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THE ART MUSEUMS Rough Frame LP [Woodsist (USA), 2010]
"The Art Museums tell sordid tales of artists, lovers & poseurs with cult new wave jangle. Bay Area psych burnouts, Josh Alper & Glenn Donaldson converged in San Francisco in the Summer of ‘09 to record Anglophile jams on a Tascam 388 tape machine (state of the art home-recording circa ‘85). Rough Frame is their debut LP for the Woodsist label. They would make a hi-fi studio record if they had the money, but reviewers would probably still say it was lo-fi. The Art Museums ARE into: art, poetry, WHAAM records & films about Mods…The Art Museums ARE NOT into: flared trousers, drip coffee, dirty sneakers." - Woodsist
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BRUTE HEART Brass Beads LP + DL [Self-Released (USA), 2009]

Debut LP from Brute Heart, Brass Beads, released via the band’s own private press imprint in late 2009. Edition of 300 with DL coupon.
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CAR COMMERCIALS Judy's Dust LP [Cenotaph (UK), 2008]

"Judy’s Dust is the debut full-length LP by Car Commercials of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Here, the duo of David Sutton (Friends and Family, Current Amnesia, Ladderwoe) and Daniel DiMaggio (Home Blitz) expand on the rock/mumble strategies from the self-released Jar 7” (Leaf Leaf, 2006) and a couple cassettes kicked around the New Jersey underpasses. Contains twelve songs of missing spaces, too much Center Ice, drums and wires, varispeed recording techniques, and facing backwards – all from the other side of the E Street. Limited to 300 copies."- Cenotaph
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THE CHILD READERS Memory and Fantasy CD [Mallard Lake (SE), 2004]
"Following the fading battery of tern cries on their last record Dark Laughter, the Child Readers return with a more spacious and meditative collection of song-clouds recorded in northern California and Germany in 2003. Jason Honea (of the Knit Separates, Teenage Panzer Korps and Social Unrest) and Loren Chasse (of Thuja, the Blithe Sons, Of, Coelacanth and a host of other Jewelled Antler projects) are here improvising songs with voice, mandolin, harp, guitar, electronics, percussion, piano and monochord, once again invoking the spirits of locations and situations to lay paths for the music. Through a crude method of recording, playback and re-recording using different media ranging from mini disc, car stereo and handheld cassette recorder, to battery-powered speakers and dictaphone." - Mallard Lake Recordings
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THE KNIT SEPARATES Swords, Then Diamonds CD [3 Acre Floor (USA), 1999]
Duo of Jason Honea & Glenn Donaldson played broken-pop, tinny jangle guitars, floor tom & tambourine, casio keyboards, fruity Morrissey-esque vocals & reverb-drenched 4-track sound circa late '90s, like music falling down stairs. Released by Jason Honea's (The Child Readers, Der TPK, etc) 3 Acre Floor label. Very last copies unearthed.
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STEFAN NEVILLE Around the World in 80 Dogs BOOK [self-published (NZ), 2010]
Wonderful collection of dog drawings from Stefan Neville (Pumice). Some of these have appeared on Pumice releases, but most have only been found in his sketchbooks. Features a silkscreened cover (on a map!), released in a signed edition of 50. We've only got a few of these...
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STEFAN NEVILLE & MATTHEW DE GENNARO Women CS [self-released (USA), 2011]

"Two men that lead interesting lives share ennui from unanimous confusion via Women. A blurred vision ensued. Symmetrical recording and echoic blues. Yes. Recorded in a one room schoolhouse, summer (northern hemisphere) 2009. Joe Jones music machine guest stars on The Mess Knowing You Has Made of Me. Artwork by Stefan Neville." Edition of 100, released by MDG. Wonderful.
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PIGEONS Hearts 7" [Olde English Spelling Bee (USA), 2010]
"Second single from Pigeons following a debut 7" on Soft Abuse and LP's on Black Dirt and OESB. Features two songs -- 'The Paradise' and 'Radio Souvenir' both recorded 2009 in The Bronx. Produced by Tooth at Reggaetown Deluxe Studios." - OESB
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PIGEONS Si Faustine LP + DL [Olde English Spelling Bee (USA), 2010]
“Pigeons is the psychedelic pop project of married couple Wednesday Knudsen and Clark Griffin. They met in Seattle and, while living there, were part of The Sea Donkeys -- a shambling anti-folk collective of freaks which also featured Hisham Mayet of the Sublime Frequencies label. The Sea Donkeys released an LP on the Sun City Girl's Abduction label in 2005. Pigeons formed later that same year when Wednesday and Clark relocated to New York. After releasing a string of micro-run cassettes and lathe-cut vinyls that explored noise and free jazz modes they turned their energies towards writing structured songs. The first widely available release of their song-oriented material was the 'Virgin Spectacle' lp that came out on Black Dirt in 2008. That was followed by a 7" single on Soft Abuse in 2009. Si Faustine is their second album and, like Virgin Spectacle, was recorded at Jason Meagher's Black Dirt Studio. Also featured on the album are contributions from Carter Thornton (Enos Slaughter, Gnaw, Zashiki-Warashi, Izititiz), Jason Meagher (NNCK, D. Charles Speer, Coach Fingers), and Rene Blume-Meagher. Pigeons are currently living in Paris, France. Housed in full-color 'tip-on' style jackets featuring artwork by Melodie Provenzano and also includes an mp3 download coupon." - OESB
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PUMICE Pumice 10" [Doubtful Sounds (FR), 2010]

"Some time ago, I got a message from Stefan Neville about this record: "I been workin on some recording for you. some dumb punk slop and some tape loop soup and a pretty love song." I couldn't describe the record better. It's maybe the end of an era for Pumice with his 8 track pushed to its maximum limits and dying soon after these recordings were finished. So the result is maybe one of the noisier Pumice records to date... with a pretty love song. Recorded in june 2009 in Sandringham, Auckland, NZ. And mixed in january 2010 at Mainz.
Black vinyl packed in black paper silkscreened by Cotoreich, with 2 postcards. Artwork by Stefan Neville. Mastering by Aigle noir. Limited to 500 copies." - Doubtful Sounds

Excellent new Pumice outing; looks & sounds great... Only a few available.

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PUMICE Worldwide Gullet CDR [Nyali (UK), 2010]
"Dunno how Nyali Recordings do it but as anyone who picked up their phenomenal Masami Kawaguchi New Rock Syndicate CD-R will tell you, they consistently succeed in scoring the best material from whoever it is they’re working with. This time round it’s Stefan Neville aka Pumice, with a collection of unreleased radio sessions from around the world that is so perfectly balanced between classic NZ/Flying Nun singer-songwriter-isms and blasted Dead C/Fushitsusha style black hole rock that it’ll have you lining up your King Loser wax before you’re even halfway done. Neville is one of only a handful of performers on the planet – Wooden Wand, Jeremy Earl, Alastair Galbraith – that is capable of combing classic songwriting moves and a feel for higher-minded melody with the aesthetics of scorch, invigorating the singer/songwriter blueprint with a ton of outside junk, with warped fidelity, Dictaphone hymns and mangled feedback instants co-habiting with great, great songs just like they used to ‘back in the day’. Worldwide Gullet draws on tracks from Neville’s last bunch of recordings – Pebbles and Quo - and also includes a buncha covers, two Gfrenzy tracks and one by CJA, both unreleased in Pumice form. Also included are a string of tracks labeled “etc” which Neville describes as “traditional extended live Pumice variations for endless cassette and intercom. Super fans might notice loops from albums being reused and buried in amongst those.” Some of the songs are so blasted that the only real comparison is early This Kind Of Punishment or even Galbraith’s Morse LP. Cross that with instrument destruction that’s as nod-out beautiful as any Dead C fade-out and you’ve got the go-to Pumice album of choice. Hand-numbered edition of 107 copies. Highly recommended." - David Keenan
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STEVEN R. SMITH Cities LP [Immune (USA), 2009]
"On his latest full-length solo release, Cities, Smith combines the composed with the improvisational and the result is a beautiful and desolate collection of songs evoking a crumbling landscape reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s novel “The Road” or the films of Hungarian director Béla Tarr. Cities is pressed on high quality virgin vinyl at RTI in an edition of 900 copies for the world. Included is a free MP3 download coupon." - Immune
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SONNY & THE SUNSETS The Hypnotist 7" + comic book [Future Stress (USA), 2010]
New, mostly acoustic 7" from Sonny & the Sunsets, released by Future Stress out of Los Angeles. Features three new songs (The Hypnotist, Mondrian, Girl of the Streets) recorded by SS during a residency at Marin Headlands. The fourth song (Stranded) is from Tomorrow is Alright. Pressed on swirled blue/yellow wax, with free DL code.
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STARRY CROWNS / ALOONALUNA Split 7" [Concertina (USA), 2010]

Nice split single featuring two Tallahassee bands: Starry Crowns (who have an excellent LP on Concertina), and Aloonaluna. Edition of 300 numbered copies on clear vinyl.
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SUNKEN Eye Electric Organ, Brain Electric Nerve CD [Pseudoarcana (NZ), 2008]
"Deep in the swirling depths of the ocean a terrible yet wondrous beast stirs slow but sure amidst great forests of sea algae. Taking on the form of a pair of conjoined drown-ed sailors it sets forth upon the currents determined to loose its apocalyptic vision upon the earth via droning sea shanty and great humming hymn.
Sunken is the duo of sunken sailors Stefan Neville (Pumice) and Antony Milton (Nether Dawn/A.M etc). Using a range of organs, sonar gear, live tapeloops, vocals and an unhealthy amount of submarine reverb they create a glorious droning pop noise. 'Eye Electric Organ, Brain Electric Nerve' follows on from their acclaimed self titled debut (also on PseudoArcana) and various compilation appearances." - Pseudoarcana
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SUNKEN New Zealand Eels LP [Emerald Cocoon (US), 2010]
"Sunken's previous two albums on Pseudo Arcana were long form chord-organ driven flights into the heart of the ecstatic blaring sun. Despite Antony Milton (The Nether Dawn, Glory Fckn Sun etc.) and Stefan Neville's (Pumice) lovecraftian attempts to posit Sunken as sea-shanties sung by sailors lost to Cthulhu at the bottom of the deepest darkest ocean, somehow their surging reed driven organs and vocal streams broadcast via cracked electronics seemed to suggest sailors breaking free of the weeds and swimming towards the light, and even, occasionally, breaking the surface. Their first vinyl release New Zealand Eels however, is a tentacle shot from the abyss to drag the sailors back down into the service of the lurker in the deep. Bleak, black and completely drowned, New Zealand Eels beams five submarine tracks from the lost to the lost through the milky darkness. With the vocal melodies pushed to the foreground and the instrumental origins of the music obscured as never before by damaged baby monitors, power starved dictaphones, tape saturation and spring reverb, Sunken are now finally, truly lost to the abyss. Two drowned sailors invite you to breathe in the water, forget about life on the surface and lay down with the kraken amidst the curling weeds. Edition of 300 with free digital download. Thick reverseboard sleeves with art by Stefan Neville." - Emerald Cocoon
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