Sunday, February 3, 2019
Saturday, February 2, 2019
[LISTEN] Brown Acid // "The Eighth Trip" Compilation
The forthcoming latest edition of the popular compilation series of long-lost vintage 60s-70s proto-metal and stoner rock singles, Brown Acid: The Eighth Trip, is set for release on April 20th, 2019. The series is curated by L.A. label RidingEasy Records and retailer/label Permanent Records.
The Eighth Trip:
The hard stuff saga continues with Brown Acid - The Eighth Trip! Yet again, we’ve searched high and low to bring you ten tracks of straight blue flame fire from the golden age of heaviness. As usual, these rare tracks have been carefully curated, analogically sourced, and fully licensed so you can listen guilt- free and save a lot of time and money tracking down the original copies.
Brown Acid: The Eighth Trip will be available everywhere on LP, CD and download on April 20th, 2019 via RidingEasy Records.
THE ORDER X ASRAI
THE ORDER will be the featured clothing line for Asrai Garden's first 2019 trunk show! Shop our AW18 collection amongst an enchanting paradise of floral, apothecary and curiously beautiful wares at their gorgeous new location at the Ace Hotel.
S I P S + S O U N D S
Sounds by DJ Heather Gabel + sips by Breathru Beverage
D E T A I L S
02.08.19 // 5 - 8pm // 309 N. Morgan\
CHICAGO
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Ritual Howls // 2009 - 2019 (Hardcover Book) + Alone Together
This is a 40-page, black hardcover book made exclusively for our webstore & tour merch table.
The book includes all lyrics from every Ritual Howls full-length album to date (Self-Titled, Turkish Leather, Into The Water, Their Body, Rendered Armor), photos and images taken over the years.
This book is also available in two (2) bundles (book + vinyl) attached to the album, Rendered Armor. Go here for more details on that: ritualhowls.bandcamp.com/album/ritual-howls-rendered-armor
Ritual Howls create a cinematic blend of twangy industrial-rock that could fuel a post-apocalyptic dancefloor. A collaboration between Paul Bancell (vocals, guitar), Chris Samuels (synth, samples, drum machine), and Ben Saginaw (bass), the Detroit trio's fourth full-length Rendered Armor follows the 'Their Body' EP of 2018 with expansive arrangements sculpted with masterful production.
Throughout 'Rendered Armor' familiar influences reveal themselves, but the band doesn’t rely on derivative imitation. Instead, Ritual Howls forge haunting atmospheres that are all their own, reaching into unexpected sonic domain. Each track unfolds with unnerving anticipation, as if sound tracking a chase scene in a surrealist western film. Bancell delivers his baritone above a jangling guitar like an incantation, evoking macabre, religious imagery laden with futuristic undertones. Propelled by Saginaw's often fuzzed-out bass and Samuels' dance club-friendly rhythms, it's no surprise that the band hails from the techno capital of the US.
Opening the album with a gloomy country-tinged guitar hook, "Alone Together" sets an ominous tone as Bancell narrates a love story in a doomed world, colored by a glassy synth that sounds as if it were summoned from a horror movie. A sense of longing pervades "Thought Talk" with its subdued, hi-hat accented tempo, spacious bass line and reverb soaked guitars that ring out with melancholy. Ritual Howls' most mature offering to date, 'Rendered Armor' finds the band further carving out their own eclectic mix of organic instrumentation and pulsing electronics, distinguishing them as a unique force in the current landscape of underground music.
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Releases March 22, 2019
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