We have two new releases available now on our our-house label, Round Bale Recordings. Both come from talented artists that we’ve previously worked with, and we are honored to be sharing their latest efforts that see them pushing forward into bold new directions. More details, sound samples, and links to order both titles are provided below. If you’re ordering for a record store or mailorder outlet and have an interest in stocking either of these new releases, or any of our other available ones, feel free to get in touch for wholesale rates: (roundbalerecs [at] gmail.com)
We are thrilled to be issuing the debut vinyl release from Private Anarchy, the solo art-punk project of Clay Kolbinger (Maths Balance Volumes, Termite Acropolis). His previous eponymous cassette on Round Bale Recordings found its way into Marc Masters’ Best Cassette Releases of 2017 list for his Hi-Bias column on Bandcamp where he wrote, “Coursing with wiry riffs, rattling beats, and deadpan singing, the debut tape by Private Anarchy (aka Madison, WI’s Clay Kolbinger) echoes the fiery racket of many post-punk forebears. In other words, you could say Private Anarchy sounds like the Fall, Swell Maps, and lots of bands who sound like those bands. But there’s something idiosyncratic about Kolbinger’s bent geometry that’s harder to pin down. It’s not so hard to feel its effects though: the 11 tracks here all carry the insular DIY genius that often inhabits basements, attics, and garages, with Kolbinger banging away as if music is his only source of heat.” On Central Planning, Kolbinger further expands upon this skewed framework, introducing a more elastic vocal approach and a more experimental edge to the production. But, the basic formula is still intact: you’ll hear rapid-fire minimalist punk songs that feature buoyant rhythms and dueling guitar parts performed with jittery exactness. It’s a DIY sound that begs to make its way out of the basement, and with this larger LP edition, we hope that you’ll invite a slice of Private Anarchy into your own life.
RBR-013: Matthew Revert “The Inpatient” CS ($7.50)
We are pleased to be working once again with the talented, multi-disciplinary artist, Matthew Revert, after releasing his disorientingly brilliant tape and voice work, Letters to Friends of the Late Darcy O’Meara, last year. While the room sound reverberations and rickety chair squeaks are an ever-present feature of Revert’s soundworld, the material on his latest release, The Inpatient, captures him in an entirely different headspace. Whereas Letters found Revert channeling various hallucinatory voices to achieve a fairly holistic narrative arc, as surreal as it may have been, on The Inpatient he is consumed, nay possessed, with an intensely focused ‘character study’. But, Revert is no mere method actor, the circumstances surrounding this wholesale body takeover was very real. He writes, “It was while preparing for surgery that ‘The Inpatient’ became a possibility. Amid fasting and the histrionic evacuation of intestinal contents, one’s sense of reality finds less clarity. In states like this, improvising Spanish love poems irrespective of my inability to speak Spanish seems like a worthwhile idea. I tend to gravitate toward moments of physical distress when mining ideas.” With that, The Inpatient’s stricken singer-songwriter moves represent another utterly unique entry into Revert’s fascinating and ever-growing body of work.
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