Old Time Relijun, C.O.C.O. Prep New Discs on K, Tour

Old Time Relijun photo by Michael Elvin

If the stodginess of certain recent indie rock trends has you yearning for something just a wee bit more outré, K Records to the rescue once again! The Calvin Johnson-spawned imprint has a pair of tasty releases a-brewin' for the latter months of '07, sure to scare off your annoying dorm-mate who insists he's all indie 'n shit.

First up, a bumpin' new helping of beats and sass from the Olympia kids behind C.O.C.O. Olivia Ness and Chris Sutton return September 11 with C.O.C.O. Play Drums + Bass, their third full length offering. It's the follow-up to 2002's The C.O.C.O. Sound, and to be fair, your dorm-mate might actually dig it.

Next we have another clangorous platter from the Beefhearted crew that comprises Old Time Relijun. Catharsis in Crisis compiles fourteen crucially cathartic cuts and hits record shops like a double bass smashed over your head on October 9. To celebrate, captain Arrington de Dionyso and his trusty shipmates will take to the high seasroad beginning tomorrow night (July 20) in Seattle. Along the way they'll join many of their K brethren at the What the Heck Fest, going down this weekend.

Before the Crisis and the Drums + Bass, however, K delivers the previously reported latest opus from Mirah, Share This Place: Stories and Observations, on August 7.

Catharsis in Crisis:

01 Indestructible Life!
02 The Tightest Cage
03 Daemon Meeting
04 Liberation
05 Garden of Pomegranates
06 Akavishim
07 Dark Matter
08 The Circular Ruins
09 Veleno Mortale
10 Dig Down Deeper
11 A Wild Harvest
12 The Second Day of Creation
13 In the Crown of Lost Light
14 The Invisible New

C.O.C.O. Play Drums + Bass:

01 Good
02 For You
03 Your Own Secret Way/Sly
04 We Gotta Right
05 Crime
06 You Think But You Don't/Tamara Dobson
07 Much to Learn
08 Ess.Ay.
09 Asteroids
10 High Low
11 The End

Old Time Relijun dates:

07-20 Seattle, WA - Comet Tavern
07-22 Anacortes, WA - What the Heck Fest
07-25 Portland, OR - TBA
07-27 Portland, OR - Ground Kontrol
08-09 Kennwick, WA - 321 Kennewick
08-10 Missoula, MT - Total Fest
08-11 Spokane, WA - TBA
08-24 Eugene, OR - John Henry's
08-25 San Francisco, CA - The Knockout
08-26 Santa Cruz, CA - Blue Lagoon
08-27 San Diego, CA - Marine Street Beach
08-28 San Diego, CA - Casbah
08-29 Upland, CA - Baldy Brewery
08-30 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
08-31 Los Angeles, CA - The Smell
09-01 Oakland, CA - 21 Grand
09-04 Davis, CA - Delta of Venus
09-05 Chico, CA - TBA
09-06 Eureka, CA - Accident Gallery
09-07 Portland, OR - Satyricon
09-08 Seattle, WA - TBA
09-09 Bellingham, WA - Nightlight