Category: ALBUM BY YEAR
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
[sold out]
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.
Various Label Band Pins
75OL-168 Various Band Pins
[sold out]
We recently discovered a bag of pins that were thought to be long lost. You’ll get a mix of 15 different band & label pins.
Vertical Twin – ‘ElectroSonicMotherphonic’ Silkscreen Poster with Download
75OL-162 Vertical Twin – ‘ElectroSonicMotherphonic’ Silkscreen Poster and Album Download Card
$30.00 S&H Included
Vertical Twin’s ‘ElectroSonicMotherphonic’ was released in December 2012 and a limited number of posters were printed to celebrate the release. Providence artist Ryan Lesser drew the cover image. Fifty glow in the dark 19″x 25″ hand silk screened three color posters, featuring the album cover image, will be offered for sale and include a digital download code for the album.
Vertical Twin – ElectroSonicMotherphonic
75OL-157 Vertical Twin – ElectroSonicMotherphonic CD
$8.00 S&H Included
Digital downloads are available here
Track Listing:
- Swampy
- Palatine
- Complex Oedipus
- Zealand
- Electrosonic
- Bed Made of Sleep
- Get It In Gear
- Existential Blues
- Motherphonic
- Pete’s Pork n Fleas
On their full length 2012 release, Vertical Twin blends sonic musk with filthy electronics into a sensual labyrinth, a fist of justice, a jamming inferno of glory with instant impact. Played loud, played proud — it’s an ElectroSonicMotherphonic. All basic tracks were recorded live in the band’s practice shed. Vocal overdubs, Hammond organ, and some backwards guitar were added later. Melissa Kievman and 75orLess Chanteuse Jodi Treloar lent their voices to the project as well. Providence artist Ryan Lesser provided the cover image. The CD artwork is black & white. A pack of crayons will be provided for the listener to color in the cover themselves!
The Doll Eyes – The Great Runner Up CD
75OL-160 The Doll Eyes – The Great Runner Up
$7.00 S&H Included
Track Listing
1. The Sky is Falling
2. Heartbreaker
3. Getaway
4. I’m Not Here
5. Walden Woods
6. Abandon
7. That’s Why
8. The Great Runner Up
The Doll Eyes are a RI and Massachusetts based punk and bar band influenced by The Pixies, The Dead Boys, Social Distortion, Rancid, etc. The Great Runner Up, The Doll Eyes’ second album, sees a new dynamic within the band. Bass player Mike O’Shea steps up to share the songwriting and lead vocal mantle with guitarist Nate Shaw, both zooming in on the tales of flawed men and the world they inhabit. Guitar and lyric driven music with stark punk influence over the ever-steady drums of Gary Traylor, The Great Runner Up provides fist clenching, foot stomping rock and roll introspection.