Digital Regress Rock & Indie 17 Items

LP | 2018 | US | Original (Digital Regress)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"The wash of flangers & shimmery reverb have been the foundation in Cali psych ever since the Byrds went electric. And while that sound might've dropped off occasionally, it never dropped out. The Velvets minimalist stylings were infused into the mix by The Dream Syndicate in the early 80's & thus a game changer was born. Clay Allison, Opal, Green On Red all took their charge from that current. Then the Shoegaze scene of the 90's looked at those bands as vectors, things got a little more drenched, so yet more seeds were sown into the fertile terroir. Cut to current climes & the bay area is teeming with the latest iterations: Children Maybe Later, Now, & Cindy easily come to mind. But curiously the band most steeped in the mohair constitution is April Magazine, who (thus far) have been content in the shadows. Up till now they've seemed like characters plucked out of a Kazuo Ishiguo novel-mysterious & ethereal-but perhaps this pressing of last year's cassette only release will flush them out. 'Wesley's Convertible Tape For The South' shows the band defly balancing all those that have come before them while also incorporating flourishes of Les Rallizes DeNudes, Hallelujahs & Nagisa Ni Te into the pageantry . So in a way, April Magazine is transforming the landscape yet again; denser, fuzzier, lush & wistfully challenging. 'Wesley's Convertible Tape For The South' is the band's 1st vinyl release stateside (an LP of older tracks was released last year via a UK only label) so no import tariffs! What were once whispers are now proclamations. Just because you don't know them doesn't mean you can't love them. So grab a copy & hug it out amongst yourselves." -- Tom Lax (Siltbreeze Records)

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Marbled Eye

Leisure

23,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (Digital Regress)

Bobby Would

Relics Of Our Life

12" | 2023 | US | Original (Digital Regress)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"Sometimes it’s hard to resist the feeling that there was a crucial turn in life out of which everything else flowed. Maybe in our more reasonable frames of mind we can dismiss that thought and take our plans and intentions very seriously. But, there’s often a lurking conviction that, like the oak from the acorn or the movie from its opening scene, it is already all there. In the first moment of Relics of Our Life, anything could happen, anything could come next. But as the suspense is broken with the first notes, the world of the record springs up as both an internal experience and a landscape of which we will learn something, but definitely not everything. The songs induce a swimming sense of cycling repetition and variation where shifting details tilt the ground under us. The round and round doesn’t make us dizzy; like breathing the right way, it makes us both heavier and higher.

"Pawliczek’s songs can be located in the company of the greats of Flying Nun Records – maybe the delicacy of The Great Unwashed with the heavy heart of The Verlaines and smartness of The Chills. But, ultimately, his interests are elsewhere – a heart-break song over an earthly lover feels like only the tipping point for longing and devotion that outstrips the personal. In this sense, Popul Vuh for their hymnal geometry and switched-on Palestrina, and Terry Riley for cosmic elation come to mind. The songs have sweeping and cinematic proportions and depths of field constrained by a pop economy love of leanness.

"But who’s supplicating whom here? The songs’ devotional quality is not upward to the sacred or even outward to the profane. It’s more like a magnetism between its elements – sounds, voices and rhythms. The track No Talk intones “why don’t you talk to me?” over a driving guitar and one feels visited by some kind of archaic god on whom the tables have been turned, finding himself jealous of our thousand little thoughts. The record finishes with his distorted lilting dance, trying to seduce us with some red red wine that is no one’s blood, but everyone’s favorite drug." -- Karina Gill (Cindy, Flowertown) 2024

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Troth

Idle Easel EP

24,99 €*

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Digital Regress)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A new EP from Troth, following up their brilliant third album Forget The Curse released earlier this year. An EP of sorts, as these six wonderful tracks clocks in at over 31 minutes! A double one-disc EP? No matter what, Idle Easel sees the band in a transitional period, as the duo of Amelia Besseny and Cooper Bowman left Newcastle for Hobart, Tasmania during the recording sessions. The record has this heavy feeling of leaving something behind for something new, a feeling that is kind of boosted by the rather melancholic, autumnal presence that runs throughout Idle Easel. Blasting these songs in a currently very rainy Gothenburg in full, blown-out autumn mode certainly adds, but there's more to it than that.

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Slender

Learn To Die

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Digital Regress)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Learn To Die is a bold new step for a group of musicians, artists, and writers that has at least nominally been considered a punk band. A stylistic overhaul. For those who have been following along, it’ll carry some surprises. Slender began over a decade ago as a semi-improvisational cassette recording project, a casual collaboration between a few friends that was initially documented by two self-titled cassette-only releases released in 2014 and 2015 respectively, now both unavailable and out of print. Most fans, however, will know Slender for their two most recent releases, Walled Garden (2017) and Time On Earth (2019), both released on the tastemaking London art-punk label La Vida Es Un Mus. Their prior work has earned them comparisons to anarcho-punks Crass and The Snipers, lo-fi flagbearers Swell Maps and Pink Reason, and artrockers Cromagnon and Amon Düül. Here, however, such comparisons feel largely unfounded and the band feels somewhat peerless. Moments of artpunk brutalism, lo-fi experimentalism, and kosmiche detours grace the fabric of Learn To Die, but the album reaches for more than pastiche. Teasing the rarified worlds of chamber music and musique concrete, Slender manages something intangible and strange. A vocoded voice intones multi-lingual poems alongside tinny guitars and sampled strings and flutes. Three chord janglepunk anthems arise suddenly out of a cosmic mist crafted by analogue synths reciting the poetry of machines. The album moves in ways reminiscent of works by artists as varied and singular as Nobukazu Takemura, Chuquimamani-Condori, Coil, and Robert Wyatt, but it doesn’t necessarily occupy the same realm as any of them.”—Leah B. Levinson

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Crisis Man

Asleep In America

27,99 €*

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Digital Regress)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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We haven't gone soft quite yet, happy to present a long-awaited (and long pressing plant delayed) debut LP from Crisis Man. Featuring members of Smirk, Ceremony, and Acrylics, the new record continues the knuckle-dragging right where the last 7" left it. Recorded back in 2020 but still prescient given our countries current war-hawking and manufacturing of consent. Asleep In America's tightly-sprung cadence constantly driving and hammering mirrors the sensations of a steady decline in autonomy and quality of life. A thoroughly American experience. Edition of 500.

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The Shifters

25,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1985 | US | Reissue (Digital Regress)

The Kiwi Animal

Mercy

28,99 €*

Release: 1985 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1984 | US | Reissue (Digital Regress)

The Kiwi Animal

Music Media

28,99 €*

Release: 1984 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | US | Original (Digital Regress)

Maxine Funke

Felt

25,99 €*

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | US | Original (Digital Regress)

Maxine Funke

Lace

25,99 €*

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2019 | US | Original (Digital Regress)

R. Clown

The Big Break

9,99 €*

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | US | Original (Digital Regress)

Landline

23,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | US | Original (Digital Regress)

No Trend

You Deserve Your Life

23,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Digital Regress)

R.J.F.

Going Strange

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Digital Regress)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Proud to present this debut solo outing from R.J.F. a textural patchwork of minimal melodic-inflections with room to wade in and out of. R.J.F., better known as Ross Farrar – obvious bona-fides intact – (Ceremony, Crisis Man, Spice) takes a step back from pummeling, driving front-man duties to weave ardent pieces driven by hooking lines and textures woven artfully together. Meditations on adapting lifestyles, daily-life, moving forward, stray cats looking for homes, and finding how to make sense of it all in a world always changing. Recorded with a mostly budget set-up, (bass, keyboards, drums, sparse guitars) leaving a lot of open air in the record, and amplifying the earnestness of the whole endeavor.

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People Skills

Hum Of The Non-Engine

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Digital Regress)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"People Skills could probably kill an hour or two watching you scrape the goo off your mukluks after escorting repeated tromps through the brack-befouled trench between music and non-music. You put on a show for him, he’ll put on a show for you. Everyone shows a little leg, we all go home winners.

"On his first new LP since the 2014 (Siltbreeze) and 2017 (Blackest Ever Black) touchstones, he blends 'song-related' material with off-kilter signal garble to emit fidelity impaired pop-surrender by the wheeze-load. Haunted visions in the spirit of Kye, M-Squared, and Petri Supply stud the lonesome strum with equipment malfunctions and other miscellaneous environmental gack. Hum Of The Non-Engine sheds some more light on bona fide PS singles that trickled out on compilations over the last two years and maps a beautiful merging of derisive collage and the world-weary song-smithery of our friends at the top and bottom ends of the globe."

-Seymour Glass (Glands of External Secretion, Bananafish)

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Lloyd Pack

I Can't Remember