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Discography
MG01 Olives - "Fauna of the United States" C28
MG02 Soothsayer - "Neptune's Daughter" C30
MG03 Velvet Davenport - "Lemon Drop Square Box" C14
MG04 Magic Castles - "Songs of the Forest" C51
MG05 Daughters of the Sun - "Ancient of the Ancients" C28
MG06 Olives - "Tremble" C32
MG07 Jonathan Delehanty - "Prisms Opposed to Prudence" C22
MG08 Dante & the Lobster - "Wonders" C40
MG09 Camden - "Life of Devotion" C24
MG10 V/A - "Regolith Vol.1" LP
MG11 Buffalo Moon - "Wetsuit" C44
MG12 Larry Wish - "Crazy Taxi Cool" C90
MG13 Capricorn Vertical Slum - "Various Portals and Sleazo Inputs Vol.1: Tourism" C24
MG14 PC Worship - "Dune of Heroin / Godless Love" C30
MG15 Velvet Davenport - "White Blue" C15
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• MG04: Magic Castles - Songs of the Forest C51

"Songs of the Forest", the Castles' first release on the Moon Glyph imprint, is a study in delicate psychedelia. Throughout the album, the group harnesses sounds that harken to the mid-Sixties experimentalism. From beginning to end, it is a collection that houses surprises, such as the killer organ riff buried deep in "The Mole People" and the unexpected trombone in "Songs of the Forest" to name only a few. Recorded between the witching hour and three a.m. over the course of several months, this autumnal record is a revivalist showcase that straddles audacity and restraint with aplomb. Play it and float along.
Ed. of 100. Art by Suzanne Pfutzenreuter

jason edmonds - guitars, fuzz bass, keyboards, percussion & vocals
jeremiah doering - guitar, bass, drums, vocals on "Katie Crow" & "Wayne-O"
noah skoagerboe - leslie organ on "Herbs of Life", vocals
duane 'birdman' mcdowell - trombone on "Songs of the Forest" & "Wander"

foxy digitalis review

• MG05: Daughters of the Sun - Ancient of the Ancients C28

The peaceful side of the word 'primordial' is not often mentioned when discussing music, but it does exist and if it didn't exist before, it will with the release of Daughters of the Sun's Ancient of the Ancients. Texturally, the two swathes of music splitting this album evoke an antediluvian pre-dawn, when wildness and stillness were on in the same. The Daughters begin and end Ancient with passages constructed with flutes, chimes and ostensible field recordings that tend to teem and effervesce around the throbbing tribal eruptions at the heart of the cassette.
Ed. of 100.

foxy digitalis review

• MG08: Dante & the Lobster - Wonders C40

For Moon Glyph's eighth release, the label offers up Dante & the Lobster's "Wonders". Appropriately titled, this selection seems to bounce along on a sense of wonderment. Aurally, any of these songs would not sound out of place on a Nuggets compilation, each featuring boyish harmonies and the jangling guitars so prominent in the mid-Sixties. There are moments on this record that might remind listeners almost simultaneously of the Troggs, Comus, the Yardbirds, the 13th Floor Elevators and the Chocolate Watch Band - an impressive feat of psychedelic pop amalgamation.
Ed. of 100.


reviler review

• MG11: Buffalo Moon - Wetsuit C44

With four of its five members hailing from South Dakota, the bossanova/light psych sound made by the Buffalo Moon would be one wicked curveball even in this epoch of transculturalism. But when you discover that their guitarist/harpist/main vocalist, Karen Freire is originally from Ecuador, their superbly titled Wetsuit begins to make sense. That is not to say that the record isn't without its curveballs. You wouldn't find track names such as "Iowa's Got A New Strip Club" and "Money, Pussy, Weed" on an Astrud Gilberto album nor would expect such adept levels of musicianship, but its there in strokes. Wetsuit is in turns beachy and cosmopolitan, slyly experimental and a lot of fun.
Ed. of 100.

karen freire - guitar, harp & vocals
sarah darnall - bass & vocals
preston holm - clarinet, keys & percussion
joel schmitz - guitar & trumpet
jon wetzler - percussion & rhodes


moon glyph // minneapolis, mn // 2010