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March 9-15, 2006

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Selected Sludge

Gems from the Siltbreeze catalog.

Monkey 101
"French Feelings"/"Now That You Have Left Me"
(SB-4, 7-inch, 1991)
Lightning-in-a-bottle outing from Philly pop-punk outfit. Bitter love songs that cut to the bone 15 years later.
Dead C
Harsh '70s Reality
(SB-11/12, double LP, 1992)
Epic of textured noise, long "jams" and feedback-fueled chaos. New Zealand trio's masterstroke.
Dead C
Trapdoor Fucking Exit
(SB-21, 1993)
Confusing discography entry combining the Trapdoor Fucking Exit cassette, the "Helen Said This" 12-inch and three acoustic songs. Best album name ever.
Guided by Voices
Get Out of My Stations EP
(SB-28, 7-inch, 1994; CD 2003)
Put out the year of their breakout Bee Thousand, GBV's only Siltbreeze release is also among their weirdest.
Various Artists
Tard & Further'd
(SB-52, 1997)
Compilation of the label's early singles. Amazing cross section of the imprint's aesthetic, featuring Sebadoh, V-3, Gibson Bros., Thomas Jefferson Slave Apts.
The Strapping Fieldhands
Gobs on the Midway: Singles 1991-1995
(SB-53, 1998)
Collected 7-inches from Philly's resident shuffling/stomping, backwoods-y psych-pop-smiths.
Harry Pussy
What Was Music?
(SB-60, 1996)
The question posed by the album title is not rhetorical; it's what one asks when they've finished this 29-track tribute to total fucking destruction.
Pin Group
Retrospective
(SB-63, 1997)
Darkly infectious early recordings of Roy Montgomery's seminal Christchurch band; includes Flying Nun label's first song ever, "Ambivalence."
Brother JT and Vibrolux
Doomsday Rock!
(SB-65, 1997)
Mind-bending psychedelic jams from the alter ego of The Original Sins' John Terlesky.
The Yips
The Blue Flannel Bathrobe Butterfly
(SB-68, 1998)
Boy/girl Rust Belt blues punk that was, sadly, just a few years ahead of its time. If only they'd had a color scheme.
Renderers
A Dream of the Sea
(SB-72, 1998)
South Island fuzz rock fused with torch-song twang by Kiwi couple Brian and Mary Rose Crook.
Ashtabula
River of Many Dead Fish EP
(SB-73, 1999)
Philly supergroup (Bob Malloy, Rich Fravel, Rick Henderson, Ed Farnsworth) drop some dirty-catchy, garage-band pop.

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