BALACLAVAS - Snake People LP/CD Out Now! HOUSEHOLD LP Pre-Order

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Hi All,

The new Balaclavas LP/CD is here, and pre-orders have started
shipping. The album won't be available in stores or iTunes/digital
until October 18, but you can can still order direct from Dull Knife
and receive the record in advance of its release date.

You can order the record and sample a track from the album at
http://www.dullknifelabel.com

Balaclavas are from Houston, Texas where everything is eternally
blistered, chemically altered, and forlorn. They are a band in the
realest sense- they come on like a gang, play with one mind, hunt in
one pack, party and fight together in a flat wild nowhere. Unlike the
common livestock being unloaded into music this is a band of
predators. Perpetual outsiders; there will always be a wrong side of
the tracks and they'll always be from it.

Roman Holiday was a paean to Caligulan excess; Snake People is a
declaration of jihad. Legs Control comes in with a disorienting desert
wind that claws at your ears. From the start, you are alone with them
in an alien landscape.

There is something in the proliferation of forms that offends the
thinking and feeling eye. Snake People gives voice to that eye.
Forward seeing, clear in its intonation when it sends back the baby
food being brought out on an unending succession of plates. Ennio
Morricone and scratchy noise guitars on storm-dub rhythms like if the
heaviest incarnation of 1970s Pink Floyd were a future punk band
invested by Jodorowsky to score Dune. You can hear storms approaching
and sandworms underfoot. Its an evil dance they're bringing.
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We're also offering a pre-order for the debut LP from HOUSEHOLD.

Items, the debut from Brooklyn's HOUSEHOLD, is 9 songs of
taut,infectious, post-punk meets pop perfection. The band combines
the aesthetics of UK DIY and the heyday of the American indie
underground, sharpening them to a point and bringing to mind bands
such as Young Marble Giants, Slant 6, and contemporaries Grass Widow.

"Brooklyn post-punk trio Household has all the taut, jittery rhythmic
propulsion of vintage art-pulsers like LiLiPUT and Delta 5, but the
band adds a gorgeous, infectious layer of minor-key harmonies taken
from the first wave of '90s twee.....the sardonic Items, an album of
two-minute ragers where pop melodies float determinedly over jagged
rhythms and clipped, strangled guitars...Opening track "Go Away" is
blocky and brittle, playing like spiraling twee-pop bubblegum after
spending a semester at the Gang Of Four school of rock."

--Village Voice / Christopher Weingarten

You can pre-order the album and sample a track at http://www.dullknifelabel.com