Hungry Eye Releases
EYE16 THE SKABS- Content
Years after this recording saw its original release as a hard-to-come by split 12" by a Philadelphia based label, it is finally made available again as a digital release for today's audiences with the audio cleaned up and numerous bonus tracks not found on the original record. Considered by many of the band's fans to include some of their finest recorded moments, Content showcases the Skabs at the time they packed in the crowds at New York clubs like ABC No Rio, Coney Island High, or CBGB's, and a number of Lower East Side squats. A punk anomaly in New York's mid 90's punk scene, the Skabs dared to stray from the glue-n-spikes vision shared by the majority of the punk scene at the time, added a synthesizer that became more prominent as the band progressed, and adopted heavily post-punk inflected songs, as influences like the Poison Girls, Metal Urbain, and polish punk like Post Regiment and Dezerter came to the fore. Truly a multi-cultural band, the mix of which defined the boroughs of New York City, the band sang songs in a English, Polish, Greek, and Spanish. Hungry Eye is proud to make this record available again for the people who unfortunately missed out on this truly unique and original band, whose uncompromising and unrelenting attitude helped influence us to start Hungry Eye. DIGITAL ONLY RELEASE
EYE15 MT. SIMS - A Grave 12" EP
We are very proud to welcome the band/ art collective Mt Sims to the Hungry Eye stable, fronted by Matt Sims. Already quite a name in his own right, Matt Sims has two albums under his belt on DJ Hell's International DJ Gigolo label as Mount Sims, the first of which, "UltraSex", saw an American release via Emperor Norton, and was supported through a North American tour with Ladytron. He's also known for his collaborations with the Hacker, David J of Bauhaus and CROSSOVER. The past year and a half has seen Matt relocate from LA to Berlin and and establish a new chapter in the Mount Sims legacy, rebuilding the band with Berlin musicians Randy Twigg and Andre Lange and working with producer Thomas Stern of the legendary Crime and the City Solution. "A Grave" 12" EP is the first offering of these new tracks and will be available as a limited 12" EP on clear vinyl with stunning artwork by Peter Wu (one time pressing of 1,000 worldwide) and pushes the band even farther into the creepier and more aggressive territory he's veered into, with a concoction of electronic music and stark post-punk he's become respected for. Included is "Grave," a single off the upcoming album "Happily Ever After," and 3 exclusive tracks.
$8.50 ppd in the USA
UPDATE: There's 5 test press/ pre-order versions still available. Snag them up!
$9.50 ppd in the US
EYE14 BLACK ICE - Myopia CD
After spreading their unique brand of darkness to many corners of the globe with their critically lauded debut "Terrible Birds," the Oakland troublemakers return with "Myopia". Upping the ante with a deeper, more full sound, the Ice continue to fuse heavy experimental soundscapes with cathartic postpunk cadences creating an addictively hypnotic sound. While their last album was quickly praised by many as one of the best and most anticipated albums of the year, Myopia is undoubtedly more icily intense and hypnotically sinister.
EYE14 CD $12
EYE13 SIXTEENS - Into the Goldwave of Future Non Rip-off CD
Since their last record for Hungry Eye, the Fendi EP, Sixteens spent two years globe trotting with residencies in Barcelona, Berlin, and Oakland. As of two American tours (one opening for Blixa Bargeld and Savage Republic), and two more European tours across the continent, they've slimmed down to a two-piece and locked thesmelves in the studio to finish this long awaited follow up. With wailing synthesizers, throbbing disco beats, and dramatic vocals, they've managed to throw some color into the bleak cold-wave sound, like a riotous mixture of the Mute, Trax, and ZICKZACK Records catalogs.
EYE13 CD $12
EYE12 THE HOLY KISS S/T CD
Eerie Tenderloin-blues with a drunken swagger, lazy rhythms and drawling vocals. The Holy Kiss would not have become the bug in the ear they've managed to develop into if they were just served up a predictable mix of neo-blue garage rock; they are a far cry from the current set of indie rockers appealing to the Lomax recordings for credibility. They have their own sound of unease - eruptions of melancholic fury and noir-ish slide guitar ferocity; t's an intoxication of absinthe rather than whiskey. They evoke an uncanny and confused imagery, like a soundtrack to a David Lynch movie, and make for appropriate companions to bands like the Bellmer Dolls and Lion Fever. This release captures their rare, out of print, and hard-to-find early recordings, most available on CD for the first time.
EYE12 CD $12
EYE11- THE BELLMER DOLLS - The Big Cats Will Throw Themselves Over CD EP/ 12"
They take their name from the dolls of Hans Bellmer, the German artist whose highly charged work characterized Europe's
interwar period and foreshadowed the impending cataclysm of World War II. There is definitely something of the reckless abandon
of the cabaret in New York City's Bellmer Dolls, as well as the cruel probing of the surrealist, making the Weimar-era artist an
appropriate point of reference for them. The juxtaposition of the dark and the sensual in their own work is expressed through pounding
beat cut by bursts of feedback that sears like an exposed nerve. These Dolls boast a highly impressive CV of ex- Love Life (whose other
alumni formed the celebrated Celebration), Universal Order of Armageddon, and Vanity Set members and Jim Sclavunous (known for his work in
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, the Cramps, Sonic Youth, and 8 Eyed Spy) is at the helm as producer, so it is not terribly surprising how cruelly
effective they are.
EYE11 CD $8
EYE11 12 INCH $8
EYE09 Saros - Five Pointed Tongue CD
The story of Saros begins with two Bay Area natives meeting up with two east coast transplants.
Armed with mutual backgrounds in punk, affinities to metal, and an interest in pushing boundaries,
they took off with a running start. On the strength of an unreleased demo and the repuation of their
live shows alone, they quickly gained a word of mouth following that drew interest from Slayer and
High on Fire members. With a point of departure that builds on a rich tradition of Bay Area thrash,
they inject atmospheric instrumentation and a punishing rhythm section that drive a hynoptic beat home
with a precision that rivals their obvious krautrock and prog influences.
EYE09 CD $12
THE WEEGS - The Million Sounds of Black
On The Million Sounds of Black, the Weegs return to Hungry Eye with
a second full length of tripped out distorto-skronk. They take their
craggly claw, latch onto early American punk/ post-punk and
California “no wave”, and drag them kicking and screaming into the
21st century. Now even more entrenched in a crypto- sarcastic
anonymity, their disjointedly pulsing rhythm throbs along with
hypnotic bursts of feedback and noise that would do Arto Lindsay
proud. This art-damaged racket is still uncannily musical, like some
freak-beat psych band gone horribly wrong. LP version is limited to
600 copies and comes with a CD that features a 40 minute bonus track
EYE10 CD $12
EYE10 LP $12
PHANTOM LIMBS - Random Hymns
The Phantom Limbs successfully mined the early San Francisco “no wave” scene, the seminal deathrock scene, and turn of the decade punk to conjure up their own unsettling racket. Having already secured their place in Bay Area music lore through their frenetic live shows and deranged antics, the Phantom Limbs have gained converts throughout the world with their previous two full lengths and their numerous tours. This EP, their last before an undetermined hiatus might very well be the curtain call in their histrionic death-cabaret.
EYE08 12" $8
BLACK ICE - Terrible Birds
What started as an experimental side project to Bay Area stalwarts Phantom Limbs to compose haunting instrumental sound-scapes soon evolved to a full band of its own. Numerous compilation appearances (including Cochon Records’ “Nostalgia Del Buio” compiled by Vanishing’s Jesse Eva and Billy Bates as well as Manuel Cochon, and GSL Records’ “Golden Grouper”) and an EP on Atakra Records landed their
unnerving din instant acclaim in multiple continents. The throbbing rhythms and jagged melodies of this debut album are both atmospheric and edgy enough, and pensive and razorsharp enough to appeal to enthusiastcs of indie, post-punk, and deathrock fans alike.
EYE07 CD $12
THE WEEGS - Meat The Weegs
Surrounded by the aura of a carnival freak show from hell, electronic timbres and rock and roll riffs join forces to produce The Weegs' eerie sound. Earnest burst of screams driven by relentless rhythms put on the finishing touches to this creepy and rousing record.
EYE06 CD $12
MISSING FOUNDATION - 1933 CD
Originally released in 1988, and heralding the troubling formulation "1988=1933", MF's monumental 1933 stands as one of New York City's most controversial and infamous records. An agit-prop collective of Lower East Side musicians, artists, and political agitators unleash a violent barrage of noise worthy of standing alongside the most canonical industrial acts.
Not Yet Released.
SIXTEENS - Fendi CD/12"
Sixteens perform a serious dance floor exorcism. Treading the darker terrain of new wave, they blare out an art-damaged electro replete with minimalist beats and eerie analog synthesizers.
EYE04 CD $8
LAST COPIES OF THE CD!
EYE04 12 INCH $8
THE VANISHING / PHANTOM LIMBS Split 7"
Two bands at the forefront of San Francisco's deathrock carnival split a single on the eve of both band's globe trotting tours conjuring the specter of dance floor excess. The Vanishing, who've got a full length on GSL churn out a dark brand of pulsing, synth driven madness. The Phantom Limbs, whose second LP for Alternative Tentacles was just released, serve us their own foreboding tune.
LAST COPIES!
EYE03 7" $3.50
THE WITNESSES - We're Taking Over 12"
New York City's newest Rock n Roll exports, the Witnesses continue their whirlwind conquest of the Naked City with this latest release. Combining equal doses of soul and swagger, they offer up four songs of vigorous bluesy rock'n'roll devoid of any garage rock pretension. Pressed for their debut appearance in the UK for their tour supporting Har Mar Superstar, this limited 12" EP provides a great introduction for those of you who've yet to hear them.
EYE 02 LP $8.00
URBAN WASTE - CD EP
A re-issue of the sole EP by one of the most sought after and enigmatic bands from the earliest days of New York hardcore. Despite the obscurity of the original release, Urban Waste was made famous through their signature style of blown-out, over the top hardcore punk replete with trademark menacing buzzsaw guitars and piercing vocals.
EYE01 CD EP temporarily SOLD OUT!
THE SKABS - Aged to Perfection CD
Vaudevillian deathrock with a carnivalesque new wave sound from this veteran NY band. Says Punk Planet: they "should play with the Faint, but they'd probably scare the audience."
EYE00 CD $12.00
News
New in stock!Mattress 7" on Malt Duck. Lineas Albies full lengths. Dead Beat Records releases by the Daily Void, Throbbin Urges, and the Terminals. New CD by Entertainment. Crime Desire CD. Burmese/ Cadaver Eyes split CD & Beaufort soundtrack CD on Israel's HCB Records.
SOLD OUT: Swann Danger 10", Milemarker LP, Daily Void LP (vinyl version).
LAST COPIES (act quickly): Trumpett Days comp LP, the Holy Kiss- Back to Colma 7", Vanishing Kids CD, Sixteens/ Lineas Albies split 10".
COMING SOON: more CDs from Release the Bats (Sweden) and Manic Depression (France).
Special Offers !
Here are some new offers for the month of June & July 2008!
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5 CDs for $50!: Help us clear some space on our shelves and raise some scratch for the next batch of releases. Get any 5 CDs for $50 postage paid in the US (a bit more overseas). Mix and match between Hungry Eye and non-HE titles.
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the Holy Kiss special: get the s/t CD on Hungry Eye and the "Shot Love on a Back Line" CD on Release the Bats together. Why buy them separately?
$22 / $25 outside North America
Other Releases: CDs
Burmese/ Cavader Eyes split CD
(HCB Records; Israeli import) Like demented twins in crime, San Francisco's noise purveyors Burmese (tUMULt/ Load Records) & Israel's Cadaver Eyes rephrase Doom and Power Electronics by using an agonizing mechanism of plain brutal aesthetics, ascending these genres to a higher level of cognitive surge. This split CD is difficult and pungent, a warm spew in the face and an endless buzz in the eardrum that fiercely occupies the brain and treats the grey cells as if they were an ashtray. A crude awakening and a classic case of ponderous self indulgence. "A convoluted blow out of maniacally howling vocals, sputtering percussive crunch, LOTS of feedback, and thick walls of rumbling crumbling distortion." (Aquarius Records)
Burmese on myspace
Cavader Eyes
$12 post. paid US/ CAN
Crime Desire- self titled CD
We're happy to feature the latest offering by San Diego's latest exports Crime Desire. They've been described as follows: "Take the slow songs off classic 80’s hardcore records, mix with the doom and gloom of early batcave/goth, throw in heavy doses of Samhain, and even a hint of Cleveland's Integrity, then watch too many cult exploitation movies and top the whole mess off with bleak misanthropic lyrical themes and you might come up with something that sounds a bit like Crime Desire’s latest outing." We think they come off as a modern US version of Rudimentary Peni: dark, noisy, and every bit as demented.
Crime Desire on myspace
$12 post. paid US/ CAN
Daily Void- Identification Code 5271-4984853784-06564 CD
Chicago's post-punk outfit featuring ex-members of the Functional Blackouts offer us their their latest venture with fervid, marching and snarling songs that plow over the cushy corners of 'art rock' with a welcoming, plundering, doom. The band's rabidly pummeling and simple death-punk barrage is smeared with rusty hooks that are quick to infect and are deluted by demonic incantations that connect so perfectly with their apocalyptic imagery. It's just a matter of time before high school kids are scribbling their lyrics all over the backs of their abnormal psych books in study hall, and carving their name in their arms. We'll be hearing more from these folks soon, as they have a number of upcoming releases, including a 7" on NY's great Sacred Bones label. (Also available on wax for you vinyl-inclined peoples. See section below.)
Daily Void on myspace
$12 post. paid US/ CAN
Deadbeats - 999 Ways to Die CDEP
Lauren and Michael return with their latest offering, which in my opinion stands so far as their best effort. Aggro minimal electro that has more in common with the cold wave bands than it does with EBM. 999 Ways to Die continues on the path carved out by Another Rose and Loss of Control but is heavier and creepier than both. Recommended!
Deadbeats on myspace
US/Can $9
Deadbeats - Another Rose CDEP
Stark minimal electro from this South Carolina by way of Portland band. Said Mick Mercer: "In fact, and I don't wish to alarm anyone, but Lauren Stork and Michael Browder can be so sweet while being so murderous, it's like a mating between early Xmal and Lucrate Milk, overseen by Kas Product (circa 'Loony Bin'). Yep, it has that flair, that drowsy nightmarish mood and the crosscutting of sour vocals across unerringly polite synth lines." On Blood of the Drash Records, who we'd recommend keeping your eye on.
Deadbeats on myspace
US/Can $8
SOLD OUT!
Deadbeats- Loss of Control CD
The Deadbeats return with a self released CD done up DIY style on their own Recluse Records. Folks who found themselves digging Vanishing, early Sixteens, Swann Danger, and the like take note!
Deadbeats on myspace
US/ Can $8
SOLD OUT!
Entertainment- Gender CD
We've sold their past releases, so it's with pleasure that we're able to offer up the long awaited debut of Athens, Georgia's Entertainment. A great effort by these friends of ours; stark, haunting, and hypnotic songs. By way of description, we'll offer an excerpt from post-punk.com's review of the album: "'Gender' is a concise eight-track affair, a slim, yet powerful treat that delivers the goods and exits with all fury intact. Each track is ruthless, crisp, and hard-hitting, exploring and updating the manic darkness of The Birthday Party and the catchiness of Bauhaus while adding a dash of minimal synth, German cabaret, and tarted-up glam rock for good measure."
Entertainment on myspace
$12 post. paid US/ CAN
Gina V. D'Orio- Sailor Songs CD
(Dual Plover Records- Australian Import)
Gina D'Orio is one half of the magnificent Berlin act Cobra Killer presents us with a solo album of songs dedicated to the water and to oceans. 13 tracks recorded between 1998 and 2002 and performed with an impressive host of guest musicians.
Gina V. D'Orio (solo) on myspace
Cobra Killer on myspace
$10 US/ Canada
Flowers in the Dustbin- It's OK to be Ugly CD
(Catastrophe Ballet Records)
Formed in London in 1983, FLOWERS IN THE DUSTBIN were a unique punk band who bridged the gap between the sub-genres of "anarcho" punk and the proto-goth "positive punk" scene, playing gigs with bands like The Mob, Conflict, Flux of Pink Indians, Blood & Roses, Fuzzbox, and Omega Tribe. This twenty-track anthology collects all the band's previous vinyl-only EPs and singles (along with some unreleased action) a originally released on Mortarhate and All The Madmen.
$12
FRUSTRATION CD EP
(Manic Depression- French import)
Originally formed in September 2002 by members of parisian post-punk bands like Anteenagers mc, Operation S, No Talents, Zurueck Placenta, and others, Frustration have decided to explore the dark, cold, sad but tense side of rock'n'roll and come from a scene VERY well versed in the traditions of darker side of new wave. Influenced by postpunk & coldwave bands such as Crisis, Warsaw/Joy Division, Killing Joke, The Fall, etc. They quickly gained notoriety in their hometown and have openeed for the likes of 999, Ausgang, Volt, Adult., Charles de Goal, and Section 25. This is the CD pressing of their hard to find first EP on great french label Manic Depression.
Listen Here
$10 US/ Canada: SOLD OUT!
FRUSTRATION - Full of Sorrow CD EP
(Born Bad Records- French import) The new record with 5 songs (and a bonus track on the CD version) by the Parisian band Frustration on Born Bad Records, a new label related to the famous record shop in Paris. This is their first release since turning a lot of heads with their 7" on SS Records out of Sacramento, and is quickly becoming a favorite in circles who know around the world.
Listen Here
$10 USA/Canada
Funeral Crashers- La Fin Absolue du Monde
Our good friends from back home give us their debut album, and quite a treat it is. "La Fin Absolue du Monde is thirteen tracks of dark rock for these uncertain, paranoid times. With influences ranging from punk to goth to new wave to shoegaze, La Fin...is a journey to the proverbial heart of modern darkness. Enjoy the ride."
US/ Can $12. (3 copies left!)
GARTEN KIRKHOF- Le Dormeur CD
A great retrospective by late 80's Cleveland post-punk band Garten Kirkhof on the ever-great Catastrophe Ballet Records. This CD compiles material from 198 through 1994 when the band split. They've unearthed some good stuff, those CB folks. Convince yourself
here.
US/ Can $12.
THE HOLY KISS - Shot Love on a Back Line CD
The long awaited debut of San Francisco's the Holy Kiss. It's not on Hungry Eye (was put out by our good friends at Release the Bats in Sweden), but it's so good, it makes us wish it was! So, we made sure to get our hands on a lot of copies and are distributing it as well, especially for those that would have a hard time obtaining it in the United States. Dramatically staggering post-punk blues with haunting melodies and a ferocious swagger. Beautiful artwork done by Adam Beck of Death of a Party/ Red Voice Choir fame.
$13 US
Nora Keyes- Songs to Cry By For the Golden Age of Nothing CD
Dual Plover Records/ Australian Import)
Nora Keyes, a former member of LA's legendary Centimeters (another Centimeters spin-off band of note would be New Collapse), presents us with her first solo album, ‘Songs to Cry by for the Golden Age of Nothing.’ It sounds more like an old 78 pried from the arms of a long deceased witch, found in a buried tea chest, in a forgotten woodland that the locals still dare not venture into, than the efforts of a nice Los Angeles born girl, joined here by her talented friends Rebecca Lynn (violin). Ray Day (guitar), Creekbird (brass / drums) and Dame Darcy (auto harp / saw). Former Germ Don Bolles also lends a hand on the production end of things.
Nora Keyes on myspace
$10 US/ Canada
Lineas Albies- Control CD
We've got our hands on a few records of our friends from Madrid, Spain who should now be known to you as the band who's latest release was a great split 10" with our very own Sixteens. As with that record, we've mentioned that they were a perfect pair-up for the Sixteens with their disjointed weird-wave. Here we have their debut full length on Spain's Ciclo Records.
Lineas Albies on myspace
US/ Can $12.
Lineas Albies- Taxidermista CD
The latest full length by our compatriots from Spain on import from Subterfuge Records.
Lineas Albies on myspace
US/ Can $12.
LOTO BALL SHOW- demo CD EP
Loto Ball, the former front-person of old favorites the Phantom Limbs, moves to Chicago and starts a surreal marching band with a bunch of hobos and circus performers. Well, not quite-- the musicians are more accomplished than this description might have you believe, but that's certainly a good description of their sound. This is their self-released demo EP which we spoke highly of last year, and you should pick it up soon as they have an album on the way in 2008 on LA's Gifted Children Records.
Loto Ball Show on myspace
$6 US/ Canada (4 copies left!)
Monozid- Erstens CD EP
Dark, moody rock from our boys in Leipzig influenced by all the right people. These are the fine folks that bring you the great German Fanzine Transmission and keep you dancing in the clubs of Leipzig. A self-released debut CD EP with a very nice offset printed cover.
Monozid on myspace
$7 US/ Canada
Monozid- Waiting for the Circus CD EP
Monozid returns with their second self released CD EP. You can take a look at what I thought about it by directing your attention over here. Good stuff, my friends.
$7 US/ Canada
Naked on the Vague- the Blood Pressure Sessions CD
(Dual Plover Records/ Australian import)
"Following from their self-titled single, Naked On The Vague’s debut album, ‘The Blood Pressure Sessions’, dives deep into a world of apocalyptic pop and psychedelic weirdness... Lucy and Matthew’s disparate vocals grip onto stabbing keys and menacing hook-laden basslines, pushed on by an unrelentless drum machine far past the end of its warranty period. Essentially this is a ‘punk’ assault packaged into nine distinct tracks that range from some almost dance-able short and sharp ‘hits’ to gloomy extended freak-outs. Taking direction from where the short lived no-wave movement ended Naked On The Vague expand on what that imploded scene could have garnished had it not succumbed to its own fatalistic shortcomings." You might recognize these folks from the recent Mutant Transmissions Records compilation. The LP version of this Aussie import CD has come out on the great Siltbreeze label.
Naked on the Vague on myspace
$12 US/ Canada
New Waver- Neuters CD
(Dual Plover Records/ Australian import)
Word has it that the members of New Waver met in the early 80s as young recruits to the Claims section of the Australian Taxation Office in Canberra. Over coffee and cards and in water-cooler conversations the teenagers discovered their shared passion: popular music. From there it was a short step to forming a band. Exactly how much of New Waver's back story to believe is up for debate, but the music isn't. This release compiles a number of the band's tracks from a variety of cassette only releases from the previous decade. You get sarcastic songs, sparse beats, and simple electronic tunes with deadpan vocals. What you might expect if the Modern Lovers had been office hacks with synthesizers. Cool stuff.
$12 US/ Canada
Opposite Sex - Violent Heartstrings CD
Great new album by Washington DC's the Opposite Sex. To quote a recent review by the Big Takeover's Kristen Sollee, "Violent Heartstrings unfolds in unexpected ways. Imbued with apprehension and tension both lyrically and musically, an imminent descent into disintegration seems certain throughout. Despite a focus on the weighty and the wistful, the OPPOSITE SEX’s debut full-length still has a vibrant violence that makes the band’s post-punk stylings so intriguing. This is immediately evident in singer SHAWN HELTON’s vocals, which sound like a combination of IAN MCCULLOCH, GREG SAGE, and JAZ COLEMAN. Always intense and unhinged, even during the most musical of vocal lines grit and growls rip and tear their way through the aural fabric of a song, breaking up melodies that may otherwise have been too pretty, too sweet."
Opposite Sex on myspace
$12 US (4 copies left!)
OST Beaufort CD
This is the soundtrack CD for Beaufort (distributed by the Israeli label HCB Records), A Berlin Film Festival award-winning motion picture and an Oscar nominee in the best foreign category for 2008! The score was composed by Ishay Adar, an important figure in the Israeli electronic music front, as well as a founding member of The Top-Hat Carrirers, a legendary Israeli post-punk act that was highly active in the late 80's. On "Beaufort", Adar creates a shimmering yet disturbing soundtrack for this Anti-war film, whereas melodic and lucid electronica, reminiscent of the classic ambient works of Brian Eno and Harold Budd, gently transform into irritating minimal soundscapes, before diving into a blowhole of gloomy electronic bloodbath, a brooding reality known mostly to Israeli troops as the Beaufort fortress. Recommended if you like Taylor Deupree, Biosphere, William Basinski, Lustmord, Xela and Ulver circa "Lyckantropen" and "Silencing the Singing".
Beaufort soundtrack on myspace
$12 US/ Canada
Raccoo-oo-oon- Behold Secret Kingdom CD
Behold Secret Kingdom is the first proper full-length release from Iowa City's Raccoo-oo-oon after several limited cd-r/tape/vinyl releases. 8 new songs that takes the band's psychedelic and dynamic free-form punk from previous releases to new heights, this is definitely their most focused and perfected recording so far. Darker, denser and almost brutal at times, Behold Secret Kingdom is also the heaviest recording they have done. It only takes a few seconds into ‘Black Branches’ and the mood is set for the rest of the album immediately. The stunning closer ‘Tail At Prospect Peak’ could easiest be described as campfire-doom with it’s slow riffing, heavy use of percussion and chanted vocals (everything suddenly bursting out in a chaotic crescendo…). The trademark tribal-like drums is still present, as is the vocal drones and the furious saxophone swirls. Recorded by Mike Dixon in Bloomington, IN. Full colour digipack with the bands now well-known amazing artwork.
$12 US/ Canada
Red Voice Choir- A Thousand Reflections CD EP
While it does bear distinctive marks of some of the members' previous/ other bands (Black Ice, the Holy Kiss, Death of a Party), Red Voice Choir doesn't come off sounding like a side-project at all. Kevin Brown's drumming is always impressive; using his beat-up drumset to his advantage, he continually pounds out rhythms unorthodox beats hounded by Kelly's church organs and crashing into Adam's guitar while Dawn's bass slinks along to provide the groundwork. The six songs on this EP leave a good hope these guys will pull together great full length in some time to come.
Listen here!
$8 US
Siniaalto- Tallentumia CD
Helsinki's answer to Tangerine Dream take the best out of ze klassische deutche kraut rock influensches und some pretty nifty use and abuse of old analogue hardware. Synths bubble, flow and float in this 70+ minute tour de force of music that leaves you wondering why percussive instruments where actually created in the first place.
$12 US/ Canada
Skull Defekts- Skull CD
(Release the Bats Records - Swedish import)
Hailing from Göteborg, Sweden, The Skull Defekts is a new music collective featuring core members Joachim Nordwall (Alvars Orkester, ex-Kid Commando, runner of Ideal Recordings), Henrik Rylander (ex-Union Carbide Productions) and people like Jean-Louis Huhta (ex-Anti Cimex, Cortex...) and Daniel Fagerström (Chronic Heist, ex-Trapdoor Fucking Exit, 8 Days Of Nothing). The band has been doing live collaborations with Damo Suzuki (Can) and Lasse Marhaug, just to name a few. On Skkull the band is stripped down to the trio of Nordwall/ Rylander/ Huhta and what we get is an all electronic album containing 4 long songs. Compared to their earlier releases this one takes a more minimalistic and monotonous approach but still manages to be heavy as hell! Expect total Scandinavian coldness. Digipack with artwork by Are Mokkelbost. LIMITED TO 500 copies pressed.
Skull Defekts on myspace
$12 US/ Canada
SUNSHINE - Velvet Suicide CD
