Anthony Reynolds - A Painter's Life - VINYL LP

Impasse - Richard Buckner - Deluxe/Limited/Special Edition The words are entrancingly cryptic, as if their simplicity conceals unfathomable depths. The music is sparse, almost whispered at times, like a secret. The title gives everything away, though. During the gestation of his 2002 album Impasse, which will receive a new vinyl pressing from Merge Records on March 31, 2017, Richard Buckner was stuck. But, with perseverance, what began as one of his most troubled recording attempts ended as one of his best and most pivotal-a capstone for his wayfaring early period before he planted roots with Merge. In 1999, Buckner spent a week in a recording studio with a producer and a few other musicians to work on the songs that were supposed to become Impasse, but the session failed. Instead, he went home and recorded The Hill Inchas a kind of creative catalyst so I could start thinking again, Inch he says. On it, Buckner sang poems from Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology over warm, splintery country-folk, outwardly simple and interiorly ornate. Around the time that The Hill was released in 2000, Buckner was finishing his second pass at Impasse. He was living in a loop, traveling back and forth on temporary work visas between the states and Canada, where he was living at the time. He bought a 24-track digital recorder, an eighties Roland synthesizer, and an Echoplex tape-delay unit then spent the next year tracking in his Alberta basement with a live-in drummer. A sense that he needed to purge the songs and finish the album turned out to be prescient. InchI felt like I was at an impasse, like every direction was either a corner or a dead end, Inch Buckner says. InchI was in between countries and, without really knowing it at the time, getting ready to leave everything.Inch The album was conceived as a faceted whole. It's lyrics are like scattered snapshots and torn-up let

Anthony Family - Live From An Ordinary Place [VINYL LP] Colored Vinyl date 08/01/2025

From the depth of in Iceland's Reykjavik Nyrst has forged a new blackened creation by the name InchVöldInch, an album that pays homage to the immense volcanoes of Iceland. With InchVöldInch which roughly translates to InchForce, power or mightInch, Nyrst conjures forth music with the unrelenting and unforgiving harshness that the forces of nature have wrought upon every living being in their land through the ages. Written and rehearsed only a few kilometres from a lava spewing active volcano, they sought inspiration in the beauty and perilousness danger of the stark and chaotic surroundings, wishing to portray their material accordingly. For fans of Immortal, Misþyrming, Sinmara, Almyrkvi, Auðn, Svartidauði, Mgla, Bathory. Supreme Icelandic black metal from the grottos in Reykjavík