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Kill and Eat - Green Bushes (ANR08)

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press for Green Bushes

"A rolling ballad that brings together soul, jazz, blues and melancholy troubadouring, in a rich blend rarely achieved so honestly and with such refrained grace. Reminiscent of the difficult, crossed-genre work of Jim O'Rourke or Current 93, Green Bushes is truly remarkable and one of the best records of the year. 9/10" - Foxy Digitalis

"Although Kill and Eat use familiar sounds, they push into totally new territory to surprising effect, bringing emotionally touching and gloriously unclassifiable playing back to the piano and voice." - Delusions of Adequacy

"Kill and Eat make a degraded kind of cocktail music, heard from far away (in space and in time). The vocals seem lost, a fuse seems blown, even the horn sounds like it's pulled a muscle . . . . If some of the New Weird Americans got less frothy, spilled less beans, got themselves de-frazzled and came in out of the woods and into a large ballroom and started playing then it might be like Kill and Eat's Green Bushes." - An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming

info

We're a small-press label based in the equally small community of Warsaw, Indiana, USA. We release professionally manufactured CDs, sans album art, in extremely minimal packaging.

Before the 1940s, most records were released in standard paper sleeves. In 1939, with the help of the awesome graphic designer Alex Steinweiss, Columbia Records created the first album cover. The early covers were sophisticated graphic design, but they were still more clip-art than album Art. Labels were releasing popular material that had previously physically existed in sheet music; they had no need for the type of "phonographic art" that a band like The Beatles popularized. The labels' main concern was not achieving some grand synthesis between packaging and recording, but rather simply improving (decorating) the physical quality of a product that was still fairly new - thus, more money for them and a more collectible artifact for the consumer.

Somewhere between graphic design, The Beatles, and small-press handmade packaging, however, the album cover outgrew and transcended its decorative and promotional goals. . . . Instead of the decorative "album cover" designed to boost sales of popular music, we now have "album art" and its integration into the "album experience." As a label, we have no desire to be a part of this experience. We want our music to be judged on its own merit and its inherent value as music, not by whether it comes with visual art or enticing packaging.

contact: kill and eat at g mail dot com.
we dont have a myspace so srsly email us.

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