New Arrivals / Last 4 weeks
Live And Dangerous
The biggest sell-out event in Finnish noise? The great harsh noise swindle? Or just a “stars-aligned” moment nobody ever expected to happen, least of all the boys themselves? Either way, this somewhat odd concert needed to be documented and here we have the first The New Boyfriends live album!
Recorded at Flow Festival 2023, where they shared the lineup with contemporary superstars like Blur, Lorde, Anna Puu, and new wave legends Devo. A slowly building, joyous junk-metal screech storm that erup…
Psychic Mud Wrestling
Psychic Mud Wrestling is the second release of Nick Forte’s Flamingo Base Jumpers project, diving even deeper into textured raw noise, heavy tape mangling, and the use of crude, destroyed samples that shake hands with dreamlike, hazy exotica and warped American nostalgia.
Wrestling for Futility
Tip! *100 copies limited edition* Russian modular synthesist Ilia Belorukov, now based in Serbia, and Alex Riva, a Zurich-based flutist, here focusing on woodwind recorders. The pair have performed with Notice Recordings alum Jason Kahn, and toured as a duo with the novel instrumentation they use here, presented on “Wrestling for Futility”. The pairing is not a combination we hear often, and Belorukov and Riva seem to relish in the obscurity and uniqueness of the timbres and textures conjured by…
Shoulda Killed Me When You Had The Chance......
*50 copies limited edition. 8xtapes, book, thumb drive, hand printed postcard, hand-printed cassette artwork, two short essays* Eric Lunde’s recorded output began in the late 1980s, and many of his early releases are long out of print. Joe Colley did the world a favor in 1997 when he when he released when you wish upon a scar, a compilation of Lunde’s early work. However, there is something to be said for being able to both hear the entirety of a release as well as the chronological evolution of…