Primitive Motion "Home of the Future" art book & CDR

Brisbane's best modern primitivist pop group Primitive Motion have just unleashed a beautiful new EP, Home of the Future (via Leighton Craig's Kindling label), in an edition of only 30 copies. The 3" CDR comes housed in a gorgeous art book built by Sandra Selig, with photographs by SS, LC and Patrida Blake. Not only is this their best recorded work to date, it's an astounding package...




"Brisbane art-pop explorers Leighton Craig & Sandra Selig return with an extended play opus HOME OF THE FUTURE. The signature elements are intact: Martin Rev's rhythm machines, thoughtful Casio melodies, wind instruments, but this time the vocals are bolder, more emotive…shades of Young Marble Giants' haunting classics & as cosmic as anything the German hippies in Amon Duul I conjured in-between breast-feedings. The closing six-minute INTERIOR SEA, built on a slow-burn boss nova beat, is a bright light on the current pop landscape." - Glenn Donaldson

Visit the Kindling Blog to order your copy (there's not many left).

Free downloads of the EP are available now at Kindling's Bandcamp page.

2011 favorites at Soft Abuse HQ

Just like every year, 2011 saw a heap good records trickle out... In compiling this list of favorites I'm surely forgetting a few things that I really loved, but below is what I can recall at this moment, listed in no particular order.



Full-lengths

The UV Race - Homo (In the Red)
Blackout Beach - Fuck Death (Dead Oceans)
Stare Case - Lose Today (DeStijl)
Bill Callahan - Apocalypse (Drag City)
Cass McCombs - Wit's End (Domino)
Cass McCombs - Humor Risk (Domino)
Condominium - Warm Home (Condominium)
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 (Kranky)
Zomes - Earth Grid (Thrill Jockey)
Stan Hubbs - Crystal (re, Companion)
Martin Newell - Songs for a Fallow Land (re, Fixed Identity)
Destroyer - Kaputt (Merge)
Juma Sultan's Aboriginal Music Society - Father of Origin (re, Eremite)
Various - Still Going in Offices (Savoury Days)
Der Teenage Panzerkorps - German Reggae (Holidays)
Horrid Red - Celestial Joy (Holidays/Brave Mysteries)
Angus Maclise / Tony Conrad - Dreamweapon III (re, Boo-Hooray)
Vernon Wray - Wasted (re, Sebastian Speaks)
Sic Alps - Napa Asylum (Drag City)
Jerusalem & the Starbaskets - Dost (DeStijl)
Grouper - A I A (Yellow Electric)
Jakob Olausson - Morning & Sunrise (DeStijl)
Matthew De Gennaro - Adversaria (TU-134)
The Axemen - Three Virgins, Three Versions, Three Visions (Siltbreeze)
Ryan Garbes - Sweet Hassle (Hello Sunshine)
Lighted - Queendom (Lighten-Up Sounds)
Papercuts - Fading Parade (Sub Pop)
Six Organs of Admittance - Asleep on the Floodplain (Drag City)
Total Control - Henge Beat (Iron Lung)
Kitchen's Floor - Look Forward to Nothing (Siltbreeze)
Various - Krypton Ten (Unwucht)
Belong - Common Era (Kranky)
KWJAZ - KWJAZ (Not Not Fun)
The Garbage & The Flowers - Stoned Rehearsal (re, Quemada)
Steven R. Smith - Old Skete (Worstward)
Myrrh - Myrrh (Self-Released)
Tinariwen - Tassili (Anti/V2)
Larry Marshall - Queer & Wonder (re, Rare Youth)
Bobb Trimble - Crippled Dog Band (re, Yoga)
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo (Matador)
Pigeons - No Shore (Sixteen Tambourines)
Slugfuckers - Three Feet Behind Glass / Instant Classic (re, Insolito)
Suspensers - FMLOL (Self-Released)
Peaking Lights - 936 (Not Not Fun)



Singles / EPs

Real Numbers - Tear it in Two (Florida's Dying)
Lower Dens - Deer Knives (Sub Pop)
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Walking in Unison (Captcha)
Mad Nanna - Mad Nanna (Eggy)
Mad Nanna - I've Been Talking (Albert's Basement)
Jonathan Halper - Puce Moment (Bootleg)
Art Museums - S.H.O.P.P.I.N.G. (Dulcitone)
Grudge - When Christine Comes Around (re, Mighty Mouth)
The UV Race - Acid Trip (Sweet Rot)
The Mantles - Raspberry Thighs (SDZ)
Muura - Untitled (Albert's Basement)
Scrotum Poles- Revelation (re, Ducitone)
Just Urbain - Everybody Loves (re, 540)
Three Legged Race - Raining Order (NNA Tapes)
Cuffs - Privilege (Ride the Snake)
Lures - New Boy (Salvaged)
The Moondogs - Heads I Win (re, Sing Sing)
Gold-Bears - Something to Think About (Cloudberry)


Last but not least, a recap of all things Soft Abuse from 2011, listed chronologically --

Horrid Red - Pink Flowers EP
Primitive Motion - Certain Materials EP
Brute Heart - Lonely Hunter
Horrid Red - Silent Party EP
Julian Lynch - Music for How Mata Hari Lost Her Head and Found Her Body
Pumice - Pebbles (remastered LP)
Primitive Motion - By Arc or Chord
Pigeons - They Sweetheartstammers
Ulaan Khol - La Catacomb

& the above list, in playlist form -

Soft Abuse 2011 by Soft Abuse

Primitive Motion two-part interview with Splice Today

Primitive Motion's recent email interview with Ray Cummings appears - in two parts - via Splice Today & it's a great one. Aside from the insight that these things generally provide, this interview also includes some new & unreleased tracks from upcoming PM releases.

Part one is here and part two is here.

We've still got copies of their debut 7" (here), and first full-length on cassette (here) and CD-R (here) -- all very limited.

Primitive Motion debut new song live

Brisbane's Primitive Motion (Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig) recently played their first-ever live show. The duo debuted a new song called 'Home of the Lone Coast (Tears of the Lost Ghost),' and it's killer. Check out the live recordings from their newly minted Soundcloud page -

Primitive Motion - Home of the Lone Coast (Tears of the Lost Ghost) by Kindlingrecords

Primitive Motion live debut tomorrow night!

Primitive Motion (Sandra Selig & Leighton Craig) make their live debut tomorrow night at the Bastard Theatre of Brisbane. Here's the word from LC himself -

11th hour notice of Primitive Motion's debut gig tomorrow night at The Bastard Theartre of Brisbane #3, Contortionist Studios, 1/13 Lucinda St, Woolloongabba. 7pm, BYO.

Expect new wave. With sax.

Playing with Whores, Brain Drain, Pink Mouse and Keptis.

We'll have a few copies of our Soft Abuse single for sale at the show.

PM's debut single is available now & their first full-length (By Arc or Chord) is coming up shortly...

Primitive Motion video for "Certain Materials"

Direct from Brisbane: Primitive Motion have shared a video for the lead-off / title tune from their newly released Certain Materials EP. Its a good one...

Primitive Motion debut 7" released 22 March

Australian duo Primitive Motion are set to release their debut 7", Certain Materials, via Soft Abuse on 22 March. Their spontaneous pop emissions puff in a manner similar to those by The Door and Window and Fluxus artist Joe Jones from years past. With preset keyboard, cosmic flute lines, percussion & lyrics cut from old astronomy texts, Primitive Motion churn a peculiar charmed pop brew. Leighton Craig and Sandra Selig are Primitive Motion. Look for more from them in the months ahead...



Certain Materials, released 22 March in an edition of 300 with hand-printed sleeves and complimentary downloads.
$7.50 ppd USA
$9.00 ppd Canada / Mexico
$11.00 ppd elsewhere