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Originally released in 2021. "Michael Hurley's first new studio record in 12 years features eleven songs recorded in Astoria, Oregon during the brief time of year when the foxgloves bloom. Hurley had been workshopping the set at home for the past few years. Friends and collaborators came into town and contributed from afar. The songs are lifted by violin, organ, upright bass, banjo, percussion -- but at the center, of course, is the enigmatic Snock, whose songs have grown only more unique and recognizable 57 years after his debut album. It could only be Snock. Heartbreaking, heartfelt, easy and carefree. The glorious opener 'Are You Here For The Festival' -- punctuated by a pair of violins -- came to him while working in the garden. 'Little Blue River' floats by on a cloud. The haunting 'Jacob's Ladder' sounds beamed in from another era. Or dimension. Foxgloves is as comforting and wonderful as any Hurley record that has come before it."
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NOQ 032CD
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"Family Band is a collaboration between visual artist turned singer Kim Krans and heavy-metal guitarist Jonny Ollsin. The couple met in the Catskill Mountains in 2005 and still write many of their songs there in a two-room, hand-built cabin. Grace & Lies is the group's second album, and as the title suggests, it is equal parts light and shadow, evoking the mystery and terror of early Cat Power, the ghostly aura of Warpaint, with whom Family Band toured in 2011, and the hushed longing of prime-era Cowboy Junkies. Though they explored similar territory - both sonically and lyrically - on their self-released debut, Miller Path, on Grace their canvas is wider - the greys lusher, the blacks deeper."
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NOQ 030CD
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"Five new songs recorded in Toronto and intended to hold fans over until September, when Doug Paisley will release the follow-up to 2010's critically acclaimed Constant Companion. If you slept on that album, then we're sorry, but use this affordably priced EP as an excuse to acquaint yourself with one of the finest working songwriters, who Time Out NY called 'the purest voice to come down the pike in ages.'"
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NOQ 028CD
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"Louisville, Kentucky's Nathan Salsburg is a folklorist, producer, and presenter of vernacular music for East Village Radio, the Drag City imprint Twos & Fews, and the Alan Lomax Archive, among other outlets. With his first solo record as a performer -- entitled Affirmed, after the 1978 winner of horse racing's Triple Crown -- he enters a wholly new interaction with the corpus of American (and British) musical folklore. The album, seven original instrumentals and one trad arrangement, is a startlingly diverse synthesis of guitar traditions -- from Gary Davis to Sam McGee; Peter Lang to Nic Jones -- refracted through a compositional sensibility long on melodic adventurousness and short on repetition and drone, those shibboleths of the American Primitives. Affirmed is a remarkably confident, emotional debut by one of the most original and gifted young guitarists playing today."
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NOQ 022CD
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"Ah, the live album: often a tool for bands looking to wiggle out of contracts or perhaps, squeeze a few more pennies from a loyal fanbase. Rare is it a work of art. Inspired by these singular instances (Grayfolded, The Grateful Dead; Sonic Death, Sonic Youth; In Search of Spaces, Flying Saucer Attack) C. Spencer Yeh, the lone constant of the long-running Burning Star Core project, conceptualized Papercuts Theater: one long piece (broken into four movements) culled from over sixty live performances, spanning years and continents. These formerly disparate relics of time and space now exist as one: a sonic document of the present."
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NOQ 023CD
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"Words that come to mind while listening to Coconuts' debut album: ugliness, despair, un-marketability. Theirs is a sound rooted in inherent darkness, influenced by early-'80s post-punk, no wave (fellow Australians The Birthday Party come to mind) and the bleakest of world-views. It's an almost disorienting experience, created by homemade guitars that seem to leak feedback, built by founding members Tim Evans and Jordan Redaelli (the aforementioned Australians). The duo met up with Oacific-northwesterner Daniel Mitha in New York City, whose primitive drumming completed the group. We should also mention: the record has killer harmonies."
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NOQ 023LP
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NOQ 018CD
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"Justin Broadrick has always made music which could one day serve as a soundtrack to the end of the world, should we ever need one. Whether with Godflesh or Jesu -- themes of urban decay, corporate greed and post-modern malaise often set the bleak tone. Final, his longest running project, is no different. Formed in 1982, it has often run parallel to his more recognizable work and served as an undefinable and more experimental outlet." Features four tracks not on the LP version.
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"Lunes is the second album by the Texas psychedelic duo Headdress. Written in the desert but recorded during an endless New York City winter, the album is a dark meditation on Americana. Guitarist Caleb Coy and organist Ethan Cook sculpt a cold, expansive sound made ripe for these turbulent times. It's the blues shaped by the avant-compositions of La Monte Young and Dylan Carlson. It's drone rooted deep in the American tradition."
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NOQ 008CD
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"The debut full-length from Coptic Light (NYC) is a massive piece of music. Consisting of three epic, dark, and moody instrumentals -- these musicians have been around the block and their expertise shows. They've created a truly unique album with atmosphere (which can't be said for everything that comes out these days). Sure, some of the riffs could be considered 'mathy' but the songs don't stay in that territory long before stretching out into vast, expansive, visceral meditations."
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NOQ 005CD
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"The second EP from Electric Turn To Me finds the band moving in a more focused direction. Almost impossible to describe using typical music journalist terminology, Electric Turn To Me play a kind of pop music that is unique all to itself. Dark and synth driven yet with an urgency reminiscent of early punk. Songs that twist and turn but with melodies so familiar they'll bury themselves in you're head for months to come. Like their previous outfits (Laddio Bolocko, Dazzling Killmen) Electric Turn To Me are truly forging their own path in a world where independent music often becomes stale and commercialized. Oblivious to the trends of the moment, they are merely attempting to absorb and recreate the energy and originality of the bands they love." Last copies of this now deleted item.
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NOQ 004CD
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"Formed in the summer of 2002 by Blake Fleming (ex-Laddio Bolocko, the Mars Volta), Marcus DeGrazia (ex-Laddio Bolocko), guitarist James Wilk (ex-Imaginary Numbers) and German singer Silke, ETTM draws the best inspiration and instrumentation from the most creative bands of the '60s (Love, Pretty Things, The Doors), and updates it for the new millennium. Featuring imaginative powerhouse drumming, keyboard-propelled bass and vintage organ melodies, intertwined guitars, and Silke's strong vocals which recall, if anything, a more world weary, less glam Siouxsie Sioux, ETTM create intricate searching pop songs, achieving that delicate balance of using familiar sounds and elements, yet presenting them in a wholly original way."
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