(grave014)Maybe We're Making God Sad and Lonely 150 gram LP

1st time available on vinyl! First pressing is 250 handnumbered copies that come on gorgeous blue/orange haze 150 gram LP (see top pic; click for larger image). Also included is the cd version and a download card for special bonus content that we dug out of the archives (see pic on the bottom; no the vinyl is not black, it just looks that way on the box)! This is not a pre-order; it's shipping immediately. Limit 2 per customer.

 

(grave047) Periphery 150 gram lp / cd / download

The Seven Fields of Aphelion may be a member of Black Moth Super Rainbow, but with her debut solo outing Periphery, she’s left the tweaked dance floor glitches in the black forest, and wandered into a hazy sun-dappled meadow. Swirling vintage synthesizers and piano dwell amongst the grasses, flowers and ruins of abandoned factories in this forgotten place.

Over twelve tracks, Periphery acts as a travelogue through otherworldly, yet somehow soothingly familiar sonic landscapes. Synth layers grow slowly and organically into swells of pulsating tone so palpable, you’d swear that they are breathing. Haunting piano lines effortlessly dart their way in and out of the mire, like a group of pilot fish fearlessly zipping around a Great White.

But there is also a very real and warm emotion in this
music. Periphery plays like a shoebox of curling yellowed photographs, lost in an attic somewhere that has only recently been unburied and rediscovered, giving faded-color evidence to half-recalled memories.
Each of these wordless tales is an exercise in trying to bring back the stories behind those frozen-still images that were captured in front of the Super 8’s and Polaroids of lost times. Similarly, the album’s artwork
(featuring multiple exposure photography from The Seven Fields of Aphelion) conjures up old thoughts and dusty emotions through a carefully applied lens. Perhaps these aren’t your memories, but there’s a certain déjà vu quality to them that has you second guessing yourself; maybe you have been to these places before.

Periphery is as comforting and warmly familiar as finding your favorite childhood toy, but carries with it the same discernable sadness that comes from knowing those times have passed. Its fragile, ambient soundscapes of piano and synthesizer reflect glimmers of forgotten feelings with each gentle inflection and shift in tone.

IN STORES FEB 16TH

(grave031-2) Low Level Owl Volumes One and Two Triple 150 gram LP

* Silver Color Vinyl LP Set, Limited Edition Pressing of 1,000
* Uncut Original Recordings on Premium 150 Gram Vinyl
* Beautiful Gatefold packaging with full lyrics / liner notes printed by Stoughton

2nd Graveface pressing! First 250 copies hand-numbered (only available at graveface.com). Ships on/before 2.16.10.

LP One - Sides A & B:
01. The Waking of Pertelotte
02. On Reflection
03. Blind Man's Arrow
04. Flowers Falling From Dying Hands
05. Messenger
06. Doors Lead To Questions
07. Steps And Numbers
08. Sentence
09. Bird Of Paradise

LP Two - Sides C & D:
10. Mile Marker
11. Convict
12. A Tree For Trials
13. Signal
14. View Of A Burning City
15. View Of A Burning City (reprise)
16. Strings
17. A Place In Line
18. Shaking Hands
19. Rooms And Gardens

LP Three - Sides E & F:
20. Ring Out The Warning Bell
21. Sunset Drama King
22. The Last In A Line
23. Decline
24. The Argument
25. Reaction
26. Confession

(grave048) Everyone is a Ghost 150 gram lp / cd / download

Everyone is a Ghost is the latest downer-pop showcase from Monster Movie, the London-based duo of Christian Savill (Slowdive) and Sean Hewson. 2010 marks the pair’s twentieth anniversary of working together and tenth anniversary of recording and performing as Monster Movie. Savill and Hewson have been slowly developing their synth-kissed sound, weaving it through tales of birth, death, marriage, divorce and costly changes of address.

The duo considers Everyone is a Ghost to be their most consistent album to date, having found that their songwriting styles have become more similar over the years. This release distills the expansive shoegazing bliss-wall of Slowdive into intensely catchy pop songs played out on guitar, bass, piano, ukulele, percussion and a range of synthesizers. Everyone is a Ghost brings to mind the experimental pop atmospherics of David Bowie’s Low, the male/female vocal harmonics of My Bloody Valentine and Grandaddy’s electronica-laced sunny pop nostalgia.

Everyone is a Ghost is comprised of 13 songs (10 for the CD, 2 bonus tracks for vinyl and 1 for download) written and recorded in six cities across the U.S. and U.K. Savill and Hewson were particularly excited by the collaborative process of making the album, which features guest appearances from Ryan Graveface (Dreamend, Black Moth Super Rainbow), Sophie Pittaway, Rachel Staggs (Experimental Aircraft) and artwork from Will Schaff, who’s set ink to paper for Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Okkervil River, Songs: Ohia, Kid Dakota and more.

Monster Movie’s Everyone Is A Ghost will be released on April 6th on Graveface Records, packaged in a Stoughton “Old Style” gatefold jacket for both the LP and CD. The CD s limited to 2,000 copies, and the first press of the LP is 500 copies.

(grave035) Two Conversations150 gram lp

First pressing is 1000 copies and comes on transparent monster electric green/baby blue opaque/red and white splatter vinyl. Pictures next week. First 500 copies are hand-numbered. 11x17 poster folded and tucked inside. First time available on vinyl. Bonus track!
:
Side A:
Hello Dearest Love
Hanging Marionette
Ice Heavy Branches
Losing Touching Searching
Fight Song
The Page

Side B:
Sinking
Innocent Vigilant Ordinary
How Life Can Turn
A Dream for Us
The State that I was in

In stores on 10/20/09.

(grave046) The Marshmallow Ghosts 7 inch hypnotic picture disc w/ Glow in the Dark packaging from Stoughton / digital download

LP COMES WITH DOWNLOAD CARD / LP IS PRESSING OF 500 / Debut release with members of Appleseed Cast, BMSR, Dreamend and Casket Girls / 12 minutes of music / ALL COPIES HANDNUMBERED

Tracklisting:
Shrieks
Creaks

 

In stores on 10/20/09.

 

(grave044) Where Wolves Wear Wolf Wear lp/digital download

LP COMES WITH DOWNLOAD CARD / LP IS PRESSING OF 500

Tracklisting:
SALMON
BEAR
FISHERMAN
OWL
LOCKSMITH
TAILOR
HORSES

*Please note - the side splits are intentional. The album is to be played as one long track

View the album storyline here and listen to the tracks on myspace here.

(grave045) Eating Us cd/digital download

Tracklisting:
Born On A Day The Sun Didn't Rise (free mp3)
Dark Bubbles
Twin Of Myself
Gold Splatter
Iron Lemonade
Tooth Decay
Fields Are Breathing
Smile The Day After Today
The Sticky
Bubblegum Animals
American Face Dust