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So it’s dead-center of the Winter season, and you just want to sleep your way out of 2008 and into the new year you say? We can relate. Giving you the last two doses of the 21MG Series in the 2008 year, this should be just enough to keep you in your toasty bed for forty more minutes…

PILL-M1 is David Tagg’s muted guitar improvisation “Deception From The Mountain”. Bearing immediate resemblance to his Skin Diagram EP, this could almost be old-school David Tagg. Deep and warm like a steaming clear bath in a dimly lit cavern, so quiet that you can actually hear yourself think. It is the sound of absolute reflection, both physical and mental. David’s craft continues an inward path that charts almost painfully sad waters like these, but it’s difficult not to get lulled in to the warmth. This is a beautiful year-ender for David, and a longing glance back at the smiles and sorrows of the past.

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The last Pill of the year is Brian Grainger’s “Wind Speech”, a cozy acoustic guitar piece that carries a similar sadness to David’s previous Pill. Wispy, bedroom string tones fill with musty air and Winter solitude, forming a pillar of pure gaseous melancholy. A three-note bassline eventually makes itself audible, and small sections of ringing loops cascade in and out of the mix. Almost a bookend piece with Brian’s first Pill of 2008, “Sun Trails”, and a stately finale to this year’s twelve Pills.

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*IMPORTANT* A small word of advice – these two Pills, while brand new, will only be available for individual purchase until the end of January 2009. After that, you will ONLY be able to buy them as part of the 2008 PILL BOX (H-M). We’re aware that some of you have purchased the Pills individually throughout the year and so this is your deadline for filling out your collections, should you decide to do so. We apologize for any inconveniences this causes, but please understand we are unable to continually manufacture all twelve discs on top of our regular catalog items and the 2009 Pills.

For those seeking the PILL BOX – look for the 2008 PILL BOX to become available in January, either filled with all 12 Pills (H-M) or empty. These boxes will be limited in number as well, so as always watch this space for updates. See you next year!

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We are extremely excited to announce that The Caretaker’s ‘Persistent Repetition of Phrases’ album has made #10 in Wire’s top 50 albums of 2008. It has been an amazing year of music at INSTALL and this is an incredible way to end it! We have about 75 copies left of the 500 pressed. Once they are gone… Thats it! Don’t miss out!

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VCV: ROUND THE BEND (VCV PLAYS JANDEK)

Install returns once again with three new releases, and a sale! Just in time for the holidays… First, the long-awaited but well-hidden VCV album “Round The Bend” has finally been pressed. Nine tracks of instrumental Jandek covers, officially approved by Corwood themselves, that are equally in the spirit of VCV’s sound as well as Jandek’s. These special pieces focus on recreating/reinterpreting the mood of Jandek’s work, with tracks selected from various points in his oeuvre, all the way from a gospel-acoustic cover of “Alehouse Blues” from One Foot In The North, to a molten-heavy doomed out version of “The Electric End” from Lost Cause. A very eclectic group of songs but still cohesive in that Corwood way, and an affirmation of VCV’s true roots and versatility as a band. There’s really something here for everyone, no matter what camp you’re from, SSR’s or Corwood’s. This album includes the sad and beautiful cover of “I’m Ready” which we consider to be one of VCV’s defining moments. A must have for any fan of VCV, Jandek or improvisational music! LISTEN BUY

 

INSTALLATION 9: DAIZOK – AUTUMN SCENES “Autumn Scenes”, which lives up to its title in so many ways. A stately and elegant ambient album in the most traditional sense, which we really do not release much of here at Install. That just shows how striking it is! Wonderfully clear field recordings mingle with warm tonal passages to create what could be a travelogue of sorts, presented through 21 tracks that are sometimes short vignettes or connective pieces, and sometimes extended drones that never seem to end. Altogether it has been masterfully assembled into one seamless whole, and should be just the thing to warm your ears and insides up during these cold months. LISTEN BUY

 

INSTALLATION 8: MILLIPEDE – DEATH MOUNTAIN Millipede, fresh from his split cassette with Brian Grainger at Milieu Music, appears here for his very first full-length album, “Death Mountain”. A huge, towering monolith of a record, this sounds exactly like you’d expect with a name like that. Gigantic masses of distorted guitars lock together to form chunks of shoegazing space-dust and singsong feedback. This is music for a weary traveler on a long and lonesome quest, and quite possibly the heaviest album we’ve released in this series! For fans of tape hiss, distortion pedals and dreamy riffing coated in fuzz-bliss, check this one out! LISTEN BUY LISTEN BUY

 

HOLIDAY SALE!!! REDUCED PRICES FOR A LIMITED TIME. SHOP

OURSON / ETH $7.00 USD

THE CARETAKER / PERSISTENT REPETITION OF PHRASES $11.00

SUMMONS OF SHINING RUINS / S/T $9.00