Category: Bands/Comps/Splits
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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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
Gavage video for ‘Help Save The Youth of America’
Bill Keough’s ‘You’ll Disappear, Just Like They All Do’ Review in Motif
Bill Keough – You’ll Disappear, Just Like They All Do (75OrLess Records)
Veteran local music Bill Keough kicks off his second solo album, You’ll Disappear, Just Like They All Do, with a storm of foreboding uneasiness in “I Am the Lighthouse.” On “Gentle Smile,” Keough drops a shimmering slab of noise-pop guitar. “Drinking Myself into the Pavement” has an early ’90s grunge vibe with lyrics about, believe it not, drinking too much. “Maybe It’s You” has kind of a freewheeling ’80s indie guitar swing feel, with vocals functioning as a prayer-like outré. The closing title track is not just my favorite here, it is one of my favorite tunes for 2017. It reminds me of a Dinosaur Jr. circa Green Mind-era guitar collage. On You’ll Disappear, Just Like They All Do, Keough builds upon 2014’s The Slow Get Up (75OrLess Records) while dragging the listener deeper down into a fuzz tone squall.
Sick Pills – Mettle
75OL-247 Sick Pills – mettle CD and Digital download
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Track Listing
1. Bye Bye Baby
2. Can’t Take It
3. On The Radio
4. Whatcha Doing To Me
5. Tear Me Apart
6. Nothing’s Gonna Be Alright
7. As Bad As Today
8. Na-na-na-na-na My Head It Hurts
9. Mess In My Head
10. Letters
11. Lost In Space
12. Hang Around With You
13. Won’t You Be My Headache
Third album by New Bedford, MA’s Sick Pills whether you want it or not!
MW Ensemble – Music for Piano Transmission
75OL-243 MW Ensemble – Music for Piano Transmission
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Digital download/streaming is available here
Track Listing
1. Piano Transmission 1 (AM)
2. Piano Transmission 2 (FM)
3. Music for Transmission 1
4. Piano Transmission 3 (AM)
5. Piano Transmission 2 (FM)
6. Music for Transmission 2
Instrumentation; piano, exposed circuit transmitter, Crosley radio receiver, and the environment.
Distributed digitally by The Ionik Recordings Company, LLC. All rights MW Ensemble.
Feng Shui Police Graduation Sensation
75OL-240 Feng Shui Police – Graduation Sensation
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Track Listing
1. Lecture Hall
2. The Shit
3. Let Go
4. Cliché
5. Mom and Dad
6. I Bet That’s Cool
7. Thanks for the nightmares, Nietzche
8. Toe Tag
9. My Ex-Girlfriend Broke My Acoustic Guitar
10. College Degree
Dash: “In the Spring of 2017 I came to realize that the ivy league degree I was about to receive didn’t mean a damn thing. So during spring break, while my now former bandmates frolicked in the tropics, I hunkered down in my parent’s basement and made this record.
I hope you had fun, getting your college degree. And if you didn’t — well, you didn’t miss too much.”
credits
An album by Dash Elhauge.
Album art by Sam Lessing and Dash Elhauge.
“Thanks for the nightmares, Nietzche” written by Dash Elhauge, Evan Harris and Friedrich Nietzsche.
All other songs written by Dash Elhauge.
“College Degree”, “Thanks for the nightmares, Nietzche” and “Cliché” performed by Dash Elhauge and Evan Harris.
All other songs performed alone by Dash Elhauge.
Recorded and mixed by Dash Elhauge — as always, in his parents’ basement.
High Planes – Mayday
75OL-241 High Planes – Mayday
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Track Listing
1. Lackey Dam
2. Echo’s Sway
3. Who Can Tell?
4. Trainwreck
5. Quiet & Burn
6. The Fool
7. We All Fall Down
8. Mr. Finally
9. Get Excited
High Planes is a messy blend of folk, punk and bluegrass that leans heavily on vocal harmonies and rye whiskey.
Stan Sobczak – Stan Land
75OL-224 Stan Sobczak – Stan Land CD
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Track Listing
1. Theme From Stan Land
2. Ep 1. Let Sleeping Liars Lie
3. Ep 2. Snow Fatigue
4. Ep 3. Just Like Mom Used To Make It
5. Ep 4. Silverfish On The Wall, Silverfish On The Floor
6. Ep 5. Yearly Checkup
7. Ep 6. Mold and Mildew
8. Ep 7. Barely There
9. Ep 8. That’s The Way She Operates (Season Finale)
When we last heard from Stan Sobczak it was 2013. Since then Stan has been binge watching life through the cellar window. In between pharmacist visits, dehumidifier maintenance and mildew abatement he also found the time to compose a new record; a soundtrack to life inside and outside the basement. Stan Land is an 8 episode loosely scripted series; a sonic television show for the theater in Stan’s mind. Let its almost 80 minutes unfold and envelop you in its glistening cinematic glow. For fans of Brian Eno, Rod Serling & Lunesta.
Stan’s Story
At least two important things happened since Stan Sobczak’s last musical release: he
briefly went off his medication; and, with the money he saved, he bought a Roku.
Over a single two week stretch, Stan watched Broadchurch, several times. He also dug
into The Falls, Five Days, Veep, the first season of Twin Peaks, Game Of Thrones,
Boardwalk Empire, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Forever Knight, Mad Men, the
remastered episodes of the original Star Trek, and several Ken Burns projects.
Stan had to be hospitalized at the end. For a few reasons. For many reasons.
When he returned (to his parents’) home, he discovered that a raccoon had quietly
settled into the record collection room. Whenever Stan attempted to enter the record
collection room, the raccoon would hiss and claw, making impossible for him to grab
any of the CDs, cassettes, and records he had stored.
The only pieces of music Stan could access were balanced on the small table on the
other side of the basement: a Free Design compilation and Tangerine Dream’s
soundtrack to Michael Mann’s Thief.
Every day, Stan would get up around two o’clock in the afternoon and give serious
thought to getting rid of the raccoon. Yet, he never called the animal control officer, the
Department Of Environmental Management, or a pest control expert. One time, he
called his sister, but she just kept asking question after question, which was useless.
Unable to enter the record collection room, Stan simply listened to the Free Design and
Tangerine Dream records, endlessly. Those became the biggest influences on this most
recent Stan Sobczak record.
Sometimes, Stan would call up an installment of Space: 1999 on the Roku, and try to
get it to sync up with The Free Design record. Sometimes, Stan would listen to the
raccoon constructing what was likely some kind of makeshift fort out of his old records.
So many things became part of the creative process.
In January, Stan’s uncle arrived to blast the raccoon apart with a shotgun. He’d heard
about the strange creature from Stan’s sister. The weapon reduced the entire Pousette-
Dart collection to fragments. Both Stan and his uncle were deaf for several days,
afterwards.
With the raccoon being deceased, and the police being very angry about a firearm
being discharged within town limits, Stan decided the album was finished.
Here it is.
Maybe you won’t be disappointed.