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Released: Sep 2010
Catalogue Number: THRILL233CD
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pontiak - Living

Album number five from Pontiak, Living was laid down on reel-to-reel tape in the band's farmhouse studio. Made up of three brothers based in Virginia, Pontiak fashion an addictive, sludge-leaning brand of classic/stoner rock - all whilst keeping their farm running. While previous album Sea Voids thrived on spontaneity and was recorded over a relatively small number of sessions , Living took four months to make and perfect and the album's overall sound certainly benefits from the attention to detail, characterised as it is by a warm, fudgy guitar tone that could only have come about by analogue means. The saturated tube sounds of Zeppelin-esque opener 'Young' sets the album off splendidly, paving the way for the primitive caveman chug of 'This Is Living', space-rock dirge 'Lemon Lady' and the unplugged psych outing 'Forms Of The', occasionally flirting with amp-quaking interludes like 'Original Vestal' along the way. Living is a real standout set from this trio, and the homegrown sound of the record could hardly have been more characterful or beautifully engineered. Highly recommended.

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PONTIAK

Echo Ono

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PONTIAK

Echo Ono

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PONTIAK

Sea Voids

Thrill Jockey

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Swampy, detuned heavy rock on Pontiak's fourth long-player

PONTIAK

Comecrudos

Thrill Jockey

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PONTIAK

Living

Thrill Jockey

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A fifth album of superior classic/stoner rock sounds from Pontiak, beautifully home-produced in fuzzy analogue

PONTIAK

Maker

Thrill Jockey

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PONTIAK

Sun On Sun

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Varied and experimentally minded rock music from Thrill Jockey trio Pontiak

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HUSH ARBORS / ARBOURETUM - Aureola, Thrill Jockey
ALEXANDER TUCKER - Third Mouth, Thrill Jockey
WHITE HILLS - Frying On This Rock, Thrill Jockey
LUKE ROBERTS - The Iron Gates At Throop And Newport, Thrill Jockey
DUSTIN WONG - Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads, Thrill Jockey
JASON URICK - I Love You, Thrill Jockey
HIGH PLACES - Original Colors, Thrill Jockey
LUKE ROBERTS - Big Bells & Dime Songs, Thrill Jockey

PLANKTON WAT

Spirits

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MAN FOREVER

Pansophical Cataract

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SIDI TOURE

Koïma

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*CD version comes in a 4 panel mini-LP style gatefold package*

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JON PORRAS

Black Mesa

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Barn Owl's Jon Porras with an album of beautifully barren soundscapes.

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HUSH ARBORS / ARBOURETUM

Aureola

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"...like a blissful hangover full of melancholy love and promise."

ALEXANDER TUCKER

Third Mouth

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Folk, Prog, Psyche Rock and Ambient Pop resolved with a lushly psychedelic lucidity.

WHITE HILLS

Frying On This Rock

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White Hills return with a wide-eyed, brain-shredding vision of libidinous psychedelia...

LUKE ROBERTS

The Iron Gates At Throop And Newport

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Sophomore album from Nashville's heavily accented singer/songwriter Luke Roberts

DUSTIN WONG

Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads

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Second album from DIY conceptualist Dustin Wong, a collection of 16 miniatures.

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JASON URICK

I Love You

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A strangely affective mix of Techno-pop and synthdrone abstractions. Recommended.

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HIGH PLACES

Original Colors

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Their strangest record yet - offering a focused, dark and utterly cold blend of disenfranchised minimalism.

LUKE ROBERTS

Big Bells & Dime Songs

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Debut album of naturally gauged modern bluegrass, plain and simple, driven by canny machine-rhythms.

INFINITY - Collected Works 1969-70, Lion Productions
THE BEAUTIFUL LOSERS - Nobody Knows the Heaven, Lion Productions
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CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX - I, Vigilante, INVADA
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KLAXONS - Surfing The Void, Polydor
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DRUM EYES - Gira Gira, UPSET THE RHYTHM
BRAD LANER - Natural Selections, HOMETAPES
WAVVES - King Of The Beach, Bella Union
THE SOUNDCARRIERS - Celeste, Melodic
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INFINITY

Collected Works 1969-70

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The recorded works of obscure British psych band Infinity resurface thanks to Lion Productions

THE BEAUTIFUL LOSERS

Nobody Knows the Heaven

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Enjoyably bizarre Parisian folk from 1974, in the vein of Marc Bolan and the earlier works of Devendra Banhart

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GURU GURU

UFO

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A reissue of the improvising krautrock band's 1970 debut

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NEON INDIAN

Psychic Chasms

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One of the formative texts of the chillwave movement from DIY pop auteur Alan Palomo

CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX

I, Vigilante

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A typically elaborate yet rawly recorded new long-player from the progged-up post-rockers

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WILDBIRDS & PEACEDRUMS

Rivers

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Rivers collects in album form the two recent 12" vinyl releases (Retina and Iris) from the Swedish duo

KLAXONS

Surfing The Void

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The much-delayed follow-up to Mercury Prize winner, Myths Of The Near Future

THE SMILES AND FROWNS

The Smiles And Frowns

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Quirky '60s-styled DIY psych-pop from this new Phoenix, Arizona-based duo

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DRUM EYES

Gira Gira

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Far-out electro-psych from DJ Scotch Egg and E-DA of Boredoms

BRAD LANER

Natural Selections

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A psych-pop solo album from the man behind Medicine, Lexaunculpt, Electric COmpany and Internal Tulips

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WAVVES

King Of The Beach

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A cleaned-up, skate-punk influenced new album from lo-fi provocateur Nathan Williams

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Celeste

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The second album from this vintage prog/psych-pop loving band. For fans of Broadcast and Stereolab