The Baptist Generals / Jackleg Devotional to the Heart - SP648

On The Baptist Generals’ sophomore album, the word “heart” repeats eight*** times. The Denton, TX band, known for its haunting, claustrophobic take on drunken folk, needed ten full years to bare its hearts—one of which is in the album title, Jackleg Devotional to the Heart, a name that songwriter Chris Flemmons conjured shortly after he recorded, and then trashed, the album’s first attempt in 2005.

Flemmons goes so far as to call this his “love album,” and it’s an apt description—though love through The Baptist Generals’ eyes is plenty complicated. Jackleg‘s hearts don’t resemble valentines. No smooth curls into a final point. The band’s vibraphones, guitarrons and ambient feedback combine like a mess of ventricles, aortas and veins—not to mention, from the sound of it, all of the blood spilled while Jackleg lurched for years toward an eventual finish line.

Call it a love record, then. It’s the kind of love Flemmons had to figure out in the ten years since The Baptist Generals’ critically-acclaimed 2003 full-length debut No Silver/No Gold, a period in which he admits he’s fallen in love with a wild spectrum of music—the Ethiopiques series, saxophonist Archie Shepp, film scorer Meredith Willson, and plenty more. That wide spectrum only befits Jackleg‘s repeated need to buck genre; in fact, the 2005 version of the album hit the trash heap because “it sounded like any other indie rock-type band,” Flemmons admits. Co-produced by Stuart Sikes (Loretta Lynn, Cat Power, The Walkmen, Modest Mouse, The White Stripes) and the band’s Jason Reimer, Jackleg Devotional to the Heart sounds like exactly no one else.

NOTE: if you pre-order this record, your order will not ship until May 21st. This applies to everything in your order – none of it will ship until May 21st. So, if you’d like to order more than just this Baptist Generals CD/LP, it would be good to place separate orders if you’re the type who wants what you ordered, and you want it NOW! Thanks! 

Pre-orders come with a limited-edition, one-sided 7" flexi-single featuring the Baptist Generals track “Fly Candy Harvest”, currently not available to hear elsewhere! Also, if you pre-order the LP, you’ll receive the colored-vinyl, limited Loser Edition. Both of these things are LIMITED, so a while supplies last type of thing applies here. Order now.

Released: May 21, 2013

The Baptist Generals / Heart Shirt - 2061599

This shirt from The Baptist Generals features an anatomically correct illustration of what one can assume is a human heart and goes nicely when bundled with their forthcoming new record, Jackleg Devotional to the Heart, which comes out May 21st.

Printed on American Apparel 50/50 t-shirts.

Released: May 21, 2013

Condominium / Carl - SP1051

Carl

Released: May 21, 2013

Goat / Dreambuilding - SP1056

Dreambuilidng

Released: June 4, 2013

Rose Windows / The Sun Dogs - SP1053

The notion that there is nothing new under the sun can be both a blessing and a curse to musicians. On the one hand, it absolves artists from any nagging sense that they have to reinvent the wheel with every new project. On the other, it makes innovation seem like a fool’s errand. Seattle songwriter Chris Cheveyo embraces this blessing, but, with his compatriots in Rose Windows, he also defies the curse. The band follows Western traditions in their instrumentation, using the basic tools employed in past decades of American and British rock music. Elements of The Band’s folk-infused rock, The Doors organ-driven psychedelia, and Black Sabbath’s blues-based dirges can be heard in Rose Window’s debut album The Sun Dogs. But the septet’s curiosity goes much further than a few well-chosen classic rock records. The band devoured Persian, Indian, and Eastern European music, and incorporated the revelations learned into Rose Windows’ sound. The Sun Dogs challenges the assumption that all creative territories have been mapped out and charted. While Rose Windows aren’t interested in making music of the future, one reviewer was wise enough to note “a sound like this would not be possible in any other time.”

Rose Windows began in late 2010 in a house in Seattle’s Central District, where Cheveyo found himself tiring of the limited palette of his prior heavy, post-rock project. Starting with a few rough demos by Cheveyo alone, Rose Windows took shape as the band amassed members from their circle of musician friends. Rose Windows began playing out, fluidly sharing the stage with underground art-metal bands one night and popular indie Americana acts the next.

In November of 2011, the band began working on The Sun Dogs with local producer Randall Dunn (SunnO))), Boris, Earth, Master Musicians of Bukkake). Dunn’s penchant for musical anthropology proved the perfect match for the band, with their mutual curiosity and artistic ambition broadening the scope of the album. Dynamics were expanded. Boundaries were pushed.

Rose Windows have toured the West Coast several times, and with the release of The Sun Dogs, the band plans much more. In the meantime, they continue their search—delving into archives of long-lost albums, learning more about their craft from renowned local musicians, and charting their own path in an ancient art.

If you pre-order The Sun Dogs on CD or LP from SubPop.com, you’ll receive a Rose Windows patch with your order! Also worth noting, pre-orders of the LP will receive the limited, colored-vinyl Loser Edition of the record. These things are governed by a while supplies last type of law, so order soon to ensure your obtainment of such wonderful things.

Released: June 25, 2013

Rose Windows / Rose Windows Landscape Shirt - 2105399

There is an inherent majesty that this Rose Windows t-shirt design imbues that is immediately apparent upon first glance. In fact, this shirt is so picturesque that wearing it would be like personally mailing every single person you come across that day a postcard from the land of mountains and sea that is the beautiful and lush Washington State. What a nice gesture that would be. Lovingly hand-printed on American Apparel t-shirts.

Released: June 25, 2013

Daughn Gibson / Me Moan - SP1010

Me Moan is Daughn Gibson’s second full-length record, and his first with Sub Pop.

If you pre-order Me Moan from your good friends here at Sub Pop, you’ll receive at no extra charge, a limited-edition Daughn Gibson seven inch featuring the songs “Every Night I Fall in Love” b/w “Brandy and Daughn”. Daughn himself describes the single this way: “Way back in the year 2002, I produced two R&B singles for a teenage sister group caled “No Option” out of a small recording booth located in a ballerina studio. As payment I received a Korg D1600, and these two songs were among the first solo things I ever recorded on it." As you can surmise, this is likely going to be a rare piece in future record collections. We’re also going to be giving people who pre-order Me Moan on LP the limited, colored-vinyl Loser Edition. Such is the nature of limited-edition things, when they’re gone, they’re gone, so get your order in quickly!

Note: If you pre-order Me Moan with other releases, your entire order won’t arrive until July 9th, so plan accordingly, please!

Released: July 9, 2013

Daughn Gibson / Daughn Face Shirt - 2101099

I know it doesn’t look like much now, but what you are presently gazing at is a future Daughn Gibson t-shirt in none of it’s future glory. What we mean by this is, we have our highly experienced team of designers working around the clock in order to deliver to you, discerning consumer of fine apparel, the best possible Daughn Gibson t-shirt. Why don’t we just wait until we have a finished design?, you’re no doubt muttering to yourself as your cursing us. Well, that’s a very fair question. The reason for this bone-headed stunt is that we want to sell you Daughn Gibson’s forthcoming Sub Pop debut, Me Moan, right this second, and optimally, we’d like to save you a couple of dollars by bundling the CD or LP with this beautiful future t-shirt at a reduced total price and we wouldn’t be able to do that with no t-shirt at all; which is to say, future t-shirt is better than no t-shirt in this case. So, bear with us, trust us, we want you to look good, and this future Daughn Gibson shirt will do the trick. Thank you.

Released: July 9, 2013