Mexican Summer Vinyl, CD & Tape 37 Artikel

On the Echoing Green is an elegant work of shimmering sound, rendered by eternal electric romantic Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. Conceived as an experiment in collaboration, On Echoing Green is eight rapturous and melodic slow dives of swirling guitar, bass, synthesizer, piano, and drum machines, accented by heavenly vocal arcs from Argentinian musician Sobrenadar and contributions from Alexis Georgopoulous and Byron Westbrook. This is music of growth and grandeur, of ascent and exploration; in tune with the beauty of sound and the harmony of light.

Calico Review' was recorded at the iconic Valentine Recording Studio, which gave the group access to historic recording equipment such as a 1964 Universal Audio 610 soundboard - the same board on which The Beach Boys recorded Pet Sounds. Now you know what to expect.

This alternate version of “Autumn Dawn” is the punchier demo recording from Kyle Mullarky’s home studio in Topanga Canyon. The instrumental, Mellotron heavy B-side “Hereafter” was recorded during Calico Review sessions at Valentine Studios and has never been released.

Limited edition for Black Friday RSD 2016!

Calico Review' was recorded at the iconic Valentine Recording Studio, which gave the group access to historic recording equipment such as a 1964 Universal Audio 610 soundboard - the same board on which The Beach Boys recorded Pet Sounds. Now you know what to expect.

New Zealand via Paris/London pop sprite Connan Mockasin follows up the widely acclaimed oddball-psych of 2010’s Forever Dolphin Love. Caramel boasts a unique brand of mutated, lustrous soul that was almost wholly self-recorded over a month in a Tokyo hotel room. Described by Clash Music as “a true cosmonaut of inner space,” the new album explores different regions of Mockasin’s singular galaxy, guided by his truly adventurous songwriting that favors reconfigured pop structures with a skewed funk sensibility. If Caramel wasn’t enough, Mockasin has also been writing more material for Charlotte Gainsbourg after penning the exquisite “Out Of Touch” for the actress/singer’s 2012 mini-album, Stage Whisper. It’s another sign that Mockasin is going places, but at his own pace – just as Caramel suggests the process of melting and taking on a new shape, a new taste. That is the true sound of Connan Mockasin.

The atmospheres and auras of Ariel Rosenberg - aka Ariel Pink - and Natalie Mering - aka Weyes Blood - assemble as new hues for Myths 002, the second edition of Mexican Summer's series inspired by - and conceived at - the label's annual Marfa Myths festival in the Texas desert. The four songs of Myths 002 capture musicians at play -- two distinct voices in pop music inexplicably, effortlessly folding into harmony.

Calico Review' was recorded at the iconic Valentine Recording Studio, which gave the group access to historic recording equipment such as a 1964 Universal Audio 610 soundboard - the same board on which The Beach Boys recorded Pet Sounds. Now you know what to expect.

The first single from Pill, pushers of classic NYC no wave who have quickly risen among the ranks of local noisemakers thanks to their impressively choatic live sets. Aggressively poetic vocals, skronking sax and fuzzed-out thrashgroove patterns.

Bolder & livelier, feistier yet more focused. LP in matte laminate jacket with download.

Received a 7.1 rating from Pitchfork.More Faithful is No Joy's third full-length for Mexican Summer. Throughout the album, singer / guitarist Jasamine White-gluz, guitarist Laura Lloyd, drummer Garland Hastings and bassist Michael Farsky (formerly of Dirty Beaches' live band) push themselves to new peaks of intensity. Working with musician and producer Jorge Elbrecht (Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Chairlift, Lansing-Dreiden), the band embraced a much more rigorous creative process. The outcome—a juxtaposition of unrest and calm, beauty and chaos, truth and fantasy, in the throes of maxed-out amps and hair-whipping guitar goddess rock music—is as unwavering as ever. At times heavier than anything they’ve done yet, while also their fastest—riffs shooting upward in discord and drifting down in angelic harmonies, More Faithful is the most forward, throttling record No Joy has made, taking their sound to the wall in a brazen display of beauty-laced power.

Waxing Romantic is the debut album from Canadian artist Travis Bretzer.Hailing from Edmonton, Alberta, 24-year-old Bretzer has an appropriatelysingular, off-beat take on guitar pop. An adroit songwriter and truetroubadour, Travis sidesteps easy pigeonholing. On his debut EP Making Love(Mexican Summer, 2013) he managed to touch on the new-pop of OrangeJuice, the playful idiosyncrasies of Prefab Sprout, with a freewheelingsensibility present in much of the Stiff Records catalog. On Waxing Romantic,Travis has stepped up the production in a big way, graduating from thebedroom to a full studio environment. Recorded at Gary's Electric in Brooklynand produced by Jorge Elbrecht the new environment has allowed for Travis'songs to be taken to new, fully-realized heights.

A companion to his last album Love is A Stream (Type, 2010), 13 Moons is a dense, swirling mass. Hypnotic guitar & drum performances coalesce with Modular synth squalls & otherworldly textures - combining overdriven guitars, avant-garde composition with the informal approach of underground tape weirdos (like Robert Turman, K. Leimer) into a lovely brocade of harmony & dissonance.

Torn Hawk is the audio project of producer and video artist Luke Wyatt. Over the past couple of years, Wyatt has unfurled a serial tapestry of content arguing for a reconciliation of aesthetic irony with compositional sincerity and emotional vulnerability. Let’s Cry And Do Pushups At The Same Time is Wyatt’s most recent full-length statement as Torn Hawk, and marks the onset of a more emotionally manipulative and sonically confident direction.It’s difficult to neatly categorize Wyatt’s genre-refracting productions, which formerly have found a home on L.I.E.S., Not Not Fun, Rush Hour’s “No Label”, 1080p, and several other labels, including his own imprint Valcrond Video. The nuts & bolts of Let’s Cry’s eight tracks are built from live guitar, drum machines, junky synths, and layers of acid-washed samples. Wyatt smears the disparate elements of each track into a cohesive whole that transcends the (banality) (thrift-store dustiness) of each: the result is a series of heart-tuggingly confessional watercolors, framed with cinderblocks and distressed leather.

Thru Me Again is the secondrelease from Chilean trio La Hell Gang and their first with Mexican Summer. Hailing from Santiago, which plays host to an ever growing psychedelic scene (Holydrug Couple, Follakzoid, La Banda, etc), the band create a remote and wild brand of rock ‘n' roll. The eight tracks across Thru Me Again weave seamlessly, channeling heat, light and endless desert dunes. Despite the heavy context, there's a real clarity in the production, making the blistering guitar solos and mirage-like vocals all the more potent. Tracks like "Inside My Fall" and "Last Hit" recall bands like The Black Angels and BRMC, but some of the more lucid moments ("Sweet Dear", "So High") feel like a grittier Brightblack Morning Light. The soundtrack for your heat swept summer.

When liberation comes to mind, what do you think about? Freedom? Emancipation? The removal of restrictions? When you notice that Liberation! is the title of Peter Matthew Bauer’s debut solo album, such questions will inevitably arise. What’s he got to be liberated from, apart from 13 years as a member of The Walkmen? “That’s not it at all,” says Peter of his tenure in the beloved NYC band, which has now run its course. “We’re all friends,” says Bauer. “But it was time to call it a day.” Rather, Bauer uses Liberation! as an opportunity to welcome the rest of the world into his personal history of a childhood spent living in ashrams, and a life shaped by the constant presence of religion and mythology amidst uncertainty. It’s a bold, bracing collection of songs for the mind, body and spirit with the power to grab you and shake you out of your environment.

With tunefulness equally indebted to pastoral psychedelia, punchy new wave and hyper-literate proponents of lofty 80s pop, The Fresh & Onlys swiftly moved through the ranks of venerable indie rock labels. Follow-up albums and a voluble slew of EPs on Woodsist, In The Red and Captured Tracks earned the group high critical praise, including a flattering New York Times feature, while Tim Cohen’s output with his folk-inclined act Magic Trick and Miles’ own solo career rode impressive trajectories of their own.

Lace Curtain is Mikey Young and David West from Total Control, Rat Columns, Ran/xerox, Eddy Current Suppression Ring et al., exploring an electronic world of pleasure, frustration and sadness. Bedroom dancers, synthetic singers, basement kicks in a romantic void. Influenced by the Germans, the Italians, pale British button pushers, glamorous alien pop futurists, Mid-Western sweat, NYC disco dreamers, undercover kings and queens escaping a dull grey world with rhythm and noise, sound and vision. The 3rd EP by Lace Curtain ushers in sounds both new and old to the Lace Curtain listener. A feeling of detached romanticism and dystopian fantasy hangs heavily over this recording, which was delivered to tape and hard drive in San Francisco, Melbourne and Rye, alone and together. "I Can't Wait" and "Lover's Fade" on Side A send affectionate yet fleeting glances in the direction of Chicago and Milano. A Korg from the past predicts the malfunctioning systems of the future. Pop is welcomed, confusion is courted. Side B drifts into headier territories. "Fortress" sweeps through percussive vistas and analog landscapes with the dream logic of an intoxicated tour guide, ending in rapturous murmurs. "Unfortunate Life" sends us down the rabbit hole of monolithic machinery and the abstractions of short-circuited lives. Limited edition of 1,000 with silkscreened jackets by Keegan Cooke. Includes download code.

Travis' debut release on Mexican Summer will be followed by an album later this year.

Static Crash is magic, one of the most gorgeous collections of Gothic ethereal pop/noise of its kind to rise from the American underground in decades.One could easily believe its origin to be from 1983, or 1993, or even 2013. But its 2003 release found few takers, outside of a small but dedicated local following. At a time when rock & roll was obnoxiously forcing its way back from the morass of pre-millennial digital aimlessness, Ashrae Fax was finding ways to inject warmth and confidence into a mothballed musical form. Released in on spray painted CD-Rs, Static Crash's legend somehow grew even as the group fell apart. In 2005 the album was reissued on cassette, and six years later, North Carolina label Hot Releases offered to press up Static Crash on vinyl in an edition, which quickly sold out. Copies finally made it out to music writers, many of whom connected with the music on the very first spin. Off to the Internet they fled, trying to find more information on this group. Support swelled, and a whisper campaign finally found its way to Mexican Summer, who have committed to releasing the entire Ashrae Fax discography as well as an all-new album in the coming year, beginning with Static Crash. To mark this occasion, Ashrae Fax is reuniting to play live, beginning with a handful of performances and landing at Raleigh’s esteemed Hopscotch Music.

Lace Curtain is a new project from Australian wizards Mikey Young, Dave West and James Vinciguerra. The trio, who are involved in a myriad of punk and garage bands including Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Total Control and Rat Columns, veer in an entirely new direction on this EP for Mexican Summer. Each side shows the band approaching electronic music with a diverse interpretation that encompasses elements of Disco, Krautrock and Synth Pop. Comes in screen-printed single sleeve jacket.

Limited edition of 300!

Limited numbered edition of 2000, includes double sided 24"x24"poster!

For fans of Neon Indian or Toro Y Moi ... solo project of Georgia (via South Carolina) multi-instrumentalist Ernest Greene.