Stephen Ulrich - Music From This American Life - VINYL LP

Malkmus breaks out his 12-string acoustic guitar and touches on half a century of folk-rock reference points on his new album. Of course, this is Stephen Malkmus of Pavement and those great records with the Jicks, so this might be rootsy but it's also fresh, unpredictable, infectious and imaginative InchACC Kirtan,Inch InchXian Man,Inch InchThe Greatest Own in Legal History,Inch InchCash UpInch and more tracks made with Matt Sweeney, Spooner Oldham and the Decembrists' Chris Funk. Vinyl! Matador. Album Tracks 1. Acc Kirtan 2. Xian Man 3. The Greatest Own in Legal History 4. Cash Up 5. Shadowbanned 1. What Kind of Person 2. Flowin' Robes 3. Brainwashed 4. Signal Western 5. Amberjack

Stephen Steinbrink - Utopia Teased [VINYL LP] Colored Vinyl, Green date 11/09/2018

Chicago-based contemporary electronic musician Steve Hauschildt has composed panoramas of synthesized sound for over a decade. First within his former band, Emeralds, an American touchstone of 2000s home-recorded psychedelic noise music, and later across a steady and critically-acclaimed stream of solo releases spanning ambient techno, arpeggiated electronica and post-kosmische styles utilizing synthesizers, computers, and digital processing. In 2018, he extended a collection of rich, visceral tracks titled Dissolvi, his first on Ghostly International and his most collaborative work to date. Just a year later, Hauschildt returns with Nonlin, an album that's freer, leaner, and looser, both structurally and conceptually; less linear compared to it's predecessor, but still captivating. Developed and recorded in several studios during and around the edges of tour - Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Tbilisi, and Brussels - this material emulates an alienating encounter with a smattering of places, a replicant of culture shock, a solitary and stark experience with uncanny environments, melody and dissonance as oblique locales. Nonlin finds Hauschildt evolving his palette of tools, integrating modular and granular synthesis. The improvisatory and generative nature of modular systems, when paired with his signature grid-oriented and hand-played techniques, guides these compositions slightly out of line to hypnotic effect. Opener InchCloudlossInch permeates the mix with an unsettling smog, which reappears and all but engulfs InchA Planet Left Behind.Inch On cuts like InchAttractor BInch and InchSubtractive Skies,Inch pockets of air rest between sequenced pulses, whose crumpling and flattening folds build into a restrained rapture of crisp frequencies and milky reverb-swallowed coruscations. The album's title track and centerpiece logs on to a foreign network, a fractured percu