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The debut full-length album by Seattle's Mommy Long Legs!
Repress on blue-colored vinyl
Back on cassette for the first time since 2018
Psychotic Spew is the debut album by Seattle Gunk Pop trio, Black Ends. An album long awaited by many, it is a dark and brooding achievement that breaks and creates you at every corner. From the highest highs of ‘Bent’ to the lowest lows of ‘Bye-Bye!’, there is a song for everyone here. Black Ends does not hold back yet a single feeling as the songwriting is sprinkled with as much catchy and clever humor as it is a mesmerizing and perfect sadness. The album is strewn with astounding instrumentation throughout with stand-out string performances by legendary composer and cellist, Lori Goldston. This is not an album to ignore - in fact, it is an album everyone should try at least once - just to feel like you’ve lived a little.
Casual Hex is a three-piece band formed in the PNW in 2015 by Erica Miller, Jessie Odell, and Nick Anderson. Rooted in post-punk, no-wave, and noise rock, their sound thrives on the tension between heaviness and minimalism, catchiness and dissonance.
While difficult to define a direct influence, traces of Pylon, Unwound, A Frames, and early Sonic Youth come through in their dissonant, catchy style. Jessie’s driving bass lines lay the foundation as Erica’s commanding vocals cut through with sharp, narrative intensity. The lyrical content is heady and cryptic, encouraging the listener to question human behavior and inspire positive change.
Their latest release features Anthony Beauchemin on drums, while Keegan Wiltshire joins them for their live performances.
Despite posing as a Seattle-based music ensemble, the true origins and motives of So Pitted remain a mystery. Eyewitness accounts and blurry cellphone footage sightings of the band have rapidly increased, putting relevant agencies on high alert. Further documentation of their activities appears in the sophomore album release CLONED, distributed by the underground faction Youth Riot Records on March 8, 2024.
Until this recent warning, some assumed the threat of So Pitted had subsided. Meanwhile, the group toiled in darkness summoning sonic aberrations with the supervision of Tad Doyle, a noted paranormal expert and musician. What emerged are 12 transmissions of post-nuclear visions, mutant transformations, and existential terror. Unidentified inside sources claim singer Nathan Rodriguez astrally projects into parallel realities to steal unreleased material from other musicians, leaving hints of their origins in song titles. One musicologist exposed to leaked copies of the recording disappeared and has not yet been located.
Thrill-seekers and academics alike have tracked their movements across the country reporting unexplainable phenomena like floating lights, subliminal influence, and what one researcher described as “musical abduction”, emerging from a trance-like state with no sense of time or place. Many attendees observed a member known as Ziam has been seen to either shapeshift or phase in and out of space. Others claim that no such person exists and that one or all band members may be hallucinatory projections. Authorities caution civilians to remain vigilant in monitoring the activities of So Pitted to ensure the safety and security of the public.
Wimps are at it again with City Lights, another slacker punk moshterpiece ready for the internet to gobble up. Lead singer and composer Rachel Ratner offers stark and playful wordage melding minimalist hooky riffage to cover such prescient topics as the rise of ubiquitous ai (Mind Reader); loneliness, growing inequality, and the loss of community and self (City Lights); a yearning for a return to a feral past (Animal); pollution and climate terrorism (Lake Washington), creating life (Mom) and promising a maybe undeliverable hope to that life during an unceasing pandemic (Morning), among other daily mundanity. Dave Ramm is the drummer and Matt Nyce plays bass.
Indeed, wimps’ City Lights may well stand as an artifact of humanity in a time of increasingly glossed and flawed expression. An imperfect, live, energetic, human statement made by 3 imperfect, mostly alive, yet rapidly deteriorating early 40s bit players of various Seattle whos and whats of a time long ago and soon to be forgotten. City Lights is a collection of solid classic wimps bops from stop to finish.
Are you influenced? Are you even ready for this experience? Are you? Well, if so, drop what you are doing right now and take a listen!
Gritty and powered by a pure love of rock and roll, Are You Influenced, the debut album by The Maya Experience reminds you that nothing is perfect. Deep, fresh, raw, and emotional barely begin to define the experience you have the moment Maya Marie’s thundering and soulful vocals strike you right in the feels. She moves effortlessly between anger and anguish, passion and vulnerability, as the fulfilling background of punchy bass lines and groovy drums spark the nostalgic 90’s sound, showing off a fresh spin on Seattle’s grunge genre currency. A thrice band, The Maya Experience cultivates Seattle’s most versatile players with Maya Marie fronting, Len Cochran on Bass, and David Cubine on drums. This group brings it all to the table when they kick out the Jams!
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For the first time ever, Youth Riot Records has beanies!
Cassette design by Anika Major
Black Soft Acrylic Fiber Beanies
Titanic 2 black longsleeve t-shirt with custom printing on left sleeve and breast pocket.
Reusable black bag with white logo + design created by Mommy Long Legs themselves!