Hi everyone, I am absolutely Termbo'd to tell you about two new releases on Minimum Table Stacks. Both are available at our Bandcamp page and (preferably) our Big Cartel (where you'll also find a slew of out-there hard to find titles from friends and like-minded vinyl slingers..
VOYEUR'S MARKET "Songs O' Yule" one-sided 12" EP (200 copies on RED VINYL with handmade and hand-stamped covers, lyric sheet and gift tag sticker)
***Minimum Table Stacks is proud to present the debut vinyl release from Voyeur’s Market, the solo project of Ashley Pridham of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Locals might recognize Ashley from her previous project, Vacuum Rebuilders, in which she played alongside Arielle McCuaig and Kayla MacNeill who would go on to form Puppet Wipes. In fact, Kayla and Arielle performed backing band duties behind Ashley at the first (and so far only) Voyeur’s Market live show! While Songs O’ Yule is indeed “Christmas music” (and we here at MTS HQ stand firmly on the THUMBS UP side when it comes to said genre), the six songs written, performed and recorded by Pridham are above all incredibly infectious bedroom pop with nods towards 80’s UK indie, 90’s US garage rock and the more minimal 80’s post-punk from both shores. (The track “Henry Kringle” is actually a twang-y ‘contrafactum’ of the Country Teaser’s hit “Henry Crinkle”.) The EP’s six track (sleigh) ride makes stops at K Records, Slumberland, Yoyo Studios and the International Pop Underground, Slant 6’s Embassy in D.C. Pop music with something for everyone. Truly a “Christmas record” to spin year-round! Pressed on one-sided red vinyl in an edition of 200 copies.
SON OF DRIBBLE "Poking A Hole In A Bag of Tears" LP (300 copies on black wax pressed at the esteemed Smashed Plastic in Chicago. 2 sided lyric insert)
The THIRD LP from the Columbus, OH quartet and SECOND for Minimum Table Stacks!
Son Of Dribble, a group of modern musicians from the great Ohio school of rock music. They still make music with guitars and basses and drums in various states of stability in the midwest. They ignore coastal standards of legitimacy for proposed products for consumption and are more the result of existing somewhere in the intestines of the average consumer. Listening presents a new paradox of who are we and what are we trying to be? Who came first? And for every great puzzle there is a singular piece and the task of placing it.
-Emmett Kelly, The Hard Quartet/The Double
You know it and I know it: there’s more trouble coming every day. So what are you hoping for in a record? Escape? Encouragement? Endurance? How about a grinning shrug, a wordlessly shared cigarette, a song that says “wow you’ve had a rough year, huh?” This is ‘Poking a Hole in a Bag of Tears’ by Columbus, Ohio’s Son of Dribble. It’s worn in and memorable, insistent but at a respectful distance. There is so much trouble in these songs: unexplained scars, mistakes repeated, sickness. And sure, Son of Dribble aren’t quite able to repel the despair, but they are very good company in the rain.
It has to do with the dogged stomp of the drumming, the lingering melody of the guitars, the buzz and the momentum. And it has to do with that faded croon, a kind of singing that makes the slightest kindness feel life-altering, a kind of singing that makes the worst story you ever heard just kind of drift past you. ‘Poking a Hole’ really thrives in this push/pull. There’s plenty of space for wallowing and jostling both on this record, but it doesn’t actually do either. The effect is maybe most like a good old dog? That companionable trotting right at your hip,that sense of not quite understanding the details but very clear on the mood. And then every once in awhile it can’t resist, it takes off running, eating up ground with such speed you almost feel like you don’t know it at all. But it always comes back, and never even seems breathless.
-Ethan Swan, Jabs
