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"2024"s retrospective box We Have Dozens of Titles brought the revelatory 1993-"98 output of Gastr del Sol back into the world of physical objects, following a decade in which most of their music was mostly available online. The ruckus that the box generated in the ...
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DC133 | DRAG CITY

"Antigone is a chilling look at our already-alternate reality, coming from inside Eiko Isibashi's own head. Her band brings a wide array of sounds and moods, shading pop, funk and jazz, ambient, electronic and musique concrète in a bittersweet latticework. Interlocking ...
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DC944 | DRAG CITY

""Whistle from Above" is David Grubbs" first Drag City release in over a decade and his first-ever instrumental album for the label. The suspiciously youthful Grubbs is four decades into his career, with former bands including Gastr del Sol, Squirrel Bait, and Bastro, ...
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DC941 | DRAG CITY

"Oren Ambarchi is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who has long been interested in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. His work focuses mainly on exploring the guitar, "taking the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it is no longer ...
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DC853 | DRAG CITY

"YES! An unlikelier of collabs on the face of it comes to pass, and makes SO much sense upon consideration that you wonder why you hadn't rioted for your right to experience this sooner. Chill, man! Life gave you a surprise - a missing peace - now GO with it. Yessir, ...
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DC648 | DRAG CITY

"Anthony"s post-Slapp Happy output, for years an underrated-to-outright unknown quantity, achieves a new dimensional plane with this third archival release from his personal tape library. Home of the Demo triangulates upon the art-pop qualities found in his previously ...
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DC916 | DRAG CITY

"From its percolating opening beat, Find Me Finding You locates new systems within the sound-universe of Laetitia Sadier. This in itself isn't a surprise - Laetitia has relentlessly followed her music through different dynamics and into a variety of dimensions over the ...
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DC672 | DRAG CITY

"In full aural/metaphysical alignment, Shackleton's bass heavy cosmic dread and Six Organs' ritual folksong revel and delight in their massed collage as they become Jinxed By Being. Unfolding small details into a massive space, and then into further lines of dimensional ...
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DC893 | DRAG CITY

"Drag City is excited to present the first ever vinyl pressing of guitarist Lee Underwood"s under-sung 1988 acoustic guitar opus, California Sigh. Guitarist Lee Underwood"s syncretic blend of jazz, folk, and blues was a tremendous force behind Tim Buckley"s ...
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DC892 | DRAG CITY

"A feverish essay of transcendent drumming: Chris" solo approach, rooted in the exploration of elements of extended technique, sought another level, via possibilities facilitated by a self-made string drum! The Key (Became The Important Thing [& Then Just Faded Away]) ...
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DC902 | DRAG CITY

"Following their collaboration on 2021"s Oscar winning Drive My Car, Eiko Ishibashi & filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi up the ante with a deeply inspired synergistic exchange: music for images, visuals for sounds. Eiko"s score initiated the project that has become his ...
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DC934 | DRAG CITY

"Nearly twenty-five years after disbanding, Gastr del Sol have unpacked their archive, stringing together an alternative view to their genre-melting 1993-1998 run. We Have Dozens of Titles contains nearly an hour of previously unreleased live recordings, alongside ...
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DC836CD | DRAG CITY

"Meg Baird"s songs are rarely made up of tidy stories. In fact, for Meg, mystery itself is often the medium. With Furling, Meg"s fourth album under her own name, she explores the breadth of her musical fascinations and the environments around them-the edges of memory, ...
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DC690 | DRAG CITY

"A year after the cassette-only release of Switched On Ra, another format has fallen from whatever kind of rare ether Bitchin Bajas occupy when they"re at home. The LP edition of Switched On Ra bears all the same riches (only richer of course) in its grooves, adding a ...
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DC851 | DRAG CITY

"Recorded in 1995 and 1996, mostly in John Fahey"s room at a Salem, Oregon boardinghouse, the performances on Proofs and Refutations prefigure the ornery turn of the page that marked Fahey"s final years, drawing another enigmatic rabbit from his seemingly bottomless ...
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DC759 | DRAG CITY

"O'Rourke's process - sourcing resonant sounds to be enmeshed together into a music that supersedes their resident parts - makes a fitting soundtrack for Kyle Armstrong's "prairie gothic" tale of down-on-the-farm horror way up north in Canada. His minimalist score ...
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DC839 | DRAG CITY

"first-time-ever-on-vinyl 2LP reissue of 'A Long Way Around To A Shortcut' is somehow a greatest hits of the golden not-quite-decade of Sic Alps. 'A Long Way Around To A Shortcut' was issued as a CD in 2008. It collected songs that were first issued throughout the epic ...
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DC400 | DRAG CITY

"Oren Ambarchi is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who has long been interested in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. His work focuses mainly on exploring the guitar, "taking the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it is no longer ...
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DC853CD | DRAG CITY

"Mastered directly from half-inch analogue tape, Bajascillators floats transparently from the speakers, its expansive grooves gathering resonance and building momentum over the four sides, from genesis to reconclusion, cascading ecstatically. The elastic magic of time ...
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DC781 | DRAG CITY

"40-plus years since its original release, the pop-punk-new wave inventions of Anthony Moore's Flying Doesn't Help are freshly remastered, blasting the sparkling, angular sounds into today with perfect vitality." (label info)
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DC840 | DRAG CITY

"Ambarchi, Berthling and Werliin share a fascination with rhythm and the myriad of ways it can subdivide within the beat. Using aspects of jazz, world and experimental musics, each tune settles into a deep groove, digging itself via continuous minimal adjustments into ...
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DC838 | DRAG CITY

"drag city presents the first domestic release of any kind from the japanese singer-songwriter eiko ishibashi - and the first vinyl release of any kind on this already-accomplished performer. and what a release! imitation of life isn't just another pop record from ...
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DC566 | DRAG CITY

"2015 and the silence has been broken with 'Simple Songs'. Jim O'Rourke is ready to talk to you again with his first pop album since 2001. 'Simple Songs' is an amazing record of musical song entertainment because Jim O'Rourke knows what he wants and how to get it. The ...
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DC620 | DRAG CITY