Sam Salmon - DOWN FOR LIFE - VINYL LP

Sam Salmon & the Grand Manan Bandits is a bare-bones country band made up of beloved Canadian alt-rock band Motherhood and Inchdelta doomInch guitarist Keith Hallett (Echodelick Records)DOWN FOR LIFE features foot-stompin' tracks like InchNo One Likes Losing,Inch a self-deprecating look at being competitive yet never managing to get ahead, InchWaste Your Time,Inch about the confusion of suddenly losing someone you love, as well as a reflection on familial personality traits, and InchIf I Needed You Now,Inch showcasing country music at it's finest - three chords and the truth. Or, in this case, two chords. Sam Salmon & the Grand Manan Bandits features Penelope Stevens (bass/vocals), Brydon Crain (vocals/guitar), Keith Hallet (lead guitar, console steel), and Adam Sipkema (drums). DOWN FOR LIFE also marks a trifecta of releases this year from Motherhood Music Inc., following the band's Inchwildly entertaining!Inch (Bandcamp) fifth album Thunder Perfect Mind and side-project Penny & the Pits' Inchdelicate and demandingInch (LOUD Women) debut Liquid Compactor.A1. If I Needed You NowA2. No One Likes LosingA3. A Cowboy's WorkA4. GreasyA5. 600 DegreesB1. Kissing GoodbyeB2. Waste Your TimeB3. WorriedB4. Real EvilB5. ThirstyB6. Sam Salmon Anthem

Portland based producer / synthesist Daryl Groetsch composes music under the moniker Pulse Emitter. Channeling his love and mastery of styles ranging from new age to Berlin school kosmische to drone to progressive electronic music to noise akin to junk floating through deep space, Groetsch crafts emotionally resonant synth pieces teeming with diverse melodic architectures and textural details. A mainstay of the American experimental underground for over two decades, he has released dozens of albums of his exploratory and ever-evolving output as Pulse Emitter. Tide Pools, Groetsch's new LP on Hausu Mountain, follows the relatively more languid ambient strains of his work found on Swirlings (HAUSMO92 - 2020) and Dusk (HAUSMO128 - 2022) with a dizzying excursion into kinetic rhythms and fast-morphing song structures. Groetsch himself describes the album as an attempt Inchto explore the deep emotions possible from jazz harmony, manifest the rhythmic complexity always chattering around in my head, and push my music somewhere I haven't.InchPulse Emitter's goal to actively complicate the mood of Tide Pools beyond a single overarching atmosphere results in some of his most dynamic and emotive work to date, as we follow the album's winding narrative through it's diverse chapters and shifts in energy. The album teems with rapid-fire arpeggios and labyrinthine melodies as Groetsch lays out intricate webs of shifting chords and changes tempos between passages, laying out a series of distinct environments that we watch unfold from the shoreline. Though it rarely breaks into any legible drum beats, relying on the percussive tones of his synthesizers alone to sketch out his ornate rhythms, the album channels the forward motion of IDM and prog rock as much as the harmonies and irregular time signatures found in jazz fusion, translating ideas from these traditions into the frameworks

Vinyl LP pressing. 2016 . Megadeth storm back onto the scene with their 15th studio album, Dystopia. With musical architect and band visionary Dave Mustaine at the helm, Dystopia was recorded in Nashville, TN, and mixed by Josh Wilbur (Lamb of God, Gojira, Avenged Sevenfold). Featuring 11 brand new tracks, Dystopia weaves together Dave Mustaine's intricate and unique songwriting style, trademark leads and lightning riffs, paying homage to Megadeth's influential roots while continuing to break new and heavy ground.