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"David Nance’s doom spiral tour of the supermarket. The spectral glade fashioned by the Spatulas in “Heaving Chimes." The hazy, chattering, crypt-riot of Bruce Russell and Peter Wright’s Escalation. The warmth and momentum of Liam Grant’s barn dance. These intensely physical spaces are all conjured through song, an unexpected venue for such somatic expression. It’s a bracing, welcome tangibility, a mark of exceptionalism shared by this music. But what do these songs have in common, beyond their visceral substance? They demarcate the terrain of Carbon Records (generally) and The Sun is Not True (specifically).
For three decades, Joe Tunis has mapped the edges of music via Carbon Records. The submerged bottom, absolutely (see Greymouth); but also the airy spaces above clouds (see Rock Candy) and the hazy, languageless beauty outside of civilization’s reach (see murusonus). For The Sun is Not True, the label’s 300th release, Tunis shares a cross-section of this surveying. Thirteen songs selected not for their genre or nationality or process, but instead for their presence, their intention, their shared sense of working toward the edge. The outcome is revelatory—this is not an underground music proposing “another world is possible,” this is an underground music actively building another world, space by space. Each song on CR300 adds another chamber to this world, developing this unexpected, deeply necessary realm of disorientation, disquiet, and delight." - Ethan Swan
For three decades, Joe Tunis has mapped the edges of music via Carbon Records. The submerged bottom, absolutely (see Greymouth); but also the airy spaces above clouds (see Rock Candy) and the hazy, languageless beauty outside of civilization’s reach (see murusonus). For The Sun is Not True, the label’s 300th release, Tunis shares a cross-section of this surveying. Thirteen songs selected not for their genre or nationality or process, but instead for their presence, their intention, their shared sense of working toward the edge. The outcome is revelatory—this is not an underground music proposing “another world is possible,” this is an underground music actively building another world, space by space. Each song on CR300 adds another chamber to this world, developing this unexpected, deeply necessary realm of disorientation, disquiet, and delight." - Ethan Swan
"The Sun Is Not True is a wide ranging overview of the international underground circa now! From youngbloods Spatulas, Rock Candy & Ethan WL to exalted blasters like Bruce Russell & Thurston Moore, and many more! They have come to itch your ears, open your minds and tickle your souls with true freedom sounds! A sonic bulwark against the weaponized death algorithm." - John Schoen
Details
Cat. number: CR300
Year: 2025
Notes:
Limited to 516 copies, each copy comes in a silkscreened recycled jacket with a Riso printed double-sided insert including liner notes and a list of all 300 Carbon releases to-date.
