Three new releases out on Dead Tank
The Elsinores "New Forms" LP
Bleed The Pigs / Thetan split LP
Virgin Flower "Absence of Essence" Tape
All three are up now at http://deadtankrecords.com where you can listen and order.
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***** The Elsinores "New Forms" LP - $12 - listen / order here
"Kentucky's Elsinores' debut album Dreams Of Youth was a dark, tense, explosive body of songcraft, showcasing a fully formed creative sensibility, that might be difficult to top - and yet one mere year later they've fulfilled all that early promise by neatly sidestepping the curse of the Difficult. Second. Album. with "New Forms." How did they do it? From the sound of things, listened to a lot of postpunk, drank a lot of coffee and did a lot of midnight wandering down deserted streets in grey raincoats. Cigarettes optional. Elsinores circa "New Forms" are bleak and cinematic in scope.
The lineup has solidified around the Oasis-brothers-but-not-shitty (Or the for real Ramones? Dunno, but their interplay on and off stage can be comedy gold) tandem of Joey and Jon Elsinore handling vocals, guitar, and bass and the permanent addition of West Virginian wildman J. Marinelli on drums and vocals. So you've got an unhinged new spin on the "power trio" lineup with everyone bashing away gleefully and physically at the same time AND three vocalists.
Like all old goths, I'm hearing everything from early Cure circa "17 Seconds," to Merchandise, to Echo and the Bunnymen (esp "The Cutter"), to Misfits, to Chameleons and Husker Du. And despite that disparate set of influences, and probably even more I couldn't detect lurking in the respective Elsinore and Marinelli vaults, this is a incredibly cohesive album-as-album. Brittle guitar lines, liquid silver basslines, the Danzig croon of Joey Elsinore, frenetic cavestomp drums, doo-wop-goes-punk style backing vocals, and then weird, dubby experimental breaks,and a wide-eyed appreciation of silence and space in the songs.
Everything fits neatly and fully. "New Forms" is nervy as fuck and accidentally anthemic in all the best ways. You're not really trying to rally anyone, because you kind of hate everyone, but it happens anyway when the tunes are THIS good." M. Moyer
***** Bleed The Pigs / Thetan split LP - $12 - listen / order here.
Exquisite packaging, Hand-screened reused, reversed and re-glued LP covers from Nevin/IFB. These house an LP with an etching at the center of both sides. Additionally, each comes with a screened poster, and a patch of the rat ouroboros that is the etching..
"Bleed The Pigs and Thetan, two of Nashville's finest grindcore ensembles, are inheritors of a rich grind legacy that includes forefather firebrands like Extreme Noise Terror, Repulsion, and early Napalm Death down through Cloud Rat and Iron Lung, and their vicious strengths are on full aural display for this split release. Fifteen politically astute and furious tracks race by in around twenty minutes? Sorry, they just don't have the luxury to fuck around.
Bleed The Pigs' side of the disc is full-on sprinting, grimy extremity. Vicious, blown-out instrumentation and manic, throat-shredding vocals from Kayla Phillips alternate between racing to the cliff to jump and vicious thrashy breakdowns. More so than Thetan, Bleed The Pigs introduce elements of noise and structural meltdown while still reveling in filthy grooves. Time to mosh yet? Sorry, it's over.
Bass/drums duo Thetan whip up an unholy racket that is this weird mix of precise and rashly ill-tempered. No song is over two minutes yet somehow they find the time to fit in these micro jams that are incredible. Vocals are delivered in an urgent, shredded scream. Two collaborative tracks are beyond visceral and seal the deal that this is state of the art powerviolence. These days, if you pay even the slightest attention to the world, anger is less a gift than a fucking obligation." M. Moyer
****** Virgin Flower "Absence of Essence" Tape $6 - listen / order here.
The repress of Virgin Flower's "Absence of Essence" are in! Dark drudging beats mix with a blend of minimal synths and blown out industrial cacophony. All amid humid distorted vocals. Jacksonville's own.
We still have a few copies left of the limited red vinyl for the Seniors Fellows "Shallow Grave." LP. Get it here for $12. Political sludge that builds on the thoughtful menace of Thou, the brutality of Primitive Man, and secures a backbone inspired by the sheer power of Neurosis.
Also close to the end is our copies of The Siege Fire "Dead Refuge" LP - again just $12 here. "...nails the crust/hardcore hybrid such as His Hero is Gone and Tragedy - and stands toe-to-toe with the best recordings of these bands. A ridiculously impressive debut" -ToxicBreed Funhouse
*** Recent Distro Additions
** Century Palm "Valley Cyan" 7" - Two song single with Valley Cyan b/w Accept It's perhaps cliche to speak of a new band bursting upon the scene, but in the case of Toronto's Century Palm, such a claim is entirely valid. This collaborative project between five veterans of the Canadian underground has amassed no small degree of interest from the informed and attentive. Century Palm is a new group with ambitions far beyond their rawer formative endeavors, and the extent of that shared vision is now becoming clear. Not content to simply combine influences, Century Palm slither effortlessly across genre boundaries, drawing upon myriad times and places. Simple Minds, The Units, Neu!, Wire, Television, and Brian Eno's pop records. Century Palm frequently employ minimal but propulsive rhythms in service of intoxicating melodies.
** Mourning Coup "Baby Blue" LP - Mourning Coup is a music project spearheaded by Chandra Melting Tallow of mixed ancestry from the Siksika Nation. With foundations in performance art, her music project “Mourning Coup” has made its way into the arms of experimental pop. Melting-Tallow takes influences from artists like the Eurythmics, Bruce Haack and Freddie Mercury, and combines them with the exploration of the relationship of the metaphysical realm. For the last five years she has been working on her debut album “Baby Blue,” an emotionally-charged piece developed through the processing of the effects of inter-generational trauma in a world of fantasy and ethereality.
** Pleasure Leftists "The Woods of Heaven" LP - The bands debut with a self-titled EP that recalls everything from Joy Division to Comsat Angels to Chameleons. Unlike many who rip off these influences, Pleasure Leftists take only a few cues from the past, all to better construct its understanding of the present. The Woods of Heaven is the band's first proper LP after a string of EPs and singles. An impressive vocalist, Haley Morris is, not only in her range but in her audible confidence - which propels every track like an engine motor. The Woods of Heaven is a jaw-dropping debut full-length. Most artists dream of writing an LP where every song sounds important, urgent, and necessary. Pleasure Leftists have done just that.
** Wvrm "s/t" 7" - A new one from this South Caroline outfit! WVRM is blasting grinding hatred for a thick one-sided 7" on everyone's favorite Southern Druid Records. 'Wasp Lord' is the blazing fast one here, with lots of changes. The over 4 minute long "Slug Lord" rightly stakes some territory in the fertile fields of southern doom.
Algernon Cadwallader "Parrot Flies" LP
Bikini Kill "Revolution Girl Style Now" LP
Bikini Kill "s/t" LP
Bjork "Selmasongs" LP
Blackbird Raum "Under The Starling Host" LP
Carcass "Reek of Putrefication" LP
Cash, Johnny "American III: Solitary Man" LP
Christie Front Drive "s/t" LP
Culo "Life is Vile, and So Are We" LP
Culo "My Life Sucks, and I Could Care Less" LP
Cure, The "Rare 70's Recordings" LP
Dead Kennedys "Bedtime For Democracy" LP
Dead Kennedys "Frankenchrist" LP
Defiance Ohio "Share What Ya Got" LP
Des Ark "Live WXDU Vol. 3" LP
Eraserhead - Original Soundtrack - LP
Fugazi "Steady Diet of Nothing" LP
Godflesh "The Peel Sessions" LP
Jawbox "s/t" LP
Joy Division "The Complete BBC Recordings" LP
Mastodon "Call of The Mastodon" LP
Minor Threat "Out of Step" LP
Neighborhood Brats "Recovery" LP
New Flesh, The "The Absurd" LP
Other Jesus "Everything is Problematic" LP
Radiohead "Oxford Angels. Are Friends Electric?; A Collection of Acoustic Performances" LP
Rites of Spring "6 Song Demo" 10"
Rites of Spring "End on End" LP
Samhain "Initium" LP
Sloane Peterson "Why Go Out?" LP
Sonic Youth "Kill Yr Idols" LP
Stoic Violence "Chained" LP
Television "Sketches; The Demos 1974-75" LP
Toxic Holocaust "Evil Never Dies" LP
Toxic Holocaust "Hell on Earth" LP
Underpass "Assimilation" LP
Vicious Pleasures "s/t" 7"
White Stripes, The "The 2001 John Peel Show" LP