Another year, another Record Store Day. The day when music fans venture to their hometown record store to support local businesses and cherish the lost art of crate digging. It’s an opportunity for smaller labels to reward their dedicated fans with special or archival releases. It’s also a great time for the major labels to cash in on vinyl nostalgia by pressing overpriced vinyl versions of popular CD-era albums or reissuing top sellers for the umpteenth time at the very start of the new fiscal year. Luckily, Thrill Jockey is going to be treating record buyers to the former with a series of cool releases for the 2013 Record Store Day on April 20 (hehehe).
First up, is Double Dagger. Although the Baltimore punks called it quits with a final tour in 2011, there have always been plans to release a final album and 333 is that album. A few years in the making, 333 will feature a diverse range of sounds with volatile punk rock anthems counterbalanced by melodic instrumentals. A fitting bookend to the band’s career. On top of that, the Record Store Day package will actually be an LP+DVD package featuring a DVD of the documentary If We Shout Loud Enough. The film, directed by Gabriel DeLouch, follows Double Dagger on their last tour, as well as documenting the Baltimore DIY scene. While there is plenty of live footage, the film also contains interviews with Dan Deacon and Baltimore music historian Tim Kabara as well as members of Future Islands, Wye Oak, Ruiner, and Thank You. You can check out a preview of If We Shout Loud Enough here.
Next up, Bay Area psych rockers Golden Void have a limited edition 7-inch in the works for Record Store Day. On the heels of their self-titled debut, the single features two brand new songs — “Rise Out of Reach,” as well as an instrumental display of the band’s musical prowess on the B-side called “Smiling Raven.” Both tracks were recorded live on a cassette four-track in an attempt to capture the frenetic energy of their live shows.
Last, but certainly not least, Thrill Jockey is going to be reissuing the first two albums from glitch pioneers Oval. Oval’s Systemisch and its companion piece 94diskont will be re-released for the first time on vinyl in the United States since their original releases way back in the mid 1990s. 94diskont centers around the 24-minute track “Do While” composed for Oval’s eight-channel, 128-speaker installation “Wohnton.” The new issue of 94diskont will feature remixes of “Do While” from Jim O’Rourke, Scanner, Mouse on Mars, and Christian Vogel.
So all this awesome stuff will be available on Record Store Day and Thrill Jockey has some other good stuff lined up for later in the year including new ones from Black Pus and Thalia Zedek. Got it?
• Golden Void: http://www.facebook.com/goldenvoid
• Oval: https://soundcloud.com/oval-official
• Thrill Jockey: http://www.thrilljockey.com
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