uvr009 Shark Week- The Lovely Bad Things (SOLD OUT. Check out their new s/t tape, out now on Burger Records!)
The second run of this amazing tape by this amazing band! New artwork and an edition of 100 clear blue tapes with pink labels!
05 The Lovely Bad Things- Cult Life by Ultravivid Recordings
uvr010- Sleep, Sweet Memories by Airborn Age (cdr EP, run of 50) (available NOW!)
1. This That & The Other
2. Shot Glass & A Wheel
3. Long Overdue
4. No Dice
5. The Release
6. Watered Down
7. Hangman’s March
uvr009- Shark Week by The Lovely Bad Things (1st run of 50, white tapes+ dwnld) (SOLD OUT!)
you know in those shitty teen movies where there’s a band at a house party or there’s a big concert and the main character is the lead singer and guitarist in the band and everyone is waiting to see if he or she fails or succeeds and then he or she starts playing and everyone starts screaming and jumping and throwing their arms up and losing their shit and the music is THE MOST BORING THING YOU’VE EVER HEARD? well the Lovely Bad Things make the kind of music that that stupid movie band SHOULD be making because one listen to Shark Week and you’ll be wishing you were crammed inside a sweaty garage, loaded with kids and jeans and beer and hormones and pure, unadulterated noise noise NOISE! throwing yr hands up, knowing everything will be okay, or, at the very least, FUN! never a dull moment, never a lull in energy, never turn the tape off! words get thrown around so often these days—punk, surf, garage, rock, roll, guitar hero, long hair, mosh, yelps, fun fun fun fun fun—but that don’t mean squat if you can’t back it up. The Lovely Bad Things can and do. Smash in yr face and dance like kids! BROTHERS AND SISTERS, IT’S A SIGHT TO BE SEEN!
Side A
1. My Kin
2. Kevin
3. Why
4. Cocaine Werewolf
5. Cult Life
Side B
6. Ugly Kids
7. Surfin’ On Skulls
8. Big Sur
9. Wematanye
You know when you’re tired of listening to some jerk noodling with his electric guitar through fifty-two different looper pedals and just wanna listen to some songs? And not just any songs, but some real, good songs? Songs about youth and love and boredom and yr shining violet hearts you’ve cherished all these years. Songs that crackle with life, explode into yr room! Songs that you sing along too everyday and hum in class as you stare out the window! Songs that will sound good twenty years from now when you blow dust off the CD and stick it in yr old car stereo, wind blowing your hair back as you cruise down the 405. It may be called Downer, but how can you really be bummed when yr listening to something like “Oh, Setting Sun”? You can’t! Recorded by Paul Rosales and featuring the unique songwriting of Amir Razmjou, The Muddy Flowers (who on this recording consist of Amir, Alex, Doug, Liz, and Chris) will have you singing, dancing, smiling, and loving! This’ll be on repeat repeat repeat!
uvr008- Downer by The Muddy Flowers (1st edition, cdr; cassette out on Psychedelicate Records)
OUT NOW!!!
1. Life Can Be
2. Christmas Lights
3. Can You Turn Off the Light
4. Shining Violet Hearts
5. Oh, Setting Sun
6. Hey, Sarah
7. Colorbook
8. I Like to Complain
9. Dreams
10. Watch the Ground
Retro groove—you don’t see a lot of this stuff ‘round these parts anymore. Equal parts classic, thrilling, just plain GOOD, you dig? Your daily dose of soul, shred; like a gospel choir opening up your chest and singing straight into yr heart. Each part holding it’s own in a thunderstorm of instrumentation, harmonies, imagery—no one part stands out because it all stands out. Epics sit beside pop gems about truth, sadness, happiness, rebirth, letting yr soul do the talking. It’ll all get stuck in your head. It’ll all get stuck in yr heart. And when that saxophone comes in, man, you’ll flip! They don’t make ‘em like this anymore, but we’ll always need it. Let it consume you! Emotional outpour, sunbeams break through the clouds, loud new soul! And all this recorded in a small upstairs room, no less!
uvr007- Letters of Going Away by Airborne Age (available NOW!)
1. Freedom’s Hymn
2. Ode to a Broken Soul
3. The Lie & The Trick
4. Shattered Lullaby
5. Words Never Get Any Easier
6. Blinded Fool
7. Set In Stone
8. The Sun Is Just A Star
9. Letters of Going Away
10. Loving the Smoke
uvr006 - Thizzneyland (cd-r) by mermels AVAILABLE NOW!
Abstract instrumentals sit next to found-sound musiques; keyboards, tribal drums, chaos, comfort. Beautiful dronescapes playing with pieces of an old industrial park. Like waking up to an Australian desert sunrise, with the giant mass of fire coming up slowly over that hallowed rock, the busy city bustling behind you, sneezing up the pink and yellow skies you used to gaze at as a child. Relentless, but deceivingly anti-repetitive, the soundscapes are always changing, like an audible version of Eno’s 77 Million Paintings. Lovely, lovely music that you can paint to, sleep to, do your homework to, run with, and think about this world we live in.
Our good friend Michael Mermelstein (also of Ghostship and Moon Pearl) has created noise that isn’t boring. And for that, you should give it a listen.
1 dianne keaton
2 sirens and bird callls 1
3 hallowed ground
4 sirens and bird calls 2
5 drones
6 pizza party
7 sirens and bird calls 3
8 tuesdays
(plus a special track, live favorite “Paul Blart Mall Cop”!)
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uvr005 High Spirits- Dash Jacket (cassette + download) OUT NOW!!!
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The first Dash Jacket cassette, and the first new Dash Jacket release of this year/decade! Some classic live staples alongside some that’ve never been played live (and likely never will be). Pop played thrashy, blown out drums, and an atmospheric instrumental (or two, sorta) thrown in for good measure. 1st edition of 100 on light blue tapes!
side A
1. Pheromones
2. Heat Waves
3. Matinee Show
4. tens
side B
5. No Way Girl
6. Sleeping Pills
7. Melting Gaze
8. San Pedro
uvr004 Atoner Ep- Dash Jacket (cd-r)
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Released simultaneously with the Spacer EP (summer 2009), and features a “cover” of that EP’s title track. This is the other side of the Dash Jacket coin, at least as it was at that time. More on the skewed pop/atmospheric/instrumental side. “Atoner seems to be as much about the soup of life as it is about dying on the beach of a broken heart.”
1. Anna Says
2. Ripe Sea
3. Spacer
4. Prematurely Red
5. Atoner
uvr003 Spacer Ep- Dash Jacket (cd-r)
5 super loud and raucous songs in just as many minutes. Released simultaneously to the Atoner EP, and features a cover of that EP’s title track.
1. Fit Flinger
2. I’m No Good
3. Atoner
4. 1000 Pleases
5. Spacer
uvr001 blahblah- Dash Jacket (cd-r)
Second Dash Jacket release, but first UVR release (just to be weird). Twice the length of Some Songs with more mature songwriting, more loopy atmospherics, and more slowed-down instrumentals. Still pretty loud and blown out. We’ve been told it’s a concept album.
1. Nice Forever
2. Blah
3. Washing Machine
4. Matinee Show
5. Ultravivid
6. Is It Saturday Yet?
7. Pomegranate Lips
8. Coastal Sang
9. For Those Who Were Asleep
10. Wash
11. Mean Forever
12. Storm Clouds
uvr002 Some Songs- Dash Jacket (cd-r)
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First Dash Jacket album, recorded on a laptop in Mat’s garage in December ‘08 and January ‘09. Loud and fast w/ no drums (distorted tambourine and random struck objects instead). 11 songs in 12 minutes.
1. Always Nothing
2. Molecule, My Friend
3. Do
4. Don’t Forget Me
5. B.A. Blues
6. Maybe Fall Apart
7. Worth
8. Vivian Girl
9. Today Tomorrow
10. My Imagination
11. Always Nothing
