#quailbones

What’s up, True Believers? Things have been real quiet on our ends, but we’ve been hard at work on new releases, a new update, and organizing the First Annual Infestational (don’t know what that is? Well, take a gander over here.) We’re taking a little time to hit you with some new tracks from the Bug and give you the inside scoop on all things Not Normal!

The big scoop(s):

1) An update’ll go up this Friday with the Baus and Quailbones tapes, new releases from Lumpy, LVEUM, Deranged and World Gone Mad, new MRRs, and, MOST IMPORTANTLY, passes (weekend or otherwise) for the Infestational.

2) Next week we’ll have another update with Gross/Allergy, HJD, and Espejos tapes and hopefully more distro ish.

3) Speaking of Espejos, the great new Chicago band featuring 3/4s of Sin Orden, they’re doing a nice little weekend jaunt to Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Iowa City with rock ‘n’ roll heartbreakers Porno Glows. Catch them in your local basement 11/11-11/13, ya mugs!

4) We’ll be uploading tracks from a lot of upcoming releases this week. If you haven’t been keeping tabs, and Lord knows we haven’t, that means songs from the following ragers:

NNT#049 5/6 Gross & Allergy Live On Valentine’s Day CS NNT#049 7/8 HJD - ‘83 Demo CS NNT#049 9/10 Quailbones - Self Titled CS NNT#049 19/20 Baus - Will Be Right Back CS NNT#049 99/100 Espejos - Demo CS NNT∞ Not Normal Presents​.​.​. Hardcore NNT#051 The Bug - Humbug; or, So Many Awful Things EP (co-release w/ IFB) NNT#052 Lemonade EP (co-release w/ Thrilling Living) NNT#053 Tigress EP NNT#054 Cherry Death - Saccharine 2x LP (co-release with Syncro Systems) NNT#055 Liquids - Hot Liqs LP (co-release w/ Hip Kid Records) NNT#056 The Floor Above - Assault On Still Life LP NNT#057 American Hate LP 5) If you haven’t yet, sign up for our mailing list. The first quarterly edition of Not Normal Digest will be available physically and digitally soon.

FRESH STREAM: QUAILBONES - "LORD DION'S HOUSE OF DISCOVERY"

Within the initial minute of “We’re Good Men”, the first of three tracks featured on Lord Dion’s House of Discovery, you should have a pretty good idea of what to expect over the course of this brief EP. Battered guitar riffs, rapid drumming, and vocal echoes too reverberated to decipher set the initial tone, clanging away as a soaring shout-a-long “woahhhh woahhh-ohhh-ohhh-ohh” lights up the sky. This one minute microcosm neatly sums up the formulaQuailbones successfully utilize for the content and hooks of Lord Dion.

Based out of Murray, KY, Quailbones tear it up here with uptempo garage rock and haunted Beach Boys vocal melodies for 9 frenzied minutes, like a gang of landlocked ghosts gunning for a coastline to terrorize. The combination of completely blown out vocals (honestly, just try to decipher a single line), a consistent velocity, and similarly written melodies causes the entire EP blend together like a three-part suite. Once that inaugural “woahhhhhh” is launched, it is best to simply unfocus the mind and let the ghosts have their fun.

The 7” is available in the US courtesy of Ghost Orchard Records, while the digital album is available here.