Dreamend is the main musical output of Ryan Graveface, Graveface Records' owner/sole employee and part time guitarist for psychedelic oddballs Black Moth Super Rainbow. Since its’ inception in 2002, Graveface has released albums by Monster Movie (ex-Slowdive), The Loose Salute (Mojave 3 side project), Kid Dakota, Appleseed Cast, Art in Manila (ex-Azure Ray), Octopus Project, BMSR and many more.

The Long Forgotten Friend's 14 songs (10 songs on the cd version) are loosely based on stories and memories of a relative from the far past, whose tragic life has metamorphosed into legend over the course of time. This is music to listen to while driving through abandoned cities and ghost towns, imagining their disintegration. Rather than drums making the melody as on their previous efforts, banjo and vocals are at the foreground of the landscape. The drumming is minimalist, almost spastic and, as always, the guitars are the ghosts. Dreamend has taken a darker, folky, more nightmarish road than before. Some evidence of this can be found on the tracks Your Kiss, Scratch and Deathwatch Carnival 1965. Conversely, they have found themselves with more poppy, almost sing-alongs than ever before (see Are you Waking and The Tulip Staircase).

Appearances by Toto of the Octopus Project and Darren Jackson of Kid Dakota add some outside sounds, while Darren and John Congleton's (see Explosion in the Sky, Modest Mouse, etc) mixing bring them all together.

Listeners are encouraged to buy the vinyl version as it includes the cd version for free, contains 4 extra songs-16 minutes worth of music, a handmade pop-up gatefold by William Schaff (GYBE!, Okkervil River etc), and an extra cd of demos and alternate versions. The cd version comes packaged in a 15pt chipboard gatefold sleeve with a 12 page booklet of photos by Christy Romanick.

Colored vinyl limited to 150 copies available only on graveface.com. update: Colored version sold out!! A few hundred of the black version are still in print and now shipping.

Last night on Feather River
If only for a day
The Tulip Staircase
Are you Waking (mp3)
Your Kiss
Scratch
Fourth of July at the Asylum
Remember you Smiling
The Third Casket
Deathwatch Carnival, 1965
A Sunbeam in every Sip (VINYL ONLY)
I'm so Lonely (VINYL ONLY)
Interlude (VINYL ONLY)
It Happened in December (VINYL ONLY)

Peregrine is: spacious, thick, brooding, joyful, explosive, and back and forth, yet somehow seamless at the same time. Peregrine carries tones and sounds (at times) as stormy and spooky as the album's theme/storyline lends. All in 13 tracks, Peregrine significantly yields what the band's last four albums offered striking glimpses of. Overcoming a reflective hiatus to their career-defining, long-awaited return, The Appleseed Cast reemerge-- living out their Fight Songs and Mile Markers.

1. Ceremony
2. Woodland Hunter (Part 1)
3. Here We Are (Family In The Hallways)
4. Silas' Knife
5. Mountain Halo
6. Sunlit And Ascending
7. February
8. An Orange And A Blue
9. Song 3
10. Woodland Hunter (Part 2)
11. Peregrine
12. A Fate Delivered
13. The Clock And The Storm

"The House of Apples & Eyeballs" is not a split, but a year-long, full-length collaboration by both bands. The Octopus Project is known and loved for their uncategorizable broken-guitars-meet-samplers-meet-drums-meet-drum machines sound, while the musical island of Black Moth Super Rainbow would rather play their songs in the woods and not let you know if their gear is broken or working just fine. Holding hands from Austin to Pittsburgh, they set out to create one of the wilder pop records of the year. For anyone familiar with both bands, may you find yourself at peace with this dream record. But know that not all is as it seems, and the challenge of figuring out which band played which parts may sometimes be impossible. While a couple tracks did make it to the record in their original, one-band form, most were passed back and forth for several rounds of dismemberment, rearrangement, and augmentation. The result overflows with sonic treats: cut-up beats and vocoder melodies collide with huge, distorted riffs. A theremin orchestra descends into layered steel guitars before all is dissolved in a wash of hazy synths. The Octopus Project appears courtesy of Peek-A-Boo Records. They have wowed audiences in 2006 at Coachella, and were named one of Rolling Stone's breakout bands of SXSW. They will soon be going into the studio to record their very highly anticipated third album in 2007. Black Moth Super Rainbow lives on Graveface Records, and although known as somewhat of an enigma, has come out of the forest in 2006 to play at the request of bands like Of Montreal and The Black Angels. They have been recording their third full length album that will be released when the time is just right.

Vinyl is speckled blue and clear.

1. Spiracle (free mp3)
2. Marshmallow Window
3. It Hurts To Shoot Lazers From Your Fingers, But It's Necessary
4. Lollipopsichord
5. Elq Milq
6. All the Friends You Can Eat
7. Copying Soup Onto Sexy Birdy
8. Psychic Swelling
9. Lemon Lime Face
10. Helium Tea
11. Beds
12. Runite Castles
13. Tony Face
14. Royal Firecracker Teeth
15. Foxy and the Weight of the World

Take the vaporous fumes from the heavy lilting post rock from the likes of Isis, Pelican, and Explosions in the Sky, splash in a little bit of the eerie and goose bump inducing cinematic vibes of Entroducing era DJ Shadow, a chic albeit druggy post modern foray into the psyche ala the Blade Runner soundtrack and you’re still only touching the surface of Daturah’s creative impetus. Daturah cannot be merely explained or pigeonholed but instead, felt, by the listener. Hailing from Frankfurt, Germany, this instrumental combo stretch their riffs through audible taffy pulls and seep in crisp and thinly layered synths along with half buried samples to create a listening experience that jolts the senses. While staying true to the Krautrock glide of Can and Tangerine Dream, Reverie is intricately woven headphone music for those who like their loudness plunging to the depths of ocean trench droning while treading upon a moody middle ground of pure resonance and dulcet friction. They may rock their instrumental guile a bit heavy at times but it’s all weaved into a trance-inducing and ambient sojourn into a vivid panorama of love, fear and anger exhibiting how sometimes that music sans words can offer all the explaining there is to offer.

1. Ghost Track
2. Hybrisma
3. 9
4. Deep B Flat
5. Vertex

Monster movie completed their third album 'All lost' in November 2005. Recorded in Weston-Super-Mare for release in April 2006. The new 12 track album features Rachel Staggs of 'Experiemtal Aircraft' & 'Eau Claire' on vocals. Thrillingly, their ability to 'heal and grow' is still present and still unequalled by other men. Featuring the art of Mr. William Schaff on both the inside and cover.

1. Behm
2. Vanishing Act
3. The Stars That Surround You
4. Return To Yesterday
5. Hope I Find The Moon
6. Driving Through The Red Lights
7. The Impossible
8. 3#
9. No One Can Know
10. Run To The Heart Of The Sun
11. Vertical Planes
12. Falling Into The Sun

The cultural dialogue between England and America continues courtesy of Austin's dreamy Experimental Aircraft. With a sound as gauzy and narcotized as classic U.K. shoegazers Lush, Slowdive, and My Bloody Valentine, THIRD TRANSMISSION is both a blast from the past and a breath of fresh air. Singer Rachel Staggs drips just the right amount of honey in her Nyquil-sweet vocals, while dewy echoes of guitar and splashes of drum create an atmospheric glaze over the pop backbone of songs such as "Walk Away" and "It Won't Be Long." Experimental Aircraft are a rare, glistening oasis in the Texas heat.

1. Stellar
2. Upper East Side (Free Mp3)
3. Overseas
4. Kali Yuga
5. With a Gun
6. Sit Still
7. It Won't Be Long
8. Paintings in the Attic
9. Start All Over Again
10. So Simple
11. Remember
12. LoFi Vs the Sea
13. Walk Away
14. Agent 23
15. Meet Me on Echo Echo Terrace

One year after catching a grizzly bear, lesson one (2005, Zealrecords), Toman is back with their second full length, perhaps we should have smoked the salmon first . You can expect minutes of instrumental trips a la Mogwai, timid popsongs as patented by Pinback and postrock like the Album Leaf; however, their music sounds warmer and more beautiful than their idols. They describe their new album as repetition, sparse electronics, choirs, melancholy, warm guitars, and flemish blokes having fun. These guys have played the Belgian and Dutch indie clubs and some nice festivals (Dour, Motel Mozaique...) as well as supporting bands like Karate, Death Cab for Cutie, The Album Leaf, Logh, B Fleischmann, The New Year, 65daysofstatic, The Berg Sans Nipple and more.

1. Losgehen
2. June
3. They Storm (No Knock)
4. By Then It Was Summer
5. I Thought You Were My Pal
6. Theme For Crusaders
7. Zalmo Zalar
8. I Can't Remember Whether I Said Thank You

When Ken Fec isn´t collaborating with his other outfit Black Moth Super Rainbow where he's helping to create some of the glossiest and narcotic induced drizzling sunshine pop kookiness, he´s serving as the brainchild of Power Pill Fist, an entity at the helm of some chunky ass, psychotropic, skewed bliss.

Rest assured Fec isn´t just some fly-by-night knob twiddler but instead a visionary with a true penchant for manipulating the Atari 2600 tossed into the mix with a mind-boggling night where Ennio Morricone, Kraftwerk, and Black Dice paint the town red. Still going strong as the resident DJ for Graveface Records where he puts on sets sans spinning the records between the live sets of the artists from the labels roster, Fec´s second release, Kongmanivong, under the Power Pill Fist moniker perches him atop the summit of modern day experimental music.

Kongmanivong is a hearty collage of hazy dub resonance and sticky funk with the abrasiveness of early industrial paladins such as Nitzer Ebb and Frontline Assembly. Even though the most seasoned of noise rock fans will dig it, Kongmanivong keeps the squalls of fuzz abundant but simmers them down into a disturbing procession of skronky techno and globs upon globs of post-modern meets neo-Krautrock all underlined with a seedy pop underbelly that is enigmatically and simultaneously jarring and soothing. Never have the terms bi-polar, haywire and ambient been able to be tossed around freely in a single summation of music as they are when mentioning Kongmanivong.

1. Yff, Lou Pappans
2. Sagadraga
3. Fisticus
4. Vile (Free mp3)
5. Man Ribbon
6. Honey, Stroke My Neck Beard
7. Chuckanut Drive
8. Contours Gaining Shape
9. Bland Hand Stand
10. Reactor
11. Rychlo Never
12. Sloth
13. The Meat Tree
14. Sike!
15. Power out...

Boy hears girl singing while cookin in a cafe, boy and girl form band and name it "The Loose Salute" they lassoo their friends into joining and playing a plethora of instruments to create the sound you hear here. The Salute released a one off limited edtion EP for Best Before Records in late 2004 called "Suck It Up Buttercup". Since then the band have been hibernating in the studio with hot-shot engineer Gareth Parton (The Beta Band, The Go Team, The Pipettes, Mojave3) and producer Pritpal Soor creating their opus. The set of 11 songs tries to encapsulate togetherness, loneliness, love and lost loves, surfing, partying, wanderlust, home-cookin, beaches, fields, stars and bars.

1. Deathclub (Free mp3)
2. Photgraphs And Tickets
3. From Head To Sandy Toes
4. The Mutineer
5. Turn The Radio Up
6. Why'd We Fight
7. Ballad Of The Dumb Angel
8. Through The Stratosphere & To The Bars
9. Tuned To Love
10. Cold Water
11. Ship On The Ocean

Fantastic lengthy instrumental epics that tell not just stories, but tomes. DATURAH is an instrumental five-piece from Frankfurt, Germany. This is their debut album, which consists of three incredibly HUGE tracks spanning the space of 40+ minutes. When they hit the crest of their swells, it knocks you flat on the floor and you won't be getting up anytime soon. Fans of Explosions in the Sky, Mono, Mogwai, et al will not be dissappointed. In fact, you may just throw some of those records away cos' they'll pale in comparison...

1. Shoal
2. Warmachines
3. Lovelight

Led by Aaron Pillar and Christopher Crisci (founding members of The Appleseed Cast), HUNDRED HANDS pilots the listener through a complex journey of exquisite musical landscapes, glimmering melodies and warm, pulsing, beautiful instrumentation. But this time it's Aaron who takes center stage on vocals. LITTLE EYES, Hundred Hands's first release, pulls at the right parts at all the right times - the texture, the feel, the sound of everything - creating a surrounding that is abundant in introspection and sonic inspiration. LITTLE EYES is flawlessly executed. With producer Ed Rose on drums / percussion, this trio of post-hardcore heroes can do no wrong. 2005 marks the long awaited return of the band. After 4 years of wait the new release (and very first full length) saw the light of the sun by Chicago label Graveface. "HER ACCENT WAS EXCELLENT" is filled with emo anthems, touching lyrics, dreamy melodies and some instrumental jewels. Legends never die.

1. Waiting In Denver, 4:05 AM
2. Misinformation
3. How Many Licks To The Center
4. Afflicted By Affection
5. She Disappears
6. A Downtown Scene
7. On Fire With A Dolphin
8. Dude, You're Drunk
9. Don't Fall Asleep
10. Give Up, Yeah
11. Gayhouse.Com

2 track 7 inch. One track from Cale:Drew and the B-side is exclusive to this 7 inch.

1.The Diffusion Of Our Inherent Situation
2. Resounding

Feel the retro Atari 2600 goodness that is Power Pill Fist! Essentially, the sounds of Power Pill Fist are almost exclusively made with an Atari 2600. I think this guy adds some guitar or synth. Maybe.

I'd call the PPF sound: listenable noise. Unlike a lot of power electronics/noise I don't have to be really angry to listen to this disc. Listening to PPF brings back all sorts of bizarre memories of how my Atari 2600 started acting bizarre after I accidentally spilled an entire can of Aldi's Cream Soda into it. None of the games would play, but, man, would that thing pump out some crazy sounds.

So, if you're like me, and you remember the aldi cream soda pop + Atari 2600 disaster of your youth with fondness, you owe it to yourself to check out this sound.

1. Bobby Go Home
2. Mashed Potato Legs (free mp3)
3. Extra Life
4. Spectacular Hip Shots
5. Brown Mama
6. Hide And Go Bleep
7. White Castle
8. Exocet No. 109
9. Baked Potato Legs
10. Gradient
11. Pepper Pinch
12. Spark
13. Secret Dot