Stephen Stivs - JOTT EP

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I present to you all the first release from a veteran of the Anti-Raunchwagon line-up: the "JOTT EP" by Stephen Stivs (i.e. Jayson Homyak of The Impetuous Impregnables and The Indiana Beach Boys).

If this album art were a baseball player up at bat, he or she would be out.

1. Strike one: ghetto photoshop job.
2. Strike two: a fat kid with a mullet (only skinny, hetero mullets allowed).
3. Strike three: Placing two scorpios in the same two-dimensional artwork always brings folly to its receivers.

 So far I have had swamp ass for the last two days since I received the master files from Stephen. Nonetheless, here at Anti-Raunchwagon Records we allow for the artist to have creative control of their music from conception to release.

The distinguishing factors which the artist chose for this release are first and foremost the title "JOTT EP" being transcribed in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, which is a rare commodity nowadays. Secondly, the avant-garde way of naming tracks by numbers that don't quite coincide with the track number. Furthermore, in stark contrast to the album title, the track titles contain NO CAPITAL LETTERS. Now talk about postmodern...this shit is postfuture.

Jayson Homyak does a great job of capturing the desolation and intense sadness found between minor chords in the winter sunlight. Somehow between the laptop drums and the almost baroque guitar riffs, he finds a place to do some things that have never been done before, and some things better than others have done them. For example, the sixth track on the EP called "five" contains alien doo-wop vocals over a droning organ glitch ballad. Put that in your pipe and smoke it Urethra Franklin! All in all, its a fantastic debut album from a fantastic guy. Eat it up you ad-campaign victimzzzzz.

Mlac - No Parents High School

No Parents High School by Mlac

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"It looks and sounds soooo good!!...Mlac rules!!" -WCAT News

"The album is great by the by." -Brandon Mylenek

"I still can't get over the Mlac album." -Ryan Taber

"So fucking good Scott...Love love the album (he's a tweaker)...Dude we get to dissect a froooggg..." -Jayson Homyak

"Another great Mlac album." -Chops

"Well done sir. Beautifully executed. Mlac is sooo fucking awesome. We've been loving that shit." -Jon Faloon

"I loved it. It's a really beautiful album, much more musically taut and refined than I expected. The vocals, the guitar work, the concept, everything worked. I want to listen to this album while driving in the summer with the windows down. My favorite tracks are Suds, Brando Cry (the last part especially), Whisper From the Stars (holy shit so good), and No Parents (is that DMX? What?). But seriously, it's a great album front to back, you should be proud of it." -Peter Barlow, Livonia Underground

"No comment." -Jason Edgil and Scott Crossman (sang in unison hillbilly harmony)

Anti-Raunchwagon Records would explode in teenage-wet-dream ecstasy if it were any prouder to announce the release of the second studio album from Royal Oak, MI band "Mlac". The band name is pronounced like 'block' with an 'm' instead of a 'b' (or 'mlock'). Following the release of "Raking The Neighbor's Lawn", No Parents High School goes in a slightly different direction. Maintaining the oddball tuning on their guitars of FACFCF, they cranked out eight new tracks that clock in at an unremarkable 24 minutes and 15 seconds. These songs, though short, cut off all excess fat of modern music, hardly ever repeating choruses or remaining in one place for too long. The album's overall sound is characterized by a return to their youthful bliss, flying around the hallways of the only high school in Neverland like a four-person embodiment of Peter Pan on an eternal, consistent dosage of LSD.