Michael Hurley - Bad Mr. Mike - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. Hailing from the northern California town of Davis, Thin White Rope was unfathomably pegged as a proponent of the paisley underground movement. The songs the group covered over the course of their ten-year career is far more revealing Suicide, The Stooges, Lee Hazlewood, Marty Robbins, Can, and Roky Erickson have all been rendered by the band in the studio and on-stage. That list goes a long way in explaining the mixture of raw, angular riffs, southern twang, and psychedelia. Frontier Records has digitally remastered Thin White Rope's first five records for LP and CD, and is reissuing them on vinyl for the first time in decades.

Recorded 1965 - 72 on a mono WollensakComprised of songs Michael recorded for a second Folkways LP that never came to be, as well as songs from an ill-fated ESP-Disk demo, this is some of our very favorite Hurley work. Spare, warm, haunting home recordings of tracks that became staples later in his career. You can follow the leaps and twists in songwriting and guitar playing as Hurley grows into the artist we know today. Essential!credits

Hailing from Chelmsford Essex in the UK, Gold Panda's journey from his meteoric rise on his first album to now is entirely circular. In the six years since the of his genre-defining debut album Lucky Shiner, the electronic artist most comfortable with the moniker Derwin Panda spent the subsequent years splitting the majority of his time between London, Berlin and countless excursions to Japan. As he created his new, third album Good Luck And Do Your Best he ultimately found himself back where he began, in the East of England. Whereas his second album Half Of Where You Live was occasionally taut, perhaps harder and more piecing, the 11 songs that comprise Good Luck And Do Your Best have a distinctly warmer palate, one that echoes Lucky Shiner a little more. Now with a clearer range of sounds, Gold Panda has found a more cohesive vision, one where Inchthe tracks aren't popping out against each other. It's a complete record. Inch