The first Itasca record in over four years begins, in “Milk,” with a dream of Genevieve, “the myth in the mirror’s gleam” perhaps, on this faith-haunted album, a reference to the fifth-century saint, or the chaste, cave-dwelling heroine of medieval legend. It ends with Olympia, standing at the shore maybe, among these myth-haunted songs, a […]
RSD JUNE 2021 2 LP Vinyl colourway – One LP Lemonade, One LP Orange Crush Tracklist: A1. Champion (feat. D Smoke) A2. Spell (feat. Wande Coal) A3. ELI A4. Tattoo B1. Favourite Song B2. New York City Girl B3. Lifestyle B4. Airplane Mode B5. 24 (Interlude) C1. Dreamer C2. Afar (feat. Olamide) C3. Go Away […]
Brand new album from Colorado’s freewheelin’ melodist Josephine Foster. Revolving between her adopted Spain and her native American West, Josephine was stationed this spring in Nashville with maverick guitarist and comrade-in-arms Matthew Schneider. The result: ‘No Harm Done’, a spacious and enveloping love letter of an album. Eight new slow-burning songs branch forth from idiosyncratic […]
coke-bottle clear vinyl & includes a 22.75″ x 33″ foldout poster insert, Describing the Durham based Hiss Golden Messenger is like trying to grasp a forgotten word: It’s always on the tip of your tongue, but hard to speak. Songwriter and bandleader M.C. Taylor’s music is at once familiar, yet impossible to categorize: Elements from […]
“I went looking for peace,” says songwriter M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger about his new album Quietly Blowing It. “It’s not exactly a record about the state of the world or my world in 2020, but more a retrospective of the past five years of my life, painted in sort of impressionistic hues. Maybe […]
This first film by the legendary Hideo Gosha (Sword of the Beast) is among the most canonized chambara (sword-fighting) films. An origin-story offshoot of a Japanese television series phenomenon of the same name, Three Outlaw Samurai is a classic in its own right. In it, a wandering, seen-it-all ronin (Tetsuro Tamba) becomes entangled in the […]
Noir horror written and directed by John Parker. Set in Los Angeles Skid Row, the film follows a woman, the Gamin (Adrienne Barrett), as she leaves her downtrodden hotel room and wanders the streets, becoming involved in several violent altercations as she also recalls her troubled upbringing.
Elijah Wood stars in this remake of director William Lustigs 1980 horror classic of the same name. To say that Frank (Wood) is a troubled young man would be an understatement – as the ever-growing number of young women he has murdered since the death of his mother (America Olivo), with whom he enjoyed an […]
1. O Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel 2. Coventry Carol 3. Good King Wenceslas-Instrumental 4. The Little Drummer Boy 5. I Wonder As I Wander 6. Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella-Instrumental 7. Down In Yon Forrest 8. The Carol of the Birds 9. Angels We Have Heard On High-Instrumental 10. Ave Maria 11. Marys Wandering 12. […]
The Phantom Band guitarist, Duncan Marquisss instrumental solo (ad)venture finds electronic guitar manipulations intertwine with wandering acoustic ambience. With one foot in 1970s Germany and the other in the woods, rivers and mountains of northeast Scotland. “I like it when music builds itself up in an organic fashion,” says Duncan Marquiss. “When it just seems […]
