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Sunday, August 30, 2009

New Releases : The Deadnotes 'Orange Trumpet' LP -&- Pigeons 'Lunettes' 7"
Category: Religion and Philosophy

Two new releases on Soft Abuse from The Deadnotes and Pigeons. Both are officially released in September, but we will begin shipping mailorders pretty much ASAP...

Some info -

THE DEADNOTES Orange Trumpet LP

"What attracted me to this band on first sight – trained in the “school of error” as practised by Maher Shalal Hash Baz and all those other naive orchestral delights, accomplished keyboards man Leighton Craig of the firm belief that where drummers went wrong was when they first started crossing their arms over – is what still attracts me to them: belief, brevity, melody, resonance, a fondness (acquired from having lived through it) for the early 80s post-Go-Betweens/early Fall mannerisms of derelict Brisbane nightclubs. Stuart Busby not only wields a trumpet like Brighton’s own Alistair Strachan (Hamilton Yarns, Crayola Lectern) but understands the absolute necessity of controlling (or not controlling) the sound. Guitarist/drummer Eugene Carchesio – an accomplished, exhibited visual artist in his own right – much favours the “play once, move on” approach to creating and inventing new songs that can’t help attract simple me. One of Eugene’s favourite musicians is Jad Fair. How can I argue with that?

I’m reminded of Monks, Moondog, 4 Gods, Flipper.

Too often noise musicians deliberately eschew melody – as if to admit for a fondness for such is a weakness. The Deadnotes are as unreconstructed and wilfully abstract as the most experimental among us, but at the heart of the music is (usually) a melody, a structure, a beating heart."

- Everett True

one-time numbered pressing of 400.
$15.00 ppd USA
$17.00 ppd Canada / Mexico
$25.00 ppd elsewhere

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PIGEONS Lunettes 7"

Pigeons make sublimely blasted / incredibly hallucinogenic songs from their base up in Bronx, NY. The trio of Wednesday Knudsen (in disguise on the sleeve), Clark Griffin and Carter Thornton have been active for a few years, releasing miniture-run cassettes and lathe cuts for Griffin's sub-underground Moran Tape Label that dealt in skronk, warp & mystery. Their wayward song-based creations are just as ambitious, melding dissonance, crude electronics & chanson pop . The pop element in their tunes, fully introduced on their brilliant Virgin Spectacle LP, firmly rests as the oddest element in the mix. Its true - connections to the No Neck / Sound @ 1 crew & The Sea Donkeys exist, but Pigeons are wholly on their own plane. Lunettes, their first release since Virgin Spectacle, features four new song creations, arrives in lieu of their forthcoming LP Si Faustine (to be released by Black Dirt), and provides a notion of what they're moving towards.

one-time pressing of 400.
$6.00 ppd USA
$7.00 ppd Canada / Mexico
$9.00 ppd elsewhere