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blew through our first batch, should have some more soon...
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Two very fine releases, indeed. Both will be in-stock and featured.
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Permanent Records' 37th label release!

300 COPIES PRESSED:
200 ON BLACK WAX AVAILABLE FOR WHOLESALE
100 ON WHITE WAX AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH PERMANENT RECORDS CHICAGO & LA


Listen:
https://soundcloud.com/permanentrecords/merx-distress



MERX INCLUDES ? OF GERMAN ARMY

LA's MERX is back with another platter of menacing post-punk, no-wave, cold-wave, industrial electronic thinking-man's creep terror. Have a look at a few reviews of their debut LP (also on Permanent Records)?

Reviews of MERX's debut LP:

"Live, Merx are a menacing enigma?a tall, blonde, howling, sometime bespectacled lead singer who is one part Alan Vega, one part Ian Curtis, and the rest horror movie madman looks blankly forward, shaking and screaming, while the rest of the band plays with no acknowledgement of anyone else in the room. The guitarist faces his amp, his back to the crowd, emitting an eerie tremoloed guitar sound reminiscent of the Plugz?s instrumentals from Repo Man. The bassist is absorbed by his own drone, which also permeates the rest of the space, while the keyboardist stares into his keys; all this on top of drum machine effects that recall an industrial assembly line. The sound this four piece creates is always loud, and they do what few bands of their ilk can: replace a human drummer with a machine without sounding either empty or overbearing. (The only other recent band that has done the same is Okie Dokie, who sadly aren?t around anymore.) On record, Merx are just as strangely engrossing. ?1000 Suitors,? the mid-tempo opener, sets the tone with its bizarre opening lyrics, ?Who?d think a tall man could stoop so low;? ?French Drop? has the pulsating bass and creepy Western guitar in full effect, along with whispered vocals and a nod to Slade (?Goodbye t? Jane, and her youth, and her purse?); while the shouts and yelps on ?the Law? are nothing less than frightening. This is a strange and dark album but also a really great one." - Daniel Clodfelter (LA Record)

"LA's Merx is a pretty frightening proposition channeling brutal cold wave via influences like Chrome, Throbbing Gristle, and Suicide. Everyone writing about the band mentions their very tall, sometimes bespectacled "vocalist" who sounds eerily like Ian Curtis. I thought it was one of those tired, rock journalist tropes until I put on the track "The Law" off their s/t Permanent Records debut, and found myself sitting straight up in the chair like I'd just heard a ghost! For your extreme listening pleasure!!" ? Live Eye TV Video Music Blog

"MERX is the most highly-educated band of professionals in LA.  Maybe that's why the members have chosen to keep their off-the-grid musical hobby so minimally simplistic.  Each one of the nine songs on Merx's debut LP is comprised of looped synthetic drums, repetitively melodic bass and synth lines, and post-apocalyptic Morricone-esque guitar bits.  Over the top, a very tall man in a Throbbing Gristle/Mickey Mouse/Grateful Dead parody tee speak/sings shouts/whoops like a baritone hybrid of Ian Curtis, Nick Cave, and Alan Vega.  His lyrics are simplified existential philosophies that seem worthy of printing, studying, analyzing, and pondering for all eternity.  Of course, this man chose not to include his lyrics on the insert.  What you do get, however , are a bunch of random hand-made collages, stickers, and weird notes written by band members (who will remain nameless) themselves.  The songs are short, memorable, and timeless post-punk numbers that sound similar, but not exactly like anything we've ever heard before.  The band member's education obviously extends beyond the classroom and into the rock'n'roll realm, specifically UK circa 79-81.  "Merx" is a timeless 21st century record for connoisseurs with a morbid curiosities.  That means you." ? Permanent Records

RIYL: Suicide, Throbbing Gristle, DNA, SPK, German Army, Brotman & Short, Cold Wave

Black Wax Limited to 300 Copies For $10 Wholesale, minimum 5 copies. E-mail if interested: permanentwax@gmail.com

White Wax Limited to 100 Copies Exclusively through Permanent! AVAILABLE NOW:
https://shop.permanentrecordschicago.com/lp-merx-20000-sq-ft-under-the-sea-%28white-wax-ltd-100%29/dp/77057


Currently available through Revolver & Carrot Top.

Thanks!
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Permanent Records' 12th label release!

REPRESS OF 300 COPIES ON BLACK VINYL AVAILABLE NOW!

Listen:
https://soundcloud.com/permanentrecords/umberto-the-child



In 2010 Expo ?70 bass/synth player Matt Hill went solo. His debut LP under the Umberto moniker is an analog masterpiece heavily influenced by the classic film score work of Goblin. From the moment you drop the needle, you?ll be transported to Italy as an extra in a vintage horror flick directed by Dario Argento. This is some of the most authentic sounding music of the ?Giallo? genre we?ve ever heard. Time has shown that many others have come to agree. "From The Grave?" was previously only available as a hyper limited edition CDr and cassette tape via Sonic Meditations. We loved it so much we pressed it to wax, then repressed it to wax, licensed it to Burka For Everybody in 2011 for a single Euro-pressing, and are now finally finding ourselves repressing this out-of-print gem once again.

Reviews of Umberto ?From The Grave??:

From aQarius Records:
"Doubtless many movie (and music) buffs would agree that Italian '70s and '80s "giallo" (horror/thriller) cinema, from directors like Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, had soundtracks usually as evocative and inspirational as any visual aspect of the films, soundtracks which often stand as effective works of art all on their own. The scores by prog band Goblin being perhaps best known, influencing such modern day bands as Zombi and Crime In Choir. Now here's another, utterly blatant and most excellent example of Italian giallo soundtrack worship by a current artist: Umberto!

Umberto has a heavily synthesized sound, keyboards buzzing and droning and squelching, crunchily distorted or eerily ethereal, sounding at once like ominous Gothic organ music and also spacey futuristic electronica. Mechanical drumming plods along, propulsive beats adding to the menacing atmosphere. There's also plenty of fat disco synth-bass, and we bet folks into Italians Do It Better 12"s, or Black Devil Disco Club, or even skweee would get a kick out of this too, not just Goblin fanatics... but yeah Goblin fanatics (and John Carpenter and Zombi fans too) REALLY ought to check this out! Very cool, very creepy, and even at times kinda catchy-groovy?"

From Dusted Magazine (Patrick O?Donnell):
"Mining the classic soundtrack work of John Carpenter and Goblin has become a small cottage industry in recent times, with Zombi in particular making a career out of this niche genre. Umberto (a.k.a. Matt Hill, sometimes of Expo 70) has provided us with the newest example with From the Grave, an LP that skirts the edge of Soundtrack for an Imaginary Giallo territory. What saves the project from paling in comparison to his influences is the way Hill skillfully merges them ? his songs are generally anchored by pulsing synths, and then layered with progressive rock keyboards. Much like Zombi, this ends up being danceable music, although Umberto generally eschews the harder edge of Zombi?s work. Hill also seems to have a judicious eye for doling out cheese, never letting his music enter into the realm of irony while clearly not taking things too seriously."

From Synthtopia:
"Umberto?s From The Grave is the soundtrack to the 70′s Italian horror movie that exists only in your imagination."

From FEARnet:
"Another modern aritist whose creative heart beats somewhere around the year 1981, Umberto (a.k.a. Matt Hill, also known for his work with cosmic-rock unit Expo 70) draws inspiration just as heavily from the music of John Carpenter as from Italian horror soundtracks. Also worth noting: his debut full-length album From the Grave has the distinction of being the first album ever inspired by Juan Piquer Simon's splatter classic Pieces (or at least the first artist willing to admit it), so now you know exactly where this cat's coming from."

Black Wax Repress Limited to 300 Copies For $9 Wholesale, minimum 5 copies. E-mail if interested: permanentwax@gmail.com

Mail-order a copy direct for yourself:
https://shop.permanentrecordschicago.com/lp-umberto-from-the-grave-%28repress-ltd-300%29/dp/62665

Currently available through: Bull City, Distort (Australia), Reckless, 20 Buck Spin,  and these distros: Revolver, Forced Exposure, Carrot Top

Thanks!
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REPRESS OF 300 COPIES ON BLACK VINYL AVAILABLE NOW!

Black Wax Repress Limited to 300 Copies For $11 Wholesale, minimum 5 copies. E-mail if interested: permanentwax@gmail.com

Mail-order a copy direct for yourself:
https://shop.permanentrecordschicago.com/lp-afflicted-man-im-off-me-ead-%28official-2013-reissue-repress-black-wax-ltd-300%29/dp/76395

Currently available through Academy, Armageddon, Bull City, Distort (Australia) Floridas Dying, Jackpot, Landlocked, Little Big Chief, Nat (Japan), Reckless, Record Shop Base (Japan), Sorry State, and these distros: Carrot Top, Forced Exposure, Revolver, & Forte (UK).
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Forgot to mention...Permanent will have this.
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Perm's gettin.
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STOKED!  Permanent will have these.  Rehab fucking RULES.
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GREAT DIG, JASON!
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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: CUNTZ US tour > 9/12 - 10/8
« on: August 21, 2013, 11:27:49 AM »
SOLID MATES DO THE STATES

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SAT 9/21 > Chicago @ Permanent Records in-store (free)

SUN 9/22 > Chicago @ TBD

Updated info for Chicago dates:

SAT 9/21 > Chicago @ Club Rectum w/ Oozing Wound + TBA

SUN 9/22 > Chicago @ Permanent Records in-store (free)
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This is new...

7in - Endless Bummer/Basic Cable - Split Flexi - $4.99

Chicago labels Notes and Bolts and Eye Vybe Records have teamed up to bring you this brash flexi of punker jams from LA's Endless Bummer and Chicago's Basic Cable.  Read on for more on this adventure direct from the label peeps:


"The latest in our ongoing series of flexi-discs is a split label release. In cooperation with Eye Vybe Records, we're bringing you a split single between LA by way of Chicago, Endless Bummer; as well as newly formed booze trashers, Basic Cable. Formed by Permanent Records founders, Liz Tooley and Lance Barressi, Endless Bummer mine the budget rock end of the modern garage rock spectrum, coming up with a jammer that sounds like it's straight out of the Mummies' catalog. Basic Cable, formed by ex-Loose Dudes, Heavy Times, and current Running members, is a thrashing two minutes of caterwauling vocals, and instruments that sound like they're going to fall apart at any moment. This is the single you've been waiting to hear to tie out the end of the (bummer) Summer!"


Do you like caterwauling scuzzoid garage punk? How bout a hefty back beat, rubbery bass grooves, some griptape scrape guitar and feral yelps?  Of course you do!!  And so do we!  So plop this little scamp of a flexi on your turntable, turn up the volume and get to know two of today's thrilling new groups.  Endless Bummer finds P-Rex head-honchos Liz and Lance joined by their tight buddy Greg Bummer laying down a quick fix of agitated caveman stomp that'll infect you with the dancing bug while you find yourself uncontrollably grabbing the person next to you at the show whilst Basic Cable, comprised of some Chicago's assorted noteworthy maniacs from various other quality acts metioned above, lean in thick and mean with a paranoid rocker that pummels a riff into the ground while some terrifying laser sound sets its sights for your soul.  It's all over waaaay too soon, so here's hoping we're getting more material from BOTH acts in the near future.  Savagely Recommended.

Hear it here:
http://basiccableendlessbummer.bandcamp.com/album/eye-vybe-notes-bolts-split-flexi-disc

Buy it here:
https://shop.permanentrecordschicago.com/7in-endless-bummer-basic-cable-split-flexi/dp/76690
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STOKED!  Smelly Tongues are one of the best new bands in LA.
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STOKED for this...all of it.
Cuntz is punks.
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