RELEASES:

SHOWS:

02.19.13 Brooklyn, NY - Ho_use (28 Lawton St. #1) w/ Turbosleaze, Suspensers, Malwina Andruczyk

02.20.13 Providence, RI - Building 16 w/ Jacob The Terrible, Black Wampum, Suicide Magnets

02.21.13 Worcester, MA - Distant Castle w/ Jacob The Terrible, Black Wampum, Big Mess

02.22.13 Northampton, MA - The Jazz Club w/ Christian Businessmen, Pale Skin Dark Circles

02.23.13 Brattleboro, VT - Brattleburger

02.24.13 Hudson, NY - Hangrr 18 w/ Liv Carrow, Brian Dewan

03.20.13 Philadelphia, PA - The Re-Verse Gallery w/ Meaner Pencil, The New Heaven & The New Earth

03.29.13 Philadelphia, PA - Yianni Kourmadas Solo Show! at The Great Indoors w/ Cave Cricket, Snow Caps, Kate Ferencz

Audio:  (right click to download)

"Ancient Wing" from Mystery Ocean

"You're Gone, You're Gone" from Wooded Blankets

"Black Cat" from Slight Fountain

"Fourth" from Benaki

News:

02.19.12 Hermit Thrushes Northeast Tour

Utilizing the ages old tactic of surprise, Hermit Thrushes are TODAY embarking on a mini-tour that will take them north into New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Vermont. This tour seems to have materialized without warning so expect the shows to be bursting with life and very, very, very...fun? Get impulsive! If you need the address for any of these venues, email info@sgmgrecords.com.

09.18.12 Hermit Thrushes Upcoming Shows

After a brief hiatus, Hermit Thrushes is playing a wild volley of shows this month featuring new songs, new instruments, and a new line up including Andrew Keller (Snow Caps) on viola, Daybe L. Byrne (Charmaine's Names) on baritone sax, Spencer Carrow (Glow Tips, Generifus) on keyboard and percussion, Dawn Riddle (Cat Vet, Youthless) on miniature drums, and Yianni Kourmadas singing and playing a modified baglama guitar.

This weird and exciting incarnation will be going on a dainty mini tour this weekend and is opening for Zammuto (new project of the Books member Nick Zammuto) next Saturday at Johnny Brenda's. Catch them if you can!

09.17.11 Hermit Thrushes Mystery Ocean Album Release & Tour:

We are very proud to announce our release of the new Hermit Thrushes album, Mystery Ocean, which is now available for pre-order and will be officially released on CD and vinyl on September 20, 2011.

Hermit Thrushes are supporting the album with a six-week tour of North America that begins today. Don't miss the chance to catch them in your city!

07.03.11 Edible Onion Fest - July 23, 2011

Come support our sister label, Edible Onion, at their first annual label showcase on Saturday, July 23rd at Danger Danger Gallery in West Philadelphia. Hermit Thrushes, Snow Caps, Power Animal and more!

Hermit Thrushes
Mystery Ocean
SGMG19 - CD + 12" VINYL LP

A complex textural pastiche that quickly cycles through sounds, ideas and locations in a baker's dozen of tiny, unlikely art songs. Radio signals and ambient noise bleed through in layers as sad dreams or bad dreams or no dreams squeeze your hand in the dark. Existential anarchism, the sacred nature of food and escapism realized.

Dozens of drums disappearing and reappearing, sour keyboards and noise guitars. Songs of longing and what could be regret. A new tape and a new tide pulls this music into a different but recognizable place. Spider notes and people lost! in the land they were born in.

The brown cover is the first pressing! (100 copies) SOLD OUT
The blue cover is the second pressing! (200 copies)

The A-side is an intricate fingerpicking song recorded on dirty old 4-track over and over and over again over the course of 24 hours with the help of a home-made chicken/whistle, an antiquated electronic signal generator and some maracas. There are 13 different versions of this tape and 2-5 copies of each one with a grand total of 46 copies. The B-side is a spare landscape populated only by disembodied sections of the song played backwards (as a natural by-product of 4-track recording). This is high-concept, people!

Sold Out

A big, dark tower of noise and field recordings mixed perfectly with dead animals, life on a boat and stories of impossible love and loneliness. Delicate vocals are buried over and over again by jittery guitar parts, warm reeds and baffling drums. Also available on vinyl (courtesy of Slipshod Mucus Kiss!) with two bonus tracks.

Br'er/Hermit Thrushes
SGMG03 -split 7" VINYL

Br'er are boo-hoo meets woo-hoo. Hermit Thrushes are a cup of coffee filtered through a rainbow beard. This split is limited to 500 copies and is ALMOST SOLD OUT Get it fast or forever kicketh thineself in the behind. Did I mention they have full-color center labels?

A bizarre mix of field recordings, demo tapes, folk music and home-studio recordings, Benaki has been receiving critical praise for several hundred years and will continue to burn bright long after the life-span of the human race on this green/blue globe. Horns and reeds, puppy dog seeds.

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