Flippin
Records is proud to announce that our first release will be a single for the
track Fever Rising by Jonny Halifax and the Howling Truth!
Birmingham-born
Jonny Halifax (vocals, lap steel, harmonica, rhythm machine) and musical partner Marvin (illustrator and painter Martin Kingdom, who tackles guitar and
percussion) conjure an unholy brew of Suicide, Captain Beefheart and sonic
drone on "Fever Rising", which is taken from their monolithic
13-track album on Greasy Noise, "The Bestial Floor", and features
Mark Lanegan collaborator Duke Garwood on free jazz clarinet.
"The Bestial Floor" comes across as akin to prime Black
Sabbath re-tooling the Delta blues in a deserted Black Country steelworks, with
Hammer horror cinematography. The album was titled
after a line from "The Magi" by the poet WB Yeats, a member of
Aleister Crowley's Order of the Golden Dawn, and follows on thematically and
sonically from Jonny's lauded debut full-length outing, "Invocation of the
Demon Other", released under the moniker Honkeyfinger some five years
back, and last year's cassette-only, litho-clad "Beasts" EP…
So what has TAFKAH
(The Artist Formerly Known As Honkeyfinger) been doing, apart from working as a
film editor with the likes of Julien Temple and hunkering down alongside Marvin
in The Howling Truth's sonic bunker, which is chockfull of vintage synths, fuzz
machines, valve amps and more aural weapons of choice? Well, the stylishly
disheveled duo have hit the road across the UK and Europe, melting minds and
faces while touring with the likes of The Jim Jones Revue and Captain
Beefheart's Magic Band, and also stormed such festivals as Trip Out
(Bedfordshire) and Simon Says (Leicester). Along the way, they've recruited
such stellar fans as Tom 'Son of John Peel' Ravenscroft (BBC Radio 6), former
Ride linchpin Mark Gardener (who mixed "The Bestial Floor") and the
aforementioned Lord Yatesbury. Jonny also found time to contribute to albums by
Orange Goblin and Andrew Weatherall's Two Lone Swordsmen, and he's also about
to play on a set by Baby Godzilla.
Vive le Rock magazine
described "The Bestial Floor" as "an unholy amalgam of minimalistic
industrial noise crossed with acid blues and psychedelic punk", stating
"it's patently obvious that this is a debut of colossal proportions"
and mentioning Al Jourgensen, Jon Spencer and Nine Inch Nails fer good measure.
That's a pretty good encapsulation of the primal appeal of "Fever
Rising" and its parent album, but for the full effect, just press play or
drop the needle to conjure the best nightmares you've never had...
www.thehowlingtruth.com/
FLIP001
includes the previously released track Fever Rising and an unreleased
instrumental track The Sloth. This release has it all: variant vinyl, hand
printed variant covers that are meant to be unfolded and framed, slipmats, buttons and a completist box set! Here is a
more detailed list.
The variant
edition will be on random colored bong vinyl! (US limited to 40, UK Limited to 35)
The standard
edition will be on high quality black vinyl! (US limited to 140, UK limited to 60)
Jonny hand
printed a special edition cover that was meant to be unfolded and framed as a
piece of art! There is an edition of 10 flat stock covers that will ship rolled
(without vinyl, all other covers will be folded.)
A signed edition of 14 (4 of which will ship randomly in mail orders!)
An edition of 15 variant covers that will
be randomly included with variant vinyl orders!
An edition of 20 variant covers that will
randomly ship with standard vinyl orders!
A limited
edition of 50 full color metallic backed 2.25 inch buttons!
A limited edition of 50 full color 7” slipmats!
Last but not
least is a limited edition of 10 ”Completist” box sets! These will include 1
hand printed/signed cover, 1 US & UK variant vinyl, 1 US & UK
standard vinyl, 1 Test Pressing, 1 Promo vinyl, 1 slipmat, 1 button, 1 sticker,
1 Flippin records sticker and 2 Flippin guitar picks (one of each design
released so far). These box sets will be numbered 1-10 and include the
coinciding numbered vinyl. Due to the random nature of bong color variant,
these box sets will include the handpicked top 10 coolest copies!
Release date
and price points to be announced soon! For now, head to our store page and grab one of the 10 flatstock covers!
