Notes from Left of the Dial: August 8

In The Valley Below - "Neverminders"

Summer of Love

"Triumvirate" is the title track from the 2014 Double LP by Lewis & Clarke.
October 2014  La Société Expéditionnaire / The Manimal Group 
Order 'Triumvirate' 2xLP :: Companion Book :: CD :: Digital: 
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Triumvirate

Los Angeles Police Department
The Debut Self-Titled Album Out September 2, 2014
Released by Forged Artifacts (LP) and ChillMegaChill (CS)
Distributed in the UK/EU by Gold Flake Tapes
Mastered for Vinyl by Warren Hildebrand
Mastered for Digital/Cassette by Mike Post 
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Los Angeles Police Department - She Came Through (Again)

Track 1 from NNA073: Battle Trance "Palace of Wind" LP
Available August 26th 2014 on Vinyl and Digital formats
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Palace of Wind

Battle Trance "Palace of Wind I"

Artist: Spray Paint
Title:  Cussin’

Label: Upset The Rhythm
Catalogue Number: UTR067
Formats: 7” (45rpm) / DIGITAL

Pre-order: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Running Time:  6 mins 41 secs
Release Date: August 11th 

Track listing:

SIDE A
01. Cussin’

SIDE B
02. Three Thumbs Up
03. Ask My Old Roomate, Man

SPRAY PAINT are a no wave punk outfit from Austin, Texas made up of Chris Stephenson (drums/vocals), Cory Plump (guitar/vocals) and George Dishner (guitar/vocals). Some of you may already know these guys from other projects such as When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth, Expensive Shit and Dikes of Holland. Spray Paint’s buzz-sawing guitars run headlong through labyrinthine tunnels of reverb, chased down by some wildly brain-bashing drums. All three members of Spray Paint sing too, helping create an uncontrollable sense of fervour as they jostle for the words.

Since forming in 2012, Spray Paint have released two LPs and 7”s through SS-Records as well as readying an upcoming LP for Monofonus Press. They’ve wasted no time with hitting the road either, touring the US four times, most recently with their friends Protomartyr. They’ve also played at Fun Fun Fun Fest, Chaos in Tejas, Gonerfest, Cropped Out, SXSW and a live on-air performance on WFMU. This October sees Spray Paint head over to Europe for the first time, in support of their fierce new 7” EP through Upset The Rhythm, entitled ‘Cussin’. 

Side A’s twitchy opener ‘Cussin’ plays out with some decidedly, derailed guitars, working up a tone of paranoia amid the thumping rhythms. ‘Cussin’ is almost emblematic of Spray Paint themselves, matching the propulsion against the restraint, locking into a motoric groove that’s impossible to escape from. Flipping over ‘Three Thumbs Up’ is a disorientating number with the band’s trio of vocals calling out the lyrics like a repetitive mantra. The overall effect proves less like a list of instructions and more like the unquiet thoughts of a restless head. “I think he’s time traveling, he’s got no windows, are you sure he’s from Houston?” they volunteer in ‘Ask My Old Roomate, Man’, wrapping up Side B. The track makes room for path-leaping sprees of guitar, offset with stormy blasts of distortion - finishing the 7” as it started; damaged, daring and utterly dogged. Qualities that not only define Spray Paint’s sound but are also central to the appeal of this solid slab of repeato-rock rapture.



Spray Paint - Cussin

Arkells - 11:11

From the album High Noon, available worldwide August 5th, 2014.

Click here to pre-order High Noon:  http://georiot.co/highnoon1

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Tour Dates: www.arkellsmusic.com

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High Noon

11:11

One By One

space voyage // ♄

graphic by nathaniel gniazdoski
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S a t u r n

The 3rd & deluxe edition vinyl repress of Ontario Gothic will be available August 27th, 2021. 

Pre-order a copy here: https://shop.orchidtapes.com/product/foxes-in-fiction-ontario-gothic-third-press

"Musicially, “Ontario Gothic” begins where the previous song on the album, “Shadow’s Song” lets off. The the same melody - made from cutting up & copying and pasting singular guitar notes forms the melodic basis for the majority former. The instrumental elements of the middle / transition section make up the Foxes in Fiction song “Breathing In” found on the first Angeltown compilation.

Lyrically, “Ontario Gothic” is written about a close friend name Cait who died in 2010 and to whom the album is dedicated. Cait was one of the closest friends that I had for many years when I was a bit younger. She and I became really close after I had moved back to my hometown in the suburbs of Toronto, away from a farm in rural Ontario that my family lived on from 2001 until 2004. I was coming away from what was the worst and most emotionally tumultuous period of my life at that point and I carried a lot of fucked up anxiety and deep sadness about my life and myself as a person. But more than anything else, getting to know, open up to and spend time with Cait during those first years helped open me up to kinds of happiness and a love for life that I didn’t think was within the realm of possibility at that point in my life. 

She was one of the most remarkable, open and truly good people I’ve ever known, really. The song “Flashing Lights Have Ended Now” was also written about her just a point where we’re drifting apart; a year later she was gone. I wrote this song to crystallize the better parts of our friendship and to remember the healing effect that she had on me as a person which without I would not be the same person or have the same acceptance for life that I do now. I miss her enormously and I feel her influence and presence constantly. "

I was trapped under concrete
Built from the memory
Of all the daydreams
That I buried underneath

Now find me a way to divide
All of the noise on the other side
We’ll change where we live in the fall
Soon it will feel like nothing is wrong

And I could see who I should be
Though a past that casts it’s shadow down over me
In empty fields on summer nights
I feel the flashing lights

Teeth clenched in moonlight
A limitation, want to ignite
Reset my biology
The imitation, the apology

And I felt just like a child
I’m taking it all from the other side
Driving with you in your car
The home that I know seems so far

Spring, fall, I’ve lost it all (the morning fog)
Your empty street where we would meet
These parking lots bless us with peace
Your light has strayed, there’s no release

Ontario Gothic

Foxes in Fiction - Ontario Gothic

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Album due October 28, 2014 

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Notes from Left of the Dial: August 8

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