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Remastered from those reels, along with 7 unearthed songs from the two surviving contemporaneous cassettes, All Hail West Texas stands as the peak of The Mountain Goats' home recording era, a time people like to refer to as \"when John Darnielle had his four-track,\" except John did not actually use a four-track. He used the condenser mic of a Panasonic boombox and there was no overdubbing. All songs recorded on the day they were written, usually within minutes of the actual composition. 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The producer's hand is prominent--not least in the sampled \"yeah\"s and \"uh\"s that give the album a hip-hop-indebted confidence--and many of the songs feature the 4\/4 beats and deftly employed effects usually associated with house music. Tracks like \"High Living\" and \"Day One\" show a considerably Californian influence, their languid funk redolent of a West Coast temperament, and elsewhere--not least on lead single, \"So Many Details\"--the record plays with darker atmospheres than we're used to hearing from Toro y Moi. Sounding quite assured in what some may call this songwriter's return to producerhood, Anything in Return is Bundick uninhibited by issues of genre, an album that feels like the artist's essence.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"pt-2\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"pt-2\"\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=826980835\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/track=3192899378\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"row mt-3\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Carpark Records","offers":[{"title":"Standard Black Edition 2LP","offer_id":44792487215391,"sku":null,"price":31.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"10th Anniversary Squiggly Picture Disc 2LP","offer_id":44792487248159,"sku":null,"price":33.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1575\/8523\/products\/a3777465613_16.jpg?v=1642722134"},{"product_id":"the-weakerthans-reconstruction-site-lp","title":"The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site: Anniversary Edition LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e**Ltd Apple \u0026amp; Black Half \u0026amp; Half Vinyl\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title of the Weakerthans' third full-length LP is appropriate, because even if it's not meant to, Reconstruction Site is a great way to describe the most defined document yet of singer, principal songwriter, and guitarist John Samson's trajectory from the punk rock of Propagandhi to the Weakerthans' quietly determined indie pop. While his former group was as concerned with social change as it was with a lockstep drum beat, Samson's recent work has traded power-chord fury for the slow-burning -- but no less hot -- embers of fully realized, deceptively simple pop\/rock that brings the songwriter's flair for metaphor to stage front. Like the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle, whose intelligence and wit seep into every corner of his work, the odd, sometimes grandiose song titles of Reconstruction Site are headings for lyrics that revisit pet Samson topics -- the beauty\/hell of life in Winnipeg, destructive\/confusing personal relationships, and personal ethics as a reaction to the welfare state. The latter, detailed in \"Our Retired Explore (Dines With Michel Foucault in Paris, 1961),\" is some heady stuff, to be sure. But Samson just as easily personifies a pussycat in \"Plea from a Cat Named Virtue,\" where his tabby takes him to task for \"sleeping as much as I do.\" Though Virtue is afraid of Samson's sister's basset hound, he encourages his owner to stop \"repeating the self-defeating lies you've been repeating since the day you brought me home.\" Musically, Reconstruction Site has more in common with literate indie types like Clem Snide or even the mature, clear-eyed work of Michael Penn. The dissonant chords of punk and hardcore have been replaced by plucked guitars with a country feel (\"[Manifest],\" and \"Time's Arrows\"); the harmony-laded \"Benediction\" even employs a full-on pedal steel guitar. 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The foursome take aim at all of them with barbed humor and muck-encrusted riffs on\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePlastic Eternity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, their 11th studio album.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMudhoney (vocalist Mark Arm, guitarist Steve Turner, bassist Guy Maddison, and drummer Dan Peters) remain the ur underground group, their gnarly primordial punk stew and Arm’s sharply funny lyrics as potent a combination as they’ve been since the band’s formation in the late 1980s. 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Rat Saw God is an album about riding a bike down a suburban stretch in Greensboro while listening to My Bloody Valentine for the first time on an iPod Nano, past a creek that runs through the neighborhood riddled with broken glass bottles and condoms, a front yard filled with broken and rusted car parts, a lonely and dilapidated house reclaimed by kudzu. Four Lokos and rodeo clowns and a kid who burns down a corn field. Roadside monuments, church marquees, poppers and vodka in a plastic water bottle, the shit you get away with at Jewish summer camp, strange sentimental family heirlooms at the thrift stores. The way the South hums alive all night in the summers and into fall, the sound of high school football games, the halo effect from the lights polluting the darkness. It's not really bright enough to see in front of you, but in that stretch of inky void - somehow - you see everything. Rat Saw God was written in the months immediately following Twin Plagues' completion, and recorded in a week at Asheville's Drop of Sun studio. While Twin Plagues was a breakthrough release critically for Wednesday, it was also a creative and personal breakthrough for Hartzman. The lauded record charts feeling really f***ed up, trauma, dropping acid. It had Hartzman thinking about the listener, about her mom hearing those songs, about how it feels to really spill your guts. And in the end, it felt okay. \"I really jumped that hurdle with Twin Plagues where I was not worrying at all really about being vulnerable - I was finally comfortable with it, and I really wanna stay in that zone.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4139386273\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/track=768600942\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dead Oceans","offers":[{"title":"Standard Black Vinyl","offer_id":44663555096863,"sku":"656605162812","price":22.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Ltd Purple Vinyl","offer_id":44663555129631,"sku":"656605162836","price":23.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1575\/8523\/products\/a4058765722_10.jpg?v=1679505146"},{"product_id":"wednesday-twin-plagues-lp","title":"Wednesday - Twin Plagues LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a long and emotionally exhausting year of being inside (alone, in my case,) I have found myself thinking about mirrors. How to avoid spending too much time in them, most days. Taking inventory of the real, physical self is difficult work, work that I'm not entirely opposed to but work that became immediately more treacherous for me when I had to witness the very real toll that time, modern anxieties, isolation, and boredom were taking on me. It was easier, it seemed, to spiral into a not-so-distant glorious past, to use memory as a tool of both excitement and healing. But, speaking of excitement, I like to stumble towards a band with no agenda, no purpose, uncovering sound almost on accident. This is how I first heard Wednesday. The band came to me and I don't remember how, or why. They simply arrived, as if we'd been traveling toward each other our whole lives. I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone soaked into my summer of 2020, and in sound, in spirit, in central concerns and the execution of them, it took me back to an era before the current era, which I'd needed at the time. The past can feel less hellish than the present if we are, sometimes, not fully honest with ourselves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere is the trick of nostalgia that I spend a lot of time playing with in my own writing, and somewhat tormented by in my own living. The very real idea that nostalgia is both a useful tool and also a weapon if it isn't paired with something that approaches a type of rigorous honesty.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut if I may go back to all of these ideas of nostalgia and our old, tricky, past selves that are, indeed, a part of the house of bricks that make up our present self, what I also hope you, listener, might adore about this album is the exact moment at the start of \"The Burned Down Dairy Queen\" when Karly sings I was hiding in a room in my mind \/ and I made me take a look at myself. Because if you, like me, have been avoiding mirrors – both metaphorical and real – this is where the album becomes a lighthouse, echoing bright across the darkness of my otherwise dark and empty chambers. So much of these songs meditate on the past in far less romantic ways than I have found myself meditating on the past, and I was desperate for the recalibration that this album provided.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSo, yes, the songs are good. You will maybe roll down your windows on a comfortable day on the right stretch of road in a warm season and turn the volume up when \"Birthday Song\" gets good and loud and sing-along-able. You might sit atop a rooftop at night, closer to the moon than you were on the ground, and let \"Ghost Of A Dog\" churn and rattle you to some nighttime realization that you couldn't have had in silence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut, even on top of all of this, on top of all the pleasures and the mercies that the sounds on this album might afford. I hope and think, too, that it will remind anyone who listens that we are a collection of many reflections. 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The Asheville, NC quintet (guitarist\/ vocalist Karly Hartzman, lead guitarist Daniel Gorham, pedal steel guitarist Xandy Chelmis, bassist Margo Schultz \u0026amp; drummer Alan Miller) maximizes the dark dissonance of a three guitar attack to highlight the emotionality of Hartzman's bell-clear vocals \u0026amp; wisps of half-recalled memories \u0026amp; literary references that make up her lyrics. I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone's eight songs meld elements of shoegaze, grunge, indie pop \u0026amp; southern American culture into a uniquely personal style of modern rock music that resonates with power \u0026amp; tenderness. The ever-darkening \u0026amp; deepening of Wednesday's' sound on I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone owes a debt of influence to The Swirlies, Arthur Russell, Red House Painters, Tenniscoats, Ana Roxanne, Acetone, \u0026amp; their continued collaboration with MJ Lenderman (who lends backing vocals to the songs \"Billboard\" \u0026amp; \"November\"). I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone was recorded at Hartzman's home with engineering assistance from her roommate Colin Miller. The depth \u0026amp; clarity of the recordings balance the distorted volume of Wednesday's live performances with the intimacy of Hartzman's voice. Her words hold the center of the chaos, unobscured by the power of the band. 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Everyone knows this, but few want to acknowledge that our time on this mortal coil is fleeting, preferring to remain in stasis, in hopes that \"the end\" will pass them by. Chicago trio FACS (guitarist Brian Case, bassist Alianna Kalaba \u0026amp; drummer Noah Leger) have been perfecting their brand of intense, cathartic post-punk over the course of four ever-evolving albums, beginning with 2017's \"Negative Houses\" thru 2021's landmark \"Present Tense', which saw the trio dig deep into the gaping maw of a black hole \u0026amp; pulling back whatever debris they could grasp onto. 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As a rhythm section, Kalaba \u0026amp; Leger dance \u0026amp; twist around each other like a double helix, forming the DNA of what makes FACS special. Collectively they approach rhythm from outside the groove as opposed to inside it, creating a lattice where Case weaves guitar lines like creeping vines, which makes the moments on \"Still Life In Decay\" where the band DOES lock in even more powerful. When the guitar punctures the lock-step swing of \"When You Say\", it hits like a hammer. Case utilizes his lyrics like a person suffering from anterograde amnesia; repeating phrases \u0026amp; holding onto old memories in a desperate attempt to avoid the slide into oblivion. 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