Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Friday, June 1, 2012
Tropical Review Slurry + Astro Innerviews Media Blitz 2012
from American Gloam:
"Tropical Trash made me cut myself today. I was listening to their new seven-inch "Fear of Suffering" while shaving. One of the sides ended unexpectedly on my record player. I jumped to run and grab the record before the needle spilled and scratched into the label hole. That jump cut my face with the razor, straight into the cheek. Blood, pain, fear of suffering." ...[more @ American Gloam]
from Never Nervous:
There are quite a few triumphs that residents of Louisville have to be excited about this Summer. For instance, we have a new record store on the brick-and-mortar horizon called Astro Black Records, and we also are looking forward to the much anticipated debut seven inch record from post-rockers Tropical Trash. My friend Jim Marlowe is behind both of these happenings and was nice enough to sit down and answer a few questions about his new shop, the upcoming Tropical Trash record, and so on and so forth...[more @ Never Nervous]
from Blogstitude:
On top of the pile we've got a brand new 7-inch EP by Tropical Trash, a Louisville, Kentucky band with members that have or do put in time with Blastitude favorite Sapat, and like that band, they play a strange cool take on underground rock. The EP is called Fear of Suffering, and it's got five tunes in all, one on the A and four quicker ones on the B. Press blurb mentions MX-80 Sound and that is indeed a good starting point. Weird, proggy, noise/experimental undertones, and, most importantly, heavy without resorting to mere distorto-bludgeon. I look forward to more material, and I'm excited that I'm not quite sure what to expect from it. I'm not even sure what to expect the next time I play this 7-inch. Editon of 200 on white from the Sophomore Lounge label.
from Gumshue Grove:
"there’s a titter of restraint keeping things classy"... [more @ the GROVE]
from S-Records:
"Some members of the great Louisville band Sapat get together and do a band that sounds like the bastard grandchildren of MX-80 Sound. These guys definitely ingested a lot of "Crowd Control" and "Out of the Tunnel" along with some Mission of Burma, while woodshedding to make this record."
Makeshift Swahili played the entire B-side of our 7"! Dig it.
@ the wonderful WFMU:
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/45199
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/45206
Here we are misleading those from Aquarius Records:
from Natalie @ thirteen13.org:
"Jim Marlowe of Tropical Trash is opening a new record store in June called Astro Black Records. It is exciting to see another great local music store emerging in Louisville." [more @ Thirteen13.org]
from Yellow Green Red:
Tropical Trash Fear Of Suffering 7″ (Sophomore Lounge)
Wonderfully
strange debut 7″ from Louisville’s Tropical Trash here. Wasn’t sure
what to expect, I mean this could’ve been anything, but Tropical Trash
do this sort of weird deconstructed rock thing that couldn’t have really
come from anywhere but itself. A-side “Baltimore” sounds like
later-period Landed attempting a Dinosaur Jr. cover, at least for the
moments between mosh-core breakdowns – see what I’m saying? The b-side
pulls in even stranger directions, recalling atmospheric black-metal
(kinda), Dischord-ish post-hardcore (sorta), and noisy artsy-fartsy-ness
(maybe). Maybe I just really like the band name (I do), but this weird
melange of styles somehow makes sense when taken as a whole – I bet
this’d be a fun live band to see. You can’t sound like Tropical Trash
and not have at least one crazy-looking guy in the band.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST -
"Tropical Trash made me cut myself today. I was listening to their new seven-inch "Fear of Suffering" while shaving. One of the sides ended unexpectedly on my record player. I jumped to run and grab the record before the needle spilled and scratched into the label hole. That jump cut my face with the razor, straight into the cheek. Blood, pain, fear of suffering." ...[more @ American Gloam]
from Never Nervous:
There are quite a few triumphs that residents of Louisville have to be excited about this Summer. For instance, we have a new record store on the brick-and-mortar horizon called Astro Black Records, and we also are looking forward to the much anticipated debut seven inch record from post-rockers Tropical Trash. My friend Jim Marlowe is behind both of these happenings and was nice enough to sit down and answer a few questions about his new shop, the upcoming Tropical Trash record, and so on and so forth...[more @ Never Nervous]
from Blogstitude:
On top of the pile we've got a brand new 7-inch EP by Tropical Trash, a Louisville, Kentucky band with members that have or do put in time with Blastitude favorite Sapat, and like that band, they play a strange cool take on underground rock. The EP is called Fear of Suffering, and it's got five tunes in all, one on the A and four quicker ones on the B. Press blurb mentions MX-80 Sound and that is indeed a good starting point. Weird, proggy, noise/experimental undertones, and, most importantly, heavy without resorting to mere distorto-bludgeon. I look forward to more material, and I'm excited that I'm not quite sure what to expect from it. I'm not even sure what to expect the next time I play this 7-inch. Editon of 200 on white from the Sophomore Lounge label.
from Gumshue Grove:
"there’s a titter of restraint keeping things classy"... [more @ the GROVE]
from S-Records:
"Some members of the great Louisville band Sapat get together and do a band that sounds like the bastard grandchildren of MX-80 Sound. These guys definitely ingested a lot of "Crowd Control" and "Out of the Tunnel" along with some Mission of Burma, while woodshedding to make this record."
Makeshift Swahili played the entire B-side of our 7"! Dig it.
@ the wonderful WFMU:
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/45199
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/45206
Here we are misleading those from Aquarius Records:
We
first heard from Tropical Trash on a split cassette with No Copper (we
have a few copies left if you want one!), their track was definitely
cool, but also listening to this 7" now a bit misleading, but it seems
that perhaps that track was intended for the split, as it was super
heavy and noisy and abstract, fusing jazzy avant noise with tripped out
experimental abstraction. Which is definitely a bit different that
what's to be found here, although not completely removed. TT seem to
traffic in a sort of chugging churning noise rock, at least on the A
side, thick angular riffs, tribal drumming, weird mathy arrangements,
strange sing songy vocals, buzzing distorted melodies that mirror the
vox, rife with some surprising poppiness, a distinctly indie rock vibe
going on for sure. Loose and ramshackle, with the song occasionally
devolving into a seemingly random free noise splatter before lurching
right back into action.
The
B side offers up a handful of shorter songs and finds TT cranking up
the volume a bit, definitely heavier and punkier, sounding in places
like a supercharged Polvo or Pitchblende, weird chords, still more
mathiness, but still plenty of melody and catchiness as well as the
occasional punky blow out and some cool tripped out droniness. Features
members of Siltbreeze outfit Sapat.
LIMITED TO 200 COPIES. Pressed on white vinyl! In handscreened covers with photo copied inserts.
The
B side offers up a handful of shorter songs and finds TT cranking up
the volume a bit, definitely heavier and punkier, sounding in places
like a supercharged Polvo or Pitchblende, weird chords, still more
mathiness, but still plenty of melody and catchiness as well as the
occasional punky blow out and some cool tripped out droniness. Features
members of Siltbreeze outfit Sapat.LIMITED TO 200 COPIES. Pressed on white vinyl! In handscreened covers with photo copied inserts.
from Natalie @ thirteen13.org:
"Jim Marlowe of Tropical Trash is opening a new record store in June called Astro Black Records. It is exciting to see another great local music store emerging in Louisville." [more @ Thirteen13.org]
from Yellow Green Red:
Tropical Trash Fear Of Suffering 7″ (Sophomore Lounge)
Wonderfully
strange debut 7″ from Louisville’s Tropical Trash here. Wasn’t sure
what to expect, I mean this could’ve been anything, but Tropical Trash
do this sort of weird deconstructed rock thing that couldn’t have really
come from anywhere but itself. A-side “Baltimore” sounds like
later-period Landed attempting a Dinosaur Jr. cover, at least for the
moments between mosh-core breakdowns – see what I’m saying? The b-side
pulls in even stranger directions, recalling atmospheric black-metal
(kinda), Dischord-ish post-hardcore (sorta), and noisy artsy-fartsy-ness
(maybe). Maybe I just really like the band name (I do), but this weird
melange of styles somehow makes sense when taken as a whole – I bet
this’d be a fun live band to see. You can’t sound like Tropical Trash
and not have at least one crazy-looking guy in the band. LAST BUT NOT LEAST -
OPENING MID JUNE 2012 @ 930 BAXTER AVE INSIDE OF QUILLS COFFEE
A new and used record store specializing in Avant-Rock, Jazz,
Free/Improv, Modern Composition, Experimental, Small/Private Press/DIY
music (and generally anything considered left-of-center) with a serious
focus on vinyl LP’s. The goal of the shop is to provide a physical
space/locus in this city for music that is (generally speaking) not
found in brick and mortar record stores: the marginal and the ‘weird’.
We’re always looking to buy single copies or collections of records that
fall within the scope of the shop.
ASTROBLACKRECORDS@GMAIL.COM
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
Liquid Life of Bhob Dylanh
GARDEN - M.E.S.
The first god had in his garden
From the back looked like a household pet
When it twirled round was revealed to be
A three-legged black-grey hog
See what flows from his mushy pen
Garden
Garden
That person is films on TV five years back at least
He's the young generation dancing troupe
Try'na perform Country And Western
Do a dance here
Never since birth not eaten in a day
Never since courtship stayed up some nights
He had a "Kingdom Of Evil" book under a German history book
He was contrite like that
See what flows from his slushy pen
Garden
Garden
Small, small location on huge covenance sodomised by presumption
Crooked traitor past revealed at last
Godzone
Godzone (Jacob's Ladder)
Godzone
Godzone
... can be erased. This entails explosive charges left to me by a dead sailor from Bury being wired up under every windowsill in close proximity to my ears. When phones ring and are inconvenient to the ears, I just press table lamp light button next to my bed and they blow up. I got the idea from a book. Yours sincerely, Mr Reg Varney
The same thing [?] could have been taken for a spoilt slate with largesse resource. His ferry stopped at the 'Pool port. Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last. The second god's sad - he's coming up - he's waiting number four with a [?]. Less stylish porch, we have the second god's influence. Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last.
Shotgun shotgun
Shotgun shotgun
Shotgun shotgun
The best firms advertise the least
The second god lived by mountains that flowed
By the blue shiny lit roads
Had forgot what others still tried to grasp
He knew the evil of the phone
He knew the evil of the phone
The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose
The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose
He's here
He's here at last
I saw him
I swear
He's on the second floor
Up the brown baize lift shaft
He's here
He's here at last
I saw him
I swear
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
He's here
I saw him
I swear
Up the brown baize lift shaft
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
The first god had in his garden
From the back looked like a household pet
When it twirled round was revealed to be
A three-legged black-grey hog
See what flows from his mushy pen
Garden
Garden
That person is films on TV five years back at least
He's the young generation dancing troupe
Try'na perform Country And Western
Do a dance here
Never since birth not eaten in a day
Never since courtship stayed up some nights
He had a "Kingdom Of Evil" book under a German history book
He was contrite like that
See what flows from his slushy pen
Garden
Garden
Small, small location on huge covenance sodomised by presumption
Crooked traitor past revealed at last
Godzone
Godzone (Jacob's Ladder)
Godzone
Godzone
... can be erased. This entails explosive charges left to me by a dead sailor from Bury being wired up under every windowsill in close proximity to my ears. When phones ring and are inconvenient to the ears, I just press table lamp light button next to my bed and they blow up. I got the idea from a book. Yours sincerely, Mr Reg Varney
The same thing [?] could have been taken for a spoilt slate with largesse resource. His ferry stopped at the 'Pool port. Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last. The second god's sad - he's coming up - he's waiting number four with a [?]. Less stylish porch, we have the second god's influence. Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last.
Shotgun shotgun
Shotgun shotgun
Shotgun shotgun
The best firms advertise the least
The second god lived by mountains that flowed
By the blue shiny lit roads
Had forgot what others still tried to grasp
He knew the evil of the phone
He knew the evil of the phone
The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose
The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose
He's here
He's here at last
I saw him
I swear
He's on the second floor
Up the brown baize lift shaft
He's here
He's here at last
I saw him
I swear
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
He's here
I saw him
I swear
Up the brown baize lift shaft
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Jew on a motorbike
Sunday, April 22, 2012
THANKS: LIKE...FOR REAL
TO RYAN, MIKIE, SABRINA AND SAL OF STATE CHAMPION FOR BEING OUR TOUR BUDDIES AND HUSTLE MENTORS, HELPING US IN EVERY WAY IMAGINABLE AND BEING ENTHUSIASTIC AND SUPPORTIVE OF US - EVAN JEREMY AND NICK IN YOUNG WIDOWS - SABRINA'S MOM FOR LETTING US STAY AT HER HOUSE AND FIXING US FOOD - JOHN HANSON, ZACHARY AND MARLEE IN GRAND RAPIDS FOR SHARING THEIR HOUSE WITH US - MARCIE BOLEN AND ZACH IN DETROIT FOR GRACIOUSLY LETTING US KEEP THEM UP UNTIL 4 AM - JOEY OF MEDIUMSHIP - JOHN OF MAGNETIC SOUTH - JACOB FROM CHURCH OF THE INFINITE SPACE RITUAL - CHRISTINE FOR LETTING ME SLEEP ON THE ROOF OF HER APARTMENT AND PROBABLY LIKE A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE WHO I AM FORGETTING. A BRIEF FUCK YOU TO JEREMY THE SOUNDSHIT IN MILWAUKEE FOR TRYING TO SCREW US. OTHER THAN THAT, THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME TO THE SHOWS
Monday, April 9, 2012
TROPICAL TRASH - FEAR OF SUFFERING 7" - BUY IT
5 TUNES - 5 BONESLIMITED RUN OF 200
YR GONNA LOOK LIKE AN ASSHOLE WHEN THAT SPECIAL SOMEONE TAKES A LOOK AT YOUR RECORD "COLLECTION" AND FINDS IT WANTING - MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE LEFT BEHIND AT THE END - THERE'S NO FUCKIN WAY PATER YAHWEH IS GONNA LET YOU IN THE KINGDOM ANYWAY - YOU STILL HAVE STUDENT LOANS TO PAY! LOOK GOOD IN THE PIT - LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT THE FEAR OF SUFFERING IS STILL SUFFERING!
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
TROPICAL TRASH SPRING TOUR 2012
More of a jaunt really...4/12 - Lexington KY @ Al's Bar w/State Champion
4/13 - Indianapolis IN @ Mediumship w/State Champion,Bad Magick, Psychic Feel (TBA)
4/14 - Milwaukee WI w/State Champion (TBA)
4/15 - Holding a lotus
4/16 - Holding a snake
4/17 - Grand Rapids MI @The Pyramid Scheme w/Young Widows, Reverend, Jowls
4/18 - Detroit MI @ Smalls w/Young Widows, Golden Torso, Boherald
4/19 - Bloomington IN @ Magnetic South w/Church of the Infinite Space Ritual, Learner Dancer, Crys
4/20 - Louisville KY @ Chestnut House w/Anwar Sadat, Murals
We're going to have our 7" and Split w/No Copper as well as a bunch of other goodies!
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