Category: Bands/Comps/Splits
Swampbirds – no parenthesis
75OL-263 Swampbirds – no parenthesis
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Digital download and streaming is available here
Track Listing
1. Feeling Is First
2. California
3. Let Me Pretend
4. Want It Now
5. Be My Vagabond
6. Beggars And Kings
7. Red River
8. Lost Cause
9. Double Drowning
Jen Long: vocals, guitar, banjo
Bronwen Konecky: vocals, guitar
Sue Metro: lap steel, bass, keyboard
Pedro Weinberg: drums
Let Me Pretend and Double Drowning written by Jen Long
California, Want It Now and Vagabond written by Bronwen Konecky
Lost Cause written by Beck Hansen
Poetry adaptations by Jen Long:
Feeling is First composed from the e. e. cummings poem
“since feeling is first”
Beggars and Kings composed from W. S. Merwin poem (same title)
Red River composed from T. S. Eliot’s poem “Virginia”
Recorded by Two Ears Recording (Sue Metro)
Mixed and Mastered by Seth Manchester at
Machines With Magnets (Pawtucket, RI)
Design and illustration by James Weinberg
Blood Moons Complete
75OL-259 The Blood Moons – Complete
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Track Listing
1. Why Won’t your Ghost Fade Away
2. Wasting My Time
3. Last Breath
4. On The Streets
5. Downtown
6. Bottle Of Broken Dreams
7. I’m Alright
8. It’s Over
9. Shallow Grave
10. What’s On Your Mind
11. Dead And Gone
12. In My Head
13. Falling Apart
14. You Don’t Love Me Anymore
15. Glassy Eyes
16. What You Do To Me
17. Goodbye
18. Can’t Make You Mine
19. You’re Alone
20. Mother’s little Helper
21. I’ll Be Drunk For Christmas
Here it is, the complete recorded history of New Bedford, Mass’ The Blood Moons.
Mark Cutler – Travel Light
75OL-266 Mark Cutler – Travel Light
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Digital download and streaming available here
Track Listing
1. Two Hours To Go 2:53
2. Nothing From Nobody 4:11
3. Go With The Flow 4:44
4. The Other Shoe 4:14
5. What About You 3:48
6. Gaslight 3:45
7. It Goes Like This 3:48
8. I Killed A Man 3:38
9. East Of Eden 2:50
10. Misfits 3:23
11. Travel Light 3:50
All songs recorded and mixed by MC at Revmok Studios, except Killed A Man, recorded and mixed by Emerson Torrey at Satellite Studios. Mastered By Tom Buckland. Produced by MC. Special thanks to Kelly and Dan Cutler, Kyle and Lindsay Oelofse, Jonathan Gregg, Family, Friends, my band mates, and the folks from the Same Thing Project.
Cover design by Rick Couto.
Photography by MC.
Dedicated to George Skaubitis and Auntie Ev.
Jimmy Berger – bass guitar
Rick Couto – drums
David Narcizo – drums
Jonathan Gregg – pedal steel
Banjo Bob Kirkman – acoustic guitar
Cathy Clasper-Torch – violin
Richard Reed- keyboards
All songs written by mc copyright 2017 mok music publishing ascap
Motif Magazine reviews Hope Anchor’s ‘Beautiful Corpses’
Hope Anchor – Beautiful Corpses
In terms of getting into the Halloween spirit, it doesn’t get any better than going to the release show for an album called Beautiful Corpses. Hope Anchor guitarist Terry Linehan warned me a few months ago that this would be their goth record. First impressions of Beautiful Corpses are that it does have a noticeably darker and urgent feel. “You Alone” kicks off with an ’80s U2-styled guitar riff before pulling the indie rock curtains over the beat. “Dead Gone” is another slab of indie rock that reminds me of some descendant of Echo & the Bunnymen and Wire. All good goth albums need a ballad and the dreamy “Rain Won’t Stop” fits the bill for a shot of indie guitar melancholy.
Hope Anchor, Jets Can’t Land, Ghosts of Industry, and Man & Wife rock Dusk on October 20.
The Noise reviews Keith A/B’s ‘Unbridled Optimism’
Keith A/B – Unbridled Optimism
6 tracks
Innovative textures and instrumentals are matched to quirky vocal melodies to form some intriguing songs by this solo performer; some of which verge on epic, notably the opening track “We’ll Send Our Sympathies,” which is supported by relentless rhythm guitar and a positively eerie horn-like refrain. The tumultuous churning in the back of “Your Mother Needs a Man” fails to completely obliterate the rather sweet, almost poppy vocal melody delivered with a degree of intensity which creates an interesting sensation of dissonance, literal and cognitive. “Capital S” is instrumentally deliberately jarring and angular, with over-miked guitar thrumming layered in back of Keith A/B’s almost sing-songy vocal melody. (Think Patsy Cline’s version of “Tennessee Waltz.”) The end result is an almost nightmarish ambiance, as the vocalist ominously declaims “You will tremble/ You will tremble/ You will tremble like a leaf.” Of the remaining songs, the repetitive “An Hour a Day” seems like a misfire; “Fortune Cookies” is a brazen, poppy rock song but otherwise not particularly innovative; “One Bad Egg” is an anodyne wistful ballad. But the first three songs are strange and wonderful. Recommended.
Video for Bill Keough’s ‘I Am The Lighthouse’
Hope Anchor – Beautiful Corpses
75OL-249 Hope Anchor – Beautiful Corpses
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Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1. You Alone
2. Dead And Gone
3. Rain Won’t Stop
4. Down
5. No Blood
6. Prime Mover
7. Not Asking
8. Skeleton Walk
9. Xoxosos
10. Beautiful Corpses
11. Without A Sound
Hope Anchor returns with a new album
The McGunks – Basement Anthems
75OL-258 The McGunks – Basement Anthems
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Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1. Think it Through
2. Fall
3. Monday Morning
4. Story
5. Who’s Laughing Now?
6. Killing Me
7. Don’t Need You
Basement Anthems has the feel of a live McGunks show. You can almost taste the sweat and stale beer covering each track. Recorded in a hot practice space and a musty basement, this is the best representation of what the McGunks are about. Grab a 12 pack, some whiskey and start singing along.
Bob McGunk – Vocals, Guitar
Bobby McGunk – Drums, Vocals
Nate McGunk – Guitar, Vocals
James McGunk – Bass, Vocals
Steve K – L4EO
75OL-262 Steve K – L4EO
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Track Listing
1. Break Your Life
2. Not Intentional
3. Don’t Pull On That Thread
4. Light
5. Invisible Sun
6. Rearrange
7. Break Your Life II
8. After It All
9. What Kind Of Love Is This
Steve K is known to a dwindling few as the former guitarist/songwriter for the 1980s bands “The Asparaguys” and the mock/rock outfit “The Friendly Dragons.” With L4EO (Live For Each Other) he offers a heartfelt array of songs culminating from experiences at mid-life, addressing both hopeful and darker themes with sincerity.
Eric Ott – Freeway UFOs
75OL-257 Eric Ott – Freeway UFOs
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Digital download, Vinyl LP, and free streaming is available here
Track Listing
1. Evil Times
2. Long Goodbye
3. Freeway UFO’s
4. Inside Outside
5. Gum Swollen Teeth
6. Misfortune Waits
7. Death Of Me
8. I Pray
9. Why Do I
Recorded between late 2016 and 2017 Freeway UFOs is a homage to mid and late 70’s rock influenced by Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Paul McCartney & Wings.
Credits:
Written By: Eric Ott
Produced/Recorded/Mastered/Instruments By: Chris Decato
Written By: Eric Ott
Produced/Recorded/Mastered/Instruments By: Chris Decato
Recorded at the One Car Garage Studio and Chris Decato’s Home Studio
Lead & Backing Vocals: Eric Ott
Backing Vocals: Chris Decato, Nate Laban and Justin Carloni
Sax – Matt Langley
Sax – Eric Klaxton
Trombone – Josh Gagnon
Backing Vocals: Chris Decato, Nate Laban and Justin Carloni
Sax – Matt Langley
Sax – Eric Klaxton
Trombone – Josh Gagnon