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2019-07-20 - rochester, ny - friendship, lina tullgren, kinloch nelson, and lung cycles at small world books
lily tapes & discs fall 2018 batch
LTD028: HOUR - ANEMONE RED
Philadelphia's Hour make their Lily Tapes & Discs debut with Anemone Red, the follow-up to Tiny Houses, released earlier this year by our friends at Sleeper Records. Named in reference to the flower that grew from a mixture of blood and tears in the Greek myth of Aphrodite and Adonis, Anemone Red is a meditation on the colors and moods that rise between shared lives, and in the wake of doubt and loss. Its phrases hover and shine like dust particles, glowing in a patch of light refracted through an attic window at dusk. Each track brushes slowly at the outline of an unknowable story, flipping through curled, faded memories, stirring up a deep longing for someone you never truly met, if at all. The twenty-eighth official release from Lily Tapes & Discs. Released in an edition of 75 pro-dubbed red tinted chrome tapes. Packaged with full color j-cards featuring artwork by Abi Reimold and Sarah Jurkofsky, numbered and assembled by hand at LTD Headquarters.
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LTD027: LUNG CYCLES
"I want to say this is Lung Cycles' first full-length collection of songs in five years, but the word "song" feels out of place. A song implies a singer at center stage, a voice that plays ruler of the song's little kingdom. There's something deist about these new songs, as if the musicians are setting them up and then sneaking away quietly while the music continues to play. Lung Cycles aren't erasing themselves from the picture, but they're not imposing themselves on you either. They're giving themselves the freedom to move into the background and observe the play of light and color and shadow, savoring the loose embrace of a warm night, making their richly textured collective dreams responsive to the outside world's serendipity. Even though Ben Lovell says few words on this album, his delivery is composed and deliberate, and even his silences are articulate. He sings about anxiety and frustration, but he does it in the voice of hard-won calm. It's like he's speaking softly to a confidant late at night, recounting the strains of the day while acknowledging the need to let them go. Perhaps he's just talking to himself while he's on a mind-clearing walk, the kind he mentions in "Blue Rochester moon." Even if he is, the outlook here is profoundly sane. Underneath the shallowness of our perpetual stress complex, we can find verdant nooks like this, as long as we can slow ourselves enough to notice them. This is a nook worth noticing." - Emmerich Anklam The twenty-seventh official release from Lily Tapes & Discs. Released in an edition of 100 pro-dubbed clear chrome tapes. Packaged with two-layer full color J-card with details hand printed on Sekishu paper and fold-up insert, designed and printed by Jeremy Ferris. Numbered and assembled by hand at LTD Headquarters.
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poster from naps/lung cycles april 2018 tour, design by ben lovell
LTD026: NAPS/LUNG CYCLES - SPLIT
With this release we bring the latest dispatch from stalwart LTD contributor naps, continuing a recent string of brilliant releases on labels like Patient Sounds and Tandem Tapes. It's a continued development of the warm drones and soothing field recordings that have defined naps' sound, but with a poignant clarity that was only hinted at before now cracked wide open. Lung cycles' response, an improvised pipe organ performance to an empty cathedral recorded live to tape, plunges us back into the murk. Together, both sides speed across the rust belt toward the sunset, but it's not getting any closer. Everything's the same, no matter how much it changes. The world's not ending, it's already over.
The twenty-sixth official release from Lily Tapes & Discs. Released in an edition of 75 pro-dubbed goldenrod chrome tapes. Packaged in Brad Paks from Stumptown Printers with artwork designed by Benjamin Torrey and printed by Jeremy Ferris, numbered by hand at LTD Headquarters.
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LTD025: CLA-RAS / LUNG CYCLES - SPLIT
The seventh entry in our long-running series of split releases brings the tape debut of Cla-ras, a new musical project based in Providence, Rhode Island. "I Could Taste Iodine in the Drinking Water" is a subtle but impactful introduction, a transportive work of deceptively rich guitar playing that slowly fills the room like steam off a pot of broth, with spoken word adapted from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley emerging from the haze. Opposite Cla-ras's performance is the first new transmission from Lung cycles since 2015, a loose constellation of slow meditations on quick ideas, left alone to simmer while we wait for the room to heat up. The twenty-fifth official release from Lily Tapes & Discs. Released in an edition of 50 pro-dubbed gold chrome tapes. Packaged in Brad Paks from Stumptown Printers with artwork designed, printed, and assembled by Jeremy Ferris, numbered by hand at LTD Headquarters. Includes a copy of "Above Bridge Water," an illustrated booklet that serves as a companion piece to the tape.
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LTD024: VIERZIG SKIZZEN - TRAVELS IN PUBLIC
For our latest batch of releases, Lily Tapes & Discs reaches across the Atlantic for the first time to welcome vierzig skizzen of Kiel, Germany to the fold. Partly inspired by a recent move away from home, travels in public translates the nervous optimism of leaving the known behind and embracing the new into a collection of road-weary journal entries. It's music that radiates from the overlap between wistful recollection and hesitant beginnings, like watching tracers of late night scenery on the other side of a bus window, or imagining familiar faces emerging on unfamiliar streets. It's a lonesome soundtrack to what we see when unknown surroundings make us feel like spectators to our own lives. The twenty-fourth official release from Lily Tapes & Discs. Released in an edition of 60 pro-dubbed gold chrome tapes. Packaged with full color j-cards, numbered and assembled by hand at LTD Headquarters.
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got a new thing coming out on the great @lilytapesanddiscs soon :>
two new releases that’ll be out before the end of the year: LTD024: vierzig skizzen - travels in public CS LTD025: Cla-ras/Lung cycles - Split CS
04/15/2017 - EDT / Cla-Ras (feat. Janaya Kizzie) / Lung cycles at 186 Carpenter. Providence, RI. Poster by Jeremy Ferris. FB RSVP.
LUNG CYCLES APRIL 2017 TOUR
4/15 - providence, ri @ 186 carpenter with edt and cla-ras. fb rsvp.
4/16 - west haven, ct @ crunch house with human flourishing, zach rowden, and many more. fb rsvp.
4/17 - somerville, ma @ no berry with bedbug, judy chong, and will henriksen. fb rsvp.
4/18 - brooklyn, ny @ scully’s den with adeline hotel, astronomer of the week, and tarpit. fb rsvp.
4/19 - philly, pa @ froggy’s amusement complex with tim woulfe, naps, and lesser. fb rsvp.
4/22 - bard college @ the root cellar with kenny 3, fisher price, and hugh. fb rsvp.
Both new tapes now available to purchase separately or together as a discounted bundle.
LTD022: NAPS - BASK
bask, a new work by Philadelphia's naps, plays almost like a companion piece to 2015's one hundred percent confident - except this time the deep submersion and murky textures give way to a newfound brightness and clarity. If confident was the dive down, here we find ourselves resurfacing. It's sunny out, and there's plenty of shade but fragments of light still break through, shifting and converging as you drift. They're bringing something down with them - but don't worry about what you're looking for, just let it come into focus.
The twenty-second official release from Lily Tapes & Discs. Released in an edition of 50 pro-dubbed clear chrome tapes. Packaged with j-cards featuring artwork designed, printed, and hand-lettered on linen cardstock by Shaun Hall, numbered and assembled by hand at LTD Headquarters.
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LTD021: DISTANT READER - HOME POWER
Home Power is the long-gestating debut release by Distant Reader, a project centered around the songwriting of Emmerich Anklam. Assembled from ideas gathered and developed over several years, it emerges now as a fully formed statement - one that is awe-inspiring in its scope and ambition, yet disarming in its clarity and directness. It's a testament to the power of unblinking sincerity, a love letter to the great writers and musicians who taught us how to express it, and a warm hug for the friends who give weight to those words.
The twenty-first official release from Lily Tapes & Discs. Released in an edition of 50 pro-dubbed purple chrome tapes. Packaged with full color j-cards, numbered and assembled by hand at LTD Headquarters.
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Both new tapes also available as a bundle on our merch page.
LTD019: THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - SECRET WIND
Following a run of amazing tapes on labels like Rok Lok, PSI LAB, and Cerealbowl collective, as well as a steady stream of self-published releases, The National Park Service returns with their first full-length tape on Lily Tapes & Discs in 3 years, almost exactly to the day. Secret Wind is the clearest distillation yet of the knotty aural terrain that NPS calls home, perfectly encapsulating the autumnal psychedelia and sun-fried tape experimentation that's been the cornerstone of their discography while building it up even higher. Like a chilly late afternoon hike and the breathless drive back home, it invigorates as it soothes. The nineteenth official release from Lily Tapes & Discs. Released in an edition of 50 pro-dubbed clear chrome tapes. Packaged with j-cards featuring full color artwork, numbered and assembled by hand here at LTD Headquarters.
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