NEW RELEASES

​Pariuh - Passed Lives' Excessive Future LP/CS Order Here

Pari∀h, Miami absurdist art-rock trio, have a mission to disorient and elucidate. The band, rooted in Chris Dougnac’s hyper-composed, synth-dipped pop treats and detailed recontextualized ephemera, works to transport the listener to a complex metaphysical reality. Pari∀h’s debut LP, Passed Lives’ Excessive Future, introduces us to their humor and youthful vigor as they unearth the altered history of the Passed Lives’ Excessive Futures Foundation – a time before Heaven's Gate took the f-u-n out of community function and ruined salvation for a generation.

1986. A reverberating, cataclysmic year. The world watched and gasped as Chernobyl exploded and the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated seventy-three seconds post-launch, killing all seven astronauts on boards. And the world found wonder as the Rutan Voyager made the first continuous non-stop flight around the world without refueling. And, in a remote corner of rehabilitation and redemption, a young runner we now refer to as Passed Lives made us believe that maybe second chances aren’t reserved for crucified messiahs and reunion rock reconnoiterers, but for anyone willing to take up their pair of running shoes and follow.

Pari∀h is out for big game, and they’re willing to take on recruits for their odyssey through a wild, untamed rendering of these American United States in this Year of our Excessive Future 2016.

Jealousy - Paid For It LP / Cassette Order Here

Jealousy's sophomore LP, Paid For It, is a hyper-tactile, hyper-sensual meditation on solipsism brought on by shattered idealism and sensory overload. Songwriter, lyricist, bassist, sound manipulator, and sole member Mark Treise seems unable to stop from steeping himself in the lurid and the lascivious, in masochistic discomfort and gratuitous hedonism, to consider the value of self-destruction as a vessel for self-actualization, to approve knowingly of his own defeat in order to transcend its redundancy. 

Paid For It oscillates between a series of isolated conversations with oneself and the sublime, layered and spliced in alternating abstractions and cognizant declarations. At times, the exchanges reach uncomfortable levels of saturation, but frequently they settle in the psyche with surprising ease. These are songs that contain neat and tidy pop hooks like small glittering diamonds in fields of loops and keys. Other tracks feature the heavy hitting drum work from Don Bolles (of legendary punk band The Germs), placing Mark Treise's bass playing in pounding beds of tension and brash driving chaos. Throughout, Jealousy's narration is unwaveringly calm, laying down graphic, forked tongue-twisters like common law. With its sonic combustion, hypnotic rhythms, and distant, powerful percussion,Paid For It is both a nod to dark-glam, post-industrial greats - Coil, Psychic TV, Love and Rockets, Chrome - and an evolution of their premise. This music represents the kind of discomfort that can be craved, and lyrically showcases the sort of outpouring that must be grating in order to be gratifying.

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UPCOMING RELEASES

Tongues - I Really Need To Get My Life Back On Track Before I Cut All Of My Hair Off LP/CS (Out September 23rd) Pre Order Now

Like the trickster troll from Billy Goats Gruff and the tragically puzzling Kappa from Japanese folklore, Tongues, Kansas City noisemaking duo, live under a bridge. Sure, it’s a little damp down there, but it doesn’t hinder them from making filthy, absurd proto-industrial tuneage a la Greed/Holy Money eraSwans or a slowed down Big Black. Unlike those bands, though,Eric Horn and Dillon Joeckel, the two-pronged attackers behindTongues, have rooted their music in humor - black, albeit - rather than simply overwhelm the listener with misanthropy and melodrama, if the LP’s title I Really Have To Get My Life Back On Track Before I Cut All My Hair Off doesn’t tip you off. ​

Desire Will Set You Free soundtrack LP/CD/CS (Out November 4th) ​Pre-Order Now

Across 120 sprawling, electrifying minutes, the soundtrack to Desire Will Set You Free, written and directed by Yony Leyser (director of William S. Burroughs: A Man Within), paints a picture of contemporary underground Berlin. The movie, a queer, rambunctious odyssey through sex clubs, bars, and unearthly parties, draws influence from paragons of cult cinema like Slava Tsukerman, director of Liquid Sky, and John Waters. The soundtrack, an appropriate companion piece, also draws the film’s subcultural wellspring, featuring selections from alt-royalty like Peaches, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Rummelsnuff, Dev Hynes of Blood Orange and Samantha Urbani, Molly Nilsson and more.​

Upcoming Releases for 2016

Desire Will Set You Free - Film Soundtrack 2LP/CD/CS (w/ Peaches, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Dev Hynes, Molly Nilsson)
Pariuh - Family Witchcraft Attack 7in EP
Pariuh - Passed Lives' Excessive Future LP/CS
Fee Lion - tba LP/CS
Tongues - I Really Have To Get My Life Back On Track Before I Cut All My Hair Off LP/CS LP/CS
J.T. IV - From The Inside Book (w/ Featherproof Publishing)

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