The Maldives - Mad Lives - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Tullycraft - Shoot The Point [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/10/2025

Described as having a transcendent live show by indie radio touchstone KEXP their debut full-length 2009's Listen to the Thunder (Mt. Fuji produced by Grammy Award-winner Kory Kruckenberg) was the culmination of years of playing together at every kind of gig imaginable and a faithful document of who The Maldives are as a live band. This time around the band took a different approach by working with Shawn Simmons (The Head and the Heart Grand Hallway Lemolo) who brought the band's assembled creativity together in a different way and explores their combined vision with expertly crafted songs that will transport you to another time and place altogether. This is where songwriter Jason Dodson's storytelling culminates into characters and places that blur the lines between fiction and nonfiction the past and the present.

Oklahoma's Chat Pile have had an exciting 2022; they released their album God's Country, toured the midwest and east coast in support of the album, announced their appearance at Roadburn Festival 2023, and while the band is working on LP2, they're revealing details for their score for the indie film Tenkiller.While not a proper full-length album, the Tenkiller score was written and recorded in the winter of 2020, and it waxes and wanes from the signature Chat Pile sound but also ventures into new ones- including arena country music.The band comments, InchThe music we made for Tenkiller is quite a bit different than what you may come to expect from us. We were given the freedom to really experiment and explore territories that we've never done before.Inch They continue, InchIt's not going to be for everyone, but we hope some of you connect with what we set out to do.InchInchChat Pile bring a sense of dirt and squalor to the table.Inch -The FADER InchOklahoma City's Chat Pile are the perfect people to expose the dark, seedy underbelly of American life.Inch -Paste Magazine InchCleansingly punishing.Inch -Stereogum InchHarrowing.Inch -Pitchfork