Now Shipping: Avengers LP November 20 2015
First and only album from classic '77 San Francisco band, The Avengers' self-titled LP fuses incisive guitar hooks, explosive rhythms and adolescent venom. "The Pink Album" (as it's known) remains their definitive statement – collecting the seminal Dangerhouse EP, sessions recorded with Sex Pistols' Steve Jones and a half-dozen revelatory demos.
"The Avengers were a no-hyphen-required punk band of the most basic and brilliant variety." – Byron Coley
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Fall 2015 Releases (Part 2) September 18 2015
Our last batch of releases for the year is our most diverse yet! Spanning minimalism, dub, noise, electronics and punk.
Recorded during Ellen Fullman's 1985 residency at Het Apollohuis, The Long String Instrument LP documents the composer's self-made instrument of long strings and remains a major contribution to the histories of sound sculpture and minimalist composition. Recommended for fans of Pauline Oliveros, Charlemagne Palestine and Harry Bertoia. Pre-order here.
Scientist's 1980 debut LP, Introducing Scientist - The Best Dub Album in the World, lives up to its boastful title. Recorded with Sly & Robbie at Channel One Studio and mixed at King Tubby's, the album features hypnotic basslines, reverb-drenched keyboards, and fluid, start-stop rhythms. Ten classic tracks showcasing the very best of the dub form. Pre-order here.
Obliterating the lines between hardcore, noise and free jazz, the unclassifiable Harry Pussy were at once all of those things and none of them. Originally released on Siltbreeze in 1993, their self-titled debut LP reveals an antagonistic and visceral approach to music: Adris Hoyos' self-taught, wild-style drums and shrouded screams tangling with Bill Orcutt's high tension blues guitar. Pre-order here.
In the mid-1970s Parisian composer and multi-instrumentalist Thierry Muller began operating primarily under the Ilitch moniker. His debut album, Periodikmindtrouble, features gritty tape-loops, analog synth swells and angst-ridden guitars, while 10 Suicides explores a more art-damaged pop sensibility. These first-time vinyl reissues are recommended for fans of Fripp/Eno, Heldon and Chris & Cosey. Pre-order the first album here and the second album here.
San Francisco's The Avengers are classic '77 punk. As Byron Coley writes, "The Avengers were a no-hyphen-required punk band of the most basic and brilliant variety." Their first and only LP (better known as The Pink Album) remains their definitive statement – collecting their Dangerhouse EP, sessions recorded with Sex Pistols' Steve Jones and a half-dozen revelatory demos. Pre-order here.
Now Shipping: Avengers CD August 10 2015
Originally released in 1983, four years after the band's dissolution, The Avengers' self-titled LP is often referred to as "The Pink Album" for its magenta-hued cover design. Frontwoman Penelope Houston's iconic voice and razor-sharp lyrics resonate on anthems "We Are The One" and "The American In Me." This CD release features the original album tracks and 16-page booklet of photos and ephemera with new liner notes by Byron Coley. Get it here
Also, if you are in UK or Germany this Summer, be sure to check out The Avengers on tour. Dates listed here.
Coming Soon: The Avengers' Pink Album June 22 2015
In the late '70s, The Avengers established themselves as one of the US's preeminent punk bands. Fusing incisive guitar hooks, explosive rhythms and adolescent venom, the group forged some of the most in-your-face songs of the era.
The Pink Album remains The Avengers' definitive statement – collecting their classic Dangerhouse EP, sessions recorded with Sex Pistols' Steve Jones and a half-dozen revelatory demos. While much has been written about The Avengers in the past three decades, rock critic Greil Marcus puts it succinctly, "The word I always come back to is mystical, and that remains almost theirs alone."
This CD release features the original album tracks and 16-page booklet of photos and ephemera with new liner notes by Byron Coley.