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SILY's Top Albums of 2024

Much like 2016, last year felt like a turning point in American history, world history, and human history. The rich and powerful got more rich and powerful than ever, right-wing politics and media triumphed, and the climate crisis raged on. Increasingly, the albums that resonated with us turned out to reflect the ills of the world back at it, or, just as important, show that art and creativity can thrive in spite of them. Here are 10 of our favorites.

A. Savage - The Loft Sessions (Rough Trade)

While visiting Chicago on tour in 2023, A. Savage recorded four tracks at Wilco's recording studio, The Loft, three covers and a new rendition of his “Wild, Wild, Wild Horses”. The opening track, “I Can’t Shake the Stranger Out of You” is a cover of a Lavender Country song from his 1973 self-titled debut, a record famously regarded as the first ever queer country album. Savage’s version became my most played song of the year on Spotify, and somewhere in my year-end playlist is the original version. The Loft Sessions is a stellar EP, and something I proudly listen to seeing that I saw A. Savage play at the Empty Bottle only a few hours after he had recorded it. “I Can’t Shake the Stranger Out of You” focuses on odd relationships that can’t seem to progress towards anything truly substantial, whereas the closing track “Wild Horses” contains depth, history, and emotional vulnerability. The four songs on The Loft Sessions are digestible, relatable, and easy to listen to while you prepare your coffee in the morning, an activity that can cover the EP's 13 minutes, depending on your hardware. - Keith Miller

Geordie Greep - The New Sound (Rough Trade)

For his debut solo album after the dissolution of a beloved band, Black Midi frontman Geordie Greep dove headfirst into the id of society's most prurient men. The New Sound is inspired by Greep's experiences out on the town, meeting drunken strangers who revealed to him their gross escapades, and it's got the coked-out, Steely Dan-esque, Latin jazz-rock fusion aesthetic to match. But Greep's also an astute observer of the toxically masculine online culture that pervades the world, finding humor, pathos, and absurdity in it alongside the necessary disgust. The narrators of his songs are far more pathetic and narcissistic than the earnest losers of MJ Lenderman's Manning Fireworks: It's not just that they're using women, but they're obsessed with their own perspective of the world, their own suffering. "You talk about yourself in the past tense," Greep smirks on album opener "Blues", giving a voice to the poet laureate of self-importance. Ever the writer himself, though, Greep's most brilliant moments are when he twists the knife, revealing that the Casanova of "Holy, Holy" is asking the sex worker he hired to make him feel taller, that the unfaithful man in a loveless marriage on "The Magician" is hiding from both his wife and his mistress. The New Sound's final track is a cover of a song made famous by Frank Sinatra, "If You Are But a Dream"; when Greep sings, "If you're a fantasy / Then I'm content to be / In love with lovely you / And pray my dreams come true," he conveys the desperate yearning that's always been a part of men in modern Western society. Greep's self-described new sound is anything but new, even if his version has more bodily fluids. - Jordan Mainzer

Jlin - Akoma (Planet Mu)

The producer from Gary, Indiana doesn't exist on the fringes of just footwork, but of genre as a whole. On Akoma, Jlin proudly wears her influences beyond collaborating with legends like Björk and Philip Glass. Her trademark skittering, journeying percussion gives way to more propulsive beats and layers. On "Summon", Jlin's strings form a gestalt beat that never actually drops, as minimalist as Steve Reich. "Challenge (To Be Continued II)"'s hand drums blanket booming hip hop bass and rolls inspired by HBCU marching bands. Kronos Quartet offer their chopped strings on "Sodalite"; when Jlin speeds them up, it almost sounds like a fiddle tune. Akoma exemplifies her uncanny ability to tell a story with varying textures of abstract music, each song its own symphony. - JM

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flight b741 (p(doom))

Across its ten tracks and roughly 40-minute runtime, King Gizzard delivers an enticing album that’ll pair well with cookouts, yard work, parties at a lake house, and all around busy and sweaty times outdoors. From its harmonic vocals and borderline goofy lyrics down to the various instrumentation of clanging pianos, bumping bass beats, and uplifting guitars, my biggest complaint about Flight b741 is that it didn’t come out sooner. Grab your sunglasses and put on a pair of jorts–anyone who’s claimed to like “Dad Rock,” this album is for you.

Read the rest of our review of Flight b741 here.

MGMT - Loss Of Life (Mom + Pop)

MGMT’s fifth studio album (6th album if you count 2022’s 11​•​11​•​11) is a fantastic addition to the psychedelic duo’s sound. Each song brings something new to the table, ranging from 90’s nostalgia in “Bubblegum Dog” to Meddle-style slow burn on “People In The Streets.” Band members Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser began writing each song on an acoustic guitar, which gives the album a slight singer-songwriter feel that isn’t as present on their past albums, especially not on their previous record, 2018’s Little Dark Age. MGMT have proven once again that they are a band with staying power. - KM

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Fu##in' Up (Warner/Reprise)

One of the most ass-ripping recordings of last year came from when a classic rocker with a likely net worth of hundreds of millions of dollars played at a birthday party for one of the richest men in Canada. A cynic could call this a prescient glimpse into a future ruled by technocrats, but I choose to marvel at how Neil Young & Crazy Horse can just up and transform some of their most beloved material into something even grungier and more distorted, and not care what billionaire Dani Reiss or his friends think. Fu##in' Up is, essentially, a live version of their classic 1990 record Ragged Glory, each track newly titled from a lyric from its respective track, save for the cover of Don and Dewey's "Farmer John". ("Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)", Ragged Glory's final track, is also absent.) Young presents it warts and all, his shaky voice and the ramshackle band stumbling through "City Life" as if they gave their instruments to the members of Pavement. Nonetheless, Nils Lofgren's guitars shriek with impunity, and Young's riffs clang throughout "Broken Circle". The band adds some new features to the Ragged Glory originals, namely Micah Nelson banging away on piano on "Feels Like a Railroad (River of Pride)" and "Walkin' in my Place (Road of Tears)". Above it all, though, Young remains in control, leading the band through a 50% longer "A Chance on Love" and a particularly patient "Valley of Hearts", Ralph Molina's crisp snares thwacking with might, sounding like the only thing dragging the rest of the players through a river of molasses. Without much crowd noise or stage banter on the record, you can easily listen to Fu##in' Up and picture the band jamming in the practice room. - JM

Pa Salieu - Afrikan Alien (Warner UK)

"I been gone for a while, but I still make it back to you," British rapper Pa Salieu sings on "Belly", the first single he released after serving 21 months in prison. He's talking to music listeners, fans, even the world, but most importantly, he's talking to his family, paying tribute to the loving act of helping provide. The song's Afropop grooves are subdued, but confident, subtleties that remarkably pervade Afrikan Alien, his second mixtape. Whether it's the cool shuffle of "Soda", cooing vocals, scraping guitars, and dexterous hand drums of "Round & Round", or the string, horn, and chorus-laden "YGF"--standing for "young, great, and free"--the highlights of Afrikan Alien forego bombast in favor of quiet boldness. "Afrikan di alien, moving like he's nomadic," Salieu raps on the title track, referring to the past two years of his life when he was moving from jail to jail. It contextualizes the release, and what he now appreciates: that home is precious and irreplaceable. - JM

Porridge Radio - Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me (Secretly Canadian)

Dana Margolin has come out the other side of exhausting touring, a breakup, and a debilitating sense of “What now?” with Porridge Radio’s best record yet. For the Brighton quartet’s fourth studio album Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me, Margolin returned to her roots as a writer and performer to alleviate burnout, embracing poetry and workshopping the songs solo like she used to do at open mic nights. She dove headfirst into not-yet fully formed material via the rawness of her emotions. It allowed her, the band (keyboardist/backing vocalist Georgie Stott, drummer/keyboardist Sam Yardley, bassist Dan Hutchins) and indie rock producer du jour Dom Monks to foster a live recording environment that allowed for intimacy and intense vulnerability.

Read the rest of our review of Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me here.

Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood (Anti-)

More than ever, Waxahatchee’s songs are easy to sing along to; despite complex turns of phrase, Katie Crutchfield keeps her words metaphorical enough to stand out, abstract enough to be relatable, direct enough to be iconic. The qualities, in conjunction with her and her backing band’s performance, lead to some breathtaking moments. “You drive like you’re wanted in four states / In a busted truck in Opelika,” she sings over Spencer Tweedy’s drum roll on the rolling “3 Sisters”, right before the song’s forbearing beat drops. On “Bored”, she belts the song’s chorus–“I can get along / My spine’s a rotted two by four / Barely hanging on / My benevolence just hits the floor / I get bored”–alongside MJ Lenderman’s sharp riffs, Tweedy’s pummeling drums, and Nick Bockrath’s wincing pedal steel. In context of the song’s inspiration–a friendship that ended badly–Crutchfield’s admissions hit harder.

Read the rest of our review of Tigers Blood here.

Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us (Columbia)

When I was in high school, I became a die hard Titus Andronicus fan. I still am, in fact: That's a band I can’t shut up about. I remember in the summer of 2014, Titus frontperson Patrick Stickles held a live stream press conference in which he announced his 7x7 series where he released seven 7-inch records each 7 weeks apart from one another. (I never got the second installment in the mail and had to buy it at a concert--thanks, Pat.) During this press conference Stickles showed us his collection of 7-inch records, one of which was a B-side of “Diane Young”, a single from Vampire Weekend’s third record, Modern Vampires of the City. Stickles, after briefly mentioning “Diane Young”, apologized slightly, as if he didn’t want people to know that he had it. Ever since then, I’ve wondered what the dynamic of Vampire Weekend's music is among music nerds. For the record, I love it, but I always forget about them a few months after they release a new album. Not Only God Was Above Us. It's incredible; it might be their best record in their discography. It feels like a more tight knit version of Modern Vampires of the City. I started writing out all of the standout songs, but the list was getting too long. - KM

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"More than 50 years later, this ensemble has forever changed the shape and sound of classical music," Jon Fasman says in a feature on Kronos Quartet on The Economist's The Intelligence podcast. "Kronos has also delighted in breaking genre barriers. They’ve played pieces by some of the greatest living classical composers, including Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley. But they’ve also played songs by Thelonius Monk and Jimi Hendrix. At its core, though, Kronos has dedicated itself to expanding chamber music repertoire ... Throughout it all, they’ve developed and performed scores rich with depth and meaning." You can hear the feature, including conversations with Kronos's David Harrington and Paul Wiancko, here.

[ihaveitallfiguredout]

Spring is springing! Here is the 3rd installment of the Waving video series. This is the first in the series to be directed/captured by someone else – French filmmaker Frederic Tcheng gives us a bee's eye view of the natural world. "Waving 3" by DM Stith strings by Paul Wiancko from the album "Waving 1-4" Directed by Frédéric Tcheng Filmed in Hidden Meadow, North Cascades National Park, WA August 2020 Thank you: Owen Calm Wright

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DM Stith “Waving 2″

Back in May, DM Stith released an EP of ethereal vocal compositions entitled Waving 1-4. Each track is filled with Stith’s choral voice arrangements and strings by Paul Wiancko. They are equally haunting and gorgeous; taking you to some far off, dreamlike, place.

The official video for “Waving 2″ is now available and pushes that dreamlike state even further; interweaving scenes from disparate locales - a walk through a night forest or a pole dance routine in a loft. 

Take some time to immerse yourself and drift away into the experience.

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(▶︎ Seventh-Day Adventist Surf Report Machine | Aaron Rocheから)

Seventh-Day Adventist Surf Report Machine by Aaron Roche

in the summer of 2020 i was living at home with my parents in a suburb of Orlando around that time i found myself nurturing a deep friendship with my buddy philip weinrobe, a friendship which i’m happy to say continues to grow. having been inspired by working with him on his album Good Grief i found myself, after a number of years, wanting to record a new collection of songs. i asked my pal chris p. thompson to send me some daily surf reports that he found interesting. i set those words to music on a borrowed acoustic guitar, writing and recording most often early in the morning. Then, as would be my practice for a number of months, I’d wander out alone making my way in an old toyota truck all across the coasts and interiors of florida all the while letting my mind wander off to places far away. Anyways, Nicaragua, Japan, Hawaii. All over really. Nameless constantly shifting shelves of sand heaving clear hollow barrels into the night to nobody. You ever hear those sounds? Well anyhow, at some point i wrote a couple of other tunes inspired by a zoom powerpoint presentation i participated in with some friends online. we said it was for educational enrichment but really it was highly competitive. adam and kate were the clear winners. So anyways then doug wieselman arranged some things, so did paul wiancko. I imagine him in a tuxedo. philip played a drum machine and then mixed and mastered the whole thing in a couple of hours. I imagine he did that in his baseball cap. If something sounds beautiful on this record, my ears owe that to those dudes. A number of months later I found myself reluctantly at an artist residency in New Orleans. Somehow I knew I was coming back to New York but needed to ease my way back into the swing of things and New Orleans seemed like a place that knew about swings. Once there tho I didn’t know what to do with my time. Luckily my friend grey gersten thought it would be a good idea to cover a Bob Dylan song so I did that and it seemed to fit in nicely with the other tunes. It’s still unclear to me how cohesive this work is or even if I mean for it to be taken that seriously, but I am happy it exists and I’m happy to share it with whoever wants to listen. To me it represents a time in my life when things were, for a moment, simple and unadorned. Unworried with the weight of age, or occupation, or relationships. It was and continues to be, to me, a celebration of being with ones own self, considering the weather and then getting out into it. You stare disasters squarely in the eye, and then you dance directly into their paths. Bop and weave, bop and weave. Both land and sea seem to require this of me from time to time. I’m not afraid of you. I am made by you and for you. Funtime クレジット2022年9月30日リリース All songs written and performed by aaron roche except Shooting Start written by bob dylan .. Mixed and Mastered by philip weinrobe .. Strings Written and Arranged by paul wiancko Banjo, Fingercymbals, and Drum by doug wieselman Drum Machines by philip weinrobe .. artwork by aaron roche

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bluenoterecords: RT NorahJones: Evolution of a song. https://t.co/XfChztUcsv Paul Wiancko: String Arrangement, Cello Ayane Kozasa: Viola https://t.co/RKL8rvCT7l http://twitter.com/BlueNoteVinyl/status/1250455187111763969 BlueNoteVinyl

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— Blue Note Collector (@BlueNoteVinyl) April 15, 2020

from Twitter https://twitter.com/BlueNoteVinyl April 15, 2020 at 12:05PM via IFTTT

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flashback Feb 2016 @eddiebarbash Eddie Barbash's Birthday Bash Manderley Bar at The McKittrick Hotel! Michelle Ross, Violin Mike Barnett, Violin Colin Brookes, Viola Paul Wiancko, Cello Gabe Schneider, Guitar Jeff Picker, Bass Joe Saylor, Drums www.eddiebarbash.com (at The McKittrick Hotel) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8WUuXig8vN/?igshid=8eccqlxzslzz

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Neo-sun worshiper Martin prepares to appease the solar Gods with ritual human sacrifice. But first he needs a spray tan. Executive produced by David Gordon Green and Dal Wolf, "Bronzed" is a dark comedy starring Linas Phillips and Johnny Pemberton. The film is produced by Chris Capretto and written and directed by Mike Egan. It is their first film. WORLD PREMIERE 2019 SXSW Film Festival ONLINE PREMIERE Short of the Week OFFICIAL SELECTION Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival RiverRun International Film Festival Athens International Film + Video Festival CREDITS Writer and Director: Mike Egan Starring: Linas Phillips and Johnny Pemberton Producer: Chris Capretto Executive Producers: David Gordon Green and Dal Wolf Co-Producer: Amy Berriochoa Director of Photography: Bobby Bukowski Editor: Matthew Hilber Production Designer: Schuyler Telleen Original Music: Seth Olinsky Assistant Director: Dennis Brenhaug Gaffer: Justin Ward Best Boy Electric: Mike Weiss Key Grip: Oliver Schaal Best Boy Grip: Adam Lutz Dolly Grip: Travis Buffington Assistant Camera: Eric Macy Set Decorator: Jade Harris Lead Person: Gwen Hopman Damon Prop Master: Emily Weck Swing: Dave Koenig Lead Makeup / Hair / Wardrobe: Eve White Assistant Makeup / Hair / Wardrobe: Sara Dickman Spray Tan Technician: Diane Page DIT: Chris Hackett Sound Mixer: Zach Kahl Stunt Coordinator: Mindy Kelly Jennifer: Colleen Socha Mr. Phillips's Body Double: William Wiesner Production Assistant: Daniel Rawson Craft Service: Stephanie Capretto Catering: People's Pig, Elephants Delicatessen, and Tamale Boy Casting Director: Simon Max Hill Casting Associate: Rachel Mossey Offline Executive Producer: Leslie Carthy Online Executive Producer: Alex Thiesen Colorist / VFX Artist: David Jahns Title Design: John Dwight Sound Designer: Brian Emrich Cello / Viola / Violin: Paul Wiancko Re-Recording Mixer: Noah Woodburn Audio Assistant: Natalie Huizenga Music Licensing: Marmoset Music and Rough Trade

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Spiritual America

Wednesday March 1st & Friday March 3, 2017

Developed in partnership with the Palm Springs Art Museum and Desert X, this program includes a fluid, integrated set of music that is both boundary-less and overtly emotional. Spiritual America explores diverse notions of transcendence against the backdrop of the stunning California desert. Focusing on the intersection of experimentalism, meditation, land art and sacred music, the project seeks to move beyond genre constrictions into a world of unique and highly personal musical visions reflective of our complex age. The presentation will feature world premiere pieces and arrangements performed by a hand-picked group of top post-genre multi-instrumentalists (including Eliza Bagg, Matt Cook, Ben Cassorla, Michi Wiancko, Paul Wiancko and Scott Worthington), as well as new video installations and sight-specific auxiliary events.

Spiritual America gallery installation on view at Palm Springs Art Museum beginning February 25

"Glamis Dunes", "Obsidian Butte 1 & 2" and "Salton Sea" directed by Shimmy Boyle and Katherine Helen Fisher Performed by Katherine Helen Fisher Produced by Safety Third Productions in conjunction with Infinite Palette Cinematography by Sinziana Velicescu Conception and music by William Brittelle

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Kronos Quartet Returns to Zankel Hall with An Evening of Contemporary Music on January 25

Kronos Quartet Returns to Zankel Hall with An Evening of Contemporary Music on January 25

Program Includes World Premiere of a New Work by Bryce Dessner Alongside Music by Philip Glass, Michael Gordon, Missy Mazzoli, Misato Mochizuki, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley Cellist Paul Wiancko Joins the Quartet During Sunny Yang’s Maternity Leave

On Saturday, January 25 at 9:00 p.m., pioneering ensemble Kronos Quartet returns to Zankel Hall for a program that reveals the group’s…

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BRONZED from Mike Egan on Vimeo.

Neo-sun worshiper Martin prepares to appease the solar Gods with ritual human sacrifice. But first he needs a spray tan.

Executive produced by David Gordon Green and Dal Wolf, "Bronzed" is a dark comedy starring Linas Phillips and Johnny Pemberton. The film is produced by Chris Capretto and written and directed by Mike Egan. It is their first film.

WORLD PREMIERE 2019 SXSW Film Festival

ONLINE PREMIERE Short of the Week

OFFICIAL SELECTION Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival RiverRun International Film Festival Athens International Film + Video Festival

CREDITS

Writer and Director: Mike Egan

Starring: Linas Phillips and Johnny Pemberton

Producer: Chris Capretto

Executive Producers: David Gordon Green and Dal Wolf

Co-Producer: Amy Berriochoa

Director of Photography: Bobby Bukowski

Editor: Matthew Hilber

Production Designer: Schuyler Telleen

Original Music: Seth Olinsky

Assistant Director: Dennis Brenhaug Gaffer: Justin Ward Best Boy Electric: Mike Weiss Key Grip: Oliver Schaal Best Boy Grip: Adam Lutz Dolly Grip: Travis Buffington Assistant Camera: Eric Macy Set Decorator: Jade Harris Lead Person: Gwen Hopman Damon Prop Master: Emily Weck Swing: Dave Koenig Lead Makeup / Hair / Wardrobe: Eve White Assistant Makeup / Hair / Wardrobe: Sara Dickman Spray Tan Technician: Diane Page DIT: Chris Hackett Sound Mixer: Zach Kahl Stunt Coordinator: Mindy Kelly Jennifer: Colleen Socha Mr. Phillips's Body Double: William Wiesner Production Assistant: Daniel Rawson Craft Service: Stephanie Capretto Catering: People's Pig, Elephants Delicatessen, and Tamale Boy Casting Director: Simon Max Hill Casting Associate: Rachel Mossey Offline Executive Producer: Leslie Carthy Online Executive Producer: Alex Thiesen Colorist / VFX Artist: David Jahns Title Design: John Dwight Sound Designer: Brian Emrich Cello / Viola / Violin: Paul Wiancko Re-Recording Mixer: Noah Woodburn Audio Assistant: Natalie Huizenga Music Licensing: Marmoset Music and Rough Trade

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Following Kronos Quartet’s historic 50th-anniversary season, longtime members John Sherba (violin) and Hank Dutt (viola) will retire from the ensemble at the end of June. Dutt, left, joined Kronos in 1977; he and founder David Harrington (violin) recruited Sherba to join the group in 1978. Between now and the end of June, Sherba and Dutt will perform more than 20 shows with Harrington and cellist Paul Wiancko, who joined the quartet in 2023, culminating at the ninth annual Kronos Festival, June 20–23, 2024 at the SFJAZZ Center in the group’s hometown, San Francisco. Kronos will enter its sixth decade with two new members: violinist Gabriela Díaz and violist Ayane Kozasa will join Harrington and Wiancko. You can read more here.

[ihaveitallfiguredout]

Available NOW at bandcamp (later on other streaming services) “Waving 1-4” is an album of instrumental works by DM Stith recorded at home, April 2020, with strings by Paul Wiancko and bass by Evan Gill Smith. A note from DM: I’m lucky that breathing is at the heart of what I do creatively. When I’m faced with uncertainty, I have this creative outlet as a singer to let the breathing be heard, to hold it, to trace my inner space for a while and make a mark with it. So, rather than dwell in this uncertainty alone, I invite you to join me in it. Put your galoshes on a splash around in it a bit. Waving to you from over here, DM [Link to bandcamp in bio] (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_ozCjRDpZn/?igshid=v17wbdqu1po5

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Bandcamp Exclusives (May 2020)

With Bandcamp waiving their fees again today, we’re running a super special sale and many yk Records artists are releasing exclusives to the platform. Here’s the rundown of goodies..

Buy One, Get One Vinyl Sale

If you buy any vinyl from a yk Records artist today, I’ll throw in a bonus LP for free. I won’t tell you what the bonus LP will be but you’ll get free music. If you don’t like it, give it to a friend! 

Meadownoise - Cliff House Kids EP

Happy to announce Meadownoise has joined the yk Records roster and we’re releasing his first new music in six years. The Cliff House Kids EP is a preview of his forthcoming LP, Threeve. The tracks within are 2 album tracks, 1 B-side and a remix by the always enjoyable Coupler. Available here.

DM Stith - Waving 1 - 4

Recorded in April 2020, this collection of four instrumental tracks features DM Stith vocal explorations in a longform and meditative manner. It’s contemplative, calming and perfect for our current times. Strings provided by Paul Wiancko. Available here.

The Medium - Here’s Our Gravy Tape

Four demo recordings of tracks that eventually made their way to the debut album, Get It While It’s Hot. Personally, I find demo recordings to be a fascinating listen to discover how much a song did, or did not, change. Available here.

Tower Defense - “Not Safe” 

Recorded as part of the Stay Inside sessions, this b-side didn’t make the final album but it’s a great dose of Tower Defense while we wait for their next album (soon!). All proceeds go to The 5 Spot Community Fund in Nashville. Available here.

Apollo Up! - Ready Rock Sign: Demos 2002​-​2003

Recorded way back in 2002, these are the earliest recordings of the band, captured with a single Radio Shack mic plugged into a Tascam cassette 4-track. Even with such rudimentary recording tech, it’s worth a listen. Available here.

We’ll be releasing more Bandcamp exclusives over the coming months as they waive their fees. Some of this music will make its way to Spotify but not all of it! So, if you’re intrigued, get it now.

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Neo-sun worshiper Martin prepares to appease the solar Gods with ritual human sacrifice. But first he needs a spray tan. Executive produced by David Gordon Green and Dal Wolf, "Bronzed" is a dark comedy starring Linas Phillips and Johnny Pemberton. The film is produced by Chris Capretto and written and directed by Mike Egan. It is their first film. WORLD PREMIERE 2019 SXSW Film Festival ONLINE PREMIERE Short of the Week OFFICIAL SELECTION Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival RiverRun International Film Festival Athens International Film + Video Festival CREDITS Writer and Director: Mike Egan Starring: Linas Phillips and Johnny Pemberton Producer: Chris Capretto Executive Producers: David Gordon Green and Dal Wolf Co-Producer: Amy Berriochoa Director of Photography: Bobby Bukowski Editor: Matthew Hilber Production Designer: Schuyler Telleen Original Music: Seth Olinsky Assistant Director: Dennis Brenhaug Gaffer: Justin Ward Best Boy Electric: Mike Weiss Key Grip: Oliver Schaal Best Boy Grip: Adam Lutz Dolly Grip: Travis Buffington Assistant Camera: Eric Macy Set Decorator: Jade Harris Lead Person: Gwen Hopman Damon Prop Master: Emily Weck Swing: Dave Koenig Lead Makeup / Hair / Wardrobe: Eve White Assistant Makeup / Hair / Wardrobe: Sara Dickman Spray Tan Technician: Diane Page DIT: Chris Hackett Sound Mixer: Zach Kahl Stunt Coordinator: Mindy Kelly Jennifer: Colleen Socha Mr. Phillips's Body Double: William Wiesner Production Assistant: Daniel Rawson Craft Service: Stephanie Capretto Catering: People's Pig, Elephants Delicatessen, and Tamale Boy Casting Director: Simon Max Hill Casting Associate: Rachel Mossey Offline Executive Producer: Leslie Carthy Online Executive Producer: Alex Thiesen Colorist / VFX Artist: David Jahns Title Design: John Dwight Sound Designer: Brian Emrich Cello / Viola / Violin: Paul Wiancko Re-Recording Mixer: Noah Woodburn Audio Assistant: Natalie Huizenga Music Licensing: Marmoset Music and Rough Trade

[youngmonsters]

Paul Wiancko playing the cello during a Malacostraca soundtrack recording session this week.