hny “here you can touch the sky” long playing record

• valley of the rogue
  
• hot like the sun
  
• do you get the picture?
  
  
• instrumental
  
• lost to the sky
  
• hunt me down

amethyst sunset press release...

as-010 - hny - "here you can touch the sky" lp very excited to be able to present the vinyl issue of hny's "here you can touch the sky". over the past few years, hny has released some stellar cassettes through ranky tanky, not not fun, and goaty tapes when finding some free time from shredding with social junk. here you can touch the sky is a half hour full of haunting guitar + vocal work that was released in 2008 through ranky tanky and is now ready to shine on vinyl. this record collects all the songs from the original cassette release and includes one previously released instrumental. limited to 500 copies on clear with orange splatter with a printed 11x11 insert with lyrics.

night burger “what happens next” c36 cassette

• what happens next
  
• profligate
  
• as always
  
• you drive
  
• my turn to hide
  
  
• what happens next (dross)
  
• settlement

deception island press release...

di36: night burger "what happens next" c36 (edition of 200). noah anthony of social junk's solo project and absolutely my favorite thing going in philly right now. weird / bleak / minimal without the sense of holding out on the listener, long on classically dubby mutes and bucket brigade stunts, and maintaining one foot in "songcraft" of the martin rev / daniel miller variety and another in a surprisingly chain reaction-esque abstraction. since he landed in philly a couple years back, noah anthony of social junk has participated in a dizzying number of warped units, including mirror men, mindless attack, the late form a log, and of course night burger, solo vehicle for his virtuosic command of postdub / postjunk technique in the service of a stunningly bleak, utterly forlorn, and eerily refined agenda. that this project, which has cultivated a well-earned reputation for prolific and mind-erasingly intense live performances remains sparsely represented in terms of studio recordings makes an immaculately structured album-length release such as this one particularly special. what happens next? gets lurching with a slo-mo jackhammer riff that hits like a thousand telephone switchboards getting sucked into a neutron star. anthony’s vocal persona is hollowed-out and resigned, a terrifying shell of the dosed everyman angle worked in sj. the a side progresses through dessicated combo organ perc of “profligate”, wrapped in tick, melt, and whisper, to the keening rust belt-style reedwave, iq-annihilating bass drops, and bucket brigade gurgle of “as always,” “you drive” and “my turn to hide”. on the reverse, “what happens next (dross)” transforms the numbing bonecrunch impact of the original into a sick thud / clatter beneath a frigid organ riff, while “settlement” stretches into epic territory, an unintelligible interior monologue dissolving in a stiff bleach solution amid a hail of highway flares, giving way to a muted psychedelia of the hyperclean factory sort, surprisingly not unrelated to a plausible interpretation of, say, early chain reaction recs. phenomenal. i did it for the philly crew: kevin e, party t, rick w, alex h, eamon t, wendy h, lance s, charles c, jeremy h, chris m, etc. all the kids want to be whipped with a chain. - j.r.

social junk “born into it” compact disc

• it just isn't the same
  
• those final seconds
  
• griff
  
• born into it
  
• behind a wall
  
• someone upstairs

social junk “somebody should've told you ” c47 cassette

• division
  
• jersey girls
  
• three thousand times
  
• wilderness
  
  
• love inside
  
• skeleton of a punk
  
• swirl

two thousand tapes press release...

twothousandtapes11 social junk - somebody should've told you c47. edition of 100