The New Black – RTD001
Thursday, May 14, 2026
Present Electric - 2023 - ST
Paisley Shirt Records – PSR-62
In the summer of 2011, my partner and I were walking past a garage sale on her street. We saw this striking painting: a portrait of a man in a snow covered landscape. The houses look like the Swedish farmhouses I grew up seeing, flowers pinned to his coat, his head is shaped and wrinkled in layers like an onion. Simple lines, primary colors, and those glaring eyes.
The songs on Present Electric are scratchy, somewhat primitive, low fidelity recordings. They range from cassette 4-track recordings, voice memos, field recordings, and percussion-first songwriting. The “onion-head man” painting seems to pair well with the album. Both are naive in their own ways.
credits
released July 7, 2023
All music: K Linn
Recorded 2021-2022
Mastered by Mikey Young in 2022
Re-edited by K Linn in 2023
"Onion Head Man" painting purchased from garage sale on Laurent St, Santa Cruz in 2011. Possible artist name "RiMajer"
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Lumpy And The Dumpers - (2017) ...Those Pickled Fuckers 12''
Lumpy Records – 087
Over seven tracks of gritty discomfort punk, bulging with bodyhorror blues and puerile manic imprecations, Lumpy and the Dumpers revel and writhe in the effluvia of life and the rude pangs and oozings of flesh.
Revivifying the dead metaphor of the earworm, these songs burrow snugly into your brain, distorted sing-song playground melodies, like hell dimension children's show theme songs, exploding with weird turns and twists, from the blaring horns of Someone's In The House's paranoiac stomp, to the wild malfunctioning chiptune screams cutting through Attention and the sinister whoops and crashes of the oddly mellow Clatter Song, Those Pickled Fuckers is an album only Lumpy and the Dumpers could've made.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
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