Grand Trine - Sunglasses 12" (Pre-order)
The Sunglasses EP finds Montreal's leather clad, psych delinquents Grand Trine injecting the energy of rock with the liberating sonic adventurism of the avant-garde. They do it with violence, piss, life, bleakness and primitivism. And they do it well. Led by agitated frontman Tobias Rochman (formerly of Be Bad) and featuring free jazz sax player Cabral Jacobs, this 5 song EP captures that primal four-on-the-floor frenzy epitomized by proto-punk outfits like the Stooges, MC5, Electric Eels, and early Velvet Underground, bands that lit the spark for the initial punk movement. >>more

 

Grand Trine - Sunglasses 12" (Pre-order)
The Sunglasses EP finds Montreal's leather clad, psych delinquents Grand Trine injecting the energy of rock with the liberating sonic adventurism of the avant-garde. They do it with violence, piss, life, bleakness and primitivism. And they do it well. Led by agitated frontman Tobias Rochman (formerly of Be Bad) and featuring free jazz sax player Cabral Jacobs, this 5 song EP captures that primal four-on-the-floor frenzy epitomized by proto-punk outfits like the Stooges, MC5, Electric Eels, and early Velvet Underground, bands that lit the spark for the initial punk movement. Grand Trine have been riding a hot streak that shows no sign of letting up. This 12" is easily the next best thing to watching these guys bleed it out in some sweaty Montreal loft. Grab a copy while you can. Recorded by Graham Van Pelt (Think About Life/Miracle Fortress) and David Bryant (Godspeed! You Black Emperor) on 2-inch tape. Mastered by Seth Smith (Dog Day). Edition of 600. The first 100 pre-orders receive a free copy of the 2006 Be Bad/Attack Mode 7" (recently listed by the Coast as one of the top ten Halifax 7 inches of the last 20 years). Ships by the end of February.
 

Listen: I am a magnet
Price: $10.00

Noveller/Aidan Baker - Colorful Disturbances LP
Guitars warped so hard they dissolve into pure consciousness! Seriously, this record had to happen because these two are the NOW of transcendental guitar weirdness. In families like ours where deformed music of one kind or another pours out of the speakers all day long, Toronto's Aidan Baker is a household name. He is no doubt one of the most imaginative experimental musicians of the new generation, quickly creating a universe of limitless sound with his bursting discography. He offers this record an extensive piece which mixes drone, texture, and an ever-bowing foundation -- imagine the sound of falling backwards... forever. The new blood on this split is guitarist Sarah Lipstate from Brooklyn, New York (aka Noveller). Sarah's prepared twin guitar works up a slow hypnotic force, gently pulling way out to the furthest deep end of pulses and patterns. Beautiful repetitions effortlessly skirt over a dark undercurrent. A+++ listen. Edition of 600 copies. 

"Colorful Disturbances pairs a side-long piece by Torontonian Aidan Baker with Brooklyn, New York-based Sarah Lipstate who contributes two spectral settings under the Noveller name using nothing more than electric guitar, voice, and tape player for gear. Her pieces—fifteen minutes in total—are atmospheric formations of powerful design. Graceful picking brings “Under the Color Cave” to life, after which Lipstate augments its suspended motion with slow-burning tendrils that deepen and darken the track's meditative mood without destroying the balance. As hypnotic in its slow unfurl of shuddering pulses and spacey warble, “White Rabbit” plunges further down the rabbit hole when Lipstate's distorted voice surfaces near the track's end. Baker's side-long “Disturbances Part 1 & 2” hovers overhead like an immense black cloud, its droning, wave-like shudder a pointillistic, Rorschach scrim on the surface of which shimmering micro-melodies dart hither and yon." Textura.org

Listen: Noveller: White Rabit (Excerpt) / Under the color cave (Exc.) | Baker: Disturbances (Exc.)
Price: $12.00

Dog Day - Elder Schoolhouse 12" (6 copies left)
These odd duck popsters sound totally sizzled on this new 12 inch 45. Side A is a collection of tunes rolled-up earlier this year at Rick White's Elder Schoolhouse studio. It includes a late night number written by Mr. White especially for his Halifax guests. Flip it over, and the entire B side takes a hazy journey lead by infinite guitar, starting with an ending and answering only to that most distant call. Dig? 5 songs - 26:55 minutes | Edition of 400 copies.

"Damn, I love this band. Dog Day linked up with its spiritual forebear, Rick White – whose work with Eric's Trip and Elevator has obviously had a profound influence on the young Halifax quartet – for a few wild days of recording in the country last March, yielding a creepy, slightly tripped-out five-song companion to this year's wicked Concentration album. White has drawn out the more unsettling elements of the band's grimly propulsive post-punk sound, but the melodies are as strong and as memorable as ever. Until you get to the second side, which is a 10-minute experimental noise freakout unlike anything Dog Day has tried before and, perhaps, an intriguing portent of things to come from what is, for my money, the most exciting Canadian act of the moment. Just 400 copies out there on vinyl only. Get your ass to Rotate This before they're gone." Toronto Star
 

Listen: Synastry
Price: $10.00

Shearing Pinx - Weaponry LP
Divorce was so pleased with how Shearing Pinx delivered on the Haruspex 7" last year that we decided to up the ante considerably and release a double LP in two parts. In return the Pinx have gone all in with the new material.  Weaponry pt. 1 is a mountain that will remain visible in the sea of astounding, bizarre releases Shearing Pinx have been pouring for the last half decade. It is made clear from the first moments of the opening track; the Vancouver trio has been committed here to tape while in rare form.  This LP sets up a classic, demento-tuned twin guitar battle where a nonchalant vocal delivery squares off against the drum set’s muscular fake jazz-jizz-isms. William S. Burroughs used a shotgun to create paintings. Shearing Pinx use musical instruments to wound and maim. Tunes for the unglued.  Artwork by Rick White of Eric's Trip / Elevator / Rick White Album. Edition of 600.

"Fans of Lee and Thurston’s twin guitar attack, early East Village no wave and the haymaker bludgeoning of locals AIDS Wolf are going to want to jump all over this. On this first installment of their two-stage assault, Weaponry (the second volume is on the way), these noise nerds bare their fangs and draw blood every step of the way. Only 600 copies pressed on wax, so better be nimble on this one." Montreal Mirror

Listen: Battery Born | Selfish acts
Price: $12.00

Chris d'Eon / Omon Ra - S/T C30 (SOLD OUT!!)
Chris d'Eon recently renounced his post as ranter for Halifax's noise punk band Dead Hookers to dedicate his time to heady, psychedelic world music. His songs are a tasteful appropriation of exotic drones and jams meant for the outer realms. On the flip side, Omon Ra play laid back psych that mixes the band's Krautrock obsessions with their way-stoned pop sensibility. Two of my favorite Halifax projects right now. Edition of 100.

"Nova Scotia’s Omon Ra and Quebec’s Chris d’Eon meet for a woozy, Eastern-tinged
psych hoedown. And we’re all winners. Omon sound like a commune stumbling happily
through poppy fields in Afghanistan. Chris’s side started off reminding me of a one man
take on Ummagumma, until it becomes more Quintessence-like. Good drugs? Yes, indeed." Byron Coley, The Wire
 

Listen: It's So Good To See You All Again
Price: SOLD OUT

Flat Denial - S/T C25 (SOLD OUT!!)
Flat Denial is the solo black metal project of Jordan Hines (Vennt). Imagine an angry, severely abused prisoner in some screwed up third world jail. Give him a four track, a buzzsaw bass, and a drum machine. Hop the guy up on speed, then put him in solitary confinement until an album comes out. That's what this sounds like to me. I worry about the guy, but the tape is fantastic. Edition of 60 copies.

"Raw black metal with a drum machine and solid state amp. The recording has a cold, mechanical feel, which sums up the nature of the music. FLAT DENIAL would serve as a convincing soundtrack to being lost in an icy forest when all you're wearing is a T-shirt, and you know that you'd better find your way to warmth or the hypothermia will get you." MAXIMUMROCKNROLL

Listen: Track 1
Price: SOLD OUT

Husband & Knife - More of Them (Than Us) C30 (SOLD OUT!!)
Husband & Knife recently became a duo with the addition of multi-instrumentalist Evan Cardwell. Evan's electronic dreamscapes and backwards guitars have helped KC realize his ambitions for tripped-out space in which to lay his songs. To celebrate the new marriage, Evan and KC decided to release this cassette only EP. The album is a heavy listen, utilising a mix of doped-out sounds and real-world song writing. Edition of 140 copies.

"Halifax Nova Scotia’s KC Spidle (of indie popsters Dog Day), joined by Evan Cardwell in an expansionist move for what was previously a solo project. The sound hasn’t changed all that much – just widened its ass a bit. This is melancholic modern volk underlaid with an anger recalling some of the old demos cut by Peter Laughner, crossed with Steve Wynn’s pre-Dream Syndicate work with 15 Minutes. Very solid." Byron Coley, The Wire
 

Listen: On the Sketch
Price: SOLD OUT

Gown - The Old Line LP
Andrew MacGregor may be most known for his otherworldly guitar collaboration with Thurston Moore in Bark Haze, but his solo work as Gown is equally cosmic. The Old Line is avant-garde guitar music for deep listening and coming undone. A weird meditation. Sprawling webs of guitar ambience and outsider mantras capture an ethereal solitude– the sparse Nova Scotian landscapes that Gown now calls home reflected in the texture of his music. This is noise that sounds like a sky of birds settling into the trees for a night away from the wind. Edition of 500 copies.

"The Old Line is dense; a desolate bus-ride on the midnight express to nowhere, culminating in the heaviest, trance-inducing psychedelic yogi-chant ever documented. Gown, the solo project of Thurston Moore collaborator Andrew McGregor (now residing in Nova Scotia), is not your paltry foray into distorted minimalism. Having cut the fabric of space-time and emerged as its own cosmic entity, Gown self-assimilates the reverberations of our universe and rebroadcasts them as soundtracks to our imagination’s self-deprecated autobiography. All the reverb-soaked, red-line meanderings underneath Andrew’s atonal murmurs resonate with the basement of our psyche. It’s challenging and absolutely impressive how deep The Old Line penetrates. I’ve spent three days with this record and I’m not yet ready for the world." Weird Canada

Listen: roots | here
Price: $12.00

Husband & Knife – An End LP 
Husband & Knife songs are earnest and soulful, at times evoking the spirit of powerful forces like Nick Drake, the young Paul Westerberg and even Johnny Cash in his darkest moments. But as with most worthwhile songwriters, KC Spidle is an artist of his own design, essentially crafting honest songs to make sense of a fucked up life. He has always gone right to the bottom, exploring themes of suicide, poverty, alcoholism, and drug abuse. An End chronicles the latest chapter--a hard separation and the ensuing fight against spiritual meltdown.

This LP had been in the works for awhile. Although KC spent most of the previous year touring with his band Dog Day, he managed to record dozens of versions of the album and scrap as many songs. Unlike the naked guitar and vocal approach of his debut effort Welcome Back to the Nothingness of Your Life, on An End, KC carefully crafts each song using multiple instruments, found sounds and objects, field records, and a pile of makeshift recording gear. His obsessive approach has produced a record which blends sound and song to beautifully capture yet another shadowy passage of time. Art by Halifax's Rachael Parsons. Includes a download card. Edition of 500 copies.

"Good label/band name match! K.C. Spidle is of Canadian extract and, like his countrymen the Constantines, he’s exceptionally good at couching a large bummer vibe in songs whose acoustic riff-logic hangs together like Spider-Man’s webbing without ever a) wandering into, I dunno, something Jack Johnson might try to cover, or b) the “I’m deep!” amorphous unplugged meander that seems to curse so many well-meaning young men these days. Doesn’t hurt that the bummer vibe finds our man down a very deep well that he can articulate better than most. “You took the keys from me/because I laugh too loud,” nails a tense moment in any evening out as well or better than anyone. Assuming this jobless (“Job”), boozing (pick one) depressive is alive to make it, I await the next record. 500 mopey copies." Still Single / Dusted

Listen: The Sea
Price: $12.00

Shearing Pinx - Haruspex EP 7" (15 copies left)
Vancouver’s Shearing Pinx have been on fire lately, releasing one tripped out slab of no-wave goodness after another. This latest offering pushes onward with some of their most doped up freak-outs and weirdo jams. Until recently, the Pinx saved the wildest material for tapes, CDRs and the road, but as proved on their recent split with the Mutators, they can let loose on wax too. Haruspex is the next open door. Artwork by Nicholas MacMillian. Edition of 500.
Listen: Negaman

Vennt - S/T EP CD
The latest offering from Divorce is Vennt, an unnerving exploration of gloom. Sandy Saunders (aka Torso) fronts the project with some of his most harrowing electronics and vocal performances to date. He's joined by Divorce boss Darcy Spidle on three piece drums and the band's mastermind Jordan Hines on bass. The music draws on a unique mix of influences including power electronics, black metal, doom, ambience, and drone. With this EP, Vennt aimed to produce the heaviest and most bleak offering possible. Minimally packaged in a black, cardboard sleeve and heavy vinyl pouch.
Listen: N/A

Be Bad - Vision Correction CD
After two years, several tours and a slew of short run, non-standard format releases, Divorce is proud to bring you Be Bad's first full-length album. 'Vision Correction' is a pounding guitar record that guides the listener through heady realms. Encased in a monstrous drum trip that at times expands to three kits, Be Bad explore elements of noise, post-punk, no-wave, and free jazz. The crass and howling vocals evoke punk poet Henry Rollins and dope poet Nick Cave - mean, psychedelic, and cerebral. Musical influences on this album range from Black Flag and MC5 to Sun Ra and The Boredoms, but Be Bad do not pay homage, they contribute. Recorded by J. Lapointe. Mastered by Seth Smith. Amazing metallic silver and black pantone spot colour design by Nicholas MacMillan.
Listen: N/A

Unicorn/Torso Split CD
Unicorn is the solo work of American noise veteran Bill Nelson (Bastard Noise, Sleestak). Torso is the blistering noise of Halifax's Sandy Saunders. This 70 + minute split explores minimal drone, deafening power, and all the spaces inbetween. The cover design and custom printing is by Bill's Thumbprint press.

Be Bad / Attack Mode Split 7"
This unique record is set in a world of nihilist mythology and punk psychedelia – thrashing, damaged hardcore for doped-up fiends with philosophical minds. Cover design by Nicholas MacMillian.

Dog Day- Thank You EP CD