This December,Dan Wriggins (of Friendship) will make his West Coast live debut, supporting five shows in California, Oregon & Seattle for MJ Lenderman & Karly Hartzman (of Wednesday). Jake & Karly will be playing special duo sets jam packed with MJ Lenderman & Wednesday hits, beloved favorites from their home-recorded collaborativeEPs & brand new songs. Dan will be playing solo versions of your favorite Friendship heartwreckers, all the rippers from his 2021 solo EP Mr Chill, plus sneak previews of new material. These shows are rare opportunities to hear three of the very best young songwriters around in cozy, intimate settings. Don't miss em! Tickets go on sale Friday!
Philly, you'll have a chance to see Dan Wriggins live on October 26 when he opens for the great Charlotte Cornfield at World Cafe Live!
Orindal Records is thrilled to announce Doubles, the first album from Los Angeles-based instrumental duo Duffy x Uhlmann, out September 22, 2023.
After playing together in Perfume Genius and Hand Habits, Meg Duffy and Gregory Uhlmann embark on their first album of instrumental duets, Doubles. A testament to the wordlessness of their musical intimacy, Duffy x Uhlmann take up their guitars in order to make an imprint of the slowness and presence of their improvisational practice. They weave together a sonic meditation, embracing intuition and relying on trust.
"Arriving ahead of Doubles, which will see a September 22
release via Orindal Records, the track exhibits two guitarists perfectly
in tune with each other letting the spirit of improvisation guide
them—'blowing kisses and finishing each other’s sentences,' as the press
materials put it. It’s far from the heart-wrenching reflective balladry
of Hand Habits (or Perfume Genius, with whom Uhlmann’s also recently
toured), opting instead for the immediacy of the present moment. ‘Braid is a meditation in motion,' the duo shares in a joint
statement. 'Rhythms layering against each other with the goal being
disappearance. With a nod and a look we move from chord to chord. And
then we end just as we began.'”- Flood Magazine
"The two guitarists play off one another with a tempered rhythm, showcasing the skill of seasoned veterans." - Pitchfork
On August 25, Orindal Records will release Alive People, a new album by Brattleboro, VT's one & only Ruth Garbus! Alive People is an elegant collection of misty pops, ballads, and self-help hymns interspersed with synth improvs and guitar gambols. You’ll hear Ruth Garbus’s melodious compositions floating through echoing Brattleboro alleyways, and land at Ten Forward with a small band of friends. Performed live with a studio audience like a ‘90s sitcom, but the ecstatic cheering is only a whisper in the strings.
Advance singles "Mono No Aware" & "Healthy Gamer" are now streaming everywhere & the rest of the album will follow on August 25. Pre-order your copy on cotton candy pink vinyl LP, classic black vinyl LP, compact disc or digital formats HERE.
“Vermont-based avant-folk songwriter Ruth Garbus returns today with news of her first full-length since 2019’s Kleinmeister: the spacious dual singles “Mono No Aware” and “Healthy Gamer” serve as the first taste of Alive People, scheduled to arrive August 25 on Orindal Records. Both tracks see minimal accompaniment behind Garbus’ lyrical meditations on angst and video games, respectively, the former a warm acoustic number featuring lower-octave harmonies from collaborator Julia Tadlock, the latter furnished only by warm, gentle keyboard and a minimal electronic drum beat.” - Flood Magazine
"Ruth Garbus has announced a new album, Alive People, the follow-up to 2019’s Kleinmeister. Garbus is sharing two tracks from it today, “Mono No Aware” and “Healthy
Gamer” — both are mellow and wordy, as Garbus’ thoughts unspool around,
respectively, a spindly guitar line and a plodding beat. Across six
minutes, each are engaging and inquisitive." - Stereogum
Young Moon have made the difficult decision to postpone their U.S. tour due to some very serious personal health issues. Young Moon's Trevor Montgomery shared a statement via Instagram:
I’m heart broken to have to announce that I am postponing my trip to the states and all of the shows. The last few months have been insane for me. I had become very sick and never seemed to be getting better this triggered a lot of testing and flights and machines and it seemed like everyone involved was leaning towards the darkest of conclusions. However after weeks of anxiety and stress it seems I am in the clear for now of the big C. I am still however too unwell to travel and it’s gonna take quire some time for me to get back on track. I wanted more than anything to be in a room with you sharing the songs from Triggered by Sunsets. I’m sorry.
Please help me to spread the word about the new Young Moon record. Please share it with your friends, buy a digital copy, an LP, put it on your playlist or gift a copy to a friend. I Need the Support right now. You will be supporting my wonderful label @orindalrecords as well. To Continue supporting and putting out outsider music and singers. This is so important.
Take On Thee is the second & final advance single from Young Moon's new album, Triggered by Sunsets (out June 30 on Orindal Records). Following the slow burning, hypnotic groove & brooding nostalgia of lead single Deep Ecology, Take On Thee highlights a different side of Young Moon. Take On Thee's driving drum machine rhythm & melodic, chiming guitars buoy the lyric's hopeful message to a young artist, which double as a tribute to some of the artists who
inspired the creation of Triggered by Sunsets.
Various Small Flames premiered Take On Thee this morning, describing the single as "brightly transcendent." Read Jon Doyle of VSF's introductory essay & listen to Take On TheeHERE.
Triggered by Sunsets vinyl is in stock & shipping next week! Pre-order your copy HERE or pick up a copy in person on the Advance Base + Young Moon July U.S. tour! Tickets are on sale now HERE.
On June 30, Orindal Records will release Triggered by Sunsets, the third full-length album by New Zealand-based dream pop/shoegaze DIY recording artist Young Moon.
Trevor Montgomery (formerly of Tarentel & Lazarus) has been writing & recording brooding ballads & blissful psychedelia as Young Moon for over a decade, programming vintage drum machines & atmospheric synths to accompany his mournful baritone. In an album review for music blog Consequence, music journalist describes Montgomery as "a singer/songwriter with a talent for lo-fi tracks, electronic
synthesizers, and genuine lyrics that explore love, life, and– fittingly
for his well-traveled voice– death."
I've been a fan of Young Moon since 2013, when I caught a live set at a little bar in Oakland, CA & picked up a vinyl copy of Navigated Like the Swan, the debut Young Moon album on Western Vinyl. That album lived on my turntable all through that winter. The music seemed to exist on a different plane, coming to me from both the future & the past. The songs were achingly beautiful, full of grief & hope, & I've carried them in my head ever since. Trevor & I kept in touch & we would occasionally run into each other in San Francisco until Trevor & his family relocated to Nelson, New Zealand in 2019. I was thrilled when Trevor emailed me some excellent new Young Moon recordings & I jumped at the chance to collaborate on a release.
Triggered by Sunsets is Montgomery's first Young Moon full length recording since relocating to New Zealand, & it's the Young Moon first release for Orindal Records. First single "Deep Ecology" is out now. Find "Deep Ecology" on your preferred streaming service HERE.
Triggered by Sunsets will be released on 160 gram "sea glass" color vinyl, classic black vinyl & digital formats on June 30. The album's cover was created by collage artist Rachel Anne Duffy. Pre-order your copy & read the album's bio by Matt Hellriegel & introductory poem by Jason Morris HERE.
Young Moon will return to the U.S. in July for a solo show at the Ivy Room in Oakland, CA, followed by a two week tour of the eastern U.S. with Advance Base. Catch Young Moon live & pick up your copy of Triggered by Sunsets from the merch table!
Read Lisa/Liza's track-by-track breakdown of the album for Deepest Currents HERE.
"Liza Victoria wends through fingerpicked folk, whispery Americana, and the odd psychedelic flourish on her latest as Lisa/Liza. The Portland, Maine, singer-songwriter made the album while 'working through heavy aspects of living with chronic illness,' writing in fleeting periods of health, she said in press materials. 'Music was a friend to me during this, and I know it will continue to be.'" - Pitchfork
"Stunning... as mesmerising as we’ve come to expect from the songwriter, all earthy and dimly lit; shadows dancing in the gloaming." - GoldFlakePaint
"Born out of the artist’s own personal experiences with pain and trauma, Breaking and Mending
aches with the often heavy weight of life itself. It’s a record of
introspection and inner reckoning; a collection of brutally honest
acoustic songs that capture the fragility of our own humanity. Dwelling
at the crossroads of tenderness and turbulence, Breaking and Mending
sheds light on a topic all too often kept in the darkness. Beautifully
vulnerable and breathtakingly raw, Lisa/Liza’s latest is, without a
doubt, her best work yet." - Atwood Magazine
"With Breaking and Mending, Lisa/Liza
captures the patience required in learning to live with suffering. Be it
borne of chronic illness or trauma or the slow weight of passing time.
But also the hope that there is reason to weather such conditions. A
faith retained through all challenges, much in the same way a tree
stands patient despite surely longing for its leaves through the cold of
the winter months. And in refusing to sterilize this picture of its
contradictions, Liza Victoria reclaims herself from flattening binaries
so that others might do so too. Illness and health, loneliness and love,
none of these things are simple. And the act of being yourself while
living through them is a not a linear process, but an act of breaking,
mending." - Various Small Flames
"With just her spectral guitar lines and keening vocals, Liza manages to paint an intricate portrait of struggle, loss and the strength to keep on going... Beautiful, tender and restorative." - For the Rabbits
Orindal lord Owen Ashworth is touring his electro-folk solo project, Advance Base, through the American South in May, previewing new songs & revisiting favorites from his 20+ year career. Don't miss these shows!
After months of manufacturing delays, human futures, the brilliant new album by Dear Nora, is finally available on vinyl!
Order your copy on "Skull" or classic black vinyl HERE.
"human futures retains everything that has made Dear Nora a cult hit—the playful lo-fi pop vibe, the offbeat observational lyrics that have come to mark later releases—but feels somehow more complete, more cohesive. Few artists capture twenty-first century life as well as Davidson, images of natural beauty sitting next to wry humour and deadpan observations of our ruined world." - Jon Doyle, Various Small Flames
Catch Dear Nora on tour & pick up a copy of human futures from the merch table!
DEAR NORA (SOLO) TOUR DATES
March 31, 2023- Queens, NY @ Sundown Bar w/ Jane Lai April 2, 2023- Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong w/ Berra April 3, 2023- Philadelphia, PA @ Imperfect Gallery w/ Opal Eskar (Karl Blau project!), Birdie Busch April 4, 2023- Northampton, MA @ Parlor Room w/ bobbie April 5, 2023- Brattleboro, VT @ Epsilon Spires w/ Footings April 6, 2023- Burlington, VT @ Radio Bean April 7, 2023- Montreal, QC @ Diving Bell Social Club w/ The Castle April 8, 2023- Cambridge, MA @ Gallery 263
"With just her spectral guitar lines and keening vocals, Liza manages to paint an intricate portrait of struggle, loss and the strength to keep on going... Beautiful, tender and restorative." - For the Rabbits
"Under the moniker Lisa/Liza, Portland, Maine songwriter Liza Victoria makes what we have previously described as 'deliberate, unhurried songs made in the image of nature’s patient rhythms […] that examine how surrounding landscapes are tied to our most intimate emotions and memories.' In April, Victoria returns with Breaking and Mending, her first full-length since 2020’s excellent Shelter of a Song, again on Orindal Records. Written while working through chronic illness and the heavy legacy of past trauma, the record captures what Victoria describes as her 'emotional landscape in the last two years,' and lead single ‘Held Together’ introduces these themes with tender beauty. Constructed of picked guitar and softly crooning vocals, its a song about weathering changing seasons of an internal nature, about holding on for metaphorical buds of spring." - Various Small Flames
On April 28, Orindal Records will release Breaking and Mending, the latest tender treasury of stripped-down psych folk from Portland, Maine’s Lisa/Liza. Breaking and Mending’s lead single, “Held Together”, premiered on Post-Trash & is now streaming everywhere.
Post- Trash's Dan Goldin writes:
“The record’s lead single is “Held Together,” a song that reads like a personal recollection, a letter to self, a gentle reminder to stay afloat even as things are tough. There’s a whole world out there, changing seasons, growth and bloom, and feelings that will eventually come and go. The soft acoustic guitar is played with undeniable emotion, with strums alternating between gentle touches and more immediate finger picking. It’s beautiful in the way that all Lisa/Liza songs are. We all struggle, but we’re not alone. Victoria’s voice is your favorite blanket, her words a dissociation from troubles, deciding instead to focus on the beauty of her surroundings, to put her mind at ease. It’s a welcome respite.”
Breaking and Mending is available on Irish Setter color vinyl, black vinyl & digital formats. Vinyl orders ship in early April. Pre-order your copy HERE.
LISA/LIZA ON TOUR
April 11, 2023- Chatanooga, TN @ The Woodshop (w/ Joe Chang)
April 12, 2023- Atlanta, GA @ 529 (w/ Joe Chang, Annie Leeth & Perdy Slow)
April 13, 2023- Athens, GA @ Buvez (w/ Joe Chang)
April 14, 2023- Greenville, SC @ Inchoate Art Gallery (w/ Joe Chang, Shane Parish + John Kiran Fernandes Duo & Annie Leeth)
April 15, 2023- Columbia, SC @ The Addition (w/ Joe Chang & Marshall Brown)
April 16, 2023- Asheville, NC @ Static Age (w/ Joe Chang, Natalie Jane Hill & Sinai Vessel)
