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Blank Realm are back in 2014 with a new album 'Grassed Inn'.

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Blank Realm - Falling Down The Stairs

Taken from the new album 'Grassed Inn', Blank Realm unleash the triumphant transition of their nascent fluorescent rock'n'roll glow in to full-blown spiky pop craft. Harking back to the halcyon days of Talking Heads, underpinned by the off-kilter psychedelic blues of Royal Trux. Like Dylan mixing it with Suicide on Highway 61 and a half in a far off universe.
 
“Putting the arty in to party” The Guardian 4*s

Blank Realm - Back To The Flood

From the album Dignity & Shame, out now on Merge Records.
www.mergerecords.com/dignity-and-shame

Dignity and Shame

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Crooked Fingers "Call to Love"

Geographer's new album Ghost Modern is out now!

Official Website: bit.ly/1t3ewIN
iTunes: apple.co/1xrQLNh
Amazon: amzn.to/1CQY42U
Google Play: bit.ly/1GLgBvg

Need

Geographer - "Need"

From the album Beat the Champ, out April 7, 2015 in the US and April 13, 2015 worldwide on Merge Records.
http://www.mergerecords.com/beat-the-champ

Beat the Champ

The Mountain Goats "Heel Turn 2"

RECORDED BY MARTIN HURLEY AT THE BUNKER.

MASTERED BY JOE LAMBERT NYC.

RELEASED ON JACKTOPHONO RECORDS.

2015.

HARTHEIM - WHEN DID YOUR LAST ROSE DIE?

Preorder the new album '1000 Palms' http://radi.al/1000PalmsIsland

Island

Pre-order 'The Helio Sequence', out May 19th, from Sub Pop: http://u.subpop.com/1FXQzpZ

The Helio Sequence

Upward Mobility

The Helio Sequence - Upward Mobility

"Song Will" appears on Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin's 5th full-length album, The High Country, out now.

Order The High Country:

Polyvinyl (CD, LP, cassette, T-shirt, MP3) - http://bit.ly/1Ju9Zmo
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/thehighcountry
Digital / Stream - http://sslyby.lnk.to/thehighcountry

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Song Will

From the newly remastered reissue of Richard Buckner's The Hill, out July 10, 2015 on Merge Records.

The Hill

Richard Buckner "Reuben Pantier"

From the album Poison Season, out August 28, 2015.

Vinyl / CD:  http://smarturl.it/PoisonSeason
Download:  http://smarturl.it/PoisonSeasonDL

Dream Lover

From the 2015 reissue of Superchunk's Come Pick Me Up, out July 10, 2015 on Merge Records.

Come Pick Me Up (Remastered)

Superchunk "Hello Hawk" (Remastered)

In the run-up to the release of our retrospective 'Central Belters' on 23rd October, we are choosing a track of ours to feature, one per day.

This, and 33 tracks spanning our 20 year career will be available to buy on 6LP / 3 CD / Digital download from http://mogwai.co.uk and all good record stores.

'Take Me Somewhere Nice' originally appeared on 'Rock Action' and is also available to buy in stores now for £6 or £4.99 at iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/rock-action/id273164911

Mogwai // Take Me Somewhere Nice

From the album 'Jettison the Valley' out March 4th, 2016 on Western Vinyl

iTunes hyperurl.co/9f3l3j
Bandcamp: https://cartertanton.bandcamp.com/album/jettison-the-valley
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv119

Carter Tanton:
Artist page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/carter-tanton
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cartertanton/

By the time he was 15, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Carter Tanton was already playing bar shows in his hometown of Baltimore.  Two years later, he caught the attention of Gary E. Smith, best known for discovering and producing The Pixies.  After working together for a year, they parted ways, but Tanton never slowed down.  In the mid-2000's he released a couple of EPs with his band Tulsa, prompting Rolling Stone's David Fricke to claim "…his indie-seraphim voice is not of this world…", and after a particularly impressive live set KEXP's John Richards said "…he's one of the best singer-songwriters in the country today."  Beyond his critical acclaim, Tanton's early work was cited as an inspiration by his old friend Adam Granduciel of The War on Drugs.  As Granduciel recalled in an interview with Pitchfork, "He was sleeping in someone's basement, playing every instrument, going through this breakup,...That was the first time I saw someone make music obsessively. I’d never seen anyone living inside of something, to that level."  

Over the years, Tanton has toured and recorded with numerous artists including Marissa Nadler, Strand of Oaks, Lower Dens, and The War on Drugs. In 2012, he assembled Freeclouds, his first collection of songs for Western Vinyl.  A couple of years later, Tanton moved to England where he wrote all of the songs on his new album Jettison the Valley. The change of environment, and his rediscovery of early British influences including Richard Thompson, Nick Drake and John Cale sparked a powerful shift in perspective, which led him to write his most cohesive and personal work to date.  Other than the pedal steel featured on two songs, Tanton engineers and plays every instrument on the album.  His old friend and collaborator Marisa Nadler contributes lead vocals to "Jettison the Valley", and Sharon Van Etten sings on "Twenty-Nine Palms" and "Through the Garden Gates".   

More about Jettison the Valley in his own words: 
"Jettison the Valley began in a little dot of a town outside Bristol called Hambrook in the Fall of 2013. I had just moved to England with my girlfriend where we lived in a caravan on her family's plot of land with the M5 motorway on one side, and a horse farm on the other.  To get away from the incessant low rumbling of cars, I often walked along the area's ancient public footpaths that carve strange ways through the countryside. On those walks, my previous 30 years in America billowed and collapsed in front of me. As I stood there in the blowback, the constant push of time seemed to finally relent, and I found enough distance from it to see my past in clear broad strokes.  After a few months we moved to Oxford and lived in a little attic apartment up on a hill. I spent most days watching the weather roll through the valley and writing these songs about my relationship ending.  Eventually, I felt I had to come back to the states to record them.  I consider this my first solo record. The other two releases I've put out under my own name since 2005 were simply collections of scattered recordings, mixtapes essentially. Jettison was written in one long sitting, each song feeding the next."  

Carter Tanton - "Through The Garden Gates ft. Sharon Van Etten"

From the album 'Jettison the Valley' out March 4th, 2016 on Western Vinyl

iTunes hyperurl.co/9f3l3j
Bandcamp: https://cartertanton.bandcamp.com/album/jettison-the-valley
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv119

Carter Tanton:
Artist page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/carter-tanton
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cartertanton/

By the time he was 15, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Carter Tanton was already playing bar shows in his hometown of Baltimore.  Two years later, he caught the attention of Gary E. Smith, best known for discovering and producing The Pixies.  After working together for a year, they parted ways, but Tanton never slowed down.  In the mid-2000's he released a couple of EPs with his band Tulsa, prompting Rolling Stone's David Fricke to claim "…his indie-seraphim voice is not of this world…", and after a particularly impressive live set KEXP's John Richards said "…he's one of the best singer-songwriters in the country today."  Beyond his critical acclaim, Tanton's early work was cited as an inspiration by his old friend Adam Granduciel of The War on Drugs.  As Granduciel recalled in an interview with Pitchfork, "He was sleeping in someone's basement, playing every instrument, going through this breakup,...That was the first time I saw someone make music obsessively. I’d never seen anyone living inside of something, to that level."  

Over the years, Tanton has toured and recorded with numerous artists including Marissa Nadler, Strand of Oaks, Lower Dens, and The War on Drugs. In 2012, he assembled Freeclouds, his first collection of songs for Western Vinyl.  A couple of years later, Tanton moved to England where he wrote all of the songs on his new album Jettison the Valley. The change of environment, and his rediscovery of early British influences including Richard Thompson, Nick Drake and John Cale sparked a powerful shift in perspective, which led him to write his most cohesive and personal work to date.  Other than the pedal steel featured on two songs, Tanton engineers and plays every instrument on the album.  His old friend and collaborator Marisa Nadler contributes lead vocals to "Jettison the Valley", and Sharon Van Etten sings on "Twenty-Nine Palms" and "Through the Garden Gates".   

More about Jettison the Valley in his own words: 
"Jettison the Valley began in a little dot of a town outside Bristol called Hambrook in the Fall of 2013. I had just moved to England with my girlfriend where we lived in a caravan on her family's plot of land with the M5 motorway on one side, and a horse farm on the other.  To get away from the incessant low rumbling of cars, I often walked along the area's ancient public footpaths that carve strange ways through the countryside. On those walks, my previous 30 years in America billowed and collapsed in front of me. As I stood there in the blowback, the constant push of time seemed to finally relent, and I found enough distance from it to see my past in clear broad strokes.  After a few months we moved to Oxford and lived in a little attic apartment up on a hill. I spent most days watching the weather roll through the valley and writing these songs about my relationship ending.  Eventually, I felt I had to come back to the states to record them.  I consider this my first solo record. The other two releases I've put out under my own name since 2005 were simply collections of scattered recordings, mixtapes essentially. Jettison was written in one long sitting, each song feeding the next."  

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