Search Results for:

TOUCH AND GO

Shellac

To All Trains

    THE BAND
    It’s still: Steve Albini ◊ Guitar. Todd Trainer ◊ Drums. Bob Weston ◊ Bass.

    DATA
    This is Shellac’s sixth studio LP. Recording & Mixing took place at Electrical Audio in Chicago over a bunch of long weekends in November, 2017; October, 2019; September, 2021; and March, 2022. The record was mas-tered by Bob & Steve at Chicago Mastering Service.

    PACKAGING
    LP and CD packaging and artwork are identical (the CD is just smaller). Bob took all the photos; some with a fancy camera and some with a telephone.

    QC
    Audio quality is paramount, as always, with Shellac. The LPs are being manufactured by Green Vinyl Records using an injection molding process. This new process uses 100% recyclable PET (like soda bottles) and is environmentally friendly, containing no PVC or Phthalates. The process also uses 79% less CO2 than conventional hydraulic PVC vinyl presses. The records weigh 180 grams.

    PROMOTION
    Other than the informational sheet you hold in your hand (or virtual hand), this record will have no formal promotion. There will be no advertisements, no press or radio promotion, no e-promotion, no promotional or review copies, no promotional gimmick items, and other-wise no free lunch. Photos of the band are available. And the band is avail-able for email or telephone interviews.

    TOURING
    The band will continue to play shows or tour at the same sporadic and relaxed pace as always. There is no correlation between shows and record releases.

    THE IPODS
    Shellac doesn’t have a website. Maybe we should get one. To All Trains (2AT) will be available on most streaming services and download sites in all your formats, sample rates, and bit depths; all the way up to 96kHz, 24-bit, Hi-Res (Apple Digital Masters compliant).

    TRACK LISTING

    Side A
    1. WSOD
    2. Girl From Outside
    3. Chick New Wave
    4. Tattoos
    5. Wednesday
    Side B
    6. Scrappers
    7. Days Are Dogs
    8. How I Wrote How I Wrote Elastic Man (cock & Bull)
    9. Scabby The Rat
    10. I Don’t Fear Hell

    The Jesus Lizard

    Goat - Remastered Reissue

      Bassist David Wm. Sims is revealed as the band's secret weapon, stock still in anchoring an increasingly chaotic stage show. Guitarist Duane Denison's musical ideas stun throughout, finding an almost impossibly sympathetic foil in drummer, Mac McNeilly. All the while, vocalist David Yow's complete disregard for his own health and safety was becoming the stuff of legend, propelled by tracks like "Mouth Breather", "Monkey Trick" and the effaceable "Seasick". - Pat Daly // If the members of the Jesus Lizard got it "right" on HEAD, then GOAT serves as one of the great pinnacles in the history of the American underground. The Jesus Lizard's third document was the formula perfected, the cylinders firing in time, the crosshairs perfectly aligned in the scope, the last stiff drink before blacking out. - Jason Pettigre.

      TRACK LISTING

      Side A:
      1. Then Comes Dudley
      2. Mouth Breather
      3. Nub
      4. Seasick.
      Side B:
      5. Monkey Trick
      6. Karpis
      7. South Mouth
      8. Lady Shoes
      9. Rodeo In Joliet.

      BONUS TRACKS * Included With Download:
      Sunday You Need Love
      Pop Song
      Seasick (Live)
      Lady Shoes (Live)
      Monkey Trick (Live)

      Big Black

      Racer X - Vinyl Reissue

        Big Black was started by Steve Albini in 1982 while he was attending Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Lungs, the first Big Black release was recorded by Steve on a borrowed 4-track. He played everything on the EP himself - except the sax bleating courtesy of pal John Bohnen and the drums courtesy of Roland. Soon after, Steve recruited Jeff Pezzati (Naked Raygun) on bass, and Santiago Durango (also Naked Raygun) joined them on guitar. In 1983, together with live drummer Pat Byrne, they recorded the Bulldozer EP. By 1984, the band had done some touring and recorded the Racer X EP and the start of the Il Duce 7". After that, Jeff returned to Naked Raygun and was replaced by Dave Riley. In 1985, Big Black recorded their first full-length, Atomizer, as well as finishing the Il Duce 7". Atomizer was released in 1986 along with the release of the Hammer Party compilation CD. In 1987, the Headache EP and Heartbeat 7" were released. That same year, the band recorded and released the 7" of The Model/He's A Whore as well as their second full-length album, Songs About Fucking. They toured extensively (for Big Black). And they broke up.

        TRACK LISTING

        1. Racer X
        2. Shotgun
        3. The Ugly American
        4. Deep Six
        5. Sleep!
        6. The Big Payback

        TV On The Radio

        Young Liars - Vinyl Reissue

          Young Liars is the first major release by the New York City band TV on the Radio. Released in 2003 on Touch & Go Records, the EP helped establish the band's distinctive blending of electronica, doo wop, post-rock, and avant-garde styles. The release featured the single "Staring at the Sun," which would later be remixed and reissued in their full-length album Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes. It contains an a cappella version of "Mr. Grieves," which was originally a rock song by Pixies, from the album Doolittle.

          TRACK LISTING

          A1. Satellite
          A2. Staring At The Sun
          A3. Blind
          B1. Young Liars
          B2. Mister Grieves

          TV On The Radio

          Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes - Vinyl Reissue

            About The Album: 9 songs about (in no particular order) discordant living, misrepresentation, how nothing nothing can be, life, afterlife, love and love “after hours.” These are pop songs. These are rock songs. These are art songs. Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes began right where TVOTR’s 2003 debut EP Young Liars left off, propelled into uncharted sonic territory. Undeniably catchy songs with incredible production, arrangements, champion crooning (including stunning a cappella perfomances) and a host of extras that makes this a seriously solid album.

            Praise From The Press: … their songs politicize emotion in stinging turns of phrase, over a beat that makes you want to get up and dance. Interview Magazine.

            The experience is baptismal. XLR8R Magazine.

            What’s most frightening is that, mighty as Desperate Youth… is, their real stone killer is probably yet to come. Uncut.

            It’s an arty, impressionistic and sometimes oddly beautiful album steeped in the fear, paranoia and pain of a post-Sept. 11 world, a quite catharsis couched in an utterly novel yet strangely simple musical language. Washington Post.

            TRACK LISTING

            1. The Wrong Way
            2. Staring At The Sun
            3. Dreams
            4. King Eternal
            5. Ambulance
            6. Poppy
            7. Don’t Love You
            8. Bomb Yourself
            9. Wear You Out
            10. You Could Be Love (vinyl Only Bonus Track)

            TV On The Radio

            Return To Cookie Mountain - Coloured Vinyl Reissue

              Evoking Fear of Music (Talking Heads), Station to Station (David Bowie), and Sign 'O" the Times (Prince), the resulting disc might be the most oddly beautiful, psychedelic, and ambitious of the year… Consider your mind blown. (4.5/5 stars) Rolling Stone, 2006.

              This was the album that established once and for all that TV on the Radio were more than just a great idea for a band; they were a great band, period - Stereogum, 2016 // TV On The Radio's story is one of synchronicity, of serendipity, of epiphany. TVOTR began with Tunde Adebimpe (vocals) and David Sitek (multi-instrumentalist and production kingpin) being roommates, drinking way too much coffee, making art: comics, movies, paintings. They started trading tapes of each other's four track recordings and thought it'd be fun to try to make "a real record" out of all that stuff.

              Touch And Go released TV On The Radio’s stunning EP "Young Liars" in July 2003, and it immediately marked them out as one of the most musically innovative bands to have emerged in years. Their debut full-length "Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes" set 2004 off to a dramatically positive start. With new member Kyp Malone sharing songwriting, guitar and vocal duties, TVOTR was quickly on the path to the being one of the most talked-about new groups in America. After touring as a trio, Jaleel Bunton (drums) and Gerard Smith (bass) joined the band to create the official TVOTR line up. The band's second studio album, Return to Cookie Mountain, leaked in early 2006 and garnered pre-release praise from such outlets as Pitchfork before its official release in July. Return to Cookie Mountain is filled with guest appearances from David Bowie, Celebration, Antibalas, Blonde Redhead, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner.

              TRACK LISTING

              1. I Was A Lover
              2. Hours
              3. Province
              4. Playhouses
              5. Wolf Like Me
              6. A Method
              7. Let The Devil In
              8. Dirtywhirl
              9. Blues From Down Here
              10. Tonight
              11. Wash The Day

              Nina Nastasia

              The Blackened Air - 2023 Reissue

                On The Blackened Air (her second album but first for Touch and Go, originally released in 2002), Nina Nastasia and her band are not content to just support a vocal melody; they pry it apart and look down its throat. The stringed and wind instruments (viola, cello, mandolin, accordion, bowed saw, acoustic and electric guitars) reach up out of the songs into rarefied territory. Little stories of Peeping Toms and the police lights they bring with them, grave- yards and impolite family, epigrams against disaster, depression, simple forgetfulness, all delivered so effortlessly that the precision of the delivery registers long after its substance has left its mark. When she sings “I’m not hiding anything / I’m not trying to fool you at all,” in a song titled “That’s All There Is,” it is all the truth.

                A generation-plus of young troubadours pine for things they never has to lose, as if sadness and depression were inevitable consequences of being alive. Nina Nastasia’s music is an antidote to all of that. The Blackened Air is a darkish record not just in title, but by examining everything without caving in to decadence or solipsism, it is a rejuvenating experience. It is informed, without affect, unique, and succinct. Above all, it is beautiful to hear and a pleasure to have in one’s home.

                TRACK LISTING

                Side A
                Run, All You...
                I Go With Him This Is What It Is Oh, My Stars All For You
                So Little
                Desert Fly
                Ugly Face
                Side B
                In The Graveyard Ocean
                Rosemary
                The Same Day Been So Long
                The Very Next Day Little Angel
                That’s All There Is

                Slint

                Spiderland - 2023 Reissue

                  "I first heard Slint before they were called that, but the difference between them and their contemporaries was already in concrete. From the outset they made music to suit themselves, not an audience, and their dogged pursuit of the sound of their imagination is still utterly unique. Tendrils of continuity between the doom of heavy metal, the drama of modernist classical music, and the rude musk of punk may not be apparent at first glance, but they glow like a web when illuminated by the fire of Slint’s muse. Nobody thinks about their music, or music itself, like Slint. Love this fucking band." Steve Albini, 2014.

                  Produced by Brian Paulson at River North Recorders in Chicago and released by Touch and Go Records in April of 1991, the six songs on Spiderland methodically mapped a shadowy new continent of sound. The music is taut, menacing, and haunting; its structure built largely on absence and restraint, on the echoing space between the notes, but punctuated by sudden thrilling blasts of unfettered fury. It is a sound that no one had heard before and that no one will ever forget. The eerie, now-iconic black and white cover photo of the four-band member’s heads breaking the surface of the water was taken by their friend Will Oldham. Spiderland spawned a whole new genre, frequently called PostRock, and came to be regarded as one of the most important and influential records of the past thirty years.

                  SLINT broke up shortly before Spiderland was released. Band members went on to play in Tortoise, the Breeders, Palace, The For Carnation, Papa M, Evergreen, Interpol, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. 

                  TRACK LISTING

                  Side A:
                  1. Breadcrumb Trail
                  2. Nosferatu Man
                  3. Don, Aman
                  Side B:
                  4. Washer
                  5. For Dinner…
                  6. Good Morning, Captain 

                  Big Black

                  Songs About Fucking - 2022 Repress

                    Vinyl now remastered By Steve Albini And Bob Weston.

                    The Players: Dave Riley - Bass, Santiago Durango - Guitar, Vocals, Steve Albini - Vocals, Guitar, Roland Drum Machine - itself.

                    Big Black was started by Steve Albini in 1982 while he was attending Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Lungs, the first Big Black release was recorded by Steve on a borrowed 4-track. He played everything on the EP himself - except the sax bleating courtesy of pal John Bohnen and the drums courtesy of Roland. Soon after, Steve recruited Jeff Pezzati (Naked Raygun) on bass, and Santiago Durango (also Naked Raygun) joined them on guitar. In 1983, together with live drummer Pat Byrne, they recorded the Bulldozer EP. By 1984, the band had done some touring and recorded the Racer X EP and the start of the Il Duce 7”. After that, Jeff returned to Naked Raygun and was replaced by Dave Riley. In 1985, Big Black recorded their first full-length, Atomizer, as well as finishing the Il Duce 7”. Atomizer was released in 1986 along with the release of the Hammer Party compilation CD. In 1987, the Headache EP and Heartbeat 7” were released. That same year, the band recorded and released the 7” of The Model/He’s A Whore as well as their second full-length album, Songs About Fucking. They toured extensively (for Big Black). And they broke up. 

                    TRACK LISTING

                    Side A:
                    The Power Of Independent Trucking
                    The Model
                    Bad Penny
                    L. Dopa
                    Precious Thing
                    Columbian Necktie
                    Side B:
                    Kitty Empire
                    Ergot
                    Kasimir S. Pulaski Day
                    Fish Fry
                    Pavement Saw
                    Tiny, King Of The Jews
                    Bombastic Intro

                    Big Black

                    Atomizer - 2023 Repress

                      Big Black was started by Steve Albini in 1982 while he was attending Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. ‘Lungs’, the first Big Black release, was recorded by Steve on a borrowed 4-track. He played everything on the EP himself, except the sax bleating courtesy of pal John Bohnen and the drums courtesy of Roland. Soon after, Steve recruited Jeff Pezzati (Naked Raygun) on bass and Santiago Durango (also Naked Raygun) joined them on guitar.

                      In 1983, together with live drummer Pat Byrne, they recorded the ‘Bulldozer’ EP. By 1984, the band had done some touring and recorded the ‘Racer X’ EP and the start of the ‘Il Duce’ 7”. After that, Jeff returned to Naked Raygun and was replaced by Dave Riley.

                      In 1985, Big Black recorded their first full-length, ‘Atomizer’, as well as finishing the ‘Il Duce’ 7”. ‘Atomizer’ was released in 1986 along with the release of the ‘Hammer Party’ compilation CD.

                      In 1987, the ‘Headache’ EP and ‘Heartbeat’ 7” were released. That same year, the band recorded and released the 7” of ‘The Model’ / ‘He’s A Whore’ as well as their second full-length album, ‘Songs About Fucking’. They toured extensively (for Big Black) and they broke up.

                      Available again on vinyl...

                      TRACK LISTING

                      1 Jordan, Minnesota
                      2. Passing Complexion
                      3. Big Money
                      4. Kerosene
                      5. Bad Houses
                      6. Fists Of Love
                      7. Stinking Drunk
                      8. Bazooka Joe
                      9. Strange Things
                      10. Cables (Live)

                      Brainiac

                      The Predator Nominate EP

                        In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in the incomparable 90’s band known as Brainiac. This is in part due to a 2019 full feature documentary about the band (Transmissions After Zero) plus the re-emergence of surviving band members to celebrate their music in the last several years. In addition, a substantial pair of archival releases (Attic Tapes 2xLP, From Dayton Ohio 2xLP) were unearthed for release on Record Store Day 2021 by Touch and Go Records.

                        Now, in 2023, comes the latest missive of the archive, harkening back to the band’s latter era - and their most prolific and confident period. The Predator Nominate EP is a celebration of what was to come before the tragic exit of ringleader/singer Timmy Taylor. Listen to these realized demos and imagine what only could have been the confident seed of what the group might be capable of in this future century versus the last one. The world will never truly know.

                        BIO: Brainiac began in 1992 as the basement experiments of Dayton, OH natives Tim Taylor (vocals, synth), and Juan Monasterio (bass), who first met playing cello in fifth grade. Upon completing the lineup with Michelle Bodine (guitar) and Tyler Trent (drums), they released two full-lengths and toured vigorously, establishing

                        themselves as the latest peg in Ohio’s diverse musical timeline. In 1994, Michelle left the band and was replaced by John Schmersal.

                        In 1996, the band made their full-length debut on Touch and Go Records with the album Hissing Prigs in Static Couture.

                        On May 23, 1997, only weeks after the release of Electroshock for President EP and the band’s return from a European tour supporting Beck, Tim lost his life in a car accident. He was 28.



                        TRACK LISTING

                        Side A

                        1. Predator Nominate
                        2. Kiss Of The Dog
                        3. Smothered Inside
                        4. The Game

                        Side B

                        5. Going Wrong
                        6. Didn’t Feel
                        7. Gone Away
                        8. Pyramid Theme
                        9. Come With Me

                        Shellac

                        Dude Incredible

                          THE BAND
                          Steve Albini ◊ Guitar
                          Todd Trainer ◊ Drums
                          Bob Weston ◊ Bass

                          DATA
                          This is Shellac’s fifth LP. Recording took place sporadically over the past few years at Steve's ELECTRICAL AUDIO studios in Chicago. The record was mastered by Steve Rooke at ABBEY ROAD. There is no comma in ‘Dude Incredible’; like Sir Duke or King Friday, for example

                          PACKAGING
                          Both the CD and LP version of Dude Incredible come packaged in a chipboard album jacket with two high gloss, full color monkeys on the front cover. The LP includes a CD of the full album.

                          QC
                          Audio quality is paramount, as always, with Shellac. The LP was mastered entirely in the analog domain, using the DMM (Direct Metal Mastering) process. The LPs are being manufactured at RTI in Camarillo, CA, using their HQ-180 system. The pressings are 180 gram audiophile quality.

                          Shellac

                          1000 Hurts

                            1000 Hurts shows Shellac in prime form. Since the release of Terraforms, they seem to have realized that 12-minute rock songs don't rock. This record's longest track, "Mama Gina," clocks in at an appropriate 5:44, long enough to fully flesh out the song, but not so long that the groove gets tired. 

                            But as harsh and abrasive as it sounds, 1000 Hurts is an undeniably strong release. This album rocks hard, despite the fact that the man behind it is a squishy A/V club member with a bad attitude. So it seems that Albini's success as a producer hasn't greatly improved his personal life. Luckily, the same can't be said for his records.

                            Shellac

                            Terraform

                              During the early to mid 90's, a little known band named "Shellac" was born in the cold city of Chicago, Illinois. You could call Shellac a super group of sorts, for it features musicians who originated from multiple different bands. Guitarist Steve Albini (Big Black), bassist Bob Weston (Volcano Suns), and drummer Todd Trainer (Brick Layer Cake) all contribute to make some of the coolest noisy post-hardcore you'll ever hear. Shellac's first record, At Action Park, was released in 1994 and met critical praise. In 1998, their follow-up record, Terraform, was released. 

                              Shellac

                              At Action Park

                                The debut album from Steve Albini's new vision post Big Black and Rapeman, wired to the max guitar onslaughts from the MAN.

                                Shellac

                                Excellent Italian Greyhound

                                  Long awaited new album from Steve Albini and co, and all the songs on this their fourth and longest album are about Italy or Greyhounds. Recording took place sporadically over the past few years at Steve's Electrical Audio studios in Chicago. The record was mastered by Steve Rooke at Abbey Road

                                  Enon

                                  High Society

                                    Traditional rock'n'roll, fused with samples, electronic creations and an 'anything goes' attitude. The songs are rockin' and poppy and downright catchy! Enon feature members of Blonde Redhead, The Lapse and Brainiac.


                                    Just In

                                    119 NEW ITEMS

                                    Latest Pre-Sales

                                    165 NEW ITEMS

                                    E-newsletter —
                                    Sign up
                                    Back to top