The first single off the Return to Paradise LP by Monster Rally, which dropped on October 29th as a limited edition 12" (plus digital).
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Following his move to Los Angeles from Ohio, Ted Feighan has returned with the next installment in his growing oeuvre as Exotica beatsmith, Monster Rally. Feighan’s third full-length as Monster Rally, Return to Paradise, is decidedly faster paced and more percussion-heavy than last year's Beyond the Sea, producing an aesthetic that closely resembles his live performances. The tracks melt together in a mysterious, blissful, and romantic haze invoking that signature Monster Rally thrill of being in a timeless, hypnagogic limbo. The album is pure pictorial fantasy, translating the images of a half-century of National Geographics into 17 tracks that’ll have both tiki drink connoisseurs and scotch aficionados swaying and bopping to the sweat and crackle of Feighan’s latest beatscapes. As with his past releases, Feighan is eager to have his passport stamped, reluctant to stay in one paradise for too long. His wanderlust samplings travel from Peru to Japan, Detroit to Maui, and Ghana to Barcelona expressing the pageantry and ceremony of destinations only the truly intrepid have tasted before.

The artwork of Return to Paradise is greatly inspired by the LP jackets of classic Exotica albums: Martin Denny's Quiet Village, Les Baxter's Jungle Jazz, and Arthur Lyman's Bwana to name just a few. Over fifty different varietals of flowers and plants from around the world decorate the blossoming arrangement on R2P’s cover. In addition, the packaging features printed sleeves showing a take on traditional Hawaiian patterned prints of native flowers and tropical birds. The inside of the gatefold jacket is a visual imagination of the kind of space Return to Paradise inevitably occupies. 

Return to Paradise

Orchids

Monster Rally - Orchids

Remix of Tom Tom Club's seminal "Genius of Love" by Seamonster.
http://seamonster.bandcamp.com/

Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love (Seamonster Remix)

The lead traack from The Love Theme Mixtape, the second companion piece to ATRIA's critically acclaimed album Moonbrain. Along with its sister EP, The Lucky Mixtape, it contains songs and snippets that were in the running for Moonbrain, as well as a remix of a single from the album.

The Love Theme Mixtape

Love is a Tender Thing

ATRIA - Love is a Tender Thing

Lashes to Lashes, the follow-up to 2019's A Level Lower, continues to carve out a unique space that explores imagination, power, and the natural world. The Texas native's early contact with music came from Eastern chanting groups she attended with her parents, studies in classical piano, and living in an ashram in India for her kindergarten years. After studying ballet and classical piano in Austin, she spent 8 years in California dancing professionally and developing her musical style; she continues to perform dance and music frequently in New York, where she currently lives.

Order the limited edition 12":
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Lashes To Lashes

Take The Easy Way Out

Mira Cook - Take The Easy Way Out

GUMBO, the first single from Jay Stone’s forthcoming sophomore album, is about the multitude of ways we feed ourselves. It speaks to ingredients that make us who we are. What are you made of? Strength and grace, confidence and humility. Gumbo is made of love and gratitude; even those things that we are reluctant to swallow, like pride - and okra!

https://soundcloud.com/enotsyaj

STONE STU

GUMBO

Jay Stone - GUMBO (feat. Sandu Ndu)

Ladada is Virginia Beach native Josiah Schlater. After years of recording and touring in other bands (MAE, We Are Trees, Jake Clemons), Schlater has now settled into a lively, sun-drenched sound of his own. Taking inspiraton from early Motown and 60's garage rock, he squeezed a drum kit, a couple guitars, a 4-track, and a netbook into a small storage unit and began recording what became Ladada.

Ladada

Comets

Ladada - Comets

Off Jay Stone's new album (STONE STU), out on 9/15/23.

STONE STU is an audible illustration of what we feed each other’s bodies, minds, and spirits. Inspired by the musical relationship and friendship between Jay Stone and Doug Stuart a.k.a Dougie Stu. The "brother from another" connection and collective excitement to make the album is felt in the music, and was the driving force that actually enabled the album to make itself. It is laced with live instrumentation, and an honest and intimate, internal emotional outpour from Jay Stone’s personal life experience.

LEMONLIME

Jay Stone - LEMONLIME

Off ATRIA's latest album, Juliet, released on October 13 2023.

Juliet was born many years ago in a used bookstore in Gainesville, Florida, when critically acclaimed musician/author Travis Atria found a box of sixteen miniature, leather-bound volumes of Shakespeare. Inside each book was an inscription from Ralph to Evelyn, along with the month the book was bought, and the year 1914. Late one night, taking a volume from the shelf, Atria decided to write a concept album of their love story.

In a career known for wild, gleeful shifts in genre and style, Juliet is Atria's wildest shift yet. Gone is the psychedelic rock 'n' soul of 2021's Moonbrain, which one reviewer called "Zappa meets Mayfield." In its place is an intricate work of orchestral pop, sometimes restrained, sometimes bombastic, with Shakespeare as a unifying theme. Nearly fifty musicians participated in the recording, including a makeshift orchestra and an 18-piece choir. Partly recorded and fully mixed by Ryan Williams at West Viking Studio in Ocala, Florida---home of the late, great Bruce Swedien---Juliet is the final album to come from Swedien's legendary pedigree, which stretches from Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughn, to Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson.

Juliet

One More Time

ATRIA - One More Time

Off of Workingman's Guma, the fourth in a line of Guma's genre-bending LPs and the first to be produced wholly in Austin. Taking up the long tradition of cosmic weirdos that have set up shop in central Texas, the LP flirts with country & western, Americana, folk, and drone music and features expert playing by members of White Denim, Shinyribs, and the Tender Things.

Out on 10/20/23, available digitally everywhere and as a limited edition 12" on ultra clear vinyl and housed in a classic tip-on style jacket.
https://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/guma-workingman-s-guma

Workingman's Guma

The Lettered Veil

Guma - The Lettered Veil

“Poor Wanda the hen / Not the first in line, but far from the end” — The third single from 2023’s Workingman’s Guma (released 10/20/23 on Gold Robot Records) lands among feathers and fur as songwriter T.J. Masters lovingly weaves between the stories of two animal companions, each out for themselves but inseparably linked by his amateur husbandry. With a twinkle-eyed lyricism that suggests an alternate history in which George Harrison went down the Mississippi in 1968 to write with John Hartford instead of up the Hudson to Dylan, “Poor Wanda” brims with pastoral tenderness woven into a dense and deftly-picked acoustic setting. One of four songs cut for the album in a single day with minimal overdubbing, the tune captures the energy of a bespoke band learning, developing, and recording a song all in the span of just a couple hours; an old school, live-in-the-room style of recording that has come to characterize most Guma releases.

Watch a live version here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ZXgTK2BbU

Poor Wanda

Guma - Poor Wanda

Lead single from the upcoming Roman Ruins LP titled "Isotropes".

Graham Hill has long shown interest in the convergence of music and architecture, and his third album as Roman Ruins feels like a groundbreaking ceremony. On Isotropes, Hill is crafting songs that can be lived in. After nearly a decade since his last solo release - time that included touring and recording as the drummer for Beach House - Hill is building around melodies that embed themselves; creating familiar, inviting spaces amidst arrangements that conjure chaotic beauty of the outside world.

Pre-order the ltd edition 12":
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Isotropes

Drum Machine

Roman Ruins - Drum Machine

"Can’t Pretend," the third single from Graham Hill’s upcoming album, Isotropes, is a somber duet with vocalist Maggie Koerner, whose resume includes The Revivalists and Galactic. The aching, shimmering ballad has a cinematic lilt, as two souls yearn for connection while pondering the world’s fate. “Should I say hello / or wave goodbye?” What begins as a simple question becomes a haunting refrain, apropos in our modern age of uncertainty. As the song builds toward hope, the final lyrics call back to the precipice of despair: “The first thing that we share may be the end.”

Can't Pretend

Roman Ruins - Can't Pretend (feat. Maggie Kroener)

Graham Hill has long shown interest in the convergence of music and architecture, and his third album as Roman Ruins feels like a groundbreaking ceremony. On Isotropes, Hill is crafting songs that can be lived in. After nearly a decade since his last solo release - time that included touring and recording as the drummer for Beach House - Hill is building around melodies that embed themselves; creating familiar, inviting spaces amidst arrangements that conjure chaotic beauty of the outside world.

Hill has teamed up with several New Orleans-based artists, including vocalists Maggie Koerner (Galactic) and Alexis Marceaux (Sweet Crude), as well as Oscar-winning producer Donald Markowitz and multi-instrumentalist Paul Provosty (Deltaphonic, Flow Tribe). 

Each song on Isotropes has distinct properties—not unlike a piece of terracotta or chunk of metal—unique in shape, but with internal consistency. As a whole, the album creates a walkable field of tunes that evoke a desire to connect and welcome, while calling to the wheel of anticipation > elation > melancholy that propels into hope, rolling all the way home.

Ascendancy

Roman Ruins - Ascendancy (feat. Alexis Marceaux)

Single from the forthcoming EMPTY / EVERY MT album by OHIOAN.  Pre-order/support here:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/empty-every-mt--3#/story

OHIOAN - Pissing at Will

Fresh cut off the forthcoming second album by Bay Area duo Not the 1s, produced by Monster Rally. Limited edition picture disc available here:
http://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/not-the-1s-everybody-s-rappin



Not the 1s - What's He Talkin About? [prod. by Monster Rally]

Lead single off the forthcoming Hi Five EP, available as a limited edition 12" on transparent coke bottle green. Pre-order now:
http://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/ladada-hi-five

Hi Five

New Psych

Ladada - New Psych

Limited Edition 12" - http://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/ohioan-empty-every-mt

Ohioan's new album, EMPTY / EVERY MT, is a record of protest songs but this is nothing like protest music you've heard before. This is a new form of country music. It's Appalachian mountain music mashed-up with African desert music played by a dude raised in the shadow of Appalachia who now lives in the desert. (Read that twice if you need to; it's important to the story.) EMPTY / EVERY MT is an album about the "Appalachian Desert," a concept created by Ohioan band-leader Ryne Warner. He posits that one day mountaintop removal and mining will level the forests of Appalachia, turning once lush land into an arid desert-scape not unlike parts of the American West and North Africa. The music here was made using the sounds associated with those places--banjo, dobro, jaw harp, dulcimer, African scales, the electric guitar, modal tunings. The result is an image of Warner's Appalachian Desert rendered in sound.

EMPTY / EVERY MT

Bad Altitude

OHIOAN - Bad Altitude

Off "Mystery Cove", Monster Rally's new album.  Out on 11/11/16, available as a limited edition 12" here:
http://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/monster-rally-mystery-cove-12

When the beach party film revival arrives, Ted Feighan (aka Monster Rally) will be the Ennio Morricone of its resurgence. Mystery Cove, the forthcoming Monster Rally album, is a soundtrack to an imaginary movie both fit for the vaults of TMC and primed for a grindhouse exploitation flick screening. Mystery Cove contains a narrative arc of young lovers on an island getaway. As the grooves spin, Monster Rally reveals a cabalistic presence in the jungle that leads them on an adventure of surf competitions (“The Big Surf”), voodoo terror (“Tourismo”), and plenty of slushy cocktails (“After Hours”). The occult meets the salt-rimmed rum mix on Mystery Cove.

Since his Coral LP, Monster Rally has been an analog to the exotica forefathers. His reinvention of cocktail music via luau-loops and tchotchke breaks evokes a mondo vision of the subgenre. With Mystery Cove, the quiet village is not what it seems, and every resort comes at the cost of indigenous displacement. Beyond the florals and brightly feathered fauna is inferno in paradise.

Mystery Cove

Pelicans

Monster Rally - Pelicans

Download via XLR8R:
https://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2016/10/monster-rally-full-sail/

Off "Mystery Cove", Monster Rally's new album. Out on 11/11/16, available as a limited edition 12" here:
http://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/monster-rally-mystery-cove-12

When the beach party film revival arrives, Ted Feighan (aka Monster Rally) will be the Ennio Morricone of its resurgence. Mystery Cove, the forthcoming Monster Rally album, is a soundtrack to an imaginary movie both fit for the vaults of TMC and primed for a grindhouse exploitation flick screening. Mystery Cove contains a narrative arc of young lovers on an island getaway. As the grooves spin, Monster Rally reveals a cabalistic presence in the jungle that leads them on an adventure of surf competitions (“The Big Surf”), voodoo terror (“Tourismo”), and plenty of slushy cocktails (“After Hours”). The occult meets the salt-rimmed rum mix on Mystery Cove.

Since his Coral LP, Monster Rally has been an analog to the exotica forefathers. His reinvention of cocktail music via luau-loops and tchotchke breaks evokes a mondo vision of the subgenre. With Mystery Cove, the quiet village is not what it seems, and every resort comes at the cost of indigenous displacement. Beyond the florals and brightly feathered fauna is inferno in paradise.

Full Sail

Monster Rally - Full Sail

Off MR&RT, the first collaboration between producers Monster Rally (Los Angeles) and RUMTUM (Denver). Now available on vinyl for the first time.
http://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/monster-rally-rumtum-mr-rt

MR&RT

Monster Rally & RUMTUM - Forest

Off of "Tuna Hair", the forthcoming new album by Way Yes.

Tuna Hair

Dead Ringer

Way Yes - Dead Ringer

Off Monster Rally's new album, titled "Flowering Jungle", out on 12/15/17. 
Pre-order the vinyl here:
http://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/monster-rally-flowering-jungle

Flowering Jungle

Sunny Sloth

Monster Rally - Sunny Sloth

Off the Flowering Jungle LP, out on 12/15/17. Order here:
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Toucans

Monster Rally - Toucans

The 2-song Flight to the Jungle single is a prelude to the Flowering Jungle album. Meant to be an intermission between taking off from Mystery Cove and landing in the Flowering Jungle, the collection of tracks scores a hazy trip over various lands. The single consists of tracks from both the Mystery Cove and Flowering Jungle sessions.

https://monsterrally.bandcamp.com/album/flight-to-the-jungle

Flight to the Jungle (Single)

Flight to the Jungle (Take Off)

Monster Rally - Flight To The Jungle (Take Off)

Originally crafted as an anonymous concept project, Shah Marg was later revealed to be the work of Monster Rally (Ted Feighan) who describes the music as "blown out funk", taking inspiration from early 70s rock, psychedelia, and the sounds of India and the Middle East. Originally released in 2012, the original songs and a new digital-only track, have been remastered. The 7" version, featuring the first 4 tracks of the EP, is limited to 300 individually numbered copies and comes in a stamped, die-cut jacket.

Pre-ORDER the 7" (out on May 11, 2018)
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Desert

There'll Always Be Stars In The Sky

Shah Marg - There'll Always Be Stars in the Sky

As one of the Bay Area’s prominent rising artists with relentless lyrical style and charisma, Jay Stone is heavily influenced by 60’s and 70’s Funk, Soul, and R&B. Sampled live instrumentation and eclectic rhythmic patterns are often the foundation in the production of his music. On the footsteps of two EPs and his collaboration with beatmaker Monster Rally, Calibration Of An Altered is an album filled with the growth and expansion that Jay has experienced over the recent years of his life.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/LvHAb4_7eQY
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Calibration Of An Altered Mind

Flying Monkeys

Jay Stone - Flying Monkeys

As one of the Bay Area’s prominent rising artists with relentless lyrical style and charisma, Jay Stone is heavily influenced by 60’s and 70’s Funk, Soul, and R&B. Sampled live instrumentation and eclectic rhythmic patterns are often the foundation in the production of his music. On the footsteps of two EPs and his collaboration with beatmaker Monster Rally, Calibration Of An Altered is an album filled with the growth and expansion that Jay has experienced over the recent years of his life.

Pre-order the 12":
https://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/jay-stone-calibration-of-an-altered-mind

Told You

Jay Stone - Told You (feat. Black Spade)

Off the new Starlight EP, which features sounds and beats inspired by the serenity and mystery of the late night. Listen to the full 4-song EP on your favorite streaming platform.

Starlight EP

Cherry Blossom

Monster Rally - Cherry Blossom

Off Monster Rally's forthcoming new album titled "Adventures on the Floating Island", out on 9/20/19.

Order the limited edition 12":
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Monster Rally's new album scores a journey through a lush, exotic, dangerous, and alluring paradise - the Floating Island. The lounge-influenced collection of songs guides the listener through a instrumental narrative inspired by themes of amnesia, discovery, exploration, and mysticism.

Adventures on the Floating Island

Menagerie

Monster Rally - Menagerie

An alternate vocal edit to Monster Rally's "Ginger on the Wind" featuring Mira Cook.  The track appears as a digital b-side to the new "Menagerie" single.

Monster Rally's new album (Adventures on the Floating Island) comes out on 9/20/19.  Pre-order the limited edition vinyl 12" here:
https://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/monster-rally-adventures-on-the-floating-island-12

Menagerie b/w Ginger on the Wind (feat. Mira Cook)

Ginger on the Wind (feat. Mira Cook)

Monster Rally - Ginger on The Wind (feat. Mira Cook)

Second single from Monster Rally's forthcoming LP titled Adventures on the Floating Island. "Sister Owls" is a top-of-the-canopy jungle tango - smoky piano samples over balmy horns, completed with live percussion.

Order the ltd ed 12":
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Sister Owls b/w Grand Poobah

Sister Owls

Monster Rally - Sister Owls

Third single from Monster Rally's "Adventures on the Floating Island", the new album due out on 9/20/19.  Order the limited edition 12" here:
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Adventure b/w Captain Koyake

Adventure

Monster Rally - Adventure

Title track from the recently re-released and remastered album!

Sincerely, Severely defies definitions. With influences ranging from Curtis Mayfield and Al Green, to the Beatles and the Flaming Lips, to bossa nova and South American folk music, it is a madcap rampage through styles and forms. Morningbell's intent was to make a collection where each song could have come from a different album, but all worked together as a cohesive whole. Called "astonishing" and "impossible to classify or resist" on its release in 2009, the album is presented here in a remixed/remastered 10th anniversary edition, sounding better than ever.

Buy the limited edition (run of 100) 12":
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Sincerely, Severely (Remastered)

Let's Not Lose Our Heads

Morningbell - Let's Not Lose Our Heads

Lead track off the new "Escape to the Cloud Forest" 2-song single, now available digitally via your favorite streaming platform.

Escape to the Cloud Forest

Escape to the Cloud Forest (Along the River)

Monster Rally - Escape to the Cloud Forest (Along the River)

Off the debut LP titled "Hazel", out June 11th 2013 on Gold Robot Records as a limited edition 12" record.  (Pre)Order here - http://tinyurl.com/c96ewyt

Hazel

Maze

Young Hunting - Maze

Young Hunting - Baby's First Steps

Collaboration between TV Girl (http://tvgirl.bandcamp.com/) and Monster Rally (http://monsterrally.bandcamp.com/) in celebration of their upcoming show at the Bootleg Bar in Los Angeles on 4/27/13.  Ticket info found here:
http://www.foldsilverlake.com/event/245853-tv-girl-los-angeles/

TV Girl + Monster Rally - Average Guy (Blame)

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