Category: MUSIC
Jacob Haller – Cabin Fever
75OL-209 Jacob Haller – Cabin Fever CD
$8.00 S&H Included
Limited to 50 copies on compact disc. All cd purchases will receive an immediate download code for digital download. Forty of these were pre-ordered through a successful Kickstarter campaign.
Track Listing
1. My Little Lobster
2. I’m Sick (of This American Life) (by John Linnell and John Flansburgh)
3. Maybe I Know (by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich)
4. I Wish That I Was Vegan
5. Swat the Bees
During the winter of 2015, Rhode Island songwriter Jacob Haller kept his spirits up by sharing some old and new home recordings with his friends. Once the weather calmed down a bit, he and 75orLess Records sorted through the recordings, picked out five or their favorites, and put them together to form ‘Cabin Fever’. Despite the brevity of the album, there’s a lot of variety here, from the disco beats of ‘My Little Lobster’, to the accordion-and-drum-machine blues cover of the They Might Be Giants song ‘I’m Sick (of This American Life)’, to the Lesley Gore acoustic tribute ‘Maybe I Know’, to the folksy singalong of ‘I Wish That I Was Vegan’, to the spoken word insanity of ‘Swat the Bees’.
Praise for Jacob Haller
“Providence musician Jacob Haller is as unique as his lyrics are clever.”
– Annie Messier, Providence Daily Dose, 10 May 2012
“Jacob Haller does music as though he were the secret love-child of Warren Zevon and Burl Ives.”
– Jeffrey Channing Wells, Skin Horse co-author
Bonnaventure James – Not By A Mile
75OL-210 Bonnaventure James – Not By A Mile CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1. Not By A Mile
2. Space In Lost
3. Summer ’86
4. Chinuuk
Though dabbling with music creation software since the days of Windows 98, the singer and producer now known as Bonnaventure James did not become the artist he is today until an assignment in avant-garde music composition reignited his interest in music production. Now, Bonnaventure James makes melancholic, bedroom-pop with the help of his trusty laptop and an assortment of synths, samplers and electronic noise makers. His new EP features tongue-in-cheek lyrics that reference pop-culture and modern relationships, laid over lo-fi beats constructed using an array of samples, plug-ins and shoddy equipment.
Bonnaventure James (Bonnaventure, or Bonnie to his friends) stole his name from a movie. We assure you it has nothing to do with the Lake or Drive in Calgary (where he now makes his home). Influences include Caribou, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Panda Bear, James Murphy, and other dudes who sing into microphones over electronic beats.
Sick Pills – Under My Skin
75OL-204 Sick Pills – Under My Skin CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track listing
1. You Make Me Sick
2. Black Skies
3. Close To You
4. Leeches
5. Don’t Know What To Do
6. All Day
7. Get Away From Me
8. I Got Nothing
9. Wasted Time of Your Life
10. Gone
11. Take It All
Under My Skin is the second full-length release from New Bedford, MA band Sick Pills. Sick Pills play indie rock and roll heavily influenced by 1980’s college rock/post-punk. Features members of Chris Evil and the Taints and The Blood Moons.
Dama/Libra – Claw Vinyl LP
75OL-200 Dama/Libra – Claw Vinyl LP with download code
$22.00 S&H Included Paypal will automatically add $10 for international shipping
500 copies pressed on 180 gram black vinyl by Rainbo Records in Canoga Park, CA in Deluxe Gatefold Packaging
Digital download or compact disc is available here
Track Listing
1. Moonshine and Lion
2. Stravinsky
3. Boy, Dock
4. The Chant
5. Been to the Water
6. 3C1
7. Death Rattle
8. Destroy
9. Only Medicine
10. Thine
DAMA/LIBRA is the enthralling new collaboration between two revered veterans of the national indie and avant rock scenes, Joel R.L. Phelps (formerly of underground rock legends, Silkworm, and currently working with his own band, The Downer Trio) and G. Stuart Dahlquist (formerly of doom metal progenitors, Burning Witch/SunnO))), and currently of Asva). They are proud to be releasing their first full-length album as a duo, Claw, on compact disc on Northern Spy Records in Summer 2014. Combining the unique talents of both artists, Claw is a pronouncement of lush composition – teeming with a quiet intensity, subtle beauty, and pulsating with moments of raw, emotional catharsis
Upon hearing the 2011 collaboration between Asva and French avant artist, Phillipe Petit, Phelps reached out to Dahlquist and proposed the addition of his vocals to an instrumental track he had found particularly moving. Despite having been friends and colleagues for nearly 25 years, discussions about working on a serious project together for the very first time began when a listen through the resulting piece (entitled “Thine”) nearly brought Dahlquist and his wife to tears. With Phelps living in British Columbia and Dahlquist residing in Seattle, all recording and composition for Claw was conducted in their respective home studios and transmitted via email over an 18-month period. The results are a profound representation of their individual yet somehow synchronous growth and maturity as artists. The mutual respect and trust both musicians have for and share with one another is evident in how far they pushed themselves to realize their combined work’s full potential and create what may be the strongest material either of them have ever put forth.
Reviews of Claw
Pitchfork
Stereogum
Louder Than War
photos of the LP packaging below
Suicide Bill & the Liquors – Cricket Wisdom
75OL-199 Suicide Bill & The Liquors – Cricket Wisdom CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download available here
Track Listing
1. Irish Eyes
2. Feel Like
3. Womb Tomb
4. Damn Unicorn
5. No Friends
6. Quality Control
7. Rock Roll
8. Foolish Amputee
9. Cool Fail
10. Roll Call
11. Tourist T-shirt
12. Cricket Wisdom
Suicide Bill and the Liquors are back with their 5th full length album release on 75orLess.
Rock/Roll in the basement by balding guitar players who should know better.
It’s now 2015.
Have Suicide Bill and the Liquors learned a thing or two?
Absolutely not.
Only crickets have the wisdom.
Coma Coma New American Dream
75OL-194 Coma Coma – New American Dream CD
Digital download is available here
$7.00 S&H Included
Track Listing
1. No In Between
2. Last Night
3. Warning From The Outside
4. Lost in the Slow Decay
5. 21st Century Savior
6. Claustrophobic
7. Chicago
8. Bat Bat Bat
9. Syndrome
10. Letter to Your Former Self
New American Dream is the second full length release from Rhode Island indie rock trio Coma Coma. The album blends elements of punk, math, psychedelic, stoner rock and beyond, to create a sound that is as unique as the individual members themselves. Influences include artists such as Built to Spill, Fugazi, Neil Young, Mike Watt, Miles Davis and Deerhoof, just to name a few.
I Am Tom Cummins – Holiday 3-Pak
75OL-196 I Am Tom Cummins – Holiday 3-Pak CD
$6.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1. Squirrel Song (video)
2. Downy Woodpecker
3. Resolve To Start Again (video)
The first release by I Am Tom Cummins features the musical ideas of Tom Cummins and Kraig Jordan (Lloyd’s Llamas, The Masons, Junior Varsity Arson.) Playful lyrics and simple beats set the scene for escape. Animals skate and speak. A man muses about the rush of America’s holiday season leaving him cold. And another New Year begins. Influences include Beck, Morrissey, Burl Ives, and Burt Bacharach.
Till the Dirt, Plant the Home, Watch it Grow
75OL-198 Various – Till the Dirt, Plant the Home, Watch it Grow CD
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Limited to two copies per customer. Compilations are printed on a white or brown colored jacket with various ink colors. There will NOT be a digital release for this compilation. All tracks are exclusive to this release.
Track Listing
1. Allysen Callery – Tuesday Morning
2. Gravenhurst – There are No Claims on You
3. Haunt the House – Jesus Christ
4. Joe Fletcher – Say What You Will (acoustic demo)
5. What Cheer? Brigade – Iahabibi
6. Alec K. Redfearn & the Eyesores – Tramadoliday
7. The Kitchen Cynics – Make of Me Your Mask
8. Kid Dakota – Phantom pain (alternate acoustic version)
9. JOHN 3:16 – The Fountain of Life
10. Brown Bird – Winter
11. Dreamend – If Only for a Day (piano demo)
12. Dan Baker – Crazy Broad
13. Dan Blakeslee – Begone Sadness
14. I Love You & I Miss You with Sharron Kraus – Hope
15. Will Sheff – A Girl in Port (alternate version)
16. Swearing at Motorists – Time and Distance (alternate acoustic version)
17. The Iditarod – Sparrow
18. Six Star General – Christopher Walken (Dinner Dog Mix)
19. The Sentimental Favorites – Gravestones
20. Noel the Coward – Darwinian
“Originally created as part of the “Hold Down the Fort“ campaign, this album collects tracks unique to this release by artists I have worked with over the years. Made available exclusively through 75orLess Records, who also inhabit space in Fort Foreclosure.” – William Schaff
Campaign supporters will receive copies featuring unique hand-painted stencils, while the versions purchased through the label website are limited to a one color print on either white or brown jackets. See below for some examples of one vs. two color prints.
Thrift Store Ransom – Self Titled
75OL-202 Thrift Store Ransom – Self Titled CD
$10.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1. Bottles 2:08
2. Cold Blue 3:59
3. Shafts 1:06
4. Please 1:03
5. Moonshine 5:12
6. Mill Song #1 (Cornet Band) 2:43
7. Mill Song #2 (The Strike) 3:37
8. How Can You Love a Dying Man 4:30
9. Middlebrook Road 3:00
10. Crescent Palms 2:45
What began as an RPM (Write and Record an album in the month of February) project, turned into a collaborative effort by Eric Ott, Sean Yadisernia, Lindsay Walls-Ott and a bunch of friends. We’ll list out some of the sound influences and inspirations on this record rather than what it sounds like: Granddaddy, ELO, The Shins, Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac (TUSK-era), etc. This is a strange little record that was a labor of love. We hope you enjoy it.
Bill Keough – The Slow Get Up
75OL-195 Bill Keough – The Slow Get Up CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1. I Know Where You’ve Been (video)
2. Self Doubt
3. 3:32 AM
4. Back to the Punk Rock
5. Deliver the Goods
6. Lean
7. Tough Physics
8. This Concerns me
9. Hit and Run Machine
10. Victory
11. Continuous Reasons to Continue
a bastard child of PJ Harvey and Bob Mould…a darker, sketchier Frank Black…inside your head vocals and cross-hatched riffs…angst riddled, heartfelt, a bed of nails sprinkled with flowers…life related via blindfolded kisses and aimless hugs…burrow down deep to the center of the songs and stay awhile…
Credits
Bill Keough – Guitars, Vocals, Keyboards
Dave McCaffrey – Bass
Daniel Ulmschneider – Drums
featuring
Mark Cuter – lead guitar, slide guitar, backing vocals
Kate Conroy – violin, backing vocals
Tom Buckland – backing vocals
Kraig Jordan – guitar, keyboards
Produced, engineered, and mastered by Kraig Jordan.
All songs written by Bill Keough except ‘Victory’ by PJ Harvey.