FRIENDSHIP BRACELET CLUB VOLUME 2

That's right, it's been another few months of participation and anticipation and Volume 2 of the Friendship Bracelet Club series is now ready for your consumption, enjoyment and general listening pleasure. Thanks to all the bands/dudes that sent over tunes for this volume, it's a real honor to be able to distribute all this fine music digitally in addition to the first fine batch of songs I brought to you last Summer.

However, on this go-around you will have the opportunity to physically acquire a little piece of Friendship to call your own - I have taken it upon myself to create hand-made sleeves for a run of 100 CDRs, available for a small fee. The sleeves are made of 100% Baseball Cards and paint, recycled products from a childhood of hoarding away small pieces of cardboard in Reebok shoe boxes. Hey, it's the middle of the Fall Classic after all. I'll have a Paypal up eventually, but until then any and all orders will have to be check or money in the U.S. Mail. Email me at iprnelson@gmail.com for details.

Here's a tracklist + quick blurbs bout the songs:

1. Forest Swords - Sister (Rough Demo). Spacious plod from summits of misty mountains to the dankest of dank sewers, "Sister" sets a downlow Autumnal vibe far removed from our dearly departed summer of beaches and babes. Think more along the lines of discovering a cult pentagram carved into an ancient tree in the middle of the woods. And you're alone.

2. matthewdavid - No Need to Worry. Dude runs Leaving Records, is associated with dublab, creates generally mind-boggling and dissociative beat productions intent on confusion, dissection, speculation. This offering bubbles up but never quite boils, instead lending more to the imagination than to a clear understanding. But do not fret.

3. Wild Safari - Vitamins A & C. Another quick trip into the outer reaches of space and time, Wild Safari acquaints us with an even less certain existence, that of a blurry descent down such waterways as irrigation canals, streams, brooks. Not babbling brooks. Silent streams. Sleepy, floating bliss into the abyss.

4. Julian Lynch, Jessica Calvanico and Gregory Campanile - Basement Jam. By now you know Julian Lynch and you know that he will create chill vibes so devastating you'll never want to leave. On this "Jam" he collaborated with Jessica and Gregory, two partners who seem to radiate a similar gaseous aura. Been stashed away since 2007.

5. More Bikini Babes - Fishing With My Dad. Influences include Mr. Lynch, James Ferraro and Predator Vision so you know the groove'll sway stoney and true. Though the song's sad it's certainly hopeful as well, I mean, since there's bound to be more bikini babes next summer.

6. Screen Gems - All the Fun We Had. I presented one track from Screen Gems a bit ago and here is the other, another down-tempo-yet-hopeful dirge brightened by its sunrise chorus. Can't beat friends.

7. Rangers - These Things. A Rangers song with words. Yeah, words. And it's just a few minutes long, not a huge half-hour mix like Low Cut Fades. Can't wait for his next record on Olde English Spelling Bee, which is supposed to have more "song-length" songs like this one, though this jam is a bit older.

8. Speculator - We Don't Give a Shit. A rough cut, yes, but a rad cut nonetheless. Expect more great things. On some Peter Gabriel shit.

9. Dem Hunger - Horrible Arsehole. Glitched and fucked beat shit from one of my favorite sonic purveyors of the year. Expect great things comin up from this man.

10. Tonstartssbandht - Black Country (Demo). You heard this track before from these guys' An When CD. This is the first version before they really wrote all the words, "just total emotion" according to Edwin. Check out their new music, it's rad.

11. Tan Dollar - Epic Mana. New track from these dudes that they're been playing live, not that I've seen em live (they doin the West Coast up hard). Turns into some massive, buzzing Goliath at its climax, puttering out after a few minutes of pulsating repetition.

12. Big Troubles - Wouldn't Mind (Demo). Here's a demo from Big Troubles' new/first LP, out soon on Olde English Spelling Bee. Raucous beer pop shred shit.

13. Byrds of Paradise - Bag of Plantains. "Slop Pop" jam from upcoming Hearts of Palm tape, out so so soon via yours truly.

14. Weed Diamond - Year Culture (Agressive Edition). This version of the song will not appear on an upcoming tape on Leftist Nautical Antiques, but a different version will, so here's the lil sneakpeek exclusive for ya.

15. Pure Ecstasy - Pressure Drop. Cover of the fantastic Toots & the Maytals song. You seen this out there. If not, it's gospel-tinged like all their other jams and breezy.

16. Jen Paul - Muerte O Casamiento Durmiente. Lonely instrumental cowboy ballad. Sounds like the desolate plain, wheat swaying in the very slight prairie wind.





Friendship Bracelet Club Volume 2 - FREE DOWNLOAD