Male Gaze - King Leer

Male Gaze - King LeerLimited vinyl LP pressing of this 2016 release. Weirdo punk supergroup Male Gaze is back with nine new chunks of octave pedal abuse and sultry croons with King Leer, their first proper long player. This time around, the trio of Matt Jones (ex Blasted Canyons), Mark Kaiser (ex Mayyors), and Adam Cimino (ex The Mall) have added former Blasted Canyons and Tiaras member Adam Finken on second guitar and resident Castle Face engineer Chris Woodhouse behind

but you have to go through with it

The arrangements here include collaborations with musician friends that share a fascination with mining specific folk forms for universal and timeless truths

And all filtered through an instinctive

Lane Steinberg and Irwin Chusid

The whimsical and malleable nature of sonic delights also grants a path for collaborators to flourish: the sparkling flows of Nitty Scott on "Sonia" and Saba on "Basquiat

an unusually brisk reading of "Come Rain or Come Shine"

Foo Fighters

as well as Robert Tepper's lone top-40 hit

pianist and activist LP Giobbi shares Light Places - her long-awaited and highly anticipated full-length debut album

this short but powerful collection captures the band in their formative stage

"Unauthorized duplication shall result in getting your ass beat

and at Orange Pavilion