Tin Horn Prayer, “Get Busy Dying” LP

cover-tin-horn-prayerTin Horn Prayer
Get Busy Dying
(Bermuda Mohawk Productions)

If Tin Horn Prayer‘s Get Busy Dying was nothing but a one-sided single containing only the song “Crime Scene Cleanup Team,” it would still be worth purchasing. With the opening line, “Crime Scene Cleanup Team – I’m sorry for the mess I’m gonna make,” as well as the grimly picturesque “The first thing that you’ll notice as you waner down the halls / Is that red Picasso painting that I painted on the walls,” it’s an eerily jaunty murder ballad from the portrait of a suicide. It’s a modern-day update of the “bank come to take your house” tale that’s been told ever since there was a bank to take your house.
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The Slow Death, “A Little Bit More”

cover-slowdeathIf you follow punk rock cartoonist Mitch Clem at all, you’ll know that he’s been working on a super-secret project for about the past year, which has pretty much kept him from releasing anything aside from the occasional comic for Razorcake. His project has been revealed, and it’s a fucking doozy, courtesy of Silver Sprocket

Not only is it the debut issue of Turnstyle Comix, it’s a 7-inch record! Tour stories from Jesse Thorson about his bands the Slow Death and the Falling Angels, as well as a back-up story from Mikey Erg! And if pages upon pages (40, to be precise) of gorgeously water-colored art, courtesy of Clem and the Nation of Amanda weren’t enough, you get the four-song debut from the Slow Death. It’s up for pre-order now, with the first 500 copies on bad-idea blue vinyl.
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