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While supplies last, bundle Pleasure is the Headlight with our new split 7" with Liam Grant.
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we will be running a special promotion pairing the 2XLP of Pleasure is theHeadlight with a painting by artist Emily Keown, who did the artwork for Pleasure is the Headlight, as well as Tilling the Soil, Black Earth Hymns, and more.
Now, you can also opt to buy just one of her paintings as well.
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For a limited time you can buy both Pleasure is the Headlight and Pelt's Reticence/Resistance for a discounted price of just 40$.
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Limited, Double LP (white Cover) and Painting
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We will be running a special promotion pairing the 2XLP with a painting by artist Emily Keown, who did the artwork for Pleasure is the Headlight, as well as Tilling the Soil, Black Earth Hymns, and more.
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Spiral Joy Band: Pleasure is the Headlight
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Release Date: 06/08/2009
"Featuring two members of the most excellent Pelt, the Spiral Joy Band swells forth from Blacksburg, Virginia, with a follow up to their album Wake of the Dying Sun King on VHF Records. This double LP set features recordings from two eras of the Spiral Joy Band. The first is from 2005, the second 2007. A cacophony of gongs, bowls, bells, chimes, electronics, fiddle, bowed cymbals, esraj, harmonium, sruti and electronics played by Mikel Dimmick, Michael Gangloff, Amy Shea and Nathan Bowles, along with a guest or two, here and there. Pleasure Is The Headlight features 5 tracks in total spread over 4 sides. The first three being long trance inducing meditations recorded in Blacksburg and Ironto. The fourth side features unique recordings, the first is a solo wind chime performance recorded in a gift shop, featuring the murmur of confused patrons and what is likely some truly wonderful AM radio piped in over the store's stereo system. The second track is a slow hazy day at the beach, with gongs, seagulls, and the gentle roar of the ocean. Pressed on 180 gram black vinyl and limited to about 400 copies, this album comes in a custom gatefold jacket with letter pressed cover art and silk screened inside art." - UZU
Physical copy of the 2XLP available at uzuaudio.com
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released November 29, 2018
Spiral Joy Band: Mike Gangloff, Nathan Bowles, Mikel Dimmick, and guests
Sides 1, 2 recorded XYZ Gallery, Blacksburg, Va., Jan. 8, 2005.
Side 3 recorded Ironto, Va., June 2007.
Side 4 recorded March 2007, Asheville, N.C. (I), and June 2007, Ocracoke, N.C. (II).
supported by 19 fans who also own “Pleasure is the Headlight”
Long-form trance-y rhythmic jams, with a fun shambling edge, sounding like a cross between music from Africa's Sahel region crossed with a Tom Waits instrumental... Jascha Narveson
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The wonderful performances of the group are elevated by the absolutely gorgeous production. The mix is perfect, lively and full, but not overproduced. It sounds like I'm right there with the Pickers. hagbardcelinedion
William Ryan Fritch's enthralling, doomy new CD comes housed in a gorgeous, panoramic gatefold sleeve with bewitching original artwork. Bandcamp New & Notable May 16, 2016
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Bright gray sheets of roaring and shimmering guitar held aloft by a delicate web of percussion. Post-rock, shoegaze, psych- rock and hints of bluesy folk, all audible and enmeshed. IlsaJ
