Tom Fazzini
Neck To Neck
Locust 120 180 gram lp

Neck To Neck is a head scratching slab of warped primitive synth punk cut at Paul Dillon’s Complex studios in Leeds by a young Tom Fazzini in exile from a madness inducing tenure as a London postal carrier . Originally released in 1984 on Gordon A. Hope’s short lived A-mission label (which also counted releases by Asmus Tietchens & O Yuki Conjugate),Tom Fazzini’s combination of minimal synth and brutalist /absurdist industrial songs had more in line with the broader discomforts of the early 80s international tape network, Family Fodder, LAFMS,Flying Lizards and Ralph records than the agit pop that dominated the Leeds music scene at the time.Once an outsider, always an outsider.

Features new liner notes by Tom Fazzini & previously unpublished photos.Remastered and pressed up on 180 gram virgin vinyl. one time edition of 500

Jay Bolotin
Jay Bolotin
Locust 119 CD / 180 Gram lp

Described by Kris Kristofferson as “one of the three best songwriters in the country,” Kentucky native Jay Bolotin’s songs have been championed by the likes of Merle Haggard and Porter Wagoner, among many others.

Yet Jay’s eponymous debut - released on the major subsidiary Commonwealth United label - had the halflife of a mayfly when it went into circulation in 1970 and today it remains as phantasmic as the prairie ghosts that have long populated his native Kentucky.

However hasty or uncertain the release of the album may have been some 40 years ago, one thing is certain: in a darkened room in New York City at the end of a Kentucky childhood, a 20 year old Jay Bolotin cut a singularly enchanted album of unhurried, low key loner ballads with the confidence and honesty of a seasoned journeyman.

Jay Bolotin is an unqualified singer songwriter gem that will appeal to fans of Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt & Alex Chilton. Features Kenny Lyon on Bass & Mark Taber on Piano & Harpsichord- both veterans of the Providence, Rhode Island scene, The Fugs’ Bobby Mason on percussion and David Mowry on guitar.

Deluxe 180 Gram vinyl featuring new liner notes and lyrics inserts.
CD packaged in a trifold digipak with previously unpublished photos.
Remastered & reissued for the first time since it’s elusive ‘release’.

Starless & Bible Black
The Shape of The Shape
Locust 118 180 gram lp / digipak cd

On their Sophomore release, The Shape of the Shape, Manchester, England’s Starless & Bible Black have drawn together the sounds of ‘70s Topanga Canyon country-rock, ‘80s Mancunian jangle, and space-age psych tinged drones to make a dynamic, warm and woodsy second album. Gone are the dulcimers and banjos of the first record, replaced by an electrifying wall of Telecaster and Moog, and standing in the center of this bold, widescreen sound resides the earthy
and husky voice of Hélène Gautier.

Recorded at Bryn Derwen within the wilds of the Snowdonian mountains, and during all night sessions in the relative tranquility of their local village hall, Shape Of The Shape is an album of contrasting styles, themes and approaches that coheres beautifully into a seamless entity. We get guided through verses and choruses of swamp rock, gothic bluesy chanson and smoky acoustic ballads, as well as a jazz-folk tinged instrumental – after all, the band take their name from the classic 1965 Stan Tracey cut – but the apogee of this collection is the driving drone-choral opus, Les Furies - sung in French, this is a very Gallic observation of after hours culture. And while this album traverses all these different styles, the band never deny the importance of a fine tune and a fine song.
 

No-Neck Blues Band
AT 6 am WE BECOME THE POLICE
Locust117 180 gram lp

"NNCK LP soundtrack for the upcoming nnck movie of the same name, directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer. this album presents recordings from the first NNCK rehearsal space at 195 Chrystie St. NYC in the years 1995-97. Two pieces were recorded for Harmony Korine's Gummo soundtrack but never released. Others are quintessential NNCK moments, including the first session joined by Butoh princess Michiko Takahachi, who instantly became a permanent member. The closing of the 195 Chrystie St. studio in 1997 marked the end of NNCK downtown as they set their sites for Harlem. This soundtrack and the upcoming film closely document this transitional period." - NUSS

AMEN DUNES
DIA
Locust 116 180 gram lp / cd

A lot of crazy shit can happen to a man when he goes solitary in a ramshackle Catskill Mountain home for an extended stretch of time-especially for a city kind of guy. But if Amen Dunes's 12 tracker Dia is one possible outcome of the guy alone-in-a-cabin- story, then a little tape saturated brain frying is something we should all live comfortably with because this is a batch of seriously raw & inspired loner psych grit that owes a debt to the diy soundz of the George Brigman s of the world.

That was 2006. These days the lone wolf behind Amen Dunes -Damon McMahon calls a small two room apartment overlooking the Temple of Earth in North-Central Beijing home, where he watches old men fly kites and sing opera every morning. Who knows what'll come out of that.

A mess of Henry Flynt vinyl now available!

Henry Flynt
Raga Electric
locust 6 180 gram lp / cd

Henry Flynt
Back Porch Hillbilly Blues, volume 1
locust 16 180 gram lp / cd

Henry Flynt
Back Porch Hillbilly Blues, volume 2
locust 14 180 gram lp / cd

Henry Flynt & the Insurrections
I Don't Wanna
locust 39 180 gram lp / cd

Sir Richard Bishop
Improvika
locust 61 180 gram lp 

hand pulled silkscreened art paper cover. limited edition. screenprinted by Paul Metzger.

"By trade Sir Richard Bishop is a dealer of rare occult books and fine paper ephemera. For many in the musical cosmos, he has occasion to travel the smoke filled carnie circuit as 1/3 of the Sun City Girls medicine show. But in the twilight hours of a shadow world once sensed only by few, Bishop is a dazzling unaccompanied guitarist.On Improvika, Bishop rides a very tall horse through a surrealist's cowboy set that's 1 part bruit Peckinpah muscularity & 2 parts illuminated Jodorowskian symbolism…a very strange place, indeed.Armed only with a single steel string wooden guitar, bare-knuckled Bishop fends off the horrors & dangers of the night with ease as he spits out glorious white robed arabesques, django inspired gypsy arcs, & latin terracotta flourishes like so many spinning tumbleweeds in a one horse town that is his alone.Improvika is Sir Richard's solo installment for locust's long running Wooden Guitar series."