Get down on it. fish narc and GothBoiClique - - - WHAT WE KNOW If you have grazed the cheek of the GothBoiClique (GBC) you're aware it's the modern day Mouse Pack of fölk-hearted rappers with an emotional boiling point. fish narc joined the GBC snap fray as producer and guitar slashing action mag who has since collaborated production-wise with Lil Peep (Goth Angel Sinner EP), Mackned x Horse Head ("Too Hard"), Lil Tracy (“Drunk Punx”), Yung Bruh ("laced/neurotic”), Cold Hart (“Get Dressed”) - - - it's all too vital. Since 2019, fish narc has written and toured his own graphemic songs, influenced by rap, punk and underground sounds. He released the albums WiLDFiRE in 2020, Camouflage in 2022 and now fruiting body [KLP295].
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Get down on it. fish narc and GothBoiClique - - - WHAT WE KNOW If you have grazed the cheek of the GothBoiClique (GBC) you're aware it's the modern day Mouse Pack of fölk-hearted rappers with an emotional boiling point. fish narc joined the GBC snap fray as producer and guitar slashing action mag who has since collaborated production-wise with Lil Peep (Goth Angel Sinner EP), Mackned x Horse Head ("Too Hard"), Lil Tracy (“Drunk Punx”), Yung Bruh ("laced/neurotic”), Cold Hart (“Get Dressed”) - - - it's all too vital. Since 2019, fish narc has written and toured his own graphemic songs, influenced by rap, punk and underground sounds. He released the albums WiLDFiRE in 2020, Camouflage in 2022 and now fruiting body [KLP295].
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- LP
- £18.99
- Cat Number
- KLP287LP
- Release date
- 7 Apr '23
TRACK LISTING
1. Hat Trick
2. Pink Cadillac
3. Good And Crazy
4. Blues (We Got 'Em)
5. Melod For Miss
6. Sugar On Sunday
7. Gallows Wine
8. Orange Aid
9. A Walk In The Sun
10. Toby Deano
11. Here Comes
12. Crazy Legs
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- 12"
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- KLP277LP
- Release date
- 21 Feb '20
TRACK LISTING
1. Everybody’s Moving To London
2. 2020 Perfect Vision
3. Lights Dancing On The Screen
4. Out Of The Blu
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- LP
- £17.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- KLP269LP
- Release date
- 12 Oct '18
The two kept in touch over the years. Patrick suggesting some sort of collaboration; they got together with only the belief that music can ooze from the savage breast, and a wonderful beast emerged from the primal dross. An important element of the sound success of a wonderful beast is the contribution of chanteuse michelle branch, who provides back-up harmony vocals on three songs. Ms. Branch, who score many hits in the early double-0 decade as a solo artist and as a member of the wreckers, lives next door to audio eagle. Intrigued by the sounds ratcheting forth from the lonesome shack that houses the studio, she walked over to see for herself what all the hubbub was about. Before long she was singing like a bird, in three part harmony (thanks, Michelle!). A rock’n’roll combo is being formed around Calvin Johnson to tour the world behind a wonderful beast. Like that monster of dr. Frankenstein’s, this rock’n’roll will never die. Also available from Calvin Johnson: before the dream faded
TRACK LISTING
1. Kiss Me Sweetly (3:20)
2. A Wonderful Beast (4:11)
3. Like You Do (3:06)
4. Wherefore Art Thou (3:49)
5. Are We Ready (2:49)
6. Bubbles, Clouds And Rainbows (3:51)
7. Blues Come Runnin' (3:00)
8. Why You Crying (2:52)
9. Another Teardrop Falls (3:38)
10. When The Weekend Comes Around (3:56)
11. (I've Still Got) Sand In My Shoes (4:13)
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- CD
- £4.99
- Cat Number
- KLP251CD
- Release date
- 6 Oct '14
The album opens with a slow synthesizer prelude "You Should Go", setting the tone for listless anthems characterized by Beanblossom's harmonies and hollers. "Vespers", a morning prayer, introduces a coy letter to a wayward sailor in "Photograph". Then, with a sharp twist of a post-modern dance beat paired with the tremolo of a Finnish lap harp, "Barbara" takes the stage to insert bitter anecdotes, and "Anthony" invokes a dark spaghetti western composition supporting Gregorian vocal harmonies. "It's Mine", with its trip-hop drum and bass vehemence, finishes into a chaotic degradation of off-kilter cello chords.
TRACK LISTING
1. You Should Go
2. Carry Me Down
3. Vespers
4. Photographs
5. The Grackle
6. Barbara
7. Anthony
8. It’s Mine
9. Reprise
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- 2xCD
- £15.99
- Cat Number
- KLP242CD
- Release date
- 21 Oct '13
TRACK LISTING
Disc One :
1. Kids (1:47)
2. No Venue (1:10)
3. Put A Penny In (1:46)
4. Never Comes Down (1:48)
5. I’m Free (2:18)
6. I Don’t Belong (1:18)
7. Caution (1:52)
8. Abnormal Chick (1:50)
9. Empty My Head (2:12)
10. Give Me The Message (2:12)
11. Rich Man’s Dreams (3:32)
12. Never Comes Down (1:47)
13. There Is A Place (2:19)
14. Movie (1:05)
15. WWII (1:39)
16. Time May Tell (2:07)
17. Little Man (2:20)
18. Image Of Guilt (1:36)
19. Broken Mirror (2:36)
20. Let Go (2:46)
21. Running In The Shadows (2:47).
Disc Two:
1. Poor Man’s Jungle (2:27)
2. City Unlimited (1:32)
3. In Disguise (3:30)
4. Split (2:41)
5. Days In Heaven (2:19)
6. Between Borders (1:36)
7. Under Control (1:45)
8. Dirty White Lies (2:19)
9. Obscure Emotion (2:28)
10. No Form (2:09)
11. Look (2:22)
12. Time Keeps Time (2:08)
13. Cheap Labor (1:49)
14. Hands Down (2:40)
15. Nothing To Fear (3:57)
16. Someday Maybe (2:46)
17. Ancient Youth (3:03)
18. On Common Ground (2:31)
19. In This Circle Of Time (2:46)
20. Under Control (2:23)
21. Nothing To Fear (3:50)
22. Falling (2:30) 23. Living For A Change (2:15)
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- LP
- £15.99
- Cat Number
- KLP245LP
- Release date
- 15 Jul '13
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- CD
- £4.49
- Cat Number
- KLP245CD
- Release date
- 15 Jul '13
TRACK LISTING
1. March Of The Conch
2. Why Are You So Helpless?
3. West Of The Mountain
4. Arguably
5. Ett Stilla Regn
6. Good Storm
7. Colours
8. Bury The House
9. Mother Nature’s Promise
10. Sunset
11. Humming In The Dark
12. Organ Music
13. In The Stubborn Eyes Of A Demon
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- CD
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- KLP239CD
- Release date
- 9 Apr '12
Her premier album 'Pith' is a string of musical gems that range from harmonic americana and folk to shadowy psychedelia, united in their spectral chamber arrangements. Each of the twelve tracks on 'Pith' come from demos Emily has been keeping close, and showcase her varieties of influence. “And the Moon,” with its steady drum machine loop, eerie harmonies and mandolin strings stands apart from its follower, “Mint Ice Cream,” a playful Americana-style duet with Calvin Johnson. “Closed Eye” is the same, a drifting melody punctuated by tinny drums and fuzzy guitar strumming. But this is the beauty of Pith—like the single, “Let’s Grow Older,” it gambols, and then falls to despair and questioning, is both the blossom and the thorny edge.
Ruby Fray is a dark star risen, and the power and soul of Emily’s voice changes all that it shines upon. Pith includes the talents of numerous Pacific Northwest masterminds: producer & engineer Ben Hargett (who recorded the Christmas LP), songwriting and production assistant Ian Van Veen (Legs The Crab, Georgy), and harmony/strings specialist Giselle Garcia. As per K / Dub Narcotic tradition, a number of artists from the K roster also play on Pith, including Arrington de Dionyso, Gordon Baker (Mailaikat dan Singa, Desolation Wilderness), Andrew Dorsett (LAKE, Desolation Wilderness), Angelo Spencer, Markly Morrison (LAKE), Jake Jones (Christmas), and Calvin Johnson. Quite honestly her vocals are so beautiful, you almost feel they’re being wasted on a raw punk band like Christmas. But then again Christmas is a classic punk band without a lot of nonsense and it’s Beanblossom’s vocals that make they’re music special. - Secretly Important, October 2011.
TRACK LISTING
1. And The Moon
2. Mint Ice Cream
3. Closed Eye
4. What’s All This Talk
5. Northern Washington
6. Young Scholar
7. Let’s Grow Older
8. Jandk
9. Penny
10. Ohow
11. Barren Hill
12. Wilt Worker
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- CD
- £9.99
- Cat Number
- KLP237CD
- Release date
- 12 Dec '11
The songs on Where Are We From [KLP237] are wise messages like barbwire around every bend of every word, intentional and concise. The intensity behind But you seem to love it all. You don’t struggle though you fall. Falling is not giving up, for you it’s just how we’ve met. in “The Road Was Unkind” shows beautiful belief in the tenacity of all of us. It compels us to be brave and braver still to find the light of community even if our days look dark.
There is no mistaking that this new EP is about strength and the grit that carries us and others over monoliths and into our life journey. There is such sweetness in the heightened vocal pitch of ”You Have The Woods”: We got safety. We got knives. We got the world that’s what we got. We get buried in the ground whenever people think it’s time. We got rationality. We got boredom and that’s free. You got the woods, you don’t have to choose. Pay heed to her timbre listener, Tender Forever has got your back.
While the underside of Tender Forever’s heart is still in full view for anyone to rest under and breathe raggedly until the hard stuff slides out of focus, there is something more steely wrapped around her ribs as each of these songs clinks against them. The raw and syrupy swell of the vocal talents poured over the near wildness of the percussion holds fast to the balled up fists and clenched jaw of the lyrics. It is a truly unique and perfect union.
Tender Forever’s new album takes lost souls by the hand to create a chain of blinding light that leads to freedom and togetherness. I know you know what love is like, I held you near, I held you tight and I don’t understand it and I don’t want it in “Runaway” illuminates her usual heart out approach to lyrics, but also shows us her battle scars and flexes her survivor muscles. Each song is impeccably different from the last and yet together, the collection is undeniably holistic and tightly interlaced.
This is what you listen to on a road trip to your new self, louder than everything as the interstate ahead of you ribbons into dust and the blur of life is a distraction of sparkly lights. This is what makes your hands beat into your steering wheel and your head throw backwards to a sing along. This is what you listen to when you need to shrug off an old armor in order to be reborn and washed clean while a steady hand gently pushes you in the direction of growth. Where Are We From is your new path, should you be brave enough to walk it.
TRACK LISTING
1. Where Are We From
2. The Road Was Unkind
3. Blue
4. Wrestle
5. You Get Into My Face
6. Runaway
7. You Have The Woods
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- Ltd 7"
- £5.49
- Cat Number
- IPU137
- Release date
- 29 Aug '11
TRACK LISTING
Side A:
1. Nobody’s Man
Side B:
2. Kill Your Dogs
3. Garrison + Phillips/Garrison Phillips
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- CD
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- KLP233CD
- Release date
- 4 Jul '11
TRACK LISTING
1. Bob Flanagan
2. Ammut Eats
3. MPIO
4. Day & Day
5. Scams
6. Eat Me
7. Kitty Pity
8. Erring Sister
9. August 21st
10. In Our Bones
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- Ltd 7"
- £5.49
- Cat Number
- IPU134
- Release date
- 2 May '11
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- CD
- £4.99
- Cat Number
- KLP226CD
- Release date
- 21 Mar '11
The Facts:
1. This is the second Malaikat dan Singa album, the first one was self-titled and came out in 2009.
2. "Malaikat dan Singa" means "Angels and Lions", "Suara Naga" means "The Dragon's Voice".
3. All of the lyrics on both records are in Indonesian, which Arrington taught himself specifically for this project.
4. Arrington de Dionyso's Malaikat dan Singa will be touring extensively in Europe and the US in March, April, and May, and will lead an expedition to Indonesia in the Fall of 2011 with filmmaker Vincent Moon (The Take Away Show) documenting the encounter.
5. The album was recorded at Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, with an all-star cast including members of LAKE and Angelo Spencer et les Hauts Sommets. The record was produced by Karl "The Genius" Blau.
6. You know how in the 1950s the press and parents and such talked about how rock‘n’roll had some evil, sexual, tribal force that was going to possess the youth? Arrington de Dionyso’s Malaikat dan Singa is really that. Trance-punk dancehall explosion gonna knock you up! 2011!
7. No, Old Time Relijun is NOT doing a tour this year! Learn some Indonesian and stop complaining.
TRACK LISTING
1. Kerasukan
2. Baru Limunan
3. Aku Di Penjara
4. Binglala
5. Bianglala Batin
6. Iblis Atas Iblis
7. Madu Mahadahsyat
8. Susu Naga
9. Wadah Rohani
10. Perawan Berawan
11. Halilintar!
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- Ltd 7"
- £5.49
- Cat Number
- IPU133
- Release date
- 14 Mar '11
TRACK LISTING
Side A:
1. Out Of The Way
2. Underground
Side B:
3. Take This Weight
4. Life Is Strange
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- Ltd 7"
- £3.75
- Cat Number
- IPU132
- Release date
- 15 Nov '10
Malachi Ritscher (1954-2006) was an American musician, free speech and anti-war activist who for many years made high quality recordings of other musicians (often jazz and experimental) performing live in Chicago. He would give a copy to the performers and sometimes these would become official releases. After the U.S. invaded Iraq, he became a vocal opponent of the war at demonstrations and was twice arrested. Like monks opposing the Vietnam war, his final act of protest culminated in an act of self-immolation.
This K single is Volume CXXII of the International Pop Underground series of 7" 45 rpm records. Recorded by Calvin Johnson at Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, Washington. 'Arguably the greatest rock band without a rhythm section ever, the duo of acid-voiced singer Jean Smith and guitar hero David Lester must be seen to be believed'. Douglas Wolk .
TRACK LISTING
Malachi
Blue Sky And Branches
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- CD
- £11.49
- Cat Number
- KLP221CD
- Release date
- 20 Sep '10
Using synthesizers, guitar, modified samplers and computers, Zwart recorded this album over the course of three months in Washington and California. Nic has toured the US and Europe extensively with his former band, Desolation Wilderness. Both groups have emerged as expansive expressions of movement; recordings about new places, the infinite possibilities afforded by never staying still long enough to take root. Now, he is primed to take Electric Sunset on the road following paths already travelled, and creating new ones, existing as an electric hum on the highway.
'Dig Deerhunter’s ambient and propulsive shoegaze? Vivian Girls’ garage-surf riffs? Get ‘em both (and more) from Nic Zwart, a studio whiz..'
TRACK LISTING
1. Palace
2. Future Dream
3. Morning City
4. Infinity Avenue
5. Here Comes Midnight
6. Soda
7. Relay
8. Last Night On Earth
9. Prayer
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- CD
- £11.49
- Cat Number
- KLP217CD
- Release date
- 28 Jun '10
Melanie Valera's third full length album moves away from some of the more exuberant dance oriented songs of past years into a darker and more melancholy direction. Maybe it's her current residence in the damp and dirty Pacific Northwest, maybe its a little adulthood. Whatever it is, we get a deeper, denser sound. These songs push through the forest as the evening comes, dripping wet, the lights of a little house up ahead. What "No Snare" retains is Valera's emotional clarity and eloquence. We are always invited to her world, feeling what she feels without exception. Valera keeps her lyrics light on their feet, moving with ease around the complexities of her compositions, her vocals rolling hard with the strength of conviction.
Throughout Tender Forever’s work there is a commitment to understanding feelings and desires and seeing them through to completion. "No Snare" pushes through the wake and lays the turmoil to rest. What comes next is still unknown. In this darkness of loss and change there is a beat, a drive. Feel the shake from those little computer speakers, hear it grow and pulse through the woods. Watch as the evening comes and look toward the morning.
'Tender Forever causes you to feel heartbroken and awesome all at once ... (Melanie Velera) is sweet like Cat Power with lyrics that'll make you feel like one tough bitch. Somewhere between the piano, guitar, keyboards and saucepan, her quiet yet intimidating powerful voice will grab you and send your finger to the repeat button over and over'. - Playgirl Magazine.
STAFF COMMENTS
Laura says: I love the stripped back simplicity of this album. The stark melancholy is lifted by simple warm electronic pulses. Lovely stuff.TRACK LISTING
1. Got To Let Go
2. Like The Snare That’s Gone
3. Only The Sounds You Made
4. Nothing At All
5. Day Number
6. But The Shape Is Wide
7. Nowhere Good Enough
8. Unfortunate Friends
9. When I’m In The Dark And You Take Away The Dark
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- Ltd 7"
- £3.99
- Cat Number
- IPU124-7
- Release date
- 13 Jul '09
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- CD
- £11.49
- Cat Number
- KLP195CD
- Release date
- 16 Mar '09
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- 2xLP
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- KLP177
- Release date
- 27 Nov '06
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- CDS
- £4.49
- Cat Number
- IPU096CD
- Release date
- 13 Mar '06