Guardian Singles - Feed Me To The Doves - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. 2021 . Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band - aka Yves Jarvis and Romy Lightman - are a pair of idiosyncratic and restlessly creative artists. In the past decade, Jarvis's ever-expanding swatch of releases on ANTI- Records and Flemish Eye have earned international acclaim, while Lightman's twin-sister-led band Tasseomancy has transfixed listeners since the late 2000s. Their debut album Banned marks the duo's first collaboration, sling shotting both musicians out of their comfort zones into spellbinding territories of lysergic folk and impressionistic rock. Banned was recorded in the tranquil environment of the Tree Museum, an outdoor art gallery in rural Ontario hosting residencies for contemporary sculptors over the past 20 years. The pair credit it's 200 acres of natural spaces intermingling with human-made creations as the fuel for their unfettered process. Recorded over two weeks in a free-flowing stream of improvisation, the album finds Lightman on synthesizer with Jarvis on drums and guitar, as their voices weave together into an electrified pastoral tapestry.

Guardian Singles hail from Auckland, New Zealand, home to (among many things) storied tag Flying Nun & just about every great indie band of the last century. After seeing the band's livestream from Auckland for Gonerfest 17 in fall of 2020, Trouble In Mind is honored to welcome the band to the roster & reissue their excellent 2020 self-titled album outside of New Zealand for the first time.Formed in 2015, by Thom Burton on guitar (SoccerPractise, Moppy) and Fiona Campbell on drums (Vivian Girls, Coolies), the band hit the ground running, supporting touring bands in New Zealand like METZ, slots on the Chronophonium festival & tours in Australia. The band had recorded what would become their debut album in early 2018, simply as Campbell puts it InchWe just wanted good versions of the songs in our live set we were playing at the time.Inch The addition of Yolanda Fagan on bass (Na Noise, Echo Ohs) and Durham Fenwick on lead guitar (Green Grove) solidified the current lineup in late-2018, and Auckland tag Moral Support released it in a micro-edition of 150 copies in the spring of 2020. The debut album packs a wallop; driving guitar lines dance across the rhythm sections propulsive throb hearkening back to greats like Mission of Burma, The Wipers & The Sound. Opener InchTea Lights ExplodingInch does just that, with an instantly memorable hook & sticky guitar line written as Burton explains as Incha sort of InchF**k youInch to a certain kind of pervasive rape culture and culturally lobotomized idea of masculinity that I was seeing too much ofInch, followed by the moody InchBeing AloneInch. InchRoll UndeadInch is next, with it's persistent shuffle springing forth over a synth-siren before breaking open into an anthemic howl of a chorus. Side one closes with the crunchy stutter-step of InchNever Gonna See The Rain AgainInch. Side two doesn't let up, with aptly-titled opener In

Auckland, New Zealand post-punk group Guardian Singles return to Trouble In Mind for their follow-up to 2021's debut with InchFeed Me To The DovesInch, a ten-track socio-political burner addressing our collective spiritual chaos that pulls influence from across the history of punk & permeates it into something decidedly Aotearoan & uniquely their own in ways that are both personal & universal. InchFeed Me To The DovesInch is the first album to feature the current, long-standing lineup of Thom Burton (guitar, vocals), Fiona Campbell (drums), Yolanda Fagan (bass), and Durham Fenwick (lead guitar). The band has been playing live together now for a few years & it shows. The songs herein vary from the deeply personal, to sketches or postcards, as Burton says Inch... scribbled while watching the dregs of a delirious culture war play out through broken smartphones and praline vape clouds.Inch Expertly recorded at Neil Finn's Roundhead Studios in Auckland by engineer Steven Marr, who Burton says had a Inchgreat sense of being able to keep the urgency of the songs while adding lushness and keeping things sounding like they're about to break at any secondInch. Marr helped turn the album's scrappy beginnings into something more cohesive and beautiful.