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Leon Stackpole of Ooga Boogas fame steps out, again, on his own for his contribution to Thank You, San Francisco! ( LP out 11.18.16 ).

The alternate LP cover displayed here shows the Dutch

Thank You, San Francisco

Independent Man

Leon Stackpole - Independent Man

From album "Ahead Of Two Thoughts." Forthcoming on W.25TH / Superior Viaduct, 2018. www.superiorviaduct.com

Ahead Of Two Thoughts

EXEK - Weight Loss (Henry's Dream)

Single written by Traffic Island Sound released on handnumbered, handstamped 7" vinyl. Limited to 100 copies. 

Pre-order: https://anotherdarkage.bandcamp.com/album/all-aboard

Traffic Island Sound - All Aboard

'Destroyer' is taken from The Green Child's self-titled debut album out January 12th through Upset The Rhythm.

Available to pre-order here now:
http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Artist:  The Green Child
Title: The Green Child

Label: Upset The Rhythm
Catalogue Number:  UTR102
Release Date:  Friday 12 January

Track listing:
01. Traveler
02. Her Majesty II
03. Bertha
04. New Years Eve
05. 46 Timelines
06. Walking Distance
07. Marie Elene
08. Destroyer

The Green Child is the long distance musical collaboration of Mikey Young and Raven Mahon, who met in 2013 when their bands, Total Control and Grass Widow played a show in Oakland, California. They started writing songs together in Australia in 2014 and the project has been on a slow burn since. Their self-titled debut album is the culmination of few years of putting ideas together internationally and periodically recording in Mikey's home studio. Some of the lyrical content and the band's name was inspired by Herbert Read's 1935 utopian, communist, sci-fi novel called The Green Child. 

With such a choice name, it’s no surprise that The Green Child draw their sound from an illusory past as much as they stalk into pastures new. Broadly retro-futuristic in scope, verdant acres of lushly evocative synthesizers and blippy drum machines underpin most of their upbeat yet decidedly uncanny songs. Raven’s calmly scenic and measured vocal flits like a will-o’-the-wisp throughout the tracks, proffering a guiding hand as she walks us through the often eerie, electronic concoctions. 

‘Traveler’ opens the album all redolent, beat-minded and labyrinthine. Twisting melody lines swirl and envelop like a sandstorm, whilst Raven coolly projects on a “solitary man” lost to “green oblivion”. Similarly, ‘Her Majesty II’ glistens with its playful yet plaintive vocal and iridescent arpeggios, whilst ‘Bertha’ slows things down with tumbling chimes and stately use of space.

The Green Child are adept at atmosphere, their songs are refined from gently unfolding ideas that never fail to realise and build to their potential. Tracks like ‘Walking Distance’ (featuring Al Montfort on saxophone) and ‘New Years Eve’ are exercises in evolved composition with ideas budding off and blossoming into truly resonant dimensions. The band’s cover of ‘Marie Elene’ (by Keith Pearson) and closing track ‘Destroyer’ are further crowning achievements, both pieces subtly handled with poise and ample melancholic grandeur. The Green Child fix their sights on the heights they want to reach within their songs and much like the project itself don’t want to rush to the finish line. When it becomes more about the unfurling journey, why not take the time to enjoy the trip and burn slower?

‘The Green Child’ is due for release on January 12th through Upset The Rhythm on 180g black vinyl, accompanied by some spirited sleeve design by James Vinciguerra.

The Green Child

The Green Child - Destroyer

welcum 2 tha streets

...the sounds of Perth 1983.  6-song 12" coming September 24, 2013. Unearthed by Stumbles of Perth, Australia’s hardcore heros of yore Rupture, Divsion Four were only able to burp out a six - song cassette in 1983 before they faded from memory. Whether this was due to apathy / indifference on the part of the band or the audience no one remembers but what they left behind leaves little doubt that they were on the right track sonically. Employing post-punk sounds along with dollops of menace, the band had little use for guitar and relied most heavily on their synthesizer and dual bass players for a sound that one wouldn’t be surprised to hear pouring from Gary Bushell’s earbuds. Oi! Division? Perhaps…

Division Four - Doctors Wife

From the first Geza X record since 1981, a previously unreleased version of Practicing Mice recorded after leaving The Deadbeats in 1979. Remastered from the original 1/4" tapes by Geza himself and available now from No Matrix Records in an edition of 500 copies.

©1979 GEZA X ℗2020 NO MATRIX RECORDS

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