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More Multicult already!?


Go on, have a taste of the Multicult full-length “Spaces Tangled” which shall drop in a few weeks. Very pleased by this here at SGG HQ.

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Neglected Prayer Rug Abomination – extinction?

It seems another run of this Leather Sky cassette release might be in order. If you just cannot wait feel free to help yourself to this inferior digi version…

 

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Multicult – S/T 12″ – available from and praised by Aquarius Records..

The debut MC 12″ recently unearthed by SGG from the private-press bunker is available from the finest shop in the land – and they clearly appreciate the post-punk/mutant-funk, art-damaged, Chrome-plated heaviness contained within its grooves. Warm up with this and try to prepare for the acid bath that hits when their “Spaces Tangled” LP drops in a matter of weeks..

“One of two new releases this week on the Sleeping Giant Glossolalia label, the other, the debut from the new Mick Barr / Brooks Headley duo Oldest reviewed elsewhere on this week’s list, and this, the debut from this rhythmic lo-fi post punk noise rock combo, whose sound is a super distorted, lurching, lumbering mathed out monster, all gristly guitar buzz, blown out rehearsal space drumming, the sound fuzzy and washed out, but dense and tense and thick. The songs tangled arrangements of churning downtuned heaviness, of stop/start math rock stutter, angular and chaotic, with the occasional weirdly almost arena-rock sounding chorus, in fact most of the songs have some buried melodies that transform Mutlicult’s blasts of rhythmic frenzy into something much more than just noise rock workouts. The basslines are thick but brittle, the vocals a buried bellow, there’s definitely an AmRep vibe, but there’s also a sort of early eighties UK post punk thing going on, some of the jams downright groovy, everything wreathed in crumbling distortion, but the pop hooks are there somewhere, and seem to surface with repeated listens, but they are subtle, Multicult is more about woozy, dirgey, muddy heaviness, a sound that seems to melt and ooze, almost like someone is dragging their finger along the record as it spins, which only gives the sound an even more tripped out psychedelic feel. For all their pound and crush, the band don’t shy away from the rhythms that drive their sound, often striping things way down, and letting the bass and drums take control, it’s at those points that Multicult sound more like they could be some lost eighties punk/funk artifact, but as rhythmic (and at times, groovy) as these guys get, they never ever stray too far from another blast of churning skull caving noise rock crunch.  Packaged in a red 12″ style sleeve, with a green and yellow sticker.”

– www.aquariusrecords.org

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OLDEST LP out May 8 – get it from Aquarius Records early(NOW!)..

We made the debut LP from OLDEST an aQ exclusive as a sort of “Record Store Week” special to honor our favorite shop. So go to Aquarius Records and pick one up before it officially comes out in May! Here is their right-on review:

“From our pal Mike at the amazing Sleeping Giant Glossolalia comes this latest blast of gnarled metallic guitar heavy whatthefuck from long time aQ fave Mick Barr (Krallice, Ocrilim, Octis, Orthrelm, Crom-Tech) who in Oldest, is teamed up with Brooks Headley (Born Against, Universal Order Of Armageddon), who besides being a rad drummer, is now a fairly well known pastry chef! However, as curious as we would be to hear/see Headley’s pastries combined with Barr’s axe-work, it is in his role as drummer, that he completes the Oldest duo, which Barr describes as sounding like Voivod meets Darkthrone, but which in fact sounds a lot like Barr’s late great Crom-Tech combo. A wild mathy tech metal grindpunk noise-prog blowout that finds the duo unleashing frenzied stretches of tranced out guitars, frantic riffing, the melodies angular and atonal, the drumming dense and complex, the arrangements fractured and fucked up, the vocals a punkish shriek. Intricate and heavy, dizzying and chaotic, the songs super fluid, droney, cyclical and near static one second, lurching stop/start stutter the next, slipping occasionally into chugging classic metal mode or soaring blackened buzz, but always returning to that distinctive twisted technical grinding math/meth metal crush that Barr seems to have a lock on. Fucking awesome. And not even really out until next month, so for now, an aQ exclusive!” – http://aquariusrecords.org/

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Leather Sky review up at Aquarius Records

LEATHER SKY – Neglected Prayer Rug Abomination
Debut tape from this Colorado crew, headed up by aQ pal Mike, who runs the Sleeping Giant Glossolalia label (responsible for recent lps from Vaz, Bobb Bruno and Shit & Shine) and who also plays in aQ faves Epileptinomicon. But where Epileptinomicon was a weirdly rhythmic experimental noise outfit, who trafficked in murky ritualism and kraut-drone soundscaping, Leather Sky is a much more fierce and feral proposition, an ugly, unhinged, hardcore, that owes more to groups like Black Flag, Infest, Void and the like. Neglected Prayer Rug Abomination is a short sharp series of sonic violations, misanthropic musical fury channeled into brief blurry blasts, the guitars angular, the drums tribal one second, a caveman pound the next, the bass a blurred low end ooze, the vocals a howled caterwaul, all but buried in the murk and mire, the sound here super lo-fi, but still dense and heavy and MEAN, recorded in some grim grey bunker, the production perfectly suiting the sound, that sound a pounding, filthy, crusty, chaotic, angular crush like like some unholy union between eighties DC hardcore and nineties Gravity Records post punk. Fuck yeah. -www.aquariusrecords.org

 

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Leather Sky March Madness/Sadness

We’re a little behind on the updates due to our Austin takeover(videos/photos to come) but    some of these LS tour dates are still impending meaning you may have a chance to catch them in the flesh…

  • 15 hr drives, 15 min sets all over the goddamn place this month.
    3/14 Wichita – Kirby’s Beer Store
    3/15 – Driving, looking at bats unless you have a better idea
    3/16 Tejas – Itsa Secret w/ shhhhhh
    3/17 Austin – aQuarius recOrds + Sleeping Giant Glossolalia SXSW Party w/ Vaz, The Supreme Dicks, Shit & Shine, Submissions, Samesack(Butthole Surfers), Night Control, Prizehog, Hex Machine3/18 – wee hours, secret bridge show, likely to be shut down by cops

    3/19 Denver – Blastomat – w/ Prizehog, Echo Beds

    3/23 Denver – Bar Bar

    3/25 Grand Junction – house show

    3/27 San Francisco – Hemlock w/ Nuclear Death Wish(Burmese), Ninni Morgia & Silvia Kastel trio with Utrillo Kushner (Comets on Fire) + Sharkiface(Caroliner, 16 Bitch Pile-Up, Pigs In The Ground)

    3/28 Oakland – tba

    3/29 Portland – Tube (early show)   w/ Crawlin’
    3/29 Portland – East End (late show)  w/ Crawlin’

    3/30 Seattle –  Josephine w/ Great Falls (Jesu, Playing Enemy, Kiss It Goodbye, Undertow) – Spacebag (Rorschach, Playing Enemy) – Dan LaRochelle (Lesbian) & CC Parker

    3/31 Missoula – Zoo City Apparel w/ White Mystery, Coathangers, Total Combined Weight
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SGG + aQuarius Records Take SXSW

SXSW is indeed a big, dumb, shit-show, or “a self serving hoke of indie mememe! screemers” as our friend Matthew Bower says, but, just like last year, we’re making it worth attending…

Saturday, March 17 2012….

featuring…
SAMESACK – cruel heaviness from members of Butthole Surfers, Shit & Shine, Rubble, Todd, etc…

VAZ – NYC creep-rock mainstays who have dominated forever as Hammerhead, Vaz, and GasWar…

SUBMISSIONS – post-industrial dirge duo with the unlikely resume of Best Coast, The For Carnation, The Pope, Goliath Bird Eater, Bipolar Bear, German Army, etc…

THE SUPREME DICKS – living legends of outsider psychedelic indie rock…

SHIT AND SHINE – British invasion of pounding, rhythmic, droning, heavy artillery art rock…

NIGHT CONTROL – noise-pop perfection from the past/distant future…

PRIZEHOG – this local slo-mo psychedelic sludge power trio return for an encore aQ SXSW performance….

LEATHER SKY – ugly, unhinged hardcore from inside the bunker, with ties to Epileptinomicon, MjolniirDXP, Deth Spa, etc….

HEX MACHINE – psyched to finally see these Virginia crushers live, their sound equal parts gnarled Voivod-ish math metal and grunge infused Amrep style noise…

…possible surprises, daily breakfasts at Tamale House #3, the works…more info to come……WATCH THIS SPACE.

1906 E. 12th St., Austin, TX 78702

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