There’s not much to say about the music of the beloved two-piece A Hawk and a Hacksaw that can’t be determined from listening to them. They are two modern Americans that play music inspired by old European folk. Sounds boring, right? Well, it’s not, it’s actually very exciting stuff. Their newest record, “Delivrance”, can now [...]
I just learned about Japanese glitch-pop musician Shuta Hasunuma, and he has a beautiful new album out. His work mixes organic instruments and dreamy pop vocals with some of the best glitch anywhere (it pretty much pwns Prefuse 73′s recent output). “Pop Ooga Plus” is a double 45rpm LP for $22. Buy one at WesternVinyl.com.
Santa Cruz’s Sleepy Sun just put out one of the best psych records I’ve heard in awhile, and that’s saying alot. “Embrace” is drawing alot of comparisons to bands like Black Mountain and My Morning Jacket, but they have their own thing going as well. Basically, if you like psychedelic rock and you frequent this [...]
I don’t know a whole lot about the Wales rock band Future of the Left, but I do know that Minneapolis designers Aesthetic Apparatus did some beautiful packaging for their new LP. The official release date is tomorrow (Tuesday, June 23rd), but you can already buy it at AuralExploits.com, Amazon.com, Insound.com, or your local record [...]
Troubleman Unlimited is trying to make some room for upcoming stuff, so they are having a giant sale. You can get any three LPs they’ve released for $30, five for $45, ten for $80, or fifteen for $110. This applies to all TMU releases on vinyl, even 2xLPs are fine. They’ve still got good stuff [...]
These started showing up in record stores over the weekend, and I realized we somehow hadn’t written about it yet. Matador took the ultra-deluxe route for the reissue of Pavement’s “Brighten The Corners”. The Nicene Credence Edition comes with four RTI HQ-120 gram LPs, a giant gatefold package, and a 16 page booklet. The vinyl [...]
Either I’m not looking in the right place, or vinyl news is a little slow this week. In the downtime, I’ll post about a release from earlier this year that for one reason or another I haven’t discovered until this morning. Absu play full-throttle, balls-to-the-wall metal with a very blackened tint. Recommended if you like [...]
We don’t exactly claim to be “on top of things” here at OMGV. Occasionally something will slip by us… how? I don’t know. For instance, this vinyl release of Stratospheric Passenger came out in like, March. And the actual album came out like, 2 years ago. I’m certain I can’t say much about this release [...]
We are on a roll with the crazy-ass-expensive vinyl packages lately. Check out this $60+ monstrosity from Italian doom-fuzz mongers Ufomammut. This is truly a handcrafted, lovingly designed and assembled peice of artwork – screenprinted inside and out and pressed onto thick black 180 gram vinyl. Speaking of 180 gram vinyl, this isn’t just some [...]
Last year while flipping through the Chicago Tribune, some friends of the Numero Group label came across the photography of Michael Abramson. Between 1975-1977, Abramson (a lanky white guy) would hit Chicago’s South Side nightclubs with a camera and a strobe light, taking dozens of photographs of the crowd. The fine folks at Numero have [...]
