Definitive Taste | Spring Selections 2015

Destruction Unit "Feed The Dogs"

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

"Did I Tell You Last Night?" taken from the Cheena 7", Out Now. 

7": http://bit.ly/1BcwRSu
iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/cheena

Website: http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/collections/cheena
Tour dates: http://bit.ly/1IbghKt

Cheena - "Did I Tell You Last Night?"

Buy 'Natureboy' Debut Album on 2LP Gatefold Vinyl (incl. Download Card), CD or Digital

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Natureboy

With Me Now Feat. Dirg Gerner

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - “Can’t Keep Checking My Phone” from the album ‘Multi-Love’ out May 26th, 2015 on Jagjaguwar

Jagjaguwar: http://smarturl.it/umo?iQid=sc.cant // Amazon: http://smarturl.it/umo_amazon?iQid=sc.cant // iTunes: http://smarturl.it/umo_itunes?iQid=sc.cant // Indies: http://smarturl.it/umo_indies?iQid=sc.cant

Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Artist Page www.jagjaguwar.com/artist.php?name=umo
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Facebook www.facebook.com/unknownmortalorchestra
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra - “Can’t Keep Checking My Phone” from ‘Multi-Love’ out May 26th, 2015 on Jagjaguwar

Lyrics:
Aurora Borealis, me for her for real it’s lust
The love can’t be heard above
Everyone acts like a day drinker (yeah)

We eat crickets 
In the future
Just tastes like 
“Far-from-home”
Drink Chicha
In the Jungle
That sounds great
Im kinda busy, could you call back again?
Im sure you’ll come back
Til then I

Can’t keep checking my phone (no)

We read the universe might be holographic
Traffic lights might reverse my love
Go ahead and traverse the winter (yeah)

We eat crickets 
In the future
Just tastes like 
“Far-from-home”
Drink Chicha
In the Jungle
That sounds great
Im kinda busy, could you call back again?
Im sure you’ll come back
Til then I

Can’t keep checking my phone (no)

Can't Keep Checking My Phone

Pre-order on iTunes

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - "Can't Keep Checking My Phone"

Fuzz Club 10" split single no 6

A Place To Bury Strangers - Down The Stairs
The Telescopes - I Wanna Be Your Dog


A Place To Bury Strangers- Down The Stairs

There's a Girl in the Corner (Robert Smith version)

Since breaking the surface of the largely languid indie tributaries earlier this year, publicity shy Gulf have been hiding out in their Liverpool studio.  Adding beef and brawn to their singularly diaphanous pop hooks, Ocean represents a mini-psych symphony in two parts.  

Gulf live dates:
Friday 22nd May - LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY
Sunday 7th June - FIELD DAY
Thursday 18th June - Liverpool, Kazimier.
Friday 19th June - Wrexham, Central Station
19th July - LATITUDE FESTIVAL, 
23rd - 26th July - SECRET GARDEN PARTY, Huntingdon
25th July - TRAMLINES, Sheffield

www.gulfmusicuk.com

Ocean

Taken from the debut album ‘Roosevelt’ available now on Greco-Roman / City Slang.

Listen & stream on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music and more:: roosevelt.lnk.to/roosevelt

www.iamroosevelt.com
play.spotify.com/artist/4AQrq...
www.greco-roman.com
www.cityslang.com

Roosevelt - Hold On

Borrowed Voices

On the Jupiter

Swanning

Green Glass Room is the debut LP from Seattle trio VATS. Out this July on End of Time Records.

VATS - Green Glass Room

the word wireform is a sculture genre, as is assemblage and bas-relief.
the CD available for $9.95 here:
http://kunaki.com/Sales.asp?PID=PX00Z669BI&PP=1

- from Wireform LP 2016

wireform

dressed in leather

Dressed In Leather  (from wireform LP 2016)

Recorded by Adrien Gauthier at Mains d'Œuvres
Mixed by Aaron Bastinelli
Mastered by Mathieu Bameulle / SB Mastering

03 - No Right Time

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

Energy

Gong Gong Gong, Bambara, Holy Motors, Public Practice, Lily Konigsberg, Bush Tetras, Profligate, Palberta, Urochromes, Macula Dog, David Vassalotti, The Sediment Club, Horoscope+

We are in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

"A sly declaration of new classic status..." —Nick Hornby

Bichkraft - Didn't Know

Wharf Cat Records

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