This release is in production and preorders for color vinyl will be available soon. Check out one of Living Laser’s new songs (not on the 7″, but just as good as the ones that are) below. Rock it!:
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“To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians if you will, to say that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them. Five minutes of today are worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat the men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are. Men live in their fancy, like drunkards whose hands are too soft and tremulous for successful labor. It is a tempest of fancies, and the only ballast I know is a respect to the present hour. Without any shadow of doubt, amidst this vertigo of shows and politics, I settle myself ever the firmer in the creed that we should not postpone and refer and wish, but do broad justice where we are, by whomsoever we deal with, accepting our actual companions and circumstances, however humble or odious, as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us. If these are mean and malignant, their contentment, which is the last victory of justice, is a more satisfying echo to the heart than the voice of poets and the casual sympathy of admirable persons. I think that however a thoughtful man may suffer from the defects and absurdities of his company, he cannot without affectation deny to any set of men and women a sensibility to extraordinary merit. The coarse and frivolous have an instinct of superiority, if they have not a sympathy, and honor it in their blind capricious way with sincere homage….Divinity is in our failures and follies also. The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the longest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man’s bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.”
LL Reigns in the HV
Check this iconic pic of Living Laser from this past Saturday’s show at the Wherehouse in Newburgh, NY. Look out for their split 7″ with God Mode, out soon on Glacial and FDH Records. Buy Living Laser’s latest 7″ and a ton of other great stuff at Trip Machine Labs.
Photo by Dylan Samuel.
Resurfacing
After spending some days changing our calendars, replacing batteries in smoke detectors and clocks, playing shows, and conducting various forms of research, Glacial records is back and ready to rock you in 2013.
Upon resurfacing, we’ve got some great stuff lined up for the 2013 pleasure cruise, most urgently a Living Laser/God Mode split 7″, on which we’re teaming up with the incomparable FDH records, and Secret Fangs 10″. We’re so excited to be part of both of these releases.
In other news, we’re proud to announce that our releases are now being distributed by Ebullition, so if you’re from a store or whatever, please get in contact with them to carry our releases. You can also find our vinyl on Interpunk.
Lives of the Obscure has begun to play some shows. If you’d like to book them, contact them via their Facebook page or at droidtree [at] gmail.com.
Video: “Handful of Bees” by Secret Fangs
Paul Thorstenson has completed the impressive feat of creating and publishing fifty short films in fifty days, and this, a video for “Handful of Bees” by his project Secret Fangs, is the final installment. Umbrellas make him fly.
The Secret Fangs 10″ will be available early next year on Glacial.
Streaming and Preorders available for Lives of the Obscure 7″
Preorder Lives of the Obscure’s upcoming 7″ here. And listen:
Release Dates! Finally!
Over here at Glacial, we want to be honest. Most of you know that some copies of the Winterlong 10″ are circulating, and yes, it’s true, we have them in our possession. Regardless, the official release date for Five Songs by Winterlong is the utterly arbitrary NOVEMBER 2nd, 2012. Also, for those of you into smaller records, the Lives of the Obscure Deathfete 7″ will be out two weeks after that, on NOVEMBER 16th, 2012. Please, if you’re into it, buy something! We want to give you more vinyl!
Fangs Are Pointy Teeth
Emerging from the shimmering haze of the infinitude of every experienced moment is a release by Secret Fangs. Paul made a video for the opener for that record, which will be out soon on Glacial.
Bad Man – Secret Fangs (10/06/12) from paul Thorstenson on Vimeo.
“Analysis goes a step farther still, and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which, for each one of us, experience dwindles down, are in perpetual flight; that each of them is limited by time, and that as time is infinitely divisible, each of them is infinitely divisible also; all that is actual in it being a single moment, gone while we try to apprehend it, of which it may ever be more truly said that it has ceased to be than that it is. To such a tremulous wisp constantly re-forming itself on the stream, to a single sharp impression, with a sense in it, a relic more or less fleeting, of such moments gone by, what is real in our life fines itself down. It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis leaves off—that continual vanishing away, that strange, perpetual weaving and unweaving of ourselves.” –Pater, The Renaissance
Important Professional Decisions
After soliciting advice from several people, I am happy to report that we have approved the test pressings for Winterlong’s Five Songs 10″ record, due out in early November. The fog, as you see, is clearing. The choice to approve was not an easy one since we had to come to grips with the aforementioned Minor Error. Since opinions were mixed, I took Scott D’s advice and let this guy decide. Scott suggested yes/no sticky notes, but, alas, sticky notes would not garner his attention, so I replaced them with two of the little man’s favorites, Eric’s Frog and Kyle the Crocodile.
If he chose Eric’s Frog, we would approve the pressing and leap forward toward new horizons.
If, on the other hand, he chose Kyle, we would reject this pressing and sink back into the muck of testing and potential rejections.
Exhibiting steely determination and decisiveness under immense pressure, he leaped forth and took the reins (of the frog).
Never look back.
First-week-or-so-of-September Playlists
While listening to the ever-so-slight imperfection over and over again on the test pressing for the upcoming Winterlong 10″ (you’ll most likely never notice it; in fact, first person who does gets a test copy on the house), I began wondering what some other folks in the Glacial universe were listening to, so I conducted an informal inquiry of some Glacial members’ playlists this week. This is what I have gathered.
Greg Nazak of Winterlong lends his ears this week to the stellar Local Natives Gorilla Manor record, along with the first Band of Horses, Everything All the Time, and Scott Walker’s seminal Scott 4.
Paul Thorstenson of Secret Fangs (and Secret Fang and Blastaar and c…) is spinning Slade’s best-of record, Get Yer Boots On, the fantastic Off! lp and its second- or third-cousin Zulu by the Wrangler Brutes, the Wizard of Oz Soundtrack, and Aging Womanizer, a spoken-word project that Paul says he just completed and that we’re all waiting for, hands folded under chin.
Jay Petagine (Living Laser, Winterlong) is spinning a DJ Premier mixtape, Reggatta de Blanc by the Police, and Snapcase’s Progression Through Unlearning–keeping it fresh with a melange of top-notch hip-hop, classic rock, and late-90s hardcore. Very nice.
I was going to add my own selections to this list, but this is enough to digest. For now, know that I’m listening in a very nuanced fashion to GLA-010 and waiting very patiently for GLA-011 to appear at my doorstep. Maybe tomorrow.
