So we have 3 new albums hitting stores in June. Remember if you buy Pre-Sale now you save 2.00$ on the cost of the album. We ship off our pre-sales the day the album hits stores. So make sure to Check out our Store if any of the following titles seem like an awesome buy. Which they all are.
We’ll start off talking about “Zack Kouns” and his new album “Concealed History of Coming Races”. I had seen Zack play several times at my house venue “The House of a 1,000 Couches” He always intrigued me when he would play there while being a revolving member of “Social Junk” though i was never sure of his permanent membership. Now that Social Junk has disbanded, Heather Young has a solo project “HNY” and Noah Anthony has his solo project “Night Burger”. But some of the members of Social Junk have moved in different directions. Rickman of Social Junk has appeared in a couple of Shayne Barker’s films including
Zack Kouns continued on making music. He recorded the album with our own Max Nolte and when we first had our round table discusion about wether or not to do the album, everyone seemed gun ho to hear the recordings, and when we did there was no question of how we were going to do it, but when. I often think of the album Zack Kouns created as a lost relic such as the Norm Dolph acetate tape. It will be easier to explain the album if i let Zack Kouns do it in his own words. I realized early on that this was a concept album and when i asked Zack how he would explain it to his audience he had this to say. “The Concealed History of Coming Races is a recondite and cosmological concept album concerned with the destruction and resurrection of the material and spiritual world. Its genesis was a series of dreams and visions and follows directly from the material in the first track where it’s proclaimed that “there’s gonna be a new heaven and a new earth.” Throughout, we find a world miraculously remade after an inner and outer apocalypse occurs: a world where cities gently disappear, where men on the threshold of death hold entire worlds in their hands, where continents expand in throats, where God is gathered from the soil and applied to our wounds, where women devour their own children and where the dead child constellates the dying world. Unspeakable violence and harsh salvation.” An album with such deep and meaningful content is ment to be heard, and i know all of you will enjoy it as much as we have.
The next album is Tim Lancasters – A Finer Line. Though this is not an album that you would necessarily expect from us here at the Factory. I think that it still has all the weird spin we love. Tim Lancasters – A Finer Line is a throw back to the older days of folk and is reminiscent of Townes Van Zandt. Though Tim Lancaster is somewhat like Townes Van Zandt his lyrical approach fall’s more in line with the crust punk turn to bluegrass that has happened in the last five years in the us, the first time i had a chance to listen to this album. I couldn’t help but invision my self in a box car traveling toward Portland, then Seattle and approaching the British Columbian rocky’s. He has written an album about loss, love, murder and traveling the tracks. For anyone hopping trains in our modern day. Tim Lancasters a finer line is a must hear. It was recorded by our own Max Nolte in film maker Shayne Barkers famous record room. Tim Lancaster has a wide variety of fans from people into to neo folk, Americana, and indie rock. But he also has attracted the attention of people like Scott Gabbey creator and publisher of Ultra Violent Magazine. Scott Gabbey attended the recordings at the Record Room and also accompanied Tim on his trip up from Orlando, Fl. He had this to say about their trip “Those who frequent the lost highway often wind up in unusual places. It’s been over ten years since I first stepped foot in The Record Room, nestled away in the rolling hills of West Virginia, and to this day I’m still buying plane tickets, a package deal, really, to spend time on the second floor of a house that is weathered like the folks who inhabit it. You won’t find The Record Room listed in any West Virginia tourism brochures, and the address doesn’t register on any geographical tracking device. It’s sort of a ‘Best Kept Secret’, or ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’ for those who believe that music is more than a hum in the distance.
It’s apparent when listening to Tim Lancaster that his will for songwriting is deeply rooted, and he’s managed to pick from his inspirations and deliver a sound that is unique and inspiring. It wasn’t long after we met that we were on the road together, bound for West Virginia, bound for The Record Room. The grand-daddy masonic temple for music junkies, entrance granted by invitation only; you don’t go to it, it comes to you. And it only makes sense that a designated listening area of this caliber would be the most appropriate spot to record an album. And it was. With a flashing red sign that reads, “Lonestar: The National Beer of Texas” illuminating the room like a ray of light sent down by the god of analog mountain, Tim played for days, and everyone present during these recordings sat speechless and amazed. This is a collection of songs straight from the guts. A breath of fresh air to a jaded audience looking for modern music that is potent and sincere. Once you enter The Record Room there’s only one way out, that’s through The Whiskey Hole, and you never come back quite the same. Tim sat perched in the corner and flew out the other end like a true songbird, accompanied not only with memories, but with an album that has found it’s way into your hands in the same fashion that Tim Lancaster found his way to The Record Room, a detour off the lost highway. ” This is a good album for almost anyone. Tim Lancaster seems to grab a little something that everyone has.
The last album is Free Clinics and Half Nelsons split side 12″. Half Nelson did an awesome release on John Olson’s, american tapes earlier this year, and he even contributed to our release by doing the cover art for the Free Clinic side of the album, which you can check out in our store. Free Clinics side of the album is a cacophony of distortion and pounding Skrudge Punk. Loud and deafening if you like it loud you are sure to love Free Clinics split with half nelson. Half Nelsons side of the 12″ is on par with their other work, a mixing of free jazz and noise that is complex and sonic. This album has impressed everyone here at the factory and we are excited to get out to the public.
