Fantastic album from this all-star garage band featuring Bleeker on guitar and vocals, Martin Courtney on bass and vocals, Julian Lynch (whose solo LP on OESB was a massive VT highlight in 2009) on guitar and Matt Mondanile (Ducktails) on drums. Bleeker takes the beautiful suburban teens play wasted rural psych feel of Real Estate deeper into a basement zone where the lonesome Americana of the first two LPs by The Band combine with Lynch’s wailing guitar solos (still pitched somewhere between Ed Kuepper and Tori Kudo) and some odd, melancholy instrumentals to birth the perfect late afternoon/sun going down in suburbia/end of teenage soundtrack. Love this. 

Fantastic compilation of all unreleased tracks from this great NJ label. Exclusive jams from Julian Lynch, Pill Wonder, Ducktails, Fluffy Lumbers, Big Troubles, Andrew Cedermark, Frat Dad , Dana Jewell, Air Waves, Family Portrait, Alex Bleeker, Mountain Man, Real Estate, Rainbow Bridge and Liam the Younger.

Debut LP from a group who share bedrooms and brainspace with Real Estate, Ducktails et al. Pill Wonder’s take on teenage garage is even more deformed by exotica and hallucinatory third world melody than any of their label mates, with the episodic/experimental feel of Brian Wilson’s Smile extended into harmony-laden bedroom pop with celebratory melodies and confused smears of overdubbed fuzz and junk. “Pill Wonder's Jungle/Surf was recorded by William Murder/Murdoch in a two year span at the house where he has spent all 22 years of his life, just north of the U District in Seattle, WA - under the roof where the rain hits hard all year 'round, Will recorded during lonely afternoons, often while his mother was at work at the University of Washington Math Library. Using an old DELL desktop computer in his bedroom, with the illegally downloaded Adobe Audition recording software, Will employed boxes of macaroni 'n cheese, a little kid's drum set purchased at a garage sale, and often beat boxing for his rhythm tracks. Other than that, a 3rd grader's recorder, an electric guitar of the Fender variety, a guitar amp of the Fender variety, some sort of cheap keyboard and one Shure SM 57 microphone made up the rest of his recording equipment. I'm proud of what he has employed and been able to create. There was always a ray of sunshine in our post-Kurt town just a half a mile away from me, and for that I thank you Will.” – Dana Jewell.

Deluxe vinyl edition of what was originally a self-released CD-R from James Ferraro complete with reworked and re-recorded material and specially commissioned airbrush artwork. On Air feels like a luminous update of Ferraro’s early Lamborghini Crystal sides, with the atmosphere of a shortwave broadcast from a parallel universe where arpeggiated synths function as transports to a future that feels like a lonely technicolour version of the past. Deep space morse code patterns orbit bursts of triumphal garage band guitar, simple euphoric melodies that feel like the soundtrack to your adolescence are re-imagined as a series of psychedelic instants, smears of DJ voiceovers are beamed straight from Venus... On Air is the perfect trip into Ferraro’s Multitopia. Also features an insane cover version of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” which sits nicely alongside Mama Baer and Kommissar Hjuler’s version.  Titles include ‘Pleiadian Channel Surfer #1’, ‘Remote Control Under The Couch’ and ‘Heaven’s Bathroom’. Recommended. 

Consumately weirdo set of 'easy' Kosmische, angelic femme vocals and lunar disco from a group of liminal thinkers on the always reliable UPR label: "Up is both proud and excited to present the debut lp actually from brooklyn's la big vic. lbvs lead guitarist, toshio masuda, performed in a major label j-pop boy band in his youth in japan. he produced hip hop songs, commercials, and soundtracks before coming to america to become an inspirational r&b musician. peter pearson, the group's synthesist, is an apprentice to pink floyd's live sound producer jeff blenkinsopp at expert audio repairs & servicing (ears) inc. one of jeff's last interns was gavin russom. la big vic's lead singer and violinist is emilie friedlander, founder of visitation rites. she inspired us to start chatting with people about music. la big vic is a kosmische, trip-hop, genre buster. actually is hook rich, atmospheric, and full of lurking positivity" - UP.

"Ridgewood, New Jersey native Evan Brody created Family Portrait in the spring of 2009. Produced with best friend Julian Lynch, mixed by Sam Franklin (Big Troubles, Fluffy Lumbers) and recorded at the Brody family home, the first Family Portrait LP is intricate, intimate and lingering pop music.The album features cameos from La Big Vic front-woman Emilie Friedlander on violin and back up vocals and Jackson Pollis (Dream Band, MisShapes) on drums. Underwater Peoples is proud to be releasing such a personal, yet wholly communal endeavor." - UPR.