New From Enemies List

...Dweller In The Dark (love the Lovecraft reference) releases their self titled debut album via Enemies List. Here is some anecdotal bits about the album.

When I first heard Dweller on the Threshold’s self-titled debut album, I did the same. Throw the record on. Leave the desk to do something else. The music started: a lone guitar, in an echo chamber. I came back. I stood in front of the computer. I listened.
I sat down. I listened some more. I listened to the entire record, front to back, then started it over and listened to it again.

Who were these people? Where the hell did this come from?

The musical pedigree is certainly there. The ever-shifting membership features ex-members of death to tyrants, daniel striped tiger, and the toll, recorded by will killingsworth (ampere, orchid, bucketful of teeth, etc), all Western Massachusetts legends. Even the way the band is constructed – a rotating line-up of 8 friends scattered all over the East Coast – played it’s part, keeping the compositions varied, fresh, but unified throughout the whole of the album.

As for the music – it was brooding, but not overwhelming, gloomy but not depressing, lots of echoes and reverberations and a feeling of wide open spaces that reminded me more of the American midwest than any recent country or western music ever had. This is music for the Great Plains, or maybe Space, like the nebula featured on the album’s cover. Even the interplay of the instruments, loosely draped over one another, leisurely taking their time as they progress from minimalist and wistful to crushing, soaring, triumphant, contributes to that feeling of everything spreading out in front of you, a whole vista of emptiness opening up.

That’s an experience you sit down for.

Vinyl is limited to I believe 200 copies.

Go here for a variety of ordering options including a pay what you want download.

Check Out Sleep In

I was introduced to Sleep In via Enemies List last year, and seriously, this is awesome. Take a listen, and if you are so moved... download the album and throw him some money to keep making music.

Flowers Of St. Francis Volume I...

...is now up for order (the subscriptions to the series are all gone, but EL is offering all 5 individually). The brain child of Tim Macuga (Have A Nice Life), Flowers of ST Francis is another animal entirely apart from his other musical force.

Sprawling, claustrophobic, expansive, distorted, mangled, droning, recorded on an 8-track with an analog synth and a creaking old piano, Macuga has managed to craft a series of moving, intimate compositions that seem to crawl from the speakers.

This is music for music's sake - music made for those who truly appreciate and wish to experience music in its pure form. In other words, it ain't party music - it's the closest thing to classical we've ever released, if you can call stream-of-consciousness dronescapes and crackling, echoey organs, choirs, and disembodied fuzz classical. We can, and do. This shit is an experience like no other. I have literally never heard anything like this, and neither have you.

Part of a Super-limited series of 5 E.Ps. Cassette only. Features original artwork from illustrator Caralai Fitzgibbon. Check out more of her work here.

Order the cassette here

Flowers Of St Francis Subscription Quick Update

The subscriptions for the Flowers Of St. Francis cassette tape series are all sold out. I will post info about the 50 single copies when more info is released.

Flowers Of St. Francis Subscription Cassette Series

Enemies List is doing something pretty damn cool with the Flowers of St. Francis release.



From the label:

Here, in the first-ever ENEMIES LIST subscription series, we present the FLOWERS OF SAINT FRANCIS: the aphasic, four-track rabbit hole confessionals of Tim Macuga (of HAVE A NICE LIFE and Nahvalr).


Sprawling, claustrophobic, expansive, distorted, mangled, droning, recorded on an 8-track with an analog synth and a creaking old piano, Macuga has managed to craft a series of moving, intimate compositions that seem to crawl from the speakers.

This is music for music's sake - music made for those who truly appreciate and wish to experience music in its pure form. In other words, it ain't party music - it's the closest thing to classical we've ever released, if you can call stream-of-consciousness dronescapes and crackling, echoey organs, choirs, and disembodied fuzz classical. We can, and do. This shit is an experience like no other. I have literally never heard anything like this, and neither have you.

Super-limited series of 5 E.Ps. Cassette only. Subscribe to the series, get all 5 as they appear over the course of the next 12 months. Hand-crafted artwork and messages from the artist. Get the entire series for less than buying each individual tape. ELHR Completists, I'm looking at you.

Only 50 spots are available for subscription. 50 copies will then be made available for separate purchase. Grab a spot while they exist.

Sound Awesome? Order here

Less than 25 subscriptions left at this point.

Giles Corey Pre-orders

This is a little late as the extra special super pre-order version of this is gone, but this record and book will be completely worth it regardless of the magnificent nerdery of said pre-order package. Giles Corey is the solo project of one Dan Barrett (current Have A Nice Life, ex-In Pieces) and this is the first official release of the Giles Corey material.

Some info from Enemies List:

"Sometime in the Spring of 2009 I tried to kill myself. Six months before that, I used a Voor’s Head Device for the first time."

This line opens the 150-page book that accompanies Giles Corey, an intensely personal, intimate portrait of depression that took me almost 4 years to make.

We've called this "acoustic music from the industrial revolution," and that's as good as anything. Dominated by the acoustic guitar, the music is a gloomy mixture of Americana influences, snippets of EVP recordings, ghostly choirs and deep, heavy organ. It ranges from very dark to triumphant, hushed quiet to crashingly loud.

The album follows a story arc of emotions that are detailed in the accompanying book, as much a part of this record as the music. The text switches between personal tales of struggles with depression, suicide, and a feeling of being lost, and the story of cult-leader and afterlife theorist Robert Voor. Voor's writings on death and the afterlife feature prominently across HAVE A NICE LIFE's "Deathconsciousness," Nahvalr's self-titled debut, and Giles Corey, making him the unifying factor behind most of the music I've written in the last 10 years.

This record is as personal and raw as anything I've ever done. Thank you for your interest.

Order now as it seems to be going extremely fast.

Mamaleek Pre-Orders Are Up

Enemies List has launched pre-orders for Mamaleek's Kurdaitcha on LP which will be limited to just 150 copies on heavy duty vinyl (?) with Foil Stamped covers. This should be awesome.

Go pick this record up here

Oh yeah go to Mamaleek's artist page here, where you can download the whole record on a pay what you want basis.