Communist Daughter - Cracks That Built The Wall - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Vinyl LP pressing. 2016 . Communist Daughter returns with their sophomore album. They've garnered far flung praise from top media outlets such as The Fader, Noisey/Vice, Consequence Of Sound, Paste, etc.. The band has toured the country many times over, and charted on the college radio . Chicago Sun Times calls the band Incha more down-to-earth Arcade Fire and a more gripping Of Monsters and Men while nicely filling the void left by The Civil WarsInch. Communist Daughter was founded in 2009 by singer and songwriter Johnny Solomon in Prescott, Wisconsin. Solomon moved from Saint Paul to Prescott in 2007 after the breakup of his marriage and his band Friends Like These due to addiction, mental health issues, and a spell in jail. There he took over the Boxcar restaurant, and began writing and recording under the Communist Daughter moniker, taking the name from a Neutral Milk Hotel song. Album Tracks 1. Hold Back 2. Strange 3. Beach Stalker 4. Roll a Stone 5. Keep Moving 6. BB Gun 7. The Dealer 8. Balboa Bridge 9. All Lit Up 10. The Killing Time 11. Sunday Morning Again

One Little Indian Records are proud to announce that we'll now be distributing the Crass Catalogue on behalf of Crass Records. The album has been remastered by Alex Gordon and Penny Rimbaud at Abbey Road Studios as close as possible to the sound of the original Inchas it was in the beginningInch. Album Tracks 1. Mother Earth 2. White Punks on Hope 3. You've Got Big Hands 4. Darling 5. System 6. Big Man, Big M.A.N 7. Hurry Up Garry 8. Fun Going on 9. Crutch of Society 10. Heard Too Much About 11. Chairman of the Bored 12. Tired 13. Walls 14. Upright Citizen 15. The Gasman Cometh 16. Demoncrats 17. Contaminational Power 18. Time Out 19. I Ain't Thick, It's Just a Trick 20. Untitled 21. System 22. Big Man, Big M.A.N 23. Banned from the Roxy 24. Hurry Up Garry 25. Time Out 26. They've Got a Bomb 27. Fight War, Not Wars 28. Women 29. Shaved Women 30. You Pay 31. Heard Too Much About 32. Angels 33. What a Shame 34. So What 35. G's Song 36. Do They Owe Us a Living? 37. Punk Is Dead

Crack Cloud has always been something beyond a rock band bothprofound and grand, vaporous and elusive.The first iteration of Crack Cloud was formed nearly a decade ago as aproxy-rehab outlet on the fringes of Calgary. Over time, two EPs andaccompanying visual pieces were produced out of the residence knownas Red Mile. By 2017, several members had relocated to Vancouver,working out of harm reduction centers and low-barrier shelters. Sobriety,self-reformation and the idealism of their work further formed an ethosfor Crack Cloud. It was during these years that the band produced theirastounding 2020 album Pain Olympics. At once, their vision becameexpansive, cinematic.Now, Red Mile is a bit of a homecoming. Members have returned toCalgary. But Calgary/home has become a liminal space, a place of flux.After a decade of personal and collective growth, what does home evenmean? Red Mile is, for them, something like samsara a return and arebirth.Red Mile's sound breathes expansive energy into the circuitous, streetbound sonics of Crack Cloud's prior material. Fizzling synths intertwinewith chiming pianos. Songs layer like Russian nesting dolls; one may finda Ramones chorus set within a desolate Western prog soundtrack only towatch it erupt into a joyous anthem. Real-ass guitars - alternately lilting,scuzzy and soaring - ring out across wide sun-bleached spaces. In 2024,the cumulative effect is (in rock instrumentation terms) naturalistic. Anywhiff of embalmed nostalgia is absent. Even the close of the album - awinding, alllllmost Jerry Garcia guitar noodle that leads us out of Red Mile- is delivered without sentimentality. Principal songwriter Zach Choy'slyrics are cutting but merciful, with a sharp self awareness that neverslides into self-satisfaction. Crack Cloud as artists are critical - andultimately as forgiving - of themselves as they are the melting worldaround them.