April 10 street date. Available on CD, BLUE color vinyl or indie-exclusive GREEN color vinyl • LP includes digital download. The city of Santa Cruz, CA, is known for its boardwalk, hippie university, and The Lost Boys movie, drawing tourists and students from all over the globe, driving up the cost of living and pushing out long-lived independent businesses. Within Santa Cruz locals lies a distinct resentment, an attitude that one only gains when being pushed to the margins within their own world. DRAIN is the musical manifestation of this resentment and frustration. The same feelings that have been expressed over the decades by local legends BL’AST! and later GOOD RIDDANCE. As the new blood of Santa Cruz hardcore punk, DRAIN has a fiery metal-tinged thrashing hardcore sound, that is best experienced in the live setting. Their shows are a sight to behold, as over a thousand slammers realized during their set at Sound And Fury 2019, when stage dives and hard mosh met pool party for the full duration of their set. DRAIN also appeared at This Is Hardcore 2019 and are true road dogs, recently touring with JUDICIARY, GULCH, HANDS OF GOD, and HIGHER POWER. DRAIN IS YOUR FRIEND!!
April 10 street date. Available on CD, BLUE color vinyl or indie-exclusive GREEN color vinyl • LP includes digital download. The city of Santa Cruz, CA, is known for its boardwalk, hippie university, and The Lost Boys movie, drawing tourists and students from all over the globe, driving up the cost of living and pushing out long-lived independent businesses. Within Santa Cruz locals lies a distinct resentment, an attitude that one only gains when being pushed to the margins within their own world. DRAIN is the musical manifestation of this resentment and frustration. The same feelings that have been expressed over the decades by local legends BL’AST! and later GOOD RIDDANCE. As the new blood of Santa Cruz hardcore punk, DRAIN has a fiery metal-tinged thrashing hardcore sound, that is best experienced in the live setting. Their shows are a sight to behold, as over a thousand slammers realized during their set at Sound And Fury 2019, when stage dives and hard mosh met pool party for the full duration of their set. DRAIN also appeared at This Is Hardcore 2019 and are true road dogs, recently touring with JUDICIARY, GULCH, HANDS OF GOD, and HIGHER POWER. DRAIN IS YOUR FRIEND!!
Available now. Cassette edition. The city of Santa Cruz is known for its boardwalk, hippie university, and The Lost Boys movie, drawing tourists and students from all over the globe, driving up the cost of living and pushing out long-lived independent businesses. Within Santa Cruz locals lies a distinct resentment, an attitude that one only gains when being pushed to the margins within their own world. Drain is the musical manifestation of this resentment and frustration. The same feelings that have been expressed over the decades by local legends Bl'ast! and later Good Riddance. As the new blood of Santa Cruz hardcore punk, Drain has a fiery metal-tinged thrashing hardcore sound, that is best experienced in the live setting.
May 5 street date. Drain is a Santa Cruz, CA based hardcore band whose energetic live shows have propelled them to peak underground popularity (during a global pandemic) and they are ready to break wide open in 2023. "Living Proof" is the band's Epitaph Records debut and follow up to their 2020 breakout release, "California Cursed". The new album is a testament to the hard work and heartfelt ethos that's at the center of Drain's good-time psyche. There are a couple surprises on the album. Rapper Shakewell appears on the track"Intermission". There's also a cover of "Good, Good Things", a nearly four-decade old melodic punk carol by The Descendents: slam-pit forebearers to Drain if there ever were any. Produced by longtime friend and multi-instrumentalist Taylor Young (God's Hate, Suicide Silence), then mixed by John Markson (Drug Church, Koyo), this is hardcore for everybody.
May 5 street date. Drain is a Santa Cruz, CA based hardcore band whose energetic live shows have propelled them to peak underground popularity (during a global pandemic) and they are ready to break wide open in 2023. "Living Proof" is the band's Epitaph Records debut and follow up to their 2020 breakout release, "California Cursed". The new album is a testament to the hard work and heartfelt ethos that's at the center of Drain's good-time psyche. There are a couple surprises on the album. Rapper Shakewell appears on the track"Intermission". There's also a cover of "Good, Good Things", a nearly four-decade old melodic punk carol by The Descendents: slam-pit forebearers to Drain if there ever were any. Produced by longtime friend and multi-instrumentalist Taylor Young (God's Hate, Suicide Silence), then mixed by John Markson (Drug Church, Koyo), this is hardcore for everybody.
May 5 street date. Drain is a Santa Cruz, CA based hardcore band whose energetic live shows have propelled them to peak underground popularity (during a global pandemic) and they are ready to break wide open in 2023. "Living Proof" is the band's Epitaph Records debut and follow up to their 2020 breakout release, "California Cursed". The new album is a testament to the hard work and heartfelt ethos that's at the center of Drain's good-time psyche. There are a couple surprises on the album. Rapper Shakewell appears on the track"Intermission". There's also a cover of "Good, Good Things", a nearly four-decade old melodic punk carol by The Descendents: slam-pit forebearers to Drain if there ever were any. Produced by longtime friend and multi-instrumentalist Taylor Young (God's Hate, Suicide Silence), then mixed by John Markson (Drug Church, Koyo), this is hardcore for everybody.
November 26 street date. Before birthing his blasted acid house identity, Bobby Draino drummed for various synth-punked groups around Vancouver, and some of that scorched-earth live energy bleeds through the five primordial bangers comprising his vinyl debut Brain Drain. Tracked live through one channel of a space echo straight to his computer, Draino’s overdriven drum machines, fried acid grit, bass damage and blown-tone sequencer patterns are fused into a radical and weird debased mutant house. The EP’s five tracks are the culmination of two years of demo workshopping, TR-606 and 303 autodidacticism and warehouse party spelunks - all savvy tactics for developing a shredding, progressively singular style, which Draino has in spades. Brain Drain is one of the most awesomely wrecked and raw Silk slabs to date from a West Coast wiz worth watching.
April 30 street date. "becalmyounglovers" is as much a return as it is a farewell. Phil Moore's first Bowerbirds album since 2012 is an artifact of transition, a domino effect of doors closing and Moore stumbling headfirst into the uncertainty of what comes after a life fundamentally changes. Like a polaroid slowly swimming into focus, "becalmyounglovers" reconciles the memories of yourself in relation to another person, and then what's unearthed when you're left to face your identity alone - and which one of those selves is true? Written and recorded mainly in an isolated cabin hand built by Moore and his ex-partner, out in Siler City, North Carolina, "becalmyounglovers" chronicles a long-term relationship's death rattle, inevitable breakup, and its immediate aftermath - and Moore's getting to understand himself better in the process. These songs don't trudge through upheaval - instead, they float, still sanguine and light in the face of plans gone awry.
June 5 street date. Alexander Moskos is a seasoned Canadian avant-garde musician active in projects such as Alterity Problem with Joel Taylor and the legendary Thames, who had an incredible 7" release on American Tapes in late 2011. Drainolith, his solo guise, has been active since the mid-'90s but has remained relatively under-the-radar with mysterious private press cassette and CD-R releases. In 2009, Moskos picked up a heavy U.S. tour regiment and caught the attention of U.S. underground heads with impressive live sets. It was around this time that Moskos began to dial in songs for his debut Fighting! LP, which Spectrum Spools is eager to present. It's important to keep listeners on their toes and Spectrum Spools is fully psyched to hit you with an album of delusional blues -- littered with fractured synth, feedback and seriously cryptic personal content. One of Spectrum Spools' first releases with strong lyrical focus, Alex knocks it out of the park with his synthetic voice resonating like a wasted Robert Ashley on Ambien. The tracks rage with a one-man Twin Infinitives style, with guitar riffs so fucked that they make Neil Haggerty sound like Les Paul. Damaged, random syn-drum triggers and MS-10 crackling go fully ballistic over dark and personal narratives. Despite the chaotic nature of the music, there is a defined and cohesive song structure to each
track which makes everything more confusing but also highly enjoyable to listen to. If you miss bands like Shadow Ring and Royal Trux, but wonder where the logical next step would be in their absence: step in this direction -- we promise you'll be pleased. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates + Mastering, Berlin.
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