Black Dirt Records
PIGEONS
Virgin Spectacle
One of the most weirdly fucked song-based records to come out of New York since the early Tower Recordings sides, with a similarly unfathomable approach to phantom structure, tho here they replace the monolithic electric guitars and PKD-style sleight of hand with fuzz, stumbling F/X, almost carousel-style melodies and a wayward female vocalist who sings nursery rhyme tunes, baroque gothic folk and lux French pop stylings beneath homemade electronics ala Storm Bugs with stylistic nods to a Mo-fronted Velvet Underground singing the songs of Jacques Brel. A beautifully outside release, as singular as the first Red Kites recordings. Recommended. - Volcanic Tongue
BD01
SOLD OUT
CARTER THORNTON
Ten Fingers For Forefathers
Thornton points his pick somewhere towards the same kind of personal event horizon as rigorously avant garde players like Hans Reichel, Donald Miller and Guitar Roberts, with what sounds like variously augmented strings singing and stopping in the kind of steel codes that would combine post-Joseph Spence re-thinks of Hawaiian cracker turf with phased ragtime phrasing and a feel for the more barbarous qualities of auraless guitar holler that is pure Jandek. Recommended. - Volcanic Tongue
BD02
$15 ppd in the US
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MATTA LLAMA
The Witch Channel
The album crawls through the molten blackness stopping only briefly to add chunks of rubble and debris to its twisted and tortured form. Underneath the undulating cloud form that threatens rain at each minute, there lies a blues base that lets itself through... Elsewhere though its pushed deeper into fuzz channeled nightmares and scorched sky lamentations. Though its old to the band its new to the world and rightly secures Matta Llama's reputation as psychedelic innovators. - Raven Sings the Blues
BD03
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D CHARLES SPEER & THE HELIX
After Hours
...here's where the "old, weird America" is typically invoked. Nine times out of 10, the phrase Greil Marcus made famous is utterly inapplicable. However, D. Charles Speer's hidden-in-plain-sight aesthetic, its facility for making the familiar strange (and deserving of closer scrutiny) is exactly what Marcus was on about when he pointed in wonder at "the mystical body of the republic, a kind of public secret...a declaration of a weird but clearly recognizable America within the America of the exercise of institutional majoritarian power." So shine a light, lift a rock: this weird secret deserves to be known. - Pitchfork
BD04
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COACH FINGERS
One Jack Shy of a Cycle
This is as near perfect a slice of mind-fried rural psych yet laid by these guys, with the kinda sharp rhythm section, soaring unison vocals and crunchy period-perfect fuzz guitar previously unheard of this side of The New Tweedy Brothers. There’s also a heavy Dead feel, with some of the studio pyrotechnics of Aoxomoxoa, the roots feel of American Beauty and a nicely dazed fourth-world-is-this-world modal feel. When the passages of ginchy organ tone kick in it sounds classically teenage but there’s a level of smarts to the arrangements and the intellectual heft of the music that situates it firmly in the modern underground milieu. - Volcanic Tongue
BD05
$15 ppd in the US
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STELLAR OM SOURCE
Rise in Planes
Gorgeous, rippling keyboard runs with clusters of overtone gravity so thick they seem to simply hang in the air and vibrate. For something so minimal in its construction its ludicrously addictive, as Nuss’s mesmeric, subtle time keeping somehow revisions Gualdi’s bubbling monochord drone as a pulsing Ur-groove with an immense organic logic. The flip is a beautiful rainbow tone piece for solo keyboard that combines flashing pitch-shift arpeggios with timbres and modes salvaged from 1980s synth soundtracks and 1970s keyboard ritual. - Volcanic Tongue
BD07
$15 ppd in the US
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COACH FINGERS
Molly Moonbeam b/w Johnny Thunder
7" from the "No Flies on Frank" sessions.
S@1 95
$5 ppd in the US
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