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The music of these Louisville-NYC art-punk-rockers continues to exist bafflingly outside of time - so when better than 42 years after initial release to reissue their album debut on vinyl? New listeners will find, in addition to the roiling compulsion of its odd, ...
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DC968 | DRAG CITY

Tashi"s latest punk anthems: electric guitar improvisations to brutally impact us with... gentle lyricism and introspective depth! In a time of extraordinary institutional inhumanity, seeing the faces of the many deprived, what is there to feel but exhaustion? What to ...
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DC969 | DRAG CITY

"...further along and down the road apiece from where she took her leave of us, Joanna Newsom plays on. Breathe deep and equalize your today-ears to the new world of Divers. Good heavens - five years go by - what can one do? Dive, listener, knowing that diversions ...
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DC561CD | DRAG CITY

"Fingerpainting features unreleased songs from the distant days of 1966. The 90s Red Krayola shuffles these ancient pre-Arable Red Crayola songs with the sounds of neo-freakouts, live on the world's stage - free, familiar, ugly, for a whole bunch of new generations. ...
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DC156 | DRAG CITY

available again "Ambarchi, Berthling and Werliin are back, a little looser and wilder than before. Their ability to lock in and focus on the smallest of details is enhanced here by a sense of increased immediacy. Great news for fans of stimulating variations of tone and ...
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DC955 | DRAG CITY

"On Beacon Hill: at twilight we find Anthony Moore, roots winding backwards to the halcyon days of Slapp Happy and the "70s progressive art rock scene, at guitar and piano. With the atmospheres and accompaniments of AKA & Friends, he breathes infernal new life into ...
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DC965 | DRAG CITY

"From out of the dark, sparks of feedback birdsong signal a return to the singular sonic environments of Rafael Toral"s sound-world. A year after Spectral Evolution, his acclaimed album of electric guitar conceptions, comes the companion work Traveling Light. Sharpening ...
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DC948 | DRAG CITY

"From out of the dark, sparks of feedback birdsong signal a return to the singular sonic environments of Rafael Toral"s sound-world. A year after Spectral Evolution, his acclaimed album of electric guitar conceptions, comes the companion work Traveling Light. Sharpening ...
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DC948CD | DRAG CITY

"The successor to 2022"s Bajascillators glides easily into frame, but once there, Inland See is deceptively immediate. It"s so dialed in, you hardly even feel how present the music (and you the listener) is. Time wharping"s always been a resident magic for Bitchin ...
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DC860LP | DRAG CITY

"Our favorite six-string shaman is waving that axe around again! Sir Richard Bishop wrenches forth fresh damnable truth and beauty from a musical kamikaze run through histories both known and unknown. Turning a gimlet eye to the American Primitive guitar style, Sir Rick ...
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DC956CD | DRAG CITY

Repressed for the first time in many years. 2LP version in gatefold. David Grubbs & Jim O'Rourke feat. John McEntire, Tony Conrad and RLW.
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DC90 | DRAG CITY

"For this collaborative release, Eiko & Jim edited and remixed material captured at shows they played during a lovely two week tour through France, Switzerland, Italy and Ireland in April 2023. Pareidolia shapes an ideal collage from the best resonances and ...
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DC921 | DRAG CITY

"Since 1995 through today and into tomorrow, Rafael Toral's guitar generated Wave Field continues breaking on our shores, a force of nature in unending evolution, oceanic and alive, deep and spacious. Rock music's power liquefied into pure sound, metallic at loud ...
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DC702CD | DRAG CITY

"In 1987, inspired in part by the massive impact potential of discreet gestures in the working principles of Fripp & Eno, Rafael crafted a unique signal path from his guitar, building pieces that have continued to grow ever since. First released in 1994, Sound Mind ...
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DC701CD | DRAG CITY

"Missing out on that super-chill, uber-jittery minimal groove thing? Let"s get real, real Ghosted again. Oren Ambarchi has been collaborating with the Fire! trio (Mats Gustafsson, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin) for over a decade - and both Johan and Andreas played ...
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DC917 | DRAG CITY

"Totality! It can only be good news. The second convergence of Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas, years removed from the first, misses no steps and posits low-key revolutions in gravity for everyone instead. LPs divide inevitably into two halves; here, the ...
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DC860LP | DRAG CITY

"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

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DC129LP | 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