December’s Children: “Black Kite impossible to ignore”
Read Brent Owen’s review.
Black Kite available now on CD and limited edition clear 12″ LP now in our webstore, or at their show at Headliners Music Hall this Saturday, Jan. 28.
Michael Verity, Berkeley Place weigh in on Whistle Peak
Read Verity’s take here, and BPB’s here.
Pre-order Half Asleep Upon Echo Falls on limited edition teal 12″ LP and CD in our webstore.
Ben Sollee / Half Off Learning To Bend w/ Donation
From now until Friday, Jan. 27, anyone who donates to Ben Sollee’s Half-Made Man PledgeMusic campaign and can show proof of donation will receive 50 percent off Learning To Bend LP. Send proof of donation to kbrrecords@gmail.com and order via PayPal from our webstore. NOTE: You must order the LP through our webstore or using kbrrecords@gmail.com. Regular shipping charges still apply.
Download Shipping News “Antebellum” at Epitonic
Free download of “Antebellum” is now available on the amazing site Epitonic. “Antebellum” appears on Shipping News’ latest album, One Less Heartless To Fear, out now on LP in our webstore.
Whistle Peak / Record Release Show Tickets On Sale
Tickets for Whistle Peak’s March 3 record release show at Zanzabar are on sale now via Ticketfly.
Pre-order their new album Half Asleep Upon Echo Falls on CD and limited edition teal 12″ LP at our webstore.
Seluah / Red Parole / April 10
In 2002, Seluah’s debut EP launched a mystery rife with ethereal melodies and dub rhythms, allotting them a singular trippy space in Louisville’s well-documented music scene. LEO Weekly hailed it as “one of the best records to ever come out of Louisville” and Ear X-tacy called it “a psych-dub masterpiece.” After brief stints supporting Rachel’s, Matt Pond PA and Shipping News, the band went dark for six years while continuing with their other bands (Rachel’s, Boom Bip and People Noise) before reuniting in September 2010.
In March 2011, Seluah again partnered with engineer Kevin Ratterman (My Morning Jacket, Young Widows, The Broken Spurs) at The Funeral Home to record Red Parole, an epic full length much broader in scope and instrumentation than their debut EP. This time out the band allotted two weeks to immerse themselves in the heavier songs resulting in a dark guitar-laden record with a massive bass and drum sound. The bulk of the record reflects an early ’70s mammoth guitar aesthetic, both fuzzed out and sweetly melodic, punctuated by mesmerizing vocals that glide over each track. Most of the material was performed when Seluah opened for TV On The Radio in fall 2011.
The record opens with “We May Never Make It Home,” a warning letter of a long maritime Odyssey, enriched by fellow Rachel’s alums Christian Frederickson and Rachel Grimes on viola and vocal. “The Other Side Of the Gun” is a revenge tale set on slow burn that peaks with a bloody release. “Black Sand” is an eight-minute, Gibson-fueled assault running over with moon-drenched lust. “Hell and Back” sneaks in with a Lynchian wilderness that gives way to a lusty rockabilly stomp with a clear nod to Scotty Moore. “Sail Straight Into The Bombs” is mapped by an insistent Rhodes that’s engulfed by huge walls of guitar and a mile-high snare drum. The ambient “Elysian Fields” ends the record with a melancholy spacebound eulogy, expansive harmonized vocals soaring over drenched beds of guitar and vibraphone.
Red Parole is a heavy, noirish guitar album and comes with a mandate to be played loudly …
Red Parole arrives in stores April 10 on CD, digital and 180-gram LP, with the first 250 pressed on red wax. Direct pre-orders for the CDs and LPs will begin March 10 at Karate Body Records’ Online Store.
Tracklisting:
1. We May Never Make It Home
2. The Other Side Of The Gun
3. Killing The Angels
4. Sail Straight Into The Bombs
5. Black Sand
6. Hell And Back
7. Disengage
8. Elysian Fields
Digital, CD Bonus Track: The Winch
Counterfeit Culture praises Whistle Peak’s detail
Full review here.
Pre-order Half Asleep Upon Echo Falls on CD and limited edition teal 12” vinyl (w/ download) now in our webstore.
