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A. What Life's About
B. Killing Memories
01. Calling Colleen
02. Let Go
03. Slightly Salted
04. All Day Long
05. Spend Some Time
06. No Big Story
07. She Drove By
08. Big Foot
09. Gravel Road Girl
10. To Go Nowhere
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Here we go kids. Got to a ton of them this time. Almost 100 bands are represented here. A few of these links haven't been revived in the better part of ten years. One thing to keep in mind before making a request. If I state at the end of a particular entry that the file is no longer being shared there is most likely a good reason for this - either I've been forced to pull it or the title has been reissued and is commercially available again in one form or another. Please do NOT ask me to restore files for entries with this type of notation.
Also, since I'm going to be indisposed for the remainder of the week, you won't be seeing any new posts until Monday. Enjoy the weekend.
11th Hour - Shapes and Things to Come
The All Golden - A Long Good Friday
Alternate Learning - s/t ep & Painted Windows
Angst - s/t ep, Lite Life, Mystery Spot, Mending Wall
Auto Interiors - No Frill Haloflight
Bad Thing - Candy From a Stranger
The Balancing Act - New Campfire Songs ep
Beat Feat - One Hundred Places
Big Dipper - Impossible Things promo ep
Big Drill Car - No Worse For the Wear demos
Bleach - Fast ep, Hard ep, Snag & Eclipse eps
Steve Blimkie and the Reason - s/t
Brave Tears - Silver in the Darkness ep
Brilliant Orange - Happy Man ep
Creeper Lagoon - live 1998 and rarities
Crossfire Choir - s/t, Dominique, Back to the Wall
Delusions of Grandeur - Picture Perfect Martyr
Doctors Children - King Buffalo
Dreams So Real - Nocturnal Omissions
Dumptruck - D is for Demos & Live 1987
Facecrime - Sex and Revolution ep
Fretblanket - Better Than Swimming ep
further - grimes golden ep, griptape, sometimes chimes
Game Theory - Berkeley Square 10/2/86
Guided By Voices - Live at Waterloo Records (MP3/FLAC)
Gypsy Devils/Hellmenn - split single
Heats - Have an Idea - MP3/FLAC
Hippycrickets - Inconceivable!!!
Jet Black Factory - Days Like These ep
The Lanes - You and Your Ideas
Lynyrds Innards/Nation of Wenonah - split 10"
The McGuires - Start Breathing
New Radiant Storm King - Rival Time
Nocturnal Projections - Nerve Ends in Power Lines
Okay Paddy - The Cactus Has a Point
Papa Sprain - Flying to Vegas ep
Poster Children - Clock Street ep
Pure Joy - s/t ep, Getz the Worm, Unsung
Rainyard - Ice Cream Overdrive tape
Ratcat - s/t ep & This Nightmare
Reactions - Cracked Marbles ep
The Reivers - Translate Slowly
Rockin' Bricks - ...Wild Weeknight ep
Rubber Sole - Appetite for Mayhem ep
Senses Bureau - Love and Industry ep
Shepherds of Hot Pavement - s/t
Sonny Sixkiller - This is Your Heaven
Stray Trolleys (Cleaners From Venus) - Barricades and Angels tape
The Pursuit of Happiness - Love Junk demos
Theory on Blondes - Better Things tape
True Believers - Live! Faster! Harder! Harder! tape (MP3/FLAC)
U2 - contract demos & Two Hearts and Other Strange Things
V/A - Another Damned Seattle Compilation
V/A - Endangered Species 7" box
Waves of Grain - The West Was Fun
Wire - Graham's Practice tape (demos) & 154 rehearsal
APOF's much belated fourth full-length, An Archaea just saw the light of day June 25th, and the band's self described "88-month moratorium" is officially in the rear-view. The album's opening salvo, "Old Salt" find Feerick and Co. tenacious as ever, melding consoling vocals to a dynamic backdrop of heaving, distortion soaked chords, inhaling and exhaling at the precisely apropos moments. "No Fissions'" startlingly dramatic beginning soon settles into the mid-tempo forte they've made their current calling card. "Breakers" is a serrated, dream-gaze stunner that builds to an absolutely divine hook, and "Boom Vang" finally scratches that Loveless itch the band has been stretching for all these years. An Archaea offers some uncharacteristically "ambient" (for lack of a better word) reprieves in the guise of "Gamma" and the moodier "Diving Bell," while the poppy, piano-steeped title track emanates an innovation altogether unique in the Parks oeuvre.
Even when this album doesn't consistently ascend to the heights of past triumphs like their 2004 debut single "Venosa." or their aforementioned sophomore masterstroke, Out of the Angeles, An Archaea is utterly representative of APOF's strengths which are still as indigenous and gratifying as ever. You can experience the entire thing on your format of choice (even hot pink vinyl, arriving later this fall) via Bandcamp and the band's store.
When is a Well Wishers album not a Well Wishers album? To get the definitive skinny on this you'd have to go straight to the source, in this case none other than Jeff Shelton. To save you the effort I'll try to sum it up in a nutshell. The Well Wishers, is Shelton's musical meat and potatoes proposition of which he's staked his power poppin' reputation on over the course of roughly ten albums and shorter form releases since 2010. Somewhere in the vicinity of 2012, he had conceived a stash of songs that were slightly more aggressive leaning than the fare he normally relegated to Wishers records (not to mention his like-minded predecessor act the Spinning Jennies). With that, Hot Nun was born, as a new vehicle if you will for his brattier "alter ego."
Additionally, Shelton has always had an affection for Anglophile post-punk (think The Chameleons), not to mention shoegaze. Over the course of the pandemic, his muse led him to hone an entire album that would extrapolate these tangents that have seemingly been accumulating inside him for decades. With that, a whole 'nother umbrella was opened to corral a new set of raindrops, and Deadlights was established. There aren't 180 degrees of separation between Deadlights and the Well Wishers, or for that matter 90 or even 45 degrees, but the ten songs populating this album rightfully deserved a neighborhood of their own. I wouldn't go into this one expecting the kind of woozy, tremolo soaked vistas My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive graced us with three decades past, however the driving and loudly ringing guitar-chitecture informing the distortion addled "Breaking Down," "Come Down Slowly," and "Lazy Eye," exude robust textures and a dense firmament we're not accustom to experiencing from indie-pop's favorite well-wisher, so to speak. Elsewhere, Deadlights' roar is curtailed into dreamier and lucid sonic swells when the chiming "The Knowing" and "Carefree" infiltrate your earbuds or audio portal of choice. Shelton's newest endeavor is still ultimately rooted in pop, albeit with a decidedly contemplative subtext...and more effects pedals. Deadlights is available to have, hold and purchase at Bandcamp and Amazon.
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Per their FB page (linked above) the Steamers may still be rolling at full boil, with what might have been their first album dropping last year.
A. (I) Walk Alone
B. Mary Carney (Oct, '69)
01. Real World
02. Primary Concern
03. I Know
04. I Am the Walrus
05. Sound Society
06. I Love Ethyl
07. Beautiful Fascist
08. Haven't Got a Clue