banana head - in tubs - goaty tapes- cass -7$
In the Tubs presents a continual attempt to articulate the sadness and loveless infatuation of Banana Head, but every syrupy track falls prey to the codeine-induced remoteness and feeble basement wipeout emotion of a total loser/way-too-old mama’s boy. Shying away from the pop record, Banana Head falls back on the simple instrumentation and rainy window fidelity he finds essentially inescapable. These songs too are stuck in the tubs, lulled into the void of pill-popped stagnancy. Nonetheless, In the Tubs seems to be a sincere demonstration of a rock lover’s desire to deconstruct the canonized song structure and take it to a heartbreaking extreme. “no talent no rules, muchacho”
-goaty
bird - hoy en dia - goaty tapes- cass -7$
Investing in some free synth software, a snare, and a tiny guitar, Katie Leming explodes any previous notion of loner-muzak with her unparalleled neo-outsider no-pop chug. Unlike her drumming and singing in Cro Magnon, here Katie moves into a new primitivist realm, where any and all world musics and pop strategies can be appropriated and channeled into the temporal angst of a college girl whose apartment sucks.
-goaty
paradise sisters - jeff atkins no. 7 - goaty tapes- cass -7$
Supposedly there are nineteen sisters and they all play together and never ever look at each other. Continual transgression and vacation woery. All this in preparation for an LP on De Stijl Recs.
-goaty
vincent over the sink - bible bashers - goaty tapes- cass -7$
Kept on the low for several years now, VOTS have released a couple short gems exclusively in their native Australia. Bible Bashers is their American debut, channeling post-post punk cynicism and modernist anxiety ala Lambkin and the Ring, not to mention their ancestral Xpressway slog. Deeply religious, these two extended pieces, composed of several sections each, meander between structured bedroom monotony and bunkbed-nightmare dirge. Features members of Naked on the Vague.
-goaty
bone patrol u.s. / varlet tarsod - split - goaty tapes- cass -7$
Luke (Dead Luke, Jerkwave, etc) and Aaron (Peaking Lights) chill on the dual guitar/just hang out Bone Patrol status. The flip side is Luke solo with his desert music proyecto.
-goaty
cro magnon/circuit des yeux/bird - split - goaty tapes- cass -7$
Short tape by Katie and Haley. A-side is their collaborative project, Cro Magnon, conjuring apocalyptic no-core anxiety. B-side features each of their solo projects: Circuit des Yeux (Haley) slows it down with “Fire Signs” and then Bird (Katie) deconstructs/microtunes the acoustic rock song with free, downloadable software on “Swamp Cry”
-goaty
uke of spaces corners- albumen/ovum - goaty tapes- cass -7$
Never did know how the Uke of Spaces Corners wove them mounds of spook through such innocent jam dillies. I reckon it is what must be the outlandish croon, or perchance that lonely electric guitar. Ever it functions, sure leaves a rippling, swelling watermark of the solitary songmanship. Jangling in mulchy fullness, but reflecting a singular dream, apparition.
-Valhalla
Edition of 100 on ivory shells with hand-cut inside folds and serrated inserts.
-goaty
david joon jaberi / cole moldy miller - split - goaty tapes- cass - 7$
Must’ve been a big pea pod what which encased these two. Sweet too. Do only say so cause these songs smack of such a chunky, love coated brotherhood, none can help but feel a resounding sense of connectedness. Youth closure, you could say. Explore them extra hairs and grown feelings with swilly, tender songiness!
-Valhalla
Edition of 100 of imprinted blue shells with hand-cut folds.
-goaty
family battle snake - arabian knights - goaty tapes- cass - 7$
Slitherin. Its both a bellied grind deep down into the dirt with each turn and a graceful floating just above it all at the same time. Same as these here burnings; both bellowin deep and resonatin in your underside and a delicate sparkle like harmonious poprocks or gemstones inside the skull. All curlin and coilin and rollin along sonorous melody furrows.
-Valhalla
mudboy - eno trouble/midiwards/happy birthday song - goaty tapes- cass - 7$
Blocky critters jam up in the webs in my ma’s bakelite every once in a while. She tell me I ought to investigate so I brung my earphones and muffled the two-step gothgroove. Check it out!
Edition of 100 on purple shells with full-color artwork.
-Valhalla