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Burnt Toast Vinyl and Lost in Ohio are proud to announce the first-ever vinyl pressing of Fall Sounds by Velour 100, due Fall 2026, in time for the album’s 30th anniversary. In 1995 at Eastern Michigan University, two people made a record: Trey Many (drummer for 4AD’s His Name Is Alive) and Amon Krist (an art student and daughter of celebrated folk singer Jan Krist). Warren Defever recorded it, bringing the same atmospheric instincts that had made His Name Is Alive one of the most singular acts in the 4AD catalog. In 1996, Tooth & Nail released the result: Fall Sounds. Comparisons were made to bands like Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, and Low, but were incomplete. Fall Sounds had something those records didn’t have, a folk-like earthiness beneath the shimmer. The songs move from the reverie of “Stare Into Light” through the gorgeous, sun-catching acoustic strum of “Evergreen,” to “Flourish,” the album’s most kinetic moment. The closer, “Dub Space,” runs over eight minutes of guitar fingerpicking and cymbal wash, landing like a long exhale. The album lived for 30 years on CD and cassette, gathering a devoted following that described it in quiet superlatives, with an increasing demand for a vinyl release. In the fall of…Continue readingVelour 100 : Fall Sounds

Just ahead of btv’s 30th Anniversary, which happens this summer, we have 3 important new vinyl releases. Jetenderpaul’s The Woolen Spires has always been one of the favorite releases in the label’s history. This was originally a co-release with our good friends in Southern California, Velvet Blue Music. Now, so many years later, The Woolen Spires joins The Modal Lines on vinyl. Post-graduate indie pop, with influences ranging from Guided By Voices, The Apples In Stereo, Kleenex Girl Wonder, to Magnetic Fields. This was bedroom pop at its finest, recorded in bedrooms to a digital 8-track, beautifully lo-fi. On coke bottle green vinyl. “Weird and wired without withholding the jams at the expense of some aloof artiness, The Woolen Spires is a mix-and-match, cut-and-paste affair of home recorded oddities and lo-fi rockers, the latter certain to get the toes tappin’ and the former serving to get the head a-scratchin’.  These are perfect pop songs forever gone astray once they leave the boys’ heads and become ensconced on the recorder.  Gems, all.”– Steve Brydges, The Copper Press In the Summer of 2024, I went with Soporus to San Jose, Costa Rica. Soporus played two shows, the first with the excellent A…Continue readingSpring 2026 Releases

In early 2020, HUNTINGTONS were set to release their 8th full-length album, ¡Muerto, Carcel, O Rocanrol!, their 1st in nearly 17 years. They were able to play two album release shows before the pandemic postponed their support effort for the album. Now 5 years later, ¡Muerto, Carcel, O Rocanrol! Renacido, is ready for issue. It’s this full-length album completely remixed by Perry Leenhouts at Point Break Sound (Randells, The Windowsill, Travoltas, Geoff Palmer, The Apers) and remastered with update cover art. The Renacido version finds HUNTINGTONS reborn and ready to bring these songs to the masses in a refreshed way. ¡Muerto, Carcel, O Rocanrol! Renacido! is a career defining album that will bring together old and new fans, symbolizing the possibilities that exist after nearly 30 years. “Muerto” (Dead) is where the band could have been, had they given up on their career completely in 2005, when they played a “final show”. “Carcel” (Jail) is where they would be had they continued using the same 3 chords, playing the same small clubs, covering endless amounts of Ramones songs and never branching out or taking risks. “O Rocanrol” (Or Rock-N-Roll) is where they are: doing what they want, when they want,…Continue readingHUNTINGTONS : ¡Muerto, Carcel, O Rocanrol! Renacido!