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MP3: Buffalo Moon - "Low Tide Moon"

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“Regolith” is a term used by lunar scientists to describe the loose scree of stones covering the solid rock of the moon. From the scrappy fuzzabilly of the Leisure Birds’ “Burn the Beach” to Moonstone’s pontificate-n-jam, Moon Glyph have found an apt title for their first compilation of local bands. Regolith Vol.1 is a wide sampling of songs scattershot across a solid foundation of rock by artists committed to the exploration of new vibrations and frequencies. The listener will find all forms of psychedelia on this record: laid back odes to laid-back women from Magic Castles and Velvet Davenport (with a little help from Ariel Pink and Gary War), a rave-up from Vampire Hands, a spaced out war-drum workout from the Daughters of the Sun, and a pair of face-melters courtesy of The Blind Shake and Skoal Kodiak amongst others.

A1 Leisure Birds - "Burn the Beach"
A2 Magic Castles - "Patron Saint"
A3 Dante & the Lobster - "Waiting for the Moon"
A4 Velvet Davenport (with Ariel Pink & Gary War) - "Surfer    Girl"
A5 Camden - "Headstone"
A6 Vampire Hands - "3D Yin-Yang"

B1 Daughters of the Sun - "Mystical Babe"
B2 The Blind Shake - "Lucky Day"
B3 Skoal Kodiak - "Tinsel Tongue"
B4 Moonstone - "Exhortations of the Prophet M."

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MP3: Leisure Birds - "Burn the Beach"

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Velvet Davenport returns with White Blue, their first release following a collaboration with Ariel Pink and Gary War that led to a well-praised 7” in addition to a tune featured on Moon Glyph’s very own Regolith Vol. 1. Starker in production than its predecessors, White Blue calls attention to the group’s contemplative side - evident in the wistful tracks “Never Ending Days Beginning” and “White Blue.” While the lyrical content on Velvet Davenport’s previous MG release, Lemon Drop Square Box, concerned itself with the mythical, this release captures fragments of the Human Relationship, processing the timeless songwriter trope through a haze that is more crystalline than it is vaporous. Ever the craftsmen, Parker Sprout continues to refine his palate of vivid pop wonder.
Ed. of 200. Art by Parker Sprout

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MP3: Velvet Davenport - "When You Are Out"

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PC Worship is a seven-piece band out of Brooklyn. They live together in a warehouse called Le Wallet where they are surrounded by hundreds of musical instruments – and it shows on Dune of Heroin/Godless Love. Acoustic guitars, contrabasses, violins, tenor saxes, pianos, bowed saws, bass clarinets and drums coalesce and fragment, collide off each other in a way that showcases a nimble touch when it comes to lawless and maelstromic music-making.
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MP3: PC Worship - "Dune of Heroin" (excerpt)

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Percolating out of the ether, Capricorn Vertical Slum's "Various Portals..." materializes within a wash of sonic detritus. The record feints at racket and din before emerging with the glam stomp of "Palatial Estates in Wallpaper." And from then on the album subverts expectations and matches every haywire moment with a songwriting gem. An unwanted love child of Ian Hunter and a CB radio, Colin Johnson (formerly of Vampire Hands) sneaks feral and fun hooks that pop in weird places, enriched by a stratum of roiling noise. At 24 minutes, Vol.1 is hopefully a wink at more to come - it has to be, we need more music like this.
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MP3: Capricorn Vertical Slum - "The Best Cocaine in the Canyon"

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Larry Wish makes outsider pop, even if the term “outsider pop” is a complete contradiction of terms. But judging from the music on Crazy Taxi Cool, one might imagine that terms or tags or descriptions mean very little to somebody as uncompromising in their unconventionality as Mr. Wish. Over 80 minutes in length, "Crazy Taxi Cool" is a stellar exemplification of oddball concentration showcasing art-damaged hurdy-gurdies, pitch bent synth lines, uneasy drones, canned percussion and claustrophobic intonations. Crazy Taxi Cool is not for everyone, hell, it might not be for anyone, but that is exactly what makes this music incredibly special and important.
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MP3: Larry Wish - "Traveling Family Man (Part 2)"

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The man behind Camden is Cole Weiland of Daughters of the Sun notoriety, but knowing who created "Life of Devotion" makes it no less mysterious. Described by its creator as a meditation on betrayal, it is an album of shrouds: synths veiled in noise and echo; vocals cloaked in reverb. It is a record that requires devotion in its listener - a pulsing, simmering, crackling piece of work that reveals itself only in layers and only to those who listen with intent.
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MP3: Camden - "A Snake's Poison"

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Somewhere, in some alternative reality, there is a film to correspond with Jonathan Delehanty's "Prisms Opposed to Prudence" - an art-house movie heavy on beautiful imagery, light on narrativity (like a good art-house flick should be). "Prisms", Moon Glyph's 7th release, began as Delehanty's response to a near failing grade he'd earned in a Philosophy of Music class at a local university. But what started as an act of revenge, crystallized into a korg-damaged opus that can be described as a noise-baroque cycle of synth auto-didacticism.
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MP3: Jonathan Delehanty - "A Prism Opposed to Prudence"

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Ever-changing, Olives (Ross Nervig and Moon Glyph head Steve Rosborough) return with a third offering, entitled Tremble. If their previous effort was conceived as a musical response to Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Imaginary Beings, this new album is an act of hymnal disassembly - a subversion of traditional spiritual song structures and lyrical tropes. Recorded in Des Moines, IA and Minneapolis, MN, with the alacrity that has become typical of the band's creative habits, the two members of Olives were surprised to to find they'd put to tape a collection of songs bereft of the irony and distance disassembly and subversion often require. Remaining, a remarkably sincere and ecclesiastical cycle of music that proves to be as challenging as it is listenable.
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MP3: Olives - "Michael 'Dracula' Goldberg"

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Moon Glyph's sonic template will expand with the release of Velvet Davenport's "Lemon Drop Square Box". Kaleidoscopically so. The Minneapolis group cherry picks elements from an idyll when psychedelia was beginning to burgeon mid-1960s. In fourteen paisley minutes, "Lemon Drop Square Box" tells the story of someone opening a box of candy to find baby venus inside and then this fortunate soul must take care of the goddess. The tale is enhanced by the baroque soundings of a group who've clearly mastered a blend of record collector homage and a sense of forward-looking fun. The record is in turns jaunty and ruminative, experimental and comforting. The band employs a palatable production showcasing its jangling guitars and cartwheeling organs. Wherever he is, Syd Barrett is smiling.
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parker sprout - vocals, guitar, organ, bass
samuel cramer - bass, vocals, drums
sean hartman - synth, drums, guitar
jonathan delehanty - backup vocals on "Square"

produced by aaron baum & samuel cramer

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MP3: Velvet Davenport - "Lemon"

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Soothsayer's debut, Neptune's Daughter, is a stark product of tensions, tensions that can be mapped through a sonic ether evocative of the deepest ocean depths and/or the far reaches of outerspace. The music can be both cavernous and claustrophobic, sometimes simultaneously. Soothsayer achieves this atmosphere by implementing, above all else, a mature restraint as well as Reverb, synth lines both brittle and crystalline, guitar oscillations and noises not attributable to given instruments. As a whole, the album conjures the act of untethering, pushing off into an expanding cathedral.
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MP3: Soothsayer - "Neptune's Daughter"

Olives' second album was put to tape fast. "Fauna" finds Olives adding elements (beats, vocals, whistles) and layering their sonics as opposed to improvising live. Emboldened by Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Imaginary Beings, the record was made in just five days. If "Cuba" is the band's wild island of guitar spikes and broken glass piano, their sophomore effort is an expedition into diverse psychedelia. The members could not tell you who played what during that week of recording in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Instruments were traded, concepts were discussed and then employed, unexpected trails were happened upon and likewise followed to stranger environs. While Rosborough and Nervig have retained their dedication to unpredictability, the tunes contained here within wink at structure and shake hands with certain aspects of pop.
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MP3: Olives - "The Remora"

Olives debut, "Cuba" was created by four ears and twenty fingers attached to the band's two members, Steve Rosborough and Ross Nervig. The album proper features the sound of a pair of brains being circumvented. These improvised songs are instinct songs, knee-jerk constructions. "Cuba" was recorded in a tiny room in the city of Des Moines, Iowa over a hundred or so sessions. It captures (in hoary lo-fidelity) the two-piece attacking their instruments.
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Ross Nervig - prepared guitar
Steve Rosborough - synth, sampler, snake-pit of cables