WEB-ONLY SPECIAL

(AK045) Okay "High Road"
(AK039) Okay "Low Road"
(FR011) JK "a"

AK045 - Okay "High Road"
US: CD $14
CANADA/INTL: CD $16

If you love OKAY -- You will love Jacques Kopstein.

Marty Anderson writes amazing songs, period. He is a multi-instrumentalist that can craft the perfect pop song disguised in a noise avalanche.Ê In my opinion he is the best song writer to come along in the last decade. If you miss out on these releases now, I'm sure some college student in the future, maybe even your grand kids neighbor will be waxing poetically about OKAY'S / Jacques Kopstein's / Marty Anderson's pure genius.Ê A rare talent and a sweet fellow.

AK039 - Okay "Low Road"
US: CD $14
CANADA/INTL: CD $16

FR011 - Jacques Kopstein "a"
US: CD $12
CANADA/INTL: CD $14

Including members of Dilute.

Jacques Kopstein's (a.k.a Marty Anderson from the band Dilute) debut release "a" is an absolute pleasure to listen to. Beautifully constructed songs both catchy and quirky (in a good way). After the first listen you will be hooked.

"Jacques Kopstein is actually Marty Anderson of local rockers Dilute. 'a' is his first solo record and it's pretty fucking great. Great, but really, really strange. Anderson plays all the instruments and does all the singing and even drew all the pictures. The disc starts off with wildly careening demented circus music but quickly mutates into gently strummed, dreamy and damaged folk pop, which is where it stays for most of the rest of the record. The Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev come immediately to mind. Beautiful pop songs stretched and twisted and peppered with bizarre sounds and populated by peculiar instruments, Anderson's keening sad boy wail and catchy-as-hell hooks."-- Aquarius Records

*Marty has worked with members of Rumah Sakit, Deerhoof, Tarentel, The Ants, and Lesser Lights
*Jay and Ian Pellicci (from Dilute) also appear on this recording

ILFA025 - Dilute "The Gypsy Valentine Curve" (54 40' / Fight Label)
US: CD $14
CANADA/INTL: CD $16

"Displaying the confidence to be both humble and unconventional, dilute have brought forth to this world a startling, arrhythmic, darn-near epic debut that strangely manages a calm fluidity, akin to laying face-down in a bowl of one¹s own soup. Intricate, sprawling rock songs disfigured by jarring changes and bursts of tuneful noise but not so much that one will lose their way completely. A little danger is OK, now and then, yes?"--from the 54 40' / Fight Label website

POLK004 - Dilute "Grape Blueprints Pour Spinach Olive Grape" (54 40' / Fight Label)
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"Look at the cover art. Now the album title. They're circular. Elliptical. And so, it would seem, is the music of dilute. However, much like the not-quite-closed circle that adorns the cover, the music is open-ended yet suggestive of an elliptical form. The songs' conclusions are mindful of where they began, even if the elongated song structures presented so wonderfully on this album wind and weave through both pastoral stretches and precipitous crags. Like the first rainfall after a long drought, this album is first heard with a sense of disbelief. "This can't be happening." Oh, but it is. Notes, like so many tiny crystalline raindrops, descend upon the ears to bring relief and inspire awe. What's played and sang is tender, softening, and vital. And pretty complicated, too, now that we think about it. Yeah, kind of like rain."--from the 54 40' / Fight Label website

Deluxe debossed packaging and printing by Starshaped Press of Chicago.