GT Reposted Mix 2017 Part Two

Early April 01.04.17 - 21.04.17

2017-04

PRE-ORDER LP/CD - wharfcatrecords.com/store/pre-order…alk-about-music
PRE-ORDER LP/CD ON BANDCAMP - wharfcatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pre-…bout-music
PRE-ORDER ON APPLE MUSIC - itunes.apple.com/us/album/lets-no…sic/id1217572163

Joey Agresta is a former north New Jerseyan who now lives with his wife and cat above a Burlington Vermont junk shop (where he also works). Let's Not Talk About Music was created over the course of three years with Agresta arranging, performing, recording, and mixing it in the cozy confines of his bedroom studio. Though many devices were used in the recording of this album computers were completely avoided and the majority was done on the Akia MG-614 (1/8" cassette 4 track) and MG- 1214 (1/2" cassette 12 track).
Appreciators of the New England underground might know Joey from his days of recording bizarre songs on erase headless, multi layering, portable tape recorders under various, food themed, pseudonyms (Joey Pizza Slice, Son of Salami, Salami Junior, ect..) and his releases on the venerable Night People and Feeding Tube labels (as well as countless self released and custom, one-off cassettes). Agresta's songs have also been admired by some very above-ground acts over the years, among them Future Islands and The Parquet Courts -- the later split a 7" with Agresta in 2015.
Contained here are songs of a hopeful sadness that mirror the darkness of these times and the decaying heart of the songsmith. This is Agresta's most personal and sincere work thus far, sounding much more sonically refined than his grittier past exploits. But in a world filled with so much talk perhaps its best we say no more, as the title suggests, and let the music speak for itself.
JOEY AGRESTA PRESS
Stereogum Streams "I Feel Like Shit And I Want To Die" It's Friday, I can relate.
Ad Hoc Premieres "I Feel Like Shit And I Want To Die" It's one of the most accessible and relatable things Agresta has ever made; and one of the saddest too.

JOEY AGRESTA PAST PRESS
Tiny Mix Tapes Review of Bacon City ...the songwriting is as impeccable as you're likely to find anywhere else...
Pitchfork Announcement of Split 7" with Parquet Courts
Vice Creators Piece Brilliant and kind of scary at the same time.
Stereogum Announcement of Split 7" with Parquet Courts

Joey Agresta - Singles from the Let's Not Talk About Music LP

ORDER LP/CD - http://wharfcatrecords.com/store/pre-order-joey-agresta-lets-not-talk-about-music
ORDER LP/CD ON BANDCAMP - https://wharfcatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pre-order-lets-not-talk-about-music
ORDER ON APPLE MUSIC - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/lets-not-talk-about-music/id1217572163

Joey Agresta is a former north New Jerseyan who now lives with his wife and cat above a Burlington Vermont junk shop (where he also works). Let's Not Talk About Music was created over the course of three years with Agresta arranging, performing, recording, and mixing it in the cozy confines of his bedroom studio. Though many devices were used in the recording of this album computers were completely avoided and the majority was done on the Akia MG-614 (1/8" cassette 4 track) and MG- 1214 (1/2" cassette 12 track).
Appreciators of the New England underground might know Joey from his days of recording bizarre songs on erase headless, multi layering, portable tape recorders under various, food themed, pseudonyms (Joey Pizza Slice, Son of Salami, Salami Junior, ect..) and his releases on the venerable Night People and Feeding Tube labels (as well as countless self released and custom, one-off cassettes). Agresta's songs have also been admired by some very above-ground acts over the years, among them Future Islands and The Parquet Courts -- the later split a 7" with Agresta in 2015.
Contained here are songs of a hopeful sadness that mirror the darkness of these times and the decaying heart of the songsmith. This is Agresta's most personal and sincere work thus far, sounding much more sonically refined than his grittier past exploits. But in a world filled with so much talk perhaps its best we say no more, as the title suggests, and let the music speak for itself.
JOEY AGRESTA PRESS
Stereogum Streams "I Feel Like Shit And I Want To Die" It's Friday, I can relate.
Ad Hoc Premieres "I Feel Like Shit And I Want To Die" It's one of the most accessible and relatable things Agresta has ever made; and one of the saddest too.

JOEY AGRESTA PAST PRESS
Tiny Mix Tapes Review of Bacon City ...the songwriting is as impeccable as you're likely to find anywhere else...
Pitchfork Announcement of Split 7" with Parquet Courts
Vice Creators Piece Brilliant and kind of scary at the same time.
Stereogum Announcement of Split 7" with Parquet Courts

BUY LP/CD

Joey Agresta - I Feel Like Shit And I Want To Die (from the Let's Not Talk About Music LP)

Corpus I_Final

In A Grave (Denzel Curry, Moor Mother, Eartheater)

Can't Say That We Tried is written by Annelotte De Graaf
Produced, recorded and mixed by Ben Greenberg

Guitars by Manuel van den Berg
Bass by Ronald Straetemans
Drums by Jaap Bontekoe
Synths and keys by Ella van der Woude

Artwork and photography by Nick Helderman

www.amberarcades.net
https://www.facebook.com/AmberArcades/

Can't Say That We Tried

From the forthcoming album Love At Low Speed available June 16th on Western Vinyl

PRE-ORDER:
Bandcamp https://abramshook.bandcamp.com/album/love-at-low-speed
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/love-at-low-speed/id1217886558?ls=1&app=itunes
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv155

STREAM
Spotify http://open.spotify.com/album/0dDYXpTmZnWk0uNbHWQfHw

ABRM SHOOK
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/abramshookmusic/
Twitter https://twitter.com/abramshook
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sundreamlove/

LIVE DATES 
4/27 at Mohawk

Abram Shook - "The Hours"

Second track to be taken from Ulrika Spacek's new album, Modern English Decoration, out June 2nd. Available on CD, LP (black vinyl), LP (mellow yellow & secret 7" - indies only), LP (mellow yellow vinyl & secret 7" & print - Tough Love site only) and digital formats.

Pre-order Modern English Decoration
http://smarturl.it/UlrikaSpacek.MED

See Ulrika Spacek live
April
28th - Newcastle Upon Tyne - Hit The North Festival 
29th - Portsmouth - Portsmouth Psych Fest 
30th - Liverpool - Festevol 
May
16th - Brussels, Belgium - Les Nuits Botanique at the Rotonde  
June
2nd - Oxford - O2 Academy w/ Slowdive  
6th - Nottingham - Rough Trade shop instore
8th - Bristol - Rise Music instore 
14th - London - The Lexington - http://thelexington.co.uk/events/ulrika-spacek/
August
4th - Katowice, Poland - OFF Festival
20th - Stirlingshire, Scotland - Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival

Modern English Decoration - final masters MP3

Ulrika Spacek - Full of Men

“Hurt Me (feat. GABI)” is the new single from NYC collective House of Feelings. With production from Dale Eisinger of Yvette, the track contrasts industrial drums with a driving sax sample courtesy band leader Matty, then kicks into gear with a bassline schooled in Detroit. Featured vocalist GABI straight up dares the listener to "hurt me... you ain't gonna hurt me", turning every nightclub predator's cowardice back on themselves, as the track builds and her power grows. 

The track is taken from a forthcoming EP, to be released by Infinite Best (Mr Twin Sister, Ava Luna) in August 2017.  

Tickets are on sale now for House of Feeling VII, featuring DJ sets from DJ Olive T + DJ Kris Petersen, FITNESS (GODMODE), and Helado Negro, and live sets from KAG (Katie from Priests) and House of Feelings’ first ever headline set: https://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=33149185105

House of Feelings is an NYC based collective helmed by Matty Fasano and featuring a bevy of talent from the basements and bedroom studios of the New York underground. At once a band, weekly radio show, and roving dance party, the crew has swelled ranks and earned a growing following through a modern, multidisciplinary approach to creating and sharing music, fully embracing the community aspect so often present in the culture of dance music.

House of Feelings - Hurt Me (feat. GABI)

Sacamano - If You Wanted Me

Full track playback for Pitchfork - Read article here : bit.ly/Pitchfork_LM

Kilchhofer / Hainbach - Acosta
Cat. no.: Marionette-LM01
Format: 12” Vinyl EP (180g) + Digital
Release Date: May 2017
Artwork by Benjamin Kilchhofer
Distributed by : Rubadub Distribution

Little Mary strays from the pack, floating from one rock to another, in the midst of the narrow cascading river stream. Feeling the respirating leaves ebb and flow, she caught a glimpse of a pagan rain dance, a drum circle within a pocket of sunshine – where all mantras come to life.

This captivating split EP (titled ‘Acosta’), sees Kilchhofer’s second 12”, after his ‘Dersu’ EP on ‘Marionette’. The flip side features Hainbach who gets his work pressed on vinyl for the very first time – after a few tape releases, his latest being on Ted Butler & Cortini’s ‘Limited Interest’ label. This is truly something wonderful from two very gifted and unique artists.

Little Mary is a series by Marionette (a spin-off Marionette artists) – focused on split EPs and collaborative works.

Marionette-LM01

Acosta

Kilchhofer - Suckfuell [Marionette-LM01]

Noise rock supergroup Ice Balloons began in 2013 in a dark basement in Brooklyn. As much a cult as a band, helmed by a golden fly, Ice Balloons celebrates chaos as fizzles and lasers pop from every broken corner of their tumbled offerings. The band is Kyp Malone (TVOTR), Sean Kennerly (Samiam), Sean Powell (Fuckemos, Surfbort), Giselle Reiber (Midnight Masses), Dan Scinta and BA Maile. Ice Balloons recently signed with Volar Records in California and are releasing the full length album Fiesta on August 15, 2017. They are working with Chicago animator Jim Trainor on a video for their song ‘Fallen Family’. Kyp Malone is also making a video for the song ‘Dead Fly’. Ice Balloons is touring the US in August and September.

LIMITED COLOR VINYL

ICE BALLOONS - The Wasp (Fiesta LP out 08/11)

From the album Clear Language available September 22, 2017 from Western Vinyl

Pre-Order Clear Language:
Bandcamp https://balmorhea.bandcamp.com/album/clear-language
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/clear-language/id1252681306?ls=1&app=itunes
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv150

Balmorhea
https://balmorheamusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/balmorhea/
https://twitter.com/balmorheamusic
https://www.instagram.com/balmorheamusic/

A decade-plus on the road, near-constant musical output, and shifting creative priorities caused the revered Austin duo, comprised of multi-instrumentalists Rob Lowe and Michael Muller, to soberly assess the band’s future. What, in the form of Balmorhea, was there left to say? And did they have the energy to say it? 
 
Stranger, the group’s maximalist, genre-leaping full-length from 2012, had already seemed to trace the group’s farthest bounds. And, over the years, they’d worked with a roving cast of accomplished string and rhythm players to craft a glassy-eyed, sage-brushed, instrumental Americana that, while celebrated in The New Yorker, Pitchfork and The Atlantic, among myriad other press, and attracting the film, ad, and television worlds risked pigeonholing them for good. 

As they had in the beginning, in 2006, Muller and Lowe worked simply and with restraint, letting intuition guide them as they molded the 10 elegant, spacious gestures that comprise Clear Language.  A relaxed, clear-eyed sense of reflection flows gracefully through the album as these two old friends transmit unfettered meaning through simple sonic gestures that resonate with the cosmos as much as they echo the pulse of a human heart.

Clear Language

Balmorhea - "Clear Language"

CRACKER CUTS

matt robidoux -  "lime green"

The newest single off Naomi Punk's third album, the 2XLP opus Yellow - out August 4th, 2017 on Captured Tracks.

Pre-Order Physical: bit.ly/2qsFvkD
Pre-Order Digital: apple.co/2qrWoLP

Naomi Punk // Cookie

"Kid Kreative" is taken from Melkbelly's forthcoming LP, "Nothing Valley," out October 13th on Wax Nine Records.

PRE-ORDERS
wax nine - http://smarturl.it/nothingvalley_wax9
itunes - http://smarturl.it/nothingvalley_itunes

TOUR
September 6th - Pittsburgh, PA - Cattivo*
September 7th - Baltimore, MD - Metro Gallery*
September 8th - Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Music Festival
September 9th - Asheville, NC - The Mothlight*
September 10th - Cincinnati, OH - Northside Yacht Club*
October 13th - Chicago, IL - The Hideout
* w/ Protomartyr

Melkbelly - Kid Kreative

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

Joey Agresta - I Feel Like Shit And I Want To Die (from the Let's Not Talk About Music LP)

Wharf Cat Records