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NEW! The Black Twig Pickers! "Friend's Peace" is the first VHF release by the gang in many years, and will be released April 2, 2021. You can pre-order it now from VHF or our Bandcamp. It's a beautiful album, with "Moonshiner," droning fiddle, upbeat dances, an acapella lament, acoustic guitar wizardry, and a long elegiac finale.
Also - this technically snuck out at the end of 2020, but Daniel O'Sullivan’s "Electric Māyā: Dream Flotsam and Astral Hinterlands" LP is your 2021 best friend. First in a series of 3 LPs of Library Music miniatures from composer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel O’Sullivan (Æthenor, Ulver, This is Not This Heat, etc). For heads, the term “Library Music” in 2020 might evoke dodgy Italian gray market LPs and crate diggers hunting for “funky breaks” - but London’s venerable KPM Music is working with groundbreakers like Daniel to open up new avenues for composers to experiment. Electric Māyā includes 18 gems, beautifully arranged and recorded specifically for the challenge of the short form. These are fully realized tunes, not just clips from the middle of some jam to be used on late night TV. The obvious touchstones here are Eno’s On Land and Music for Films, but Dan’s touch on multiple instruments and knack for melody extend the music far beyond mere atmospherics. There are plenty of drifty segments, each rendered fully realized - a timely reminder that a well-made drone or bit of ambience can set its spell in 2 or 3 minutes rather than 30. In a beautiful jacket designed by Dan and Turner Prize-nominee Mark Titchner.
We’d sold out (!?) of our recent-ish deluxe edition of Flying Saucer Attack’s s/t 1994 debut LP, but an exact repress is available again! This edition was cut by Golden, is housed in a super heavy Stoughton “tip-on” jacket, and is a wonderful-sounding RTI audiophile pressing. Also includes the original insert and a download card.
We’re working on some new releases for later this year - the debut s/t LP by Virginia’s Eight Point Star and the 2nd LP in Daniel O’Sullivan’s Library Music series (“Fourth Density”) are already at the pressing plant, and a couple of other exciting releases are in the prep stage. And we’re still having our blowout sale on many titles, thanks to all who have indulged so far.