NP069 Truth Syrum - "The Taker's Mistake" C20

Truth Syrum is one of the newer solo projects in the Iowa City weirdo underground. Will Kapp (spent some time in Pukers) as Truth Syrum creates strange loner mutant junk folk with damaged electric guitar, weird distorted vocals, and subtle noise textures. A bit like something you might hear out of New Zealand ala the Expressway label in the early 90's wtih a nod to contemporary junk art aesthetics and fried pysch guitar. Artwork by Will and RGarbes.

NP071 DuneBuggy - "s/t" C20

Dune Buggy is Ryan Garbes and Charles "Taterbug" Free, expanding on both members obsessions with classic garage, punk, and pysch rock tunes and images. Dune Buggy is the pop realization of these obsessions. 20 minutes of catchy organ, guitar, and drum driven punkers delivered in Iowa City basement scum style haze. Cleaner then you think it will sound but with enough grit to keep it grimey, who new these two could play it this cool? Teeny bop, youth cult Armageddon rockers. Expect more on NP and Gel by Dunebuggy in the future. Artwork by RGarbes.
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NP072 Terror Bird - "Sociopaths are Glam" C36

Terror Bird is Nikki Never from Vancouver's Modern Creatures solo outlet. One of the finest recordings released in any format on Night-People, Terror Bird is honest, heartfelt, nostalgic pop music, layered in touches of dark ambiance and glittery sheen. Centered around Nikki's amazing voice and dirgey piano arrangements, Sociopaths are Glam references classic 80's and 90's dark pop without any historic worshiping or posturing. Couldn't be more excited to just sit around and listen to this amazing album. Artwork by SDReed.
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NP073 Meth Teeth - "s/t" C16

This is a re release of Meth Teeth's Indian Spirits Demo from last summer's nationwide tour. Long time Night-People pals, Meth Teeth reside in Portland OR. and in some ways embody the rainy day big country vibe of the city with its youth culture dreamers, old druggies, and rustic history. There is something that is really hard to pin down about Meth Teeth, the songs rely on simple ramshackle rhythms, upbeat shinny guitar interplay, and big fat chord churners, and alot of tambourine banging away on the snare drum. Ultra catchy summertime rockers keep you sad and lonely, and upbeat and hopeful all at once. LP on Woodsist soon. Artwork by SDReed.
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NP074 Hanging Coffins - "s/t" C40

Hanging Coffins are a strange new pysch punk band from Eugene OR. Night-People got exposed to these dudes Chrome esque, creeped out, dark, druggy jams via there cassette on Madison's Jerkwave Tapes, and this new cassette is just as good, and maybe even weirder. This is a stark album not in its lack of fullness of instrumentation or composition but in its isolated downer feelings and mood, there are times when something brighter and slightly uplifting shines through the fog of the menacing psychedelic guitar grit, but for the most part this is damaged primordial alien rock and it rips. Artwork by SDreed.
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NP075 Earth Station - "Control Belief" C20

Earth Station is Mike Pollard (Abror Rec./Treetops etc.) and Peter Friel (Young tapes) new now age, space suit, field studies in the deep trenches of mars, power ambient band. Tidal waves of glacial synth murmur, the kind of intentionally epic stuff that you can't help but like if you let yourself truly drift off. The end is coming and this what it might sound like. Space music for earthlings. Total harmony, total control. Artwork by SDReed.

NP076 Shearing Pinx - "s/t" C32

Shearing Pinx are long running Vancouver staples and are one of the bands that seemed to really help solidify that cities underground weirdo music community to an audience outside of its own geography. This new tape in there very prolific discography is tension filled angular noisy post no wave dirge, waves of cascading guitar dread and percussion propulsion, gliding over a subtle underbelly of chimey strum and atmosphere. Technical, tectonic, chaos. Artwork by SDReed.
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NP077 Hochman & Hopkins - "Live NYE" C34

Jonathan Hochman (Holy Balm, Pagan Dawn) and Matthew Hopkins (Naked on the Vague, Near Tapes etc.) are from Sydney AU and this is there live Synthesizer project focused around otherworldly tonal eruptions, trance inducing electronics washes, science fiction fucked vocal sludge, and generally weird psych synth vibes. Lost mind submarine rides, drifting sitting at the point where the desert meets the sky, volcanoes erupting onto cities, all moving along past out of your control in your ears and across your mind. Artwork by SDReed.
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NP078 Weirding Module - "TIMEW33D" C46

Much in line with the weapon Weirding Module references in its name this cassette TIMEW33D attacks with varying sonic textures and sounds with a specificity that seems quite distinct. As strange as anything Night-People has ever released, this cassette of out world synth pulse, subtle interplays of heavy electronics, and queasy trance oscillations, is as spaced out as it gets. Peel the skin back something else is inside of us, speaking through the mind to the deep lost universe. Artwork by SDReed.
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