Topaz Rags

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Sightings 04:36 Tools
Wear You Thin 02:55 Tools
Darker Sooner 04:26 Tools
Heart In Ribs 05:31 Tools
Slow Gin Fizz 04:30 Tools
Next Level 03:25 Tools
Who Led Me To You? 06:56 Tools
Mind Power 07:10 Tools
Tarot Harem 06:05 Tools
Black Honey 05:52 Tools
California Ash - Side A 11:03 Tools
California Ash - Side B 11:32 Tools
Untitled 10:58 Tools
Come To The Now 03:52 Tools
The Crown Center 03:52 Tools
You Go On 05:42 Tools
Who Led Me To You 06:55 Tools
Side A 10:59 Tools
Side B 11:31 Tools
California Ash - Side A (Bonus track) 11:01 Tools
California Ash - Side B (extended) (Bonus track) 13:07 Tools
Mindpower 07:12 Tools
Slow Gin Fiz 04:29 Tools
California Ash A 10:58 Tools
Crown Center 04:52 Tools
California Ash B 11:31 Tools
California Ash Side B 04:52 Tools
Untitled 2 11:31 Tools
who lead me to you ? 00:30 Tools
Untitled 1 10:58 Tools
California Ash Side A 04:52 Tools
[untitled] 03:00 Tools
B 03:00 Tools
A. 11:31 Tools
B. 11:31 Tools
B California Ash CS 11:31 Tools
Topaz Rags - Wear You Thin 11:31 Tools
A 11:31 Tools
California Ash 11:31 Tools
California Ash, Side A 11:31 Tools
Capricorn Born Again 11:31 Tools
Topaz Rags - Sightings 11:31 Tools
Untitled II 11:31 Tools
California Ash (Side A) 11:31 Tools
California Ash (Side B) 11:31 Tools
A california ash 11:31 Tools
Untitled A 11:31 Tools
Untitled B 11:31 Tools
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People in the West blame weird moods on a string of things: the wind (those Santa Anas), the end (of the country), the moon (crescent is cursed), even the movies. But it doesn’t matter which is right/real, because the effect is the same, freaked souls in a trapped environment, lotuses floating on a lake littered with bodies. Topaz Rags is a new late night downer trio devoted to mapping these sour times and long goodbyes, and California Ash is their 2-sided elegy for the Golden State’s darkest ghosts, the rich hills full of fire, the day after the kool-aid. Back-alley bass lines plod under smoky piano shadows, drums stalk a straight line in a house with the power out, a trumpet mourns from a warped 78 spinning in the basement. Wasted, grey, DIY drug jazz lost somewhere between Bohren & Der Club Of Gore and some half-destroyed pre-digital Portishead demo. Eagle Rock’s most reclusive comedown crew creep back into the blacklight for their vinyl debut with a pair of loosely more focused excursions into cold soul music and post-beatnik jazz shadowplay. Dress accordingly. Recorded in the weeks preceding the ritual void sessions that birthed the California Ash cassette, both tracks here tread the grey but groovy haunted interzone between bummed DIY ghost bop and outright goth lament. It’s a fine line, watch it closely. “Tarot Harem” is the A side, and it feigns a pure funeral mood before slowly stirring to life with erotic spectral voices, distant trumpet, and a swingingly narcoleptic rhythm section. The B is “Black Honey,” which tip-toes a similar path through 3 AM city streets while forlorn piano notes fall like light rain, the drums gently rev up, and vocals scat about “black tar black tar” and how “the beat goes on.” It does. This is the wrong side of town. Hang around if that’s yr thing. Black vinyl singles in hand-silkscreened, photocopied, and die-cut sleeves with topless nature nymph/burnout artwork. Edition of 250. First 78 copies come with a tarot card from the 1970’s Aleister Crowley edition illustrated by Lady Frieda Harris. Brought to you by your friends at notnotfun Drums & Vocals: Amanda (LA Vampires, 100% Silk, Pocahaunted, ect ect) Bass: Britt (Robedoor) Keys: Ash Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.