Ty Segall - The Drag

From the Mascot LP by Bichkraft!  Order your LP or CD at www.wharfcatrecords.com!

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Release Date:  4/21/2015
Personnel:  Dima Novichenko, Jenia Bichowski, Serzh Kupriychuk, Jenia Machina

RIYL:  The Jesus and Mary Chain, early Velvet Underground, Big Black, Sonic Youth

From Kiev to Kansas City, 20-somethings the world over tend to traffic in the same sort of distractions from modern life: clothes, sneakers, cars, love. Mascot, the debut LP from Ukranian guitar and drum machine noise makers, Bichcraft, holds these things for what they are: fleeting diversions from the bleak realities of modern times and an increasingly uncertain political landscape. That the band composed, wrote and recorded Mascot’s eight songs in its hometown of Kiev only adds to their authority on the matter.  As Dima Novichenko sings in the album opener ‘Didn’t Know,’ “There are erased numbers on your road… We better cover our heads.”  
This is heavy, paranoid music in the shape of frenetic jams like “A4,” in which waves of dual-guitar noise accompany a digitized howl, chanting from deep inside the mix. Often, guitar interludes emerge quickly and take a song in a new direction as they do in "Might Night Dicks."  On this track Novichenko and Bichowski display an extensive post-punk guitar vocabulary. They are as fluent in Psychocandy as they are early SY.  After hearing the record’s interwoven guitar lines, it should come as no surprise that the two originally met up to play garage jazz before Serzh Kupriychuk and Jenia Machina joined to handle bass and drum machines, respectively.   
For its brutality and chaos, Mascot has some undeniably pretty moments: the lilting guitar refrain that kicks off “Bushes,” for example, or the often poetic imagery in Novichenko and Bichowski’s lyrics about the natural world, love and decay. Still, these nods to beauty always lead back to fractured songs about suburban scenes where mankind’s disregard for nature is just a warning of greater dangers looming on the edge of town. 

Bichkraft - Didn't Know

Static Daydream is the new project of Paul Baker (founding member of Skywave and Ceremony), and their first full-length release is comprised of 11 noisy pop songs swathed in reverb and distortion.

In 2012, Paul, and his girlfriend and musical partner, Jamie Casey, began recording what would become their debut EP, "The Only One," released on Moon Sounds Records in 2014 to much adoration.  Here's a review from Clank For Breakfast:

"Once you enter the door to the four melody-kisses-noise songs on this EP, you’re hooked and feel home in less than a sec. Whether it’s the dynamically circulating opener “The Only One” with its delightfully seductive, crisp chorus, the groovy “I Want To Break Your Heart” with its bittersweet charm and The Cure reminding guitar colors, the gently swirling dreampop cloud “Disbelief” featuring the fairylike, beautiful vocals by Jamie Casey and additional programming by Jake Reid (Screen Vinyl Image), or the closing noisepop candy “Inside” with its sparkling energy and sweet'n'yearning scent - this trip showcases skilful songwriting and offers embracing harmonies as well as crunchy edges, pulse-quickening, fiery moments as well as relaxed flirts".

Their self-titled album on Saint Marie Records with Moon Sounds Records, released in 2015, is full of melancholic, romantic, distortion-fueled songs, dripping with reverb and classic songwriting.  Inspired by 60's girl groups, 80's and 90's British noise-pop, and assisted by Jake Reid of Screen Vinyl Image and Ice Station Mastering, Static Daydream's debut is full of dreamy, hook-laden songs reminiscent of Skywave, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Slowdive.

Static Daydream - Blue Tambourine Girl

Dan Melchior's Broke Revue - Outskirts

First track from the new Causa Sui full length album, "Return to Sky", coming out on El Paraiso Records on March 18!

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kPNWonY84Y

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Causa Sui: "The Source"

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4 songs auf 45rpm…
Die Gang ist im Haus, bitte sofort alle scharfen Gegenstände wegpacken und den Kindern die Ohren zuhalten! Die Stockholmer Viagra Boys sind so assi wie Poison Idea und Butthole Surfers und so groovy wie Neu! und die Pissed Jeans. Ihre erste Ep. “The Consistency Of Energy ” war in Windeseile ausverkauft, nun gibt es die Repress mit neuem Cover und auf knallroten Vinyl. Eine Koopertaion zwischen TCM & Puch My Buttons aus Schweden

Viagra Boys are a gnarly post-punk band from Stockholm, made up of members of groups like Pig Eyes and Le Big Bird. The Consistency Of Energy EP pays a lot of attention to the low-end, where distorted bass guitar throbs along irresistibly. This is a damn good psych-trip – take Butthole Surfers, Pissed Jeans and NEU! meets Sweden! The volvo under the saabs! I will do a coop with Push My Button, who released the frist 500 copies for scandinavia! Wicked!

03. Cant Get It Up

02. I Dont Remember That

Exploded View's 'Summer Came Early' EP isout November 10 on Sacred Bones Records.
12" EP Preorder: https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbr180-exploded-view-summer-came-early-ep
Digital Preorder: https://explodedview.bandcamp.com/album/summer-came-early-ep

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Mirror Of The Madman

The Callas worked with Lee Ranaldo on the soundtrack of their new feature film “The Great Eastern” and on their new full-length album, “Trouble and Desire” which is due for release on October, 26th 2018 on Inner Ear and Dirty Water Records.  The new album is diverse and exploratory, with songs that range in style from brutal post-punk skronk to deconstructed rebetiko. smarturl.it/thecallas

The Callas With Lee Ranaldo  - Acid Books

The Underground Youth ninth album, Montage Images of Lust & Fear is undoubtedly their most sincere work in an extensive, decade-long discography with which they’ve picked up a cult following across the globe – made evident in their millions of YouTube streams and relentless international touring.  


This is The Underground Youth’s most intense and honest record yet - in the ambitious songwriting and live recording (a first for the band), as well as the lyrical subject matter. Craig Dyer explains “Montage Images of Lust & Fear is inspired by the succession of experiences we are increasingly dealt by the media. Sex, violence, love, suspicion, desire, distress, etc. The album acts as a montage itself, the subject of each song dealing with an aspect of either lust or fear. Like flicking through the channels on a television. Until in the end you are overcome by white noise. Static.”

Montage Images Of Lust & Fear

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The Underground Youth - Last Exit To Nowhere

KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS
Freak Train (live w/ Bradford Cox)
The Hunchback EP (2009/2012)

**bonus track included with vinyl purchase**

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this track is available only as a bonus download included with vinyl purchase

recorded live at the Earl in Atlanta, August 7 2011. Thanks to Henry Owings.

Mastered by Mark Trewella @ Full Circle

Freak Train (live w/ Bradford Cox) by KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS

This Charming Man Records is a label from Muenster/Germany. We work with Cargo Records (Germany), DayAfter, Sonic Rendevouz (Benelux), Code7 (UK, Cobraside (USA) and Green Hell Records as our distribution/wholesale partners.


03. Cant Get It Up

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