WithGuitars.com August 2017 SoundCloud picks

Sonic Jesus - Paranoid Palace

In Love With A Killer 

Released digtally on 27th Nov

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THE NEW FABIAN SOCIETY - In Love With A Killer

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress 	
Constellation LP / CD
GYBE returns with one its most focused and best-sounding recordings. Huge unison riffage, savage noise/drone, scorched-earth transitions, oscillating overtones, inexorable crescendos.

Cannibal Ox - Blade of the Ronin					ihiphop CD
Cannibal Ox?s Blade of the Ronin is the highly-anticipated follow-up to the group?s seminal debut album The Cold Vein.  The album features MF Doom, U-God of Wu-Tang Clan, Elzhi, Artifacts and more.

Marriages – Salome							Sargent House LP / CD
Marriages Salome is a timeless 9-song monolith of a debut LP. Propulsive, frequently iridescent, the compositions find the band fully embracing their skill at crafting timeless songs with chillingly epic results.

Surf City - Jekyll Island						Fire Records LP / CD
New Zealand psychgazers Surf City return with an album of sticky summer jams, fuzzy swirls and out and out dream pop blasts.

Stearica - Fertile							Monotreme LP / CD
Torino-based instrumental trio’s powerful, adventurous 2nd album, inspired by the Arab Spring revolutions, features guests Colin Stetson (Tom Waits, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver), Scott McCloud (Girls Against Boys) & Ryan Patterson (Coliseum)

Sonic Jesus - Neither Virtue Nor Anger				Fuzz Club 2LP / CD
Shindig Magazine have called them "one of Psych’s best kept secrets". Their tremendous double debut album is out April 13th.    

Reptar Lurid – Glow							Joyful Noise LP / CD
Synth-pop dance party band Reptar returns with their second album, Lurid Glow, which continues the exploratory and arousing spirit of their 2012 debut Body Faucet.

Ava Luna - Infinite House						Western Vinyl LP / CD
Pitchfork says “…this band rules”, and DIY calls their last album “…a near post-punk masterpiece. “ Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Spoon, Sleater-Kinney) mixed the new album.

The Mountain Goats - Beat The Champ				Merge Records 2LP / CD
The long-awaited follow-up to Transcendental Youth is an album about professional wrestling and much more. Includes printed lyrics, a Mountain Goats first.

GNOD - Infinity Machines (Volume 1),					Rocket Recordings 3LP / 2CD
Exploration that traverses nocturnal jazz, soothing and unsettling ambience, menacing industrial battery and opiated blissed-out undercurrents of fiery countercultural zeal and small-hours revelation.

Jeff Buckley - Its Not Too Late						FM In Concert
Rare Radio Broadcasts and performances w/ Liner notes by Broadcaster/Author Jon Kirkman

The Fall – It’s Not Repetition , It’s Discipline (The Definitive Documentary)
										Dandelion DVD
The Fall "It's Not Repetition It's Discipline"   The only documentary film to ever examine the inner workings of Mark E Smith and The Fall with great contributions fom Mark himself and filmed over twelve years.


Sonic Jesus - Lost Reprise

Landing
"Delusion Sound" (edit)
Third Sight

Catalog number: EPR034
Formats: CD/DL/LP (transparent green vinyl limited to 750 copies, includes download card)
Release date: June 17, 2016
Contact: info@elparaisorecords.com
Distributed by: Cargo Records / Forced Exposure (US)

Connecticut's Landing have specialized in a mild and rural kind of psychedelia over the course of nearly two decades. Recent releases have seen them closer to post-punk and shoegaze territory than ever, but Third Sight – recorded specifically for El Paraiso Records’ Impetus series – builds on the hallucinatory soundscapes of the band's earliest days.

There's a unique sense of motoric drift to these four long pieces, and an organic blend of rock instrumentation and analog electronics that brings to mind Eno's best collaborations in the 1970s. But the group's flair for fuzzy drones and new weirdsy commune-folk also betrays their affiliation with the experimental American east coast scene –these guys have played shows with their friends in Bardo Pond, releasing a split EP with Windy & Carl and playing numerous Terrastocks throughout their existence. 

And despite releasing one brilliant album after another the band remains appalingly under-appreciated. Perhaps because the tryyps Landing take are rooted in self-exploration. As trends in krautrock, drone, folk, and psychedelia ebb and flow, Landing remain unfazed. The door to Landing’s world is open, but there isn’t a flashing neon sign above it. These guys are far removed from the hustle and bustle of geographic cultural bubbles, both physically and spiritually.

Listening through this LP is likely to stimulate mental images of rural winds blowing across vast American fields of grass, bonfires, blue rivers and power lines sailing through rolling hills. Landing's psychedelia possesses a rare timelessness. We are proud to present this offering from the band in the El Paraiso catalog!

”the whipper snappers these days, trafficking in similar sounds, have NOTHING on their sonic elders. Dreamy, droney, poppy, psychedelic, electronic perfection!”
-Aqaurius Records

”Connecticut's Landing inhabits that amorphous space where time itself expands and contracts according to a delay pedal setting, and dream pop blurs into dream proper. Groups like Stars of the Lid and E.A.R. have wandered this same misty plane in search of the perfect drone, but Landing incorporates Bardo Pond's jam aesthetic into the journey, imparting a welcome communal feel to their lengthy, meandering compositions.”
-Mark Richardson, Pitchfork

"They’ve got integrity to spare and their career, though already spanning more than a decade already, seems to be just getting started."
-Grant Purdum, Tinymixtapes

"Some of the best avant-prog and lo-fi space rock around"
-Mojo

"If you're not yet familiar with Landing, I encourage you to fill up the peace pipe and figure it the fuck out." -Kenny Bloggins Adhoc


Delusion Sound (edit)

Way Before

(excerpt)

Aroma

Going Nowhere

Taken from the debut album "Swear I'm Good At This" out NOW on Frenchkiss Records. 

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Diet Cig On Tour
March 14-19 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
April 05 - New Haven, CT @ BAR
April 06 - Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle
April 07 - Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right (early show)
April 07 - Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right (late show)
April 08 - Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
April 10 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le "Ritz" P.D.B.
April 11 - Toronto, ON @ Drake Hotel
April 12 - Rochester, NY @ Bug Jar
April 13 - Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel
April 14 - Richmond, VA @ Gallery 5
April 15 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle - Backroom
April 18 - Orlando, FL @ Will's Pub
April 19 - Tampa, FL @ New World Brewery
April 20 - Tallahassee, FL @ Club Downunder (at FSU)
April 21 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
April 22 - Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor
April 26 - Eugene, OR @ Boreal
April 28 - Seattle, WA @ Barboza
April 29 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
May 01 - Reno, NV @ Holland Project
May 02 - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
May 04 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
May 05 - Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
May 06 - San Diego, CA @ Che Café (at UC San Diego)
May 08 - Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst Atrium

Swear I'm Good At This

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Next up in the Fuzz Club Session series is Austin’s Holy Wave! Following the release of their 2016 LP ‘Freaks Of Nurture’ we invited the band to London to lay down a session. Despite still being steeped in a 60s Nuggets nostalgia the material on the session see’s Holy Wave ditch the Seeds-esque garage for a more washed out, reverberating psych-pop sound. The warm analogue recording creating a blissed-out echo chamber of sun-soaked psychedelia – recorded straight to tape and committed to the wax.

Limited to 500 copies. 100 on white vinyl exclusive to the Fuzz Club store. 400 on black vinyl. All on 180g vinyl and with printed inner sleeves. Digital download included. 

Street date: July 20th, 2017.

Holy Wave - Magic Landing (Fuzz Club Session)

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Mauno - How Long

JuJu is the brainchild of Sicilian multi-instrumentalist Gioele Valenti (Lay Llamas, Herself). Following on from the projects 2016 debut – widely hailed as one of the best, most innovative psych albums of the year – Valenti has signed to Fuzz Club for the release of sophomore LP ‘Our Mother Was A Plant’, released September 22nd. Carrying on in its predecessor’s footsteps, the new LP is a continuation of JuJu’s ritualistic sonic exploration into the cultural implications of the current refugee crisis, humanities increasingly strained relationship with Mother Earth and neo-pagan mythology.


Even more forward-thinking and adventurous than the last, the new album summons all kinds of spirits with its rhythmic, otherworldly psychedelia – changing the game, once again. Calling it just a ‘psych’ record would be an injustice though, JuJu’s shamanic mantras are influenced just as much by afrobeat, krautrock, glam, post-punk, art rock, drone and everything in between. As The Quietus put it: “Along comes an artist who resets the coordinates and makes the past seem startling new again”

Our Mother Was A Planet

JuJu - And Play A Game

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JuJu - And Play A Game

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