Record Store Day

RSD Drop 2 is July 17th / Thanks for a successful RSD Drop 1!

Thanks to all who made it out and participated in our Record Store Day Drop 1 yesterday. We planned the time slots month in advance and for those that came through it proved to be a great way to do things this time around. We’re thankful for you all and for the day and so we look forward to RSD Drop 2 on July 17th!

 

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For July 17th, there will be no sign ups and no time slots! You just have to show up for our 8AM open time. We are asking that you respectfully (of us and our neighbors and yourselves, really) don’t show up before 6AM. No camping. In fact, we feel so strongly about this that if you’re camping we’ll send you to the back of the line. 😼 This is an industrial area and there are tractor trailers that sometimes visit this lot in the middle of the night and it really just is for safety reasons above all else! We want you to live long healthy lives full of great music and we can only provide that latter one and depend on you all to take care of the first couple parts! đŸ„°

To check out the titles for RSD Drop 2 you can visit their site here:
https://recordstoreday.com/PromotionalEvent/583

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Tongue Depressor “In the Quarter Column” LP Out NOW!

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)

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RSR PC 044 Record Store Day 2021 Talk

On this episode of the podcast we answer the questions submitted via Instagram and talk about Record Store Day 2021 in general (RSD Drops 1 & 2, June 12th and July 17th).

We talk about what we’re listening to, about what we’re looking forward to from RSD, about what we’ve liked from the past and what we’d hope to have released in the future (RSD or otherwise) and of course a bit more. This is a nice quick listen with lots of music and some information on how we’re running the June 12th drop date for RSD 2021.  More information about how we’re running things at this link. 

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Tongue Depressor – In the Quarter Column LP (Pre-Order)

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.

Pre-Order is up now on our Big Cartel page here. 

Podcast

RSR PC 043 Steve Hartlett of Ovlov & Stove

Steve Hartlett joined us on the podcast this month. We talk about the forthcoming Ovlov record fairly in depth. We talk about the rotating members of the band and how Stove relates to that as well.

We also talk about Steve’s growing up in a strict Christian home and having a neighbor (who was the drummer in Self Defense) hand him a punk tape to open his world. We talk about how Steve’s dad dated Linda Blair (yep, that one from The Exorcist).  And we talk about a bunch of stuff really. Plus we talk about what we’re listening to. Check it out!

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