Category: ALBUM BY YEAR
Northern Lands – He Took a Dive
75OL-173 Northern Lands – He Took a Dive CD
$10.00 S&H Included
Track Listing
1. With Regards to Gregg Allman
2. Sydney
3. Home Free
4. Like the State or the Quarterback?
5. Gallows
6. Crumb
7. Lucky, Tonight
8. He Took a Dive
9. Burnside
Formed in the summer of 2011 as a backing band for singer Josh Cournoyer’s appearance at the WBRU Summer Concert Series, Northern Lands has since evolved into a full fledged rock and roll collaborative with Aaron Jaehnig (bass), Peter Hayden (lead guitar), and Joshua Wallace (drums) rounding out the lineup. In the past year they’ve played shows at New York’s Bowery Electric, TT The Bear’s Place,The Middle East in Cambridge, Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel sharing the stage with acts such as Kevin Devine and The Goddamn Band, Chris Conley (Saves The Day), I Am The Avalanche, Titus Andronicus, Turf War, and Joe Fletcher & The Wrong Reasons. Recorded at the Parlour in Pawtucket (a studio that Sub Pop’s Six Finger Satellite built in the 90’s) with producer Dan Sawyer (B. Dolan, Prayers For Atheists, Ask The Dead) and mastered by Keith Souza and Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets (Brown Bird, Fang Island) . Joining the band for guest spots on the album is Roz Raskin (The Ricecakes). Northern Lands also recently teamed up with Revival Brewing to launch their own craft lager, Northern Lands Lager which is available regionally this summer to coincide with the launch of He Took A Dive. For Fans of: The Hold Steady, Lucero, Dinosaur Jr., The E Street Band
Stan Sobczak – Stanatron
75OL-167 Stan Sobczak – Stanatron CD
$6.00 S&H Included
Track Listing
1. Stan Has Been Sick
2. Stan Stopped By Tonight
3. Stan Has Been Sick II
4. Stan The Dank
5. Stan in F
6. Stan Flounders (free mp3 download)
7. Stan Intercepts
8. Stan’s Old Tricks
9. Stan Can’t Remember
10. Stan’s New Moog (links to video)
Stanatron contains 10 ambient, hypnotic, cinematic soundscapes for fans of Brian Eno, Harold Budd, prescription medications, or sleeping.
Message from Stan: I don’t like the sound of voices – either singing or talking on telephones. I wish there was a way to remove vocals from records. They must have a computer program that can do this. Stuff like ‘Revolver’ or ‘Around The World In A Day’ would be so much better without all the talking, which is what most singing is: talking. The instrumentals on this LP represent what I think the soundtrack of my day would be. Most of the songs are meant to evoke the downstairs part of the house, where I spend a lot of time; but a few are for the upstairs; at least two are for work.
The Atomic Buddha – Blottered
75OL-170 The Atomic Buddha – Blottered CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download of the album is available here. CD contains two songs not included on the digital download.
Track listing
1. Cosmic Band
2. Dying Star
3. You’re Not In Reach
4. Ginger Baker’s Nightmare
5. I’m So High
6. Guilty
7. Should’ve Seen It Coming
8. Fading Fast
9. Now You Are Gone
10. Atomic Buddha
“Blottered” is a 10 track collection of pounding garage rock from The Atomic Buddha. Each of these songs is an unapologetic mash of raucous guitars, bass, drums and vocals careening from hallucinogenic depths to the sharp ends of accusation. Along the way are some raw psychedelic blasts (I’m So High, Fading Fast) and some pile driving rock with the energy of The Who (Ginger Baker’s Nightmare, You’re Not In Reach). It all ends with “The Atomic Buddha” an 11 minute guitar freak out-not for the timid!
Limited to 100 copies on brown jackets, 25 copies on white jackets.
All copies bought through the label webpage will ship with a link for a digital download of nine demo songs from the sessions.
Crotchthrottle – Fictional Syntax
75OL-166 Crotchthrottle – Fictional Syntax CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track listing
1. Move Yr Fingers and Click
2. Triple-A Toledo (free mp3)
3. Muttonchop Commuter
4. Every Piece Has Purpose
5. Forgotten Pocket
6. Frozen Rainbow Particles
7. Moon Wolves Are Apparently Giants
8. That Late 2001 Gear Architecture
9. Anonymous Buzz (free mp3)
10. Immense Density of Tiny Bubbles
11. Lima Luna, The Ultimate Pet
12. Long Gone John and the Horn of Plenty
13. Seersucker Proxy
14. To Link The Now Click Below
15. Carbon Pivot
16. Flourescence
Has it really been two years since the last full-length release from this fever dream of a band? That’s what the calendar tells us, but we haven’t really been sure of anything since the last dose of quinine. Following in the footsteps of Everything Odder Than Everything Else, Fictional Syntax finds Crotchthrottle sinking even further into the morass that is “structured” music, embracing things like melody, rhythm, and occasionally even intelligible vocals. They still remain totally obtuse on the genre front, swerving from quasi-electronic shenanigans to fuzzy freakouts, sometimes within the same song. When asked “What the hell were you thinking?” by management, the band refused to elaborate in any legally binding format.
The first 25 copies sold will get a special gift, hand packaged by the band.
Haunt the House – Rural Introspection Study Group
75OL-171 Haunt the House – Rural Introspection Study Group CD
$7.50 S&H Included
Digital download of the album is available here
Track listing
1. Byrd Island
2. Vampyre
3. When I Once Lived
4. Eden
5. Moses
6. Bright Star
Haunt the House is Will Houlihan. This album is a collection of songs that have been referred to as deep woods gospel and painfully delivered spirituals.
You can listen to Will’s appearance on the That’s Not incredible! podcast by going here.
Eric Baylies – Heroin’s Rainbow book
75OL-165 Eric Baylies – Heroin’s Rainbow book
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Exclusive 75orLess Book Special! All book orders come with one Baylies Band album on cd from the label archIves.
Heroin’s Rainbow by Eric Baylies is a memoir of a neighborhood and a city. New Bedford, Massachusetts sits somewhere on the edge of nowhere, a twilight interzone at the end of the world. It is the underground history of the secret city. Big Dan’s, strip club rampages, cruising the avenue, crooked cops, high school suicide solutions, drinking problems, crack houses, shooting galleries, gay bar stabbings, god, guns, heroin, devil dogs, angel dust, acid, mushrooms, mescaline, weed, whales, wishes, dreams, and nightmares come true, they are all here. This is the way, step inside.
Eric Baylies writes for The Boston Noise and was a dj on WUMD. He attended U-Mass and Harvard University. He has played all over America and Europe in the bands Temple of Bon Matin, Bad Motherfucker, Club Math, and Baylies Band. Baylies has recorded or played with members of The Stooges, Violent Femmes, and Sun Ra. Baylies has delivered coffins, unloaded fishing boats, taught special education and been a substitute teacher in public schools, pumped gas, done dishes, tended bar and worked the door at a biker bar, and worked construction. Eric worked at a butcher shop, renaissance fair, golf ball hell, the Zeiterion Theater, factories, the Salvation Army, call centers and maybe thousands more. Baylies has lived in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Martha’s Vineyard and currently lives in New Bedford. Eric has no wives that he’s aware of, but knows where the bodies are buried.
MW Ensemble – 6 songs
75OL-164 MW Ensemble – 6 songs CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download available here
Track Listing:
1. C(#)
2. AM
3. Park
4. Film
5. 12-tone #1a (Sequences of length= 4, add 3 then 9, for piano)
6. 12-tone #1b (Sequences of length= 3, add 3 then 9, for piano)
MW Ensemble is Nancy Wheeler and Mike Winters, who make piano/cello music that is sometimes integrated with field recordings and/or electronic sounds. Songs are predetermined, but can also be improvised at times.
Limited to 50 silkscreen copies on numbered brown and white jackets.
Suicide Bill and the Liquors – Suicide Comes Alive
75OL-159 Suicide Bill and the Liquors – Suicide Comes Alive CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1 Bill’s Alternative Country
2 The Independent Man
3 What’s Up Nobody?
4 Real Problem
5 Onion Guy
6 W.O.N.E.N.E.
7 Fire Engine Red
8 Blind Girl
9 Biscuit City Bliss
10 River Friend
11 Nothing Makes Bill Happy
Want to know what 2 or 3 drunk folks usually endure at a Suicide Bill show? Want to know why the hell Bill won a singer/songwriter award in the Providence Phoenix? “Suicide Comes Alive!” answers all the big questions and raises a few new ones. Eleven new live and semi-alive songs featuring Bill and his guitar with backup shouts and percussion from The Liquors make up their 5th record. Bill’s brand of loud-acoustic/alt. rock has never been stronger than it is here. Three of the songs also feature great guitar and harmony-vocal work from the most elusive member of the Liquors, Ray Pruitt. Once again, Suicide and company make a record that sounds good cranked up in your car while you deliver stuff — probably pizza or newspapers. Have fun on your route.
Jeff the Postman – The Postman Speaks
75OL-163 Jeff the Postman – The Postman Speaks CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Jeff the Postman, ‘The Postman Speaks’ is a collaboration between Prescott Cronin and the poet Jeff the Postman. The words on this recording were written by Jeff the Postman. The entire process from inspiration, conception, practice, to production occurred in 02885, the smallest town, in the smallest county, in the smallest state in the U.S.A. Jeff the Postman offers his eternal thanks to all his neighbors who let him practice his delivery. This project was tracked entirely on an iPhone, using samples and live instruments, at 90 Union, except for “As a Guest,” which was recorded in the elevator at Parker Mills in Warren, RI. ‘The Postman Speaks’ is an epic work that exemplifies what can be done these days with small equipment and conviction. Twenty two tracks.
Track Listing:
1. Touched
2. As I Speak
3. Beliefs
4. Katrina
5. As A Guest
6. Displaced
7. The Village Fool
8. Lurking
9. Vailed
10. The Vail
11. Winds of Time
12. Threads
13. Microcosmic
14. Twelve
15. Dancing
16. Balloon Thoughts
17. Hellbent
18. Latitude
19. Recycled
20. Demo (free download)
The first 25 copies will be signed by Jeff the Postman.
150 silkscreen white and brown jackets with green and black ink.
Ralph Gauvey Jr – 4XCD Audio Set
75OL-161 Ralph Gauvey Jr. – Zen, Men, Zoom, Death Audiobox
$25.00 S&H Included
Ralph Gauvey Jr., self-professed Zen Mystic-Poet-Writer, spent time this winter at the Fort Foreclosure studio to adapt four of his books to audiobooks. ‘Zen of Men’, ‘Zen for Lovers’, ‘Zoom A Road Novel’ and the unpublished ‘Death, Been There’. We later added some ambient musical textures to provide a relaxing background for his stories. This 4XCD set, on a mix of white and brown jackets, is a silkscreen edition of 25 and all individual copies are signed by Ralph Gauvey Jr.