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• American Song Co., The "Desert Songs "
  From Rok Lok Records
  { RL132 }   { cassette }
  Presenting The American Song Co. which is the first volume of a collection of field recordings from the American Southwest. Thirteen dusty songs that are mere fragments, snapshots of sunbaked memories in the desert. Channeling something that is beyond the player, as if the environment was guiding the hand, finding the notes-the desert she sings. A documentation of guitar soli/ American Primitive guitar and lofi folk instrumentals that were written and recorded at campsites, rest stops, hotels, and in tents, parks, caves, and cars across the USA, predominantly the American Southwest, of which is also documented in the titles of the songs in the places in which they were birthed. This cassette is limited to a numbered edition 18 white clamshell cassettes with printed labels and packaged in a linocut and printed mix kraft paper j-card.

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• Cthulhus, The "Songs From the Slipstream 09-11"
  From Juniper Tree Songs
  { JTS003 }   { cassette }
  from Suave Citation "The feeling I get when listening to The Cthulhus cassette that Juniper Tree Songs released earlier this year is unlike anything I have felt in awhile. I feel totally insecure, freaked out, and pleased all at once. There is a charm to this band that is sort of incomprehensible and on their cassette “Songs From The Slipstream ’09-‘11” it is made clear that this band was absolutely one to be seen in their existence. This tape has a special quality that all good outsider artists are able to include in their records. This sort of meaningless nostalgia that puts the listener in a corner and begs them to remember, that which never happened, a made up memory that opens up an entirely new world. Much like the work of HP Lovecraft the Cthulhus are really hard to digest at times. It’s taken me about 20 listens to get all the way through this tape without a break. My favorite track on here is “Glass” which starts out the B-side. It’s a pretty straightforward punk jammer with these weird whisper vocals and lots of weird guitar effects and at times vocal delay. The whispering literally almost seems to cut into you like Glass it is pretty intense. I am still really soaking this release in but there is something for everyone on here, weird noise slams, and casio drum beats layered with weird organ licks, and the occasional flanger heavy guitar. Truly an eight legged beast this one. The tape is pro dubbed and is really nice and adds to the consistently quality output and lo-fi bedroom vibe of young Californian label Juniper Tree Songs. This tape is really good, really weird, and too me is the kind of thing that belongs on this format. I love it. It’s definitely making my best of 2012 list!"

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• De Portables "Eat This Eighties "
  From Almost Halloween Time
  { }   { cassette }
  Extravagant, bizzarre, excessive, Doctor and the medics, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Madonna and Cyndi Lauper, Commodore 64, the fall of the wall, the Challenger disaster, the Chernobyl cloud, Salman Rushdie sentenced to death, Tienanmen square, the scream of Marco Tardelli and the 1982 World Cup. Even if you weren't born in the 80's you probably already know what I'm going to talk about. Today I'm going to announce the release of ''Eat This Eighties'' by de portables, a tribute to one of the most controversial problematic decades in music, characterized by the massive use and abuse of electronics and synths, simple refrains that will enter your ears and remain stuck in your head for days and days, but also by the post punk, rock and more obsure colourfully mind altering issues. de portables presents here a brief anthology of the those years, and they do it in their own style as always. Not simple cover songs that you will listen in the pub around the corner performed by a group of nostalgics, but their own interpretation of worldwide known classics and hidden gems that makes you wish you the 80's never come to an end. I've never been a huge fan of Pet Shop Boys, I kind of hated them, but here we have a wonderful rendition of ''Rent'' and you start thinking they weren't that bad and you wish de portables will cover more of their songs. How great would ''Domino Dancing'' or ''It's a Sin'' if our favourites would embrace the instruments again? And do you know Sinead O'Connor repertorie in depth? I honestly don't, but maybe I should explore her catalogue... de portables ''Troy'' is even more dramatic than Sinead ordination as a priest being a woman with a Roman Catholic background. This is a pleasant return, after the acclaimed '' It's Time To Leave This World Behind'' from 2012 (Almost Halloween Time Records) and it's follow up ''The Killing Horizon'' (9000 Records). This tribute comes out on cassette, a relic for many, but a format that has apparently won its battle against technology. Who buys compact discs anymore? Every single copy, this is an edition of 50, comes with a unique hand drawn sleeve. This is for all those of you that don't turn the radio station when you listen to The Cars or XTC, this is for you that turn the station when you listen to Erasure or Nena. The 80's like you have never heard.

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• Jason Calhoun "ben c, this is for you"
  From Lily Tapes & Discs
  { LTD037 }   { cassette }
  Few artists in the Lily Tapes & Discs orbit have been as prolific as Jason Calhoun, returning with his first solo release on the label since 2019’s practice. Following 2020’s monolithic pieces of death, a collaboration with Russian sound artist Foresteppe, ben c, this is for you is another long-distance collaboration of sorts, though the distances travelled here are temporal rather than geographical. Written and recorded during a transitional period living at home with family, ben c, this is for you finds Jason reaching far back through layers of dust and memories, pulling remnants of the past back into the present. The result is a densely layered and intensely felt quilt of brief hauntings, punctuated by anxious pangs of remembrance and disarmingly abrasive bursts of emotional clarity. Embracing both the discomfort and catharsis of deep introspection and its inciting factors, ben c, this is for you is a striking new peak from one of our long-time favorites.

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• John Thill "Gospel of the Carwash"
  From KerchowRecords
  { KCR018 }   { cassette }
  The latest from California indie/lo fi folk mastermind, John Thill. High-bias clear music cassette tape with nice card-stock printed inserts and double sticker labels. Clear jewel case and download card included. Artwork by John Thill himself.

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• Matt Seigne "The Mystic Feathers"
  From Almost Halloween Time
  { AHT029 }   { cassette }
  Rustic, bedroom folk/acoustic crooning. Limited Edition of 50 copies with handmade handrawn - each individually designed - sleeves.

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• Outside the Museum "Souvenirs"
  From Correspodence Tapes
  { CT01 }   { Cassette }
  Masterful,lush indie pop from the United Kingdom. If you are into Jens Lekman or Yukon you will enjoy this tape. This latest effort is even better than the previous releases which were easily some of my favorite indie pop releases of the last few years.

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• Philippe Guislain "Werkelijk Waar"
  From Almost Halloween Time
  { AHT043 }   { cassette }
  Excellent lo-fi bedroom pop/folk. Very reminiscent of stuff that would come out on Unread or Shrimper.

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• Shivering Window "Dare to Be Nothing"
  From Juniper Tree Songs
  { JTS011 }   { cassette }
  The latest full length from Long Beach, CA's gloomy, lofi bedroom pop act Shivering Window. Tape hiss overload, and one noise laden pop tune after another. "Dare to Be Nothing" is one of the year's best releases.

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• Stars Are Insane "When Last We Met"
  From Almost Halloween Time
  { AHT042 }   { cassette }
  { out of stock }
  Four songs inspired by a trip that I took along the west coast in the winter of 2014. "When Last We Met" continues to build upon the sonic territories that the Stars Are Insane discography has embarked on in recent releases such as the Singles Club cassette and the split with Monogamy. Beautiful hand painted covers by Luigi at Almost Halloween Time.
  
  
  
• Stars Are Insane "Broken Heart Headquarters"
  From Rok Lok Records
  { RL130 }   { cassette }
  What initially began as an idea to make another release in the spirit of 2014’s ode to lofi bedroom pop cassette release, “Pop Industry”, morphed into something else. More of a collection of there and now, snapshots of transitions in life. Not only the various rooms and environments these songs were documented but in the voice behind the songs, in myself I am reminded of the changes of self from when these moments were documented to now. As opposed to the mindset of a “proper” album, “Broken Heart Headquarters” offers various glimpses through years til now where the first of these songs was recorded in 2017. And some of the songs are closer to today’s date. Twelve songs that are each unto themselves time capsules. Lofi indie pop intermingling with slowcore and shoegaze/ambient vibes. “Broken Heart Headquarters” is limited to an edition of 30 cassettes with full color jcards and handstamped yellow cassettes with two inserts.

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• Thunder Bunny/Devin Dart "See It In Color"
  From Felt Cat Records
  { FCR-80 }   { cassette }
  This tape is for summer, homie. These bright spots will getcha out on your porch or general front yard region with some cheap beer and your best friends. For real. Five tracks of total dusk-adventure-dream-pop to put you in the mood. Devin Dart bangs away on two tracks with a shimmering bridge of pure light between them. Thunder Bunny starts his side slow and gooey, and finishes with the pop epic “Simple Days,” 5 minutes plus of warm and fuzzy rock ‘n fucking roll. This shit is just lovely. You will want this for those romantic drunk nights that will soon be every night. March 2012, edition of 53

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• World's Fair "2 Songs"
  From Rok Lok Records
  { RL131 }   { cassette }
  With the completion of the new World's Fair album the band and Rok Lok saw it fit to do some house cleaning and release two previous unreleased tracks. These are two songs that were recorded during the sessions for the second World's Fair album 2018's "We Can't Be Magic" but due to their length and being sonic/stylistic departures from the rest of the material recorded were ultimately omitted and sat on a hard drive unreleased until...now. Sonically the band goes off in far more extended noise rock dare we say psychedelic explorations, with the band wearing it is Sonic Youth influences overtly on its sleeves. Two lengthy songs on one white clamshell cassette with full color printed labels, full color glossy J-cards and one inch button. Limited to an edition of 21.

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• World's Fair "Leisurely"
  From Rok Lok Records
  { RL92b }   { cassette }
  Out of print for several years the debut from World's Fair returns but this time on the cassette format. There is a notion within the realm of indie music that generally the energy captured from the impulse of youth far outweighs the results of a more mature pensiveness that can only come with time. Many artists go through this growth from being raucous, bottled lightning catching punks to being more thorough in mapping out their work, and speaking for myself as well as my friends in World's Fair whom I have played in other bands with over the years this perhaps sums up our album "Leisurely". Unlike our past bands we didn't rush into playing shows, recording or heck, even naming the songs- we just let things unfold naturally. We laid down the tracks for the album in January of 2013 and over months and months we added layers, tinkered and such with an album that we felt that we would be happy with not just in a fleeting sense but something that can be looked upon with later on with no regrets. The pace we have moved at can be described as nothing other than "leisurely", hence the name of the album. World's Fair is an amalgamation of our prior works but churned out into something that feels fresh and exciting to us-not simply just treading familiar sonic territories. Culling influence from bands such as Sonic Youth, Polvo, Swirlies, Built to Spill and even contemporaries such as Yuck- World's Fair hones its sound around distinct, swirling guitar driven indie rock that is centered around pulsating drums and over driven bass sounds.

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• World's Fair "We Can't Be Magic"
  From Reflective Tapes
  { REF107 }   { cassette }
  Even though it has been four years since the release of their debut album "Leisurely", Long Island indie rockers World's Fair have been diligently tinkering away, crafting new sounds all while balancing the responsibilities, and other interests of life. In the time allotted for the band to come together to create the last few years they have put together a collection of ten songs for their sophomore album, "We Can't Be Magic". Continuing to build upon the hook laden, guitar driven indie rock that was captured on their debut, "We Can't Be Magic" adds to its sonic repertoire as the album's songs shift from experimenting more with layered pop structures, a stronger focus on vocal arrangements to slower tempos and even "quieter" moments while coming back to its trademark swirling, distorted guitar sounds that is anchored by precise bass rumbles and dynamic yet purposeful drumming. World's Fair creates sounds that are reminiscent of bands such as Archers of Loaf, Built to Spill, Swirlies, Yuck, Sebadoh and on this album showing some post hardcore influences such as Hum and Lync. "We Can't Be Magic" cassette version is on orange cassettes and is packaged in a full color j-card

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• Yes Sensei "3 + 1 Songs"
  From Rok Lok Records
  { RL135 }   { cassette }
  For just a bit over a decade Yes Sensei traversed the Long Island DIY punk scene with their own unique brand off kilter, noisy, rhythmic post punk and noise rock before bringing the band to a close in 2011. Throughout its tenure the band hosted several different lineups, in fact every single Yes Sensei release each had its own cast. It was on the 2008 recording sessions where the band found themselves in a whole new groove and sonic cohesive territory. Six songs were recorded during those sessions, three of which found themselves on the "3 Songs" 7 inch which was released in 2008 as cooperative effort between Rok Lok Records and Exeter based Russian Folk Stories. Over time the pressing of 300 records went out of print as it has been since before the band stepped on stage for their final show. Three songs remaining from those 2008 sessions were ultimately being saved for the band's final album 'In Excelsis" and one lone song was given exclusively to Dead Broke Rekerds to appear on their "Tape Comp Volume 3" cassette release in 2009. Both long out of print now the songs from the "3 Songs" 7 inch as well as the comp track "All Your Bass Are Belong To Us" have been reissued on this one cassette. Additionally, on the digital album side included are six never before heard practice demos from that era of the band before the aforementioned 2008 recording session took place. Limited to an edition of 25 black clamshell cassettes with full color printed labels and packaged in a full color glossy j-card that comes with a full color sticker and booklet.

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