#Trouble In Mind Records

[bandcampsnoop]

6/27/24.

We posted about Smoke Bellow's release for Trouble in Mind back in 2021. I guess I didn't really dive into their catalogue back then because I know I would have been smitten by "Blooming/Middling". This is an excellent example of jangle krautrock. There are elements of The Feelies/The Trypes, Yo La Tengo and some Flying Nun.

"Hitching Post" is an excellent starting point. The album tends more to longer/drony pieces as the album wears on. In places it also reminds me of one of my underrated releases - Monotrophy.

"Blooming/MIddling" was released by 20/20 Records. Smoke Bellow are currently located in Baltimore, Maryland.

[burlveneer-music]

Sunwatchers - Music Is Victory Over Time

In the decade or so that hard-working New York quartet  Sunwatchers have operated, the group has steadily & subtly refined their sound - a brain-blasting mixture of jazz, psychedelia, krautrock, punk, noise, & Saharan blues - into something that is avant-leaning enough to appeal to the discerning jazz & experimental music fan & weird & wooly enough to get the true heads’ toes tapping. “Music Is Victory Over Time” is the band’s 5th album, and fourth for Chicago-based Trouble In Mind Records, seeing the long-running lineup of Peter Kerlin (bass guitar), Jim McHugh  (guitars), Jason Robira (drums), and Jeff Tobias (alto saxophone and keyboards) in prime form. The album’s beguiling title stems from a note scrawled in a book about electronic music donated to PITGOOSE Prisoner Books, the grassroots prison literature program run out of The P.I.T.  (aka Property Is Theft - McHugh’s Anarchist community space, venue, and info-shop located in Los Sures, Williamsburg). Scrawled as marginalia modifying a paragraph about durational minimalist composition, the concept illuminates music’s material and spiritual power to subdue the sensation of the passage of time, both as an experiential phenomenon and as a creative, communal, and socio-political force. McHugh says: “The notion resonated with our individual and communal experiences of loss, trauma, stasis, and frustration since 2020, our three-year semi-silence as a band relative to our previous characteristic prolificacy, and our progress, projects, and evolution since.” Group Vocals by Sunwatchers and Brittain Ashford Art/Design by Josh MacPhee Head/Tree logo borrowed from the 1970s East German Green Party SUNWATCHERS STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE DISPOSSESSED, IMPOVERISHED, AND EMBATTLED PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

New Video: FACS Shares Woozy and Claustrophobic "Desire Path"

New Video: FACS Shares Woozy and Claustrophobic "Desire Path" @wearefacs @trouble_in_mind @another__side__

Chicago-based post-punk outfit and JOVM mainstays FACS‘ sixth studio album Wish Defense is slated for a February 7, 2025 release on CD, cassette, black vinyl and a limited white vinyl variant while supplies last [pre-order] through Trouble In Mind Records.  The album marks the return of original band member Jonathan Van Herik, who replaces longtime bassist Alianna Kalaba. Van Herik’s return to…

[mymelodic-chapel]

Morgan Delt- Morgan Delt (Neo-Psychedelia, Psychedelic Pop) Released: January 28, 2014 [Trouble in Mind Records] Producer(s): Morgan Delt

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a/s/l: Nightshift

Remember the days of the old schoolyard? Remember when Myspace was a thing? Remember those time-wasting, laborious quizzes that everyone used to love so much? Birthday Cake For Breakfast is bringing them back!  Every couple of weeks, an unsuspecting band will be subject to the same old questions about dead bodies, Hitler, crying and crushes.   This Week: Ahead of releasing their new…

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

should i sleep for a hundred million years or purposefully stop sleeping just to see what happens

[gamebunny-advance]

Random Thought

So, a while back I posted a pic of all the Pokemon dudes that I like despite knowing basically nothing about Pokemon, and it's become a very shocking fact to me that despite their apparent popularity, the train dudes do basically nothing in their home game.

[bandcampsnoop]

11/3/24.

I know I've said this before, but I remember my first order with Prefect Records like it was yesterday. That initial order in 2021 had Mt. Misery, The Tubs and Ex-Vöid. Right around that same time I was posting about EggS (London, England).

All those bands are releasing albums: Mt. Misery and EggS for Prefect Records (EggS is co-released with Howlin' Banana Records). The Tubs will be releasing their LP on Trouble in Mind and Ex Void on Tapete Records. The bands share members and a definite aesthetic.

"Crafted Achievement" sounds like the EggS of old - maybe a little more produced. So, I'll remind us of my older comparisons - The Verlaines and Big Dipper. I'll add Nothing Painted Blue, Pop Filter and The Replacements (late 1980s version).

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

New Video: FACS Shares Angular "Wish Defense"

New Video: FACS Shares Angular "Wish Defense" @wearefacs @trouble_in_mind @another__side__

Back in 2013, Chicago-based post-punk act Disappears — founding member Brian Case (vocals, guitar) along with  Noah Leger (drums), Jonathan Van Herik (guitar) and Damon Carruesco (bass) — released two of my favorite efforts of the past decade or so: the atmospheric and tempestuous Kone EP and the tense, raging Era. Damon Carruesco left the band in 2017. The band’s remaining members — Case, Leger…

[mymelodic-chapel]

Mikal Cronin- Mikal Cronin (Garage Rock, Psychedelic Pop) Released: September 11, 2011 [Trouble in Mind Records] Producer(s): Eric Bauer, Ty Segall

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A 'Souvenir' - Listen to the third episode of ’60 Minutes or less’, the new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast, featuring Philip Frobos of Omni!

Words: Andy Hughes In case you missed it, to kick off 2024, Birthday Cake For Breakfast has entered the podcast game (better late than never, eh?) Following on from our first two episodes (featuring Joe Casey of Protomartyr and Paul Hanley of The Fall), it’s a delight to say that our guest for our third episode is Philip Frobos, bassist and vocalist in Atlanta, Georgia outfit Omni! We first…

[dejasenti99]

watching saiko the large family and the part where the step dad yells at the daughter that he loves her and she can hit him but he’ll never let her hit her sister . jaycore