New arrivals from Central Bazaar, Dada Drumming, Fusty, Gracious Host, Head Meat, Input Error, Joy de Vivre, Lake Shark Harsh Noise, Noise Widow, Nuclear War Now, Vice de Forme
- Advanced tickets for Initial Shock are now available!
- PRIMITIVE ISOLATION TACTICS – Reluctant Glory CS is out now on Gracious Host
- Scream & Writhe is taking Canadian pre-orders for the BRIGHTER DEATH NOW – No Decency 2LP forthcoming on Cloister. Other regions are welcome to order, but Europeans should order through BDN or Tesco, and US customers are advised to order from Cloister direct.
- Please note that this Friday, March 29th will be the last day of shipping for a couple weeks while I’m in Japan. The shop will remain open while I’m away and shipping will likely resume on April 19th. If you’re attending the HOS/NWN or Machine Parts fests do try and say hello.
PRIMITIVE ISOLATION TACTICS – Reluctant Glory CS (Gracious Host 18, 2024)
Recorded and edited over the course of a few days last July. Art and design concept by Weston Czerkies. Label blurb below, and there is an audio excerpt on the label’s SoundCloud. You can find my copies over at screamandwrithe.com. All five tapes in the batch this came out in are worthy of your attention. Thank you, Weston.
“Montreal’s Taylor Geddes is a wearer of many hats in the underground: running the essential noise distro Scream & Writhe as well as his own imprint (Absurd Exposition), moderator of one of the few noise forums in existence, show promoter, and now fest curator with the first year of Initial Shock Fest successfully wrapped up and a second in the works. Last but far from least (and much deserving of a spotlight) is Geddes’ work as Primitive Isolation Tactics
With P.I.T., Geddes delves straight into harsh territory. Reluctant Glory goes full bore into crunching, blown-out tape/metal textures and slams them up against sputtering and crackling equipment. Broken electronics compliment HNW crackles while high pitched squelching builds the tension until an aural pile of metal tumbles forward. Static swells, carries, bursts and it all fades away with a rusty tape loop. This is part of the beauty of P.I.T.’s style: the listener is presented with a buffet of harsh textures not linked to a single subgenre of HN. Variety is the ever-present secret spice here and it is used carefully. A high point in P.I.T.’s catalogue to be snatched up by fans and newcomers alike.
Recycled tapes, recycled tape cases, silk-screened/hand-stamped labels, and two color j-cards printed on recycled paper.”
Scream & Writhe and Disaster Sources are pleased to announce Initial Shock II! The second edition of the Montreal noise fest will take place Saturday, July 6th at La Sotterenea.
Full lineup: Richard Ramirez (PA) / The Nausea (BC) / Heat Signature (OH) / Slime Street (SK/OR) / Flatgrey (BC) / Skin / Parasite Nurse (NY) / Echthros (AB) / Deep Grey (MB) / Death Glaze (ON) / Murmur (ON) / Fowl / Paxillus Succubus / Come and See / Splinter Assembly
The After Shock matinee will take place the following day (Sunday, July 7th) at MAI/SON.
Featuring: Thin Mountain (PA) / Molena (BC) / Erin Altomare (BC) / Green Mist (OR) / Jon Vaughn (SK)
Click here for advanced tickets.
Poster designs by Chris Gibson.
Follow @initialshockmtl on Instagram for frequent updates.
New Arrivals
Central Bazaar / related
DELTA SLEEP INDUCING PEPTIDE – Evil CS
EYES OF THE AMARYLLIS – Perceptible to Everyone LP
EYES OF THE AMARYLLIS – Sift LP
FANNY CHIARELLO – “Basta Now: Women, Trans & Non-Binary In Experimental Music” Book
FERIAL CONFINE – Meiosis CD
IDEA FIRE COMPANY – Bathroom Electronics LP
SHADOW PATTERN / ANNA PEAKER CS
VALENTINA MAGALETTI – A Queer Anthology of Drums LP
Dada Drumming
HEAD WOUND SADISM / A FAIL ASSOCIATION CS
MACRONYMPHA – Whorechestra 3CD
T.E.F. – Wrought CD
VARIOUS – Capturing the Wind: A Japanese Noise Compilation CD
VIODRE vs A FAIL ASSOCIATION CS
Fusty
AWENYDD – Nwyfre CS
BISON SQUAD – A Shelter Built Atop Capricious Grounds CS
DETERGE & CLONING – Split/Collaboration CS
DISASTER SCOPE – May 3rd 1999 CS
KAVAREH – Forgotten Energies CS
MAGGOT REPRESSION – Behavioral Sink CS
NEW GRASPING MACHINA / INARTICULATE – Slough CS
Gracious Host
AARON DILLOWAY – Live 9.10.22 CS
ALEX YORK – Electro Paralysis CS
FRANCISKA – Afvikling CS
PRIMITIVE ISOLATION TACTICS – Reluctant Glory CS
STINKMEAT CS
Head Meat
ANTS IN THE AFTERBIRTH CS
SEWER SYSTEM / PENIS GEYSER 7”
Input Error
ONE DARK EYE – Chronicle of a Death Foretold 2LP
Joy de Vivre
COST – Circular Cages of Graded Tin and Rusted Wind CS
STRIATIONS – Sensory Calamity CS
Lake Shark Harsh Noise / related
MARSEILLE TRILOGY CD
THE RITA – Anna Kogler Found In the River CD
THE RITA – Leopard Skin 2CD
THE RITA – Thousands of Dead Gods CD
THE RITA / BA. KU. LP
UNCODIFIED – Deconstructed Itimo CS
Noise Widow
NOISE WIDOW #1
NOISE WIDOW #2
NOISE WIDOW #3
NOISE WIDOW #4
NOISE WIDOW #5
Nuclear War Now! Productions
SISSY SPACEK – Ways of Confusion LP (Test Pressing + CD)
Vice de Forme
FRANCISCO MEIRINO – The Mute Fortress CS
LIKE WEEDS – Self Sabotage CD
Second Hand Arrivals
N/A
Upcoming Events
Initial Shock II – July 6 & 7, 2024
Playlist
Cost – Circular Cages of Graded Tin and Rusted Wind
Kjostad – Old Campaigners
Systems – Disaggregate
Tattered Syntax – Nothing All Day Nothing
Tourette – Cendrier du voyage
Various – Nihil
Behind Convent Walls (Borowczyk, 1978)
The Fugitive Kind (Lumet, 1960)
Roma (Fellini, 1972)
Nick Cave, Chris & Cosey, Jun Konagaya, The Rialto Report, Total Control, Twitch of the Death Nerve, Vancouver Complication, Weird Studies, White Centipede Noise
Absurd Exposition
absurdexposition.bandcamp.com
Available
BARSTOOL MOUNTAIN – III CD
BARSTOOL MOUNTAIN – Tightrope Walker LP
CASA DI CACCIA – Grand Totàl CS
DODGE JONES RAGE – West Coast Power Outage V CD
GOD IS WAR & ANDREW NOLAN – The Hunt CS
KNURL – H2T CD
MATRIARCH – Visible Paint CD
MERZBOW – Aqua Necromancer (Expanded) 2LP
MO*TE – Throw a Stone CS
MURMUR / MUTTERING – Muted CS
PHOLDE – To Favour the Occurrence CD
RUSALKA – Base Waters CD
UMPIO – Sin Memoria CD
UN REGARD FROID – Exophilie CD
ZENTA SUSTAINED – Serpent Track Patterns 12″
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Forthcoming
DEATH GLAZE – Collapse CS
JUTE CD
KOBEUK / UMPIO CS
MASS MARRIAGE CS
THE NAUSEA – Requiem LP (co-released with BISAD)
NECROPSY HANGOVER CD
OF THE SKULL CD
ROTMANS / FOWL CS
SPRING OF LIFE CS
TOANCHE DWELLING / SYSTEMS / SLACKING / JUTE 2CS
WINCE & ALTAR OF FLIES LP
