My Bloody Moratorium

Firstly, I'm sorry for the blog delay. I am the father, who has abandoned his child. Now, can we play catch again?

thank you, so very much, all ye faithful children - Bobby and Dera, you have my love.

As Bobby has been posting the most fresh and recent music, I shall now go for, a finely aged youtube song - mind the mold.



This song isn't on Loveless, so maybe you haven't heard it yet... Apparently this song is about oral sex, but the kids running around my store don't seem to notice.

I have no idea who's reading this, and it's kind of like typing into a void

Arp - "White Light"

Here's a fantastic little jam for you. Warm Velvet Underground guitar loop coupled with Faust-ian dicking around. There's something absolutely perfect and endlessly listenable to this gem. Solo project from a member of Tussle. The album "The Soft Wave" (pictured above) comes out 9/7 on Smalltown Supersound.

The Books - "A Cold Freezin' Night"

Musique concrète at its absolute-poppiest. The new Books album , The Way Out, is due out July 10th and will be the band's first album on Temporary Residence. Let's hope it's a return to form for the band.

"Why do you always get away with these things? I'm gonna kill you; so you'll stay alive as long as I want you to, so I can kill you.... Probably by cutting your toes off, and working my way up to your brain."

Ulf Lohmann - "Because Before"

There will always be a special place in my heart for Kompakt's trademarked Pop Ambient compilations. Known more for European minimal techno/house music, the Pop Ambient series allows a handful of the less prolific artists on the Kompakt roster a chance to showcase their brand of "poppy" ambient music.

I just stumbled across this full length by one of the usual names tapped for the series. Never heard an album by Ulf before, but I'm really enjoying this one... The cover art equally blows and rules at the same time...

Warm Ghost Tracks

I'm not sure why I didn't post links to the new Geographic North material on here sooner. We just released the debut EP by Paul Duncan's new electronic/atmospheric pop project, also known as Warm Ghost. The Claws Overhead EP is almost a completely new direction for Paul, as his previous releases were rooted more in the folk world. The new sound is somewhere between Solid Space, OMD, AFX, and Fennesz. I know those "sounds like" descriptions are either entirely misleading or downright false, but I figured I'd give it a shot.

Paul's new songs are the result of recent collaborations with drone/"sound" artists such as Oren Ambarchi and David Daniell. The Claws Overhead EP is limited to 500-copies on white vinyl, with artwork designed by Geographic North, and includes a download code for the album's songs and exclusive remixes by Ekkehard Ehlers, David Daniell, Ateleia and Oren Ambarchi.

Song from the EP - "Open the Wormhole in Your Heart"
Open the Wormhole in Your Heart by GeoNorth

Warm Ghost remix of Bear in Heaven's "Ultimate Satisfaction"
Bear in Heaven - Ultimate Satisfaction (Warm Ghost mix) by GeoNorth

Emeralds - "Now You See Me"

It's taken me several weeks of passing the new Emeralds off to finally give it a serious listen. "Drone" albums that come out of nowhere and somehow top EVERY single current list of online music magazines, record store lists, etc... just don't rub me the right way. It's nothing like "It's popular, so I won't like it" or anything like that.

Anyway, I gave the new one, "Does it Look Like I'm Here?" a listen and absolutely love it. There's some serious channeling of the analog Cluster/Eno collaboration-vibes going on here.

Felt - Primitive Painters

Summertime bliss in this one. Robin Guthrie, of Cocteau Twins, producing. Elizabeth Fraser, of Cocteau Twins, on back-up vocals.

(disregard boring video; the audio is key)