Jul 5, 2016

NEWS - JULY 2016

FORTHCOMING RELEASES

Due September

Is There A Hotline? - s/t cassette (VV026)
The debut record for this Melbourne based duo, comprised of Jen Tait and Jen Callaway.
Live recordings at Longplay (Fitzroy) and Howler (Brunswick), both from earlier this year.
Atmospheric post-punk space rock featuring percussion, analogue synth, electric thumb piano, various objects and alien-siren vocals and wails. Strange drifting sounds, delicate and intense extremes, evoking a parade of cosmic imagery.
Live at Dane Certificate's Magic Tricks, Gags & Theatre, April 2016
Photo: Kurt Eckardt
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Due September

Squirrel Pancake - II cassette (VV027)
Album number two for Squirrel Pancake, aka Melbourne based artist Jen Tait.
In her inimitable electric guitar and vocal format, this follows on 
from the debut self titled album released last year (VV021).
Dissonant, cycling, and inexplicable free-formations.
Collage art: Jen Tait
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Due late 2017

Telekenet - debut album cassette (VV028)
A literal merging of recent and older recordings by Peter Bramley.
A cacophonous concoction of varied drum patterns, raw metronomic noise, and poisonous voice.
A new pseudonym, and a slightly different approach to his Penguins project. 
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Due 2017/18

Penguins live VHS
A very limited edition video compiling a range of live
performances by Melbourne based Penguins, aka Peter Bramley.
Featuring footage of shows from 2008 to more recently, including:
- one from Hobart last year 
- the second show ever, at Bar Open in Melbourne 
- a non-sensical recital at Dane Certificate's Magic Tricks, Gags & Theatre 
- a surreal set at North St Bar in Bateman's Bay, N.S.W 
- a crude set at Burst City (now defunct diy space) in Brisbane 
- the 'infamous' performance at Jura Books in Sydney, never-before-seen video. 

Like an audio-visual scrapbook.
Penguins at Percy's Bar in Carlton, 2012
Photo: Ema Dunstan
Plus a couple of other exciting releases to be announced down the track!
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RELEASED IN 2016

Whitney Houston's Crypt EP 7" (VV024)
Released a few months back, it has received some strong reactions so far..
"A noise-rock approach that smells of death."
"...like a cup of cold tea with coal silt sediment"
"The vocals are too intense"
"...it’s screaming bloody murder, it’s murder to the mind and it’s nightmarish to the extreme"
"...it’s about time someone started coughing up blood over a 7” once again, playing as if their lives depended on it"
Review by Byron Coley, The Wire issue 388
Record Of The Day at WFMU radio station in New Jersey.

Copies still available via direct email order, and the VV bandcamp page.
If you're in Australia, ask your local independent record store / distro about a copy.
If you're in the U.S.A, via Aquarius Records in San Francisco.
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Treehouse - Centre Of Their World cassette (VV025)
There has been much praise already for this new album from
the Hobart based trio, and it's very close to being sold out.
"..must have been a relief to get this out of their system"
Review via 4ZZZ radio

Check the VV bandcamp page, or your local record shop for a copy.

JULY TOUR DATES . . .