This Dismal Village ( APPLE RED VINYL ) - Vinyl LP (Red)
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- Vinyl Format: Vinyl LP
- Release Date: 04-24-2026
- Label: Exploding in Sound
- Genre: Rock
- Color: Red
Track List
- Another Mystery
- Glutton's Coupon
- Airs of the Sledgehammered
- This Dismal Village
- An Honest Film
- Took Blest
- Kings in Bed
- Watching the Soothsayers
- We Don't Need This Song
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Venturing into "a limbo world between medieval tropes and modern-day decay", New Orleans musician Urq (half of art punk duo Spllit) returns with a new solo offering. Recorded over a single, intense month, This Dismal Village is a homespun document that sits somewhere between jittery punk, dreary psychedelia, and hooky bedroom pop. Recorded to 4-track, the record embraces limitation as a creative engine, resulting in a sound that is raw, unsettled, and deeply atmospheric. The album is set not in a fixed point in time or geography, but a liminal environment where dystopic visions and archaic fixtures exist side by side. In the dismal village, kings and witches share space with televisions, skyscrapers, and modern enterprise; organ fanfares echo down streets populated by disgruntled townsfolk and whispered gossip. It is simultaneously the dark ages, 1950s suburbia, and a 21st-century metropolis. Embracing anachronism was central to the project's identity, an attempt to collapse history into a single, uneasy present.Sonically and philosophically, the album sits firmly in the tradition of rough and raw cassette rock. Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand looms large as an influence, particularly it's ability to build an entire world through unpolished, first-take recordings. Robert Pollard's idea of the "four P's" (psych, punk, prog, and pop) serves as a neat summary of the artist's musical instincts and each element can be traced right through the heart of This Dismal Village. Further inspiration comes from post-punk's so-called "Calgary Sound," a loose movement blending psych pop, post-punk, and math/prog elements with a home-recorded, unpretentious ethos. The result is an album that unrolls like a place wandered through, uneasy, occasionally familiar, and impossible to pin down in time. All captured on tape before it could disappear like an apparition, like a dream only half-remembered.
- Vinyl Format: Vinyl LP
- Release Date: 04-24-2026
- Label: Exploding in Sound
- Genre: Rock
- Color: Red
Track List
- Another Mystery
- Glutton's Coupon
- Airs of the Sledgehammered
- This Dismal Village
- An Honest Film
- Took Blest
- Kings in Bed
- Watching the Soothsayers
- We Don't Need This Song
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