FR018 - The Curtains "Vehicles of Travel"
US: CD $12
CANADA/INTL: CD $14

"The hardest thing to do in music is to create something truly new. The Curtains have not only achieved this with ease but sound damn good doing it. The band has flawlessly perfected a sound that was already completely removed from any current trends or styles and is now freely playing around with the material at their disposal. 'Vehicles of Travel' is hands down one of the finest releases of the year." --Nick Hennies, Foxy Digitalis

Featuring members of: Deerhoof, The Natural Dreamers and Open City

The Curtains "Flybys" (Thin Wrist Records)
US: CD $12, LP $12
CANADA/INTL: CD $14, LP $14

Side A:
1. Park Work
2. The Burl
3. Computer Finch
4. Bummer with Cakes
5. Time Center
6. Watch for: The Eliminator
7. Fast Talks
8. Blink, Professor
9. Asterisks by Moonlight

Side B:
10. Hatching the New Guy
11. Partners
12. Death Constellation
13. Binotic Ting
14. Moment with Plankton
15. Telegraph Victories
16. Saga
17. Observations
18. Pure Bronze
19. The Shooter
20. Alpine Hunter
21. It's the Bunklords
22. Snowy Visitors

Personnel:
Chris Cohen - Guitar / Andrew Maxwell - Drums and Vocal / Greg Saunier - Synthesizer

Heavy Full Color Jacket, LP Edition of 500
CD Edition of 1,000

Released July 2003

If Wendy Carlos joined the Shaggs to perform Ravel's Mother Goose suite, it might sound like Flybys. If the Albert Ayler ensemble took a break from the Love Cry sessions to score the Rockford Files on portable moog and electric kitchen colander, it might sound like Flybys. If Brian Wilson recreated Stan Kenton's City of Glass for the Commodore 64 platform, it might sound like Flybys. If Forever Changes, Martians Go Home and Beefheart's Tropical Hot Dog Night were summarized a la Masterplots on musical 3x5's, it might sound like Flybys. Think of asterisks, park maintenance, telegraph wires and the alpine biathlon. That's what the Curtains did when they wrote Flybys! They call the Curtains "coming of age" music. Full of sweet accidents and big ideas in small packages, what you get are compact, highly personal compositions, neither hot nor cold, but whimsical, lighthearted, portable and idiosyncratic - the warm inventions and cool abstractions of the thinking man's casual imagination on the move. With members of Deerhoof, Natural Dreamers and Open City, they are certainly a mixed bag, but you'll like it!

The Curtains "s/t" (Thin Wrist Records)
US: 12" LP $12
CANADA/INTL: 12" LP $14

Members of the Natural Dreamers and Deerhoof.

Amazing instrumental music. They are able to work the sparse/dense combination with ease. Very guitar...

GER029 - Nervous Cop (5 Rue Christine)
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Deerhoof "Apple O" (5RC/ Kill Rock Stars)
US: CD $12
CANADA/INTL: CD $14

1. Dummy Discards A Heart
2. Heart Failure
3. Sealed With A Kiss
4. Flower
5. My Diamond Star Car
6. Apple Bomb
7. The Forbidden Fruits
8. L'Amour Stories
9. Dinner For Two
10. Panda Panda Panda
11. Hayley and Homer
12. Adam+Eve Connection
13. Blue Cash

"After absorbing a few of these 'pop songs, love songs, antiwar songs for kids!' on my way to work, I was so overjoyed I wanted to leap skyward with my arms outstretched - but inhibition and the low ceiling on the subway got the better of me at the time. Apple O' should be celebrated as the eclectic masterpiece that it is. 4 out of 4." -- Asha Schechter, Jane Magazine

Deerhoof "Reveille" (5RC/ Kill Rock Stars)
US: CD $12
CANADA/INTL: CD $14

1. Sound the Alarm
2. This Magnificent Bird Will Rise
3. The Eyebright Bugler
4. Punch Buggy Valves
5. No One Fed Me So I Stayed
6. Our Angel's Ululu
7. The Last Trumpeter Swan
8. Top Tim Rubies
9. Tuning a Stray
10. Holy Night Fever
11. All Rise
12. Frenzied Handsome, Hello!
13. Days & Nights in the Forest
14. Hark the Umpire
15. Cooper
16. Hallelujah Chorus

"One Koala bear, one gazelle, and one elk make up this band. This band makes music that is so interesting, mature, childish, boring, exciting, and beautiful that listeners often want to find them and give them presents. Songs feature drums, bass, guitar, vocals, and sometimes a keyboard. Seemingly endless two- and three-note interludes, which you might expect to be tiring, build tension and excitement before cacophonous eruptions of joyous sounds occur. When I listen to Deerhoof, I feel like a major lord. Reveille sounds like a soundtrack to a beautiful and terrifying play where a noble troll with a robe made out of moss storms a castle a fights a noble king king with a robe made out of purple fur in hopes of winning back his lute, the one thing that rests his troubled mind and enables him to sleep. Deerhoof songs range from small toy box tinkerings to epic rock hammers (sometimes they sound a bit like the Who). The singer's name is Satomi and might have the most beautiful voice, which she uses while playing bass well. The guitar player makes his axe do jolly things. The drummer plays erratically and hits them so hard that when he's done they say "What'd we do to deserve that?" If you feel like hearing great music buy some Deerhoof. This band always leaves people wanting more. More art in the packaging, more songs on the CDs, more CDs, more info! They are masters of making their fans thirst for more."-- Nate Denver, Slap Skateboard Magazine

KRS406 Deerhoof "Milkman" (5RC/ Kill Rock Stars)
US: CD $12
CANADA/INTL: CD $14

"This is when twee girly dream pop attacks, true believers!?? Is ye ye freaky, cultish prog-rock becoming the new old bedsit music??San Francisco's Deerhoof seem to think so. They have released a conceptual album about a misunderstood milkman: a creepy Willie Wonka character who preys on children, luring his victims into a psychedelic dreamland. The band and the concept have recieved fandom and undying devotion from fellow oompah-loompahs Karen O and Matt Groening. Sounds creepy.?But why??"Milkman" is wrapped in dense gothick psychedelia and jagged art roxxx guitars, similarly to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- but it's the whispering wailing voice of singer Satomi Matsuzaki that makes the album a truly disturbing experience. The soft-to-touch "Milking" and "New Sneakers" are keyboard-led horror-prog fantasias that drive the daft concept into true madness, intercutting blasts of feedback with strange slices of movie musak.?"Giga Dance" and "Desparecere" are awesome pounding godzillas, noise-wave deathrays invented by style lab aliens from the Pacific.?Yet, rising above it all is Matsuzaki's baby-like crooning, a fragile chant of pure girly dream pop. As for the milkman -- surely he's destined for a West End musical. The next Phantom of the Opera, perhaps?"-- NME