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in honor of this album's 15th birthday...so just old enough to understand itself.
In the summer of 2009, Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley and the band’s long time sound engineer, Jeremy Lemos, invited Lemos’ White/Light bandmate Matt Clark and Chicago spacepunx Disappears to come over to Lemos’ Semaphore Recording studio and jam. Their one-afternoon, two-drummers, three-guitarists, no-rules jam evolved into a productive and glorious multi-day freakout, which resulted in the recording of these eight songs. Producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Angel Olsen) later mixed the marathon session with Steve and Jeremy at Echo Canyon West in Hoboken, NJ.
And then… the record disappeared. Sonic Youth went on hiatus, Shelley briefly joined Disappears, Disappears broke up and then evolved into FACS; plans to release the album on Shelley’s Vampire Blues were scuttled and eventually shelved. In the quarantine days of spring of 2020, more than a decade later, Shelley started blowing the dust off old masters he’d had planned for his label over the years, and here we are. An Exclusive to Bandcamp. Rip it up.
'gazey debut EP (4 tracks, single-sided 12") from Seattle's Shine is out this April.
Torn Light Records › Shine - Stare Into The Sun LP - White Purple Marble
Featuring members of hardcore juggernauts, Regional Justice Center and Seattle’s New Gods, Shine channels the noise and driving aggression of the these bands, but through a more playful…www.tornlightrecords.com
The Post-Brexit New Wave
On thrilling debut albums by Squid, Dry Cleaning and Black Country, New Road, the aftershocks of '80s post-punk tremble against stark new realities in British and Irish life.www.npr.org
Great round-up of all of the amazing post punk coming out of the UK and Ireland over the past few years. Strong chance that the SQUID album that was released yesterday will end up as my AOTY. It's spectacular.
Also, one more important thing to note: fuck maggie and fuck brexit.
This is incredible. Amazing visuals too!