Name: Verma - Hologrammer by TroubleInMind
Duration: 6 min 13 s
Description: From the album "Sunrunner" - out NOW on Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

From the album "Sunrunner" - out NOW on Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Verma - Hologrammer

A track from The Vacant Lots' debut album 'Departure', remixed by legendary Suicide frontman Alan Vega.

Released on a limited-edition 7" single on March 16, 2015.

Pre-order here: http://is.gd/tvlremix7

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The Vacant Lots '6 AM' (Alan Vega Remix)

Gringo and Faux Discx are set to release an expanded version of HOOKWORMS debut EP on CD and digitally on March 4th 2016

Pre-order: http://gringorecords.limitedrun.com/products/566096-hookworms-hookworms-ep-bonus-tracks-cd

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A reissue of a 7 track expanded version of Hookworms 2011 self-titled debut EP off the back of two critically acclaimed albums - 2013's Pearl Mystic on Gringo and 2014's The Hum released worldwide on Domino arm Weird World – is both a marker from where Leeds five-piece have subsequently hurtled forwards from, but also a document and proof of the undeniable character that they've never allowed to waver even as all around them has changed.

The EP contains the first tracks the group ever recorded in vocalist and producer MJ's original Suburban Home Studio, with the group just a handful of local shows into their existence – one such show, supporting Sun Araw lead to its original release.  "It was a very exciting time for us," bassist MB recalls. "MJ having his first studio meant we'd gone from practicing in a tiny basement and receiving noise complaints to having a place where we could do what we wanted. We played with Sun Araw just as we were finishing the EP and Cameron Stallones enjoyed our set and asked to hear any recordings - then subsequently released it on cassette."

Hookworms have long since evolved into a mighty beast, live able to fill cavernous warehouses with a vitriolic form of kosmiche, as when headlining Liverpool Psych Fest, or when supporting fuzzy legends Slowdive during their 2014 comeback. Hookworms as a listen though already has in place several of the traits that have helped elevate them – the strutting bass and four note repetition of Teen Dreams is pure Modern Lovers, mining the group's 60's garage and proto-punk influences and mixing them with a caustic modernity. It's the only track that still makes an occasional appearance live; another highlight is the rolling bass thunder of I Have Some Business Out West crackles with the energy of an approaching storm: "Our gear wasn't as good back then so we did quite a bit of re-amping and post-production," MB comments. "The EP was basically a playground for experimentation with a bunch of new guitar pedals we'd recently acquired."

In addition, the reissue comes with additional early and rare recordings - the drone heavy initial version of Form and Function, which would appear on a split 7" alongside Nottingham-based peers Kogumaza, plus the swaggering rumbles of The Correspondent – which appeared on 2012 Sonic Cathedral compilation Psych For Sore Eyes. The former is a premonition of phase two of the band, foreshadowing the heavier, dense sound around Pearl Mystic; the latter still sounds like a wonderful outlier – which says something for a band whose boundaries have forever stretched towards the horizon.

MJ would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for all the support, help and donations he has received after his studio in Leeds was flooded over Christmas. The band had been working on new material at Suburban Home Studios prior to the flood. 

Tracklisting:

Medicine Cabinet
Teen Dreams
I Have Some Business Out West
Resolution
Form and Function (originally released on a split 7" with Kogumaza on Gringo)
Deu (originally released on cassette Spur: Volume One compilation, Magnetic Tapes)
The Correspondent (originally released on Psych For Sore Eyes 7")

HOOKWORMS – Teen Dreams

From the album Getaway (Deluxe 2016 Remaster), out December 2, 2016 on Merge Records.

Getaway (Deluxe 2016 Remaster)

The Clean "Stars" (2016 Remaster)

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ORDER ON BANDCAMP - https://wharfcatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pre-order-untitled

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.

PRESS
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)

The first offering from Wireheads 'Lightning Ears' LP, out October 20 through Tenth Court.

Wireheads- Indian Pacific Express

‘Brand New Bathroom’ is the second single and title track from the debut EP by The Dolce Vita. The EP releases on white cassette as part of the Brand New Bathroom bundle and digitally via Major Leagues on 25th August, following a release show the night before. More details are available here:

www.facebook.com/events/249016965503547/

Pre-orders will be available soon.

ML xx

Brand New Bathroom EP

The Dolce Vita - Brand New Bathroom

New album "Primates" out on November 29th 2019 via Howlin' Banana Rds.
Buy/Stream: https://modulor.lnk.to/primates

Baston - Primates

WHITE RAINBOW Remix of MOON DUO'S "Trails", from Exclusive Record Store Day Limited LP 'CIRCLES REMIXED'!

CIRCLES REMIXED:
Side a.
Free Action (Tom Furse Mix)
Trails (White Rainbow Trailblazer Edition)
Sleepwalker (Zombie Zombie Mix)
I Been Gone (Life Coach Mix)

Side b.
I Can See (K-X-P Live Mix)
Ville Cranian (Circles) (Sun Araw)
Sparks (Eric Copeland Mix)
Rolling Out (Umberto Mix)

When Moon Duo’s last full length, Mazes, was released in 2011 there was a limited edition bonus CD that came with it exclusively for retail featuring remixes of the album tracks by the likes of Gary War, Sonic Boom, Psychic Ills and others. The bonus disc was so well received that the band decided to release it as a limited 12” on RSD in 2012 and will do it again with their new album Circles.  This time the remixes are from Portland/ Kranky Record’s artist White Rainbow, Black Dice member Eric Copeland, Zombie Zombie, Tom Furse of the Horrors, Sun Araw, Phil Manley of Trans Am, Life Coach, Umberto, and Finnish band K-X-P.


Exclusive Record Store Day Release limited to 1000!
Features remixes by Tom Furse (The Horrors), Life Coach (Phil Manley of Trans Am), Eric Copeland (Black Dice) and more!
Moon Duo will be back touring the EU this late spring/summer!


Moon Duo - Trails (White Rainbow Remix)

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