THANKSGIVING/DINGLEVAULT- STIFF KITTENS "PLEASANT REST VALLEY"

 Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you're enjoying all kinds of delicious casseroles, dishes, desserts, and drinks with friends and family and not working and debating on what nearby delivery place to order thanksgiving dinner on!(kill me, please kill me.)

Here at the Dingle Homefront we're starting digital reissues of older-ish releases. This means a heap of bands from the heydays and generally unreleased or unavailable material not found out of the confides of self-duplicated sharpie-penned CD-Rs. These are all just free downloads because all of the bands are broken up/inactive/dead, and done to show what you had missed OR what you didn't know about OR too busy playing bad high school music to realize something cool(ego puff).





Anywhoo, Starting things off is Pleasant Rest Valley by Millstadt's own rural gloom family band Stiff Kittens. You can listen to it right here!











 Based out of the small farmtown of Millstadt, IL, four cousins formed the band in 2006 with a odd blend of powerpop, garage, pop, and gloomy vibes and went on till the spring of 2009. Check out their second album and with it all the discomfort of a chilly winter in the early new year, snow covering the road and knowing you can't hit the breaks without going into a uncontrolled spin and crash and the sound of windshield wipers grinded down to the rubber frame, making a screeching dragging sound as you attempt to clear the snow out of your point of view.

 

Keep a eye out for more old releases/unreleased stuff in the not to distant future. Up next is the unreleased album by Belleville's Oh No You Didnt!

DING053 - TRAUMA HARNESS, TRAUMA DEMOLITIONAL

 

Release 053 is a washed-out friction hum otherwise known as Trauma Demolitional, by a relatively new band, Trauma Harness. A STL/Belleville power trio featuring members bands such as Shaved Women and Egg Chef, The release, recorded on a 4-Track cassette deck, is a fuzzy and hazy swamp of gloomy, yet unmistakeably poppy songs. The first side blazes out with "Eternal Return Company" and going straight into electric anthem "Hydroelectricity", before slowing gears into "End of Days", then ending with the ear-piercing blast of "Indentured Servitude". The second side kicks out with the drum chant of "Motel Hell" and the stop-go juggling of "Completely Frigid", before ending with the eerie drone of "Scrap Brain Zone", wrapping the cassette up.

           You can buy it directly from Dingle here, for the minimal retail of $2.00, and download the entire release for free off of their bandcamp, which is linked at the top of the post. Enjoy the indecisive weather of fall with the right music!

DING052 - EGG CHEF, CHRYSALIS DAYS

Release 052, a compilation tape of Egg Chef from Belleville, IL, who are described by the STL's own Riverfront Times as "Weirdos in hazmat suits who shows up to play and leave to return to their damp basements in Belleville", the tape is a packed-in closet of early material from 2009 to odds and ends of unreleased and live junk. The first seven songs are straight off the 12" paper folder babydingle release of "Gurion", while the five songs following are off the CD-R Split with Carbondale, IL's These Magnificent Tapeworms on Hi Fi Octopi. What follows are odds and ends of live tracks and demos, totaling in to around 30 minutes of garbled abstract leaking punk and fuzz.
         You can buy the tape directly from Dingle here, for the whopping price of $3.00. Also check the link at the top to get more info on the band and their newest releases, etc etc etc.

DING051 - CARTE DE VISITE, ERMAN EP

Yeah! Spooky/eerie release number 051, the ERMAN EP by none other than the wonderful Carte De Visite of Belleville, IL. It's actually the pseudonym and musical vehicle of Ryan Birkner, and whereas some of the self-releases of theirs have been him on all the instruments, this EP actually is played by the live band variant of Carte, who you can find haphazardly playing shows in the STL/Belleville commonwealth. The five song cassette plays through fast on a rush of energetic instrumentals and monotone scoffs. Fans of jangly 80s alternative will find this acceptable. Starting off the cassette is a re-recording of a song off the first EP, "Person Perception" featuring a guest appearance by Starcruncher's TJ Starcruncher on guitar, where it then drifts into the foggy acoustic-fuzz instrumental "In The Belljar", ending side A. The second side kicks off with the instrumental "Old Man Pockets" and lashes into "Fancy Feast", before ending on "Something Different", the climax of the song ending with a repeating chant.
            The cassette has a 50 copy run of the first batch and is also up for free download on their bandcamp, which is linked at the top of the post, along with alot of their self-releases. You can pick up the physical tape directly from Dingle right here, for the puny price of $2.00. Check it out, give it a listen, forget about it quickly after a momentary listen and final judgement five seconds in.

Nu

Hi! Because Myspace has gone bust, this is the nu home for Dingle-related goodness. Stick around for updates and stuff, because I'm sure they'll be rolling in! Yeah!

Feel free to send all stuff to(or request for free stuff/cataloger/things i find in my room) 
Dingle Records
11 North Kossuth
Millstadt, IL
62260

You can still check out ye ole Myspace if you're interested in listening to bands no longer together and have no relevance, but thats completely your call! have at it!


www.myspace.com/dinglerecords