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Gift Horse To Release Debut Album On October 2nd
Photo courtesy of the band. Absence, the debut album by Kansas City based rock band Gift Horse, is both a return to form and exploration of new territory. Pre-order the album, out October 2 via Expert Work Records here. Listen to lead single, “Distracted,” now here. Former members of Coward, an instrumental math rock quartet from Columbia, Missouri, Mikey Wheeler, Nathan Driskill, and Cody…
Birth (Defects) - Fictional Days LP (Expert Work Records)
There’s something about farewell records that makes every listening so bittersweet. Whether you know the band or not, like their music or not, it’s kinda sad when you hear another band is calling it quits. Fictional Days by Birth (Defects) is one of those records that serves as a farewell recording assembled of five original compositions and four renditions of grunge, no wave, and hardcore punk…
Birth (Defects) were a noise rock/post hardcore band from Baltimore who broke up in 2019. Their final release Fictional Days will be co-released by Expert Work Records and Reptilian Records on May 22nd.
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Pretty Baby - Layaway Plot LP (Various Labels)
In the underground scene, we often see artists hide behind personas or elaborate high-concept frameworks as a defensive maneuver, a way to process the world without getting too close to the flame. But eventually, the weight of reality becomes too heavy for a character to carry alone. For Pretty Baby, an outfit emerging from the Charlotte, North Carolina indie scene, this transition has been a…
Amputee Set - Live In 2003 7" (Expert Work Records)
When you strip away the sterile environment of a professional recording studio, the isolation booths, and the endless possibilities of multi-track editing, you are left with nothing but the raw sound of a band. You hear the room, you feel the immediate connection with the audience, and you witness the physical exertion required for the performance. Amputee Set, a highly influential but deeply…
Drill For Absentee Releases Double EP "Strand Of A Lake" On Limited Edition Vinyl
Photo courtesy of the band. Drill For Absentee has released a double collection of music, Strand of a Lake Volume 1 and Volume 2, today via Expert Work Records. The band reformed earlier this decade, adding drummer Ken Kuniyoshi to create the EPs, which are available digitally and as a limited-edition 12-inch vinyl record (200 copies), with a collector’s pressing of multicolored vinyl also…
Drill For Absentee Announce Double EP "Strand Of A Lake"
Photo courtesy of the band. Post-hardcore veterans Drill For Absentee return with their double EP Strand of a Lake, Vol. 1 & 2, set for release October 24 via Expert Work Records. The release blends their 90s math-rock roots with new progressive influences.
Drill For Absentee - Strand Of A Lake, Vol. 1 And Vol. 2 LP (Expert Work Records)
Drill For Absentee were gone long enough to be mythologized, but not forgotten. In the twilight of the 1990s, they delivered music that belonged to that merciless intersection between post-hardcore and math rock abstraction, only to disappear before the world could catch up. Twenty-five years later, Strand Of A Lake represents an interruption of silence and a continuation of an unfinished…
