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sub pop (usa) #sp 741 lp

kinski “down below it’s chaos” double long playing record set

  • crybaby blowout
  • passwords & alcohol
  • dayroom at narita int'l.
  • boy
  • was i mad!
  • argentina turner
  • child had to catch a train
  • plan
  • steal
  • drive
  • punching goodbye out front
  • silent biker type
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kinski
down below it's chaos

kinski is a four-piece rock band from seattle, wa. their unique evocation of avant-rock is deconstructionist and heady, but also emotive and visceral. nme described kinski as: “like sabbath in a washing machine during a power surge.” comprised of guitarists chris martin and matthew reid-schwartz (matthew also plays keyboards and flute), bassist lucy atkinson, and drummer barrett wilke, kinski have toured with mission of burma, comets on fire, oneida, mono, acid mothers temple, black mountain, and most recently opened a month of dates for tool on their spring ’07 tour.

produced and recorded by randall dunn (earth, sunn o))), boris) at his aleph studio in seattle, down below it’s chaos is kinski’s 3rd full-length for sub pop. with the notable inclusion of 3 songs with subdued yet urgent vocals courtesy of chris martin, the new record is a kaleidoscopic mix of kinski’s expansive, over-driven power and intricate beauty. with majestically fuzzed-out guitar tones, spare and pounding rhythms, and swirling sonic textures, down below it’s chaos sums up kinski’s past and propels them into the ozone. what’s left of it, that is.

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kinski “down below it’s chaos” compact disc

  • crybaby blowout
  • passwords & alcohol
  • dayroom at narita int'l.
  • boy
  • was i mad!
  • argentina turner
  • child had to catch a train
  • plan
  • steal
  • drive
  • punching goodbye out front
  • silent biker type
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kinski
down below it's chaos

kinski is a four-piece rock band from seattle, wa. their unique evocation of avant-rock is deconstructionist and heady, but also emotive and visceral. nme described kinski as: “like sabbath in a washing machine during a power surge.” comprised of guitarists chris martin and matthew reid-schwartz (matthew also plays keyboards and flute), bassist lucy atkinson, and drummer barrett wilke, kinski have toured with mission of burma, comets on fire, oneida, mono, acid mothers temple, black mountain, and most recently opened a month of dates for tool on their spring ’07 tour.

produced and recorded by randall dunn (earth, sunn o))), boris) at his aleph studio in seattle, down below it’s chaos is kinski’s 3rd full-length for sub pop. with the notable inclusion of 3 songs with subdued yet urgent vocals courtesy of chris martin, the new record is a kaleidoscopic mix of kinski’s expansive, over-driven power and intricate beauty. with majestically fuzzed-out guitar tones, spare and pounding rhythms, and swirling sonic textures, down below it’s chaos sums up kinski’s past and propels them into the ozone. what’s left of it, that is.

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sub pop (usa) #sp 738 cd

jennifer gentle “the midnight room” compact disc

  • twin ghosts
  • telephone ringing
  • it's in her eyes
  • take my hand
  • the ferryman
  • electric princess
  • quarter to three
  • mercury blood
  • granny's house
  • come closer
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jennifer gentle
the midnight room

two years after the release of jennifer gentle’s critically acclaimed sub pop debut valende, the italian psychedelic avant-pop explorers are back with the midnight room. and, while the band is five members strong when they play live, with the recent departure of drummer alessio gastaldello, the recorded jennifer gentle is now solely the project of founder and songwriter marco fasolo. marco wrote, performed and produced the entire new album alone in his ectoplasmic studio, a rambling old house lost in the foggy plains of northern italy, infamous for its previous owner’s suicide by rifle.

and, perhaps fittingly, the new record pulses with a nocturnal, feverish, hallucinatory emotional atmosphere, making for a truly unique aural experience. informed by a deep love for american ‘50s rock ‘n’ roll and european musicians like nino rota and kurt weill, the midnight room is by far the most personal jennifer gentle album to date.

focusing on the possibilities of the quintessential rock combo (two guitars, bass and drums) and enriched by swirling keyboard touches, marco created an album that feels like music from some forgotten amusement park at midnight. evoking bizarre, otherworldly images of gas-lit street corners, abandoned theatres, labyrinthine corridors.

the midnight room marries the intensity of primitive rock ‘n’ roll with a renewed taste for a certain kind of typically italian melody—albeit deconstructed, shattered and broken into tiny little bits. think of link wray, krysztof komeda and federico fellini rolled into one short, dense, cryptic tour de force. and then think again.

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sub pop (usa) #sp 730 cd

pissed jeans “hope for men” compact disc

  • people person (4:58)
  • secret admirer (3:27)
  • bad wind (3:06)
  • scrapbooking (5:13)
  • i’ve still got you (ice cream) (3:07)
  • fantasy world (3:38)
  • i’m turning now (3:20)
  • caught licking leather (3:59)
  • the jogger (3:10)
  • my bed (7:42)
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pissed jeans
hope for men

following on the heels of their monumental don’t need smoke to make myself disappear 7”, pissed jeans drop album number 2 and their sub pop debut: hope for men (we like to think of it in the “mankind” sense). for those who found a glimmer of the stuff on the aforementioned single (two pressings of which have sold out), the album delivers more, and in abundance. that is to say, if classic, thick-as-glue punk bombast and aussie sludge stoke the coals of your existence, you have found, not only your new favorite band, but a reason to get up in the morning.

since 2004 the jeans have spent many a night playing in their hometown, no-rules hellhole, allentown’s legendary jeff the pigeon (rip). their first single, “throbbing organ” and album, shallow (both on parts unknown) set many self-styled punk scholars’ hearts a-flutter. songs like “ugly twin” sent jaws floor-ward by including a plaintive piano part in a bruiser of a song. such touches abound on hope for men. the album is diverse, but the jeans ain’t no dilettantes. mixing volatility with humor is a damned hard thing to master in music. pissed jeans do it with smarts and poignancy. consider the bar raised.

pissed jeans are:

bradley fry — guitar
dave rosenstraus — bass
matt korvette — vocals
sean mcguinness — drums

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sub pop (usa) #sp 704 lp

comets on fire “avatar” long playing record

  • dogwood rust
  • jaybird
  • lucifer's memory

  • the swallow's eye
  • holy teeth
  • sour smoke
  • hatched upon the age
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comets on fire
avatar

after 2004’s critically acclaimed blue cathedral, one might have expected comets on fire to blast off into the cosmos in an infinite flurry of lysergic spasmodicism. surprising, then, that they should turn in an earthy, more accessible and downright beautiful album as their follow-up. then again, it is a completely logical progression, but in reverse, sort of.

on avatar their astonishing new album, comets display development in every direction: as musicians, as songwriters, as arrangers and as singers (?!), without sacrificing one ounce of the intensity that is expected from our heroes. as on blue cathedral, the diversity of the material is staggering. avatar veers from swinging, bluesy explorations to piano-laced, progressive power balladry, to pure tribalism, evoking everyone from the allmans, to quicksilver, to procol harum, to some insane fela/sun ra/crazy horse hybrid, yet remains wholly comets on fire.

though they play cleaner and clearer, their firepower is evident and abundant. they have shifted gears and opened themselves up completely. you should do the same.

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sub pop (usa) #sp 704 cd

comets on fire “avatar” compact disc

  • dogwood rust (7:48)
  • jaybird (6:08)
  • lucifer's memory (7:03)
  • the swallow's eye (6:53)
  • holy teeth (2:59)
  • sour smoke (8:47)
  • hatched upon the age (6:08)
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comets on fire
avatar

after 2004’s critically acclaimed blue cathedral, one might have expected comets on fire to blast off into the cosmos in an infinite flurry of lysergic spasmodicism. surprising, then, that they should turn in an earthy, more accessible and downright beautiful album as their follow-up. then again, it is a completely logical progression, but in reverse, sort of.

on avatar their astonishing new album, comets display development in every direction: as musicians, as songwriters, as arrangers and as singers (?!), without sacrificing one ounce of the intensity that is expected from our heroes. as on blue cathedral, the diversity of the material is staggering. avatar veers from swinging, bluesy explorations to piano-laced, progressive power balladry, to pure tribalism, evoking everyone from the allmans, to quicksilver, to procol harum, to some insane fela/sun ra/crazy horse hybrid, yet remains wholly comets on fire.

though they play cleaner and clearer, their firepower is evident and abundant. they have shifted gears and opened themselves up completely. you should do the same.

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sub pop (usa) #sp 688 cd

wolf eyes “human animal” compact disc

  • a million years (5:02)
  • lake of roaches (1:58)
  • rationed rot (8:09)
  • human animal (3:33)
  • rusted mange (2:12)
  • leper war (6:04)
  • the driller (3:59)
  • noise not music (2:20)
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wolf eyes
human animal

after a year of non-stop touring in support of 2004’s burned mind, wolf eyes were ready; seasoned to travel through horrible new areas of sound. during one four-week period at the dawn of ‘06, they laid down the ideas that would shape the new album in their studio, the terror tank.

this new slab is the first with mike connelly (of hair police and the gods of tundra label) replacing aaron dilloway. though he no longer tours with the band, dilloway remains involved and helped to mix the new record with bmg (who also did the deed on burned mind).

these songs are rotten with metal, reeds, consciousness-erasing islands of black doom; bass-heavy rippers, late-night free-terror jams, afflicted dog-hearts, underwater crabs: pure mayhem. the new double bass attack is showcased on “human animal” and “rusted mange” with scraping strings and a full terror-shriek workout re-organized by dilloway. new directions are countered by “rationed rot,” which revisits the eerie throbbing gristle-esque vocal deployment that dates from wolf eyes’ dread lp. the album also features the band’s first ever cover song: a dead-on rendering of no fucker’s rotten hxc anthem, “noise not music,” which closed out a lot of shows on wolf eyes’ recent european tour.

as ever, wolf eyes will be living on the road, with australian and american tours in the works, and more on the horizon.

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sub pop (usa) #sp 667 cd

kinski “alpine static” compact disc

  • hot stenographer (5:27)
  • the wives of artie shaw (3:16)
  • hiding drugs in the temple (part 2) (3:30)
  • the party which you know will be heavy (7:50)
  • passed out on your lawn (8:54)
  • all your kids have turned to static (5:20)
  • the snowy parts of scandinavia (9:48)
  • edge set (9:29)
  • waka nusa (6:18)
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kinski
alpine static

combining avant-garde experimentalism picked up from their interest in composers like terry riley and steve reich with a fondness for ‘70s krautrock pioneers like ash ra tempel, and the gut-level thrust, heft and swing of black sabbath, the groundhogs and ‘60s/’70s mexican psych band los dug dug’s, kinski have established themselves as seattle’s foremost psych rock explorers. and, they have toured extensively throughout the u.s., europe, and japan, including tours with mission of burma, oneida, comets on fire, acid mothers temple and …trail of the dead.

alpine static is their second full-length for sub pop and finds the band capturing the explosive rush and emotional power of their live shows, where they range from sweeping, pastoral interludes through headlong, thunderous charges. recorded in january of 2005, alpine static is an immediate, visceral record. on it, kinski use riff, repetition, incremental layering, bursts of noise, sudden changes in pace and volume, all shot through with a sense of melody to provide new ways of seeing and feeling guitar-based rock.

but, more importantly than all that, kinski manage to infuse experimental music with emotion and fun. what they offer and the source of their appeal is more a full-bore sensory thrill-ride than anything else. kinski wants to take you to faraway places and show you exciting things. and alpine static is the key.

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sub pop (usa) #sp 658 lp

jennifer gentle “valende” long playing record

  • universal daughter (2:47)
  • i do dream you (2:24)
  • tiny holes (4:11)
  • liquid coffee (4:51)
  • circles of sorrow (6:30)

  • the garden (part one) (3:11)
  • hessesopoa (7:33)
  • the garden (part two) (3:19)
  • golden drawings (5:18)
  • nothing makes sense (4:21)
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jennifer gentle
valende

hailing from padova, italy, jennifer gentle is not a girl. jennifer gentle is, in fact, a band made up of singer/guitarist marco fasolo and drummer alessio gastaldello (joined by various accomplices when they play live).

valende is their third full-length, and first for sub pop (their first two albums, i am you are and funny creatures lane were released individually on italy’s sillyboy entertainment, and together as a double cd under the name ectoplasmic garden party by australia’s lexicon devil label).

the record was, like its predecessors, home-recorded by marco and alessio and it’s a psych pop charmer, drawing on the band’s own brand of musical dementia: an almost impossible-to-describe melting pot of whacked experimentation, deep fried eccentricity and acoustic beauty, drawing judiciously on the band’s long-term fascination with syd barrett, 13th floor elevators, and joe meek production techniques.

jennifer gentle is also the first italian band sub pop has ever signed (such is our deep affection for the band). but, again, jennifer gentle is not a girl.

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sub pop (usa) #sp 658 cd

jennifer gentle “valende” compact disc

  • universal daughter (2:47)
  • i do dream you (2:24)
  • tiny holes (4:11)
  • liquid coffee (4:51)
  • circles of sorrow (6:30)
  • the garden (part one) (3:11)
  • hessesopoa (7:33)
  • the garden (part two) (3:19)
  • golden drawings (5:18)
  • nothing makes sense (4:21)
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jennifer gentle
valende

hailing from padova, italy, jennifer gentle is not a girl. jennifer gentle is, in fact, a band made up of singer/guitarist marco fasolo and drummer alessio gastaldello (joined by various accomplices when they play live).

valende is their third full-length, and first for sub pop (their first two albums, i am you are and funny creatures lane were released individually on italy’s sillyboy entertainment, and together as a double cd under the name ectoplasmic garden party by australia’s lexicon devil label).

the record was, like its predecessors, home-recorded by marco and alessio and it’s a psych pop charmer, drawing on the band’s own brand of musical dementia: an almost impossible-to-describe melting pot of whacked experimentation, deep fried eccentricity and acoustic beauty, drawing judiciously on the band’s long-term fascination with syd barrett, 13th floor elevators, and joe meek production techniques.

jennifer gentle is also the first italian band sub pop has ever signed (such is our deep affection for the band). but, again, jennifer gentle is not a girl.

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sub pop (usa) #sp 647 cd

comets on fire “blue cathedral” compact disc

  • the bee and the cracking egg (7:45)
  • pussy footin' the duke (5:07)
  • whiskey river (7:54)
  • organs (1:45)
  • the antlers of the midnight sun (4:06)
  • brotherhood of the harvest (4:39)
  • wild whiskey (3:00)
  • blue tomb (10:06)
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comets on fire
blue cathedral

blue cathedral is the third album from comets on fire and their first for sub pop. it is also the bay area band’s most varied and richly textured album yet. with their first two albums, (2001’s self-titled debut/self-released and 2002’s field recordings from the sun on ba da bing!) they established themselves as flag-bearers of modern psychedelia. however, where their previous efforts are full-tilt psychedelic affairs, blue cathedral is harder to pin down (which elusiveness we heartily support).

their trademark sound is here enriched by more structured, keyboard-driven jams, churning blue oyster cult-ish chooglers and slow burners reminiscent of harvest-era pink floyd. they recently opened a string of dates for sonic youth and have also played shows with rocket from the tombs, dead meadow and dead moon, sunburned hand of the man and more. they also made a big fan outta lord head on high, julian cope, who said of them: “comets on fire deserve our gratitude…for their distillation of all the best rock riffs since high rise’s take on blue cheer…” naturally, we agree.

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sub pop (usa) #sp 638 cd

wolf eyes “burned mind” compact disc

  • dead in a boat (1:38)
  • stabbed in the face (3:39)
  • reaper's gong (1:46)
  • village oblivia (4:02)
  • urine burn (0:47)
  • rattlesnake shake (4:56)
  • burned mind (4:11)
  • ancient delay (2:26)
  • black vomit (8:14)
  • untitled (4:33)
  • untitled (1:32)
  • untitled (1:01)
  • untitled (3:38)
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wolf eyes
burned mind

ann arbor, mi’s wolf eyes are at the forefront of a quickly expanding american noise scene. the trio of nate young, aaron dilloway and john olson are the epitome of the self-sufficient musical entity. olson and dilloway have their own labels (american tapes and hanson records respectively) that have been releasing cassettes, cdrs, 7”s, lps and just about every other format, often in painfully limited editions, of wolf eyes material since young first used the moniker in 1997.

their existence as a trio dates to 2000. and they’ve since released albums on bulb (dread, 2001) and troubleman unlimited (dead hills, 2002).

the music that wolf eyes creates is truly terrifying; the soundtrack to street fight that erupts into outright incineration. sonic touchstones include throbbing gristle, early cabaret voltaire, black flag, whitehouse, pre-asheton destroy all monsters, negative approach, swans and early sonic youth. the advocacy of the latter has led to many opening slots and a spot on the entire 2004 lollapalooza tour.

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sub pop (usa) #sp 626 cd

kinski / acid mothers temple / melting paraiso ufo “split” compact disc

  • kinski - fell asleep on your lawn (10:40)
  • kinski & acid mothers temple & the melting paraiso ufo - it's nice to hear your voice (10:41)
  • acid mothers temple & the melting paraiso ufo & kinski - planet crazy gold (13:14)
  • acid mothers temple & the melting paraiso ufo - virginal plane 5:23 (26:02)
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kinski / acid mothers temple

a four-song split release from kinski and their friends acid mothers temple.
limited to 5000 copies on cd and 1000 on double-lp.

after a december 2001 japanese tour together, the two bands did a bit of home-recording together. kinski’s chris martin in the record’s liner notes: “months and months later, i sat down with the tapes and began mixing what seemed to be the most interesting 10 minutes of the session, which became ‘it’s nice to hear your voice.’ kawabata [makoto] wanted to overdub onto my mix (along with tsuyama, acid mothers’ bassist, who wasn’t at the original sessions) and the results are ‘planet crazy gold.’ ‘fell asleep on your lawn’ and ‘virginal plane 5:23’ are new kinski and acid mothers temple tracks (respectively).”

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sub pop (usa) #sp 620 cd

kinski “airs above your station” compact disc

  • steve's basement (9:54)
  • semaphore (6:06)
  • rhode island freakout (3:56)
  • schedule for using pillows & beanbags (11:36)
  • i think i blew it (7:59)
  • your lights are (out or) burning badly (8:43)
  • waves of second guessing (8:22)
  • i think i blew it (again) (2:57)
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kinski
airs above your station

kinski’s sub pop full-length debut! (this record was also released as a limited ed. double lp, by the fine folks at strange attractors audio house)

new sub pop roster addition kinski is a (mostly…) instrumental rock quartet from seattle. by turns melodic, swelling, roaring, propulsive, and sparse, kinski walks the margins of avant-rock (ref. high rise, sonic youth, bardo pond, mogwai, gybe) with nods to krautrock and a penchant for noisy psychedelia.

airs above your station is kinski’s third full-length (after the self-released space launch for frenchie and 2001’s stunning be gentle with the warm turtle on pacifico recordings).

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sub pop (usa) #sp 592 cd

damon & naomi “song to the siren: live cd & dvd tour diary” digital versatile disc and compact disc set

  • judah and the macabees (4:54)
  • the new world (3:59)
  • eye of the storm (4:55)
  • song to the siren (4:20)
  • the navigator (5:26)
  • the great wall (6:51)
  • i dreamed of the caucasus (4:09)
  • new york city (4:39)
  • tanka (6:01)
  • turn of the century (5:37)
  • love (3:59)

  • dvd : song to the siren (54:24)
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damon and naomi
song to the siren: live cd & dvd tour diary

after the damon & naomi with ghost record came out in the fall of 2000, damon & naomi toured extensively with ghost guitarist kurihara. this live cd captures a memorable performance in san sebastian, spain. and, packaged with the cd is a 54-minute dvd tour diary made by damon & naomi, chronicling their european tour.

the dvd will include such fancy dvd-type features as: optional japanese subtitles, an optional commentary by the band, a complete discography for both damon & naomi and kurihara.

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sub pop (usa) #sp 501 cd

damon & naomi / ghost “damon & naomi with ghost” compact disc

  • the mirror phase (4:39)
  • the new world (4:33)
  • judah and the maccabees (4:48)
  • blue moon (2:46)
  • the great wall (8:22)
  • i dreamed of the caucasus (4:10)
  • don't forget (5:52)
  • tanka (8:25)
  • eulogy to lenny bruce (4:38)
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“ ... their third album playback singers in 1998 was recorded at their home studio (kali studios) in cambridge, ma and was their first album recorded without the assistance of kramer. the album included the song “awake in a muddle” written by masaki batoh of the psychedlic rock band ghost, which marked the beginning of the ongoing relationship between the duo and the japanese band.

in 2000 they cemented the relationship with ghost by releasing the collaborative album with ghost recorded once again at the duo’s kali studios. the tour in support of the album featured ghost guitarist michio kurihara. in 2002 the live in san sebastian album, which had been recorded in may 2001 with kurihara, was released with an additional dvd featuring a video tour diary by naomi.”

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