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AIMS Marketing Program/ Featured Titles Promoted This Week:

Boris – Heavy Rocks [Reissue/2002] CD/2xLP (Third Man)

Formed in 1992, Boris boldly explores their own vision of heavy music, where words like “explosive” and “thunderous” barely do justice. Using overpowering soundscapes embellished with copious amounts of lighting and billowing smoke, Boris has shared with audiences across the planet an experience for all five senses in their concerts, earning legions of zealous fans along the way. This is the highly requested, unbelievably anticipated official vinyl release of Boris’s 2002 album and first dive into the stoner rock idiom, originally released in Japan on CD only. Heavy Rocks (2002) is heavy, sure, but fuses sludge, noise, stoner rock and hardcore all together for a deeply bone-shaking and unforgettable trip. For fans of: Melvins, Kyuss, Fu Manchu. [An indie store exclusive yellow color vinyl pressing is available.]

Tyler Childers – Rustin’ In The Rain CD/LP (RCA)

Rustin’ In the Rain is the eagerly anticipated new album from singer-songwriter Tyler Childers. This collection of new songs is Childers’ sixth studio album, and the follow up to his critically acclaimed release Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?. Rustin’ In the Rain is produced by Childers alongside his longtime band The Food Stamps, and the album features the heartfelt single “In Your Love”, which Tyler first teased to fans earlier in 2023 during his Bonnaroo Music Festival performance. [An indie store exclusive green color vinyl pressing is available.]

Yussef Dayes – Black Classical Music CD/2xLP (Nonesuch)

Multi-instrumentalist Yussef Dayes delivers his highly anticipated debut solo studio album, Black Classical Music, which comes introduced by the title track “Black Classical Music”, featuring Venna and Charlie Stacey. Dayes’ drum licks and Rocco Palladino’s bass are the anchors to Dayes’ nineteen-track debut, aided by Charlie Stacey (keys/synths), Venna (saxophone), Alexander Bourt (percussion), and a host of features including: Chronixx, Masego, Jamilah Barry, Tom Misch, Elijah Fox, Shabaka Hutchings, Miles James, Sheila Maurice Grey, Nathaniel Cross, Theon Cross, and the Chineke! Orchestra – the first professional orchestra in Europe to be made up of majority Black and ethnically diverse musicians. [An indie store exclusive white color vinyl pressing is available.]

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AIMS Marketing Program/ Featured Titles Promoted This Week:

Frankie & The Witch Fingers – Data Doom CD/LP/Cassette (Ras/Greenway)

There’s long been a growl festering in the West, an earthen rumble fed by tectonic tension, acrid smoke, and sun-parched air. The brew has boiled over lately, a pressure-cooked chaos that can no longer be contained. The growl has grown to a howl… the howl is at the door. Few are as ready to meet the madness head on as Frankie and the Witch Fingers. On their new album Data Doom, the band hurtles the listener headfirst into the wood-chipper of technological dystopia, systemic rot, creeping fascism, the military-industrial profit mill, and a near-constant erosion of humanity that peels away the soul bit by bit. With a fuse lit by these modern-day monstrosities the band seeks to find salvation through a thousand-watt wake-up of rock ‘n’ roll exfoliation. [An indie store exclusive translucent orange color vinyl pressing is available.]

Islands – And That’s Why Dolphins Lost Their Legs CD/LP (Elf)

If Islands’ last record, (2021’s Islomania) was a Saturday Night Fever dream, then the follow up – 2023’s And That’s Why Dolphins Lost Their Legs – is the Sunday Morning comedown. Taking a giant leap forward, replete with addictive hooks at every turn, Dolphins (the ninth record in the catalogue), stands out as the strongest and most articulate Islands record yet. Nick Thorburn and crew manage to tap into both the pain and the joy of living, (sometimes within the very same breath), while musically stripping things down to their simplest element: a bouncing bassline, a snappy kick and snare, or a persistent, hooky guitar line. Though Dolphins is arguably their biggest musical departure (which is saying something, coming from a band that has constantly reinvented their sound from album to album), the DNA of Thorburn’s first band The Unicorns can clearly be heard throughout. [A limited-edition red color vinyl pressing is available.]

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