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Cover of At Tubby's by Dougie Poole.

Dougie Poole

At Tubby's

Wharf Cat Records

On 'At Tubby’s Dougie Poole plays stripped down live versions of his most treasured songs in a venue beloved by musicians for its’ intimacy & acoustics as well as its’ exceptional treatment of touring musicians. This set was a natural for release as a live album as it was a special night for the band. One of those nights when the music, audience and space all come together. It was recorded right from the board with minimal mixing work in post from Dougie himself.

The version of Dougie’s live band on 'At Tubby’s features main stays Mike Etten on electric guitar and Connor “Catfish” Gallaher on pedal steel. On the night’s first song 'Los Angeles', Etten’s classic country licks and Catfish’s soaring slide lines perfectly compliment Dougie’s formidable acoustic work and golden baritone. You can tell these three have been playing together for years and are road tested in this formation. They tackle some of Dougie’s most loved songs, from rave-up’s ('Beth David Cemetery' & 'Vaping on the Job') to country balladry ('Must Be in There Somewhere', 'Don’t You Think I’m Funny Anymore') and all points in between.

There are some tracks here that might be new to fans of Dougie’s recent albums. 'Toshiba Sky' is a one off digital single from 2020 and 'Wild Motion' is a track Dougie wrote for L.A.’s Drugdealer, who recorded it for their 2020 album 'Raw Honey'. 'At Tubby’s also sees the recorded debut of a new Dougie composition, 'Heaven Sent an Angel' which closes out the set on a heartfelt note. 'At Tubby’s brings the listener to a spacial place and time, and will be a thrilling listen for fans old and new.

TRACK LISTING

1. Los Angeles
2. Beth David Cemetery
3. Whole Life Last Night
4. Nothing On The Earth Can Make Me Smile
5. Must Be In There Somewhere
6. Wild Motion
7. Port Authority Hymn
8. Toshiba Sky
9. Don’t You Think I’m Funny Anymore
10. Vaping On The Job
11. Heaven Sent An Angel

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Cover of Down On Them by Paco Cathcart.

Paco Cathcart

Down On Them

Wharf Cat Records

Native New Yorker, Paco Cathcart is an important progenitor of the NYC underground that birthed the likes of Water From Your Eyes, Palberta and Lily Konigsberg. Down On Them is Paco’s first record by their own name after 100+ releases un- der the name The Cradle. 'Down On Them' is about Paco’s NYC homeland and living in these strange and often dark times. The record features some of the NYC’s best players.

RIYL: Neil Young, Stephen Malkmus, The Cradle

TRACK LISTING

1. Your Reflection
2. Bottleneck Blues
3. Cry On Command
4. Oh, Joy
5. Ella Vive Sola
6. TM Joint
7. Gender Neutral
8. Can’t Recall My Dreams
9. Something Moving
10. Pale Grey Light
11. Just Love You
12. Invasive Species

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Cover of 1991 - 2025 Reissue by Drop Nineteens.

Drop Nineteens

1991 - 2025 Reissue

Wharf Cat Records

Following the release of Drop Nineteens’ first album in 30 years, Hard Light and the re-issue of their 1992 shoegaze masterwork Delaware, we are excited to announce the official release of Drop Nineteens' 1991. This LP comprises the band’s first two demo sessions which were mailed out via cassette to labels in 1991, finding their way to the UK music press and generating instant buzz and an ensuing feeding frenzy to sign the band. After signing with Caroline Records, Drop Nineteens decided to write an entirely new record, Delaware, for their first official release, leaving the songs on 1991 behind, frozen in time. Swells of layered guitars and buried vocal harmonies adorn these tracks, displaying Drop Nineteens' UK influences with the comparison to their UK contemporaries like Slowdive and Ride were apt. 1991's songs, recorded with a lo-fi charm, show an ambitious young band capable of writing songs filled with texture and hooks, on the eve of their breakthrough with Delaware. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Mayfield
2. Shannon Waves
3. Kissing The Sea
4. Snowbird
5. Another Summer
6. Daymon
7. Song For J.J.
8. Back In Our Old Bed
9. Soapland

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Cover of What Is Success by Open Head.

Open Head

What Is Success

Wharf Cat Records

Open Head is a 4-piece experimental ensemble from Kingston, New York. With a taste for the concrete and the spectral, their new album What Is Success sources beauty in brutalist architecture, holography, and the remnants of industrialism that ornament the Hudson Valley landscape. The result is expansive, stratospheric in volume, and brutally material in its punctuation and delivery. Drawing on New York no-wave and the avant-garde history of punk, noise, hip-hop, and electronic music, Open Head presents a sound that is itself a landscape—immediate, colossal, ruined, and essential. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Success
2. Fiends Don’t Lose
3. Monotones
4. N.Y. Frills
5. *INOY
6. Take It From Me
7. House
8. Bullseye
9. Julo
10. Palace Quarters
11. Catacomb

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Cover of Dreamviolence by Bambara.

Bambara

Dreamviolence

Wharf Cat Records

DREAMVIOLENCE is BAMBARA’s full-length follow-up to their acclaimed debut EP Dog Ear Days (2010). After playing countless deafening shows in their hometown of Athens, touring the US in sweaty house shows and sharing bills with Iceage, Grimes, Liturgy, A Place to Bury Strangers, and Parts and Labor, BAMBARA decided to leave their beloved Athens and move to a basement apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn for a change. Here they practiced, slept and recorded for the majority of 2012. Following the release of a Kate Bush cover and a 10 minute improv noise EP RINGS early in the year, BAMBARA began to work on DREAMVIOLENCE.

With a minimal recording set-up and little sunlight, the band was able to completely capture the dark, grimy, noisy sound they are known for while maintaining the lush beauty that glues it all together. Reid’s voice croons and snarls the fragmented images of the city. Blaze and William’s driving rhythm section plows and swings through the dirge of vocal noise with furious power. BAMBARA doesn’t want you to get comfortable inDREAMVIOLENCE. They prefer to send you through vortexes of haunting noise before you reach the dreamy euphoria waiting in the wreckage.

TRACK LISTING

1. All The Same
2. White Dresses
3. Bird Calls
4. Hawk Bones
5. Young Mother
6. Nail Polish
7. Train Daze
8. Bar
9. Divine Teeth
10. Z
11. Breaker
12. Blonde
13. Disappear

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Cover of They Live In My Head by Bush Tetras.

Bush Tetras

They Live In My Head

Wharf Cat Records

Bush Tetras have made punk music at the fringes for over four decades. Flashes of reggae, bursts of noise, guitars that rattle, shake and snake, born out of a gutter behind CBGBs. Over the years they have respawned time and time again, contorting their sound, tweaking the vision, remaining singular and indispensable.

In the late 2010s the group—Pat Place, Cynthia Sley, and Dee Pop—reformed again, releasing an EP, Take the Fall, in 2018. It was their first offering of new music in over a decade. A few years later in, 2021, they released a career spanning box set called Rhythm and Paranoia. The New York Times called the box set an artifact that “proves for decades [that Bush Tetras] continued to evolve in surprising yet intuitive directions.” Around the same time, the band began working on a full length record, writing sessions during the pandemic over Zoom.

Right before the release of the box set, beloved drummer Dee Pop passed away. Determined to complete the record to honor his memory, the Tetras went into the studio to finish what they’d started, once the timing was right. They brought in a new drummer, Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley, who also served as producer. Enter They Live in My Head. The band’s 3rd official LP (a misleading fact when viewed alongside a catalog as expansive as it is influential),They Live in My Head is a collection of songs that sometimes reflect on the past and sometimes reckon with our current reality.

From “Ghosts of People,” on which Pat Place’s legendary guitar meanders through closed doors and portals, to the scorching “2020 Vision,” a matterof-fact call to arms to get on the streets and get something done, the album addresses new and old, in both abstract and specific terms. But whether they’re looking forward or backward, Bush Tetras have always been a political band, a band that calls out all kinds of bullshit. And, in that sense, They Live in My Head is absolutely no exception.

TRACK LISTING

1. Bird On A Wire
2. Tout Est Meilleur
3. Things I Put Together
4. 2020 Vision
5. I Am Not A Member
6. Walking Out The Door
7. So Strange
8. Ghosts Of People
9. They Live In My Head
10. Another Room
11. The End

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Cover of L.A. Shit by GracieHorse.

GracieHorse

L.A. Shit

Wharf Cat Records

‘L.A. Shit’ is the new LP from the punch-throwing, shit-kicking country outfit fronted by Fat Creeps bunder Gracie Jackson, featuring contributions from King Tuff, Emmett Kelley (Cairo Gang, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Ty Segall Band) and Bobbie Lovesong.

Gracie Horse weaves stories into her songs. On ‘L.A. Shit’, her debut record with Wharf Cat, she takes us into the past half a decade of her life. We see her as a traveling nurse, living in big blue expanse of Wyoming, dancing with a man in a crisp white Stetson, eating chicken wings in a hazmat suit, commenting on how strange a place like Los Angeles can be, how loaded it is with wannabe cowboys and fast food restaurants. It’s a record of immaculate country music, the kind of stuff you’d put on blast in your truck as you drive down empty stretches of highway. It’s also a vulnerable record, full of lyrics about the intensity of being alive, all told with a sense of humour and self-awareness.

While some of the songs on ‘L.A. Shit’ are over a decade old, Gracie started writing the record in earnest during the pandemic. She’s a nurse, injured her neck in the line of duty, and suddenly found herself out of work. She had a creative explosion, putting memories into words and melodies in her home studio that she shared with her husband. Particles of songs from years past became beautifully realized. Everything was clicking in the way that it should. She found herself able to express the sometimes inexpressible. She did what all good country music should do: she created a patchwork of experiences in a way that is both deeply earnest and absolutely charming.

In addition to being Gracie’s own major artistic statement, ‘L.A. Shit’ is a community effort. To make it, she enlisted countless friends in the Los Angeles Area, many of whom are touring and session musicians who were stuck at home during the pandemic. “I’m grateful,” she says of the experience, “I’m proud that I get to show off my friends on this record.” Indeed, ‘L.A. Shit’ is that kind of big family affair. It’s as country as country can be. Funny, heartbreaking, brutal.

TRACK LISTING

Hollow Her
By The Light Of His White Stetson
What I'm Missing
Northwind
Bakup Slowly
Run Ricky Run
If You're Gonna Walk That Straight Line Son, It's Only Gonna Hurt
Hollow Head (Reprise)
Winds Of The New West

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Cover of Structure by Water From Your Eyes.

Water From Your Eyes

Structure

Wharf Cat Records

Water From Your Eyes’ Rachel Brown and Nate Amos are no strangers to contradiction, with Pitchfork making note of their “confidence in splicing different genres and feels from acoustic twee to indie-electronica” in their review of 2019’s Somebody Else’s Songs. So, upon first listen, Structure – with its tendency to turn on a dime from the buzzsaw synths and string arrangements that sonically bookend tracks like “My Love’s,” to the subtle, almost Squarepusher-esque rhythms that round out electronic compositions like “”Quotations”” – may just seem like a further refinement of the duo’s idiosyncratic approach to making music. However, repeat listens will reveal that, even though the album zigs and zags in a manner consistent with WFYE’s prior releases, its line of best fit trends in a very clear direction away from the quaint affectations of their prior work and towards something more deliberate and half a shade darker.

Even on ostensibly cheery tracks like album opener “When You’re Around,” which, with its saccharine melodicism sounds like it could be a lost song from The Apples in Stereo or one of their Elephant 6-era labelmates, there’s an underlying eeriness that’s not immediately apparent until the song is listened to in the context of the full album. Amos’ advice for navigating Structure’s sonic terrain is to “remember that this is weed music,” while his counterpart Brown offers that that the album is like “solving a puzzle with a ton of different answers.” Although these varied descriptions of how to approach listening to Structure may accurately reveal it to be another exercise in contradictions, the clear intent with which the pair approached creating the album can only be appreciated with repeat listens, and is likely what makes it, by far, their most compelling entry to date.

TRACK LISTING

1. When You’re Around
2. My Love’s
3. You’re The Embers
4. Quotations
5. Monday
6. Track Five
7. You’re The Watching Fly
8. “Quotations”

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Cover of Rhythm And Paranoia: The Best Of Bush Tetras by Bush Tetras.

Bush Tetras

Rhythm And Paranoia: The Best Of Bush Tetras

Wharf Cat Records

Flashes of light rarely burn for long. Bush Tetras exploded into New York in 1979 and flamed out just a few years later. Yet somehow this lightning-quick band have risen from their own ashes again and again for four decades. The spark that ignited Bush Tetras tapped into a deep grid of power, fueled by guitarist Pat Place, singer Cynthia Sley, and drummer Dee Pop.

That chemistry is palpable on Rhythm and Paranoia: The Best of Bush Tetras, which features 29 songs across 3 LPs pressed onto 180-gram vinyl and remastered by Carl Saff, plus a 46-page book with never-before-seen photos, an original essay on the band by Marc Masters, and micro essays by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, R&B legend Nona Hendryx, The Clash’s Topper Headon, & more.

From the band’s earliest recordings to their current, vital-as-ever incarnation, Rhythm and Paranoia – for the first time ever – showcases the thier unique, influential, and body-shaking meld of rock, punk, funk, reggae, and more in one cohesive, immersive, and meticulously constructed box set.

TRACK LISTING

1. Too Many Creeps !
2. Snakes Crawl !
3. You Taste Like The Tropics !
4. Punch Drunk !
5. Cold Turkey [Live In London] !
6. Things That Go Boom In
The Night !
7. Das Ah Riot !
8. Cowboys In Africa !
9. Rituals !
10. You Can’t Be Funky !
11. Moonlite !
12. Dum Dum !
13. Stand Up And Fight !
14. Page 18 !
15. Color Green !#$
16. Mr. Lovesong [Alternate
Version] !#$
17. World @
18. Motörhead !
19. Pretty Thing !
20. You Don’t Know Me !
21. Heart Attack !
22. Ocean !
23. Nails !#
24. True Blue
25. Red Heavy
26. Out Again
27. There Is A Hum
28. Seven Years
29. Sucker Is Born
30. Run Run Run [Live In San
Francisco] @+
31. Cutting Floor @+

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Cover of Horse by Holy Motors.

Holy Motors

Horse

Wharf Cat Records

The more hopeful ‘sunrise’ to 2018’s critically acclaimed Slow Sundown, Horse finds Tallinn, Estonia’s Holy Motors acknowledging the Americana and rockabilly strands of their musical DNA without sacrificing any of the otherworldly mystique that keeps them from neatly conforming to the shoegaze and dreampop labels often applied to their music. From the album’s opening moments, songs like “Country Church,” with its major key and classic rhythm and blues guitarline, and “Midnight Cowboy,” which sounds like a lost Buddy Holly 45 played at 33 rpm, make it clear that Horse — even if it may not accomplish the impossible task of demystifying this band of ex-Soviet cowboys — will at least show you that there’s more to them than the near-impenetrable darkness of their work to date may suggest.

While tracks like “Trouble” and “Endless Night” gravitate towards the ethereal production and existential subject matter of prior releases, repeat listens will reveal the same complex compositions and humanity that are much more a hallmark of Horse’s eight songs. As a whole, Horse stands as a warmer, more human counterpoint to 2018’s celestial Slow Sundown. As to which of the two entries better approximates Holy Motors’ natural set point, only time will tell.

TRACK LISTING

1. Country Church
2. Endless Night 
3. Midnight Cowboy 
4. Road Stars 
5. Matador
6. Come On, Slowly
7. Trouble
8. Life Valley (So Many Miles Away)

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Cover of Too Numb To Know by Profligate.

Profligate

Too Numb To Know

Wharf Cat Records

Too Numb to Know showcases Profligate continuing to shirk the heavy electronics of his early years for razor sharp pop. On 2018’s Somewhere Else, Noah Anthony delivered catchy nuggets while adding live instrumentations, reinvigorating his songwriting and sonic palette. This new song-driven approach gained praise from Resident Advisor, Pitchfork and The Wire, exposing Profligate to new listeners.

Anthony worked on Too Numb To Know while living on both coasts of the United States, but eventually completed the album in Cleveland, Ohio, where he currently resides. Anthony recorded demos in Philadelphia and in Los Angeles, which was a creatively-challenging, emotionally-depleting city for him - after losing the computer holding original recordings of TNTK to a thief, he took a friend’s suggestion and moved to Cleveland where he finished the album, and added contributions from allies like Matchess, Lazy Magnet, Gel Set, Missions, and others.

TNTK is about growth, reflection and change. Lead single “Hang Up” urges the artist’s younger self to trust his instincts during chaos. Its message pairs with bright keyboards, a pulsing beat, and soft, alluring vocals - on the chorus, he croons “Nothing you create but love penetrates.” It’s an urgent, driving pop song that fuses electronics with rock instrumentation like the best of Alternative radio. “A Little Rain” and “My Days” feature evocative melodic and textural beauty. The latter’s hopeful and assuring chorus is unexpected and welcome. Softer moments like these are interspersed throughout TNTK in between kinetic numbers like “No Clear Way” and “We Can Punish,” or “A Stranger” reminiscent of his noisier, beat-oriented years. This varied approach and attention to detail is garnish to an already tight song cycle

TRACK LISTING

1. Mask 
2. Hang Up 
3. Tula 
4. A Little Rain
5. No Clear Way
6. We Can Punishl
7. Drink A Spider
8. Just A Few Things Wrong
9. My Days
10. A Stranger

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