Beat in - Beat In - VINYL LP

Double vinyl LP pressing including bonus track. The second album from New York City's Bowery Electric was released in late 1996, less than 15 months after their self-titled debut, but it found them having traveled light years musically in the interim, the group having seemingly decided to see how far they could take the guitar/bass/drums/vocal setup into the atmosphere. Every aspect of their approach had been refined and focused squalling, distorted guitars had been transformed into hazy, sensual sheets; the live drums transmuted to sampled rhythms more in debt to the blossoming downtempo sound of the day; bass lines reduced to their most basic diagrams; vocals submerged to become one with the narcotized fog of the instruments; even the lyrics were reduced to a few minimal lines used sparingly so as not to overshadow the dynamic. Beat is a rich and dense mantra of shadowy percussion, barely-there vocals and immersive drones that envelops the listener in an opiated blanket of sound. Includes the bonus track InchLow Density,Inch not featured on the original U.S. .

Danny Lee Blackwell's Night Beats released their self-titled debut album back in 2011 and 2024 sees a long-overdue vinyl reissue hit the racks courtesy of UK tag Fuzz Club. An acid-drenched modern garage-rock classic in the Texan thirteenth-floor tradition, the band's R&B-inspired Western Psychedelic sound on this 12-track set is a reckoning, a shoot-out at dawn, the ear-splitting peel-out that leaves nothing but a cloud of red dust in it's wake. Following early releases in the shape of the 'H-Bomb' 45 and a split 10Inch with UFO Club (a collaborative project between Blackwell and The Black Angels' Christian Bland), the 'Night Beats' LP was the first full-length introduction to the band and propelled them to the forefront of burgeoning contemporary psych scene in a blaze of scuzzy rock'n'roll . Heavy touring immediately ensued and hasn't let up in the years that followed, and the definitive Night Beats hit 'Puppet On A String' has since clocked up millions of streams and become the soundtrack to an underground, fuzz-worshipping generation.

FRIENDSHIP COMMANDERS are not just any band within the wider musical cosmos of heavy rock and stoner metal. Artistic excellence, reflected in the two Grammy wins of singer, songwriter, and guitarist Buick Audra as well as the status of drummer and bass player Jerry Roe as one of the world's most sought after studio percussionists, paired with outstanding lyrical intelligence have once again flown together organically to shape their forthcoming album InchBEARInch. InchBEARInch was written around the realization that Buick Audra had essentially been kicked out of womanhood. This album is a documentation of her awareness also while cataloguing other areas of human connection art, outsider culture, and dark rock venues Inch all places where empathy and creativity grow wild. Audra and Jerry Roe arranged the fourth FRIENDSHIP COMMANDERS album to have two distinct sides, musically heavy and light, salt and sugar, fire and air, lost and found. Although hailing from Nashville, Tennessee these denizens of the 'Music City' kindly beg to differ. FRIENDSHIP COMMANDERS' sound draws from sludge, doom, heavy metal, and grunge with roots in punk and hardcore, among other guitar driven styles. InchBEARInch, like it's predecessor InchMASSInch, was co-produced by band members Buick Audra and Jerry Roe. The duo returned to Salem once more to work alongside longtime collaborator, Kurt Ballou, who also tracked the instrumental performances and mixed the record. As a result, the songs' huge range of musical ideas and expressions are unified in sound as well as in theme, which runs throughout the record in various ways the ever-elusive idea of belonging, where it occurs, and where it absolutely does not. With InchBEARInch, FRIENDSHIP COMMANDERS present a rare sparkling gem of an album, heavy yet captivating, shiny yet dark, and songs that brim with meaning. InchBEARInch is easy to get into