DIRECT MAIL ORDER AVAILABLE. New separate shops for Canada (CAD) and everywhere else (USD) with Paypal buttons for easy shopping and shipping. Shop also includes items from Captured Tracks, Critiscum Internationale, Deranged, Gilgongo, Grotesque Modern, Hockey Dad, Isolated Now Waves, Ketchup Cavern, M'Lady's, Not Not Fun, Sacred Bones, S.S., Sweet Rot, X-Mist, Woodsist, etc. More to follow.
:::OUT NOW:::
RANDOM CUTS-Make Damage / Pigeon Park 7" (NOMI011) The third and final Summer 2009 Random Cuts 7". "Make Damage" appropriately ups the angst, while Elanor makes her lead vocal debut on "Pigeon Park". You'll be sorry when he's gone.
NOW AVAILABLE: Initial pressing of 524 on yellow vinyl. Includes download coupon.
RANDOM CUTS-Sleep / Jail Stripes 7" (NOMI010) More hits in the form of the second of three summer singles by Justin and the ladies. The sound of growing up on punk, grunge and absurdism.
NOW AVAILABLE: Initial pressing of 520 on pink vinyl. Includes download coupon.
B-LINES-s/t 7" (Nominal/NOMI012) Spaz? Nerd? Punk? Yes, yes and yes. Six immediate songs inspired by the likes of Back From Samoa, Milo Goes To College and The Undertones. Sorry, you'll have to attend the live show to be verbally abused by, or bleed on, them. Otherwise, seven minutes in heaven. Ex-members of Fun 100, Fuck Me Dead and some others they'd probably prefer I don't mention.
NOW AVAILABLE: Initial pressing of 445 on white, or marble as it turns out, vinyl. Includes download coupon.
RANDOM CUTS-Rat Capacity / Destroyed 7" (NOMI009) Justin (Mutators, Sex Negatives, Nons, Grotesque Modern, Emergency Room, visual artist, etc) joins forces with Mildred Smith and Elanor van Houten for the years-in-the-making debut of Random Cuts. Solid hooks are provided. Expectations of noise and no wave-isms are confounded. The first of three Random Cuts singles to be released on Nominal each month of the summer of 2009. US tour with Nu Sensae from late June-early September.
NOW AVAILABLE: Initial pressing of 515 on blue vinyl. Includes download coupon.
DESTROYER-City of Daughters / Thief 2LP (NOMI003) Reissue of the second and third Destroyer albums (not including cassettes), back on vinyl where they belong, and in superior versions. The original City of Daughters LP suffered from frequency related glitches which caused it to skip on many turntables. The original Thief mix was never satisfying and the LP/CD was shoddily mastered into mono. Now Thief has been remixed by the original team of Dan Bejar, David Carswell and John Collins at JC/DC Studios and is available in the intended stereo for the first time ever. Both albums have been remastered by Roger Seibel at SAE Mastering and have never sounded better. The two covers have been re-worked by original artist Lester Smolenksi and printed by Stoughton as an "old style", tip-on, gatefold jacket.
DIRECT MAILORDER FOR DESTROYER 2LP:
Postpaid. CAD for Canada, including GST. USD for ROW.
DEFEKTORS-Secret Trials / Doomsday Girl 7" (NOMI004) Double A-side single from the trio that led off the recent Emergency Room Vol 1 compilation. Pick your favorite: simmering rage or handclaps. While perhaps the most lyrically bleak of related Vancouver bands, no one gets the floor dancing, actually dancing and none of that white belt shit either, more than Defektors. LP/CD on Grotesque Modern/Nominal to follow. Members of Vapid, Modern Creatures, Twin Crystals and Terrorbird. RIYL: Wipers, Joy Division, The Vicious.
SOLD OUT: Initial pressing of 322 on red vinyl with original insert.
NOW AVAILABLE: Second pressing of 342 on black vinyl with new insert.
Simultaneously released 7" on Hockey Dad. Four hits, two records. Well worth the wait.
MUTATORS-Secret Life LP (NOMI005) Mutators lie at the heart of Vancouver's resurrection, spreading the word via multiple North American tours and a variety of releases. Now Secret Life captures them at their most effective and exacting. This set of 13 tightly structured songs is full of venom and surprising hooks. Influences exist without mimicry. Attack and release proves more powerful than unrelenting scree. Sing along at your own peril.
SOLD OUT: 23 blue & white marble copies.
NOW AVAILABLE: Initial pressing of 820: 385 on blue; 412 on red. Includes full-size, double-sided insert with full color photo printed on recycled paper at Hemlock Printers.
V/A-EMERGENCY ROOM VOL. 1 LP+BOOK (Grotesque Modern/Nominal/GROSSMOD07/NOMI002) Featuring DEFEKTORS / MUTATORS / NÜ SENSAE / PETROLEUM BY-PRODUCTS / SICK BUILDINGS / TWIN CRYSTALS / VAPID / WHITE LUNG. 15 songs. Includes a full-size, 20 page book of photos, art and text printed on recycled paper at Hemlock Printers, packaged in a full color LP jacket. One time pressing of 924.
VAPID-Do The Earthquake 7" (NOMI001) Vancouver's music scene is alive again for the first time in nearly 30 years (see Vancouver Complication) and "Do The Earthquake" is the dance party hit of its resurgent, art-punk, underground. On the flipside, "Victim" and "Whore" stand tall against prime-era Bikini Kill singles tracks. This 7" proves Vapid are more than exhilaratingly haphazard live performances. Get ready to shake! RIYL: X-Ray Spex; Bikini Kill; Red Cross; Sado Nation; Dishrags; feedback, 60's girl groups.
AVAILABLE AGAIN: Initial pressing of 312 copies on clear vinyl with white insert. Less than 20 to be had.
NOW AVAILABLE: Second pressing of 329 copies on black vinyl with yellow insert.
:::COMING SOON:::
Manufacturing is taking FOREVER, but these are all coming. Really.
VAPID-Practically Dead LP/CD (Deranged/Nominal/DY142/NOMI008) Out November? Includes download coupon.
DEFEKTORS-TV, Death and the Devil LP (Grotesque Modern/Nominal/GROSSMOD15/NOMI007) Out November? Includes download coupon.
WEATHERED PINES-The Sky Between the Buildings LP (Dejlig/DEJ01) Out November. Debut release on "sister" label, Dejlig. Includes download coupon.
RANDOM CUTS - Sleep (Nominal) MARGARET THRASHER - Damnit IV (P Trash) B LINES - Social Retard (Nominal) LET’S DANCE - X-Ray Eyes (Meaty Beaty) FUCK ME DEAD - Circling Ahead (Clarence Thomas) THE CRAWLERS - Political Evangelist (Blind Spot)
PERDITION - Freedom in Death (Mountains of Madness) ATTAKE - Avalanche / Age of War (Mountains of Madness) MAD WORLD - the World Owes You Nothing (Even Worse/Kangaroo) MUTINY - Death to the System / War Profiteer (Black Banana) INFANTICIDE - Disbelief (625 Productions) WAR HERO - Gore (Black Banana) MUDLARK - A.D.H.D. / Napalm (Schizophrenic)
OUR WAR - Fifty Years (Deranged) RIGT BRIGADE - Wasted breathe (Revelation) BETRAYED - Understand (Bridge 9) RIGHTEOUS JAMS - Thought Vacation (Lockin’ Out) BONDS - Not a Phase (Tuned) ALLEGIANCE - My pledge (Rivalry) THE FIRST STEP - Pursuit of happiness (Rivalry
okay please let me know the details of the dates in tokyo in 2010 when it'll be fixed and let us go somewhere down the Pub + nightspot for the pint in there :-)
