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Brooklyn label Cardboard Records unleashed a 57-track behemoth of a compilation today, March 4. The double-disc collection is called Love and Circuits: A Cardboard Records Compilation From Aa to Zs.

In addition to the titular bands and Cardboard owners Parts & Labor, there are contributions from High Places, Oneida, Girl Talk side project Trey Told 'Em, Ecstatic Sunshine, Fuck Buttons, Wilderness, Matt & Kim, Gowns, Japanther, Maps & Atlases, Pterodactyl, These Are Powers, Lucky Dragons, Numbers, the Oh Sees, Flying, and Shy Child, among others, all alphabetized by name. What's more, most of the tunes are exclusive to this compilation!

On March 12, Cardboard will descend on Austin, Texas with a SXSW showcase at Habana Calle 6 featuring sets from comp contributors Parts & Labor, Gowns, Ecstatic Sunshine, Pterodactyl, Shooting Spires, These Are Powers, and Best Fwends.

In other news from the Cardboard camp, the label will release Ecstatic Sunshine's latest full-length offering, Way, on April 8. Ecstatic Sunshine join their label bosses Parts & Labor on a bunch of tour dates this month.

Love and Circuits: A Cardboard Records Compilation From Aa to Zs:

Disc 1:

01 Aa: "Who's the Boss"
02 Action Beat: "More Hookie"
03 Best Fwends: "Skate or Live"
04 Big Bear: "19"
05 Bilge Pump: "Rise and Fall of the Alpha Male"
06 Bipolar Bear: "Gaza Striptease"
07 Books on Tape: "Orphann"
08 Collin Mel: "Bump in My Throat"
09 Craig Colorusso: "#43 Greg McCarthy"
10 Crime in Choir: "Broken Before a Frozen God"
11 Crito & Doily: "Magpies"
12 Double Dagger: "Ruby"
13 Dynamite Arrows: "Systems"
14 Ecstatic Sunshine: "Crystal in the Sky"
15 Fat Day: "I Smell Poop Gub"
16 Fathers Day: "I Have So Much Respect for Women"
17 Flying: "Minors"
18 Fuck Buttons: "Ribs Out"
19 Golden Error: "Hunted"
20 The Good Good: "Look Hello"
21 Gowns: "What If Not You"
22 High Places: "Canary"
23 Ho-ag: "Handsome"
24 Hunting Lodge: "(k)Palixio, Nature Wyzered"
25 Insect Factory: "Meditation (With Wind) "
26 Japanther: "Charlie Hustle (Free Pete Rose) "
27 Jerk: "Cobra"
28 Justice Yeldham: "062 Tienen 080304"
29 Leaders: "Lightheart"

Disc 2:

01 Lovid: "40 Winks"
02 Lucky Dragons: "Where's Adam"
03 Maps & Atlases: "Songs for Ghosts to Haunt To"
04 Matt & Kim: "Silver Tiles"
05 Monster Dudes: "No New School"
06 Mr. Baby: "A Death in the Family"
07 Necking: "Swinging Ear"
08 Neptune [ft. Can't]: "23"
09 Numbers: "Can't Remember"
10 The Oh Sees: "The Killer"
11 Oneida: "Winter Mind"
12 Parts & Labor: "No Night"
13 Pope: "Milk Faced Whitey"
14 Pterodactyl: "5 Minutes in 2 Minutes"
15 Raccoo-oo-oon: "Garden Suns"
16 Shooting Spires: "Sailin' On"
17 The Show Is the Rainbow: "How Do You Spell Success?"
18 Shy Child: "Down on Yourself"
19 These Are Powers: "The South Angel"
20 Trey Told 'Em: "All of the Other Songs Remixed"
21 Tunnel of Love: "P.T.K."
22 Tuxedo Killers: "Don't Get Me Started"
23 The USA Is a Monster: "Okeepa Ceremony Acoustic"
24 Vaz: "Birth of the Universe"
25 Voltage: "Phil Taylor"
26 When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth: "It's Not the Heat It's the Humidity"
27 Wilderness: "Beautiful Alarms (Live in Slovenia)"
28 Zs: "In My Dream I Shot a Monk"

Way:

01 B
02 Herrons
03 Perrier

Ecstatic Sunshine:

03-04 Baltimore, MD - Floristree *#
03-05 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 *
03-06 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree *
03-07 Pensacola, FL - Sluggo's *
03-08 Sarasota, FL - New College *
03-10 Shreveport, LA - Jackrabbit Lounge *
03-11 Houston, TX - Mink *
03-12 Austin, TX - Habana Calle 6 (Cardboard Records SXSW showcase) *
03-14 Austin, TX - Rancho Relaxo (Impose Magazine SXSW party)
03-15 Austin, TX - Todd P Not SXSW party
03-16 Knoxville, TN - Pilot Light
03-27 Brooklyn, NY - Masonic Temple ^
04-05 Princeton, NJ - Terrace Club at Princeton %
04-18 Brooklyn, NY - Market Hotel $

* with Parts & Labor
# with Double Dagger
^ with Sunset Rubdown
% with Dirty Projectors
$ with High Places, Cex, Zs