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Califone

Villager

    Part experimental indie and part '70s soft rock, Califone's first record in three years finds creative force Tim Rutili reaching new levels of harmony, fragility, and confidence

    Whether detailing aging goths retaining their identity through year- long spooky decorations ("Halloween"), an imagined conversation with an inbred monarch ("Habsburg Jaw"), or the conflicts between identity and technology ("Ox- Eye"), Villagers' nine tracks spread out and luxuriates in the messy darkness of modern life.

    Like sitting in awe on the porch swing at the end of the world, Califone's latest marvels at the edge of the universe spreading into the darkness of infinity. With 25 years of Califone in his catalog (not to mention a variety of other projects, including alt rock heroes Red Red Meat), the Chicago- born, Los Angeles- based knows well how to find that moment of awe and bliss even as things are falling apart.

    Part poet, part abstract painter, and always surrounded by a variety of hypertalented collaborators (here including longtime cohorts Ben Massarella, Michael Krassner, Rachel Blumberg, and Brian Deck, as well as the likes of Nora O'Connor and Finom's Macie Stewart), Rutili has always excelled at luring listeners through elusive lyrics, flashes of shadows and images coming together in disarming unity.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. The Habsburg Jaw
    2. Eyelash
    3. McMansions
    4. Villagers
    5. Comedy
    6. Ox-Eye
    7. Halloween
    8. Skunkish

    Califone

    Echo Mine

      Echo Mine is Califone’s score to Robyn Mineko Williams’ dance. The movement and the music started together and grew together, like two clear entities. At times totally intertwined and at other times bouncing off one another, sort of like reflections. But, somehow, always connected and listening. Ben Massarella, Brian Deck and I worked in a way that felt like a return to home; Brian handling the engineering, electronics, drums and overall sound of the piece, Ben adding percussion, feel, essential textures and colors. I felt like my job was to hover over all of it like a moth. Find melody in everything. Leave openings for everyone to work at the top of their creativity. We made our album, Roomsound, in much the same way (almost 20 years ago). Three of us in the studio ‘ Be humans. Play together as much as possible. A good feel beats perfection every time. Add other musicians to add other voices and other colors, to do the things we can’t do.

      TRACK LISTING

      Romans
      Bandicoot
      Night Gallery
      Projector
      Howard St & The Beach Nov 1988 After 11
      Flawed Gtr
      Echo Mine
      Carlton Says: Find It. It’s Still There
      Snow Angel V1
      By The Time The Starlight Reaches Our Eyes
      Snow Angel V2

      Eyelids

      Or

        Portland, Oregon’s Eyelids existed long before the actual band came to be. Friends for over two decades, principal songwriters John Moen and Chris Slusarenko had long desired to get together to write songs, “sweet melodies” paired with “bummer vibes,” which would fuse Big Star’s jangle to XTC’s melodicism, connecting the dots between the dream pop sounds of the ’80s Paisley Underground to the homespun post-punk of the legendary Flying Nun label.

        For years, Moen and Slusarenko played and wrote in the company of some of the most legendary songwriters of indie rock including Robert Pollard(Guided by Voices),Stephen Malkmus(Pavement / Jicks),Colin Meloy (The Decemberists) and Elliott Smith. In 2014 they decided that it was time to finally start writing and recording together, adding the talents of guitarist/vocalist Jonathan Drews (Sunset Valley, Damien Jurado). The end result was their thirteen-song debut album, 854, which gained positive notes from A/V Club, Brooklyn Vegan, BBC6 Radio and MOJO magazine. NPR called them “Portland’s best kept secret.” With Or, the band’s second full-length LP, they’ve created a more emotional record. Produced by Peter Buck of R.E.M. and mixed by Thom Monahan (Peter, Bjorn and John, Devandra Banhart, Fruit Bats), the album is liberally sprinkled with the hooks, melodies, and charming wordplay that make a certain kind of rock and roll fan fall madly in love.

        Joined by guests Jay Gonzales (Drive-By Truckers), Jonathan Segel (Camper Van Beethoven) and Buck himself, the record demonstrates what happens when a group of old friends get into a room and truly collaborate. This is the sound of a band realizing its potential, of old friends connecting creatively and sonically, creating exuberant, nuanced, pop music.

        TRACK LISTING

        1. Slow It Goes
        2. Camelot
        3. Falling Eyes
        4. Tell Me You Know
        5. My Caved In Mind
        6. Ghost Ghost Ghost
        7. 23 (Years)
        8. (I Will) Leave With You
        9. Don?t (Please) Come Around
        10. Moony
        11. You Know I Gotta Reason
        12. Furthest Blue

        Loftus

        Loftus

          Loftus finds the members of 2 bands - REX & RED RED MEAT - collaborating with a dude from TORTOISE. It is a wonderful record that tears various genres apart with glee. For the 1st time EVER, this underknown classic of experimental 1990s indie-rock is being released on vinyl. "This sounds like a drunken hillbilly & a bluesman got into a fistfight in a studio submerged in a sea of codeine & liquid valium. Inspired, weird, frightening & beautiful." - Jonathan Scott "Wild Woodsman"


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