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Artist: AH CLUB Title: Kiss The Sky Goodbye
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 SHR76
Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
***Cross-breeding of bedroom indie-hop and funky pop; perfect for your rainiest of days.

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Artist: AMPS FOR CHRIST Title: Beggar's Garden
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 SHR87
Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
***Man is the Bastard's Henry Barnes poots forth stuff that has noise/folk apologists frothing.

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Artist: AMPS FOR CHRIST Title: Electrosphere
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 SHR109CD
Price: $13.00 Label: Shrimper
Release
Date:		 9/27/99
***Formerly of Slap a Ham recording artists Man Is The Bastard, Henry Barnes and posse (Enid Snarb, Connell, Tara T. Tavi, P.G. Roberts, and Togarama) veer across a musical map bearing places named Moondog, Tudor, Partch and Page. Created with a menagerie of exotic and homemade musical instruments (including tabla, Chinese piano, caveman electronics), Electrosphere is a meticulously sequenced two-hour double-fuck-you to those idiots the neighbors, outboard MIDI-abusing scoundrels, and Becker Bros. clones.

Praise for Amps for Christ:

"The strangest off-kilter record I have ever heard . . . variations on traditional sounding Scottish marches, sweet acoustic ballads, Indian sitar territory, country/folk string-strumming with plenty of gospel influences."
-Your Flesh

"Hardly typical noise, although venturing into pure noise territory . . . [whatever it is I'm talking about is] often very pleasantly melodic and reaching into a variety of genres, touching on some folk territory, some electric sitar and still competent at every level."
-Thumb magazine

"Many of the tunes . . . are traditional Irish, Scottish and American melodies, reinterpreted with fuzzed-out electric guitar, distorted bagpipe and wailing organ. No dabbling dilettantes, Amps for Christ have an intense love and considerable knowledge of this music. They're not faking or kidding."
-Patrick Barber

Artist: AMPS FOR CHRIST Title: The Oak In The Ashes
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 SHR127
Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
Release
Date:		 10/8/01
***On the third full length Amps for Christ release for Shrimper, Henry Barnes (ex-Man is the Bastard) further explores the marriage of avant skree and folk twee. Steeped in influences ranging from the Incredible String Band to the Minutemen, and sprinkled with the debut recordings of Henry's jug band, The Oak in the Ashes reads like a ripe mix tape by Alan Lomax on muscle relaxants.

The former guitarist and electronic noise maestro for Man is the Bastard, Barnes delves into the traditional Irish canon, reanimating artifacts like "As I Walked Out" and "The Cherry Tree Carol" with the strange beauty of his fluttering low-tech oscillators. His gentle singing complements the more conventional lilting folk rock. While the bulk of the album's 24 tracks are graced by Barnes's exquisite Celtic/Appalachian/Eastern picking (on a variety of home-made stringed things, including guitar, electric sitar and "mandola"), some are more or less pure experimental noise. The Oak in the Ashes finds the rare flower that Barnes cultivated over the band's six previous releases blooming in a richly folk-ish direction.

Amps for Christ offers the most innoative Celtic stylings since the Pogues. If your heart's in the right place and your mind's open, you can't do better than to pick this up.

    -Andrew Marcus, Mean
Artist: AUM RIFLE Title: A Peal Of Bells
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 SHR143
Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
Release
Date:		 6/7/04
***The Aum Rifle as documented here is Alex and Cari Ganowsky and John Thill, along with a loose confederation of collaborators from seaside Seattle and scorched-earth Riverside, California, their hometown. To date they've produced a few handmade limited edition CDRs comprised of outdoor major-key folk tunes and environmental soundscapes infiltrated by tape noise, TV broadcasts, and local methamphetamine culture. The music inhabits a dusty, rusted landscape, fetishized in their songs. Other work includes recording camping trips to the Olympic Peninsula and Death Valley National Park. A Peal Of Bells is the product of time divided between the Pacific Northwest and Southern California, moving from slowest "quiet-time" dirges to a pots-and-pans racket, sometimes within the confines of one song. The Aum Rifle and their various collaborators play banjos, accordions, tape loops, trees and hand-crafted musical monstrosities in, around, and outside the trappings of traditional song structure. They'll be taking their semiacoustic ideologies and rusted metal on the road in July and August 2004 up and down the West Coast and throughout the Midwest.
Artist: BINGO TRAPPERS Title: Sierra Nevada
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 SHR91
Price: $8.25 Label: Shrimper
***Sixties-era psyche and British new wave-isms from Dutch group.
Artist: DAVID-IVAR HERMAN DUNE Title: Yaya
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 SHR145CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
Release
Date:		 10/4/04
***As one of the two songwriting brothers for Herman Düne, David-Ivar Herman Düne has been over the course of the last few years incredibly prolific, releasing two records by Herman Düne last year (Mash Concrete Metal Mushroom on Shrimper and Mas Cambios on the British label Track & Field), not to mention a bounty of self-released, limited edition CDRs in his native France. Ya Ya is David's first solo album proper (if you discount the fact that Herman Dune drummer Neman is in charge on the drums) and adheres to the aesthetics of David-Ivar's full time gig in Herman Düne. Ya Ya is filled with offhanded rockers spread through nine new songs and a cover of an Otis Redding tune, all of them well written, stripped-down, and pensive without being pretentious-- as one would expect from the frontman of a band that has been hailed in its hometown (Paris, France) as one of the best neo-folk outfits around.

A new Herman Dünerecord is in the works for the spring release on Shrimper.

One of the leaders of the new school folk movement --Time Out New York
Herman Düne is the making some of the most important new music --John Peel

Artist: DAVIS, JOHN Title: Blue Mountains
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 SHR90CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
***The entrancing aural sketches and tone poems of "Stars and Songs" and "Leave Home" hinted at this-- fully-instrumentalized, realized tunes from Folk Implosion member Davis. A confident, rewarding and unendlingly surprising work that continues to age well.

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Artist: DAVIS, JOHN Title: Blue Mountains
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 SHR90
Price: $8.25 Label: Shrimper
Artist: DAVIS, JOHN Title: I'll Burn
Format: CDEP Catalog
Number:		 SHR85CD
Price: $7.75 Label: Shrimper
***The taller half of the Folk Implosion embarks on fragile (but fleshy) flights of fantasy and fecund fare, from folk filigree to free verse to...well, you get the idea. contains songs not on "Blue Mountains," for which this is considered a "teaser" EP. Consider yourself teased.

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Artist: DAVIS/ CALLACI Title: Room For Space
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 SHR74CD
Price: $8.25 Label: Shrimper
***One third of Refrigerator gangs up with one half of the Folk Implosion. Resulting semi-improvisational scree suspends time, space and your sense of disbelief, probably.

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Artist: DAVIS/ CALLACI Title: Room For Space
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 SHR74
Price: $8.25 Label: Shrimper
Artist: DISKOTHI-Q Title: The Wandering Jew
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 SHR55CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper

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Artist: DISKOTHI-Q Title: The Wandering Jew
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 SHR55
Price: $8.25 Label: Shrimper
Artist: DISKOTHI-Q Title: Waterworld
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 SHR86
Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
***Ladies and gentlemen, may we present Peter Hughes, he of Nothing Painted Blue, sometimes- Mountain Goats sideman, inland empire posterboy (or do we mean pin-up boy?)...second full-length release.

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Artist: DUMP Title: A Grown-Ass Man
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 SHR139
Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
Release
Date:		 3/24/03
***Some of us know James McNew as the guy without the purse or penchant for Arthur Lyman from the Boston band Christmas, or perhaps as the snare-drum bassist for Yo La Tengo, or if you attended the Jodeci after party with that bitch-ass mutherfucker you been sweating on of late, you are probably more familiar with him as the auteur of his one-man band Dump. McNew has released a series of records, CDs and cassettes over the last decade for various labels, but has made Shrimper Dump's permanent home away from home, including Women in Rock CDEP, through, for the first time in half a decade, a new full length album. Take a seat please.

A Grown-Ass Man includes ten new cuts penned by McNew, three covers (The Isley Bros.' "Mr. Too Damn Good," Thin Lizzy's "Cowboy Song," and a duet with Sue Garner on Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells' "Once Upon a Time"). Between tours with Yo La Tengo, James will tour the coasts on his own by harvest time. Bring some Kleenex, emo kingpin, cuz these songs are going to have you growing streams of tears.

Artist: DUMP Title: Women In Rock
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 SHR103CD
Price: $6.75 Label: Shrimper
Release
Date:		 1/18/99
***JAMES McNEW, a/k/a the bass third of YO LA TENGO, delivers five more masterful pop compositions. In a rare moment of taste and lucidity ROLLING STONE magazine awarded Dump's 1998 release "A Plea For Tenderness" four stars; surely the homemade sublimity of "Women In Rock" shall garner similar accolades. Dreamy watercolor cover art by Aggi of the Pastels.

Artist: HERMAN DUNE Title: Mash Concrete Metal Mushroom
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 SHR142
Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
Release
Date:		 8/4/03
***Herman Düne was birthed by David-Ivar Herman Düne and André Herman Düne more than ten years ago; the two Swedish-rooted fans of American music were playing all around Europe and the States before they'd even begun making records. Having written over four hundred songs, released three CDs and worked on a slew of side projects and self releases, they have become a reference in modern folk-rock.

NME, Melody Maker, The Independent, Mojo, and others have praised their albums, and one went so far as to describe them as "Swedish Lo-Fi Serge Gainsbourgs." John Peel invited them for a studio session in September 2000, and to his home for a live BBC broadcast of his Christmas party the same year. He continues to champion the band on the other side of the ocean.

The band's first stateside release came with Shrimper's They Go to the Woods, which Mojo reckoned was one of the finest releases of 2001. Between that release and this one they knocked out a record for the Prohibited Label, have collaborated with Julie Doiron & Cerberus Shoal, and eaten plenty of hash cookies, scones and crepes.

The singular and touching voices of David-Ivar and André are carried by the solid, minimal beats of their drummer, Neman. Ten songs grace Mash Concrete Metal Mushroom, which combine their spare sense of melody, elliptical style of poetics, and love of musical history.

30-second RealAudio excerpts:

New Jersey Cross Concrete
On the Knick
Monkey Song
Let Me Pry
All About You
Not That Big a Story
Futon Song
Metal Mash
Why Would That Hurt? (If You Never Loved Me)
Taking Taxis in Winter Clothes

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Artist: HERMAN DUNE Title: They Go To The Woods
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 SHR121
Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
Release
Date:		 6/4/01
***Herman Düne are comprised of two Swedish brothers and a man named Omé on the drums. Last year they released Turn Out the Light, their critically acclaimed debut on the European Prohibited label. Mojo magazine observed, Herman Dune's idiosyncratic vistas capture the imagination, recalling the cut-and-paste lyricism of Julian Cope, the deliciously woozy chug of the Velvet Underground and the metronomic repetition of Can. The band has toured the citrus-deprived, pestilence-ridden land mass of Europe, stopping off for appearances on John Peel's radio show and otherwise making quite a name for themselves abroad.

The trio currently resides in Paris, France. The brothers Herman Düne - David-Ivar and André - cite as important influences their family home in Dalarna, Sweden (with its silence, space, and trees), the German writer Franz Jung, and the music of VU, Sebadoh and other usual suspects. The band will be playing shows stateside in support of They Go to the Woods, and made an appearance at the SxSW tradeshow in Austin.

  • Finally, a melodic yet discordant record by two Swedish brothers and a man named Omé we can all enjoy
  • Shrimper is home to Sentridoh, John Davis, the mighty Dump and Buzzsaw
  • They listen to all the right bands and promise to play all the right places
  • Gimme Scando rock!

    30-second RealAudio excerpts:

    The Right Path Lays Open Before Me
    They Go to the Woods
    By the Door of the Temple
    Heed the Wrath
    From German Streets
    I Look at You at Night
    Strange Plot
    I'll Come Back When I Come Back
    Deer Wild Baby
    For the Night
    Black Dog

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    Artist: HERMAN-DUNE, ANDRE Title: Taglich Brot - New York - Berllin
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR149
    Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
    Release
    Date:    		 10/2/06
    ***Andre Herman Dune, along with his brother David, is one of the two singer-songwriters of Herman Dune. Performing together for over ten years, the Swedish duo have recorded for a number of labels (Shrimper, Track & Field, Prohibited, Smoking Gun) and released a wealth of solo and collaborative recordings. Andre has self-released a few limited edition CDRs but Taeglich Brot is his first proper solo release.

    Recorded in Berlin over the course of a week, the album mines the same conversational, stripped-down folk of Herman Dune with a dozen songs that veer from four-piece pop to solo, acoustic torch songs. Andre will be touring throughout 2007 in support of Taeglich Brot and with Herman Dune.

    30-second MP3 excerpts:

    Everyday Bliss
    Diamonds in my Hand
    How I Feel about You
    Best Seller
    Harlem Hospital
    Crazy While
    New York Song
    Give me Some of Your Love
    Berlin Song
    Don't Let the Big Men Hurt you
    Just Improving Myself
    Birthday Song

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    Artist: JOY Title: Devil's Blues
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR146
    Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
    Release
    Date:    		 11/7/05
    ***Formed by longtime friends Daniel M. and Matt S. as an acoustic duet in 2002, Joy puts a unique spin on pop music. A little folky, a little bluesy, a little country, the band offers subtle compositions that warble beneath idiosyncratic vocals-the cornerstones of a musical relationship that spans two decades. Now a quartet, Joy makes an interesting addition to the Shrimper Records catalog.

    Their self-titled debut is a quick half-hour of deceptively simple, mostly-acoustic 4-track twangling, and remains intimate and sparse throughout. Hatred and Grief, Joy's self-released sophomore effort, integrates 8-track and studio recordings to deliver a more complex sound without compromising the DIY spirit captured in their earlier work. More conceptual than either previous release, Devil's Blues ushers in a new phase of Joy's musical development. Recorded digitally (for the most part) in the band's basement rehearsal space and at New Alliance East (Boston, MA), Shrimper's proper follow-up to Joy finds the band experimenting with instrumentation and lyrical themes. The result is a more focused, more mature work that honors the band's roots while taking a dramatic step toward its sonic future.

    To date, Joy has shared the stage with Lou Barlow, Daniel Johnston, Holopaw, the Fruit Bats, Scout Niblett. The band continues to perform throughout the Northeast, and is currently planning a tour in support of Devil's Blues in early November '05.

    Artist: JOY Title: S/T
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR133
    Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
    Release
    Date:    		 3/24/03
    ***Joy is a duo hailing from Boston, Massachusetts. Their debut CD melds idiosyncratic folk leanings with the best parts of Shrimper's two other Boston strongholds (The Secret Stars' succinct taste for pop and John Davis's otherworldly, wispy pop ruminations). Founding members Matt Savage and Daniel Madri have been playing together for over a decade, including their four years in eclectic quartet Godboy (Orange Entropy Records) and an ongoing presence in the more introspective and sonically experimental Jack McCoys (Ambiguous City Records). Vocalist Savage has been praised in the press for his ability to construct a beautiful narrative through creative manipulation of language, as well as an uncanny knack for serious yet unconventional melodic hooks, complemented by Dan Madri's equally noteworthy guitar textures and tones.

    Joy's first record offers up vulnerable and frank home recordings, for the most part is stripped of any garnish, making the songwriting the focus of this self-titled debut. The eleven songs here herald a soft, subtle return to the fundamentals of pop music. That is not to say, however, that Joy isn't above working in strategically overdubbed thuds and warbles, experiments in fidelity, and surreal lyrics.

    Joy will be performing shows on the east coast to celebrate the record's release, opening shows for Thalia Zadek, The Secret Stars, and performing some side dates on their own. There will be scattered dates across the states through the summer. Bless its tiny little head that the band's name is not "The Joy."

    Artist: JOY Title: Sailing Days
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR151
    Price: $7.75 Label: Shrimper
    Release
    Date:    		 10/23/06
    ***Sailing Days, this five-song EP from eclectic pop marvels Joy, combines elements from every stage of the band's history -- from the lo-fi, acoustic folk of the band's 2002 debut to the more complex recordings and elaborate instrumentation of more recent efforts. Recorded over three weeks both on four-track in a basement and digitally in a studio, the album adds mandolin, banjo, and cello to the usual mix of acoustic guitars, stripped-down drums and idiosyncratic vocals. Joy's dense and rich sound still retains an organic and simple feel.

    Formed by longtime friends Daniel Madri and Matt Savage, Joy began as an acoustic duo in Boston, Massachusetts, alongside other Shrimper regional powers The Secret Stars and John Davis.

    Their self-titled debut, a half-hour of folky four-track twangling, is rife with subtle compositions that showcase true songwriting talent. A self-released follow-up, Hatred and Grief, is marked by a more sophisticated country sound and a move toward higher fidelity while 2005's Devil's Blues is a more roots-oriented, bluesy effort.

    Sailing Days pulls something from each of these, achieving a mature and focused sound that honors the band's DIY roots while pointing toward its sonic future.

    30-second MP3 excerpts:

    Tiger's Paws
    Sailing Days
    Blue Light
    Hammers and Hail
    Sex
    [untitled 1]
    [untitled 2]

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    Artist: JOYNER, SIMON Title: Songs For The New Year
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR92CD
    Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
    ***Introspective Nebraskan realism via the lyrical beauty of voice, piano, organ, violin, lap steel, cello, accordion.
    Artist: JOYNER, SIMON Title: Songs For The New Year
    Format: LP Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR92
    Price: $8.25 Label: Shrimper
    Artist: LIPMAN, ADAM Title: From Your Mouth To God's Ear
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR155
    Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
    Release
    Date:    		 2/23/09
    ***A concept album that feasts on its own allusions, Adam Lipman's From Your Mouth to God's Ears was recorded in a house in Salt Lake City, Utah, under the shadow of the Mormon Temple.

    The recording session had two sides to the battle: those who had left the church, and those who had remained a part of the church. Lipman was in the middle of it all; wrestling with the warring factions of belief, compelling them to yield to the songs above all else, as he himself wrestled with God to gain his royal life, demanding the differences to be set aside for the recording session, submitting to nothing but songcraft and his unwavering totalitarian ego. The lyrics reference French director Maurice Pialat's masterpiece, A Nos Amours, Chaucer's The Epic Dandelion, and the sickeningly familiar elements of the common neurotic's daily life. The music, tailored with patience and diligence, sounds both harshly anachronistic and thoroughly, unrelentingly modern. A traditional assortment of organ, piano, drums, guitar, and bass belies the rather unconventional tone and structure of these songs.

    Spencer Kingman, who recorded the fantastic Spenking (Marriage Records), plays piano and sings on the record. Ruth Allison Dana, "Beautiful" Johnny, and Isaac Howard all put in playing duties as well.

    Lipman has toured with a plethora of different musical acts (Little Wings, The Blow, tropical hip-hop group Quem Quaeritis) and has shared bills with Ponytail, Viking Moses, and Yacht, among others. His previous album Feathered Palm Trees (Folk Tale Records) was the number one most played new album on KDVS, Davis, CA, and in the top ten at KSPC, Claremont, CA.

    30-second MP3 excerpts:

    Her Life Under Our Roof
    Some Faces
    To Our Loves
    Painting On Wood
    The Pleasure To Lean
    Here, By Love, I Mean Reciprocal Torture
    Both Sundays
    Leave Me Alone
    On Knees In Pairs
    A Pleasant Condescending
    Love Is Lord

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    Artist: MONTESSOURI Title: Infinity Land
    Format: MC Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR88
    Price: $3.85 Label: Shrimper
    Artist: MOUNTAIN GOATS Title: Beautiful Rat Sunset
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR99
    Price: $8.25 Label: Shrimper
    Release
    Date:    		 6/12/96

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    Artist: MOUNTAIN GOATS Title: Sweden
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR68CD
    Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper

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    Artist: NEAR CASTLEGAR Title: In January
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR72
    Price: $8.25 Label: Shrimper

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    Artist: NOTHING PAINTED BLUE Title: Taste The Flavor
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR147
    Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
    Release
    Date:    		 11/7/05
    ***Taste The Flavor, Nothing Painted Blue's sixth full-length, brings together the veteran Inland Empire trio for 13 songs that are louder, looser, and stranger than their previous reputation. Recorded at Tucson, Arizona's famed Wavelab by Craig Schumacher (Giant Sand, Calexico, Neko Case), most of the disc emphasizes performance and feel over elaborately overdubbed arrangements - opener "One Who Fell" and epic closer "Swansong" capture the band's confident interactions as well as any studio recording can.

    This is NPB's least restrained and most varied album, ranging from the touching pop ("Back in Town," with Schumacher's harmonica solo) and angular speedballs ("Emphasis") you'd expect, though a Stones-y riff-rocker ("A Longer Leash," complete with cowbell), and an acoustic dub excursion ("Dry Spell"). Frontman Franklin Bruno's sharp-witted lyrics and emotionally engaged vocals are still in place, but they're augmented by newfound guitar firepower, and tough, no-bullshit rhythm arrangements by drummer Kyle Brodie and bassist Peter Hughes.

    Nothing Painted Blue can play fast and loose with the indie-rock rulebook - and even throw it out, when they like - because they helped write it. They've released albums and singles on several of key '90s labels - Scat/Matador, ShimmyDisc/KokoPop, Simple Machines, and current home Shrimper -- and have shared bills with everyone from Beck to Tortoise, from Beat Happening to The Jesus Lizard. Formed in 1987 by Upland High School buddies Bruno and Brodie, plus original bassist Mike Neelon, they released A Baby, A Blanket, A Packet of Seeds in 1990 on their own Jupa Records, followed by several seven-inches by themselves and their friends (WCKR SPGT, Refrigerator). Joey Burns (later of Calexico, and still NPB's Tucson connection) took over for Neelon in 1991, appearing on Power Trips Down Lovers' Lane, the band's best known album, and many of the singles ("Swivelchair," "Another Child Bride") collected on 1996's Emotional Discipline. Hughes succeeded Burns in1993; Mike Neelon returned briefly as lead guitarist for the band's previous album, The Monte Carlo Method, and a 1998 tour.

    This is NPB's first major release since then - but they haven't been slackers in the interim. Franklin has released two discs of his solo work, with more on the way, as well as collaborations with The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle (The Extra Glenns' Martial Arts Weekend) and Tsunami's Jenny Toomey (Tempting). (Not to mention his recent book on Elvis Costello's Armed Forces in Continuum Books' popular "33 1/3" series.) Peter Hughes is also a full member of The Mountain Goats, touring extensively and performing on three acclaimed albums for 4AD (including this year's The Sunset Tree, on which Franklin also guests). Kyle is often part of Franklin's "solo" recordings and performances; he's also a new parent, and a Deputy Attorney General for the State of California.

    Artist: REFRIGERATOR Title: Bottles Of Make Up
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR148
    Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
    Release
    Date:    		 1/8/07
    ***Bottles of Make Up, the latest from Refrigerator, was recorded in Shrimper CEO Dennis Callaci's living room over a weekend in August, 2006. The album features twelve originals with Franklin Bruno (Nothing Painted Blue, The Mountain Goats) on piano.

    While the quartet's previous record, Upstairs in Your Room, squealed and squalled through two-minute rock workouts in the style of the group's early years, their newest has no electric instrumentation at all. Cohesive both musically and thematically, Bottles of Make Up is far from lo-fi / no-fi affectation. There is no multi-tracked, muddled mix to get lost in: all the songs were lovingly recorded directly onto two-inch analog tape. With doffs of the cap to artists such as A.P. Carter, Tim Buckley, Nina Simone, Need New Body and Elton John, the record lovingly traverses the same perverse gamut.

    Still, Refrigerator avoids the prog leanings of Buckley or the Kiki Dee action of John. Instead, Bottles of Make Up plays like the quieter moments of their first record rendered on a less crowded canvas. The band will be doing "guerrilla" shows at bowling alleys and donut shops with Kimya Dawson in early 2007, later joining Shrimper label-mate Simon Joyner on a small jaunt up the coast.

    Artist: REFRIGERATOR Title: Comedy Minus One
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR128
    Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
    Release
    Date:    		 10/8/01
    ***A stripped-down acoustic record with strings and bows wrapped around mistreated pianos and dobros, Comedy Minus One continues in the direction of Refrigerator's previous record from 1999 Glitter Jazz. Recorded by Steve Folta at the Callaci compound over the course of two years, the band was able to lay the shit down and cut the floor up without removing any stitches, leaving well over 30 songs on the recording studio room floor. Freshness assured! The band will tour the North and Southwest in late fall 2001, and follow that with East Coast dates in 2002.

    No other California band captures the poignant raw emotion and pure spirit of indie pop better than Refrigerator, who have the unique ability of supplanting upbeat homemade melodies with deeply emotional and sometimes deeply disturbing lyrics - which could stand on their own as fragmented poems of personal tragedy and repair. With their music they become indelible masterpieces of redefined elegance to pop indie quintessence.

      -Green Mountain
    Artist: REFRIGERATOR Title: Glitter Jazz
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR113CD
    Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
    Release
    Date:    		 9/27/99
    ***Glitter Jazz is Refrigerator's fourth album, their first new material in over two years. As all ornamental horticulturists know Daniel Brodo stands tall next to his upright bass, Chris Jones mans the drums, and the Callaci-Brother magic takes care of the rest (merch booth, lightshow, security-you know, the parts you remember). On these 11 songs, Refrigerator shares the spotlight with several jazz legends such as Franklin Bruno, Ph.D., of Nothing Painted Blue, Jodi of Shrimper recording artists Secret Stars, Ira and Georgia of Mr. Show collaborators Yo La Tengo, Karle Runge the European, and John Davis of the Folk Implosion.

    Refrigerator will tour the west coast extensively with Shrimper recording artist Dump in October; an east coast tour is also slated for January. Word jockeys rarely hesitate to tell the world what they make of new Refrigerator albums. One Popwatch writer, a stilt-wearing son of a gun whose posse calls him Steve B., championed the Callaci modus operandi and went so far as to hope that they "stick to it for what may be most of the rest of my life; namely inquisitive, self-abasing, grainy vocals, dirty cardboardy drums, desolation, and pathos." Puncture magazine sent firebrand anti-hiss scribe Bill Meyer after Refrigerator, whom he praised for "parting the curtain of murk and bringing their tunes into focus. Refrigerator's songs are built of strong stuff and stave off the creative bankruptcy that threaten foreclosure on indie rock." In a word, wow. Wow.

    Artist: REFRIGERATOR Title: S/T
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR101CD
    Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
    Release
    Date:    		 10/13/97
    ***Freed from contractual non-obligations to their previous label, the dream continues. San Dimas power-nonviolence trio goes the distance once more.

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    Artist: REFRIGERATOR Title: S/T
    Format: LP Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR101
    Price: $8.25 Label: Shrimper
    Release
    Date:    		 10/13/97
    Artist: REFRIGERATOR Title: Somehow
    Format: CDEP Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR97
    Price: $7.75 Label: Shrimper
    ***Five songs; four not on the self-titled 1997 opus. Clocking in at five minutes and employing every last one of Bob Durkee's 16 tracks (get used to it), "Somehow" is the most revelatory track on the aforementioned album. Durkee and Buckethead guest.

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    Artist: REFRIGERATOR Title: Upstairs In Your Room
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 SHR144CD
    Price: $12.00 Label: Shrimper
    Release
    Date:    		 10/4/04
    ***Refrigerator's seventh album in their tenth year as a band returns to the rusted-out, Peavey-drenched feedback of their earlier records on the Communion label with eleven new songs recorded over two years by Steve Folta at his Junket studio, including compositions written during the band's European tour in 2003. Besides touring with Sebadoh in fall '04, Allen and Dennis Callaci, Chris Jones, and Daniel Brodo will be doing guerilla dates at comedy clubs up and down the West Coast. What does the record sound like? Busted up soda pop through a shorting-out vending machine, thumbnail sketches in the vein of a lowbrow Ray Davies or upper end David Cassidy. That's right, file next to their contemporaries Smog, The Piltones, and Dump.

    The packaging includes an extensive mini-magazine touching upon issues ranging from spotting Stevie Nicks at the local Stop & Shop to Peter Jennings rescinding his newfound American citizenship. No joke.