trudgers - bedrooms on fire - goaty tapes- cass - 7$
Brent Mitzner’s Trudgers project seems so inert and so real, but somehow eludes simple account. It’s probs the disconnect between his meticulous multi-instrumental song craft and the thick austerity of his neo-goth baritone that makes this six track charger transcend the catalog. A vision of industrial unhappiness that condenses the whole history of popular music into bit-sized fuck you’s and synthesizes California sun daze with cold/late night cogency (read: almost danceable).
-goaty
truth syrum - why we look at our neighbors - goaty tapes- cass - 7$
Why We Look at our Neighbors documents Will Kapp’s move from Iowa City to the West Coast last fall. The songs parallel personal displacement, straddling the line between brazen, youthful mid-west basement scuzz and new found pop intimacy/bald, romantic holism. The little punk almost gets in touch with nature, but he still swears by the half-stack and the DigiTech Grunge pedal his mom got in for the Christmas.
-goaty
hny - dead in a year - goaty tapes- cass - 7$
Heather loves playing with her bros in Social Junk but sometimes you just have to be alone, let some fem energy loose in the headspace and be a girl in the 21st century. This time, however, there’s no fancy ersatz spiritual dazzle—no pleasant gold-lining on the drone clouds. On Dead in a Year Heather gets brutal: the vocal mantras don’t dissipate into nebulous drone ephemera, but hold their ground as a physical human reactions that almost hit the grunge wipeout USA nerve. Before you know it she’s punching the deep-base drum machine, discharging synth breakdowns ala The Dream and calling you out on your shit.
-goaty
la danse du sperme - goaty tapes- cass - 7$
Trio of Hellvete, Edgar Wappenhalter, and Bart Sloow (Sloow Tapes) noodling acoustic-status across seven tracks of guitar warble/strum, which keeps pretty constant while muffled vocals, electric guitar, keyboard and drum fluctuate. Late-night incantations like we’ve come to expect, but the occult/paranormal energy of their other collaborations is replaced with more youthful romance and sexual charm/tease.
-goaty
el jesus de magico - ragtime hors - goaty tapes- cass - 7$
EJDM finds that grey area where basement naiveté bumps up against wizened biker nonchalance. He’s still has a little angst and adolescent echo, but there’s definitely a hypnotic motorpipe repose/indifference going on—lots of propeller smoke and the blistering hogs-up-the-coast easy rider dust.
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bird - hoy en dia - goaty tapes- cass -7$
Investing in some free synth software, a snare, and a tiny guitar, Katie Leming explodes any previous notion of loner-muzak with her unparalleled neo-outsider no-pop chug. Unlike her drumming and singing in Cro Magnon, here Katie moves into a new primitivist realm, where any and all world musics and pop strategies can be appropriated and channeled into the temporal angst of a college girl whose apartment sucks.
-goaty
paradise sisters - jeff atkins no. 7 - goaty tapes- cass -7$
Supposedly there are nineteen sisters and they all play together and never ever look at each other. Continual transgression and vacation woery. All this in preparation for an LP on De Stijl Recs.
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vincent over the sink - bible bashers - goaty tapes- cass -7$
Kept on the low for several years now, VOTS have released a couple short gems exclusively in their native Australia. Bible Bashers is their American debut, channeling post-post punk cynicism and modernist anxiety ala Lambkin and the Ring, not to mention their ancestral Xpressway slog. Deeply religious, these two extended pieces, composed of several sections each, meander between structured bedroom monotony and bunkbed-nightmare dirge. Features members of Naked on the Vague.
-goaty
david joon jaberi / cole moldy miller - split - goaty tapes- cass - 7$
Must’ve been a big pea pod what which encased these two. Sweet too. Do only say so cause these songs smack of such a chunky, love coated brotherhood, none can help but feel a resounding sense of connectedness. Youth closure, you could say. Explore them extra hairs and grown feelings with swilly, tender songiness!
-Valhalla
Edition of 100 of imprinted blue shells with hand-cut folds.
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