In recent years, McIlwain has pushed his craft skyward with more collaborative, song-forward work. Long Light shines the throughline; his signature looping patterns and textures are dynamic yet minimalist as ever.
In a haze of heartache, the duo left the Bay Area to be near family, resetting in four cities in under two years. Angelo beams with positivity and creative renewal — a resourceful, collective answer to “what happens now?”.
This feeling of closeness, of being able to lend your every sense to one’s confessions of internal conflict, is due in large part to the circumstances under which this album was created. Sadurn started as the solo project of Genevieve DeGroot.
Artist: Gulfer. At the intersection of punk and math rock, you’ll find four French Canadian weirdos. Gulfer is a math-rock/emo/punk band from Montreal, Canada. Since forming in December of 2011, they have released splits with bands like Fago.
Nat Myers – Yellow Peril [New Vinyl LP] Black, Colored Vinyl, Green, Ltd Ed Artist: Nat Myers Title: Yellow Peril Format: Vinyl LP Genre: Folk UPC: 888072481459 Release Date: 2023 Record Label: Easy Eye Sound Album Tracks1. 75-712. Trixin’3. Yellow Peril4. Ramble No More5. Duck N’ Dodge6. Roscoe7. Misbehavin’ Mama8. Heart Like a Scroll9. Undertaker Blues10. Pray for Rain A poet with a staggering and true voice, Korean-American troubadour Nat Myers’ folksy blues and pickin’ are authentic, timeless and enduring. The Kenton County, KY native’s delivery harkens to traditional blues giants, but it’s his unique blend of modern roots and Americana that continues to make crowds drop their jaws. Recorded live at the 100-year-old-plus home of producer Dan Auerbach, the album is haunted with the ghosts of the blues’ rich history. Green/Black Marble LP. Limited Edition.© DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Current Joys – Love + Pop – Neon Green [New Vinyl LP] Colored Vinyl, Green Artist: Current Joys Title: Love + Pop – Neon Green Format: Vinyl LP Genre: Rock UPC: 656605046334 Release Date: 2023 Record Label: Secretly Canadian Album Tracks1. Walk Away As the Door Slams2. Love + Pop3. Gatsby4. My Shadow Life5. Cigarettes6. BB Put on Deftones7. Dr Satan8. Moon Sickness9. Rock N Roll Dreams10. I Feel Truth Inside of U11. 3Lefant12. U R the Reason LOVE + POP is a snapshot of a moment in not-so-far-away time; something fast, loud, moody and a little dangerous. It is, in some ways, classic Current Joys: full of wild ambition, sneaky hooks, and songs that move from concept to completion with prolific speed. But LOVE + POP also explodes myriad expectations with aggressive, deconstructed production, house music influence, and a guest appearance from Lil Yachty. It is not so much a twist as it is a unique multiverse identity for Current Joys, as Nick Rattigan’s set out to «capture this sonic moment and harken back to the way I first released music.» The story of LOVE + POP begins with one of those house parties: the kind that bulldozes your home and, in it’s aftermath, leaves a wreckage that finds you flattened but also ready to be new. In that mess and mayhem, Rattigan watched Everybody’s Everything, the documentary of Lil Peep, and recorded a cover of «walk away as the door slams». But the itch wasn’t scratched, and what began as a moment of homage morphed into something bigger, deeper and more fundamental, a point where the seemingly haphazard – in his home, in Peep’s process – opened Rattigan up to an entire creative space and a new approach to bending or even detonating genre. Crucially, all of this was recorded at home, in what Rattigan calls a «tribute to the process of creating» in a DIY space. And what began as a singular passion project unexpectedly grew into a uniquely collaborative record for Current Joys. «I’ve set out to make collaborative records before,» Rattigan explains, «but they often end up totally me, with just a couple exceptions. But then this record gave me the opportunity to be extremely collaborative, to let other people write instrumental tracks, sending links around for people to mess with and weigh in on. I sat down to do credits and realized here were all these people and styles and they all came together and worked.» LOVE + POP’s cover art is an airbrush/spraypaint rendition of the Wild Heart album cover, which is itself a photo of Rattigan’s grandparents kissing. It is sacred in some ways and shredded in others. This idea – the aggressive reimagining of something timeless into a present, finite style – is LOVE + POP.© DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Artist: Ottto. Dance of the Dead. Format: Vinyl LP. Night Howlers. Release Date: 2023. Record Label: Org Music. UPC: 711574930517.
Format: Vinyl LP. UPC: 602455490469.
Limited green colored vinyl LP pressing. To vinyl (green vinyl, that is)! We’ve included a personal note from David Lawrence with liner notes by Joe Marchese. Artist: Steve Lawrence. Format: Vinyl LP.
Fela Kuti – Afrodisiac [New Vinyl LP] Colored Vinyl, Green, Red, Anniversary Ed Artist: Fela Kuti Title: Afrodisiac Format: Vinyl LP Genre: International UPC: 720841206880 Release Date: 2023 Record Label: Knitting Factory Double green and red colored vinyl LP pressing. Afrodisiac is the fifth in the series of celebratory Fela 50th Anniversary reissues. Like it’s predecessors in the series, this double LP edition is on color vinyl; the A/B side is green marble and C/D side is on red marble. The songs on Afrodisiac were tracks that Fela and the Nigeria 70 (Later Africa 70) re-recorded at Abbey Road Studios in 1972 after they had become hits in Nigeria. The best known song on the album is ‘Jeun Ko Ku’, a satire about gluttony and Fela’s first major hit across West Africa. In Pidgin English the title means «chop and quench», which, in turn, means «eat and die» in Standard English.Copyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.