You can now pre-order Crystal Shipsss’ debut album Yay (out June 11 in Europe / July 10 in North America). Here is what you get if you pre-order the album before June 11th:

-Yay on 10” mint green vinyl

-Download card with the album itself and Yay remixed by The New Slave

-Immediately digital download of Yay

-An album, free of choice, from my back catalogue (cd or vinyl)

Pre-order Yay HERE (ships 14 days before release)

You can choose between the following albums to go with Yay:

Jacob Faurholt – Hurrah Hurrah (cd, 2007)

Jacob Faurholt – Are You In The Mood For Love? (vinyl, 2009)

Why Write? – 5 Song EP (cd, 2009)

*Just write an email to rawonionrecords@googlemail.com with your choice & info / or write it as a “message to merchant” when you order.

The Smile – single from Crystal Shipsss’ forthcoming debut album Yay is released by Raw Onion Records today! The single also includes the two b-sides Scary Mountain and The Black Forest.

It’s available on Itunes HERE

Today we release Sam Gray Singing – Songs About Humans! You can order the cd (digipack) and listen to a couple of songs from the album by following the link below. In Denmark the album (cd) is distributed by Rillbar and it’s also available on Itunes etc. Check it out!

“The cover artwork and the label’s comparisons to bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and A Silver Mt. Zion let me expect another dabbler in the post rock genre, but if Sam Gray Singing’s music is supposed to be post rock, he might just have singled-handedly reinvented an entire genre.” - Disagreement

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Crystal Shipsss‘ debut album Yay will be released in Denmark by Raw Onion Records on June 11th and in North America by Three Ring Records on July 10th! The release will be on limited edition, 10″ mint green vinyl!

About Yay:
While Crystal Shipsss’ debut album does boast conventional songwriting, Jacob’s living room production expands upon the experimental aspect of albums such as David Bowie’s “Heroes” and the simple wisdom of Galaxie 500′s “On Fire”. Nearly every song on “Yay” takes the listener on a less-than two-minute trip through a “light and airy to heavy fuzzed out journey into Faurholt’s extraordinary range as a songwriter,” (Floorshime Zipper Boots).

Sam Gray Singing’s debut album Songs About Humans will be out March 19th on Raw Onion Records. It already got one fantastic review by the nice people at Disagreement.net:

“The cover artwork and the label’s comparisons to bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and A Silver Mt. Zion let me expect another dabbler in the post rock genre, but if Sam Gray Singing’s music is supposed to be post rock, he might just have singled-handedly reinvented an entire genre. The original versions of the songs must have been self-recorded and quite bare, but over the years, there were parts (clarinet, drums, saxophone and violin) added by several guest musicians.The final result is a nearly one hour long masterpiece which left me taken aback already after my first time through” (full review).

You can listen to a couple of songs from the album here:

Dineen:

Bigotry:

Album pre-order: ROR shop

Raw Onion Records is going to release the debut album “Songs About Humans” from Sam Gray Singing (NZ) in the spring. If you like Mount Eerie, Thee Silver MT Zion etc., then this should be something for you!

I now have the pleasure of distributing a very fine album called Cement Postcard With Owl Colours by the American band Phantom Buffalo through Raw Onion Records (released on Microcultures). You can order the album at the ROR shop: www.rawonionrecords.bandcamp.com

Here are some words on the band / album:
Cement Postcard With Owl Colours” is the third album from the american indie combo Phantom Buffalo (Portland, Maine). Uneasy to define but immediately charming, the cloudy sound of the band and its incredible clear lead singer’s voice combine with a global lo-fi mood and uncatchable songs to offer a very humble sample of pop perfection.

Some press about Shishimumu (first album, released by Rough Trade) :
“A true pop wonder, to be classified near the Shins or Impossible Shapes” - Magic

“The more you listen, the more beautiful it becomes…
One of those little treasures.” – Mojo’s top 50 albums of 2005 (4 stars)

“Lyric, luminous, filling with enthusiasm… A pure pop treasure.” – POPnews

You can now stream Jacob Faurholt – Dark Hours (out now on Raw Onion Records) in its entirety at: BANDCAMP

Drowned in Sound  (7/10)
“The distortion on ‘Dark Hours’ doesn’t bolster the skeletal guitar so much as it lends it a lingering decrepitude which compliments Faurholt’s creaky vocals and gives the chorus of wheezing squeezebox and subtly brushed slo-mo drums the feel of a gorgeously meek rallying cry.“

Rockfreaks (7/10)
“Because of this, the album isn’t a sordid, one-tone affair; it’s an album filled with variations of colour, texture and emotions.”

Disagreement
“Another influence might be the later works of Nick Drake. Just like this late singer/songwriter, Jacob Faurholt is an expert in conjuring icy cold moods full of intrinsic beauty.”

Jacob Faurholt - Dark Hours is released today on Raw Onion Records. Its available in Danish record stores (distributed by Rillbar) & Itunes (in all countries). You can also buy a copy at Bandcamp. Have a good day 

The Hoax is from Jacob Faurholt - Dark Hours (out August 15th on Raw Onion Records). The song features Nona from the American band Dark Dark Dark on vocal. The video is directed by Josh Labouve.