DISCOGRAPHY

Jennifer Castle: Monarch Season (PoB-057)

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Jennifer Castle’s sixth full-length record, the moon-suffused Monarch Season—an album as delicate and diaphanous as its namesake butterfly—stands, in a literal sense, as her first proper “solo” album, performed alone in her coastal kitchen, windows open to the insects and the wind and the reflection of the moon on Lake Erie, entirely without human accompaniment (though a chorus of crickets provides rich interstitial support throughout.) Limited first-pressing deluxe LP edition includes a songbook of sheet music to every song, inner sleeve with lyrics, and high-res Bandcamp DL code.

Mike Polizze: Long Lost Solace Find (PoB-048)

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The debut solo album by Mike Polizze finds the Purling Hiss frontman stepping out from behind the wall of guitar noise into the bright sunshine. Performed entirely by Polizze with longtime friend Kurt Vile (largely live and acoustic), this intimate Philadelphia affair clarifies the bittersweet earworm melodicism of Dizzy Polizzy’s songwriting, revealing bona fide folk-pop chops. It finally harvests the wild local honey from the buzzing hive of Hiss.

Red River Dialect: Overabundance (PoB-059)

The Overabundance EP follows Red River Dialect’s 2019 full-length Abundance Welcoming Ghosts (PoB-046) and includes three studio outtakes from that acclaimed album: “Front Row” (about missing a Bill Callahan show), “Old Afternoon” (recalling a final meal with a father), and the instrumental “Slinky.”

James Elkington: Beechwood Park/Corridor Country (PoB-060)

The Beechwood Park/Corridor Country single follows James Elkington’s 2020 full-length album Ever-Roving Eye (PoB-050) and includes one studio outtake from that acclaimed album as well as a cover of the Zombies classic. Both “Park” and “Country” are performed in solo settings.

James Elkington: Ever-Roving Eye (PoB-050)

James Elkington’s sophomore album expands upon his celebrated 2017 debut Wintres Woma as well as his recent production and arrangement work for the likes of Steve Gunn, Nap Eyes, and Joan Shelley. Casting glances back to British folk traditions as well as toward avant-garde horizons, these brilliant new songs buttress Elkington’s brisk guitar figures and baritone poesy with strings, woodwinds, and backing vocals by Tamara Lindeman of the Weather Station.

Nap Eyes: Snapshot of a Beginner (PoB-058)

This one’s for the procrastinators and the slow learners. This one’s for the bungled and the botched, for the fumbled and humbled. This one’s for the late bloomers, and ultimately, Nap Eyes’ latest full-length Snapshot of a Beginner—their boldest, most concentrated, and most hi-fi album to date (produced by Jonathan Low and James Elkington)—is proof that sometimes, the late bloomers bloom brightest.

Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band: Just Like Moby Dick (PoB-055)

Allen’s heartbreaking, hilarious new album, the spiritual successor to Lubbock (on everything) (1979) and his first set of new songs since 2013, explores all manner of tragicomic disasters, abandonments, betrayals, bad memories, failures, and fare-thee-wells, featuring the full Panhandle Mystery Band, including co-producer Charlie Sexton, Shannon McNally, and Jo Harvey Allen; mainstays Bukka Allen, Richard Bowden, and Lloyd Maines.

Red River Dialect: Abundance Welcoming Ghosts (PoB-046)

Recorded in rural Southwest Wales shortly before songwriter and singer David Morris moved to a remote Buddhist monastery in Nova Scotia, Red River Dialect’s fifth album captures the British folk-rock band finding fresh joy in their music, relaxing more deeply into a natural, playful confidence: tangling with the thickets, wading in the river, digging the peat, and disappearing into the mountains. Featuring Joan Shelley and Tara Jane O’Neil.

Terry Allen: Cowboy and the Stranger (PoB/LAL-054)

Cowboy and the Stranger is a co-release of L.A. Louver and PoB, on the occasion of Terry Allen’s retrospective drawing exhibition The Exact Moment It Happens in the West (Stories, Pictures, and Songs from the ’60s ’Til Now) at L.A. Louver, Summer 2019. Limited to an edition of 500 cassettes. All recordings are previously unreleased demos and work tapes, 1968/2018.

Mega Bog: Dolphine (PoB-049)

Mega Bog is the fluid musical moniker of songwriter Erin Elizabeth Birgy, who has spent the last ten years channeling, capturing, and releasing her unique bouquet of fragrant, sci-fi pop experiments with a handful of bicoastal collaborators. She is joined on her fifth and finest album (and first for PoB) by members of Big Thief, Hand Habits, and iji, who help her spin a manic web of emotions into beautiful, abstract future poems and thrilling genre perversions.