NEWS: 01/22/08
It's time for preorders on the two new Rome Plow releases, a 1-sided 12" from Helms Alee, and the super limited second release of the Deadsure CD/LP. There are 150 copies of the Deadsure LP, and 400 of the Helms Alee LP.
Some quick notes on the Helms Alee records:
1. The band is 'Helms Alee' - we put that on the cover so that people could identify it without having to work too hard. We did make it a bit difficult to figure out everything else, because black is the limited color and the record covers are color-coordinated with the vinyl. We're enigmatic like that.
2. The record is a 1-sided 12", you play it on a turntable at 33rpm. Every single piece of the packaging is printed AND silkscreened. Take a close look. The plastic sleeve, the cover, and even the inner sleeve on both sides. We're crazy. We even had the outer cover paper custom milled.
3. The b-side has a pretty picture etched into it (art by the talented and lovely Faith Coloccia of Everlovely Lightningheart). I suggest you DON'T try to play the b-side. Maybe make some hot cocoa and find some cats to cuddle with while staring at it wistfully (this works for me).
4. These are four of six songs they recorded a few months back, the other two are coming out as a 7" on Hydra Head.
5. The guy who sings and plays guitar was in Harkonen and These Arms Are Snakes. The lady who beats the shit out of the drums is in Lozen. The lady who holds it all together on the bass guitar was in some band whose name I can't remember and which I feel pretty bad about. She's also a mean Pictionary player.
Some quick notes on the Deadsure records:
1. The band is 'Deadsure' - we put that on the cover, but it's basically impossible to read, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
2. The record is an LP which comes with a CD. It's the long-awaited (by me, at least) follow-up to their debut EP which came out on No Idea about four years ago. Deadsure captures pieces of the greatest 90's hardcore bands like Hoover and Braid and Maximillian Colby and Rorschach and you're probably thinking "those bands don't sound anything alike." That's true. And Deadsure doesn't really sound like any of them, but there's a similarly brilliant dynamic to the way these guys play music, a sense of urgency. There's a weight to it that grabs you and makes you tingle in your bathing suit area.
3. Deadsure is broken up now, and the first version of the LP/CD is sold out. Pelt them with things and convince them to not break up.
4. Ex-Sparkmarker jams.
Other stuff:
1. A super limited hand-packaged cd-r version of the Helms Alee songs which was put out by our bestest friend ever Andy at Broken Press is also available from us. Super limited.
2. We've got copies of the Kids Explode + Shokei split lp, too. Hot, hot jams.
Upcoming releases:
1. RPR-009: Jason from Sparrows Swarm and Sing has a new band called Golden Holy that is going to take over the world. We've got songs up on the m-space, check that shit.
2. RPR-010: Playing Enemy 'Here's To What We Made' lp. A collection of rare and unreleased Playing Enemy songs, including the songs that were to be the bulk of their next LP before they went the way of the dinosaur. Handpackaged on vellum, intense intensity as always.
3. RPR-011: Hemingway 10"? Crazy new piano-noise-pop-folk jams from 2/3 of the Playing Enemy crew.
Distros that want copies, drop me a line.
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http://www.romeplowrecords.com/
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