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Everywhere I Go

Taos Humm - 'OXT'. Taken from Howling Owl Records 'Sink' compilation.

For the third year running we are releasing a 12" compilation featuring four acts, though this year it's a bit of a curveball in terms of the line up. REI (Vessel), OLO Worms, Taos Humm and Giant Swan makes an eclectic mix. 

In what has been a year of progression and evolution for Howling Owl, it makes sense for this record to be so diverse. Featuring the first vinyl appearances of Taos Humm's melancholy-pysch and Giant Swan's claustrophobic drone, alongside a welcome return to the unpredictable world of OLO Worms and an exclusive track from one of Vessel's aliases REI; this is a special record that ebbs and flows and fills.

We like to make our records mean something, and this is a compilation that encapsulates where we are at right now in terms of music and meaning.

Come sink with us.

Taos Humm - OXT

From the album, THE THRALL. Available digitally and on cassette via Like Young Records starting September 21st, 2014.

Caroline Jackson - Piano Bass, Organ, Vocals 
Matt Dressen - Drums, Vocals 
Eddie Charlton - Guitar, Vocals 
Nick Laurich - Guitar 

Engineered and Produced by Robert Komitz at the Frawg Pound in Portland, OR. Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering, Portland, OR. 

Artwork by Matt Dressen

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Lubec - "Almost Vince"

"Late Bloomer" is the lead track from our recently completed cassette EP, called Concentration, and out on February 5th via Touchy Feely Records. 

It follows The Thrall, our September 2014 debut full-length, and serves as a short teaser before we enter the studio to record a new batch of songs for our next full-length with Dylan Wall (Craft Spells, Weed, Naomi Punk) in the first week of March!

Pre-order here: https://touchyfeelyrecords.bandcamp.com/merch

The set was engineered and produced by Robert Comitz (Hornet Leg, Marriage + Cancer, K Records), who did the same work on our previous release. The Thrall was listed as an 'Essential Portland Album of 2014' by The Oregonian and received positive reviews. One or more of our members are active in other local bands within the same scene, including Havania Whaal and Wet Trident.

Thank you for listening,

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"So now when I pry my eyes open to play a bit of a mindless video game, I will also duct tape the headphones to my ears, glue the volume control on the highest setting with Lubec in the player, and just let it all go into blissful meltdown" - Tiny Mix Tapes

"Lubec blazes through the thick, fuzzy clouds of the Pacific Northwest with driving, melodic tunes." - Impose

"They are among the city's elite loud-pop heavyweights." - The Portland Mercury

"Lubec is a band that bounces well off the walls, forming the occasional bruise or bloody mark, but usually in the shape of something beautifully deceiving" - Impression of Sound


"Late Bloomer"

For this release, that coincidentally came out on  Record Store Day 2016, I spent about 3 months downloading as many of the thousands of songs released on Record Store Day 2015. I think I managed to find about 85% of them and it almost killed me. I may as well have stabbed myself in the ears and eyes with a spike of frozen shit.

I then made 'slabs' of noise by layering about 100 songs at a time on top of each other on Garage Band, creating 100 or so of these 4-5 minute slabs of dirge before sending them to Harry Wright (Naturals/Giant Swan) to try and make a song out of them all. 

Predictably, he came back with something really excellent, and then I probably went and ruined it by using the Cut Up Technique, going through all of the names of the releases and cutting words at random, forming them into some kind of gibberish that I whispered over the track.

Whoever bought the 7" also received our full back catalogue.

Thought I'd put it up today as it is the final day of our 5th Birthday Week, and seems like a good time to let people know just how stupid we (well, me) really are. 

ANK - RSD15

Break My Mode

'Galaxilympics' is the title track of Pikacyu-Makoto's forthcoming album, out August 4th through Upset The Rhythm.

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Galaxilympics

Pikacyu-Makoto - 'Galaxilympics'

From the upcoming album "Dear", available July 14th, 2017 via Sargent House.

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Boris - Memento Mori

Violens' forthcoming album, "True," finds the Brooklyn three-piece further amplifying their innovative songwriting with a palette of exquisitely crafted sound. The band's music eludes classification, expertly blending percussive guitar work and silky harmonies, seeking the silver lining yet to be discovered between the sounds we know and love. With a wash of 90s sonic pop drawn from artists like Pale Saints, Cocteau Twins and McCarthy, Violens paint soft watercolor notes across their compositions, adding crucial emotional depth via layered vocal harmonies.

The album's first single, "Totally True," demonstrates this with its stone-washed, semi-improvised feel, celebrating bands like The Chameleons and Martin Newell's Cleaners From Venus. The guitars are clean and jangling, meshing perfectly with the driving bassline. The lovely vocals have an almost 60s feel; their debt to such soft-rock touchstones as The Association and Sagittarius is one of the unique elements of Violens' sound that sets them well-apart from many of their contemporaries. The b-side "Something Falling" is a dreamy ballad marked by an effectively spare production, sweeping synths and the band's trademark harmonies. Simply gorgeous.


Violens - Totally True

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Lilys - Well Traveled Is Protest

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