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Rok Lok Records: Blueblack "Destroy" and Soda Lilies "Love Cemetery Tapes" cassettes out now! Distro Update!


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Blueblack "Destroy" cassette

Rising up from a seemingly never ending sea of melodic punk and hardcore bands in the landscape of Long Island underground music , Blueblack's massive, clamorous din stands out. And not like some irritating sore thumb, or even a local curio but as welcome breath of fresh air. Blueblack is a powerful, instrumental experimental post rock trio that creates powerful waves of distorted sound interlocked ever so deftly with hypnotic rhythms that comes off like an amalgamation between Mono, Swans, Neurosis, Russian Circles and Reighnbeau. Carving out a niche for themselves within the local scene as a result of their uncompromising sound and an admirable commitment to the rigor of playing heaps of shows, Blueblack is making their mark in a region that seldom awards those whom stray from the sound du jour. "Destroy" is a thunderous 7 song effort that builds upon the foundation laid with their self released eponymous cd. There are lush, subdued moments coupled with bombastic distortion overload that bears a tinge of psychedelic, hazy riffing. "Destroy" will soothe you right before it ,without apology, "destroys" you. Limited to an edition of 50 black clam shell cassettes with black & white labels and glossy double sided j-card. 

https://roklokrecords.bandcamp.com/album/destroy

 

Soda Lilies "Love Cemetery Tapes" cassette

In recent years the shoegaze label has been adorned by many bands and while appropriately falling under that umbrella whether it is modern recording techniques, cross pollination of other music styles, different types of effects pedals employed I have found that very few of these bands really capture the sonic aesthetic of the bands that made me fall in love with the genre in the first place. That is where Austin, TX based Soda Lilies succeed is that the sounds captured on their cassette "Love Cemetery Tapes" hearkens to a time when the sounds of My Bloody Valentine and Swirlies were defining a genre. "Love Cemetery Tapes" is eight tracks of hazy, tremolo bar bending waves of distorted guitar sounds mixed through awash of driving drums and layered, hushed vocal breezes. The sounds that Soda Lilies make evoke a warm feeling not only in the nostalgia of bringing the listener closer to a shoegaze-y experience of yore but because the sounds ebb and flow in such a manner. "Love Cemetery Tapes" is limited to an edition of 50 white clamshell cassettes packaged in a numbered full color j-card. 

https://roklokrecords.bandcamp.com/album/love-cemetery-tapes

 

Distro Update:

Recently copies of some long out of print Rok Lok titles came back into to stock. Only a handful at most (and some less) of each of these titles are available for a limited time on a first come first serve basis. Available are the following titles:

UNITED STATES "Divorce Songs" 12 inch
BRRR "s/t" 7 inch
MARSHALL TELLER/HALFTIME PARADE "split" 7 inch
DAMEZUMARI "Hope Inscribed On Handbills" 7 inch
IMAGINE IF THE SUN FELL "s/t" 7 inch
EMPTY SILOS ECHO WAR "Inner Working Mechanics of a Failed Construct With Puritan Cement" CD
END I "s/t" 7 inch

Order at www.roklokrecords.com or with digital downloads athttps://roklokrecords.bandcamp.com/

 

New releases coming soon from KATRINA STONEHART + THE SPOOKFISH, WORLD'S FAIR, STARS ARE INSANE and more

 

AVAILABLE RELEASES:

(RL113) Soda Lilies "Love Cemetery Tapes" cassette
(RL112) Blueblack "Destroy" cassette

(RL111) Atariame "Weirdo Goes to the Disco" cassette

(RL110) Nearr "Introduction To..." cassette *5 copies left*
(RL109) Snow What "It's Over" cassette  *4 copies left*
(RL108) Kkidss "Anemia" cassette
(RL107) The Only Ghost In Town "Peculiar Smiles: 2010-2015" cassette
(RL105) Graham Repulski "Success Racist" cassette *6 copies left*
(RL104) Kkidss "Candy" cassette
(RL103) Shivering Window "Days I've Lost b/w Clean Hell" 7 inch
(RL101) Stars Are Insane "Winter Postcard" lathe cut 5 inch *5 copies left*
(RL100) Restaurnaut "Birth" cassette
(RL99) Rayning "Refraction" cassette *5 copies left*
(RL98) Love Letter "Collecting Loss" lathe cut 10 inch *4 copies left*
(RL97) Cestine "Other Half/Bright Encounter" cassette
(RL96) Jan "Let It Ride" cassette *6 copies left*
(RL95) Mormon Toasterhead "Memory/Monument" double cassette
(RL93) Love Letter "Gentle Memories" cassette
(RL92) World's Fair "Leisurely" 12 inch
(RL91) Hiders "Bloom" cassette *3 copies left*
(RL90) Stars Are Insane "Pop Industry" cassette *6 copies left*
(RL89) Love Letter "It Brought Us Something We Had to Know" cassette *7 copies left*
(RL88) Snow What "So Far So Good" 12 inch
(RL86) The National Park Service "Winter Clothes" cassette
(RL85) Stars Are Insane/Monogamy "split" cassette *4 copies left*
(RL84) Stars Are Insane/Morgue Toad "split" cassette *1 copy left*
(RL83) White Blush "White Blush" cassette
(RL81) Abandoned Houses "Untitled Spirals" cassette 
(RL79) Imaginary Pants "Channels b/w Seacliff" 7 inch
(RL77) v/a "I Know Why They Call It Pop: Volume 2" cassette *4 copies left*
(RL75) Bare Pale "If It Is" cassette *4 copies left*
(RL73) Dude Japan "Simple Living" cd (reissue w/ bonus tracks)
(RL72) Dude Japan "Will You Meet Me There" cassette/cd *1 copy left of cassette version*
(RL70) Eureka California/Good Grief "split" 7 inch
(RL66) Shivering Window "Singles Club #9" cassette *2 copies left*
(RL65) Katrina Stonehart "Singles Club #8" cassette *1 copy left*
(RL62) Mike Naideau "Singles Club #6" cassette *3 copies left*
(RL61) Hanna Elson "Singles Club #5" cassette *3 copies left*
(RL57) Make It Plain "Somersault" 7 inch
(RL53) Giant Peach "Callous & Strange" 7 inch 
(RL51) Brick Mower "Why Are We Doing This?" 7 inch *9 copies left*
(RL45) Yes Sensei "In Excelsis" cd *6 copies left*
(RL43) Sandy City "Surfin' WA" 12 inch
(RL38) Fellow Project "Boots" 7 inch *5 copies left*

(RL37) Damezumari "Hope Inscribed On Handbills" 7 inch *6 copies left*

(RL34) Marshall Teller/Halftime Parade "split" 7 inch *3 copies left*
(RL33) Yes Sensei "3 Songs" 7 inch *6 copies left*
(RL31) Yes Sensei "s/t" cd
(RL26) On the Might of Princes "The Making of a Conversation" cd

(RL25) United States "Divorce Songs" 12 inch *2 copy left*

(RL24) BRRR "s/t" 7 inch *1 copy left*

(RL20) Empty Silos Echo War "Inner Working Mechanics of a Failed Construct With Puritan Cement" cd *6 copies left*

(RL19) Imagine If the Sun Fell "s/t" 7 inc *1 copy left*
(RL16) Yes Sensei "We Who Transplant Sustain" cd
(RL15) Yes Sensei "What I Do Best is What I Do Worst" cd

(RL14) End I "s/t" 7 inch *4 copies left*
(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

 

 
 
 
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