Sun Atoms - Ceiling Tiles/Tower of Song (in the Key of Jamc) - 7-INCH SINGLE [7 inch Vinyl Disc]

Vinyl LP pressing. Mute is excited to announce the reissue of experimental duo hackedepicciotto's second studio album Perseverantia. Hackedepicciotto are married couple Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto. Both are legends of their own making Danielle the lead singer of the band Space Cowboys and the coinitiator of the Love Parade, and Alexander a founding member of the seminal German group Einstu¨rzende Neubauten, known for working with the likes of Crime & the City Solution (1987 - 1991) and Phew. Perseverantia, meaning endurance and persistence, was recorded in the California Mojave desert and originally released in 2016. The album unveils the essence of the duo's truisms, with mesmerizing soundscapes created by Alexander's throat-singing, the hypnotic hurdy-gurdy, ether-plucking harp, eerie violin and gritty bass and guitar. This is paired with spoken words from Danielle carefully scattered throughout the album, with the main lyrical focus being InchPerseverantia ad finem optatumInch which is chanted on the title track and emphasizes that Inchto successfully achieve a positive goal we need one thing above all, endurance.Inch

Experience the 1967 British summer of love with The Syn's reissued single InchFlowerman,Inch a classic slice of psychedelic history. Led by Steve Nardelli, the band featured guitarist Peter Banks and bassist Chris Squire who went on to form the progressive rock group Yes. Originally meant to be part of a 15-minute pop opera, InchFlowermanInch is twee hippy-dippy Summer of Love pop at it's finest. On the flip is the excellent psych-tinged B-side Inch14 Hour Technicolor Dream,Inch a nod to the legendary London hippie gathering event, complete with Peter Banks' compressed Rickenbacker sounding like an electric razor. Limited pressing that's newly remastered by Prof. Stoned and boasts new sleeve by Piper Gates Design.

Bulbs is a band that I like so much that I started a record tag to rep their work. I put out their Light Ships album in 2008 because I was so impressed with how futuristic their music was. They've remained active on their own terms since then, releasing a number of micro-editions of their music including a few incredible tapes (Sky Listening, Moon Episodes) and a few splits (a 12 with Mouthus (IMPREC 255LP) and a 7 with Wobbly). Generally Bulbs' music does not sound like the guitar/drum instrumentation would indicate. They have much more to do with Chain Reaction than The White Stripes, but with the benefit of live instrumentation and an adventurous edge, they end up much wilder, looser, more organic than anything coming out of Berlin. Color Attic is the second major work by Bulbs and finds the group exploring more oblique ambience, elliptical and granular guitar mashing up with loose, swinging synth drums, orbiting and colliding with each other. All experimentation aside, Color Attic remains rich, beautiful and melodic to the point that you might find yourself humming parts of 'Ladder Wing' while you're doing the dishes. -Pete Swanson, January 3, 2016