Truth Syrum – Why We Look at our Neighbors $7

Why We Look at our Neighbors documents Will Kapp’s move from Iowa City to the West Coast last fall. The songs parallel personal displacement, straddling the line between brazen, youthful mid-west basement scuzz and new found pop intimacy/bald, romantic holism. The little punk almost gets in touch with nature, but he still swears by the half-stack and the DigiTech Grunge pedal his mom got in for the Christmas. Edition of 100


Trudgers – Bedrooms on Fire $7

Brent Mitzner’s Trudgers project seems so inert and so real, but somehow eludes simple account. It’s probs the disconnect between his meticulous multi-instrumental song craft and the thick austerity of his neo-goth baritone that makes this six track charger transcend the catalog. A vision of industrial unhappiness that condenses the whole history of popular music into bit-sized fuck you’s and synthesizes California sun daze with cold/late night cogency (read: almost danceable). Edition of 100


HNY – Dead in a Year $7

Heather loves playing with her bros in Social Junk but sometimes you just have to be alone, let some fem energy loose in the headspace and be a girl in the 21st century. This time, however, there’s no fancy ersatz spiritual dazzle—no pleasant gold-lining on the drone clouds. On Dead in a Year Heather gets brutal: the vocal mantras don’t dissipate into nebulous drone ephemera, but hold their ground as a physical human reactions that almost hit the grunge wipeout USA nerve. Before you know it she’s punching the deep-base drum machine, discharging synth breakdowns ala The Dream and calling you out on your shit. Edition of 100


Still available:

Banana Head
Bird
Vincent Over the Sink
Paradise Sisters
Mudboy
Mossy Throats
Slicing Grandpa
Caethua/Ancestra Diet (a couple left)
Bone Patrol US/Varlet Tarsod (a couple left)
Cole Miller/David Jaberi
Treetops/Dan Marino (3 left)
Jock Jams (1 left)

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