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A distant planet where everything is familiar but nothing is known

'Never Really Been Into It' will be available in LP / CD / Digital formats on September 25, 2014.

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Them Are Us Too "Us Now"

taken from the 1981 album 'Running Out Of Time' to be re-issued on URU/Lucky Number on March 18th, 2016. 

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Rexy - Alien

from the "Eternal Delight" CD/LP (NNF316)
Not Not Fun / 2016

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Purple Pilgrims "Thru Evry Cell"

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If you saw WALL play in NYC or at SXSW (they were No. 2 on Time Out Austin’s top picks for SXSW 2016) you will recognize some of the tracks on their new LP, Untitled. "Everything In Between" was often a set opener, albeit in an instrumental form. Here we find the definitive full band arrangement, which shows a group capable of generating wave after wave of engaging post-punk. First single "High Ratings" advances the strengths of WALL's self-titled EP with it's look at modern anxiety stemming from social media addiction: "We're all guilty," as singer Sam York howls. Their rocking cover of Half Japanese's classic "Charmed Life" is probably the closest track in tone to "Cuban Cigars," the pop moment on the WALL EP. True to the original, it features perfectly skronky sax from Pill’s Ben Jaffe. "River Mansion" displays Vince McClelland's extensive post-punk guitar vocabulary with squalls, shrieks and plinks over the band's elegant Kroutrock groove with York and Skadden's cooing vocals occasionally synching with a slippery guitar riff. Fans of Skadden's former group, Finally Punk will appreciate "Save Me" – a tale of desperation with Skadden sharing lead vocal duties along with York. These are just a few examples of songs from this diverse and intense LP, showing us a band stretching out sonically and stylistically at their peak and right before their untimely demise. 

So there you have it -- a testament to a band that formed in an instant, burned brightly and left us with two great records. Did you see WALL at Palisades, The Silent Barn, Alphaville, Union Pool, and all the rest of them? Let this LP remind you or take you there for the first time. Mixed by Mike Kutchman at Kutch 1 Studios and mastered by Josh Bonati.

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Stereogum Premieres "High Ratings" - a jamboree of demoniac guitar lines and seductively hostile vocals
PAST PRESS
Stereogum Premieres “Fit The Part” - ripping apart at the seams and bursting through with unnerving vitality
Pitchfork Review of WALL EP - In tricks like these, WALL wriggle out from the under the weight of history

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WALL - River Mansion (from the Untitled LP)

Water From Your Eyes' latest album "All A Dance" is the fifth installment of the EIS tape club. The duo of Rachel Brown (Thanks For Coming) and Nate Amos (Opposites) blend together pop and dance music with influences from 80's post-punk and 90's dream-pop.

Water From Your Eyes - We're Set Up

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

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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

Ethio 12 song 7

She was only seeing white light 
But suspended all in black 
All strangely familiar 
In this sudden attack 

That girl 
She lived an everyday life 
Working hard for the man all the time 
All her woes crawled away 
When the dark came that day 

With the dark explosion 
The dull aisles of doom 
Became caves of joy 
A heavenly cocoon

(We wrote this as part of a community project. Phèdre Dancer Leah Gold did the illustration. // http://theblot.tumblr.com // http://theblot.bandcamp.com // @TheBlot_)

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A stylistic sampler of the Mexican Summer / Software Recording Co. catalog

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