Fantastic album from this all-star garage band featuring Bleeker on guitar and vocals, Martin Courtney on bass and vocals, Julian Lynch (whose solo LP on OESB was a massive VT highlight in 2009) on guitar and Matt Mondanile (Ducktails) on drums. Bleeker takes the beautiful suburban teens play wasted rural psych feel of Real Estate deeper into a basement zone where the lonesome Americana of the first two LPs by The Band combine with Lynch’s wailing guitar solos (still pitched somewhere between Ed Kuepper and Tori Kudo) and some odd, melancholy instrumentals to birth the perfect late afternoon/sun going down in suburbia/end of teenage soundtrack. Love this. 

Fantastic compilation of all unreleased tracks from this great NJ label. Exclusive jams from Julian Lynch, Pill Wonder, Ducktails, Fluffy Lumbers, Big Troubles, Andrew Cedermark, Frat Dad , Dana Jewell, Air Waves, Family Portrait, Alex Bleeker, Mountain Man, Real Estate, Rainbow Bridge and Liam the Younger.

Edition of 500 copies 7” from Alex Bleeker of Real Estate/Alex Bleeker & The Freaks. Great summertime vibe with a loose Basement Tapes feel. 

Three-song teaser for the new Ducktails album, with demos and home-recorded versions of album tracks. Nice countrified folk feel cut with a breezy International Pop Underground aesthetic and a version of “Art Vandelay” that has been a recent Real Estate live staple. 

Great new self-released limited edition EP from Matt Mondanile on his own New Images imprint. The version of one of his best loved tracks, “Killin The Vibe” that opens the set is a perfect/primitive Beach Boys style slice of dream pop with angelic west coast backing vocals and a squelchy beatbox bottom end and features contributions from Panda Bear, Dent May and Jarvis Taveniere of Woods. Two new tracks, “Sit Around With Ya” and “Couch Surfer” add to the feel of languorous suburban ennui while a final live take on “Killin The Vibe” cut with The Spectrals in Leeds in 2010 reverses the whole deal into the garage. 

New issue of this excellent underground/H-Pop journal, perfectly bound 110 pages w/colour and b/w printing and bundled with a CD-R and a DVD-R. Articles by Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never), Cameron Stallones (Sun Araw), Michael McGregor interviews Velvet Davenport, Jesse Jarnow on Recording The Cosmos with Greg Davis, an interview with new age keyboard legend Iasos and more by Daniel Bachman, Nate Grace, Emilie Friedlander and Curtis Knapp. Artwork from Camilla Padgitt-Coles, Brenna Murphy, Christelle Gualdi, Christian “Megazord” Oldham, Daniel White, E*Rock, Hydrothermal Emerald, Jon Rafman, Julien Laugier, Massimiliano Bomba/Rawraw, Michelle Ceja, Productlaneevol, Push the Button, Stephanie Davidson, Yannick Val Gesto. The CD-R comes with tracks from La Big Vic, Airbird, Laurel Halo, Dent May, Ducktails, Buffalo Moon, Velvet Davenport, The Twerps, Young Prisms, Big Troubles, Alex Bleeker, Chuck Person, Zonotope ™, Sacred Harp and Dolphins into the Future while the DVD-R features video art from Amy Ruhl (excerpts from How Mata Hari Lost Her Head & Found Her Body, scored by Julian Lynch, Samantha Cromwell (live video of Speculator), Laurel Halo (video feedback piece), Ray Concepcion (live video of Julian Lynch), Christian “Megazord” Oldham (video for Dolphins into the Future), Maia Stern (live video of La Big Vic) and Ryan Hover (video remix of Candy Claws song).