Since 2004, Public Guilt has been working with a diverse roster of artists that blend, bend or simply defy the boundaries of the genres they reside in. From overblown psyche to avant hip-hop , krautrock/black metal hybrid to experimental turntablism, Public Guilt delivers the marginal goodness.
Ala Muerte
Santa Elena, the debut full-length from Ala Muerte, is a rich, ethereal excursion filled with beautiful sadness. Conceptually moving from the apocalyptic to a state of new beginning, Santa Elena explores solitude and personal growth through melodic tension and environmental metaphor. Layers of
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Ala Muerte - Max Bondi
Queens, NY diva (and Destructo Swarmbots guitarist/vocalist) Bianca Ala Muerte teams up with London's Max Bondi for six tracks of "beautiful sadness." A dynamic melding of ethereal vocals, pulsating drones, delicate melodies, and harsh dissonance all put together without having met each other.
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Aluk Todolo
The first full-length shows the band developing the esoteric theorems established on it's debut 7" and going far deeper in the methodical exploration of the occult powers of musical trance. With the goal to create a timeless, organic mixing of krautrock's strangeness and black metal's
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Aluk Todolo (France) plays Occult Rock. The band uses traditional rock instruments and magickal theories to reach elevated levels of psychedelic trance and new states of consciousness. This 7" marks their debut debut and features two esoteric compositions that are drawn from the bands
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Aluk Todolo are a recondite creature. Part okkult black metal fiend and part snide kraut menace. Somehow the doppelganger works and Finsternis proves for a second time there is brilliance in the absence of light. Dry, spare percussion grievously mines the scrapes, shrieks and shimmer of mutated
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AUN & Habsyll
AUN (Montreal, Canada) has a back catalog rich with harmonic drone, sepulchral ambience and thick, detuned guitar vistas. For this split, AUN ventures into new territory. "Druids" plays like 70's space rock on bad acid, where dissonant tones and hallucinogenic melodies slam head-first into slow,
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Cream Abdul Babar
Cream Abdul Babar's "Excavations: 1995-1998" collects all of their out of print material in one low-priced 2CD package. Disc one contains their first full-length, "The Backwater of Masculine Ethics" in its entirety, while disc 2 collects tracks from their split seven inch with I Guard the
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Darsombra
On the heals of the debut, "Ecdysis", Darsombra unleashes a two song limited EP of some of the new material that is currently being sculpted in the live setting. "Deliriums and Death" is a claustrophobic sonic environment layered with manipulated voices, detuned drone and mantra-like loops.
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Eternal Jewel, the second full-length album from Baltimore’s Brian Daniloski is a mix of improvised and structured recordings primarily composed on the baritone guitar. The tracks are best described as equal parts doom, psychedelic experimentation and 20th Century composition. From powerful and
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“Nymphaea” has been a staple of the darsombra set for the 2+ years. Always a crowd favorite, the track was only released on the “untitled” 55 artist, 3CD compilation that PG co-curated in 2007. Now, darsombra has decided to retire the song from the live set. In lieu of a memorial, Public Guilt
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Decimation Blvd.
The debut solo outing for Tradd Sanderson (famed "Noise Choker" for Cream Abdul Babar) is a six track "Fuck You" of acrid electronics, throbbing drones, gunshot rhythms, and eerie soundscapes. Drawing from influences as diverse as Skinny Puppy, The Melvins, and late-70's horror films, DB
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Destructo Swarmbots
"The Mountain EP" finds DESTRUCTO SWARMBOTS exploring a more delicate and subtle space than previous releases. The 2 man guitar and bass team, known for it's abrasive sonic attacks, take their layers of manipulated dissonance and situate them in subtle ambient landscapes. The tracks range from
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Destructo Swarmbots has carved a unique niche for themselves over the past 4 years. Their live shows consist of chaotic walls of white noise, improvised textures and battered instruments. Their recordings are delicate, at times meditative, washes of ambience constructed from countless piles of
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Harm Stryker
Harm Stryker's latest s/t 3" CDr for PG is music for condemned, boarded up and forgotten spaces. Part requiem for our architectural history, part vitriol-fueled sound in opposition to the box stores, condominiums, and gentrified, cookie cutter housing taking it's place. The single track begins
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Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat
The young wizard of dark, apocalyptic folk (Belgium's Stef Irritant) unfurls his first vinyl release, a 7" using Hegel's dialectic's as the conceptual foundation. The A-side builds with a slow, brooding repetition of chants and swirling acoustics before exploding into a battle cry filled with
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Korperschwache
The ever prolific Korperschwache (Austin, TX) has released countless full-lengths on various labels over the past 12 years. Recorded on the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, "Clueless Cowboy," is a torturous assault rife with layers of blown-out, feedback-drenched drone, black metal
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We love Korperschwache and have for years. We first got hooked on the rawness and intensity of the early Crucial Bliss discs. Then came the the more refined Ouroborous series. Then the discs from Faunasabbatha, Cut Hands, Inam and Housepig. The mini 3" from Dark Winter Moon Recordings. The 3
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Magicicada
Magicicada is the musical life of Atlanta musician/sound designer/photographer, Christopher White. “Everyone is Everyone” is an organic, experimental work that blends traditional, as well as folk and eastern, instruments with found objects, samplers and field recordings to create a work that
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Christopher White graced the early years of PG with "Everyone is Everyone" and now he brings us "Other," a manic, glitchy, nine-song journey housed in handmade art-piece. This release is the first to be featured on yesthisisyours.com, Chris' website for an interactive project where members of the
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Oblong Box
Drawing as much from the history of 20th century minimalism as from the atmosphere of classic, 60's horror cinema, Oblong Box sculpts eerie, sonic landscapes that will gently prod and bend your psyche."13th Floor" is a delicate and haunting soundtrack; rich in sonic color, unspoken narrative and
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Perfekt Teeth
Working in a tradition akin to Philosofem-era Burzum or the experimental side of Celtic Frost, Perfekt Teeth's Beastcraft I is a 20 minute exercise in futility and aggression that blends equal parts black metal chaos, late 80's NYC crossover chugga, and noise-laden trance. This is stripped down,
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Planet Y
Planet Y is the mind-boggling teaming of Yanni Papadopoulos (known to most as the guitarist for Stinking Lizaveta) and beep/boop guru, Charles Cohen. "Space Station is a live recording of their improvisation at St. Mary's (Baltimore, MD) on November 17, 2006. The result is a mix of blissed out,
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Still
Former Dälek Turntablist, Still (Hsi-Chang Lin) goes solo and unleashes a dark ambient masterpiece that borders on sonic terrorism. Created using only Technics 1200's and an array of effects pedals, Still's REMAINS is not a "turntablist" record in the traditional sense. Drawing from (and adding
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Strotter Inst.
Using five, old manipulated Lenco turntables and various cut or scotched records and found objects, Switzerland's Strotter Inst. (aka Christoph Hess) creates polymorph sound and rhythm structures. The tracks on "Anna/Anna" are more atmospheric than past works and at times resemble field
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"Minenhund" (which loosely translates as "Miner Dogs" is the latest work from Strotter Inst. (aka Switzerland’s Christoph Hess.) Hess creates music through the use of old, modified, Lenco turntables. Rubber bands are stretched and plucked by the stylus, dubplates have tape affixed in patterns
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Terminal Lovers
We've been big fans of the Terminal Lovers for years and are super excited to finally be working with them. "As Eyes Burn Clean" is pure Cleveland; heavy, rocking and straight out of left field. Terminal Lovers fuse kraut, dub, improv, drone, and pop influences to create a sound that is dense,
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The Psychic Paramount
The Psychic Paramount here is a power trio in the traditional rock format (guitar, bass, drums) recorded live at performances in Paris, Lyon, Perpignan, and Napoli in Nov./Dec. of 2002. The group, going on tour less than one week after their first meeting, is captured at birth in raw immediate
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Trephine
Trephine play a unique blend of metal/prog/punk/noise/math rock which finds their instrumental, guitar/bass/drums assault joined by found object percussion.
Trephine pulls off some obtuse, angular riffage and jazzy beats but keep this firmly rooted in the HEAVY, balancing all of the abrupt
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Vopat
When not recording as Olekranon or Bobcrane or running Inam Records, Bloomington, IN's Ryan Huber exercises his Vopat muscle. With little more than a guitar and a drum machine, Vopat lays out some of the most pummeling, dreamy and catchy, instrumental drone metal we have ever heard. Intertwined
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Zu
Over their 10+ year career, Zu's modus operandi of straddling and abusing musical genre's has lead them to 15+ unique releases with a wide variety of collaborators. On "The Way of the Animal Powers", the Rome-based, sax/drums/bass trio is joined by Chicago-based, avant cellist, Fred
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James Plotkin and his alter-ego, Phantomshmasher remix two tracks from Zu's latest album, Carboniferous, and the results are mind-bending. "Axion" gets twisted into a dense, futuristic assault of squeeling sax, thunderous bass and blisteringly-glitchy percussion, while "Chthonian" is converted into
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