holy trinity of TOBI VAIL (Bikini Kill, Frumpies), LAYLA GIBBON (Skinned Teen) and MARISSA MAGIC (Stillsuit, Mozart, Neon). Like Flipper playing Y-Pants songs! Or Vice-Versa! The new sound of the international girl gang underground.
LP $21.95
04/21/2023
***CHILD’S POSE build little worlds. We’re emerging from a long slumber and they’re inviting you in! This is New Wave for Now People, lush, warm vignettes of start-stop punk-pop, played by members of SAUNA YOUTH, WOOLF, SARCASM, and NEKRA. Sop’s fluid—almost taunting!—vocal delivery is at once dark and jubilant, punctuated by instrumentation that reinvents itself over and over, twisting and turning songs that reward repeat listens. Limited to 400 copies on black vinyl, accompanied by a Risograph printed insert and housed in a full color jacket.
7" $9.25
04/02/2021
***"Can hardcore punk still be wild and free? On their debut record, the Bay Area's NEON breaks through the doldrums of modern life and modern punk to answer emphatically, ecstatically: YES OH YES. Ten perfect punk songs with unhinged guitar parts and caustic vocals decrying the dreariness of a world in grey. Silkscreened and hand-glued OBIs and gorgeous risographed four-color insert make this something beautiful to hold onto in these ugly times. This is liberation punk in full color. Limited to 400. Ugly girl music / NEON is life. NEON feat. members of MOZART, PIG DNA, & other punk neo-classics, but they stand on their own as one of the best & most original bands of the past decade."
LP $17.75
12/13/2019
***"Real punk from America's cruelest town.Hatched in 2017 via an assemblage of FLESH WORLD, MALLARD and BLANK SQUARE personnel, WARP’s from-the-hip attack immediately streamlined The Bay’s skulls, prompting sudsy devotion across spiked and freaked schools alike, a vibrant punk band operating amidst all the scooter-share inhumanity. The damage spills from the central screaming dual-guitar tangle, a riff tract neighboring the elegantly bruised and dynamic Agnew / Baiza axis, exerting too much power for the troposphere. Rhythms twist and barrel depending on need, always leaping forward, propelling each taut composition into realms unthinkable from count-off. TIKA’s smarm-centric vocal steering—wonderfully absurdist and unreservedly pissed—offers exactly the sort of punky exfoliation so very needed in these days of constant cringe."—Mitch Cardwell. Thrilling Living quite gleefully presents Traffic Control to an ill-prepared populace. Limited to 400 copies on black vinyl, housed in full-color sleeves with a double-sided Risographed insert.
12" $16.35
11/22/2019
***London / Oxford-based SCRAP BRAIN are back with a long player that expands and improves on their dirgey and unconventional brand of hardcore punk. This time around the group embraces a wall of sound approach; this is a record that sounds both huge and claustrophobic at once. A dissonant take on Flipper with one of the best lyricists in contemporary music. Recorded and mixed by JONAH FALCO (Fucked Up. Career Suicide, Game). Limited to 500 copies on black vinyl, this is a split release with Drunken Sailor.
LP $16.35
05/24/2019
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Australia is a violent invention. BB AND THE BLIPS formed in 2017 in Sydney on the land of the Gadigal-Wangal people of the Eora Nation. Their debut LP Shame Job is a whipsmart retort to the insidious and complacent “she’ll be right” mentality fomented in the so-called Lucky Country. A ten song investigation into the uses and abuses of shame in various contexts, from nations and prisons to family and sex, these perfectly punk packages burst forth from the meeting point of first wave Sydney bands like Tactics or Thought Criminals and the caustic anarcho genius of early Crass. Featuring members of GOOD THROB, SEMI and HOUSEWIVES, this record is out in time to support the Blips on their upcoming North American tour. Accompanied by a two-color Risograph printed lyric booklet and limited to 600 copies on black vinyl.
LP $16.35
10/05/2018
***“The best band I saw this year! Kansas City, MO’s MENTIRA marry the unbridled experimentalism of early Japanese hardcore with the contemporary melodicism and rhythmic inventiveness of the current Spanish punk scene—the groovier spiritual sibling of Destino Final, no doubt!—and emerge with something entirely their own. Estilo loco! A band that blew me away from the first minute I saw them, this is their debut on vinyl, lucky number TSF-013. For fans of UNA BÈSTIA INCONTROLABLE, INSERVIBLES, and more. Features members of AMERICAN HATE, NIÉGALO TODO, NATURAL MAN, UNFORGIVEN 5, and more. Limited to 500 copies on black vinyl, with Risographed sleeves produced at Oddities Prints in KCMO."
7" $9.25
08/24/2018
***RIÑA's second EP shows substantial growth from their already excellent demo (pressed to wax by Cintas Pepe in 2017), perfectly balancing the raw crudity and bouncy catchiness of classic Mexican or Colombian hardcore punk acts, delivering hit after hit of infectious and original HC-punk, in a style that’s harder to come by than it should be. RIÑA's vocalist NADIA venomously spits out the lyrics with consistent intensity and genuine urgency over chainsaw guitar riffs. On this record, RIÑA somehow manage to top their already stand-out twist on classic Latin American HC-punk, reaching the level of classics like SS-20, Crimen, Impune and Soberania Personal. An essential modern band. Recorded just off the heels of their Summer 2017 west coast tour with Anti-Sex and Blank Spell at High Command Studios. Olympia, WA.
7" $9.25
05/04/2018
***Oakland-based noise / industrial / punk. Hardcore was an adjective before it was a noun. This is haunting, cacophonous, strange and beautiful music. Machines with heartbeats and minds of their own, live drums, a table full of noise, and three geniuses in complete control, laying joy and rage to tape. Oakland’s most important band is available for the first time on vinyl—400 copies in black-on-black silkscreened sleeves bound with thread and accompanied by a risographed lyric insert.
7" $9.25
02/09/2018
***Composed cacophony, desperate dirges, pieces of the punk puzzle churning and crashing together to form one insistent and determined whole. This is brute force music, the sound of the claustrophobia of London, the claustrophobia of being a human being trapped inside of your own brain. First time on vinyl—400 copies on black vinyl in risographed sleeves designed by LEIGH ARTHUR with a lyric insert illustrated by singer CAMILLE REARDEN.
7" $8.05
02/09/2018
**BACK IN STOCK!!! gSp is TOBI VAIL, MARISSA MAGIC and LAYLA GIBBON. Like Y-Pants playing Flipper songs, or vice-versa, gSp are a terrifying skate crew, the coolest girl gang, an invective against the horrors of talking heads and late capitalism, a brief respite from our modern condition of total boredom. Twin guitar attack and chanted gang vocals backed by one of the most important and iconic drummers in punk, period. Members of BIKINI KILL, SKINNED TEEN, MOZART, STILLSUIT, SPIDER AND THE WEBS, THE FRUMPIES, PETTY CRIME, SUNDAY DRIVERS, and far too many more to mention. 700 copies on black vinyl, recorded live to tape at High Command by Captain TRIPPS BALLSINGTON in beautiful Olympia, Washington.
LP $15.50
10/20/2017
***Debut EP from this frantic and tightly wound KCMO band, following a string of well-received demo tapes. What if Greg Ginn played guitar in Suburban Lawns? Fronted by the world’s greatest living artist, OLIVIA GIBB. 400 copies on black vinyl.
7" $8.05
08/18/2017