UPDATED 29 JANUARY 2016
PSI LAB SHOP IS NOW CLOSED - ALL AVAILABLE PSI LAB TITLES WILL BE SOLD THROUGH BANDCAMP - DISTRO TITLES WILL SOON BE MADE AVAILABLE ON DISCOGS
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PL12 - BURNT HILLS - PIPE DREAM - SOLD OUT
numbered edition of 40, pro dubbed c52, lavender shell, embossed labels, pro printed hand scored 4 panel j card on recycled cardstock, vellum label insert, full artwork insert, photo insert, clear norelco case -- star blazing free rock, mind-blowing full bore barrage of guitar, endorphin blasting freight train grooves barreling through a torrent of manic shredding, insane sonic awesomeness piled up on top itself, unrelenting brute force psychedelia, bombed out basement rock splitting my mind open like a flame engulfed dragster crash highlight reel on acid, high octane gas guzzling jam meets pummeling freeform freakout, not for the faint of heart, think LIVE/DEAD "dark star" meets FUN HOUSE side two covered by an ecstatic BARDO POND SUNBURNED HAND alliance for the ages, i don't wanna boast that this is BURNT HILLS' best yet, but it is
PL11 - LOST TRAIL - NAMES OUTLIVE THEIR MOMENTS - SOLD OUT
numbered edition of 40, pro dubbed c60, smoke tinted shells, embossed labels, pro printed hand scored 4 panel j card on recycled cardstock, vellum label insert, full artwork insert, details insert, clear norelco case -- ZACHARY and DENNY WILKERSON CORSA have been proliferating their "ambient / drone / experimental / ethereal noise project" since 2010 - this is their 35th album, approximately - if you consider their EPs and splits then this lands a lot closer to their 100th release, and with each new work they become more and more one of the most crucial musicmakers my ears have ever heard, and this is without question one of their absolute best yet, tilting toward the noisy shoegazing end of their spectrum with torrents of grayed out distortion, wisps of angelic tones, wistful melodies, transcending above and beyond revered works like JEFRE CANTU LEDESMA's LOVE IS A STREAM, SEAN MCCANN's THE CAPITAL and YELLOW SWANS' GOING PLACES
PL10 - TRESILAZE - ATLAS - AVAILABLE ON BANDCAMP
numbered edition of 40, pro dubbed c64, clear shell with clear liner, embossed labels, pro printed hand scored 4 panel j card on recycled cardstock, vellum label insert, full artwork insert, booklet, clear norelco case -- an ambitious sprawling ambient drone concept album, carefully considered yet very much in the moment with elements of industrial, minimalism, post rock and psychedelia, all thrown into a huge melting pot, guitars shift from ROY MONTGOMERY to STEVEN R SMITH to SPACEMEN 3, synths from ENO to SCHULZE to CARPENTER (note: the references work, but there are no synths on this album, it is 100% guitar) - there's a lot to take in on this hour long magnum opus that is dizzyingly dynamic at times yet strongly cohesive, a singular undercurrent keeps everything together, flowing in the same direction, a tall order that TRESILAZE pulls off without a hitch
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DYLAN AYCOCK - GUITAR MEANDERINGS I - CABIN FLOOR ESOTERICA - $12 USED
excellent takoma folk experimentation
>>> BUFFALO VOICE - HUGE DARK MOUTH - INANAMBULANCE - $7
tucker theodore's moody rock band
CASUAL SWEETHEART - CASUAL SWEETHEART - ALIEN PASSENGERS - $7
quirky punk girls in the garage demos
THE DAY/NIGHT TAPES - TAPE 1 - SELF RELEASED - $7
droning guitars, synths and field recordings
THE DAY/NIGHT TAPES - TAPE 2 - SELF RELEASED - $7
droning guitars, synths and field recordings
>>> THE DAY/NIGHT TAPES - TAPE 3 - SELF RELEASED - $7
droning guitars, synths and field recordings
>>> EKIN FIL - WIND IS NEAR - SACRED PHRASES - $7
dark ambient dream pop and gauzy drone dirges
ENDLESS CAVERNS - COLOUR BREATHING - EIDERDOWN - $7
far out meandering folk guitar ruminations
EXPO 70 - FILER A L'ANGLAISE - SONIC MEDITATIONS - $7
archival improvisations, heavy synths and riffs
EXPO 70 - SOLAR DRIFTING - SONIC MEDITATIONS - $7
heavy kosmische drone, singles collection 2008-12
EXPO 70 - VANISHING WORLD WITHIN - SOLID MELTS - $15 USED
heavy cosmic drone rock
>>> TYLER HIGGINS - LONELY AND BLUE - SCISSOR TAIL - $7
takoma folk and back country electrified blues
>>> KURMA & OARIANA - FROM HERE ON IN - OLIVINE FREIGHT - $7
mystic meditation, heavy riffs, delightfully dissonant
LAND - THE CONTAINER - LIGHTEN UP - $7
eastern tinged mid tempo kraut psych jams
>>> SARAH LOUISE - FIELD GUIDE - SCISSOR TAIL - $7
gorgeous takoma style folk guitar
LUPERCI - JAHATOR - SONIC MEDITATIONS - $9 USED
dark blasting guitar drone
LUPERCI - SCORCHED EARTH - SONIC MEDITATIONS - $7
dark blasting guitar drone
>>> JULIAN LYNCH - ORANGE YOU GLAD - BARO - $7
nyquil folk pop, playful experimentation
MENDOCINO - DIG A HOLE - OLD MAN - $7
sunburned hand'ish psych folk jams
>>> MENDOCINO - PORCH PLANET VOL 1 - OLD MAN - $7
sunburned hand'ish psych folk jams
MENDOCINO - WE RAN OUT OF WATER - OLD MAN - $7
sunburned hand'ish psych folk jams
JASON MILLARD - SECOND BASED - LIGHTEN UP - $7
weirdo loner folk & scuzzy acid punk ballads
MODERN HOAX - LETTERS TO BURN - FALL BREAK - $7
crunchy garage psych pop riyl elephant 6, gbv & beatles
MOON MAGICK - MOON MAGICK - CHROME DREAMS - $7
cool post punk synth pop italo disco duo out of albany
LEE NOBLE - FORMING - BATHETIC - $7
hazy synthy weirdo dream pop ballads
OAK - SILENT SPRING - PRAIRIE FIRE - $7
done right stoner doom
>>> OCEAN CHARTER OF VALUES / LUNG CYCLES - SPLIT - LILY - $7
modern classical ambient folk & meditative drone psych
OJERUM - HE REMEMBERS THERE WERE GARDENS - CABIN FLOOR ESOTERICA - $12 USED
hypnotic ambient alt soundtrack to chris marker's la jetee
>>> S.S. CRETINS - NEW ENGLAND'S NEWEST HITMAKERS - SA - $7
foray of hard nosed hippy 60s acid punk
>>> SASKATOON - KENOSHA - SCISSOR TAIL - $7
deeply immersed ambient folk minimalism
SINISTER HAZE - DEMOS - UNHOLY ANARCHY - $7
killer heavy psychedelic stoner doom demos
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE - ELECTRIC SIX ORGANS - SILVER CURRENT - $12 USED
six organs heavy psych hard rock circa 2002
SPACIN - MEGATATIONS - TELEPHONE EXPLOSION - $12 USED
cool spaced out stoner jams
SUNNY DUNES - BLUE FAR - BRANCH - $12 USED
super limited eclectic weirdo tape
PETE SWANSON - MR. ENTERTAINMENT - SELF RELEASED - $7
awesome cacophonous drone
TAUUSK - HERMIT - FEATHERED COYOTE - $7
"ambient/drone/doom...ethereal & ominous soundscapes"
TUCKER THEODORE - TO MAKE THE SUN HURT - ANTIQUATED FUTURE - $7
weirdo loner folk, i love this tape
>>> MATT VALENTINE - MIDDEN MOUND - CHILD OF MICROTONES - $12
wondrous, sun-blinded smoked out folk and lunar blues
WES TIREY / ANDREW WEATHERS - SPLIT - SCISSOR TAIL - $7
elegant american primitive folk guitar
>>> ANDREW WEATHERS - LITTLEFIELD - LITTLEFIELD - $7
american primitive "jagged blues and spacious works"
>>> YLAYALI / LUNG CYCLES - SPLIT - LILY - $7
hushed bedroom downer folk & elegant guitar passages
SOLD OUT
for posterity
>>> AMANITA VULVA - DWELLERS OF KLEINE EILAND - SLOOW - SOLD OUT
organic mystic psychedelic freeform improv band
APRIL IN THE ORANGE - IN THE MIRROR UNDER THE MOON - CAE-SUR-A - SOLD OUT
druggy outsider folk balladry
>>> MATTHEW BARLOW - NOW AGE - PHINERY - SOLD OUT
ambient sustained synth, subdued syncopation
BEARD CLOSET - MISSIONS - HORROR FICTION - SOLD OUT
sci fi f/x and loner guitar turns fripp fuzz blaster
CALABAR - CALABAR - TAPE GUN - SOLD OUT
local krautrock guitar n drum duo riyl moon duo
>>> DROWNING IN WOOD - DROWNING IN WOOD - SCISSOR TAIL - SOLD OUT
demented american primitive noir
EXPO 70 - VIRTUALLY FROM THE UNKNOWN - SONIC MEDITATIONS - SOLD OUT
kosmische power trio for the ages
>>> GLASS HOUSE - HEADLANDS - LILLERNE - SOLD OUT
stellar longform ambient drone
>>> GLOVER/PERREAULT - FREIGHT 1110 THROUGH GREENSBORO - FULL SPECTRUM - SOLD OUT
avant folk vs minimalism, "think flynt meets glass"
>>> HERBCRAFT - TABS OUT - SA - SOLD OUT
lo-fi smoky acid folk jams
>>> LOST TRAIL - DEATH TO OCTOBER MOUNTAIN! LONG LIVE OCTOBER MOUNTAIN! - SWAN CITY - SOLD OUT
mesmerizing blend of ambient, drone, noise and shoegaze, 2 hrs!
LOST TRAIL - OTHER BURLINGTON - TWIN SPRINGS - SOLD OUT
mesmerizing blend of ambient, drone, noise and shoegaze
LOST TRAIL - RETURN TO OCTOBER MOUNTAIN - INHERENT - SOLD OUT
mesmerizing blend of ambient, drone, noise and shoegaze
LOST TRAIL / ANIMALS LIKE EARTHQUAKES - SPLIT - MADE FOR TAPES - SOLD OUT
mesmerizing blend of ambient, drone, noise and shoegaze
LOST TRAIL / STEPHEN PALKE - AIR WITHIN - SWAN CITY - SOLD OUT
mesmerizing blend of ambient, drone, noise and shoegaze
>>> LOST TRAIL / PLUNDERSHOP - SPLIT - FLAMING BISCUIT - SOLD OUT
mesmerizing blend of ambient, drone, noise and shoegaze
>>> LOST TRAIL / STRANGE MOUNTAIN - CORPOREAL & SPIRITUAL / MODERN SAD - BUNKLAND - SOLD OUT
mesmerizing blend of ambient, drone, noise and shoegaze, 2xcs
>>> MZDA OTROK - DAIHYO OKKAR JE NASA MUSIILKPOLIS - SWAN CITY - SOLD OUT
enlightened far out trip, hypnotic drone, moody synth
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - I WAS FLYING - LILY - SOLD OUT
semi dark semi sweet psychedelic drone folk
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - WINTER CLOTHES - ROK LOK - SOLD OUT
semi dark semi sweet psychedelic drone folk
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE / LUNG CYCLES - SPLIT - LILY - SOLD OUT
zoned out post rock / drone psych tape manipulation
OJERUM - SANGE TIL DOENDE - HORROR FICTION - SOLD OUT
hushed otherworldly ambient folk passages
>>> RAISING HOLY SPARKS - OLD TIMES & END TIMES - SLOOW - SOLD OUT
psych folk drone music lost in the mists of time
SYLVIA-ROSE & TIM - INVITE YOU TO THEIR HONEYWORLD - RHINESTONE WOW-BOY - SOLD OUT
outsider country pop, "hellbound" is my #1 song of 2014
>>> TERRANE - BASALT PALISADES - SONIC MEDITATIONS - SOLD OUT
mellow fingerpicking, pedal steel, desert fried grooves
>>> WES TIREY - JOURNEYER / FORWARD, MELANCHOLY DREAM - CABIN FLOOR ESOTERICA - SOLD OUT
glorious outsider folk balladry
