RECENT RELEASES

The Koffin Kats
Our Way & The Highway
Sailor’s Grave Records

After over eight years of international touring and 1,000+ shows, the Detroit-based Koffin Kats’ new home is on the road. Koffin Kats take the Motor City attitude and mix it into a toxic blend of hair grease, tattoos, and psychobilly punk ‘n’ roll. The trio kicked it off in June 2003, putting together songs with subjects ranging from sci-fi to dealing with the horrors of the real world. In recent years they have made a name for themselves in the US & Europe, included on tours with top psychobilly acts such as Mad Sin, Nekromantix, and The Meteors. Now the Koffin Kats have signed with Sailors Grave Records for the release of Our Way & The Highway, with their rich history, road scars, and outlaw-psycho punk blood running furiously through every ear-ripping track.

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mind.in.a.box
Revelations
Metropolis Records

In the world of mind.in.a.box, imprisoned minds are generally unaware of their confinement. It is a metaphor for everything that prevents our minds from truly being free, from the shackles of everyday life to the fundamental feeling of solitude in an increasingly self-centered world. With Revelations, MIAB once again takes us into the world it has created as voices, lush sounds, and elaborate rhythms blend into a staggering sonic mélange.

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Candy Claws & Mike Adams At His Honest Weight
Sing Starflyer 59
Crossroads Of America

When Candy Claws and Mike Adams At His Honest Weight realized they shared a primary influence in cult favorites Starflyer 59, it made sense for the two critically acclaimed acts to record a couple of SF59 classics for this limited edition split 10” record. Each unique interpretation of these nearly 20-year-old songs brings an invigorating freshness that makes the covers essential works in their own right, whether you are a die-hard Starflyer completist or are hearing their songs for the very first time.

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SUNBEARS!
You Will Live Forever
New Granada

An indie/psychedelic pop duo hailing from Jacksonville, SUNBEARS! were selected as one of the Best Unsigned Bands by Alternative Press, recorded a song for hit children’s TV show Yo Gabba Gabba, and performed several dates on the southeast tour of YGG’s “Super Music Friends Show.” Their amazing live show and the sheer joy that their songs exude have put SUNBEARS! in high demand on the road, with support slots on national tours with Mates of State (Barsuk), Black Kids (Columbia Records), Dredg, and Gil Mantera’s Party Dream.

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Mi and L’au
If Beauty is a Crime
Important Records

After exploring their creative impulses through strings, horns, pianos, and varied folk influences, Mi and L’au decided to venture into a newer, more electric environment on their newest record. If Beauty is a Crime doesn’t feature a single guitar. In fact, you won’t find a traditional instrument anywhere on it. The simple, stripped-down sound for which they’ve become so well known is transformed on this latest album, shaped unexpectedly by circuits, programs, and mechanical processes.

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Victor Villarreal
Invisible Cinema
Joyful Noise Recordings

The first proper solo full-length from Cap’n Jazz mastermind guitarist Victor Villareal. Limited to 250 hand-numbered copies on clear vinyl, this album embodies Villareal’s innovative, otherworldly guitar style. The music ranges from lush indie rock slow dance (“Enters”) to meditative percussive drone (“Out Of My Hands”) to what Victor does best: how-the-fuck-did-he-possibly-play-that-on-one-instrument-andwhat- the-hell-is-the-time-signature acoustic guitar work.

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“Blue” Gene Tyranny
Detours
Unseen Worlds

Detours is “Blue” Gene Tyranny’s first album of new piano works since 2003’s Grammy-nominated Take Your Time. A beautifully recorded collection of tracks composed between 2004 and 2010, Detours belongs to a rarefied class of supremely listenable and beautiful piano albums that are not encumbered by any new-age shabbiness. It possesses the sort of timeless and elegant romanticism, so unpretentious and accomplished, that it seems to effortlessly canonize itself.

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The Peoples Republic of Europe
Machine District
Vendetta Music

After the acclaimed Babylon and the ambient Solipsism, tPROE is back at the forefront of industrial music with new album Machine District. Though not a concept album, this record fits in well with the critical, libertarian, and trans-humanist views for which tPROE is known. Machine District holds 12 tracks, with plenty of stompy technoid industrial as well as some surprises, including the Skinny Puppy-meets-George Clinton track “Automation Test” and the Witchhouse-sounding “Stay Behind” (written with Dead Hand Projekt). This is the soundtrack for a world where Skynet or the Cylons are the masters.

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