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Crawling The Walls / Meets.... (RSD24 EDITION)

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    CHEAP PRICE COMPILATION CD of rare, unreleased, forthcoming, and brilliant tracks from the Agitated Label,and friends.. Like a massive bag of pick and mix to have a party with.. features Straight Arrows, Kelley Stoltz, Carlton Melton, oldboy, Headland, Laurel Canyon, Catatonic Suns, Last of Easy Riders, Icarus Line, Blamers, and much more besides.. 500 CD ...cheap...and tasty.. some tracks first time on CD, some exclusive to this release.. its fun! But whats that?..its not just a single CD label comp, its been double bagged with a extra CD, put together as a collection of “Radio Shows” by good friends of Agitated, The Hawk and KBCD radio!!! Heres what they had to say about DISC 2!!!! “CD2: The Agitated Radio Show on KBCD Radio - The Hawk presents a chemical hit of underground medicine all the way from Nixon County... "a repeat of CD1?" you may unreasonably ask - no, friends, it most certainly isn't.” Only 500/.. grab it on RSD 24..

    Ital Horns / J. Robinson

    Jericho's Ancient Horns / Walls Tumbling Down Dub

    Heavy horn-laden steppers dub here inna similar vein to Aba Shanti-I's "Horns Of Jericho" release. Uptempo and fierce steppers that's tailored for maximum soundsystem enjoyment and riotous soul ascension. Proper carnival tackle that'll unite the tribes under the blanket of bass and horns. Comes with echo-drenched dub...Tip! 

    STAFF COMMENTS

    Matt says: More from WhoDem's J. Robinson archive, joined this time by Ital Horns. It's a juggernaut of heavy steppers digi-dub that should be enough to see off any competition inna clash.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Jericho’s Ancient Horns
    2. Walls Tumbling Down Dub 

    Sonic Youth

    Walls Have Ears - 2024 Reissue

      Culled from three 1985 gigs in the UK during a transitional and transcendent time in the band’s story, Sonic Youth’s The Walls Have Ears appeared / disappeared as a 2LP set in 1986, not just a live album but an artful tapestry full of live experimentation with songs, between-song tape segues, darkness, humor and audio verité. It’s now issued for the first time officially under the band’s auspices.

      The ’85 shows were the second time the band appeared on UK soil, Brits now getting juiced to the mythos of the emerging guitar-slinging American independent underground; an art / punk band from NYC sporting casual attitudes and tees sporting Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, and Prince made some good press copy on top of their bludgeoning stage appearance. Paul Smith of the newly-founded Blast First label acted as an overseas diplomatic envoy for Sonic Youth through their SST years as well as issuing their classic 1988 Daydream Nation outside the USA. However the Smith-produced ‘bootleg’ of their ’85 UK gigs surfaced much to everyone’s surprise, just before EVOL was to be released. It turned out to be a marker of the group’s dissatisfaction that ultimately led to the release’s deletion, and the band and Smith parting ways after Daydream.

      In this 2LP set brimming with primitive classics like ‘The Burning Spear,’ ‘Death Valley 69,’ and ‘I’m Insane’ (uncredited on sleeve), segues and live guitar changes ooze together threaded by Madonna tapes and vocal loops off the board (somewhat a necessity for distraction until the band had a full fledged stage crew to prepare guitars). The first two sides of Walls are massive, cavernous, with newly-drafted drummer Steve Shelley. SY tear it up especially on one trash-fi excerpt of ‘Blood On Brighton Beach’ (actually ‘Making The Nature Scene’) from a legendary outdoor gig November 8th where [Thurston] Moore, [Kim] Gordon and [Lee] Ranaldo’s guitars treble-blast dissonant shockwaves over the black-stoned beach of Quadrophenia fame.

      The record’s second slab spotlights an April 1985 at London’s Hammersmith Palais and was one of the final appearances live of Bob Bert on drums, again featuring some molten takes on ‘Brother James,’ ‘Flower’ (listed as ‘The Word (E.V.O.L.)’), and others. This document remains an essential representation of some lean and mean years of the quartet’s throttling march out into the world.” 

      TRACK LISTING

      1. C.B.
      2. Green Love
      3. Brother James
      4. Kill Yr. Idols
      5. “Mad” Groove
      6. I Love Her (All The Time)
      7. Expressway To Yr. Skull
      8. Spahn Ranch Dance
      9. “Blood On Brighton Beach”
      10. Burning Spear
      11. Death Valley ’69
      12. Speed JAMC
      13. Ghost Bitch
      14. World Looks Red
      15. The Word (E.V.O.L)
      16. Brother Jam-Z
      17. Killed And Kicked Off

      Jeff Tweedy

      Chelsea Walls

        Soundtrack from Academy Award-nominated actor Ethan Hawke’s 2001 film.

        Songs written by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy with the score performed by Tweedy and Glenn Kotche Featuring two previously unissued bonus tracks. Includes performances by Wilco, Billy Bragg, Robert Sean Leonard, “Little” Jimmy Scott, and more.

        Packaging features new liner notes from Ethan Hawke, Glenn Kotche, and a conversation between Jeff Tweedy and Grammy®-winning set producer Cheryl Pawelski “It was pivotal for me. There was a burst of creativity that continues to this day because I took the last remaining guardrails off of what I’d been willing to allow myself to do.” –Jeff Tweedy

        The same year of his Oscar®-nominated performance in Training Day, Ethan Hawke made his full-length film directorial debut with Chelsea Walls (starring Kris Kristofferson, Uma Thurman, Vincent D’Onofrio, Robert Sean Leonard, and more). A fan of Wilco, Hawke approached Jeff Tweedy about scoring the film, and Tweedy agreed. Around this time, Tweedy had collaborated with musician and producer Jim O’Rourke (Sonic Youth, Stereolab) for a special live performance. As fate would have it, O’Rourke had been working with Glenn Kotche, and O’Rourke introducing Tweedy to Kotche would lay the groundwork for the trio’s work together on the debut album by their band, Loose Fur. Tweedy also asked Kotche to work with him on an improvised soundtrack to the movie he had agreed to score.

        TRACK LISTING

        1. Opening Titles
        2. Red Elevator
        3. Promising
        4. Frank’s Dream
        5. When The Roses Bloom Again
        6. Jealous Guy
        7. The Wallman
        8. The Lonely 1
        9. Hello, Are You There?
        10. Softly And Tenderly Jesus Is Calling
        11. Finale
        12. End Credits
        13. Finale (Extended) [Bonus Track]
        14. Promising [Bonus Track]

        Son Lux

        At War With Walls & Mazes

          Ryan Lott, who’s helmed the synth-rock project Son Lux for the past decade, is the kind of songwriter who can turn the most intimate moments sweeping and majestic. His albums treat crisp, minuscule detail with cinematic grandeur.” Pitchfork…. Around 2008 Ryan Lott asked himself this question: ”Can I make a pop record that doesn’t rely on a verse/chorus formula?” In many ways Lott’s first two releases as Son Lux represent his response to that query. At War With Walls & Mazes and We Are Rising documentone of the most compelling musicians of the 21st century finding a distinctive creative voice, while making strikingly original music along the way. Lott turned to sonic texture as a source of musical sustenance, crafting a dynamic mosaic of sound inspired by the collagist technique of hip-hop beat makers. The soundscapes Lott created merged a panoramic symphonic palette with the propulsiverhythmic urgency of hip-hop.

          The only thing missing was a voice, a role Lott hadn’t intended to fill himself. "Some friends helped me to hear in my own voice something that really worked with themusic,” Lott says. "They've both been out of print for awhile. But more importantly, I'm proud of the music, and I feel like it set the right foundation for my catalogue as Son Lux, so it makes sense to bring it back on vinyl and shed some light on it now that the project has a broader audience."Eleven years after his debut as Son Lux, Joyful Noise Recordings is reissuing these first two works on vinyl. A decade after inception, Son Lux has now shifted from Lott’s singular vision into a three-piece ensemble featuring virtuoso musicians Ian Chang on drums, and Rafiq Bhatia on guitar. But Lott’s initial Son Lux recordings still point toward an exciting musical future that contemporary pop music has yet to realize. 

          TRACK LISTING

          1 Prologue
          2 Break
          3 Weapons
          4 Betray
          5 Stay
          6 Raise
          7 Tell
          8 Wither
          9 Stand
          10 War 1
          1 Epilogue

          Billy Bragg

          Bridges Not Walls

            Life comes at you real fast these days. What’s a singer-songwriter to do when events keep challenging the way that we see the world? Before we’ve had a chance to digest one startling development, along comes another to throw us off balance again. I’ve been grubbing up songs for the past 12 months, but without the space to get an album together due to other projects, so I’ve decided to start dropping tracks, one a month between now and the end of the year. As always, they’re my way of trying to make some sense of what’s going on. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters is the name of an etching created in 1799 by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. The title struck a chord with me when trying to understand the events of last year. The lies and hubris of the Leave campaign in our EU referendum was echoed and amplified by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Only by restoring empathy and reason can we hope to defeat the monstrous forces of nationalism and untruth.

            Damon & Naomi

            Within These Walls

            Damon & Naomi have always been a bit more ahead of the curve than is good for them. Galaxie 500 ended before slowcore was a thing. Their psychedelic duo albums with Kramer came out while the Elephant 6 collective were still in high school. They toured the country with an acoustic guitar and Indian harmonium years before there was a New Weird America to receive them. And they made their lushest, most analog album before the vinyl revival. 2007’s Within These Walls came out on CD only, and is only now ten years later being released for the first time on vinyl — the way the duo intended it to be heard.

            Conceived as a DIY tribute to the great “mood” albums of Sinatra’s
            Capitol years, the album was recorded with real strings, real horns, real drums, and a very very real electric guitarist named Michio Kurihara. It’s a chamber record with ebow and wah-wah, featuring some of the most emotional songs of the duo’s career. “Lilac Land” opens the album in a somber mood, which never lets go. The string section — Helena Espvall, Margaret Wienk, and Katt Hernandez — underscore Naomi’s dark lyrics and melodies. The horns — Bhob Rainey, Greg Kelley, and Kyle Bruckmann — answer with wit and even a bit of joy, but they’ll never win the arguments here.

            This album was meant to cast a mood from start to finish, like Sinatra’s classic In The Wee Small Hours, or No One Cares. The album closes with two of its best known tracks: “The Turnaround”, a sweet love song with harmonies; and “Cruel Queen”, a ballad that draws on Damon & Naomi’s respect and knowledge of English folk rock. Sung to a traditional tune, Naomi’s crushing tale of a family gone wrong will keep you guessing till the end, and leave you watching the needle on the outgroove like Frank staring into his glass of rye.

            TRACK LISTING

            1. LILAC LAND
            2. THE WELL
            3. ON THE AVENUE
            4. WITHIN THESE WALLS
            5. RED FLOWER
            6. DEFIBRILLATION
            7. STARS NEVER FADE
            8. A SILVER THREAD
            9. THE TURNAROUND
            10. CRUEL QUEEN

            Multi-platinum selling US rock band Kings Of Leon release their hugely anticipated seventh studio album via Columbia Records. Initially embraced as "the Southern Strokes" for their resurrection and reinvention of Dixie-styled rock & roll, Kings of Leon steadily morphed into an experimental rock outfit during the 2000s. The Tennessee-bred quartet debuted in 2003 with the Holy Roller Novocaine EP, whose blend of raw, unpolished boogie rock was further explored on their debut full-length, Youth & Young Manhood.

            TRACK LISTING

            1 Waste A Moment
            2 Reverend
            3 Around The World
            4 Find Me
            5 Over
            6 Muchacho
            7 Conversation Piece
            8 Eyes On You
            9 Wild
            10 Walls

            Brighton's Dan Reeves is a busy guy. In addition to running his own label, Faux Discx Records & playing in the band Cold Pumas, he also records under the moniker "Soft Walls". These 10 songs are meditations on the passing of time itself & the pre-conceived notions (both external & internal) of what you can & should be doing with it. Filled with avant-leaning psych drones, dreamy guitar ragas, motorik head-boppers, & pop tunes that shimmer enticingly, these are songs to get lost in; to discover & re-discover. Don't worry - there's plenty of time.

            About Group

            Between The Walls

              ‘Between The Walls’ is the third album by About Group - Charles Hayward (This Heat, Camberwell Now), John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack, Spiritualized), Pat Thomas (has played with Derek Bailey, Tony Oxley), Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip).

              Alexis Taylor: “I think the excitement of making music is what I can hear in this record. John’s guitars on ‘Love Because' make me think of buzzing flies swinging wildly around the musical centre of the situation. That the centre is unstable as no one knows what song I am playing, makes me think of the controlled chaos of ‘Like Flies On Sherbert’ or a Cramps record, but ours sounds like it is playing at half speed.”

              Peter Broderick

              These Walls Of Mine (Deluxe Edition)

                LIMITED EDITION CD VERSION OF THE NEW PETER BRODERICK RELEASE: ITS COMES IN A SPECIAL SLIPCASE, WITH AN EXTRA BOOKLET, EACH ONE AUTOGRAPHED BY PETER BRODERICK.

                October 22, 2012 will see Peter Broderick release his brand new studio album on Erased Tapes, entitled These Walls of Mine. Held together by a dialogue of voices, this album reveals Peter’s innermost thoughts in an intimate yet playful way. An exploration from gospel and soul to spoken word, beatboxing and rap – this is Peter at his most natural.

                IN HIS OWN WORDS: “I had recently been experimenting at home with a microphone and a laptop, recording and uploading new songs for free online, each one alongside a photo and some words, and open to comments from the outside world. At some point Robert (Erased Tapes label founder) started listening to the music and felt compelled to encourage me to compile an album with all this material. His reaction to ‘These Walls of Mine’ (the song, not the album) was exactly how I felt about the music. I wasn’t sure if I loved it or hated it. But I loved the feeling of that uncertainty, of surprising myself and others around me. And in the end Robert got behind all the songs, which gave me the courage to finish the music for this release. These songs are best viewed as a collection of lyrical and vocal experiments. Of course the instruments and the music are important, but this album is held together by a dialogue of voices. Conversations with myself and with others. Several tracks contain lyrical contributions from friends and strangers, made possible with the help of the internet. And then I sang and sang and sang. I love singing. And I love cats.” – PETER BRODERICK.

                Peter Broderick

                These Walls Of Mine

                  October 22, 2012 will see Peter Broderick release his brand new studio album on Erased Tapes, entitled These Walls of Mine. Held together by a dialogue of voices, this album reveals Peter’s innermost thoughts in an intimate yet playful way. An exploration from gospel and soul to spoken word, beatboxing and rap – this is Peter at his most natural.

                  IN HIS OWN WORDS: “I had recently been experimenting at home with a microphone and a laptop, recording and uploading new songs for free online, each one alongside a photo and some words, and open to comments from the outside world. At some point Robert (Erased Tapes label founder) started listening to the music and felt compelled to encourage me to compile an album with all this material. His reaction to ‘These Walls of Mine’ (the song, not the album) was exactly how I felt about the music. I wasn’t sure if I loved it or hated it. But I loved the feeling of that uncertainty, of surprising myself and others around me. And in the end Robert got behind all the songs, which gave me the courage to finish the music for this release. These songs are best viewed as a collection of lyrical and vocal experiments. Of course the instruments and the music are important, but this album is held together by a dialogue of voices. Conversations with myself and with others. Several tracks contain lyrical contributions from friends and strangers, made possible with the help of the internet. And then I sang and sang and sang. I love singing. And I love cats.” – PETER BRODERICK.

                  Walls

                  Into Our Midst

                    The kids are alright: still lacking any concern for the rules of electronic dance music, London's Krautpop duo Walls continue their voyage to distant planets, hovering over alien continents and gazing at the radiant beauty of another world's sunset. “We want to create stuff you've never heard before”, says Sam Willis, whose sampledelica and magical synth work feels right at home with the haunting guitar play and hazy vocals his partner Alessio Natalizia (of Banjo Or Freakout fame) is known for.

                    The duo's uncanny ability to fuse sophisticated experimentation with catchy nostalgia only became more palpable thanks to their sophomore album “Coracle”, released this year to great critical acclaim, and second lead single “Into Our Midst” is no exception to the anti-formulaic unruliness we come to expect from the freak minds of those two visionaries. Starting off procedures with some trademark drone work, the title track soon introduces a surprisingly danceable beat pattern straying no too far away from what luminaries like Caribou or Animal Collective are doing to tighten up their jam sessions, but nothing prepares the listener for the lush vocals, the succulent textures and the hallucinatory bloom that follows. “Into Our Midst” might just be Walls' finest achievement to date: you can literally hear the duo nailing it. Backed up by an exclusive edit of the title track and unreleased freeform thump-out “Idle Sway”, this 12” manages to accomplish the impossible: bringing the bounce back to the chill-out. One can only wonder what Walls will do next to woo and enchant their audience growing bigger every split second.

                    The Hundred In The Hands

                    Pigeons - Inc. Blawan / Walls Remixes

                      Having presented us with a couple of cross-pollinated underground 12"s previously, The Hundred In The Hands now step things up a bit before the release of their self-titled debut album by bringing us "Pigeons" one of the more upbeat and mainstream cuts from the LP. Indie-pop in the vein of Au Revoir Simone, but with a house-tinted dancefloor edge, the track is an absolute beauty. Obviously we don't escape without a set of alternative reworks, which kick off with a future beats version from Blawan. Percussive and sub-wobbling, this is a must for post-dubstep fans. Walls take over side B with one of their epic ambient-infused tech-house versions for the dancefloor.



                      Walls

                      Walls

                        Kompakt continue to embrace fusion of the rock / dance divide paved on the label by the likes of The Field with one of the most exciting new bands to emerge in the past year; Walls (Sam Willis from Allez Allez and Alessio Natalizia of Banjo Or Freakout). Originally from Manchester, but based in London since 1996, Willis has long been an admirer of the Cologne sound, instilling his productions with the euphoric, pop sensibilities and deep grooves that are a Kompakt hallmark. Natalizia hails from Vasto, Italy but relocated to London in 2008 to pursue his musical dreams - driven by the wild guitar of This Heat and propulsive rhythms of Can as well as Burial's inner city atmospherics and soul. After hooking up in the studio, the pair quickly realized that the natural combination of Alessio’s and guitar play and haunting vocals together with Willis’ emotive synth lines and sample manipulation magic was a match made in heaven. Already friends of the Kompakt label, the duo created this debut album for them in double quick time. Take “Hang Four” where the slo-mo techno rhythm finds an easy bond with Allessio’s lush guitar picking. “Cylopean Remains” immediately conjure the potentials of a jam between Animal Collective and Boards Of Canada – rolling beauty combined with epic strangeness to the most cerebral degree. Destined to be one of Kompakt’s most unparalleled releases in the label's history, Walls have a lack of concern for the boundaries of genre distinction, but easily fit uniquely between the classic 'sound of Kompakt' and the bliss of "Pop Ambient".

                        Franciscan Hobbies

                        Walls Are Stuck

                          San Francisco's the Franciscan Hobbies fourth full-length album (& second proper CD) of cooperative folk-noise and abstract nature processionals. Based around Thuja-explorers Glenn Donaldson, Loren Chasse and Rob Reger, this free-form musical body also encompasses another half-dozen friends from like minded bands such as the Muons, the Buried Civilizations, Leaf Yard the the Shitty Listeners. The Franciscan Hobbies are part of the expansive Jewelled Antler forest of bands and projects.

                          Cherubs

                          Club Hoola Hoop's Walls

                            This second single from The Cherubs: Chugging Strokes-ey guitars, heaps of energy and damn fine tunes too. We like!!!!!!

                            Fred Neil

                            Tear Down The Walls (with Vince Martin) And Bleecker & MacDougal

                              Fred Neil is one of those characters whose enigmatic personaes often overshadow their music. His story resonates with the sort of details familiar to fans of Syd Barrett, Nick Drake or Tim Buckley. Bags of talent, a maverick spirit and TOO MANY DRUGS. Neil had a superb rich baritone voice and these early sixties recordings capture his charismatic presence and show his compelling songwriting abilities. His recent death from cancer ends speculation that his 25 year silence could end, but the quality and richness of this disc will do much to satisfy those interested in discovering this huge lost talent.


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