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"Well here comes
trouble," or so the lyrics repeat on the opening song of Ill Ease's sixth album,
Turn it Loose! And that warning should heeded by Alice as that pie-eyed
lush peered down the
rabbit hole in the
second song, "It's a Downward Spiral" another formidable raunchy homage to go-go
boot and retro circles. Elizabeth Sharp is the brain, brawn, and balls behind
Ill Ease, and this swaggering, yet quirky collection of hip, snarling songs lie
somewhere near the lifeless body of Daman Albarn after Elastica's Justine
Frischmann kicked him repeatedly in the tenders. With snide, groovy guitar
flanking, confident, rhythmic chugging and an attitude that could put the lead
back in Liz Phair's exiling pencil, Ill Ease could be put on high rotation in
any student union building. "Two
Lanes Left" takes
the party spending on the highway and is the XX chromosome version of Tom Waits
ripping out his chest hair before Goin' Out West with his Bone Machine. And
that, my friends, is most welcome reprieve for those men and women who are tired
of waxing their beavers to Feist" - WonkaVision Magazine
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ILL EASE AND THE RACKET
Turn it Loose!
CD /
IONIK031-01
01 Here comes trouble
02 Its a downward spiral!
03 Two Lanes Left
04 When suddenly, the evil twin arrives!
05 Le jeux son fait
06 My last tango in Paris
07 Hate the game
08 I think I might be in love again
09 Dear Krazy
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“Let's
brush our teeth cause we'll have a brighter smile” sings the Wolverton's
apathetic voice of doom, Tim Schwallie on the track, A Better Place. And yes, a
better place it is. Years ago,
my initiation to The
Wolverton Brothers came when I spotted an odd looking album on the wall of the
local record store. It was a little countryesque looking and sounded kinda
likewise. A
type of alt country
from way before Americana had became a genre and had a sound like they had
bought all of the original Pere Ubu and The Fall singles on their original
release dates. But this
time, they've gone
all German on us. That's German as in Krautrock. Think about the best parts of
Faust, Can, or even Second Edition era Public Image Limited. The tracks all have
loud guitars, driving bass lines, and seem to rely on repetition to drive home
the musical themes. And over top of all this are a wide bevy of eclectic
instruments and noises. Mr. Armageddon, A Better Place, and Cheese are among the
best tracks that these guys have ever laid down. Even the lengthy instrumentals
cause your ears sit up and smile in pure enjoyment. And I'm happy to see that
the
Wolvertons have now
taken the studio recording responsibilities upon themselves. This is definitely
their best sounding and most rocking release of their decades long career. The
guys are true motherfucking artists! On the new great new Ionik Recordings
label. Check Ionik's other shit out too! Andy Breighton - The Neus Subjex
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OCTOBER 2008 RELEASE
THE WOLVERTON BROTHERS
Old, Ugly, and Loud
CD /
IONIK036-01
01 Mr. Armageddon
02 Cheese (FREE Download
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03 Dead Horse
04 Iceman's curse
05 A Better Place
06 Chaos and Order
07 Lover Her More
08 Daktari Motherfucker
09 That's Rights!
10 Informer
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"The MW Ensemble, haling from Kentucky,
play thoughtful Lounge music with a classical lilt."- Mondo Blue
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FALL 2008 RELEASE
MW ENSEMBLE
Apartment or Nepal
IONIK 035-01
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03 or (jump)
04 Nepal
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03 or (jump)
04 Nepal
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"We start with a hard and steady pop-rock
buzzsaw, going from a nice early Elvis Costello attack into a Gang of
Four wire-cutting guitar riff, then a smooth garage-pop breakdown.
"Caligula's sister"
sneaks into my veins with a perfect guitar
drum opening and a style that makes me think of Unrest-more like this
people! I'm not sure about the raging guitar solo thing in the third
song, but I'll let it go this time,
because song four is like some strange hair-metal-Rush-Journey-prog-rock
groove that for some reason works for me. This band could be one those
guilty pleasures." -
The Big Takeover
Magazine.
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APRIL 2008 RELEASE
GUNS OF DETROIT
Monsterakkake's
CD / IONIK 034-01
Graphic Design
by
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01 Apocolypse later
02 Caligula's Sister (FREE
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03 Quick Hands
04
Animals Out Killing
05 Syeh Dna Solleh
06 Heys and Hellos
07 Rabbit Holes
08 Flew Fly
THE GUNS OF DETROIT-College Station, TX
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BIOGRAPHY
The Guns of Detroit are Randall Mckay bass/guitar/vocals and Jessica
Kempen drums/keys/sarcasm. After a few line-up changes, finally in early
'08 they ended up as just two people making ultra-cool sounds. Offering
up buzzsaw bass and drum pop dishes at your favourite retro-bar and
grill, from the likes of David Bowie to Death From Above 1979, The Guns
of Detroit delivered...even on Sundays.
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THE SPECTACULAR FANTASTIC -Consume
CD /
IONIK / 75ORLESS
01 Limitless and free
02 Top of the stairs
03 I don't want to live
04
Tiny little heart
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05 Sympathy
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THE MOST POWERFUL TELESCOPE IN THE UNIVERSE
IONIK033-1 / DWL046
01
Posted [
mp3 ]
02 This Unit Has a Bad Motivator [
mp3 ]
03 One Big Setup [
mp3 ]
04 It's Too Hard Not to Care On a Night Like This [
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05 Of Course I Know Him, He's Me [
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" They keep the pop
gems coming, and this superb album never falters through nearly 40 sighing,
swooning minutes." - The Big Takeover Magazine
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FALL 2007 RELEASE
THE FAIRER SEX
Two Can Win
CD / IONIK032-1
01 At last At Least
02 Penny
03 Be Long
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04 Nadine
05 (The Conception
of) Isabelle Flowers
06 The Days
07 The Fine Art of
Fashion
08 This Town
09 A Tattoo
10 Set on You
11 Shit for Brains
12 I Have a Friend Who Can Sail
THE FAIRER SEX - Lawrence, KS
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"Sometimes it’s
acoustic pop, sometimes quiet indie pop or electronica, but always
interesting and refreshing. A nice breath of fresh air for a musician
usually hidden behind the
curtains. Now Iacobacci comes to the front where he truly belongs." -
Amplifier Magazine
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MARCH 2007 RELEASE
POLA
Self-titled
CD / IONIK030-1
Graphic Design
by
GD Mills
01
Twenty Years Ago
02
Lyrics? No Thanks
03
Isn't Easy
04 Non
Grata
05 Black
06
November 17th
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07 A
New End
POLA
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"Sounding like a Carter Family reunion that
finds the young 'uns peppered with peyote, Michael Nace and the Nace
Family resurrect the back-porch sing-along tradition as if
filtered though an Appalachian dream."-
Amplifier Magazine
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FALL 2006 RELEASE
MICHAEL
NACE & THE NACE FAMILY
The Good Work of the Dead
VINYL
LP / IONIK028-1
Graphic Design
by
GD Mills
Side One
01 A Warning
02 Matilda's
wake
03 On the way to
Rosemary Hill
04 Hanging On By
A Thread
05 Sugar Baby
06 Jonathan Lee
Side Two
01 Good Lord,
Maketh Me Poor
02 Wild Bill
Jones
03 Ashley Dismal
04 Virtue
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05 Last Will &
Testament of J. Lee
06 The
Fictitious Ballad of Nimrod Workman & His Gal
BIOGRAPHY
"Present is
the emergence of traditional American folk music, which seems to be on the
horizon for Michael Nace and his family member’s future works and is captured in
their most recent release, The Good Work of the Dead. Recorded by the
Nace Family and mastered by Carl Saff, The Good Work of the Dead is
eloquently constructed harboring a template of traditional roots country laced
with psychedelia and Asian undertones."
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THE SLOW BREAK -
Inside the Dark Mountain (2006 Ionik) -
"sounds like Kristin Hersh, Stiffed and Dolly Parton
got thrown into a blender with a pack of cigarettes. All bands should
put this much passion and fire into their albums." - 75 or Less Reviews
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THE SLOW BREAK
Inside the Dark Mountain
CD / IONIK029-1
Graphic Design by
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01 Thanks Jasmine
02 Interstate Woman-FREE
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03 Cowboy Crucifixion
04 Sunburn
05
Salonum
06 The mistaken identity of man
07 It’ll be alright
08
Sleepyhead
09 Kick down the
door
10 Fortunes of
few
11 Sky is
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" A tinge of wistful melancholy
hangs over the album, not least in Enright's often mournful vocal style; this keeps
"playful" from being exactly the right word to describe the loose,
experimental vibe of the varied arrangements, but the ramshackle, homemade
feel of Side One/One Side
lightens what
might otherwise have been a considerably darker album." -
ALL MUSIC GUIDE
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Side One / One Side
CD / IONIK027-2
Graphic Design by
GD Mills
01 A lot people
fall in love in the key of C
02 Fool Frame-FREE
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03 Blindspot
04 Drool Cup
05 I meant well
06 When you
wrung yourself out
07 Laundromat
08 Y2K5 Bug
09 A nice pair
10 God vs.
11 Watch
12 The Midwest
Coast
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"Chicago’s North Shore is home to Fahri a
hot little indie rock band fronted by a girl singer with pizzazz. The
recording at times miffs me since sometimes things just get lost in the mix. But if you toss out that
complaint, you have yourself a pretty fine album of indie post-punk rock
that will get your
knees rockin’ in no time flat." - Smother Online Music Magazine
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FAHRI
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE EP
/ IONIK027-1
Graphic Design by
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01 A Story Of
02 Drunkard's Lament-FREE
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03 Warmer Places
FAHRI - MILWAUKEE, WI
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The Ionik-Digi Sampler
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE EP
/ IONIK001D-2
Graphic Design by
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01 Fahri – Drunkard's
Lament
02 GD Mills & the
Negative Space – Small Fish Tiny Pond
03 The Haywards – Fool
Frame
04 Michael Nace & the Nace Family – Virtue
Rewarded
05 The Slow Break - Wedding Ring
06 Spectacular Fantastic
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"By now it should be clear that one
doesn't need to be from California to play pop that sounds like it's being
transmitted from a beach in the sunshine. The
Thrills channeled the influential
Beach Boys from as far away as Ireland and now the Spectacular Fantastic — led
by the already prolific Mike Detmer — follows
the trend via Cincinnati, OH. That's
not to say that the Spectacular Fantastic is rich in harmonies or even blatantly
rips off the Beach Boys. What demands a comparison is Mike Detmer's uncanny resemblance
to Brian Wilson's upper-octave vocals. " - ALL MUSIC
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Goes
Underground
CD / IONIK025-4
01 Darkest Hour
02 Harmony
03 You've Got It
04 Don't Hurt Me
05 Did It For Me
06 Once upon a time
07 Underground
08 Living In A Dream
09 I Will Come Around
10 All In My Head
11 Sunny Day
12 Overboard
13 Yesterday
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The Deeds of Swedes - (Ionik 2005) "On
a record lasting fifty minutes, there are times when the
music seems to be going nowhere in particular but more often than not
the imagination of Beall proves to be his trump card."
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BEALLA'S BOBBY PINS
The
Deeds of Swedes
CD / IONIK024-3
Graphic Design by
GD Mills
01 For My Shelves
02 Le Dedans Deviente Le Dehors
03 Patati Patata
04 Sleeping In Dirty Spaces With
Dirty You
05 Espion
06 Ce Que Les Suedoises Disent (I)
07 Du Feu, Mais Pas De L'Eau
08 Thirst Mcgurst & The Bloc
09 Ce Que Les Suedoises Disent (II)
10 Suspend High
11 Cheers Mate
12 All Rolled Out
13 Si Content (featuring Adam Cooper)
BIOGRAPHY
Bealla's Bobby Pins is the recording
project of Matt Beall who currently resides in Sablé-sur-Sarthe, Sarthe France.
Matt takes physical & electronic sounds, and mixes them together seamlessly.
Bealla's Bobby Pins new album The Deeds of Swedes is available now in the Ionik
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Ronald: Very cool indie-techno-folk-pop. Like Beck performing Euro-synth pop on
happy pills accompanied by Air. Jimmy: British influenced rock, very
diversified, which is refreshing. Generally simplistic pop. Gerald: Britpop type
of sound - heavy on the synth. Hard to pin down. - Hybrid Magazine Basement
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The
Great Pop
CD / IONIK023-2
Graphic Design by
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01 Drive An Uncle Through The Mountains
02 Jesus Kill These Bombs
03 Just Enough For You
04 When You Get Home
05 Cherry Fountains
06 In Perfect Order
07 I've Been Afraid
08 Nevermind Nevermind
09 I Booked A Flight
10 Careers (Just Choose One)
11 Stephani
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"Enlightening rock-n-roll for the
attention-lacking generation is the stew that The Haywards stir.
If you’d
look up DIY in the thesaurus you’d see one of the synonyms would be “Scene
Missing”. What we have to figure out is what scene is missing from this
album? All I can tell
is the mainstream scene, though this album is
by far too dynamic to simply rubber stamp “indie”. - Smother.net
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Scene
Missing
CD / IONIK022.5-1
01 Paper Snowflakes
02 Warmline
03 They Said You Were Nice
04 Tears Me Down
05 Deaf Ears
06 I Didn't Want To Owe You
07 Kitten
08 Mirror
09 Border
10 God Is A Bully
11 United We're Falling
12 The Truth
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"The 10 songs are created by Frank Longano, who plays all the
instruments and sings all the songs (with the exception of one that relies on
the drifting and folk tinged beauty of Sara Laskey). The movements and the
structures ofthe songs sometimes feel very indie rock, Steve Malkmus touched
acoustic, though the lyricism is much more heartfelt and touching. The music (guitars,keyboards,
percussion), however, is much more soft and romantic, but sometimes driving
ahead as well. Soft played Britpop tunes like the Smithsdoing Pavement songs.
Fragile and strong; you know there is meaning behind every note, every word.
It¹s soft happy sad smiles put to music." - The Big Takeover Magazine
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2.2 KID LIFE
Villains
CD / IONIK022-2
Graphic Design by
GD Mills
01 Radipaque
02 The Widower
03 Our Bones And Soft Spots
04 A Shadow Falls
05 The Lonliest Kind Of Engineering
06 How I Saved Western Culture
07 When The World Is At Your Feet Part Two
08 Foreign Objects
09 Sleep Studies
10 Was I A Reckless Driver
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01 Eskimo
02 Lullaby
03 Orbit
04 You're The Reason
05 Tragic Novelty
06 Adore
07 Just My Luck
08 Heartache-Heartbreak
09 Obsession
10 Alcohol
11 Every Day Sunshine
12 Keeper of the Gate
13 Freedom
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"No pretension, no ‘trends’, no hackneyed attempts to sound like a million other
bands that are making money and grabbing Rolling Stone/Spin headlines - this
here is just straight-up, plug-in and rip stuff, and man oh man, Post-Haste does
it well. Recommended for fans of the true spirit of being in a rock band." -
Delusions of Adequacy
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POST-HASTE
Untitled
CD / IONIK020-3
Graphic Design by
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01 Frozen Thin
02 Kilometers
03 Academy of 3
04 Chemical Favours
05 Narrow Peaks
06 Green Alumni
07 i
08 New Brighton The Mighty
09 Insides Out
10 Sound Steelers
11 Practice Prude
12 Symmetry
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"Indiana-based Mike Detmer, operating under the nom de rock the
SpectacularFantastic, serves up an impressive assortment of tunes on his second
solo album,
New Equations for the Simple Mind. Recorded in his living room, Detmer is an
instrumental everyman, handling all of the instrumental chores with the
proficiency
of a veteran band. "All Alone" launches the set with organ flourishes that
evolve into a Beatles-derived lo-fi stomp, and as the disc progresses Detmer
wears his influences like a favorite shirt. "Dream Song" is a lilting, acoustic
ballad reminiscent of Spring Hill Fair-era Go-Betweens, while "Baby" rocks along
like Pavement
circa Brighten the Corners. Detmer's regular Joe vocals on tracks like "Depression" are far outstripped by his songwriting pen, but the guy's moniker
is dead on
much of the time, with "Greentree" — a delightful but brief love song — serving
as further evidence. All told, New Equations for the Simple Mind is a welcome
collection
of adept indie rock. - AMG (All Music Guide)
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CD / IONIK018-2
01 All Alone
02 Depression
03 Dream Song
04 Green Tree
05 Why Did You Cry
06 Baby
07 Who I Am
08 Wake Me Up
09 It's Alright
10 Spaceship
11 Mind Blow
12 Wings of Time
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