Happy to be able to announce a new album by Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean is now up for Pre-Order. 
Head over to their bandcamp and check out the LP, CD and Cassette versions we have coming out as well as their other related merch!
[currently available for stateside pre-order, international distribution upcoming]
https://chainedtothebottomoftheocean.bandcamp.com/album/obsession-destruction
Catch them on tour! Crush all that stand in your way!
We have 8 new tapes out today!
You can buy them all in our Big Cartel shop here!
Here’s a quick overview of the tapes with links to listen to each respective act/band:
Marion:
http://marionct.bandcamp.com/
Doom Beach:
https://doombeachct.bandcamp.com/album/copperhead
Fatal Sacrament:
https://fatalsacrament.bandcamp.com/album/hung-gutted-bled
Inexorable Flesh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuSv8dDX9Og
Henry Birdsey:
(this one isn’t on there, but there’s other stuff to check out)
https://henrybirdsey.bandcamp.com/
Red Yellow Blue Green Black (Austin Larkin & Zach Rowden):
(this one isn’t on there, but there’s other stuff to check out)
https://austinlarkin.bandcamp.com/
Revenge Body:
(this one isn’t on there, but there’s other stuff to check out)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqZlSLugEIBMMJkxhwBxHyw
Gary R Amedy:
https://garyramedy.bandcamp.com/album/the-cold-room
You can buy them all in our Big Cartel shop here!
Our latest record release is by Tongue Depressor and it’s called In The Quarter Column and it is out today!
We have very limited quantities of this record left for in store sale!
Reception of this record has been incredible and honestly well deserved!
Autumn Records in Vermont runs a subscription service, Outer Sounds, that picked this one up for their June edition! In their write up they say this: It reminds me of a more lo-fi, dissonant version of Oren Ambarchi’s early pointillistic guitar work. A Singing on Side B moves in a more horizontal drone space with microtonal pipe organ and long tone bowed bass layers. Dissonance and beating patterns emerge among the alternate tunings again. Both sides offer up an immersive listening space full of details that reward multiple spins. This isn’t placid, background ambient music, its an enveloping & mildly dissonant world to explore that demands your attention not unlike the music of Alvin Lucier, Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt, La Monte Young, Phill Niblock, Charlemagne Palestine and more. Step inside and recalibrate your ears!
High praise! They’ll also have an interview up with Zach and Henry:
https://www.outersoundsvinyl.com/previous/outersounds008-tonguedepressor
You can check out the album via their bandcamp page here (and buy it digitally):
If we run out and the band runs out of copies then there are still a number of shops that have picked up the record. They are:
Annihilvs / Doc Monomer Audio Emporium (NY)
Cabin Floor Records (SC)
Eroding Winds (WI)
Forced Exposure (MA)
Industrial Coast (UK)
Iris Records (NJ)
Midheaven / Revolver (CA)
Records the Good Kind (CT)
Robotic Empire (WA)
Siren Records (Doylestown, PA)
Skeleton Dust Records (OH)
Sorry State Records (NC)
Soundholes (UK)
Tor Johnson Records (RI)
Willimantic Records (CT)
Tongue Depressor (New Haven, CT) is the duo of Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey. They write, improvise, and perform drone-based music with fiddles, pedal steel, lap steel, contrabass, organ, and bells, usually involving microtonal tunings and re-arranged/re-tuned fragments of American church music.
We are excited to be releasing their first music on LP to the world! June 4th is the release date and pre-orders will go out early so you should have them in hand by then!
Pre-Order is up now on our Big Cartel page here.
You can hear a preview / teaser track here:
“In another time, Tongue Depressor’s ethereal tunings set into motion an unstable peace. With their bows, the duo conjured spirits to settle serpents. In another time, it was enough. “In the Quarter Column” showcases Tongue Depressor’s progression into an exploratory and singular craft, balancing technical ability with discipline, and magnetism with precision.
“Everyone Was There” features Tongue Depressor’s first use of magnetic tape loops, with Rowden manipulating recordings of Birdsey’s playing while Birdsey bows his lap steel in accompaniment. The hypnotic piece delicately reminds us that what has come before will come again, bringing decay and dislocation. Warbly echoes of what is past are present. The duo’s preferred territory exists outside of time.
On the B side, “A Singing,” Birdsey’s resolute playing of a microtonal organ merges with the moans and sighs of Rowden’s bass to illustrate a fresh lucidity that is patient and attentive. Demystification has disconnected the doors.
Grasping sound and experience from within, “In the Quarter Column” builds an apparitional world for the listener to inhabit. Once again, Tongue Depressor offers anyone with the ability and will to listen a very generous gift.” – Jason Filer (Crazy Doberman, Doberman, Gateway)
This is an edition of 312 records pressed at Burlington Record Plant on Black Smog vinyl (appears black until held up to the light).
The official release date is June 4th. Pre-orders ship well in advance of release.
We are stoked on the Chained record coming out Friday (October 16th)!
You can still pre-order it from us here:
https://redscrollrecords.bigcartel.com/product/pre-order-rsr-025-chained-to-the-bottom-of-the-ocean-the-vestige-2xlp
If you have no idea who Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean is you can check out the interview we did with Paul of the band here on our podcast.
And beyond that we are happy to present this playlist put together by the band of things they are listening to at the moment – some have influenced their sound and some are just bangers they happen to enjoy!
Check it out here:
