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Jad Fair And Samuel Locke Ward

Pure Candy

    Samuel Locke Ward and Jad Fair are two of the most prolific musicians working today. Fair is a founding member of the band Half Japanese, and has released over 200 albums, including albums with Yo La Tengo, Daniel Johnston, Moe Tucker, Kramer, Teenage Fanclub, The Pastels, R. Stevie Moore, DQE, Tenniscoats, The Tinklers, Naomi Ishimaru, Jason Willett, Mosquito, and Strobe Talbot. Samuel Locke Ward has released over sixty solo albums as well as a myriad of collaborations with Bob Bucko Jr, Miracles Of God, SLW cc Watt (with Mike Watt) and the cult new age noise group Boundless Relaxation (with Joe Jack Talcum and The Bassturd). He is a cartoonist for Little Village magazine and like Jad Fair, his style musically and visually is wholly his own Pure Candy is the pair’s third album together following 2023’s Happy Hearts and Destroy All Monsters, both issued by Kill Rock Stars.

    Pure Candy is an album of love songs and is the feel good album of the Summer, Winter, Spring and Fall. The music was composed and performed by Ward who’s love of pop music and avant stylings offer seventeen unexpected turns over the course of a three minute song. The vocals and lyrics are by Fair, lyrics overflowing with words of love, joy, happiness, tenderness, hope and inspiration. Uplifting words for a time dearly in need of some upliftings. As with the previous two albums by Fair and Ward, this album was mixed and mastered by Jonathan Hansen and is being co-released on LP by Shrimper Records (who last worked with Fair on his collaborative three cassette box set Wonderful World) and Chicago’s Stationary (Hearts) Recordings.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. This Love Of Ours
    2. Back On Top
    3. I Have A Feeling
    4. Geniuses Of Love
    5. A Powerful Heart
    6. A Better Day
    7. That Is That
    8. A Time For Love
    9. Lucky Ones
    10. The Love Bee
    11. Right All Wrong
    12. The Good Stuff
    13. Oh Gee
    14. Wonderful
    15. Angel You
    16. Let's Talk
    17. My Poem
    18. The Prettiest

    Refrigerator

    Dangerous

      A strange document not originally intended to be released in its current form, "Dangerous" began life as a set of demos for an electric Refrigerator record. Bassist Daniel Brodo's fall from a ladder at the art gallery he runs with his wife resulted in two broken wrists and a serious concussion, and left the recordings stillborn. The band had moved on by the time Brodo had made a full recovery, and was itching to record a new batch of songs (the best of these to come out later in 2011 as the next album). However, the initial recordings were too good to leave unreleased, and have become "Dangerous", the first new Refrigerator record in four years.

      All material was done live without overdubs; most of them are first takes. "Dangerous" features a song written by Franklin Bruno (who guests on two different tracks) of The Extra Lens / Nothing Painted Blue, and two more by drummer / second guitarist Chris Jones.

      Herman Düne

      They Go The Woods

        Long overdue reissue, Herman Düne are comprised of two Swedish brothers and a man named Omé on the drums. Last year they released "Turn Out The Light", their critically acclaimed debut on the European Prohibited label. Mojo magazine observed, 'Herman Dune's idiosyncratic vistas capture the imagination, recalling the cut-and-paste lyricism of Julian Cope, the deliciously woozy chug of the Velvet Underground and the metronomic repetition of Can.' The band has toured the citrus-deprived, pestilence-ridden land mass of Europe, stopping off for appearances on John Peel's radio show and otherwise making quite a name for themselves abroad. The trio currently resides in Paris, France. The brothers Herman Düne - David-Ivar and André - cite as important influences their family home in Dalarna, Sweden (with its silence, space, and trees), the German writer Franz Jung, and the music of VU, Sebadoh and other usual suspects.

        Refrigerator

        Bottles Of Make Up

          Eighth full-length release from longtime Shrimper vets, features guest musician Franklin Bruno (Nothing Painted Blue, Mountain Goats) on piano. While the quartet's previous record, "Upstairs In Your Room", squealed and squalled through two-minute rock workouts in the style of the group's early years, their newest has no electric instrumentation at all. Cohesive both musically and thematically, bottles of make up is far from lo-fi / no-fi affectation.


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