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Released
on Silber February
2015 Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Broken Hearts Broken Sounds, a cover scan, a digital booklet,& a copy of the press release. Compiled by Carolina music veteran Michael Wood, Broken Hearts Broken Sounds showcases 18 bands with links to the always healthy underground music scene of North & South Carolina. Recommended if you like: local music diversity, shoegaze, experimental pop, post rock : Press Release : Digital Booklet : Reviews Track Listing: The Veldt - It Breaks My Heart The Affectionates - Cry Wolf Hyphen Burnhole - Sweat Meat King of Prussia - From the Vine Planet Cock - Love Song LoveyDove - Soul Gem Something About Vampires and Sluts - Not Tonight One Bad Apple - Birthday Sleeping Policeman - Caretaker's Eyes M is We - Lying Lie Miss Massive Snowflake - Valentina & Tommaso Remora - 10,004 Electric Bird Noise - neetxis (til death do us part) Feel No Other - Even The Blue Nighttime Tides - 11-7-14 Wedding Theme For Brian and Chelsea Downlouders - Velocità di Crociera Octopus Jones - Grand Illusion Silver Screen Orchestra - Glassĕra Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? |
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Released
on Silber December
2014 Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Firetail's Little Droner Boy, a cover scan, a digital booklet,& a copy of the press release. Firetail creates a reverb drenched drone from a Christmas classic. Recommended if you like: Low, lovesliescrushing, slowcore : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: Little Droner Boy Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? |
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Released
on Silber December
2014 Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Remora's A Burning Lump of Coal, a cover scan, a digital booklet & a copy of the press release. Now hailing from New York City & Paris, France Plumerai has re-formed as DRLNG to make shoegazing post pop. Recommended if you like: Godflesh, Joy Division, The Stooges, Bill Horist, post punk guitar experiments : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Ho-Ho-Ho Old St Nick Shchedryk Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? |
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Released
on Silber December
2014 Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Electric Bird Noise's Birth, a cover scan, a digital booklet, & a copy of the press release. Discordant guitar ambient for being trapped in an elevator trying to escape a Christmas party. Recommended if you like: elevator music for art galleries. : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: evlewt neetriht neetruof neetfif Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? |
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Released
on Silber December
2014 Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Ronja's Christmas Witch's Ronja's Christmas Witch, a cover scan, a digital booklet, & a copy of the press release. Mkl Anderson of Drekka leads us through a world of Christmas dreams. Recommended if you like: Drekka, Ambient Psych Folk : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: First Dream of Christmas Second Dream of Christmas Third Dream of Christmas Fourth Dream of Christmas Fifth Dream of Christmas Sixth Dream of Christmas Seventh Dream of Christmas Eighth Dream of Christmas Ninth Dream of Christmas Tenth Dream of Christmas Eleventh Dream of Christmas Twelfth Dream of Christmas Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? |
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Released
on Silber December
2014 Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Yellow6's Merry6mas2014, a cover scan, a digital booklet, & a copy of the press release. A collection of outtakes, live recordings, & new material wrap up the year 2014 for Yellow6. Recommended if you like: Aarktica, Labradford, Pan American, Twin Peaks, thisquietarmy : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: October Song October Drone Drone #2 Sleet Day They Look Lost Red Candy Gusts Lighthouse (Version 1B) Lighthouse 2 To Be Continued... Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? |
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Released
on Silber December
2014 Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Small Life Form's Parts for Holiday Projects, a cover scan, a digital booklet, & a copy of the press release. Small Life Form explores the secret sounds of jingle bells. Recommended if you like: Electro-acoustic walls of static : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: Slumber Workshop It's Not All Milk & Cookies Wake Up Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? |
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Released
on Silber December
2014 Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Baptizer's Nativity, a cover scan, & a copy of the press release. Baptizer provides the caustic soundtrack of the first Christmas. Recommended if you like: Caustic Noise, Baby Jesus : Press Release Track Listing: The Demons of Herod Hunt in Vain Nativity Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? |
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Released
on Silber December
2014 Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of DRLNG's Icarus EP, a cover scan, a digital booklet, a promo photo, & a copy of the press release. Now hailing from New York City & Paris, France Plumerai has re-formed as DRLNG to make shoegazing post pop. Recommended if you like: The Cure, Bjork, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Cranes : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: Icarus My Gypsy Playground Punk Seattle Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? : Reviews |
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Released
on Silber December
2014 Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Goddakk's Praises to My Devourer, a cover scan, a digital booklet, & a copy of the press release. Martin Newman of Plumerai & DRLNG returns with his project Goddakk for five minutes of manipulated & mutilated guitar experiments. Recommended if you like: Coil, lovesliescrushing, Aidan Baker, salvia trips : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: 52 Hertz Where the Truth Lies My Devourer Southbounded Winter in the Garden Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? : Reviews |
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Released
on Silber December
2014 Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Can Can Head's King Dong Kong, a cover scan, a digital booklet, & a copy of the press release. No wave jazz from Finland delivered to you by Can Can Heads. Five minutes to listen to a dozen times in a row. Recommended if you like: Rllrbll, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Minor Threat, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: Don of Donetsk Gaffe Square with a Little Bit Rectangle Effag Slow Kill Monotony Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? : Reviews |
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Released
on Silber December
2014 Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Frank Alexander's 5x5, a cover scan, a digital booklet, & a copy of the press release. Prog rock bassist Frank Alexander delivers five short songs in five different styles of music. Recommended if you like: Triplicity, Industrial fusing with Smooth : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: Armageddon Disco Bottoms Up After the Spring All in the Past Martian Waltz Prefer to listen on Spotify? Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? : Reviews |
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Released
on Silber November
2014 Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Matteo "NonMiPiaceIlCirco" Preabianca's A Kind of World, a cover scan, a digital booklet, & a copy of the press release. Sonic sketches invoke memories from another reality through found sounds, chimes, & spoken words. To describe it takes longer than to simply experience these five pieces in five minutes. Recommended if you like: Charles Ives, Ben Link Collins, Clang Quartet, Sound Experiments : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: Miles, no Davis Bratislavskaya Australiana Francisco Orleans Puebla vs. Milan Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? : Reviews |
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Released
on Silber October
2014 Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Yellow6's Closer To The Sea Without Moving, a cover scan, a digital booklet, & a copy of the press release. Yellow6 comes to Silber with an ambient tale of life & decay.. Recommended if you like: Aarktica, Labradford, Pan American, Twin Peaks, thisquietarmy : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: Looking Back Towards The Sea Lighthouse Closer to the Sea (Part One) Closer to the Sea (Part Two) Closer to the Sea (Part Three) Closer to the Sea (Part Four) Closer to the Sea (Part Five) Red Candy Lighthouse (Closer) Sleet Day Prefer to listen on Spotify? Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? : Reviews |
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Released
on Silber October
2014 Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Lost Trail's Rural Entropy EP, a cover scan, a digital booklet, & a copy of the press release. The return of our five songs in five minutes with NC's Lost Trail creating ambient soundtracks to imaginary short films. Recommended if you like: Electric Bird Noise, Godspeed You Black Emperor, John Carpenter : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: Blood Forcefield The Brown Mountain Lights Emerald Valley Flameship John Carpenter For PSH Prefer to listen on Spotify? Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? : Reviews |
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Re-released
on Silber September
2014 (originally released in 1999) Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Electric Bird Noise's Unleashing the Inner Robot, a cover scan, promo photos, a digital booklet, & a copy of the press release. The first album of Electric Bird Noise’s cinematic soundscapes from 1999. Recommended if you like: Lycia, Kraftwerk, the 1990s : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: Number 4 Lazy Tumbleweeds Japanese Toy Song The Hum of the Moon Cloudless Sulfur Number 3 The Shape of Clouds to Come Three Thousand and Two Anf/Spraid with Raid Holdin Back the Tears Prefer to listen on Spotify? Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? : Reviews |
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Re-released
on Silber September
2014 (originally released in 2000) Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Rllrbll's Bathing Music, a cover scan, a digital booklet, & a copy of the press release. Rllrbll classic originally released by Road Cone in 2000 of post-jazz, trip hop, experimental rock blended into one lovable animal called Rllrbll. Recommended if you like: Sun Ra, Swans, Jackie O Motherfucker, Sonny Sharrock : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: Cockfighter What Are You Crying About? Osceola DJ Tecate Wyoming Knocker Wet Food Twice a Day Moundbuilders As Ever Gone and Wasted Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? Prefer to listen on Spotify? : Reviews |
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Re-released
on Silber September
2014 (originally released in 2001) Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of If Thousand's Candice Recorder, a cover scan, a digital booklet, & a copy of the press release. If Thousands first album from 2000 of dark ambient slumbercore. Somewhere between ambient, drone, avant jazz, shoegaze, & experimental noise. Recommended if you like: Stars of the Lid, Brian Eno, Coil, Goblin : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: things in symbols with a voice as big as a tree last noise in 3 pt 1 atrocious candice recorder last noise in 3 pt 2 paint the night i can close my eyes for you last noise in 3 pt 3 you were found under water kasio secret bonus track Prefer to listen on Spotify? Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? : Reviews |
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Released
on Silber August
2014
Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Thorn1's The Light of Random Star, a cover scan, promo photos, a digital booklet, & a copy of the press release. Drone pop & ambient music straight form the heart of Siberia. Recommended if you like: Aarktica, Remora, Natural Snow Buildings, My Bloody Valentine, Brian Eno, The Twilight Sad, Antimatter, The Radio Dept., Mogwai. : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: Relict Clearly and Consciously It's Easy to See, You Drift Away Vortex Gravity We Are Drowned, But We Do Not Exist The Color of Your Eyes Fractal Trees Ya Uznal ob Etom Poslednim Heat Death of the Universe Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? Prefer to listen on Spotify? : Reviews |
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Released
on Silber August
2014
Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Across the Mountains - A Macedonian Ambient Music Compilation, a cover scan, a digital booklet, a collection of photos of Macedonia, & a copy of the press release. A compilation of ambient music from Macedonia compiled by our good friends at Post Global Recordings. Recommended if you like: Brian Eno, Einstürzende Neubauten, wandering in the mountains of foreign lands. : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: Sherifidan Kurt - intro Amplidyne Effect - the introvert microorganism fydhws - the sprawl aiRless pRoject - unbearable lightness of being Dimitar Dodovski - water goes somewhere Post Global Trio - 2 Sound_00 - borislavec Sherafedin Kurt - the last song it's like a first song Prefer to listen on Bandcamp? Prefer to listen on Spotify? : Reviews |
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Released
on Silber July
2014
Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of the compilation QRD - The Guitarists, a cover scan, a 58 page digital booklet, a 2388 page ebook of guitarist interviews, & a copy of the press release. Nearly 20 years in the making is the second official compilation from in depth interview zine QRD. Along with being nearly 4 hours of music from 55 innovative guitarists, it also includes a massive ebook with in depth interviews with over 150 guitarists. You know, go big or go home. The download is half a gig, so it may take a little while longer than you are used to. Recommended if you like: Guitar Terrorism, Aggressive Ambient Noise, Glacial Dreams, or any of the specific appearing musicians. : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: Ian McPhedran of Ostrich Tuning - Julia Plus Jun Minowa of Gargle & Yawning - Deserted Alan Sparhawk of Low - La La Daughter Mouth Aidan Baker of Nadja - ExParte #4 Michael Walton of mwvm - ebygum Mason Jones of Numinous Eye - Seldom Is The Story Told Gavin MacArthur of Schlong - Bullet Bitches Brandon W Pittman of when the word was (((sound))) - First Light of Dawn (Still Life) Evgeny Zheyda of Thorn1 - Relict Robert Brown of Northern Valentine - the decline PD Wilder of Hotel Hotel - Summer Maps Ashkelon Sain of Trance to the Sun - Arrive Lost Invisible Elephant - Kicking Jesus Andras Fekete of Boat Burning - The Accretion Tapes 2008-2013 David M Birchall of Kalbakken - For Bertolt Brecht Brian Elyo of mobdividual - Glen v3 Francesco Brasini - Electric Guitar Strings Ensemble Jason LaFarge of Pants Exploder - The Fat of the Land Brian Lea McKenzie of Electric Bird Noise - Kind of Black One Azalia Snail - Getting Lei'd Andrea Vascellari of Lullabier & Firetail - The Forest Album By Alan Sparhawk Eric Quach of thisquietarmy - Metallic Twilight Kyle Arthur Miller of Haunter - Temps perdu (edit) Martin Newman of Plumerai & Goddakk - Secondhand Emotion Joshua Heinrich of fornever - adrift Charles Rice Goff III - Falling Fired Frozen Flaked Bret Harold Hart - Dancing on Nothing Dave Halverson of Trance Lucid - Quelle Aar Evan Peta - Lavzza gran (in 3 parts) Jim Walker of Tim and Jim & JVA - Formica, My Friend John Trubee - Spanish Sunset Jon Attwood of Yellow6 - Set Your Heart on the Stars Brian John Mitchell of Remora - Hills of Elfshima Nathan Amundson of Rivulets - Ujaayi Gary Murray - Mount Versant Observatory Bill Horist of Master Musicians of Bukkake - Our Scars of Braille Withheld TAM - Noise Track Julien Ottavi - We found a chocolate cake in a basket broken in two pieces Tony Sagger of DrugsDragons - Night Driving Jean D.L. - //F//T//S// Robert Poss of Band of Susans - Partial Clearing Russ Stedman - Medium Density Fiberboard Stef Ketteringham of Shield Your Eyes - nature intends you to cry Eric Hausmann - Gambus Guitar Orchestra Zachary Corsa & Denny Corsa of Lost Trail - Wandering Into An Abyss Michael A. Cosma of Anixas - Gigamawaz Rachel Goldstar of Experimental Aircraft - desert skies Cheryl Hall of Irata - Respirate Michael Seman of Shiny Around The Edges - David Saylor's Fluffy Wonderworld Don Campau - Glial Attitude Matt Stevens of Fierce and the Dead - Vinegar Dan West of Sidewalk Society & LoveyDove - Sorrow And Joy Get Married Jason Williams of Animal Holograms - When the World Froze Over Peter Bingham of Sendelica - Sendelica Soundscape #2 Prefer Spotify for listening or embedding music? Click here. Prefer Bandcamp for listening or embedding music in your review? Click here. : Reviews |
Released
on Silber June
2014
Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Origami Arktika's Absolut Gehör, a cover scan, a digital booklet with detailed liner notes of each song, & a copy of the press release. Origami Arktika returns with their experimental drone take on traditional Norwegian folk music. "Absolut Gehör manages to fuse elements of drone, industrial noise, folk and jazz in a heady, surreal mix that evokes the sound of the post-apocaylpyse; in other words, melancholy, anxious, unsettled & yet possessing a hushed beauty." ~ William Ruben Helms, The Joy of Violent Movement Recommended if you like: Small Life Form, Einstürzende Neubauten, Sigur Ros, Jandek, Pelt, Can, Current 93, Death in June. : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: Ro og hamle Bryggja te jol Háttalykill Folkestadvisa Tora liti Det syng for Storegut Skonde deg du jente - lurlokk Prefer to listen on Spotify? : Reviews |
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Released
on Silber May
2014
Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Chvad SB's Crickets Were The Compass, a cover scan, a digital booklet, promotional photos, & a copy of the press release. Chvad SB of Things Outside the Skin & Controlled Bleeding comes to Silber for an ambient drone lament on love & loss. "Crickets Were The Compass is a provocative, challenging, cinematic LP. It creates a strong, darkly dystopic narrative that is as heavenly as it is haunting. A powerful offering from a hugely talented artist." ~ Knifed in Venice Recommended if you like: Small Life Form, Controlled Bleeding, Lustmord, Coil, Things Outside the Skin, Roll the Dice. : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: It Haunts Her A Hair Before Sundown The Dust Cloud Permeates People Keep Asking And I Say You're Well There Isn't A Day That Goes By Crickets Were The Compass And The World Goes 'Round Videos: It Haunts Her : Reviews |
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Released
on Silber March
2014
Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Feel No Other's Feel No Other LP, a cover scan, a digital booklet, promotional photos, & a copy of the press kit. Feel No Other returns with their full length debut of cinematic americana storytelling. "...their self-titled debut manages to sound simultaneously cinematic and intimate, contemporary and yet old-fashioned — at it’s heart, it’s part David Lynch soundtrack & Joan Baez-era folk song...a haunting, unsettling beauty." ~ William Ruben Helms, The Joy of Violent Movement Recommended if you like: Electric Bird Noise, Hitoki Inui, Beirut, Florence and the Machine, Bright Eyes, David Bowie, anime anthems. : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: pan's shadow my brother's guns and knives march towards the west winter is all over you altavilla milicia gunslinger eclipse la fiance de l'eau synoyi edohi even the blue march towards the east toy soldiers Prefer to listen on Spotify? : Reviews : Free Streaming of Album Availble to the Public |
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Released
on Silber March
2014
Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of slicnaton's autoscopy, a cover scan, a digital booklet, & a copy of the press kit. slicnaton comes to Silber with meditative experimental drone influenced by classical & jazz composition backgrounds. "Completely relaxing... slicnaton caresses my inner buddha!" ~ Brian Lea McKenzie, Electric Bird Noise Recommended if you like: post jazz, atmospherics, Super Silent, Gyorgy Ligeti, Small Life Form, Silber Records. : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: watcher maartechen doppelganger astral heautos repossesion Prefer to listen on Spotify? : Reviews : Free Streaming of Album Available to the Public |
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Released
on Silber February
2014
Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Electric Bird Noise's Kind of Black, a cover scan, a digital booklet, promotional photos, & a copy of the press kit. Electric Bird Noise returns with a discordant chord driven prog rock guitar drone extravaganza. "Beware this record's power." ~ Space Rock Mountain Recommended if you like: elevator music for art galleries. : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Prefer Soundcloud for embedding music in your review? Click here. Prefer YouTube for embedding music in your review? Click here. Prefer to listen on Spotify? : Reviews : Free Streaming of Album Available to the Public |
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Released
on Silber February
2014
Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of If Thousand's For, a cover scan, a digital booklet, a promotional photo, & a copy of the press kit. If Thousands returns after eight years with their special formula of angst laden slumbercore drone ambient. For is a thing of beauty that must be ingested whole & is a perfect drug for a long day’s night. ~ Joseph Kyle, Dagger Recommended if you like: Stars of the Lid, Brian Eno, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Aarktica : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: 1 two 3 four 5 six 7 eight 9 ten 11 twelve lucky Prefer Bandcamp for embedding music in your review? Click here. : Reviews : Free Streaming of Album Availble to the Public |
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Released
on Silber December
2013
Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Rllrbll's 4 Corners, a cover scan, a digital booklet, a promotional photo, & a copy of the press kit. Known for skirting genres, Rllrbll returns with a genre defying blend of post jazz, trip hop, post punk, & experimental rock. Recommended if you like: Sun Ra, Swans, Jackie O Motherfucker, Sonny Sharrock, The Killers : Press Release : Digital Booklet Track Listing: McKaw Iggy Robin with a Cheeto Prince Charles in a Can Hebrew, I Hate You Meximelt Cyclops Wax Wing Cedar Mocking Bird in Gazza Windy as Fuck Videos: Windy as Fuck Iggy Prefer to listen on Spotify? : Reviews : Free Streaming of Album Available to the Public |
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Released on Crimson Eye July 2014
Click the image at left to download a zip file containing MP3s of Irata & Solar Halo's Ten Inch Split, a cover scan, promtional photos, a digital booklet, & a copy of the press kit. Two of the best & heaviest metal bands of
North Carolina join forces to split this slab of vinyl. :
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Released on LA's Fine March
2014
Click the image at left to download a zip file containing sample MP3s of LoveyDove's LoveyDove, a cover scan, & a copy of the press kit. LoveyDove is soulful pop from Azalia Snail
& Dan West.
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