Rok Lok Records: 3 New Releases & Distro Update

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LOVE LETTER "COLLECTING LOSS" LATHE CUT 10 INCH OUT NOW

Building upon the foundation that was laid with two cassettes, "It Brought Us Something We Had to Know" and "Gentle Memories", Love Letter is back with a six track effort called "Collecting Loss". This time around Love Letter takes snippets of the cinematic aural post rock sprawl approach that was captured so well on the first two cassettes and marries it with a touch of "pop" flair. "Collecting Loss" finds its songs more traditionally arranged and most noticeably in the Love Letter discography with vocals being adding to its sonic repertoire. Don't let the words "structure', "pop" or "vocals" think that Love Letter has turned upside down because that simply isn't the case, it is just that Love Letter has morphed into something else while still being what it was before, washes of layered, reverberated guitar melodies and drones meshes with field recordings, vocal whispers and strummed guitars. This six song ep is akin to a lucid dream that one may experience on a windy autumn night. "Collecting Loss" examines the untainted innocence of youth and how once that innocence is lost it can never be reclaimed. For fans of Godspeed You Black Emperor, Azusa Plane, Paper Armies and Mariposa. "Collecting Loss" lathe cut 10 inch is limited to an edition of 15. Each lathe cut 10 inch is cut in real time by Graham at 2208 Records and is on clear polycarbonate with printed black & white labels. Each lathe cut record is packaged in a numbered chipboard jacket with full color artwork and includes a insert, download card, a love letter, a handmade decoder postcard and a bracelet made by Andrew and Kerry of Love Letter.

Listen to LOVE LETTER "Collecting Loss" https://roklokrecords.bandcamp.com/album/collecting-loss [roklokrecords.bandcamp.com] » 

RESTAURNAUT "BIRTH" CASSETTE OUT NOW

Based out of Chino Hills, CA Restaurnaut sounds like a indie jug band as it revels in playing a unique, hodge podge brand of bedroom pop that is as infectious as it is adventurous. With a ukulele, a drum machine, layers of vocals and touches of keyboard, Restaurnaut's Nick Dolezal creates a brand of lo-fi bedroom pop that has a folk ting at times. Restaurnaut recalls the sounds of Furniture Huschle, Hallf Handed Cloud, and Charlie McAlister, while lyrically it recalls the social mindfulness and political consciousness of Plan-It-X artists in the late 90's. With cassette releases Almost Halloween Time and Dolezal's on Kerchow Records, Rok Lok is thrilled to give "Birth" which recorded in the summer of 2013 the proper release is deserves. "Birth" is comprised of ten infectious, folky bedroom pop tunes which is all packed into C-30 white clamshell (home dubbed in real time)cassettes with full color labels, full color numbered j-cards, a lyric insert and a sticker Limited to an edition of 40. 

Listen to RESTAURNAUT "Birth" https://roklokrecords.bandcamp.com/album/birth [roklokrecords.bandcamp.com] » 

KKIDSS "HOT TRASH" CASSETTE OUT NOW

Have you ever gone walking and in your travels come across a old cassette laying on the ground? And when you have did you ever wonder what could possibly be on that cassette? Or perhaps cleaning out the contents of home you just moved into and found a old cassette in the attic?In my mind the 18 track full length effort, "Hot Trash" from British Columbia based Kkidss, is what could be potentially on the cassette tape. Christopher Edwards, the mind behind Kkidss writes somber, introspective cuts of loner, lo-fi bedroom folk that recalls the sounds of John Thill, Simon Joyner and Paste. Edwards' lyrics dig, and jab hard, in a unsettling almost confessional style motif. "Hot Trash" relishes in lo-fi, home recording excess being 18 track long album but never over stays its welcome or never feels as if it is treading familiar territory. "Hot Trash" is limited to an edition of 40 white clamshell C-60 cassettes with full color labels and full color, numbered cardstock j-cards.

Listen to KKIDSS "Hot Trash" https://roklokrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hot-trash [roklokrecords.bandcamp.com] » 

COMING SOON:

Stars Are Insane "Winter Postcard" lathe cut 5 inch

Math 7 inch

Shivering Window 7 inch

AVAILABLE RELEASES:

World's Fair "Leisurely" 12 inch

(RL102) Kkidss "Hot Trash" cassette

(RL100) Restaurnaut "Birth" cassette

(RL99) Rayning "Refraction" cassette

(RL98) Love Letter "Collecting Loss" lathe cut 10 inch

(RL97) Cestine "Other Half/Bright Encounter" cassette

(RL96) Jan "Let It Ride" cassette

(RL95) Mormon Toasterhead "Memory/Monument" double cassette

(RL94) Little Whirls "Sedateness at the Movies" cassette

(RL93) Love Letter "Gentle Memories" cassette

(RL92) World's Fair "Leisurely" 12 inch

(RL91) Hiders "Bloom" cassette

(RL90) Stars Are Insane "Pop Industry" cassette

(RL89) Love Letter "It Brought Us Something We Had to Know" cassette

(RL88) Snow What "So Far So Good" 12 inch

(RL87) Orange Aurora "Dracula Coil" cassette *9 copies left*

(RL86) The National Park Service "Winter Clothes" cassette

(RL85) Stars Are Insane/Monogamy "split" cassette

(RL84) Stars Are Insane/Morgue Toad "split" cassette

(RL83) White Blush "White Blush" cassette

(RL81) Abandoned Houses "Untitled Spirals" cassette 

(RL80) Swim Ignorant Fire "Belly of the Whale" cassette *2 copies left*

(RL79) Imaginary Pants "Channels b/w Seacliff" 7 inch

(RL77) v/a "I Know Why They Call It Pop: Volume 2" cassette

(RL75) Bare Pale "If It Is" cassette

(RL73) Dude Japan "Simple Living" cd (reissue w/ bonus tracks)

(RL72) Dude Japan "Will You Meet Me There" cassette/cd

(RL70) Eureka California/Good Grief "split" 7 inch

(RL66) Shivering Window "Singles Club #9" cassette *3 copies left*

(RL65) Katrina Stonehart "Singles Club #8" cassette *4 copies left*

(RL62) Mike Naideau "Singles Club #6" cassette *5 copies left*

(RL61) Hanna Elson "Singles Club #5" cassette *5 copies left*

(RL57) Make It Plain "Somersault" 7 inch

(RL56) Monogamy "Singles Club #3" cassette *3 copies left*

(RL54) Outside the Museum "Singles Club #1" cassette *4 copies left*

(RL53) Giant Peach "Callous & Strange" 7 inch 

(RL51) Brick Mower "Why Are We Doing This?" 7 inch

(RL45) Yes Sensei "In Excelsis" cd

(RL43) Sandy City "Surfin' WA" 12 inch

(RL38) Fellow Project "Boots" 7 inch *6 copies left*

(RL33) Yes Sensei "3 Songs" 7 inch

(RL31) Yes Sensei "s/t" cd

(RL27) On the Might of Princes "Where You Are & Where You Want to Be" cd

(RL26) On the Might of Princes "The Making of a Conversation" cd

RL16) Yes Sensei "We Who Transplant Sustain" cd

(RL15) Yes Sensei "What I Do Best is What I Do Worst" cd

(RL13) Bookstore "s/t" cd

(RL11) Space Robot Scientists "We've Got a Time Machine" cd

(RL08) v/a "The Hope Machine" cd

(RL07) Stars Are Insane "Anonymously Yours" cassette (reissue)

(RL06) Explosivo! "The Uh Oh EP" cd

Distro Update:

Distro Update:

Bearchild "Wishing Well" 12 inch

Blueblack "Blueblack" cd

Blue Period, The "And Suddenly The Days Draw Long Like Light Years" 12 inch

Cancers "Fatten the Leeches" 12 inch

Danny Lango "When You Are Not Resting" cassette

Earworms "s/t" 12 inch

Failures Union "Tethering" 12 inch

Fellow Project "Basic Axemanship" 10 inch

Giant Peach "Gem Street Demos" cassette

Giant Peach "People Don't Believe Me/Callous & Strange" cassette

Human Hands "s/t" 12 inch

Iron Chic "Split N Shit" 7 inch (restock)

Iron Chic/Lowe Culture "split" 7 inch

John Thill "Gospel of the Carwash" cassette

Manett "Stigma Style" cassette

Mike Naideau "Four Track Demos" cassette

Murmurs "Bound" 12 inch

Nicole Kidman "Project Sadness" casstte

Plaids/Xaxaxa "split" 10 inch

Shivering Window "Dreaming of Su Tissue" cassette

Somerset Thrower "Falling Swingers" 7 inch

Sonic Avenues "s/t" 12 inch

Tape Rec "Death Friends" 12 inch

v/a "My Heart in Your Hand" 10 inch

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[soniklife]

Down to 9 copies of LOVE LETTER "Collecting Loss" lathe cut 10 inch and KKIDSS "Hot Trash" cassette is going fast. First batch of orders ships tomorrow.

[soniklife]

more orders ship tomorrow. almost caught up