Dead Oceans DURAND JONES & THE INDICATIONS American Love Call About the album Details Durand Jones & the Indications aren’t looking backwards. Helmed by foil CATALOG NUMBER: DOC177 vocalists in Durand Jones and drummer Aaron Frazer, the Indications conjure RELEASE DATE: March 1, 2019 the dynamism of Jackie Wilson, Curtis Mayfield, AND the Impressions. Even FORMAT: CD/Color LP GENRE: R&B / Soul with an aesthetic steeped in the golden, strings-infused dreaminess of early KEY MARKETS: Los Angeles, SF-Oakland-SJ, New York, ‘70s soul, the Indications’ sophomore LP, American Love Call, is planted Indianapolis, Cincinatti, Chicago, Portland, Austin, firmly in the present, with the urgency of this moment in time. Seattle TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: None The Indications’ 2016 self-titled debut was the product of friends who met VINYL NOT RETURNABLE as students at Indiana University in Bloomington, In., recorded for $452.11, including a case of beer. American Love Call, the band’s sophomore LP is instead the record the Indications dreamed of making, fleshed out with strings, backing vocals, and a newfound confidence in songwriting. CD UPC: LP UPC: DIGITAL UPC: Blending a slew of influences from years spent crate-digging, guitarist 656605147727 656605147734 656605147765 Blake Rhein says the Indications approach songs in the same way hip-hop producers do, as likely to pull inspiration from ‘70s folk-rock or classic R&B as they are Nas’ Illmatic. “Did I expect to do this shit once I got out of college? Hell no,” Jones relays, 6 56605 14772 7 6 56605 14773 4 6 56605 14776 5 laughing. “Totally not. But this is what God is telling me to do – move and groove. So I’m gonna stay in my lane.” Tracks Selling Points SIDE A: SIDE B: ~ First pressing on translucent orange vinyl 1. Morning in America 7. Walk Away ~ Co-branded release with Colemine Records 2. Don’t You Know (feat. Aaron Frazer) 8. What I Know About You ~ Strong history and focus on physical retail and sales 3. Circles (feat. Aaron Frazer) ~ Extensive global touring planned throughout 2019 4. Court of Love (feat. Aaron Frazer) 9. Listen to Your Heart ~ Extensive history with Noncomm Radio and comm A3 leaders 5. Long Way Home 10. Sea Gets Hotter (feat. Aaron Frazer) ~ Press/radio history includes: NPR Morning Edition, KEXP, Rolling Stone + 6. Too Many Tears (feat. Aaron Frazer) 11. How Can I Be Sure (feat. Aaron Frazer) more 12. True Love ABOUT THIS RECORD Even if you’ve never heard of Hugh Marsh you’ve almost certainly heard the sound of his violin. He’s a featured player on soundtracks by Hans Zimmer and Harry Gregson-Williams, was nominated for a Juno award, recorded with Iggy Pop and The Stooges, and was in the backing band for Bauhaus’ Peter Murphy, all a tiny fraction of his decades-long list of credits. The latest addition to that list is Marsh’s own Violinvocations, an LP recorded while Marsh lived in L.A. with friend, TRACK LIST mentor, and fellow soundbender Jon Hassell. 01 I Laid Down In The Snow 6:35 Despite the album’s title, one would be hard-pressed to say with certainty wheth- 02 Miku Murmuration 8:11 er violin was even involved in this album without being told so ahead of time. In 03 Thirtysix Hundred Grandview 7:15 one moment a ghost is heard weeping into a dictaphone; a digitized anime 04 The Rain Gambler 4:51 character is nervously chattering in the next; and in still another, jagged sheets of 05 A Beautiful Mistake 3:09 distortion avalanche toward the listener beneath auroric swells of harmony. It’s 06 Da Solo Non Solitaro 6:13 the kind of sound design that requires a dedicated attempt by any Oneohtrixian 07 Across The Aether 4:49 laptop composer, only it’s all being generated by Marsh’s violin and his curious 08 She Will 9:21 cabinet of effects pedals often in just one take. SELLING POINTS PRESS QUOTES • Marsh was nominated for a 2007 Juno Award in the best contemporary jazz album. "...a virtual tornado of music...only listening on headphones can do it • Marsh is a four-time winner of the Jazz Report Award for violinist of the year and a justice." three-time recipient of the National Jazz Award for violinist of the year. – All Music • Marsh has been a featured player on numerous soundtracks including The Da Vinci Code, Armageddon, and The Chronicles of Narnia. "...a rare accomplishment-a painstaking- ly detailed statement...simultaneously • Marsh has worked with Iggy Pop, Robert Palmer, Peter Murphy, Jon Hassell, Hans original, virtuosic and engaging." Zimmer, Harry Gregson Williams, and many others. – Jazz Times • Limited edition blue vinyl CD 843563103586 LP-C1 843563103579 8 43563 10358 6 8 43563 10357 9 Release Date Formats Packaging R eturn Policy FEBRUARY 15,2019 CD / LP-C1 LP JACKET / CD WALLET VINYL IS NON-RETURNABLE Catalog Number Genre Export Restrictions WV178 EXPERIMENTAL / ELECTRONIC NONE WESTERN VINYL AUSTIN, TEXAS Spellling Mazy Fly track listing: 1 Red (2:14) 2 Haunted Water (4:47) 3 Hard to Please (2:08) 4 Golden Numbers (2:45) 5 Melted Wings (1:53) 6 Under the Sun (5:56) 7 Real Fun (3:34) 8 Hard to Please (Reprise) (3:35) 9 Afterlife (5:25) 10 Dirty Desert Dreams (2:33) 11 Secret Thread (5:07) 12 Falling Asleep (2:46) key information / selling Points: Hometown / Key Markets: • Berkeley, California; San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, Portland, Austin Selling Points / Key Press: • Bandcamp named her debut album Pantheon of Me their #4 album of 2017 Mazy Fly, the second full-length by the Bay Area artist SPELLLING, explores the •“Hard to Please” was a Best Track in The Guardian, who tension between the thrill of exploring the unknown and the terror of imminent wrote that the song who said the song was “like Solange destruction. Chrystia Cabral spent the summer of 2018 in her Berkeley studio looking in a haunted mirror.” reflecting on the thresholds of human progress and longing for a new and better • Extensive touring planned for 2019 following 2018 tomorrow. She was struck by the way the same technologies that have given performances at Northside Festival and Basilica humans the ability to achieve utopian dreams of discovery have also brought the Soundscape world to the precipice of dystopic global devastation. Despite the darkness of this reality, Mazy Fly is defiantly optimistic. It is a celestial voyage into the unknown, Related Catalog: piloted by Cabral. • SBR-210 Spellling Hard to Please 7" Each song on Mazy Fly enshrines distinct sentiments within this imagined voyage, RiYL: Solange, serpentwithfeet, Frank Ocean, Blood from the deeply personal (“Hard to Please Reprise”) to the cosmic (aliens travel Orange, Jenny Hval, FKA twigs to Earth to hear music on “Real Fun”). “Haunted Water” is an intensely heavy song about the memories of colonial violence that haunt the historical slave ship catalog #: sbr-221 routes of the Middle Passage. “Under the Sun” is a cosmic prayer for good fortune genre: Alternative/R&B/Soul that sees the potential for radical newness in our own lives in the births of stars. release Date: 2-22-2018 cD available formats: cD, lP Mazy Fly musically traverses the spaces between languid, honey-soaked vocals and UPc-cD: 843563110133 distant angelic whispers, from thumping 808 club beats to crunching tape loops, UPc-lP: 843563110119 and from silky, smooth R&B to whirling organ sonatas. Cabral became enamored UPc-lP-c1: 843563110126 lP by the idea of flight as a harbinger of both progress and apocalypse, and that not exPortable was expressed in the textures and compositional techniques she utilized. Swarms, vinyl is not retUrnable flocks, flies, angels, spaceships, flying saucers – all are represented sonically by Cabral and her Juno-106 synthesizer. label contact: blUe vinyl lP Sacred Bones Records “Secret Thread” is the key to this motif, and the heart of Mazy Fly. When Cabral 144 N. 7th Street #413 saw her puppy Cooper running gracefully around an open field, she imagined Brooklyn, NY 11211 a winged spirit moving through her new music. She named the spirit, and the [email protected] album, Mazy Fly. JAMES YORKSTON THE ROUTE TO THE HARMONIUM Tracklisting 1. Your Beauty Could Not Save You 2. The Irish Wars of Independence 3. Like Bees to Foxglove 4. Shallow 5. The Blue of the Thistle 6. My Mount Ain’t No Bible 7.Solitary Islands All OVERVIEW 8. The Villages I Have Known My James Yorkston will release his new album The Route to the Harmonium on Feb 22nd 2019; Entire Life produced by Yorkston and David Wrench, it is James’ first solo record since 2014’s Cellardyke 9. Oh Me, Oh My Recording and Wassailing Society (CRAWS) and follows the two collaborative albums he made 10. Brittle as one third of Yorkston/Thorne/Khan as well as the release of his debut novel Three Craws 11. Yorkston Athletic in 2016. 12. A Footnote to an Epitaph The album was almost entirely recorded by James himself, in the small Scottish fishing village of Cellardyke, where he lives. Having created hours of recordings, James called up his old collaborator David Wrench - the mixer and producer who has worked with the likes Catalog Number WIG425 of Caribou, Four Tet, Frank Ocean, FKA Twigs and David Byrne - and someone who has worked on James’ albums since 2003 – to help make sense of the sessions. RELEASE DATE February 22nd, 2019 The Route to the Harmonium (or, ‘the search for peace’) is intensely personal; it’s the sound File Under Alternative “Y” of home, of undisturbed craftmanship.