{"title":"Monk’s Hood","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"false-berries-find-the-gyres-lp","title":"False Berries - Find the Gyres LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 10th, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"23\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition of 300 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"25\" data-end=\"690\"\u003eOver the years Sterling MacKinnon has quietly carved out an essential role for himself. As half of Cuneiform Tabs (W.25\/Superior Viaduct, World of Echo), an original member of Violent Change (Slothmate), and the sole driver behind False Berries (Slothmate), he has functioned as a facilitator of momentum - a kind of midfield presence. You know, the number 8; vision, restraint, distribution. The one who sees the play before it fully forms and moves it along accordingly. There’s a certain amount of humility to that position, but also a limitation. Because every so often the same sensibility that organises begins to demand its own centre, and the game shifts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"692\" data-end=\"1545\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"692\" data-end=\"708\"\u003eFind the Gyres\u003c\/em\u003e is that shift made audible. Through the tape loops, collage, and songcraft, this is an album composed of processually re-shaping material where phrases repeat slightly off-axis and fragments resembling familiar tunes and melodies evolve into colorist visions echoing the cosmic. Like a swirling vortex, it’s an album which consistently negotiates and plays with the orientation of the listener. Manipulating feelings of immediacy and distance in alternating patterns, all while consistently orbiting a centre of ecstatic melody. The results occasionally echo the crooked homespun clarity of figures like Syd Barrett, Martin Newall, or Flaming Tunes, though \u003cem data-start=\"1366\" data-end=\"1382\"\u003eFind the Gyres\u003c\/em\u003e cannot be reduced to points of reference and genre signifiers. If anything, such parallels only highlight how singular the surrounding architecture actually is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1547\" data-end=\"1880\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eAs the first Monk’s Hood release, \u003cem data-start=\"1581\" data-end=\"1597\"\u003eFind the Gyres\u003c\/em\u003e feels like a condition being set. A way of approaching sound where construction and erosion are not opposites, but part of the same movements and systems. As such, it feels less like a beginning and more like a component within a much larger device that is always already revolving.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Monk’s Hood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53060360995113,"sku":"MH001","price":30.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1427\/6532\/files\/false-berries-find-the-gyres-lp.jpg?v=1777287636"},{"product_id":"conor-kiley-ok-hotel-lp","title":"Conor Kiley - OK Hotel LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 10th, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition of 200 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA long time ago, during the messy death rattle of guitar music in the early 21st c., the NME once declared a young Conor Kiley “the future of rock and roll”. The hyperbole of this statement has proven unsurprisingly ironic; not because Kiley remains an obscure artist, but that now, nearly two decades on, it's obvious that rock never had the future the journalists and industry bigwigs of the late aughts had deluded themselves into thinking it did. So, what happened to all those promising young talents raised on rock dreams? With ample time and perspective, it seems that removing the aspirational carrot from those who came of age thinking they could have careers like Oasis or Guns N' Roses has meant those same talents have ultimately matured into far stranger, more complex and subtle artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Kiley, this has meant evolving into a songwriter and recording artist who has repeatedly broken, rebuilt, and reimagined the prodigious gifts he started with into something refined, honest, and singular. He’s an alchemist; as interested in the ugly and crude DNA gurgling beneath the lids of all beautiful records as he is the witchcraft that can turn that same ugliness into beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis record takes its name from a historic building in the Seattle neighbourhood of Pioneer Square. Built in 1914, it began as a haven of ill repute for shore-leave hooligans before improbably becoming a landmark venue during the grunge years of the 1980s. Eventually it fell derelict and was subsequently refurbished as low-income accommodations for artists. 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