NEW RELEASES WEEK # 42 OCTOBER 14, 2014

OCTOBER 14, 2014 (WEEK #42)

1.    ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB-“FOUNTAIN TRANSMITTER MEDICATIONS” (2-CD) (10/14) 

2.    AUGIE MARCH-“HAVENS DUMB” (10/14) 

3.    DADS-“I’LL BE THE TORNADO” (10/14) (I'll Be The Tornado is the follow-up to the duo s highly acclaimed 2013 Pretty Good EP and marks a decidedly more diverse approach to songwriting for the band.
Recorded by Neil Strauch (Bonnie Prince Billy, IRON & WINE, OWEN) at MinBal Studio in Chicago and mastered by Carl Saff (DINOSAUR JR., GUIDED BY VOICES, SPEEDY ORTIZ.)

4.    ERASE ERRATA-“LOST WEEKEND” (10/14) (VINYL, REGULAR RELEASE 1/20/15)

5.    FRAZEY FORD-“INDIAN OCEAN” (10/14) 

6.    FOXYGEN-“…AND STAR POWER” (2-CD) (10/14) 

7.    KINDNESS-“OTHERNESS” (10/14) 

8.    JENNIFER KNAPP-“SET ME FREE” (10/14) (NEW ALBUM ON ANI DIFRANCO’S RIGHTEOUS BABE RECORDS LABEL)

9.    KRUGER-“ADAM & STEVE” (10/14) 

10. LOCUST-“AFTER THE RAIN” (10/14)

11. LOSCIL / FIELDHEAD-“FURY AND HECLA” (10/14) (Fury and Hecla is a meeting of worlds. Named after a near mid-point between the residences of artists Fieldhead and Loscil, it explores both the familiar and the foreign. Although not a collaboration in the strictest sense, sounds were shared by each artist, allowing for a sort of aural infusion between the compositions. The results are a series of fragments and quotes that appear and reappear -- sometimes in ghostly form -- throughout each artist's tracks. The serene ambient compositions of Loscil come courtesy of Vancouver-based musician Scott Morgan. Taking his moniker from the "looping oscillator" function in the computer music language Csound, Morgan uses custom-made Max for Live devices and the occasional live instrument to build robust, droning soundscapes. Morgan cites influences including Krautrock pioneers Cluster, minimalist composer Gavin Bryars, and a wealth of film music composers. Loscil's origins come from Morgan's combined influence and involvement with Vancouver's indie-rock scene in the '90s, having played in several bands as a guitarist and drummer, and also from his academic studies at Simon Fraser University where he learned computer music, film sound and new music composition studying with influential electroacoustics pioneer Barry Truax. Loscil's self-released album, A New Demonstration of Thermodynamic Tendencies, caught the ear of the Chicago independent label Kranky, who in turn signed Morgan's project and released Triple Point in October of 2001. Since then, Morgan has gone on to release five additional full-length albums with Kranky, including the latest Sketches from New Brighton, released in September of 2012. In light of Loscil's exclusive track "Umbra" on Ghostly's 2006 compilation Idol Tryouts 2, Ghostly partnered with Morgan in 2009 for the EP Strathcona Variations. Morgan has periodically partnered with other labels for special projects including 2012's City Hospital on Dublin's Wist Rec (for their Book Report series) and 2011's Coast/Range/Arc on Italy's Glacial Movements. Loscil has toured internationally and played respected festivals and events such as MUTEK, New Forms, Decibel, Substrata, Wordless Music, and more. In addition to his Loscil duties, Morgan has played drums for acclaimed Vancouver indie-rock band Destroyer and has composed several scores for major and independent games and films. Fieldhead is Paul Elam. He produces ambient/electronic music that delights in tape-hiss, geography, bleak landscapes and decaying analog loops. He is ably assisted by violinist and long-term collaborator Elaine Reynolds (The Boats, The Declining Winter). Formed in Leeds, UK in 2008, Fieldhead released a number of EPs and the critically-acclaimed album They Shook Hands for Hours (Home Assembly Music, 2009) before relocating to Vancouver, BC in 2010. While residing in Canada, Paul busied himself with remixing the likes of Epic45, Conquering Animal Sound and Brave Timbers and recording Fieldhead's second album, A Correction, which was released to wide acclaim on Gizeh Records in late October 2012. The new album builds on the love of melody, brevity and dusty atmosphere to be found in previous releases, but also adds a widescreen expansiveness in keeping with the vastness of the landscape it was created in. Paul returned to the UK to take up residence in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2012.)

12. MEATBODIES-“MEATBODIES” (10/14) (2014 debut from this band lead by Chad Ubovich of Fuzz and Mikal Cronin's band. Loud, fast, wild - you've heard this all before but you haven't because the Meatbodies are brand new and they're going to dominate your eyes and ears and give you a bangover like you've never had before. While both of his other bands have kept him busy over the past few years, his mind was always on his own songs. Eventually, In the Red took notice and the Meatbodies were added to their roster. Sequestering himself in master studio magician Eric King Riff Bauer's San Francisco studio/psychedelic sanctuary, Ubovich busted out an album's worth of songs, barely leaving the small Technicolor underground quarters. Once the tracks were done, he sent them up to Chris Woodhouse to give them just the right final touches of perfectly controlled chaos. And perfectly controlled chaos is what this trifecta delivered. The self-titled record is a sonic experience truly evocative of its creator: Unabashed, unrestrained, beautiful and strange. Riffs for days. It's everything we've come to expect from Chad Ubovich.)

13. MELVINS-“HOLD IT IN” (10/14) 

14. MONO-“RAYS OF DARKNESS” (10/14) 

15. KEVIN MORBY-“STILL LIFE WITH REJECTS FROM THE LAND OF MISFIT TOYS” (10/14) 

16. MR. KITTY-“TIME” (10/14) 

17. NIGHT TERRORS OF 1927-“ANYTHING TO ANYONE” [EP] (10/14) 

18. OBLITERATIONS-“POISON EVERYTHING” (10/14)

19. OK GO-“HUNGRY GHOSTS” (10/14) 

20. ERLAND OYE-“LEGAO” (10/14) 

21. POMPEII-“LOOM” (10/14) 

22. PRIMITIVES-“SPIN-O-RAMA” (10/14)

23. SCUBA DEATH-“NITROGEN NARCOSIS” (10/14) 

24. STARS-“NO ONE IS LOST” (10/14) 

25. SUPERSILENT-“SUPERSILENT 12” (10/14) 

26. THE TERMINALS-“SINGLES & SUNDRIES” (10/14)

27. TOSCA-“OUTTA HERE” (10/14)

28. UNWOUND-“NO ENERGY” (3-CD COLLECTION) (10/14) (As a robust rock underground got swallowed alive by the Major Label Industrial Complex, the very autonomous Unwound - Olympia, Washington's Great Noise Hope - toed the troublesome line between pay check and Check Engine light. Captured in the gaps of a ruthless touring schedule, defining fourth and fifth albums The Future of What and Repetition were issued in the back-to-back springs of 1995 and '96. Both find the band severing their post-hardcore roots, for gripping detours into Echoplex, kraut, D&B, and Mingus, as guided by a sun-worn copy of Book Your Own Fuckin' Life.)

29. WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS-“UNRAVELLING” (10/14) 

30. WINTERPILLS-“ECHOLALIA” (10/14) (While their full band was busy raising kids and committed to various day jobs, Flora Reed and Philip Price of Winterpills decided it would be fun to quickly record some of their favorite cover songs while the tape rolled. But what began as a small casual project morphed into an orchestrated, introspective transformation of a few well-known songs and quite a lot of under-appreciated gems: songs by Sharon Van Etten, Buddy Holly, Lisa Germano, the Go-Betweens, XTC, Beck, the Beatles, and more get the treatment of filtering through the alchemy of Flora and Philip s vocal & instrumental chemistry experiment.)

31. JEN WOOD-“WILDERNESS” (10/14)