Dartmouth, Nova Scotia's Garrett Mombourquette aka Aux. Out is for sure one of our favorite discoveries this year. After releasing his remarkable first offering, the gentle and fragile Read Quickly, via bandcamp in March (read about it here), Matthew Sage from Fort Collins, Colorado cassette label Patient Sounds must have taken notice of the 17 year-old's significant talents. Only two months later, PS is now about to release Other Months, Mombourquette's lovely second piece that once again proves why we all should keep an eye on this dude from the remote shores of the Canadian east coast.
Other Months is up for pre-order now over here and ready for download here.
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Originally Chicago-based neo-folk outfit Pillars and Tongues are about to drop The Pass and Crossings, their third full-length album in total and the second that's being released via fabulous San Francisco boutique label Empty Cellar Records. As with the trio's efforts before, the new piece is a heavy thing to digest, but one that will unfold its grandeur little by little if you're willing to stick to it all the way. Employing mainly violin, double bass, drums, bells and occasionally organs, and relying on the marvelous baritone of Mark Trecka, Pillars and Tongues' music always has one foot in the avant-garde, while never completely abandoning pop, which in this case is gloomy, dark, and dreamy, almost cinematic, evoking pictures of lost and doomed landscapes. The Pass and Crossing is close to nothing contemporary, a truly outstanding piece of sonic art.
The Pass and Crossings is out June 28. Pre-order here.
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So here's the thing, those incredibly nice guys you see in the picture above, Andy Todryk and Charlie Collier from MJMJ (Two Michael Jordans) Records, recently moved from their home in Eau Claire, Wisconsin to LA to finally be closer to their FMLY, but on their way to the promised land some unchill bro broke into their van and stole just about everything, clothes, computers, music gear. But instead of simply lying down crying and lamenting, the two have decided to put up a Kickstarter project so friendly folks can jointly fund the rescue/resurrection of their wonderful little label and help them put Vacation Dad's (Andy's project) 12 inch on vinyl. By pledging, you can get your hands on the more than amazing Save MJ MJ Records double cassette compilation which is featuring 31 songs, all by really amazing artists and no less than 25 of them new or exclusive (you can already stream the whole thing here and here).
Also, to make things even more exciting, Andy was kind enough to send over this exclusive Vacation Dad jam named I'll Always Find You, an utterly beautiful and very personal tune that in fact is my favorite VD song to date. So enjoy this little masterpiece, and don't forget to help MJ MJ Records.
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Halifax, Nova Scotia pal Ryan Hemsworth has finally dropped his proper debut effort today so whatever you're doing right at this moment, drop it cause this dude is about to drop some seriously amazing beats for y'all. No Plans comprises twelve heavy bangers that delicately pick up influences from everything between early naughties R&B production to new wave and video game soundtracks, melting everything into cutting edge electronica.
The album is a co-release between LAND[^] and The Villa, and for your delight it's up for pay-what-you-want over here so don't wait no longer and cop this beauty now.
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Mavis The Dog is some dude from Philly named Scott Olsen who's making some totally weird but also totally awesome lo-fi jams. He hasn't told me anything and there really ain't that much to it so what else should I say except that I'm absolutely stoked right now on the lazy, sundrenched suburban early afternoon melancholia that's dripping out of every note on Olsen's "second album" which is up for free right here.
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Anton Filatov aka Wind in Willows, hailing from Russia's Republic of Karelia, is one of the most interesting yet least exposed contemporary psychedelic ambient artists. Studying physics and astronomy while living on the outskirts of Petrozavodsk "basically right in the forest", this young man appears to amalgamate all features essential to come up with deeply enchanting, ethereal pieces of drone that are at the same time mathematically exact and crafted with an immense intent on even the least obvious details in his music.
His debut cassette Elephant Dreams which was released by Karelian imprint Full of Nothing is long sold out but can be downloaded for free over here. This July, Filatov will have a split release with Saint Petersburg artist Bedroom Bear (who we had introduced in early April) on our beloved LaGrange, Georgia cassette label Hooker Vision.
Wind in Willows - Aurora Hover (Excerpt) (from his forthcoming Hooker Vision split with Bedroom Bear)
Wind in Willows - Sea of Tranquility (Excerpt) (from Elephant Dreams)
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Burbank, California imprint Deathbomb Arc is about to drop the latest effort by Jheri Evans' gothic drone playground project Pariah Carey. The C20 tape Haokah comprises two wide-spreading excursions into deeply troubling and shattering surges of harsh noise made up of heavily layered synth pads, only sparsely easing tension with interspersed fragments of simple and reduced hints of casiotone melodies. Listen to b-side Garden Dog below, a terrific ten-minute nightmare that would be the apt battlefield score for some interstellar alien strife in the nearer future.
The cassette is up for pre-oder now over here.
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Originally Chicago-based neo-folk outfit Pillars and Tongues are about to drop The Pass and Crossings, their third full-length album in total and the second that's being released via fabulous San Francisco boutique label Empty Cellar Records. As with the trio's efforts before, the new piece is a heavy thing to digest, but one that will unfold its grandeur little by little if you're willing to stick to it all the way. Employing mainly violin, double bass, drums, bells and occasionally organs, and relying on the marvelous baritone of Mark Trecka, Pillars and Tongues' music always has one foot in the avant-garde, while never completely abandoning pop, which in this case is gloomy, dark, and dreamy, almost cinematic, evoking pictures of lost and doomed landscapes. The Pass and Crossing is close to nothing contemporary, a truly outstanding piece of sonic art.
The Pass and Crossings is out June 28. Pre-order here.
Pillars and Tongues - The Making Graceful
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