Gown - For the Maples

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4...according to our Ant on Thu 07 Feb, 2008.

It's gone totally insane here as 6 boxes just arrived all at once after the delivery's went AWOL. Gown's 'For The Maples' is providing the soundtrack to the hectic atmosphere in the office. Scorching psychedelic prog-ish guitar wail and relentless drum pounding. Gown is Andrew MacGregor (AKA one-half of the Bark Haze with Thurston Moore) and also features dudes from Sunburned Hand Of The Man (John Moloney, Sarah O'Shea, Ron Schneiderman and Taylor Richardson) Things start off like a slow heavy jam, a little on the darkside then as the record progresses towards the last half of 'Bending Close' the tempo increases and the storm becomes a full on freak out that'll have you scraping yourself up off the carpet. Comes in Three Lobed Recordings usual high quality printed sleeve with lush screen printed artwork together with bonus CD for initial copies. Get em' while they're hot man...Only 693 copies of this baby. Cool stuff.

Gown (aka Andrew MacGregor and otherwise known as one-half of the Bark Haze with Thurston Moore) moved from western Massachusetts to Nova Scotia earlier in the year. Before he moved, he wanted to have one big audio blow-out to remember some grand old MA times. With that goal in mind, Gown went into the studio with the Sunburned Hand of the Man gang (represented this time out by John Moloney, Sarah O'Shea, Ron Schneiderman and Taylor Richardson) to melt some audio consoles. "For the Maples" represents a portion of that recorded output and believe us, it's some massive stuff. Sunburned's thick funk presents the perfect background for Gown's shredding guitar-play. Extremely hot stuff, especially the massive side-long "Bending Close."

As per the Three Lobed standard, "For the Maples" is pressed on 180g RTI vinyl. It will be housed within silkscreened jackets (screen work by Alan Sherry / SIWA) bearing new artwork by Gown. The record will be from an edition of 693 copies and, similar to the Basalt Fingers LP and as an added convenience for our vinyl friends, will come packaged with a glass-mastered CD (not CD-R) of the material present on the wax. Pre-orders will also be accompanied by a bonus CD (TLR-059) of previously unreleased Gown material.

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