Ultra Q - In A Cave In A Video Game - CASSETTES

Jakob Armstrong, Kevin Judd and brothers Chris & Enzo Malaspina began playing music and recording as Mt. Eddy in 2017 and although the moniker was exchanged for Ultra Q in 2019 there's a musical throughline that is more than hinted at by this album's title. As a band Ultra Q is rooted in the post punk of The Cure & Interpol but filtered through the sonic sensibilities of Superdrag or contemporaries like Together Pangea and Joyce Manor. Their debut LP InchMy Guardian AngelInch strayed more into epic shoegaze atmospherics to great effect and InchEmpty EddyInch represents a return to the more earthbound Punk in InchPost-PunkInch full of driving melodies and heart bound hooks. Originally self released and only sold at shows & briefly on their website this is the first time it's been available for distribution.

We The Animals is the award-winning new film from Jeremiah Zagar (In A Dream). Based on the best-selling novel by Justin Torres, We The Animals is Zagar's first narrative feature. It reunites Zagar with Nick Zammuto, the renowned composer and co-founder of beloved collage-pop pioneers, the Books. Inspired by the film's setting in rural upstate New York - and influenced by the early ambient electronic music that galvanized the Books two decades ago - Zammuto pairs that earthen, wooded isolation with dynamic pulses of customized electronics and sparse, crystalline layers of melodic soft synths. The juxtaposition is arresting, and gives the soundtrack a unique heft befitting of it's subject matter - and betraying of it's minimal instrumentation. Beautifully edited and sequenced to act as both a companion to the film and a standalone album, We The Animals An Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is as subtle as it is startling, and succeeds in making even the heaviest emotions feel momentarily weightless.

Ultra Q - Get Yourself A Friend [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/19/2021