@fishjinmoldin: Props go to you, Christian! Loving the album, waiting for pay day and to order whatever's left of the second pressing. (Hope there is one left in time...fingers crossed!)

Notes from Left of the Dial: Dec. 20

Tadpole

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

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Dino Spiluttini and Nils Quak - Modular Anxiety
© Umor Rex Records. Release date: January 28, 2014
BUY VINYL: www.umor-rex.org
BUY DIGITAL: www.umorrex.bandcamp.com

Vinyl LP limited edition of 300 copies packaged in an uncoated stock jackets with double sided insert, black inner polylined sleeve, and free download coupon. First 170 copies on gold opaque colored vinyl, remaining copies on black.

Modular Anxiety is a split LP comprised of 10 tracks that presents an audacious face in the land of ambient / drone synth music. One side belongs to Dino Spiluttini (with works on Home Normal and Beatismurder) and the other to Nils Quak (who has released on labels such as Nomadic Kids Republic and Sis Sic Tapes). ≈

It could be argued that for each common trait that binds them, there are twice as many differences that throw them apart. If the same words can be used to describe both sides (spatial, cathartic, acute, deep) one must also concede that they may not even belong to the same genre, even if the two of them do hum and drone profusely, glitch at intervals, and (apparently) constitute their sound from a warm analogue-digital palette. But the differences in character cannot be ignored: Spiluttini’s work is relatively direct and specific, with soaring melodies, taut structures, high frequency grasslands, surprises and electronic nuances full of musical drama sense, while Quak’s – written entirely on a modular synthesizer – sound is somehow more obscure, with a slower sense of time, cooler colors, bubbling textures, piercing notes, a mood of brooding mystery and menace, atonal melodies and phrasings, and an all-around smoky vision and sensibility.  So, the question arises: how come that such contrasting visions work so well together?  Both sides are made of synthetic music that sometimes evokes distorted environments & landscapes, but that hardly accounts for the odd tonal unity and continuity that goes from the A-side (Dino Spiluttini) to the B side (Nils Quak). Yet, they’re both equally friendly to the ear and satisfying in their own way. When considered together, they share a tacit agreement, a subtle and eerie intuition that goes back and forth between them.

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Dino Spiluttini - Anxiety

From The Hotelier's upcoming LP "Home, Like Noplace Is There" out 2/25/14 on Tiny Engines

Pre-Order Now: tnyn.gs/hotelyear

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The Hotelier - The Scope Of All Of This Rebuilding

<a href="http://www.smarturl.it/RTJBIGDADA">Buy 'Run The Jewels' physical</a> / <a href="http://smarturl.it/RTJBIDADAIT">Download 'Run The Jewels' on iTunes</a>

'Sea Legs' (Dave Sitek Remix) taken from the European release of 'Run The Jewels' out 13th Jan on Big Dada.

Run The Jewels Live Dates:
December 19: (El-P Solo Show) at The Troubadour: bit.ly/19BG8pl
December 31: Lincoln Theatre NYE: bit.ly/IDfvK1

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Run The Jewels

Sea Legs (Dave Sitek Remix)

Run The Jewels - 'Sea Legs' (Dave Sitek Remix)

From The Hotelier's "Home, Like Noplace Is There" LP out now on Tiny Engines

Order Now: tnyn.gs/hotelyear

The Hotelier - An Introduction To The Album

The Hotelier - In Framing

The Hotelier - Among The Wildflowers

The Sun (Tigers Jaw Cover)

Push Start Heartbreak is a full-blast pop-punk concept album from Driveway Ghosts, built from one insane night of teenage chaos, fear, and adrenaline.

It’s the story of three kids stealing a car, thinking they’re invincible…
and discovering how fast things can spiral out of control.

From pushing the car past glowing Christmas windows,
to meeting the wrong crowd at a school dance,
to being trapped with a knife at your throat,
to the final sunrise drive home —
this is suburban danger told through fast riffs, emotional choruses,
and the raw, reckless honesty of youth.

Every track is a chapter.
Every lyric is a memory you can’t outrun.
Every chorus hits like a heartbeat slamming in your chest.

If you grew up on Blink-182, Jimmy Eat World, The Starting Line,
Sum 41, or Yellowcard —
this album is your nostalgia and your nightmare rolled together.

Driveway Ghosts — Push Start Heartbreak
Turn it up.
Relive the night.
Feel the fear, the freedom, and the heartbreak of growing up too fast.

Push Start Heartbreak

Blunts, Threats & Bad Ideas

2008 Tour

Spirit Desire

Pleasant Living

Sundress

Free Throw's first album. This is from their bandcamp. I'm not making money from this, i just wanted people to listen to it since it's amazing!

Free Throw

Free Throw - An Hour Pissed (2012)

Keep Doing What You're Doing

Match & Tinder

Tiny Engines is an independent record label founded in 2008 and reestablished in 2022. Based in the Carolinas.

The Hotelier - The Scope Of All Of This Rebuilding

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